News Releases

October 19, 2018—Student teams from Williams College, MCLA, and Bennington College will take part in the annual Winter Blitz day of weatherization on November 10. Continue reading »

October 16, 2018—Winona LaDuke, internationally acclaimed author, orator, and activist, will deliver a lecture titled “Environmental Justice from a Native Perspective” at Williams College. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 30. Continue reading »

October 16, 2018—Renowned MIT science writer Marcia Bartusiak will deliver a lecture, “Dispatches from Planet 3,” at Williams College. The lecture which covers a range of astronomy topics, will be held on Friday, Nov. 2, at 4 p.m., in the Thompson Physics and Astronomy Laboratory, room 205. Continue reading »

October 16, 2018—Beverly Wright—environmental justice advocate, author, and Dillard University professor of sociology—will deliver the annual Davis Lecture at Williams College on Oct. 25. Continue reading »

October 16, 2018—Williams College will present a lecture by acclaimed artist Josephine Halvorson. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will take place on Friday, Oct. 29, at 5:30 p.m. in Lawrence Hall, room 231, at Williams College. Continue reading »

October 9, 2018—Scholar, author, and advocate, Robert Bullard, often referred to as “the father of environmental justice,” will give a lecture on “The Quest for Environmental and Climate Justice: Why Race and Place Matter” at Williams College on Friday, Oct. 26. Continue reading »

October 3, 2018—Susan Jacoby, independent scholar, speaker, and author, will lecture at Williams College about “Living Reason: A Citizen’s Duty in America’s New Age of Unreason.” Continue reading »

October 3, 2018—MacArthur Fellow and two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward will discuss her latest novel Sing, Unburied, Sing at Williams College. The event, which is free and open to the public, will take place on Thursday, Oct. 11, from 7 to 9 p.m. in Chapin Hall. Continue reading »

September 28, 2018—Renowned anthropologists and Harvard scholars Jean and John Comaroff will speak at Williams College about their latest book, The Truth about Crime: Sovereignty, Knowledge, Social Order. Continue reading »

September 27, 2018—Jonathan Judaken, Spence L. Wilson Chair in Humanities and Professor of History at Rhodes College, will discuss how anti-Semitism, or “Judeophobia,” is an under-theorized field in academia. Continue reading »

September 21, 2018—Alán Aspuru-Guzik, professor of chemistry and computer science at University of Toronto and a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar at Williams, will give a talk on “Quantum Computing: Today and Tomorrow” at Williams College. Continue reading »

September 21, 2018—Comedian Negin Farsad, author Reza Aslan, and writer Alicia Garza will explore the topic of free speech and intolerance during a roundtable discussion at Williams College. Continue reading »

September 13, 2018—Writer and professor Alexander Chee will discuss and read from his first collection of nonfiction, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, at Williams College on Tuesday, Sept. 25, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in Griffin Hall, room 3. Continue reading »

September 12, 2018—One of the world’s leading cognitive scientists and author of the new book, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (February 2018), Steven Pinker will speak at Williams College on Thursday, September 20. Continue reading »

September 7, 2018—Brian Keating will speak about his new book, "Losing the Nobel Prize – A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science’s Highest Honor," at Williams College on Friday, September 14, from 8 to 9 p.m. in Thompson Chemistry Lab’s Wege Auditorium. Continue reading »

Twenty-eight members of the Williams College Class of 2019 have been elected into Phi Beta Kappa, the national honor society. Continue reading »