W&M Featured Events

This Homecoming & Reunion Weekend, come home and show your pride your way. Each year features new programming and old favorites, including annual signature events like the Homecoming Parade, Virginia Uncorked and the Saturday Night Bash.

A lunchtime gathering building knowledge of how to make more sustainable decisions on campus! 

An information session to help you prepare to submit your thesis or dissertation to Proquest (and W&M ScholarWorks) and make decisions about any embargoes, copyright, licensing and more.

Professor William N. Eskridge, Jr., of Yale Law School will present William & Mary's 2019 Cutler Lecture titled “Why Marriage Equality Prevailed—and Lessons for Other Social Movements.” 

Join the Human Security Law Center in welcoming Arthur R. Traldi for a discussion on Mass Atrocity Trials. Mr. Traldi will speak from his extensive experience in international justice and law in Room 124. There will be pizza! 

Sarah Barringer Gordon, Arlin M. Adams Professor of Law and Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, will present a lecture, “Staying in Place: Church Property and the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church after the Civil War."

Join Professor William Eskridge of Yale Law School for a discussion of whether federal antidiscrimination law prohibits workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and transgender status. Sponsored by the Equality Alliance.

Talk Title: TBD

If you're interested in a career in private equity, don't miss out on this meet-up with John Ribble. Based in San Francisco.

The Classical Studies department presents the 2019 Lee Lecture: Dr. Dimitris Nakassis of the University of Colorado, Boulder (and MacArthur Fellow 2015), will lecture on "The World before Odysseus: Rethinking the History of Late Bronze Age Greece"

David P. Gushee is a Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics and Director of the Center for Theology and Public Life at Mercer University.

SERATA ALL’OPERA: How to understand and enjoy the music from Il Barbiere di Siviglia by G. Rossini

Italian Professor Rita Paolino will present on "Il barbiere di Siviglia" by Rossini in Washington Hall 315! 

Join us at the Entrepreneurship Center on October 17th from 5:30-7pm as we kick off our Alumni Founders Series. It's a great opportunity to connect with alumni as they return to campus to share their story with students. All majors and classes welcome!

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with the CSD, LASU, and SIA on October 17 

Come to the Conduct and Honor Advisor Program interest meeting in Morton 38 at 8 pm Thursday October 17th to learn about who we are, what we do, and how to join. We will be discussing student rights and our application process. There will be free food! 

An exhibition of rare books on early American law from the collection of Sid Lapidus at the Wolf Law Library at William & Mary Law School.

Almanacs are annual guidebooks, used as a calendar and sometimes as a diary, for looking up astronomical data or astrological signs, and even as a weather forecast. 

The Campus Food Pantry is OPEN for all WM students, faculty and staff- so please come take some free food to get through finals- featuring canned goods, household items and microwavable meals!

Hours: Monday 330-530, Thursday 430-630, and Saturday 1-3

In 1991, the Women's Studies program emerged, and in 2013, the program was renamed Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, a change that reflects the program’s aspirations for the growth of feminist research and activism at William & Mary. 

On December 4, 1779, George Wythe became the first professor of law in America, a professorship created at William & Mary by the Board of Visitors at the urging of Thomas Jefferson. Various events will commemorate the 240th anniversary of that event.

Join the VBA on Wednesday, October 6th, to learn more about the VBA Law School Council, upcoming networking and interview prep events, as well as 1L and 2L opportunities to get involved.