Join President Rowe and fellow members of the William & Mary community for discussion on the university’s mission, vision and values.

Yan Solihin's Distinguished Lecture

In collaboration with The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, The Charles Center presents the first lecture of its speaker series, 'Monuments, Memory, and Migration'. 

Join the American Constitution Society for a discussion of progressive constitutional interpretation with renowned constitutional law scholar and Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky.

Mathematics Colloquium: Chi-Kwong Li (William & Mary, and Institute for Quantum Computing of Waterloo):

Title: Error correlation schemes for fully correlated quantum channels protecting both quantum and classical information

Prof. Nadia Abu El-Haj (Anthropology,  Barnard College and Columbia University,  Co-Director of the Center for Palestine Studies)  talks explores the field of military psychiatry and public understandings of the trauma of American soldiers.

Please join us at the Center for Student Diversity for an evening of fellowship and learning as transgender community member, Juji Li (Norfolk native, ODU student), shares her story, followed by plenty of time for dialogue and questions.  

Join the SMA for donuts on our first event of the semester! We will be quickly reintroducing ourselves for new members and discussing ad campaigns. We look forward to seeing you again or meeting you for the first time!

David Brandenberger (Professor of History, University of Richmond) reveals for the first time the enormous role that Stalin played in the "Master Narrative" of the USSR between 1938 and 1956.

David Brandenberger (Professor of History, University of Richmond) reveals for the first time the enormous role that Stalin played in the "Master Narrative" of the USSR between 1938 and 1956.

Colloquium Speaker: Pieter Peers from Computer Science at William & Mary

Amlan Biswas, University of Florida, Title of Talk: Magnetoelectrism” in crystals: Controlling magnetic anisotropy with strain and electric fields

The Williamsburg AIA presents Dr. Laurie Rush, Cultural Resources Manager at Fort Drum, for a lecture on "Saving Archaeology in Crisis Areas."  

 Dr. Karen Fields and Dr. Barbara Fields, authors of Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life, to hold an insightful presentation and conversation on moving forward together. This program is apart of the 400th Anniversary Commemoration.

Community Discussion

This annual event engages current students with W&M alumni in finance. 

Dr. Michelle Stocker, an assistant professor of Geosciences at Virginia Tech, will be presenting a seminar on "Life after Death-- Evolutionary experimentation in the aftermath of the Permo-Triassic mass extinction."

Modules over finite dimensional algebras: Application to a conjecture in commutative algebra.

Colloquium: Analysis of Access Control Enforcement in Android

The Strategic Planning Steering Committee will present drafts of the university’s mission and values statements.

Karin Olofsdotter, Ambassador of Sweden to the United States, is delivering the 2019 McSwain-Walker lecture.

The current Freeman Intern Fellows returning from Asia present about their host organizations, locations, and the application process for the 2020 Freeman Intern Fellowships competition.

Distinguished speaker series

Michael Zimmerman, Professor of Philosophy at UNC/Greensboro, will present a colloquium paper.  All welcome.

Sami Mitra - Editor of Physical Review Letters.  Title of talk: PRL at 60: You have your physics results, now what?

The Composer's League of William & Mary presents its first colloquia of the Fall Semester, "Becoming Composer" by W&M Professor Brian Hulse.

In collaboration with The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, the Charles Center presents the second lecture of its speaker series, 'Monuments, Memory, and Migration'.

Wang Dan, one of the two principal student leaders of the 1989 student protests in Beijing, will speak about his experiences during the Tiananmen Square massacre and the future of democracy in China.

In our Fall 2019 Higher Ed Salon, a panel of admission officers from universities across the region will discuss hot topics in college admissions.

Mr. White will be speaking to the Federalist Society regarding the question of whether courts should practice judicial restraint in reviewing the actions of the political branches. 

The Classical Studies department presents the 2019 Lee Lecture: Dr. Dimitris Nakassis of the University of Colorado, Boulder (and MacArthur Fellow 2015), will lecture on "The World before Odysseus: Rethinking the History of Late Bronze Age Greece"

Speaker: Dr. David T. Nguyen, Senior Research Scientist from Facebook

Join the W&M Anthropology Department this Homecoming Weekend as Dr. Daniel O. Sayers, Chair of the Department of Anthropology at American University, presents "Creating Home: African and Native American Resistance Communities of the Great Dismal Swamp." 

