Global Studies Events

Karin Olofsdotter, Ambassador of Sweden to the United States, is delivering the 2019 McSwain-Walker lecture.

The period ca. 645–770 marked an extraordinary era in the development of East Asian Buddhism and Buddhist art.

Ann Stoler talk is canceled and will be rescheduled in the SPRING 2020.

The current Freeman Intern Fellows returning from Asia present about their host organizations, locations, and the application process for the 2020 Freeman Intern Fellowships competition.

Explore William & Mary's study abroad options.

The election of right-wing populist Jair Bolsonaro represents a dramatic shift in Brazilian politics.

In collaboration with The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, the Charles Center presents the second lecture of its speaker series, 'Monuments, Memory, and Migration'.

Sylvia Chong (English and Asian American Studies at UVA and Director of the Asian American Studies Program) will present material from her newest project, "Fifty Shades of Yellow: Fetishizing Culture and Transnationalizing Race in Crazy Rich Asians"

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"

Dr. Frank Cha received his Ph.D. in American Studies from William & Mary. This talk traces the emergence of Vietnamese American communities in Louisiana and Mississippi and their growing wave of social and environmental activism.

The public lecture by Danny Wysong '07 will discuss how his expertise in Russian language and culture opened up for him unexpected career paths in both the public and private sector.

Join us to cheer our Language Houses on as they participate in the Homecoming Parade!

I-MIC 2019: Featuring Award-Winning poet and physician Irène Mathieu '09, W&M student poets, and the Russian Music Ensemble

Informal reception for alumni of the Russian program.

A public talk by John C. Powers (National Archives) &  Carlos Osorio (National Security Archive)

Learn about the W&M Study Abroad program at Oxford from an Oxford representative!

 "Palestinian Child Detainees" will be the focus of a presentation by Palestinian human rights activist Yousef Aljamal on Tuesday, October 22, 7 p.m. in Blow 332 on W&M's campus.

Dr. W. John Kress is Distinguished Scientist and Curator of Botany Emeritus at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.

St. Petersburg Study Abroad Program Information Session

Mire Koikari, a professor in the Department of Women's Studies at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, she will speak on gender issues in culture and politics in Japan since the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown in Fukushima in March 2011.