Arts & Sciences Events

Midterm grading ends on March 20, 2020 at 5 p.m. More information about midterm grading: https://www.wm.edu/offices/registrar/facstaff/grading/index.php

Midterm grading ends on March 20 at 5 p.m. More information about midterm grading: https://www.wm.edu/offices/registrar/facstaff/grading/index.php

Designing Interactive Systems for Community Citizen Science

Dr. Yen-Chia Hsu, Carnegie Mellon University

Professor Danielle K. Citron will present the 2020 Wythe Lecture. She is a Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law where she teaches and writes about privacy, free speech, and civil procedure. 

“The Jewish Background of Spinoza, or How Spinoza reads the Bible through Rabbinic Lenses” Monday, March 2, 5:00 p.m. Washington Hall Room 315

Please join us on Monday, March 2 for a talk by Thomas Travisano at 5 PM in Tucker Theatre.  There will be a reception to follow.  

Seminar: “Omnis determinatio est negatio: Determination, Negation and Self-Negation in Spinoza, Kant, and Hegel” Tuesday, March 3, 12:30-1:50, Tucker 222

RSVP: https://williamandmary.mywconline.com/

George Ciccariello-Maher will lead a Necropolitics and Decoloniality Workshop for students and faculty.

Come meet some of our FitWell Instructors and Personal Trainers while you learn about the application process. We will hold an instructor interest meeting from 6:00 to 6:30 and a personal training interest meeting from 6:30 to 7:00. 

Yifan Sun from Northeastern University

Zhaoliang Duan, Computer Science - PhD Dissertation Proposal
Title: Single Image Direct-global illumination Separation
Advisor: Dr. Pieter Peers

Join us for a panel about the experiences of underrepresented students in higher education. We'll discuss research, personal experiences, and strategies for addressing challenges that students may face.

Interested in Human Rights?
Considering spending Fall 2020 in Latin America?
This is THE perfect opportunity for you.

Join us for our Movie Night at Hispanic House!! (attention, not at Botetourt, at Giles 2nd floor!) PELO MALO (Venezuela).

Learn how best to take advantage of the Cohen Career Center as a grad student.

Taipei City Councilmember, Lo Chih-Chiang, will explain his pioneering use of social media, and comment on the role of social media in Taiwanese & Cross-Strait politics.

The Philosophy Department is sponsoring a workshop on the intersection of Ethics and Metaphysics, with six speakers.

Speaker: Dr. Supreeth Shastri, Postdoctoral Fellow from the University of Texas at Austin

Colloquium: Xiaoyuan Chang, Junping Shi

Spring Break. Classes suspended through March 22. Classes will resume on-line on March 23. 

For more information, see W&M's COVID-19 updates.

Dr. Jieming Yin from AMD Research

W&M's Public Policy Program and the Schroeder Center for Health Policy are implementing a new program to provide financial support for selected public policy majors who are considering unpaid or low paid policy internships. 

Hua Huang from Stony Brook

Summer registration begins for degree seeking students

Classes suspended through March 22. Classes will resume on-line on March 23. 

For more information, see W&M's COVID-19 updates.

In response to the COVID-19 advisories, all meetings with your academic advisors should take place remotely.

* Are you considering studying Spanish during the summer?
* Would you like to fulfill the Foreign Language Proficiency requirement this summer?
* Would you and your friends like to start a long relationship with Spanish language and Hispanic culture?

Advance Fall 2020 Registration for Continuing Graduate Students .  

 The Spring 2020 Studio Workshop Series: Academic Anxiety & Student Resilience has been postponed until further notice.

Dr. Amina Tawasil of the Columbia University's Teacher College will present her research on the social protests of Iranian women against Iran's forced veiling policy. 

[CANCELLED] Dr. Vicki McConnell, from the Geological Society of America (GSA), will be presenting a seminar on "Interfacing Science with Government: You Don’t Always Get What You Want…".  Pizza will be provided in McGl 219 before the seminar.

Steven Salaita presents "Native America and Palestine in an Era of Global Insurgency."  

The Jordan Ponzi Trio with Michael McNeill on Piano and Emre Kartari on Drums featuring original music of Jordan's debut album "The First Journey".

All events and gatherings in university facilities as well as university-sponsored events on and off campus are suspended through at least April 3.  Learn more: https://www.wm.edu/news/announcements/alert/ 

All events and gatherings in university facilities as well as university-sponsored events on and off campus are suspended through at least April 3.   Learn more: https://www.wm.edu/news/announcements/alert/ 

Steven Goldenberg, Computer Science - Ph.D. Dissertation Proposal
Title: Improving Iterative SVD: Software Improvements to Robustness
Advisor: Dr. Andreas Stathopoulos

Sarah Stroud Is Director of the Parr Center for Ethics and joined the Philosophy Department at UNC in 2018. All interested are welcome!

Please join us on March 21, 2020 at 7:30 in the Wren Chapel, W&M campus for “Songs of Syria” a concert of traditional muwashshat and favorite popular songs from Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, and Jordan.

Classes Resume - In response to COVID-19, all instruction will resume via online and distance platforms on Monday, March 23. Online instruction will continue uninterrupted.

Summer registration begins for Non-Degree Seeking students

Mireille Fanon-Mendès France, Director of the Franz Fanon Foundation, will discuss the need for reparations of descendants of the trans-Atlantic slave trade within the context of international law. 

Tom Keefe and Wilbur Slockish will give a talk about the Northwest Native fishing treaty rights. 

As part of W&M's response to COVID-19, all events and gatherings in university facilities as well as university-sponsored events on and off campus are suspended through at least April 3. 

An Evening of Dance is an annual concert in which students explore and develop original choreography performed by their peers in the Orchesis Modern Dance Company, under the mentorship of the Dance faculty.

[CANCELLED] Megan Gillen (W&M Geology 2020) will be presenting on "Quantifying the erodibility of marshes through soil shear strength"

Ongoing Research Talks

The 15th Annual Student-Faculty Research Conference in European Studies features Prof. Rita Chin (U. Michigan) on "The Crisis of Multiculturalism in Europe: Historical Lessons for the Present Moment." Students will present papers on migration in Europe.

Co-hosted by William & Mary and Virginia Commonwealth University, the 2020 Education Research Symposium will present student work around the topic "Educational Collaboration in the New Decade."

Midterm grading began on March 2, 2020. More information about midterm grading: https://www.wm.edu/offices/registrar/facstaff/grading/index.php

This date has changed in response to COVID-19.

An Evening of Dance is an annual concert in which students explore and develop original choreography performed by their peers in the Orchesis Modern Dance Company, under the mentorship of the Dance faculty.

Fall priority registration for continuing students

Dr. Patxi Pérez Ramallo will give a lecture on his research on the Camino de Santiago at the Former Residence of the Ambassadors to Spain in Washington D.C.

Adoor Gopalakrishnan is among the world’s great living filmmakers.

Anne Norton explores the imbrication of race and labor within the persistence of feudalism that resulted in a double enclosure of colonization.  She discusses  Australian artists, whose work seeks for methods for decolonization of the mind.

In Wilson’s penultimate play of the American Century Cycle, the ancestral past is reseeded within the community through Aunt Ester who guides Citizen on a journey to owning his individual past and remembering his collective history.

The Haven Confidential Advocate Application 20-21 Now Open! Due March 16th @ 5:00pm

The submissions period for the 2020 W&M Student Literary Awards opens TODAY, February 14, and runs through Friday, March 6 at 11:59 pm. The awards are open to all undergraduate William & Mary students.