Window on Williams – Voting Rights, Election 2020, Colleges, Universities and Us
Presidents from 4 institutions (Williams & BCC) representing distinct structures & student bodies reflect on voting rights in 2020.
Series: Window on Williams
Lectures and special events from the Williams College campus in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
Window on Williams – Landmarks Exhibition Tour with WCMA Curator Horace Ballard
Curator of American Art Horace Ballard gives a tour of the 2020 exhibition Landmarks, a survey of Williams College Museum of Art's photography collection. Ballard offers an in-depth look at works by artists Hiroshi Sugimoto, Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Elle Pérez, Ana Mendieta, William Anders, Carrie Mae Weems, and Pieter Hugo while exploring larger themes of the exhibition, including the essential question "What is a landscape?"
Window on Williams – New Ecologies, Art Outdoors – WCMA
Curator of American Art Horace Ballard gives a tour of the 2020 exhibition Landmarks, a survey of Williams College Museum of Art's photography collection. Ballard offers an in-depth look at works by artists Hiroshi Sugimoto, Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Elle Pérez, Ana Mendieta, William Anders, Carrie Mae Weems, and Pieter Hugo while exploring larger themes of the exhibition, including the essential question "What is a landscape?"
Window on Williams – Martha Jones, The Struggle for Voting Rights
Historian Martha Jones takes us back to 1850 & her great, great, grandmother Harriet's story of struggle & brings us to the recent Breonna Taylor grand jury decision. Jones' newest book is: Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All.
Window on Williams – One Person, No Vote – How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
Watch the virtual conversation with author Carol Anderson, professor of African American Studies at Emory University.
