Modern Languages & Literatures Events

DISTINGUISHED LECTURE IN ART HISTORY: DR. SUZANNE P. BLIER, HARVARD UNIVERSITY
"1325: MANSA MUSA, AL-SAHELI, AND MODERNITY'S BIRTH IN MEDIEVAL AFRICA"

A panel on "US, Japan, and Baseball" with baseball historian Rob Fitts and former player and manager Ken Macha

Investigative journalist, author and activist Elena Kostyuchenko will deliver a talk at William & Mary on March 21st at 5pm. The title of her talk is "The New Social Journalism in Russia & Ukraine," and it is part of the Tepper Lecture Series.

Prof. Dima (Syracuse U.) will be giving this year's Fauvel Lecture on the Franco-Senegalese filmmaker Mati Diop and her hallucinatory film Atlantics (2019). See the film first on Thursday, March 21, at 6:30 pm in 111 Small Hall.

Alissa Johannsen Rubin, Senior International Correspondent for the New York Times, covering climate and conflict issues in the Middle East, will deliver the George Tayloe Ross Address on International Peace at the symposium on climate and conflict.

In this one-day symposium at the Law School, speakers will explore the urgency of the interrelationships between climate and conflict and potential avenues (legal, political, scientific, diplomatic) to address this growing threat. 

Dr. Alex Dehgan, Snow leopard and Afghanistan conservation specialist, conservation innovator and mobilizer, co-founder and CEO of Conservation X Labs gives an IIC Conservation Speaker Series  talk: "Preventing the Next Pandemic through Planetary Health"