Arts & Sciences Events

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Speaker: Huajie Shao, UIUC

Monday, 3/1/2021, Noon 12:00 PM

Ambassador Dennis Ross is presented by W&M Hillel, the W&M Reves Center for International Studies, the W&M Global Research Institute, and the W&M Department of Government.

 Ilit Ferber, who teaches Philosophy at the University of Tel Aviv will be giving a talk on her new research Wednesday, March 3 at 11am on ZOOM.

Speaker: Ziyu Yao, Ohio State University 

This session will focus on questions of diversity and inclusion in the foreign language classroom with an emphasis on issues of representation, accessibility, and engagement.

Spring Break Day 

Mosaic brings together the best and brightest of the W&M Theatre and Dance department for an evening of song, dance, poetry and reflection.

Faculty will learn about trauma-informed teaching practices that include suggestions on how to draft a syllabus, provide advance notice to students regarding the subject to be discussed, and for facilitating class discussion.

Come join us for a useful information session on careers in the geosciences! | Click on the event title for info on getting the Zoom link to attend!

Curious about GISP certification? This discussion aims to demystify GISP (GIS Professional) Certification with an overview of the what, why, and how of the process. Find out if GISP certification is something to consider in your career planning.

Join distinguished scholars from all over the world as they discuss and debate the principles that form the building blocks of our technical age. Go to https://borjsymposium.wixsite.com/2021 for more information!

Speaker: Yu Huang, PhD candidate in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan

Join Italian Studies at W&M for a lunchtime conversation with acclaimed Italian columnist and writer Beppe Severgnini.

Need support in choosing a major? Please attend this workshop specifically geared towards transfer students to assist them with this process. 

Brought to you by the Society of 1918 and the Hulon Willis Association

William and Mary Innocence Project's first guest speaker, Nilam Sanghvi, will speak on topic of Prosecutorial Misconduct's role in our criminal justice system, and particularly within wrongful incarcerations. All are welcome and encouraged to attend. 

Speaker: Dr. Nate Veldt, Postdoctoral associate in the Center for Applied Mathematics at Cornell University

Participate in this Zoom informational session to learn about how you can submit a pitch for an Immersive Conservation Mural in spring 2021. W&M students are invited to submit a pitch for a conservation mural and Augmented Reality experience this spring.

Learn more about SMARTRIQS, a free and open source platform that allows users to create online experiments using Qualtrics. SMARTRIQS creator, Dr. Andras Molnar, will present. The Social Science Research Methods Center will host this event. 

Laura Sims is a poet and novelist (and W&M alum!). Her books include the poetry collections Practice, restraint and Stranger. 

Eurocentrism, Knowledge Making and Decolonial Dialogue

Linda Martín Alcoff (Hunter, CUNY) and Carlos Rivera Santana (Hispanic Studies, W&M)

Thursday March 11 3:30-5pm:

Open to Public 

Speaker: Dr. Andrew Perrault, Postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Research in Computation and Society at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science

Join us on 3/12 at 12:05PM for a zoom seminar by Denison geoscience professor Dr. Anjali Fernandes titled "Backwater Controls on the Kinematics and Sedimentary Records of Large Rivers and Deltas" | Click the event title to contact Brent Owens to attend!

Diego Mendez-Carbajo, Senior Economic Education Specialist , will give a basic introduction to FRED; an overview of GeoFRED; and a demonstration of using GeoFRED data on inflation for economic analysis and instruction. 

AMES Colloquium Series presents: Seeing the Forest from the Trees: Multi-proxy analysis of pastoralist-landscape relationships in southern Arabia during the Holocene

Rana Ashkar-Virginia Tech, Title of Talk:  Collective Dynamics in Lipid Membranes: From Fundamental Physics to Health and Disease  

Rana Ashkar, Department of Physics & Center for Soft Matter and Biological Physics, Virginia Tech
e-mail: ashkar@vt.edu

A lecture presented by Professor Tamara Sonn, the 2021 Virtual Kraemer Middle East Distinguished Scholar-In-Residence.  Presented in celebration of the Asian Centennial at William & Mary.

Speaker: Dr. Camille Cobb, CMU

Join The Center for Racial & Social Justice and Women's Law Society at W&M Law for a discussion about  menstrual Justice with Professor Margaret  Johnson.

Come meet W&M STEM professors from biology, chemistry, neuroscience, and mathematics! Come learn how to be successful in their classes as a pre-med student! Meeting ID: 988 9360 4944

Dr. Carnegie, a research professor at VIMS, will share about his research focusing on host-parasite interactions in oysters, aquaculture health, and shellfish restoration in the Chesapeake Bay.  

Spring Break Day for undergraduates

Speaker: Dr. Benjamin Fish, Postdoctoral fellow at Mila

Esteemed novelist and filmmaker Alia Yunis (The Night Counter) is the premiering author of Asian American Plural: Literature Across Borders, organized by Dr. R. Benedito Ferrao as part of his course OUTSIDE IN: TRANSNATIONAL ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE.

Anthropology professor Grey Gundaker will give the 2021 Tisch Lecture at Columbia Teachers College. 

