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Friday, Nov. 13
The Zeiss Planetarium Sky
7:30 p.m., Old Hopkins Observatory, 829 Main Street
Experience the wonders of our universe from the high-precision Zeiss Skymaster ZKP3/B opto-mechanical planetarium projector. For reservations (recommended) contact Barbara Swanson at (413) 597-2188. Others admitted as space permits. More...
"Company" by Stephen Sondheim
8:00 p.m., MainStage, '62 Center
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; directed by Jean-Bernard Bucky; musical direction by Eric Kang. First produced in 1970, Company presented a new model for musical theatre: a theatrical montage, which attempts to explore the inner worlds of memory and desire by mobilizing well known musical forms, often in ironic confrontation with the show's characters and their urbane, witty and ambiguous lyrics. Company won six Tony Awards, and it remains one of Sondheim's most beloved and most frequently produced works. Admission $3; reservations 413-597-2425. More...
Berkshire Symphony: Bees, Brahms, and Berio
8:00 p.m., Chapin Hall
Haldan Martinson, violin, and Mihail Jojatu, cello, join the orchestra for the Brahms: Double Concerto on a program that also includes Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Wasps Overture and Luciano Berio: Rendering. Pre-concert talk at 7:15 in Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall. More...
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Saturday, Nov. 14
Film Screening: Three Coins in the Fountain
2:00 p.m., The Clark 225 South Street
A silly 1950s romance about three American secretaries finding the continental men of their dreams. Part of the Projections of Rome Film Series. Admission to the film is free. More...
Public Conversation: The Charles "Teenie" Harris Retrospective
5:30 p.m., The Clark, 225 South Street
In the second of the Curator Roundtables, a group of curators, archivists, educators, and scholars focus on the 2010 Charles "Teenie" Harris retrospective at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. More...
"Company" by Stephen Sondheim
8:00 p.m., MainStage, '62 Center
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; directed by Jean-Bernard Bucky; musical direction by Eric Kang. First produced in 1970, Company presented a new model for musical theatre: a theatrical montage, which attempts to explore the inner worlds of memory and desire by mobilizing well known musical forms, often in ironic confrontation with the show's characters and their urbane, witty and ambiguous lyrics. Company won six Tony Awards, and it remains one of Sondheim's most beloved and most frequently produced works. Admission $3; reservations 413-597-2425. More...
Octet Alumni Concert XXXV
8:30 p.m., Chapin Hall
The 35th annual concert of the Williams Octet Alumni. Celebrating their Maestro Warren Hunke '42. Featuring a chorus of 50 voices signing their favorite Hunke arrangements, songs of Williams, and joined by special guests the current undergraduate Williams Octet. Free.
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Sunday, Nov. 15
Picturesque and Heroic: 19th-Century Painters Imagining the Eternal City
3:00 p.m., The Clark 225 South Street
Fascinated by both the fantasies and realities of Rome, artists of the 19th century created a myriad of differing artistic compositions of the city. Explore the paradoxes of ancient and modern Rome's place in the 19th century with assistant deputy director Tom Loughman. Admission is free. More... |
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Monday, Nov. 16
Compact Operators and the Dirichlet Problem
1:00 p.m., Bronfman 106
Math/Stats Department Colloquium by Andrew Lee '10. The Dirichlet problem asks whether we can find a function, harmonic on an open bounded region in R^3, that takes prescribed values on the boundary. Using compact operators (an extension of familiar ideas from linear algebra to infinite dimensions), we prove the existence and uniqueness of a solution.
Using Self to Understand Others: fMRI Studies of Social Cognition
4:00 p.m., Bronfman 105
Jason Mitchell, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University, does research in the emerging field of social neuroscience. He studies social processes, such as when and why people engage in stereotyping, how people form impressions of others, and how people understand (or sometimes fail to understand) the perspectives of others.
Black Leadership Roundtable
This event has been postponed.
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Tuesday, Nov. 17
Counterinsurgency and Pacification in the Vietnam War
2:45 p.m., Weston 10
Randall Woods, Stanley Kaplan Distinguished Visiting Professor in American Foreign Policy, will discus a collective biography of four Americans and one Vietnamese who struggled to defeat the Vietcong on their own terms and to raise up a viable, progressive political movement independent of the DRV and the corrupt generals in Saigon.
Wonder and the Births of Philosophy
4:00 p.m., Griffin 7
Mary-Jane Rubenstein '99 is an Assistant Professor of Religion at Wesleyan University and core faculty in the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program. Her research interests lie in the intersections of continental philosophy and Christian theology as well as gender and sexuality studies, post-colonial Christianities, and literary and critical theory.
The Attraction of French Philosophy to the Origins of Painting
5:30 p.m., The Clark, 225 South Street
Lecture by Clark Fellow Hagi Kenaan, a senior lecturer in the department of philosophy at Tel Aviv University. Kenaan specializes in continental philosophy, phenomenology, and the philosophy of art.
Jazz on Tuesday
7:00 p.m., Chapin Hall
Lewis Porter and our own Freddie Bryant will give an impromptu concert joined by some special guests. Lewis and Freddie have formed a new group - Dharma Jazz - with the great tabla player, Badal Roy (recorded with Miles Davis, John Mclaughlin) and percussionist, Karttikeya. More...
