Reves Center for International Studies Events

Let’s bid farewell to winter and welcome spring with open hearts. ????

Join the Office of Career Development & Professional Engagement for the Internships and Applied Learning Crash Course.

An evening of international microstories from the participants of the 2025 Reves International Microstory Workshop.

These Sacred Hills Film Screening: Facing an existential threat from a proposed green energy project, the Rock Creek Band of the Yakama Nation fights to protect their sacred sites and cultural resources. 

Coral, Whale, Shakespeare: Queer Ecology and The Tempest in Mojisola Adebayo's Moj of the Antarctic: An African Odyssey

Are you an F-1 student who wants to work in the U.S. after graduation? You'll most likely need Optional Practical Training (OPT). Attend a virtual OPT session to learn more about this work authorization.

Join the Office of Career Development & Professional Engagement for the Navigating USAJOBS crash course.

Join us as we celebrate International Women's Day 2025 in with the Inner Peace Coalition and Sentara Healthcare. The event opens with a reception at 5:30 p.m. on March 6 at the School of Education and continues all day March 7 at the Sadler Center.

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

Are you an F-1 student who wants to work in the U.S. after graduation? You'll most likely need Optional Practical Training (OPT). Attend a virtual OPT session to learn more about this work authorization.

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.

Exhibition curator Adriano Marinazzo will introduce Michelangelo: The Genesis of the Sistine, sharing new insights from his extensive research on the subject. 

Resistance of indigenous women in Peruvian and Central American documentaries: A reading from the ethics of care and solidarity

Join GRI for the launch of The Origins of the Contemporary Global Order (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) by former W&M Dean of Faculty Carl Strikwerda. Co-sponsored by W&M Libraries.

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.

Dr. Rahel Fischbach will present part of her forthcoming book, Between God and History: Politics of Modern Muslim Qurʾānic Hermeneutics. 

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.

The Global Research Institute presents the Research in Progress:  Joshi & Karakaya-Stump

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. 

POSTPONED: Due to Inclement weather, the artist talk and reception will take place on Friday (2/21) from 4-7pm.  The Lecture will begin at 5pm at the Muscarelle Museum of Art conference hall next door.