Government Events

Join the Christian Legal Society in welcoming Mark Matney, W&M Adjunct Faculty and Hampton Roads Defense Lawyer. He will be sharing with us about the way his legal career has intertwined with his spiritual journey with the Lord.

Hear from Paula Reid, White House Correspondent for CBS News, moderated by Drew Stelljes, Asst. VP for Student Engagement & Leadership!

Virtual talk:  "Behavior and Policy During a Pandemic:  HIV as an Historical Analogy" by Nick Papageorge, Ph.D., Broadus Mitchell Associate Professor, Economics, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University

So often in our organizations and communities, we fall into a cycle of reaction. What if instead we could shift our energies upstream -- uncovering and addressing the source of those problems?

The Student Intellectual Property Society (SIPS) will host W&M Law alum Christos Badavas for a virtual lunchtime talk about his practice as an IP attorney in the music industry. 

To kick off its Speaker Series, the Center for Racial & Social Justice welcomes W&M epidemiologist and public health expert Dr. Iyabo Obasanjo to discuss the health disparities experienced by Black and Brown people in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. 

This semester we feature five lectures by AMES fabulous faculty, each of whom volunteered to offer a view into their current projects or recently published research.

The Institute of Bill of Rights Law marks the commencement of the new term of the United States Supreme Court each fall with its Supreme Court Preview Conference.  Our 2020 Preview will be online via Zoom.

The Virginia Coastal Policy Center will partner with The Riley Center for Livable Communities to host a discussion on strategies and tools local governments can use to finance resilience projects.

THE STORY: A searing, poetic riff on race in America, fusing prose, poetry, movement, music, and the visual image. As Rankine writes, “This is how you are a citizen.”

Join the William & Mary Washington Center for a panel discussion on the 2020 election. 

Join us for an on-line symposium titled "No Transition, No Justice: How the Absence of Transitional Justice Following the Civil War Has Led to Ongoing Racial Injustice in the United States."

Professor Allison Orr Larsen, director of the William &May Institute of Bill of Rights Law, will join Ms. Deirdre Jones of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and others for a special Constitution Day event.

Keynote Speaker: Ninotchka Rosca, award winning author and political prisoner of the Marcos dictatorship

Panelists:

Rinabeth Apostol, Actor and Activist

Dr. Joi Barrios, UC Berkeley

Ryan Macasero, Rappler

Leezel Tanglao, HuffPost

Moderator:

Francis Tanglao Aguas

Learn how to best maximize your winter break. 

The Reves Center presents Haben Girma, first Deafblind graduate of Harvard Law School and activist for disability rights, who will deliver the 2020 McSwain-Walker Lecture: How Disability Drives Innovation: An Intersectional and Global Perspective. 

The Charles Center, in collaboration with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, present Arionne Nettles, who will discuss her experience reporting as a journalist during a global pandemic. Nettles will focus on the impact of COVID-19 on museums. 

Join us for a joint diversity panel series presented by the Cohen Career Center,  Center for Student Diversity, and W&M Alumni Association.

Join The Lemon Project team, in conjunction with Williamsburg Regional Library, as we lead a discussion of “The African American Experience at William & Mary: A Historical Overview” from The Lemon Project Report of the First Eight Years, pages 38-57.

Dr. Johnson is currently the Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow for the Lemon Project at William & Mary

Virtual talk on “COVID-19's Effects on Virginia and the Role of Public Policy in Addressing These Effects” by Marvin Figueroa, Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Resources, Commonwealth of Virginia; Legislative Director, Governor Ralph Northam

Hosted by the WM Security Law Center. Mr. Phillips heads the Syrian Justice and Accountability Centre's efforts in support of Universal Jurisdiction prosecutions of Syrian war crimes and data analysis and documentation teams. 

Hear from four W&M alums as they discuss how to launch a career in health policy and establish yourself in the field.  

Join The Public Discourse Initiative on September 30 during the lunch hour as we discuss the first presidential debate of 2020.