Modern Languages & Literatures Events

The week-long Ampersand Festival features special guests, films, music, theater, dance, author talks, and professional workshops.

Abby Rapoport, cofounder and publisher of Stranger’s Guide, will deliver the 2025 McSwain-Walker Lecture, "Place-Based Journalism: Perspectives from Independent Media."

Join Prof. Ghobadlou's "Image, Text, Story" FREN/ COLL 100 class for a Q&A with graphic novelist Mana Neyestani.

Workshop/masterclass that brings students and community members together to devise and co-create theatrical escapades inspired by historical sources from the W&M archives, oral histories, tricorne hats/feather boas, and participants' own stories. 

Prospective students are welcome to contact our Program Director, Prof. Pacini (gxpaci@wm.edu), for information about French & Francophone Studies at W&M.

Omaid Sharifi, President and Co-founder of ArtLords, will speak about the role of art in fostering freedom and democracy, for the third event of the Spring 2025 Scholarly Perspectives Series on Arts & Democracy. 

NEW DATE!  Artist, activist, and bestselling author, Katie Holten to speak on the Language of Trees and what it means to love a forest.

Join GRI for the launch of Activism in Hard Times in Central and Eastern Europe: People Power (Routledge, 2024), co-written by Paula Pickering. Co-sponsored with W&M Libraries, Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, and Government.

Guest Speaker: Dr. Lisabeth Paravisini-Gebert - Distinguished Professor Chair at Vassar College

Iman Zaki, cultural manager, researcher, consultant, and theater maker, is the third artist of the Spring 2025 Scholarly Perspectives Series on Arts & Democracy.