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Micaela Díaz-Sanchez on Gender Roles in “Traditional” Puerto-Rican Bomba
A Puerto-Rican bomba group. Micaela Díaz-Sanchez presented her work on Puerto Rican bomba dancing in a short lecture on Tuesday, April 2. Diaz-Sanchez is an assistant professor in the Departments of...
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Scottish Haggis Balls with Whiskey and Mustard Sauce
British haggis balls. Haggis is a British and Scottish pudding made from sheep’s heart or liver and various spices. Traditionally served with turnips and potatoes, as well as Scotch whiskey, haggis is...
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Log Lunch: Invasive Species after the 2011 Tsunami in Japan
A dock from Misawa, Japan, washed up on the shores of Olympic National Park last December, carrying 400 pounds of Japanese plant and animal matter. Williams Mystic Professor of Biology James Carlton...
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Klier Explains Social Context of the Neo-Nazi Murder Series in East Germany
Freya Klier, German political activist and documentary filmmaker. On Wednesday, April 3, Freya Klier, a German activist and documentary film-maker, discussed the recent series of murders committed in...
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Valerie Hansen Redefines Silk Road
Putative route of the “Silk Road” in the 1st century BC. During a talk entitled, “The Silk Road: A New History,” Valerie Hansen, a professor of history at Yale, questioned the accepted idea of the Silk...
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Majd Explains Iranian Perspective on U.S. Foreign Policy
On Sunday, April 14, Iranian-born Hooman Majd illuminated the misconceptions that have formed the basis of U.S.-Iran relations since 1953. Now a journalist for magazines such as The New Yorker and...
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Klier Presents Documentary on 1953 Uprisings in the GDR
A Soviet tank in Leipzig on June 17, 1953. On Monday, April 8, German social activist Freya Klier showed her film We Want to Be Free! East Germans Rise Up, 1953 at Images Cinema. After World War II,...
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Confino Connects Holocaust Anti-Semitism to Nazis’ Anxiety about History and...
Alon Confino, Professor of History at the University of Virginia, discussed his work on the connection between acts of racial violence against Jews during the Holocaust and the Nazis’ reinvention of...
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Williams Students Travel to Israel to Participate in Archaeological Excavations
In June 2013, eight Williams students traveled to northern Israel to excavate at a 1st century B.C. Roman temple site there. This was Williams’s second season of involvement in the project, initiated...
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Jamie Baik ’14 in South Korea
Jamie Baik ’14 is an Art Studio major from Glen Rock, New Jersey. After spending a semester abroad in Siena, Italy, Baik decided to apply for the Lawrence Fellowship, which supports student projects...
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