WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., May 20, 2013—Scribner has published a memoir by Dylan Dethier, a 21-year-old Williamstown native and rising Williams College senior.

In 18 in America: A Young Golfer’s Epic Journey to Find the Essence of the Game, Dethier writes about his year between high school and college, which he spent driving across the county to play at least one round of golf in each of the 48 contiguous states. He put 35,000 miles on an already-aging Subaru (which doubled most nights as his motel room), showered at truck stops, and slept with a hatchet under the driver’s seat.

While Dethier has much to say about a young golfer’s experience with the game itself, his book is more a coming-of-age tale that provides fresh views of America’s landscape and people. He played Pebble Beach and rubbed elbows with Phil Mickelson but spent most of his time on public courses with war veterans, autoworkers, and livestock auctioneers.

At Williams, Dethier majors in English and writes for various publications.

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Founded in 1793, Williams College is the second-oldest institution of higher learning in Massachusetts. The college’s 2,000 students are taught by a faculty noted for the quality of their teaching and research, and the achievement of academic goals includes active participation of students with faculty in their research. Students’ educational experience is enriched by the residential campus environment in Williamstown, Mass., which provides a host of opportunities for interaction with one another and with faculty beyond the classroom. Admission decisions on U.S. applicants are made regardless of a student’s financial ability, and the college provides grants and other assistance to meet the demonstrated needs of all who are admitted.

To visit the college on the Internet: www.williams.edu Williams College can also be found on Facebook: www.facebook.com/williamscollege and Twitter: twitter.com/williamscollege

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., May 14, 2013—Williams College senior Monica Torres has been awarded the Jeffrey Owen Jones ’66 Fellowship in Journalism. The $10,000 grant is intended to help a graduating senior begin a career in journalism, either in traditional or new media.

The Jones Fellowship was established in 2009 to honor the memory of Jeffrey Owen Jones ’66, who died of lung cancer in 2007. Jones was an Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, and film professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology. During his college years, Jones was editor of the Williams’ student newspaper, The Williams Record.

Each spring, a fellowship committee convenes to assess a range of project proposals. The committee aims to select a student who exemplifies the qualities for which Jones was greatly admired: “integrity, talent, independence of mind, wit, strength of character, skepticism of authority, and concern for others.” This year’s committee members were Shayla Harris ’97, award-winning videojournalist for the New York Times; Angela Schaeffer, director of communications; and John Kleiner, professor of English.

Torres, an American studies and English major from Tampa, Fla., will use the fellowship to take courses of study and pursue non-profit independent projects with The Feminist Wire to build upon her multimedia skills. This fall she will attend NYU Journalism’s Studio 20 program.

“I first became involved with media to take control of the lens through which I was being viewed, and to change the dialogue surrounding immigrants,” Torres said. “This power to inform and to incite is what led me to my interest in being a journalist, and my desire to give voice to the silenced is what has sustained it.”

Torres has interned as a reporter for Tampa Bay’s alternative weekly newspaper, Creative Loafing Tampa and as an admissions blogger for the Williams-Mystic Maritime Studies program.

“I would not be in this position without all of the editors who gave me a shot,” Torres said. “I had no clips, no prior experience, but the editors at my hometown alternative newspaper, Creative Loafing Tampa, were very generous with their time, and showed me the ropes.”

At Williams, Torres is a Class of 1960s English Scholar, All-Campus Representative to the Minority Coalition, Baxter Fellow, and member of the Claiming Williams Steering Committee. Torres’ work has been published in The Feminist Wire and Creating Loafing Tampa. She has also been published in Williams College publications such as The Williams Record, Literary Review, and Monkeys with Typewriters.

“My advice to future journalists at Williams? Never call yourself an aspiring anything. You’re never just-. If you have no connections, no clips, like me, don’t despair: hustle,” Torres said. “Use your social media platforms – your Tumblr, your Twitter, your blog – as your outlets to keep up with current events, and to get your voice out there.”

