Lectures and special events from the Williams College campus in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
Joel Lee, Associate Professor of Anthropology and author of Deceptive Majority: Dalits, Hinduism and Underground Religion, examines caste structures. The social form is ingrained throughout much of South Asia, remaining inescapable in practice: you cannot change the caste into which you are born. But is there room for clandestine maneuver?
Step teams battled on Sankofa turf for Steady Steppin’ glory. Teams from Tufts, U. Albany, U. Conn., & Muhlenberg College compete for the $750 grand prize. Sankofa welcomes Youth Alive, a community dance & step team from Pittsfield.
Kerri Greenidge is Associate Professor in History, and in the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora at Tufts University. As a public historian, Greenidge serves on the historians’ council for 10 Million Names.
Justin Shaddock, Williams College Philosophy Prof., discusses Kant’s theoretical philosophy & moral theory. Kant refers to happiness as a problem, a problem imposed upon us by human nature itself. But are happiness and morality fundamentally opposed?
Associate Professor of Mathematics Ralph Morrison explains Bézout’s Theorem, which counts the intersection points of two algebraic curves. He demonstrates see how this theorem has manifested in different ways throughout the centuries, including most recently in the world of tropical geometry.
