Claiming Williams 2024: Access to and through Higher Education
Meals on Claiming Williams Day are open to the full campus community, as well as any guest speakers. No need to swipe or register.
10 AM – 4 PM:
- Descript-a-thon!, 24-Hour Reading Room, Sawyer Library
- Transcribe-a-Thon, Sawyer Library Special Collections
- Journeys Beyond Borders: International Student Portraits, Directing Studio, ’62 Center
7:30 – 10:00 AM Breakfast: Driscoll and Whitman’s
9:15 – 10:45 AM
- Learning between the Rubbles: Urbicide in Gaza and Beyond, Schapiro 129
- Acknowledging Sexual Violence on Campus: Navigating and Improving Institutional and Cultural Practice around Survivorship, Goodrich Hall
- Citational Justice: Make it Happen, Sawyer 328
- Not Your Model Minority: Struggles for Affirmative Action and Asian American Studies, Wachenheim Science Center, Room 113
- Disability in the Latinx Community, Wachenheim Science Center, Room 114
- Teaching during times of crisis: building access through care (for faculty/staff), Wachenheim 015 – RSVP requested
- Meaning-Making at the Crossroads: The Role of Chaplaincy in Campus Life , Paresky Auditorium
11:00 AM – 12:15 PM Aaliyah Bilal: Education and Opportunity Beyond the Gates, MainStage, ’62 CTD
11:30 AM – 2:00 PM Lunch: Driscoll, Whitman’s, and the Faculty House (open to all)
12:15 – 1:45 PM Lunchtime Dialogues
- Understanding Antisemitism in the World and at Williams, Faculty House Lounge (downstairs)
- Storytime: How’d you hear about Williams? Paresky Auditorium (no food permitted)
- Do Good while Funding your Education: Americorps, Bascom House
2:00 – 3:30 PM
- The Self Help Tour, MainStage, ’62 Center [Note: this event runs until 3:45pm]
- Reclaiming Institutional Memory: Revisiting BIPOC Activism on Campus, Wachenheim Science Center, room 113
- The Role of Private Schools in Diversifying Liberal Arts Colleges, Wachenheim Science Center, room 114
- Jen White-Johnson, Amplifying Access and Abolishing Ableism: Designing to Embolden Black Disability Visual Culture, Lawrence Hall Auditorium
- Sisterhood x SJP Presents: Liberation Is a Global Struggle- The Call of Black Feminism & Global Solidarity Histories, Griffin 3
- Amplifying Indigenous Voices: Becoming an Ally for Indigenous People and Students, Wachenheim 116
3:45 – 5:00 PM
- Doxxing, Intimidation, and Silencing (on Palestine) with Palestinian American Writer & Activist Sumaya Awad ’16, Griffin 3
- Coffee and Community: Nontraditional Pathways to Education, Schapiro 129
- Access and Athletics: How did you become a Williams athlete? Goodrich Hall
- Hear Me: A documentary film about growing up with poverty and gun violence in Berkshire County, Paresky Auditorium
3:45 – 6:15 PM What Being Under Resourced Feels Like: A Simulation and Critique, Dodd Dining Room – RSVP requested
5:00 – 7:00 PM Dinner: Mission Park, Driscoll, and Whitman’s
7:30 PM: Evening Keynote: Ruth Simmons, Chapin Hall