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Founded in 1793, Williams College is the second-oldest institution of higher learning in Massachusetts. The college’s 2,000 students are taught by a faculty noted for the quality of their teaching and research, and the achievement of academic goals includes active participation of students with faculty in their research. Students’ educational experience is enriched by the residential campus environment in Williamstown, Mass., which provides a host of opportunities for interaction with one another and with faculty beyond the classroom. Admission decisions on U.S. applicants are made regardless of a student’s financial ability, and the college provides grants and other assistance to meet the demonstrated needs of all who are admitted.

To visit the college on the Internet: www.williams.edu Williams College can also be found on Facebook: www.facebook.com/williamscollege and Twitter: twitter.com/williamscollege

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., May 14, 2013–On Tuesday, May 14, Williams College will host one of its most important annual occasions, Appreciation Day, honoring staff members who have reached milestones in their service to the college. The celebration includes a luncheon for employees completing their 5th, 10th, 15th, or 20th year of service, and a dinner for employees celebrating their 25th, 30th, and 35th year of service, as well as those who are newly retired. The day is an opportunity for community members to extend thanks for the contributions staff make to all aspects of the college’s functionality and excellence.

This year’s retirees are Dave Choquette, Bob Gallagher, Dave Holland, Jo-Ann Irace, Vivian Patterson, and Jean Richer.

Gary Guerin, Wayne King, and Mike Noyes are celebrating 35 years at the college, while Dave Berger, Nellie Gifford, Wayne Haskins, Pete Landry, Peter Mason, Glenn Rougeau, Ed St. Pierre, Dinny Taylor, and Kathy Therrien are celebrating 30 years.

Celebrating their 25th year of service are Sylvia Brown, Thoeun Ching, Aaron Crandall, Mary Ellen Czerniak, Beth Erdeski, Dave Fitzgerald, Paula Langer, Fran Lapidus, Rick Lescarbeau, Nancy Luczynski, Marco Oliva, Amy Tatro, and Pat Travis, and Judi Willette.

Celebrating their 20th year of service are Stefan Berger, Rick Daniels, Kevin Erdeski, Mike Frawley, Lisa Gazaille, Tricia Koch,  Pat Malanga,  Brian Marko, Carol Parker, Alesia Parks, Virginia Parks, Stephen Sneed, Steve Tomkowicz, Tina van Luling, Dave Wilson, and Margi Wood.

Celebrating 15 years at the college are Katie Bassette, Scott Braman, Michael Briggs, Dennis Brignolo, Karen Brule’, Charles Churchill, Judi Dodge, Maggie Driscoll, Lew Fisher, Jean Grant, Robin Keller, Jeanette Kopczynski, Maggie Koperniak, Molly Magavern, Kris Maloney, Gabe McHale, Karen Parkinson, Dave Pilachowski, Linda Reynolds, Mike Richardson, Karen Ryan, Joan Scott, Chris Vince, Jason Wandrei, and Bob Wright.

Celebrating 10 years at the college are Bernie Baker, Shane Baker, Laurie Barbeau, Chris Cooper, Patti Exster, Robert Fachini, Amy Filson, John Gerry, David Mangiacotti, Terri Melville, Robin Meyer, Dave Morrison, Jane Nicholls, Mary Pfister, Jay Racela, Ron Rancatti, Doug Schiazza, Mark Thompson, Chris Warren, Alice Wilson, Elaine Yanow, and John Zustra.

Celebrating 5 years of service are Justin Adkins, Darlene Alderman, Peter Armata, Michael Bak, Sarah Becker, Jenna Belanger, Bonnie Bresett, Elizabeth Burnett, Jane Cary, David Chalifoux, Joseph Congello, Lisa D’Angelo, Chris Desnoyers, Carrie Gagne, Danielle Gonzalez, Allison Haley, Tom Henry, Angela Hillman, Conny Isby, Jeff Jones, Stanley Lawrence, Chet Lewis, Bob Murach, Barbara O’Connell, David Parks, Kim Racine, Ellen Richardson, Jose Sanchez Herrera, Robin Senay, Brad Sherman, Shana Shippee, Roberta Sweet, Marcia Tatro, Brian Teal, Bob Vacca, Michael Valenti, Audrey Werner, Doug Wright, and Laura Zepka.

