Lectures and special events from the Williams College campus in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
In this keynote lecture for "Strict Beauty: Sol LeWitt Prints," exhibition curator David S. Areford discusses how Sol LeWitt (1928-2007) embraced printmaking in earnest in 1970, quickly homing in on the medium's inherent technical and procedural properties that best served his particular brand of conceptual art.
Nelly Rosario, Assoc. Prof. in the Latina/o Studies Program & Assis. Director of Writing for the MIT Black History Project. She discusses her process writing "How the Medicine Go Down" which explores how medical cultures & histories have impacted communities thoroughout the Americas.
Nicolas Howe, Assoc. Prof. & Chair of Environmental Studies, a cultural geographer, he studies the role of religion, meaning, & morality in environmental politics.
Jeremy Cone, Assoc. Prof. of Psychology, explores how mere exposure to questionable info or fake news can shape our impressions and whether we can correct the implicit influence of misinformation under some circumstance.
Shannon Holsey, President of the Stockbridge-Munsee Tribal Council, delivered Claiming Williams 2022 morning keynote address. Williams College is located on the homelands of the Muhheconeew, or Mohican Nation, today known as the Stockbridge-Munsee Community.
