Modern Languages & Literatures Events

“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

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

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

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).

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.

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

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

* 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?

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

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. 

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.

Fall priority registration for continuing students

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.