Lectures and special events from the Williams College campus in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
Morton Schapiro began his term as the 16th president of Northwestern University on September 1, 2009. He is a professor of economics in Northwestern’s Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and also holds appointments in the J. L. Kellogg School of Management and the School of Education and Social Policy.
Danielle Allen, Harvard Professor, author of "Democracy in the Time of Coronavirus," widely known for her work on justice & citizenship in both ancient Athens & modern America. Allen is the founding director of the Democratic Knowledge Project Design Studio at Harvard University.
The I/O New Music Ensemble, directed by Matthew Gold, Artist in Residence in Percussion and Contemporary Music Performance at Williams College, performed in conjunction with "Strict Beauty: Sol LeWitt Prints" on March 4, 2022.
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.
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.