Mark Young, Professor Emeritus at University of Central Florida, will be presenting on self-care in a talk titled, "How to Avoid Becoming a Zombie."  In addition, alumni and students will be given the chance to network and mingle.

I-MIC 2019: Featuring Award-Winning poet and physician Irène Mathieu '09, W&M student poets, and the Russian Music Ensemble

Community Discussion - "Food Deserts" in the Greater Williamsburg Area

Deborah Denenholz Morse, Sara E. Nance Professor of English, will present "Liberating Black Beauty: A narrative on animal rights, gender, race, and nation" on Wednesday, October 23, 2019 at 7pm in the Commonwealth Auditorium. 

Showcasing the best of undergraduate research at W&M.

Colloquium Speaker: Dr. Jiajia Li, Research Scientist from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Prof. Patrick Meade, Stony Brook University, Title of Talk: Future colliders and the Higgs 

Matt Mutka , Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University, and Program Director of Division of Computer and Network Systems, Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, National Science Foundation 

Dr. Jorge Piekarewicz, Florida State University, Title of Talk: “Nuclear Astrophysics in the New Era of Multimessenger Astronomy”

In this event sponsored by ACS, the Virginia Secretary of Health and Human Resources will discuss Medicaid Expansion in Virginia, other efforts to expand access to care, and other healthcare law topics with us over the lunch break. 

Reset DOC and Reset Dialogues in partnership with William & Mary present a roundtable discussion about the uncertain future of liberal democracy.

Jasmeen Patheja's lecture at W&M.

Community Discussion on Medicaid Expansion in Virginia

The Student Intellectual Property Society hosts a patent-law luncheon with Nikki Sanford in Room 133 this Thursday (11/7).

Dr. Dylan Rogers of the University of Virginia will present a lecture on "Water and Sensory Experience: Reconstructing the Procession of the Eleusinian Mysteries."

APIA-W&M is proud to present  a talk by Dr. Kita Douglas that explores the fulcrum of the fine arts, queerness, and the Asian American and Pacific Islander experience.

Professor Jeffrey Herf, Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Maryland, will do a workshop on his books Divided Memory and Undeclared Wars with Israel on Friday

Professor Jeffrey Herf, Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Maryland, will give a public lecture on "Germany and Jewish Questions in the Revolution and Unification of 1989-1990--and Since"

Ta-Nehisi Coates Lecture

Join us for an afternoon with television actor and film director, Tim Reid, on Sunday, November 10 at 11 a.m. 

Please join the IBRL in discussing  President Trump and his Administration's ethics crisis with Noah Bookbinder.

Brown-Bag Lunch Series 

Please join the W&M Federalist Society in learning more about the current Hong Kong Protests and U.S.-China Strategic Competition from Ms. Ying Ma. 

Jesse Spencer-Smith of Vanderbilt University will discuss the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and art.

In 2019, Taiwan became the first nation in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage. This talk explores the development of both pro-gay and anti-gay activism in contemporary Taiwan behind the celebratory note.

Data Science and the Dawn of Artificial Intelligence: How Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science are Reshaping Our Lives.

Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Chauncey Stillman Professor of Practical Ethics at Duke University, will give a colloquium talk. All interested are invited.

DR. AZIZA BACCOUCHE, Title of talk: Having Vision

Join ACS, LLSA, and ILSS for a panel of W&M Law community members discussing the asylum process, the status of DACA, day-to-day issues in the practice of immigration law, and personal perspectives on reform. 

Join the Whole of Government Center of Excellence and Applied Science for a guest lecture by Dr. Lisa Friedersdorf, Director of the National Nanotechnology Coordination Office (NNCO). Students welcome - no RSVP required. 

A lunchtime gathering building knowledge of how to make more sustainable decisions on campus! This month's topic will be "Having the Talk...Climate Change". One of the most important things you can do to act on climate is to talk about it. 

Siva Vaidhyanathan's lecture on the plans, products, and strategies that the largest technology firms.

