Window on Williams – Mistrust – Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them
Ethan Zuckerman offers a lens for understanding civic engagement that focuses on efficacy, the power of seeing the change you make in the world.
Series: Window on Williams
Lectures and special events from the Williams College campus in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
Window on Williams – Haiti, Beauty, and Justice in 2021, A Conversation with Edwidge Danticat and Evelyne Trouillot
The writing of Haitian authors Edwidge Danticat & Évelyne Trouillot have "opened new worlds, helped us to recall old ones, & they have insisted that we imagine ones that may not yet exist," - Moderator Régine Jean-Charles.
Williams Faculty Lecture – Mike Glier, ‘Answer Music – Observation & Abstraction of the Living World’
"Two Red House Finches Flying Through the Aspen Trees" - birdsong, flight, movement of sun & wind made colorfully, joyfully visible by artist Mike Glier, Williams College Professor of Art.
Window on Williams – Davis Center Conversation Featuring President Maud S. Mandel
President Maud S. Mandel, VP for Institutional Diversitiy, Equity & Inclusion Leticia S.E. Haynes '99, Davis Center Director Eden-Reneé Hayes, Prof. Carmen Whalen, Mohammed Memfis '21 & Dominic Madera '21 describe the Davis Center Initiative to foster a more inclusive environment to benefit the entire community.
Claiming Williams – Racial Inequality and Food Insecurity
Williams for Williamstown (W4W) is a student initiative created to support local businesses in the Berkshires while feeding individuals & communities impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. W4W will discuss how many factors such as COVID & racial injustice play a role in food insecure communities.
