8:15am: Breakfast in the lobby of ’62 CTD
- Honeybuns, donuts, yogurt, coffee, and tea. Start the day off with a free breakfast!
9-10:30am: Opening Event
- Opening Remarks: President Adam Falk, MainStage, ’62 CTD
- “The Peak”: A Williams Talk Show
10:45am – 12:00pm: Community Forums
- Confronting Ourselves: Promoting Cultural Competence and Inclusive Excellence at Williams and Beyond, Bronfman Auditorium
- Claiming William$: The cost and Benefits of Space Ownership, Griffin 3
- First Generation Faculty: Experiences, Challenges, Lessons, Paresky Auditorium
- From Potential to Action with Kinetic, Directing Studio, ‘62 CTD
- Local Borders: Engaging Our Perceptions of North Adams and Williamstown, Dodd Living Room
- Re-Claiming Williams: Islamophobia and Re-committing to Justice After Hatred, Baxter Hall, Paresky
12-4 pm: Special Time Slot
12:15-1:30pm: Lunch Time Dialogues ~ A Word About Food on Claiming Williams Day…
- Working @ Williams 5 to 2: Who are We?, Goodrich Hall
- Quest Story Time, Driscoll Lounge
- Faith, Community and the Environment, Paresky Quiet Room
- Who is Williams? Clicker session, Faculty House Lounge
- Disabled Student Voices, Faculty House Sun Porch
- Local Borders Discussion, Dodd Living Room
- Debunking and Demystifying the Media Outrage on Ebola, Dodd Gibson Room
1:15-3:15pm
1:45-3:15pm: Community Forums
- Let Me Tell You A (Really Fast) Story, Baxter Hall, Paresky
- A Journey to Recovery: Breaking the Stigma and Finding Support, Goodrich Hall
- Humans of Williams, Sawyer Library Forum
- Feeding the Community: Dining Services Panel, Brooks-Rogers Auditorium See Video
- The Marginalized Man: Education Access in Prisons, Paresky Auditorium
- Dealing with Anti-Muslim Sentiment in America – A workshop with MPAC, Dodd Living Room
3:30-5:00pm: Community Forums
- Mobilizing for Climate Justice with Reverend Yearwood from the Hip Hop Caucus, Paresky Auditorium See Video
- Writing as Political Action, Griffin 2
- Unmasking Empathy: A Staged Reading of Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Play We Are Proud to Present a Presentation… CenterStage, ’62 CTD
- Trust at Williams, Goodrich Hall
- Torn by Guilt and Rage, Dodd Living Room
5:00pm: Special Time Slot
5:45-7:30pm: Dinner Time Dialogues ~ A Word About Food on Claiming Williams Day…
- International Narratives, Dodd Living Room
- Unmasking Empathy: A discussion of Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Play We Are Proud to Present a Presentation…, Faculty House Dining Room
- Williams Reads: Henrietta Lacks, Faculty House Sun Porch
- A Conversation with Mothers Against Police Brutality, Faculty House Lounge
- Stone Soup: Sharing Stories Across Cultures, Dodd Gibson Room
- The Marginalized Man: Access of Education in Prisons (discussion), Mission Dennett
- Yakking about YikYak, Goodrich Hall
8:00-9:30pm: Keynote
9:30 Solidarity Walk and Community Gathering
- Walking as One, organized by the Minority Coalition (MinCo), this walk with start inside Chapin Hall @ 9:30 pm. NOTE: Location Change from steps dues to weather conditions.
- Celebrate the end of Claiming Williams Day at 10 pm in Paresky Center Baxter Hall. Continue the day’s conversations over pizza, cookies and hot cocoa. Pizza will be served upon arrival of the walk.
All Day (outside regular time-frames)
- Celebrating our Identities: A Photo Installation, Henze Lounge, Paresky Center
- Wear Your Privilege Activity, Paresky Tabling Area
- RAWDance, various times and locations
- 8:50am ’62 center MST lobby (adjacent to food) (6 min)
- 10:30am ’62 CenterStage lobby (6 min.)
- 12:10pm: Paresky lounge (2 locations—cross cast, long version)
- 1:45pm Sawyer main level (2nd floor) (6 min.) before “Humans at Williams”
- 3:30pm Goodrich, before “Trust at Williams”
- 5:45pm Faculty House, before “Henrietta Lacks”