Prof. Vaidhyanathan has had to cancel. This talk will be rescheduled for spring.

Prof. Denys Poshyvanyk from CS@W&M

Amy Nicholson, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Title of talk: Exploring beyond the Standard Model with Lattice QCD

Join President Rowe and members of the Strategic Planning Steering Committee for an update on Phase II: Environmental Analysis.

The Reves Center for International Studies, in cooperation with the US-Europe Alliance, presents the 2020 George Tayloe Ross Lecture on International Peace, "American-British-EU Realignment: Post-Brexit Possibilities."

Strategic Planning Forum

January 30, 2020

3:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Sadler Center, Chesapeake Ballroom

To help our community challenge racism, anti-Semitism, and xenophobia, this event will bring three speakers to campus for a pedagogical workshop (9am-10:30am) and an academic panel (2pm-3:30pm). 

Lecture by Lauren Klein on data feminism.

Zhenyu Ning, Wayne State University

In collaboration with The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, the Charles Center presents the third and final lecture of its speaker series, 'Monuments, Memory, and Migration'.

Photographer and writer, Erika Fabian, has had years of travel and work for National Geographic magazine. Ms. Fabian will talk about “picture thinking,” the various aspects of National Geographic photography, and how these concepts can be adapted.

Dr. Joanna Schug will present research on how the socio-ecological concept of relational mobility, defined as the amount of opportunities that individuals have to enter into and exit from social relationships in a given social ecology. 

Sanorita Dey, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)

SEALS & VCPC are proud to host Adam Melita, Esq., Deputy City Attorney and George Homewood, Director of Planning, City of Norfolk to discuss Norfolk’s progressive comprehensive plan and zoning ordinance addressing flooding. This event is not to be missed!

Sujoy Kumar Sikdar from Washington University in St. Louis

Ao Ren from Northeastern University

Join the DPCLS, SELS, & SIPS in welcoming Noah Downs, a video game and internet law attorney at Morrison Rothman. 

Bite-Sized sustainability information with lunch!

Lecture & letter writing event in celebration of Anthropology Day. Hosted by the Anthropology Graduate Student Collective.

Doowon Kim from the University of Maryland, College Park

Barry Sanders, OSA University of Calgary, Title of Talk: Learning for quantum control 

Junqiao Qiu from UC Riverside

Come learn about what diet culture is and how to recognize its toxic impacts, as well as concrete ways to restrict diet culture!

Hailong Zhang from The Ohio State University

Stephen will focus on his more than a decade of research on the Ifugao Rice Terraces, UNESCO World Heritage monuments that attest to the ingenuity and communitarian management of Cordilleran people of Luzon in the Philippines.

The Reves Center and the Department of Anthropology is hosting a meet and greet with Dr. Acabado after his brown bag. Cookies and tea provided!

Come for an evening of honest storytelling, refreshing vulnerability, and inspirational courage. With bravery and grace, eight William & Mary students will share their survivor stories of eating disorder and recovery. 

Please join us for a talk by Prof. Paul Stevens, titled, "Raphael's Condescension: Paradise Lost, Jane Austen, and the Secularization of Grace." The talk will be held in the Tucker Theatre on February 27th, at 5:00pm, with a light reception to follow. 

The William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice cordially invites you to our 2020 Symposium: First Amendment Marketplace Morass: Free Speech Jurisprudence and its Interactions with Social Justice.

APIA Banh Mi Lecture Series presents Dr. Davesh Soneji of UPenn who will discuss how discursive, political, historical, and aesthetic performance converge in the work of Nrithya Pillai of Chennai. Co-sponsored by AMES: Asian & Middle Eastern Studies.

Prof. Panos K. Chrysanthis

Department of Computer Science
School of Computing and Information
University of Pittsburgh

Come for a workshop on affirmative action/race-conscious admissions policies and a panel on minority representation in law schools and in the legal practice. Light breakfast items and lunch will be served, with a reception to follow.

Designing Interactive Systems for Community Citizen Science

Dr. Yen-Chia Hsu, Carnegie Mellon University

“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

Please join us on Monday, March 2 for a talk by Thomas Travisano at 5 PM in Tucker Theatre.  There will be a reception to follow.  

