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Williams Events Set From Oct. 22 to Nov. 9 - October 26, 2007
Wednesday, Oct. 24
Interdisciplinary Gallery Talk Series: On Music
12:10 p.m., Williams College Museum of Art
David L. Smith, John W. Chandler Professor of English.
Wednesday, Oct. 24
Midweek Music
12:15 p.m., Chapin Hall, college campus
Lunchtime recital series featuring student and faculty performers.
Thursday, Oct. 25
"Wishful Thinking Without Awareness of It"
4 p.m., Bronfman Science Center 105, college campus
Psychology Class of 1960 Scholars Lecture by David Dunning, professor of psychology at Cornell University.
Friday, Oct. 26
WCMA "Storytime in the Galleries"
10:30 a.m., Williams College Museum of Art
Preschoolers with guardians; no reservations required.
Friday, Oct. 26
CES Log Lunch Presentations
Noon - 1 p.m., The Log, Spring Street, Williamstown
"The Nuts and Bolts of Sustainable Building at Williams" with junior Ruth Aronoff and senior Matthew Gustafson; "Waste at Williams" with freshman Katie White; and "Power Conservation through Video Image Analysis" with sophomore Katie Creel. Vegetarian lunch is $3.50. Reservations must be made by the Wednesday preceding each talk: 413-597-2346 or szepka@williams.edu
Friday, Oct. 26
"Big Love"
7:30 p.m., Adams Memorial Theatre, '62 Center, Williams College
By Charles L. Mee, Jr.; directed by Jean-Bernard Bucky. It has been said that this moment in theater history is the Me generation, and this wild free-for-all celebration of the power of love is among the playwright's most popular works. Adult themes. Admission $3. Reservations: 413-597-2425.
Friday, Oct. 26
Kusika/Zambezi Fall Concert
8 p.m., CenterStage, '62 Center, Williams College
Kusika and the Zambezi Marimba Band will perform dances, music, and storytelling from the African countries of Ghana and Zimbabwe featuring an appearance by Artists-in-Residence Cosmas Magaya and Beauler Shirto, masters of the mbira. Admission $3. Reservations: 413-597-2425.
Friday, Oct. 26
"Eph-palooza" Concert
8 p.m., Chapin Hall, Williams College
Saturday, Oct. 27
"The Making of 'Making it New: The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy.'"
10 a.m., Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall, Williams College
Deborah Rothschild, senior curator at WCMA, discusses the impetus for, evolution of, and the challenges and discoveries that accompanied the exhibition currently on view.
Saturday, Oct. 27
Kusika/Zambezi Fall Concert
2 p.m., CenterStage, '62 Center, Williams College
Kusika and The Zambezi Marimba Band will perform dances, music, and storytelling from the African countries of Ghana and Zimbabwe featuring an appearance by Artists-in-Residence Cosmas Magaya and Beauler Shirto, masters of the mbira. Admission $3. Reservations: 413-597-2425.
Saturday, Oct. 27
"Big Love"
7:30 p.m., Adams Memorial Theatre, '62 Center, Williams College
By Charles L. Mee, Jr.; directed by Jean-Bernard Bucky. It has been said that this moment in theatre history is the Mee generation, and this wild free-for-all celebration of the power of love is among the playwright's most popular works. Adult themes. Admission $3. Reservations: 413-597-2425.
Monday, Oct. 29
"Night of the Living Dead" film screening
7 p.m., Weston 10, Williams College
Tuesday, Oct. 30
"Myanmar: Time to Think Less About Leaders and More Of the Country" with Dr. Khin Zaw Win.
2:45 p.m., Weston 10, Williams College
Tuesday, Oct. 30
Poetry Reading with Jonathan Aaron
4 p.m., Stetson Lounge, Williams College
Wednesday, Oct. 31
Interdisciplinary Gallery Talk Series: On Cubism
12:10 p.m., WCMA
Mark Haxthausen, Robert Sterling Clark professor of art history.
Wednesday, Oct. 31
Midweek Music
12:15 p.m., Chapin Hall, Williams College
Lunchtime recital series featuring student and faculty performers.
Thursday & Friday, Nov. 1 & 2
Great Moments in the History of Numbers
4:15 p.m., Wege Auditorium, Thompson Chemistry 123
The annual Sigma Xi Faculty Research Lectures by professor Edward B. Burger.