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Founded in 1793, Williams College is the second-oldest institution of higher learning in Massachusetts. The college’s 2,000 students are taught by a faculty noted for the quality of their teaching and research, and the achievement of academic goals includes active participation of students with faculty in their research. Students’ educational experience is enriched by the residential campus environment in Williamstown, Mass., which provides a host of opportunities for interaction with one another and with faculty beyond the classroom. Admission decisions on U.S. applicants are made regardless of a student’s financial ability, and the college provides grants and other assistance to meet the demonstrated needs of all who are admitted.

To visit the college on the Internet: www.williams.edu Williams College can also be found on Facebook: www.facebook.com/williamscollege and Twitter: twitter.com/williamscollege

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., May 9, 2013—M. Jennifer Bloxam, professor of music at Williams College, has been named a 2013-14 Fellow in Sacred Music, Worship, and the Arts at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. Bloxam is one of six fellows for the upcoming year. Fellows are given the opportunity to teach, share their work with the community, and work on individual projects using the resources made available to them at Yale.

The Yale Institute of Sacred Music is an interdisciplinary graduate center whose purpose is to educate leaders who foster, explore, and study engagement with the sacred through music, worship, and the arts in Christian communities, other religious traditions, and public life. While the institute has a core focus on Christian sacred music, it builds bridges among various disciplines and vocations and forms a creative space for scholarship, practice, and performance.

Bloxam’s fellowship project is “Recapturing the Ritual Context of Renaissance Sacred Music,” which aims to reconstruct a ritual frame around five pieces of sacred music from the northern European Renaissance. The project’s central focus is a collaborative multi-media exploration of music at the Marian confraternity in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, which will concentrate on the eight-voice canonic Marian motet Nesciens Mater by Jean Mouton. The side panels of the project will contain two linked pairs of essays that elucidate the ritual context and communicative strategies of four polytextual settings of the Mass Ordinary. “The ISM fellowship offers a precious opportunity to stretch my scholarly wings within a lively residential community committed, like me, to the study and practice of sacred music in Christian contexts,” Bloxam said. “To be invited to join this unique interdisciplinary, interdenominational, and international institute at Yale is truly a dream come true – the fellowship provides the perfect environment for me both personally and professionally, supporting both the active and the contemplative life in music.”

Bloxam’s research interests include early music and its cultural context, interactions between plainsong and polyphony, narrative and exegesis in 15^th and 16^th century sacred music, musical borrowing, and composition. She joined the Williams faculty in 1986 and teaches courses on medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque music; the influence of early music and Bachon nineteenth and 20^th-century music; and the Carmen narrative in music, film, and dance. Bloxam has been published in numerous books and journals and maintains an ongoing collaboration in concerts, recordings, and film projects with the Dutch vocal ensemble Cappella Pratensis. She has twice been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and has received research support from the Fulbright Foundation and the Martha Baird Rockefeller Foundation. She has served on the board of the American Musicological Society and on the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Musicological Society and the Journal of Alamire Foundation.

Bloxam received her B.M. in music history from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana in 1979 and her Ph.D. in musicology from Yale University in 1987.

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Founded in 1793, Williams College is the second-oldest institution of higher learning in Massachusetts. The college’s 2,000 students are taught by a faculty noted for the quality of their teaching and research, and the achievement of academic goals includes active participation of students with faculty in their research. Students’ educational experience is enriched by the residential campus environment in Williamstown, Mass., which provides a host of opportunities for interaction with one another and with faculty beyond the classroom. Admission decisions on U.S. applicants are made regardless of a student’s financial ability, and the college provides grants and other assistance to meet the demonstrated needs of all who are admitted.