Speaker: Najoung Kim, Department of Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins University

Lunar Descent and the Earthly Fall in Bacon, Godwin, and Milton 

Erin Webster (W&M), Department of English

Questions about the Foreign Language Proficiency Requirement? Not sure what the Placement Test is about? Interested in taking an advanced language class or learning a new language but not sure if it’s for you?

WMGIC Career & Networking Expo

Dr. Joel S. Levine - William & Mary Applied Science, Title of Talk:  The Human Exploration of the Moon and Mars: A Preview

WMGIC Global Innovation Challenge Competition

The W&M Global Film Festival, in partnership with W&M Libraries and the Reeder Media Center, is proud to host the 17th Annual 24 Speed competition!

Summer registration begins for degree seeking students

This workshop will show you a peek behind the curtain at the art of sound design, providing a zoology of various sound effects, how to find them or make them yourself, and how it’s not always about what sounds real, it’s about what sounds right.

Speaker: Hongyuan Mei, Department of Computer Science at the Johns Hopkins University (JHU)

Our Spring 2021 Symposium will take place virtually Monday, March 22 through Saturday, March 27, 2021.

Four Centuries of Black Women in America: Freedom, Activism, and Justice for All

Register and view the program here.

In this workshop, we will explore the little-known but essential role of Production Managers.

TV is a writer’s medium and in this workshop we’ll walk through the logistics of how scripted television gets made from a writer’s perspective – from pilot development through series production. We’ll also discuss the TV writing career ladder.

For the creative student who can’t decide whether to major in writing, film, business, music, theater, or cultural anthropology — have you considered a job in marketing?

In this workshop we’ll discuss how to strategically leverage (almost) any resume into your first internship or entry-level role – no theatre major necessary.

In this workshop, we’ll focus on concepts and strategies for crafting effective interviews. 

This talk presented by Megan Victor of Queen's College is an overview of the recovery excavation season at the Standford Arboretum Chinese Labor Quarters and discusses findings of an analysis ceramic assemblages. Email jdcarlson@wm.edu for Zoom link. 

Speaker: Dr. Dan Williams, Research Staff Member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Lab

Join us as we kick off the 2021 festival with a collection of short films created by students in only 24 hours. 

Reaching Out and Leaning In III is the third of four Dance concerts presented in the 2020-2021 season. Student choreographers explore and develop original work performed by members of Orchesis Modern Dance Company under the mentorship of Dance faculty.

As streaming platforms continue to expand and demand for content is at an all-time high, we will delve into how to find your footing and anticipate change in the rapidly evolving digital media landscape of online content distribution.

David James Lahneman , Physics - Final Oral Dissertation Defense
Zoom link: is available upon request. Please email [[w|evwilk,Ellie]]
Title: Light Matter Interactions in Quasi-Two-Dimensional Geometries

Join our virtual conversation on "Security in the Cyber Age" with Mr. John Inglis, former Deputy Director of the National Security Agency.

“Searching for Anna May Wong,” traces the journey of actor Natasha Tina Liu, who raises the question, “If trailblazing Anna May Wong were still alive today, would she still face the same racism and challenges she experienced during her time in Hollywood?”

This virtual symposium explores the different strategies that museums and museum professionals have embraced during these complex times. 

Come join us for Caitlin Walker's Brown Bag titled: Holocene trends in biogenic silica revealed by FTIR spectroscopy applied to a lake sediment record from northern Norway | Click on the event title for info on getting the Zoom link to attend!

Chris Dunn is a licensed Missouri attorney, geospatial business owner, expert witness, and geohistorical researcher. His talk focuses on his work investigating, mapping, and modeling incidents, accidents, and crimes.

Join the Student Intellectual Property Society (SIPS) for a moderated panel discussion featuring W&M alums working in the exciting field of international IP law. 

Students will learn about the art of camera movement as we film a scene using several different techniques.

Students will witness and participate in the creation of a fight scene (over Zoom).

This workshop will provide aspiring actors with everything they need to know in obtaining an on-screen talent agent/manager, particularly in the NY/LA market.

Documentary editors are writers! For my workshop, I’ll detail my process for writing a documentary, and show the development of a scene from first draft to final cut.

Summer registration begins for Non-Degree Seeking students

Timothy B. Hayward, Physics - Final Oral Dissertation Defense
Zoom link is available upon request. Please email [[w|evwilk,Ellie]]
Title: Dihadron Beam Spin Asymmetries on an Unpolarized Hydrogen Target with CLAS12

Academic advising drop in hours for quick questions regarding the withdrawal deadline. 

Author Paul Ocampo will speak on his short story "Butterfly" which appears in Maxine Hong Kingston's anthology, "Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace (2006), as part of Dr. R. Benedito Ferrao's series Asian American Plural: Literature Across Borders.

Gurunath Kadam, Computer Science - PhD Dissertation Defense
Title: Low-Overhead Techniques for Secure and Reliable GPU Computing
Advisor: Prof. Adwait Jog
Location:   (Zoom Meeting)

Join policy leaders in national security, diplomacy and international development for a discussion of the first 100 days of presidential administrations.

Students will present proposals for grants to further their research. 

The Russian and Post - Soviet Studies Program invites you to the Tepper Speaker Series: Global Russia.