Life and Art in Roman Villas on the Bay of Naples
7:30 p.m., Lawrence 231
Lecture by Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Elaine Gazda, Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology in the Department of the History of Art and the Interdepartmental Program in Art and Archaeology, and Curator of Hellenistic and Roman Antiquities at the Kelsey Museum, University of Michigan. More...
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Wednesday, Nov. 18
Midweekmusic
12:15 p.m., Thompson Memorial Chapel
Lunchtime recital series featuring student and faculty performers. Bring a lunch and listen to classical, jazz and world music. This week's performance features organ students. More...
Increasing the Odds of Winning the Hat Game
1:00 p.m., Bronfman 106
Math/Stats Department Colloquium by Joanna Hoffman '10. The hat game is a guessing game in which players attempt to guess the color of a hat randomly placed on their head. We will first look at a few intuitive strategies for playing the game. Then, we will consider a strategy based on properties of the null space of a matrix, and prove that the probability of winning in this case is surprisingly high.
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Thursday, Nov. 19
David Demsey on John Coltrane
11:20 a.m., Presser Hall, Bernhard Music Center
David Demsey is coordinator of Jazz Studies, curator of the Living Jazz Archives, and Professor of Music at William Paterson University. He will discuss his research on the music of John Coltrane. Demsey is the author of John Coltrane Plays Giant Steps and Chromatic Third Relationships in the Music of John Coltrane. More...
Chamber Music Master Class
4:30 p.m., Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall, Bernhard Music Center
The Department of Music presents a chamber music master class for Williams students with the Jupiter String Quartet. This free event is open to the public. More...
Climate Change and Vulnerable Communities: Standing on the Rights of Land-Based Cultures
7:30 p.m., Griffin 6
Eric Dannenmaier, Associate Professor of Law, Dean's Fellow, and Chair of the Indiana University, has served as an advisor to governments and international organizations in the reform of environment and natural resource laws and in the design of legal frameworks for public participation in development decision-making.
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Friday, Nov. 20
Conservation Across Borders
12:00 p.m., The Log, Spring Street
Environmental Studies Log Lunch presentation by Charles Chester, lecturer at Brandeis University and the Coordinator of the Conservation and Climate Change Clearinghouse. Vegetarian meal: $4. Reservations: 597-2346 or szepka@williams.edu. All welcome.
A Modified Accept-Reject Algorithm for Univariate Densities with Bounded Support
1:00 p.m., Bronfman 106
Math/Stats Department Faculty Seminar by Carsten Botts. The need to simulate from a univariate density arises in several settings, particularly in Bayesian analysis. An especially efficient algorithm which can be used to sample from a univariate density is the adaptive accept-reject algorithm.
The 'Pristine Myth': The American Landscape Before Columbus
4:00 p.m., Paresky Auditorium
Charles Mann, author of the award-winning book 1491, explores the nature of the New World of North and South America in the period before Columbus' arrival, addressing both the nature of the regional landscape and the endemic human societies that helped to shape it.
The Zeiss Planetarium Sky
7:30 p.m., Old Hopkins Observatory, 829 Main Street
Experience the wonders of our universe from the high-precision Zeiss Skymaster ZKP3/B opto-mechanical planetarium projector. Reservations: (413) 597-2188. More...
Jupiter String Quartet
8:00 p.m., Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall
"One of the strongest young string quartets in the country" (New York Sun) plays music by Haydn, Golijov, and Beethoven. More...
Sankofa, Kusika, and the Zambezi Marimba Band
8:00 p.m., '62 Center for Theatre and Dance
Three companies share the stage performing traditional and contemporary dance and music from Africa and the African Diaspora. Box office: 413-597-2425. More...
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Saturday, Nov. 21
Berkshire Grown Holiday Farmers' Market
10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m., Towne Field House, Latham Street
In celebration of Thanksgiving, Berkshire Grown will host the first annual Holiday Farmers' Market at Williams College. Join in celebration of the wide array of farms and food producers in the region and pick up a homemade pie for your Thanksgiving dinner!
Film Screening: The White Sheik
2:00 p.m., The Clark 225 South Street
In Fellini's first film, a newly-wed couple from the provinces makes their pilgrimage to Rome The groom (Clifton Webb) is eager to visit the Pope, while the bride (Brunella Bovo) only wants to see the third-rate Valentino of the title (Alberto Sordi). Projections of Rome Film Series. Admission to the film is free. More...
Sankofa, Kusika, and the Zambezi Marimba Band
2:00 & 8:00 p.m., '62 Center for Theatre and Dance
Kusika, Sankofa, and the Zambezi Marimba Band perform new work in a shared concert, "In the Spirit," celebrating the impact of African popular music, dance and storytelling in the lives of people world-wide. Box office: 413-597-2425. More...
Williams Percussion Ensemble: Noise/Signal
8:00 p.m., Chapin Hall
Cutting-edge new music features Michal van der Aa, "Between" for percussion and electronics; works by Zoltan Jeney and Elliott Sharp; and a premiere co-written by Williams seniors Alex Creighton and Brian Simalchik. More...
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