Williams Faculty Lecture Series 2025 – Man He, Backstaging Modern Chinese Theatre
Associate Professor of Chinese at Williams College Man He explains the artistic maturity, sophistication in production, and canonical status of Chinese huaju theatre.
Producer: Jim Kolesar / Williams College Office of Public Affairs and Media Services
Williams Faculty Lecture Series 2025 – Corinna Campbell, Perspectives from Suriname Maroon Music and Dance
Ethnomusicologist and Associate Professor of music at Williams College Corinna Campbell shares her perspective on the Suriname Maroon dance genre awasa; an intensely interactive, conversational form of expression.
Claiming Williams 2025 – Embodied Social Justice with Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf
Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, former NBA star who refused to stand for the national anthem as a protest against systemic racism, faced suspension, fines, & left the NBA. During this interactive session, Abdul-Rauf explores the intersections of sports, activism, faith, privilege, justice on campus & beyond.
Claiming Williams 2025 – Bringing Ben Home, Barbara Bradley Hagerty and Ben Spencer
Barbara Bradley Hagerty & Ben Spencer in conversation with Magnús Bernhardsson. Bradley's book "Bringing Ben Home: A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice" tells Spencer's story of being sentenced to life in prison for a murder he did not commit. He spent 34 years wrongfully imprisoned.
Williams Alumni Winter Study 2025 – Climate and Energy Finance
This session introduces key topics, market players, tools in climate & energy finance, and surveys how to mobilize capital to finance clean energy (largely in a U.S. energy market context) as well as other climate-forward outcomes.
