Lectures and special events from the Williams College campus in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
Kenturah Davis is the featured speaker in Plonsker Family Lecture in Contemporary Art on Oct. 5, 2019, at the Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA). Davis' work oscillates between various facets of portraiture and design. Using text as a point of departure, she explores the fundamental role that language has in shaping how we understand ourselves and the world around us.
As part of the celebration Sondheim@90@Williams, alumni light up the Chapin Hall stage with a musical homecoming that features some of the great works of Stephen Sondheim, Class of 1950. Featuring Sebastian Arcelus ’99, Andrea Axelrod ’75, Eric Kang ’09, Claire Leyden ’16, Evelyn Consolini Mahon ’18, Evan Maltby ’11, Michelle J. Rodriguez ’12, and David Turner ’97.
In March, the Williams Theatre Department & Sondheim@90@Williams presented "Our Time, a Collage of Records from Williams." Set at Williams College during the time when Stephen Sondheim was an undergraduate. Devised by Omar Sangare & Ilya Khodosh ’08. Video appearance by Stephen Sondheim.
Club Zambezi Dance Party combines an exciting musical fusion with irresistible dance beats. The musicians perform on specially designed marimbas — allowing an even wider range than its African marimba-band cousins.
Jason Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. Before coming to Yale in 2013, he was Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers University. Professor Stanley spoke about his latest book, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them. Professor Stanley has four previously published books, his first being Knowledge and Practical Interests published in 2005 by Oxford University Press and winner of the 2007 American Philosophical Association book prize. Professor Stanley’s second book, Language in Context, also OUP, was published in 2007. This is a collection of his papers in semantics published between 2000 and 2007 on the topic of linguistic communication and context. His third book, Know How, was published in 2011, also with OUP. Professor Stanley’s fourth book, How Propaganda Works, was published by Princeton University Press in May, 2015. It was the winner of the 2016 PROSE award for the subject area of philosophy.