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

Discussion on the Draft Judicial Ethics Opinion Regarding Judges' Involvement in the American Bar Association, Federalist Society, and American Constitution Society

The large dams built across the United States in the period from 1931 to 1944 were monumental undertakings. Now, Professor Richard Guy Wilson will focus on the design and building of Hoover Dam and examine its impact upon the other great dams.

Yifan Sun from Northeastern University

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.

Speaker: Dr. Supreeth Shastri, Postdoctoral Fellow from the University of Texas at Austin

Colloquium: Xiaoyuan Chang, Junping Shi

Dr. Jieming Yin from AMD Research

Hua Huang from Stony Brook

Dr. Amina Tawasil of the Columbia University's Teacher College will present her research on the social protests of Iranian women against Iran's forced veiling policy. 

The Center for Comparative Legal Studies and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding (CCL/PCP) welcomes Professor Bernard Freamon to the Law School on March 18 for a presentation on the issue of slavery in Islamic legal history. 

This event has been canceled.

Lecture by Mr. Paul Smith, recipient of the 2020 Marshall-Wythe Medalllion, the highest honor given by the W&M Law faculty. Free and the public is welcome.

All events and gatherings in university facilities as well as university-sponsored events on and off campus are suspended through at least April 3.  Learn more: https://www.wm.edu/news/announcements/alert/ 

This event has been canceled.

All events and gatherings in university facilities as well as university-sponsored events on and off campus are suspended through at least April 3.   Learn more: https://www.wm.edu/news/announcements/alert/ 

WMGIC IV is a case competition, which recruits teams of students from all majors to pitch proposals concerning relevant global challenges scheduled for 3/20 and 3/21. Register here: bit.ly/WMGICIV.  Cash prizes of at least $2000 will be awarded! 

Sarah Stroud Is Director of the Parr Center for Ethics and joined the Philosophy Department at UNC in 2018. All interested are welcome!

The W&M Confucius Institute and Law School are proud to invite Frank R. Samolis to campus for a lecture on U.S. and China trade relations as of 2020.

In the second talk of the 2019-2020 Diversity Speaker Series, the School of Education welcomes Naomi Snider, research fellow at the NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development and co-author of Why Does Patriarchy Persist?

As part of W&M's response to COVID-19, all events and gatherings in university facilities as well as university-sponsored events on and off campus are suspended through at least April 3. 

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.

Dr. Patxi Pérez Ramallo will give a lecture on his research on the Camino de Santiago at the Former Residence of the Ambassadors to Spain in Washington D.C.

Ron Tarver is a Pulitzer Prize winning photographer with a background covering photojournalism and art photography. Now, Tarver explains how he has reimagined the African American experience in the Jim Crow United States through the lens of his father.

Come join the Center for Geospatial Analysis in our virtual celebration of GIS research by showcasing both student research and experienced professionals that apply GIS and other geospatial technologies. 

When it launched the design competition for it's new headquarters, the Chicago Tribune was seeking to build “the world’s most beautiful office building.”  Now, David Brashear will examine the importance of the competition and some noteworthy submissions.

Today’s national security challenges transcend borders and domains. Join us at the 3rd Annual National Security Conference to discuss challenges, policy dilemmas, tools, and sustained outcomes  in a multi-level, all domain environment. 

Marco Antonio Merchand Medina, Physics - Final Oral Exam for the Ph.D., Title: Study of Scalar Extensions for Physics Beyond the Standard Model

Prof. Jennifer Gülly will be speaking on "The Art of Migration: The Political, The Beautiful, and The Dead."

In this online Spanish-language webinar, educators and health providers from different parts of the world will share ideas for Spanish-speaking families looking to find ways to support their children's learning experience in the midst of the pandemic.

Join VIMS on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/fbvims/) all week to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day! Learn about our complex environment, human impacts on ecosystems, and the positive ways we can give back to our planet.

Myisha Cherry, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of California/Riverside, will give a colloquium paper. Her research interest lies at the intersection of moral psychology and social and political philosophy.

The tradition of the Earth Week Festival Lorax reading continues this year with Provost Agouris reading the Dr. Seuss classic live on Youtube.

