This talk explores how food rituals among Egypt’s Coptic Christians helped delineate and preserve the community’s identity, from the Ottoman period to modern times. ❖ Thursday, November 3⋅6:30 – 7:30pm | Griffin 3 Continue reading »
Join us for a panel discussion marking the publication of a collection of essays entitled Deserts are not Empty. Panelists will include contributor Brahim El Guabli (in person), and online participants, Samia Henni (editor), Jill Jarvis (contributor), and Francesco Robles (contributor). Other presenters attending in person will be respondents Katarzyna Pieprzak and Michele Monserrati. Refreshments will be served. ❖ Wednesday, November 9, 1:00 – 2:30pm | Rm 203 Physics and online Continue reading »
Challenging the distinctions between “old” and “new” media and narratives about the deprecation of orality in favor of inscribed forms, Tiffany Creegan Miller's presentation draws from Maya concepts of tz’ib’ (recorded knowledge) and tzij, choloj, and ch’owen (orality) to look at expressive work across media and languages. Her presentation is based on her recent monograph, The Maya Art of Speaking Writing: Remediating Indigenous Orality in the Digital Age (University of Arizona Press, 2022), which draws from her fieldwork that occurred intermittently over a decade in the Guatemalan highlands (2010-2019). ❖ Wednesday, November 9, 4:15 – 5:45pm | Mabie Room, Sawyer Library Continue reading »
Williams alum, D. Brian Kim, Assistant Professor of Russian at the University of Pennsylvania, will examine the ways in which Tolstoy and Dostoevsky experimented with, struggled against, and attempted to define the concept of the universal. ❖ Monday, November 14⋅4:00 – 6:00pm | Griffin 7 Continue reading »
The Middle Eastern Music Ensemble, newly sponsored by the Music Department, explores vocal and instrumental traditions rooted in centuries of musical practice. The group meets weekly to play repertoire that spans a wide geographic, historical, and cultural terrain including folk, classical, and popular styles from around the Middle East. Ensemble members learn maqamat (modes) and iqa’at (rhythms), the musical systems shared among musical traditions of the region. The ensemble is directed by Nicholas Mangialardi and Rami Al-Aassar. ❖ Thursday, November 17, 7:30 – 9:00pm | Brooks Rogers Recital Hall Continue reading »
Hideko Abe, Professor of East Asian Studies, Colby College is a leading researcher on Japanese lesbian and gay speech. Her research has provided comprehensive characteristics of the linguistic strategies employed by Japanese sexual minorities. She will present her latest research on Japanese transgender speakers. ❖ Friday, November 18, 4:30pm – 5:30 pm | Griffin 6 Continue reading »
Kelly Comfort (Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, UC-Davis, 2005) is Associate Professor of Spanish and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the School of Modern Languages at Georgia Tech. Prof. Comfort will outline effective approaches to using literature in the foreign-language classroom. Her talk will address how to choose appropriate literary texts and how to use those texts to hone language skills, foster literary analysis, promote critical thinking, raise cross-cultural awareness, promote personal reflection, and encourage creative engagement. Comfort’s presentation will include both theoretical considerations on the use of literary texts in foreign language pedagogy as well as practical applications and sample materials and assignments. ❖ Thursday, Oct 13, 4:15-5:45p pm | Griffin 4 Continue reading »
The photojournalist W Eugene Smith travels back to Japan where he documents the devastating effect of mercury poisoning in coaster communities, Minamata in Japan. Based on the Eugene and Aileen Smiths’ book Minamata. ❖ Film Screening, October 24, 7:00-9:00 pm | Paresky Auditorium ❖ Lecture by Aileen Smith, October 25, 4:30-5:30 pm (followed by reception) | Griffin 3 Continue reading »
Photojournalism, environmental justice, the Japanese anti-nuclear power movement. What are the lessons learned and how can they be incorporated into meeting today’s challenges? ❖ Film Screening: Minamata, October 24, 7:00-9:00 pm | Paresky Auditorium ❖ Lecture by Aileen Smith, October 25, 4:30-5:30 pm (followed by reception) | Griffin 3 Continue reading »
A virtual panel discussion hosted by Professor Amal Eqeiq. The three panelists include Susan Eisenberg (poet, oral historian, curator of the exhibit On Equal Terms and resident scholar at Brandeis University) Jen Marlowe (Filmmaker, writer and activist and founder of Donkeysaddle Projects), and Isis Nusair (Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, Denison College, translator and transnational feminist activist.) ❖ May 11 at 7:00 pm | Zoom Lnk Continue reading »