To visit the college on the Internet: www.williams.edu Williams College can also be found on Facebook: www.facebook.com/williamscollege and Twitter: twitter.com/williamscollege

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., May 6, 2013—Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) has won the 2012 award for Outstanding Exhibition in a University Museum for its exhibition Sol LeWitt: The Well-Tempered Grid. The prize was awarded by the Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC) at its Annual Awards for Excellence. This is the first time WCMA has been honored with the award.

Sol LeWitt: The Well-Tempered Grid, curated by Charles “Mark” Haxthausen, the Robert Sterling Clark Professor of Art History, was the first exhibition to focus on the centrality of the grid in LeWitt’s art. The exhibition was organized in conjunction with Haxthausen’s seminar on Sol LeWitt’s wall drawings. “My goal was to use the exhibition as a means to give my students insights into the nature of the mind that conceived the wall drawings,” explains Haxthausen. “An examination of LeWitt’s evolving use of the grid across the media of drawings, gouaches, prints, artist’s book, structures, and wall drawings proved to be the ideal vehicle for that purpose.”

LeWitt (1928–2007) was a renowned American artist whose prolific career encompassed various forms of art, including his famous wall drawings, printmaking, and painting. He is regarded as a founder of both Minimal and Conceptual art. The Well-Tempered Grid focused on LeWitt’s use of the grid as a generative matrix for his artistic production over the span of nearly five decades, from 1960 until his death in 2007. Composed of approximately 65 works on loan from the LeWitt collection in Chester, Conn., and a selection of the artist’s books from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library, the exhibition complemented Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Perspective at MASS MoCA in nearby North Adams.

The Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC) aims to support and promote the work of museum curators, as well as heighten public understanding of the curator’s role in art museums. As a part of these efforts, AAMC recognizes distinguished achievement in the field through annual awards. Awards for best exhibitions or installations are chosen through a vote by the entire membership of AAMC. The Award for Outstanding Exhibition or Installation in a University Museum was created in 2010. Previous recipients are the Pomona College Museum of Art (2011) and the Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture at University of Maryland, Baltimore County (2010).

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Founded in 1793, Williams College is the second-oldest institution of higher learning in Massachusetts. The college’s 2,000 students are taught by a faculty noted for the quality of their teaching and research, and the achievement of academic goals includes active participation of students with faculty in their research. Students’ educational experience is enriched by the residential campus environment in Williamstown, Mass., which provides a host of opportunities for interaction with one another and with faculty beyond the classroom. Admission decisions on U.S. applicants are made regardless of a student’s financial ability, and the college provides grants and other assistance to meet the demonstrated needs of all who are admitted.

To visit the college on the Internet: www.williams.edu Williams College can also be found on Facebook: www.facebook.com/williamscollege and Twitter: twitter.com/williamscollege

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., May 15, 2013—Sixteen Williams College students and alumni were awarded Fulbright grants. Of these students and alumni, five will receive one-year grants to conduct research outside of the United States. Eleven will hold English Teaching Assistantships (ETA), also to countries outside of the United States. ETAs aim to help local students increase their English language skills and their knowledge of the United States, while allowing Fulbright scholars to develop a deeper understanding of their host countries.

Katerina King, Director of Fellowships at Williams College, said, “The Fulbright continues to be a wonderful opportunity for our students to live and work abroad. This was a great year for Fulbright candidates from Williams. We are particularly proud of the grants to Ireland and the U.K., which are exceptionally competitive.”

The Fulbright winners from Williams College are:

Christina Adelakun ’13, a Chinese major from Lawrenceville, Ga., has been awarded a Fulbright ETA grant to Taiwan.

Lauren Agoubi ’13, a chemistry major from San Antonio, Texas, has been awarded a Fulbright research grant to Ireland.

Eva Breitenbach ’10, a history major from Cambridge, Mass., has been awarded a Fulbright ETA grant to India.

Elissa Brown ’09, a psychology major from Boone, N.C., has been awarded a Fulbright research grant to Norway.

Taylor Bundy ’13, an English and philosophy major from Lancaster, Pa., has been awarded a Fulbright ETA grant to Costa Rica.

