Lectures and special events from the Williams College campus in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
This service, instituted at Williams in the mid-1960’s by Chaplain John Eusden and Professor of Music Kenneth Roberts, is modeled on the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols held every year since 1918 on Christmas Eve in the Chapel of King’s College, Cambridge.
In the wake of the recent landmark executive order on the regulation of Artificial Intelligence, the Williams Global Scholars present a conversation with Professor of Computer Science Mark Hopkins, Professor of English Ezra D. Feldman, and student-activist Sneha Revanur ’26 on the technological, political, and global implications of AI.
SO-IL was founded by Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu and has been based in New York City since 2008. Diverse in origin, SO-IL’s team of collaborators speaks a dozen languages and is informed by global narratives and perspectives. They are both locally-rooted and nationless, coming together as a mid-size, well-recognized company. With their ambitious private and public clients, they explore how the creation of environments and objects inspires lasting positive intellectual and societal engagement.
Michael Sardo ’81, an Emmy-nominated writer, producer and show-runner, and now a Visiting Lecturer in English at Williams delivers a Homecoming lecture entitled "From Here to Here." Michael has worked on hundreds of episodes of television, including "Wings," "Picket Fences," "Caroline in the City," "Rizzoli & Isles" and "The Tracey Ullman Show;" written pilots for most major studios; was the creator, showrunner and executive producer of the series "Fairly Legal" and "Normal;" and is currently developing five series in three countries.
One weekend each fall the post-50th classes of the Society of Alumni gathered in Williamstown for a series of mini reunions.
