Lectures and special events from the Williams College campus in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
Stephanie Syjuco works in photography, sculpture, and installation, moving from handmade and craft-inspired mediums to digital editing and archive excavations. Recently, she has focused on how photography and image-based processes are implicated in the construction of racialized, exclusionary narratives of American history and citizenship.
Jamelle Bouie reflects on the first 100 days of the Trump administration. The discussion explored the legal and constitutional skirmishes surrounding executive power, the responses of the Republican and Democratic parties to Trump’s presidency, and the challenges facing the media in covering politics and society in the Trump era.
Joel Lee, Associate Professor of Anthropology and author of Deceptive Majority: Dalits, Hinduism and Underground Religion, examines caste structures. The social form is ingrained throughout much of South Asia, remaining inescapable in practice: you cannot change the caste into which you are born. But is there room for clandestine maneuver?
Step teams battled on Sankofa turf for Steady Steppin’ glory. Teams from Tufts, U. Albany, U. Conn., & Muhlenberg College compete for the $750 grand prize. Sankofa welcomes Youth Alive, a community dance & step team from Pittsfield.
Kerri Greenidge is Associate Professor in History, and in the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora at Tufts University. As a public historian, Greenidge serves on the historians’ council for 10 Million Names.