Gordon Crabtree ’08, a psychology major from Philadelphia, Pa., has been awarded a Fulbright ETA grant to Malaysia.

Jack Fitzhenry ’12, an English major from New Brunswick, N.J., has been awarded a Fulbright ETA grant to Germany.

Curtis Flournoy ’11, a political science major from Denton, Texas, has been awarded a Fulbright ETA grant to South Africa.

Hannah Kaemmer ’13, a history major from Concord, Mass., has been awarded a Fulbright research grant to the United Kingdom.

Cindy La Rosa ’11, a political science major from Union City, N.J., has been awarded a Fulbright ETA grant to Spain.

Jennifer Law ’13, an English major from Denver, Colo., has been awarded a Fulbright ETA grant to South Korea.

Jose Martinez ’10, a history major from San Juan, Puerto Rico, has been awarded a Fulbright research grant to Jordan.

Reema Sharma ’13, an English and political science major from Staten Island, N.Y., has been awarded a Fulbright ETA grant to Malaysia.

Vanessa Soetanto ’12, an art major from East Moriches, N.Y., has been awarded a Fulbright ETA grant to Mongolia.

Carrie Tribble ’13, a biology and environmental studies major from Honolulu, Hawaii, has been awarded a Fulbright research grant to Peru.

Carly Valenzuela ’13, a history and political science major from San Diego, Calif., has been awarded a Fulbright ETA grant to South Korea.

The Fulbright Program is funded by the Department of State and is the largest international exchange program in the United States. It was established by the U.S. Congress in 1946 and offers various grants in research and teaching for students, scholars, and professionals.

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Founded in 1793, Williams College is the second-oldest institution of higher learning in Massachusetts. The college’s 2,000 students are taught by a faculty noted for the quality of their teaching and research, and the achievement of academic goals includes active participation of students with faculty in their research. Students’ educational experience is enriched by the residential campus environment in Williamstown, Mass., which provides a host of opportunities for interaction with one another and with faculty beyond the classroom. Admission decisions on U.S. applicants are made regardless of a student’s financial ability, and the college provides grants and other assistance to meet the demonstrated needs of all who are admitted.

To visit the college on the Internet: www.williams.edu Williams College can also be found on Facebook: www.facebook.com/williamscollege and Twitter: twitter.com/williamscollege

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., April 30, 2013—An annular eclipse of the Sun, when a ring of everyday Sun remains around the Moon’s silhouette, will sweep across the Australian outback and into the Pacific Ocean on the morning of May 10, local time. Though about 95% of the solar disk will be covered, the remaining 5% of Sun will be so bright that the darkening of the sky would hardly be noticeable except to those watching through specially filtered glasses. Unlike the case for the recent total eclipse, the special filters must be used throughout the entire event.

Prof. Jay Pasachoff of Williams College in Massachusetts, USA, the Chair of the International Astronomical Union’s Working Group on Eclipses, will be viewing his 56th solar eclipse. “Solar eclipses can be inspirational to students and others, so it is interesting to have everyone view the eclipse, but only safe methods of viewing should be used,” he cautions. Pasachoff is traveling with Melissa Hulbert of Sydney Observatory and others to the vicinity of Tennant Creek for the event. The event there will occur for a few minutes shortly after 8 a.m. local time.

The rest of Australia will see a partial solar eclipse. During the partial phases or annularity, the remaining solar disk is too bright to look at safely, unless you are looking through specially filtered glasses that knock out 99.999% of the sunlight. Accidental projection of a partly eclipsed Sun should be visible on pavement or building walls in what is known as pinhole projection, with the small hole usually formed from small spaces between the leaves of trees. Binoculars can be used safely only if they are used to project an image down on the ground or across on a wall, given the low angle of the Sun; it is hazardous to look at the Sun through binoculars unless they are properly filtered.