The 2020 Classical Studies Colloquium, an annual showcase of student research, will be held on-line.  This year the theme is "Treks and Tales: Mobility in Antiquity."

The Classical Studies Colloquium is an annual celebration of the scholarship of advanced students in Classical Studies at William & Mary. The Colloquium is designed and presented by the students, and is free and open to the public.

Akira Mizuta Lippit, (Vice Dean, USC's School of Cinematic Arts) explores the ways in which Japanese cinema has responded to a second nuclear crisis, and how the echoes of 1945 have returned to the contemporary moment, or perhaps had never left at all.

This annual event celebrates the learning across the University and promotes new ideas & connections with colleagues. The symposium is organized by STLI.  Breakfast and lunch will be served.  A full schedule will be released in April.

This webinar is intended for parents of kindergarten through eighth-grade students who are struggling with, or below grade level in, reading.

Speaker: Jordy De Vries, University of Massachusetts 
Title: “Neutrinoless double beta decay in effective field theory" 

Join us (via Zoom!) as the very first cohort of the Japanese Studies Major present their final research projects.  These students have faced unique challenges this semester; come and help us celebrate their achievements! 

Dr. Matt Kirwan presents his research on ghosts forests as an indicator of sea level rise, which has been featured by TIME, CNN, and The New York Times.

Join us for an online webinar designed to introduce parents and families to the science and strategies of mindfulness. 

As a student, Frank Harmon used sketching to discover, study, and understand structures and nature. Now, he will describe his own journey, discuss the importance of attention, and preview his book, Native Places: Drawing as a Way to See.

WHAT IF . . . .?  Adaptability and Resilience:  Flourishing in an Ever-Changing, Ambiguous, Unpredictable, Confusing, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Resound Presentation by Sue Wasiolek, Dean at Duke University as part of the Learning Forward series.

Join fellow School of Education students in a safe space to discuss how we move forward as scholars and educators in the current climate.

Join us for our next Courageous Conversation about race, equity and education. 

The Nunnally Ichthyology Collection at VIMS began in the 1950s and has grown to house over 500,000 specimens of fishes. Join us as collections manager Dr. Sarah Huber shares some unusual specimens from the collection along with preservation techniques.

Join us on Friday, June 26th at 2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. on Zoom for insight on Daoist philosophy and how it relates to our lives today through a lecture given by scholar Manuel Parreno!

Join us for a Discovery Lab on marine debris. Guest speaker, Sam Athey, Ph.D. candidate at the University of Toronto, will describe where microfibers and microplastics in our oceans are coming from, how they get there, and ways to slow their release.

Join 3 VIMS grad students as they give 5-minute fast-talks on the important research they are conducting. Register to join the students and be entered to win door prizes. Students will be available to answer questions after each presentation.

Rachel Dixon, Ph.D. student in the Department of Fisheries Science at VIMS, will share a presentation on the diversity of fishes in the Chesapeake Bay, the methods used to sample and study fishes, and the challenges facing fishes and their habitat.

Join us online for July's After Hours lecture on the 30th at 7 PM.

Dr. Carl Hershner will be discussing climate change and sea level rise. Learn about the latest emerging issues and understanding of these topics vital to life by the water.

Join Dr. Donglai Gong, VIMS Associate Professor, as he shares current research he and a team from the US and Canada are conducting in the Arctic Ocean. Learn about the changes taking place in this part of the world and the predicted impacts.

Diskussion zum Film "Toni Erdmann" (Dir. Maren Ade, 2016)

Prof. Shiwei Zhang, William & Mary and Flatiron Institute, Title of talk:  Towards the solution of the many-electron problem: properties of the hydrogen chain

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

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. 

"Living Together / Living Apart" is a long term research project that focuses on the human experience and toll of persistent racial segregation in Hampton Roads. 

Srimoyee Sen (Iowa State), Title of Talk: Particle vortex statistics and the phases of dense matter

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

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. 

Family Weekend features events and special programs designed to showcase life at William & Mary. Learn about world-class faculty, experience special performances from one of many talented student groups, and connect with families from across the nation.