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WCMA – Fashion, Subculture, and Cosplay, A Conversation with Frenchy Lunning and Christopher Bolton

A discussion about the way that fashion, fandom, and self-expression play a role in cultural and community formation with scholars Frenchy Lunning—author of Cosplay: The Fictional Mode of Existence (University of Minnesota Press, Spring, 2022) and Subcultural Fashion: Fetish Style (Bloomsbury, 2013)—and Christopher Bolton—curator of Repro Japan and Professor of Comparative and Japanese Literature at Williams College.

Producer: The Clark
Series: Window on Williams
Category: Lectures & Forums

WCMA – Reversals and Rotations Sol LeWitt’s Print Strategies

In this keynote lecture for "Strict Beauty: Sol LeWitt Prints," exhibition curator David S. Areford discusses how Sol LeWitt (1928-2007) embraced printmaking in earnest in 1970, quickly homing in on the medium's inherent technical and procedural properties that best served his particular brand of conceptual art.

Producer: The Clark
Series: Window on Williams
Category: Lectures & Forums

Williams Faculty Lecture 2022 – Nelly Rosario, ‘How the Medicines Go Down – Anatomy of a novel in progress’

Nelly Rosario, Assoc. Prof. in the Latina/o Studies Program & Assis. Director of Writing for the MIT Black History Project. She discusses her process writing "How the Medicine Go Down" which explores how medical cultures & histories have impacted communities thoroughout the Americas.

Producer: Jim Kolesar / Williams College Office of Public Affairs and Media Services
Series: Window on Williams
Category: Lectures & Forums

Williams Faculty Lecture 2022 – Nicolas Howe, ‘Reanimating Postindustrial Riverscapes – The Ethics of Dam Removal

Nicolas Howe, Assoc. Prof. & Chair of Environmental Studies, a cultural geographer, he studies the role of religion, meaning, & morality in environmental politics.

Producer: Jim Kolesar / Williams College Office of Public Affairs and Media Services
Series: Window on Williams
Category: Lectures & Forums

Williams Faculty Lecture 2022 – Jeremy Cone, ‘Forming Accurate Impressions of Others in the Era of Social Media, Fake News, and Gossip’

Jeremy Cone, Assoc. Prof. of Psychology, explores how mere exposure to questionable info or fake news can shape our impressions and whether we can correct the implicit influence of misinformation under some circumstance.

Producer: Jim Kolesar / Williams College Office of Public Affairs and Media Services
Series: Window on Williams
Category: Lectures & Forums