The annular phase will start in extreme northwest Australia in the state of Western Australia, where some veteran eclipse chasers will try to see it at sunrise. The 300-km-wide path will include Tennant Creek, about 500 km north of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. The path of annularity will leave the Australian continent well north of Cairns, where tens of thousands of people saw a total solar eclipse in November, and even north of Cooktown; Cliff Island and Flinders Group National Parks will be in the zone. Annularity will last about 3 min at Tennant Creek and about 4 1/2 min at the centerline, about 50 km north of Tennant Creek. The path of annularity will leave Queensland with about 4 3/4 min of annularity.

While traversing the Pacific, the path of annularity will include the Hula peninsula of Papua New Guinea, where Pasachoff saw the 1984 total solar eclipse, and the northwestern Solomon Islands.  The peak duration of the eclipse will be slightly east of the Tarawa (Kiribati) islands, with about 6 minutes of annularity.

Weather permitting, everyone in Australia, except for the western third of Western Australia, would be able to see a partial eclipse. The Sun’s diameter will be 36% covered in Melbourne at about 8:50 am local time, 38% covered in Canberra, 39% covered in Sydney at about 8:55 am local time, and 52% covered in Brisbane. Partial phases will also be visible in the southern Philippines, in eastern Indonesia, in Papua New Guinea, and in the northeastern part of New Zealand’s south island and all of its north island, though with only 8% coverage in Auckland.

Also within the zone of partial phases are the entire Hawaiian Islands, with 44% of the solar diameter covered in Honolulu at maximum. The northeastern limit of the partial eclipse occurs just off the western coast of Baja California.

The next total eclipse of the Sun will cross mid-northern Africa on November 3.

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Prof. Pasachoff will be available in Sydney on May 4 and until his morning plane takes him to Alice Springs on May 5.  He will be at the Aurora Alice Springs May 5-9 (08 8950 6666 or toll free in Australia on 1800 089 644), and at the Eldorado Motor Inn in Tennant Creek the night before the eclipse, May 9.  He will return to the Aurora in Alice Springs on May 10 and to Sydney during May 11-14.

 It is best to contact him by email at eclipse@williams.edu.  He will have a mobile phone, perhaps 0498 963 785 or 0467 514 871, which worked in Queensland in November.  He can also be reached on his iPhone via his US number at 1 617 285 6351, if the above alternatives aren’t convenient.  He will be travelling with Rob Lucas, mobile 0401 249 487, and with Melissa Hulbert from Sydney Observatory, 0419 297 920.

Time zones: Tennant Creek is GMT+9.5 hours = US Eastern Daylight Time + 13.5 hours, so the maximum eclipse at Tennant Creek at 8:05 am on May 10 will be equivalent to 6:35 pm on May 9 in New York.

Maps are available at Pasachoff’s website for the IAU Working Group on Eclipses and the IAU Working Group on Public Education at the Times of Eclipses: http://www.eclipses.info

These maps are available directly from:

Xavier Jubier: http://xjubier.free.fr/en/site_pages/solar_eclipses/ASE_2013_GoogleMapFull.html

Fred Espenak: http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/OH/OH2013.html#SE2013May10A

Michael Zeiler: http://www.eclipse-maps.com/Eclipse-Maps/Gallery/Pages/Annular_solar_eclipse_of_2013_May_10.html

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., April 26, 2013—Hopkins Memorial Forest will host a spring wildflower and botany walk on Sunday, May 5, from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. The walk will begin outside the Rosenburg Center, near the entrance to Hopkins Forest and continue along some forested trails. The event is free and open to the public. Good footwear and outdoor gear are recommended.

The program will be led by Williams College Professor of Biology Henry Art.  Art has been studying plant ecology in the forest and surrounding landscapes for more than three decades.

Early May is an especially good time to explore the botanical attractions of the Northern Berkshires because during this period, many “spring ephemeral” wildflowers are in bloom. These species, which include trillium, trout, lily, violets, and toothwort, bloom early in order to take advantage of the abundant sunlight that reaches the forest floor before the trees leaf out. By June, many of these flowers and their foliage will have faded from view. The program will also give participants an opportunity to learn more about some of the forest’s perennial plants, including trees and shrubs.