"Big Love"
7:30 p.m., Adams Memorial Theatre, '62 Center
By Charles L. Mee, Jr.; directed by Jean-Bernard Bucky. Adult themes.
Friday, Nov 2
WCMA Storytime in the Galleries
10:30 a.m., WCMA
Preschoolers with guardians. No reservations required.
Friday, Nov. 2
CES Log Lunch: "Red Plus Blue Equals Green? History, Partisanship, and U.S. Environmental Politics"
Noon - 1 p.m., The Log, Spring Street
Environmental Studies presentation by Jay Turner of Wellesley College. Vegetarian lunch: $3.50. All members of the wider community are welcome. Reservations must be made by the Wednesday preceding each talk: 413-597-2346 or szepka@williams.edu.
Friday, Nov. 2
Seventh Annual Williamstown Mountain Film Festival
7 - 10 p.m., '62 Center, Williams College
Friday, Nov. 2
"Big Love"
7:30 p.m., Adams Memorial Theatre, '62 Center, Williams College
By Charles L. Mee Jr.; directed by Jean-Bernard Bucky. Adult themes.
Friday, Nov. 2
Inish
8 p.m., CenterStage, '62 Center, Williams College
Experience the traditions of dance, music and legends from the Irish mainland and surrounding islands. 62center.williams.edu
Saturday, Nov. 3
Williams College Museum of Art Piano/Voice Concert
7 p.m.., museum
Allison Mondel, soprano; Dan Foster, piano. In conjunction with the exhibition "Making It New: The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy," this concert features the songs of Francis Poulenc and Darius Milhaud, who forged a bold new style built upon modernist ideals and captured the wit, flare and insouciant charm of their age.
Monday, Nov. 5
"Photographs from S-21" and "The Flute Player"
6 p.m., Images Cinema, Spring Street
Monday, Nov. 5
"Natural Resources, Smart Growth and Sprawl"
7 - 8 p.m., Griffin 6
Environmental Law presentation by Brian Houseal, executive director of the Adirondack Council.
Tuesday, Nov 6
The Bank and the Fund: Fit to Survive?
2:45 p.m., Weston 10, Williams College
International Studies Colloquium by Jerry Caprio, Chair of the Center for Development Economics.
Tuesday, Nov 6
How to Leave No Child Behind
7:00 p.m., Griffin 3, Williams College
James Comer is Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine's Child Study Center.
Tuesday, Nov 6
What Kind of Liberation and Democracy? Iraqi Women
Between Dictatorship, Wars and Occupation
7:30 p.m., Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall, Williams College
Nadje Al-Ali is Lecturer at the Centre for Gender Studies of the University of London (SOAS).
Wednesday, Nov 7
Midweek Music
12:15 p.m., Chapin Hall, Williams College
Lunchtime recital series featuring student and faculty performers.
Wednesday, Nov 7
Chris Washburne and SYOTOS Concert
8:00 p.m., Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall, Williams College
Thursday, Nov 8
English Department Presents "Poetry Now!"
4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m., Stetson Faculty Lounge, Williams College
A reading and lecture series dedicated to contemporary poetry and critical work on poetics.
Thursday, Nov 8
Religion and the Sociological Imagination of African
American Social Scientists
8:00 p.m., Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall, Williams College
W. Allison Davis 1924 and John A. Davis 1933 Lecture by Charles H. Long, Professor, Emeritus, History of Religion, and Director of the Center for Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Friday, Nov 9
WCMA Storytime in the Galleries
10:30 a.m., Williams College Museum of Art
Preschoolers with guardians. No reservations required.
Friday, Nov 9
Forever Green: Devoted to Environmental Stewardship
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m., The Log, Spring Street, Williamstown, Mass.
Environmental Studies Log Lunch presentation by Brian Fairbanks, President and CEO of Jiminy Peak Mountain Resort. Student-prepared vegetarian lunch is $3.50. All members of the wider community are welcome. Reservations must be made by the Wednesday preceding each talk: 413-597-2346 or szepka@williams.edu.
Friday, Nov 9
St. Lawrence String Quartet
8:00 p.m., Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall, Williams College |
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