Hopkins Forest, owned and operated by Williams College, is located at the junction of Bulkley Street and Northwest Hill Road in Williamstown.

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For building locations on the Williams campus, please consult the map outside the driveway entrance to the Security Office located in Hopkins Hall on Main Street (Rte. 2), next to the Thompson Memorial Chapel, or call the Office of Communications (413) 597-4277. The map can also be found on the web at www.williams.edu/map

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., April 23, 2013—Maggie Little, director of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and a member of the philosophy department at Georgetown University, will speak at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 1, in Griffin Hall, room 3, on the Williams College campus. Her lecture, titled “Abortion, Conscience, and the Ethics of Provision,” will consider the role of conscientious objection in abortion services. This event is free and open to the public.

In her Weiss Lecture address, Little posits that access to abortion is a fundamental right; its availability critical to women’s well-being and ability to meaningfully author a life. Yet the morality of abortion is also something about which truly good and reasonable people disagree.  Given this fact, how are we to think about the role—and limit—of conscientious objection in the provision of abortion?  Some reject any role for conscientious objection; others defend its role as absolute. Maggie Little argues that neither approach suffices, and that the social life of abortion needs to be acknowledged as a nuanced one, reflecting the fundamental complexity inherent to the issue.

Little’s research interests include issues related to reproduction, clinical research ethics, and the structure of moral theory. A fellow of the Hastings Center, she has twice served as visiting scholar in residence at the National Institutes of Health in the Department of Bioethics. She is a founding member of the Ob-Gyn Risk Research Group, which brings together experts from medical epidemiology, obstetrics and gynecology, philosophy, bioethics, gender theory, and the medical humanities to study a wide variety of issues in reproductive health and clinical research ethics. She co-founded, with Ruth Faden and Anne Lyerly, the Second Wave Initiative, an organization working to promote responsible research into the health needs of pregnant women.

Little has written extensively on topics including abortion, feminist bioethics, the ethics of clinical research, and risk and values in pregnancy. She has co-authored works in numerous publications, including The New York Times, American Journal of Public Health, and Bioethics Forum. Her work has also been discussed in TIME Magazine and The Washington Post.

The Andrew B. Weiss Lecture on Medicine and Medical Ethics was endowed by the late Andrew B. Weiss ’61 and his wife, Madge Weiss. The Weiss Lecture is hosted by the Oakley Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

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For building locations on the Williams campus, please consult the map outside the driveway entrance to the Security Office located in Hopkins Hall on Main Street (Rte. 2), next to the Thompson Memorial Chapel, or call the Office of Communications (413) 597-4277. The map can also be found on the web at www.williams.edu/map

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Wood, who received his A.B. and his Ph.D. from Harvard University, has taught art history at Yale since 1992 and pursues wide-ranging research interests that include the northern and wider Renaissance, embedded portraiture, temporalities of art, and art historical method. He is the author of Anachronic Renaissance (Zone Books, 2010), which he co-wrote with Alexander Nagel, and Forgery, Replica, Fiction: Temporalities of German Renaissance Art (University of Chicago Press, 2008). He has been a senior fellow at the Internationales Forschungszentrum für Kulturwissenschaften in Vienna (2012), a member of the School of Historical Studies at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study (2011-12), an Elena Maria Gorissen Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin (2004), a National Endowment for the Humanities/Rome Prize Fellow (2002-3), and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow (2002).

This event is sponsored by the Department of Art Class of 1960s Scholars Program, a committee of art majors that invites guest speakers to campus.

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For building locations on the Williams campus, please consult the map outside the driveway entrance to the Security Office located in Hopkins Hall on Main Street (Rte. 2), next to the Thompson Memorial Chapel, or call the Office of Communications (413) 597-4277. The map can also be found on the web at www.williams.edu/map

To visit the college on the Internet: www.williams.edu Williams College can also be found on Facebook: www.facebook.com/williamscollege and Twitter: twitter.com/williamscollege