Current Events
All about Me? How to Walk the Line between Getting Personal and Oversharing in Autobiographical Storytelling
September 18 Wednesday, 4:30pm | Oakley Center
All about Me? How to Walk the Line between Getting Personal and Oversharing in Autobiographical Storytelling
Uli Decker, Filmmaker & author in conversation with Christophe Koné, Associate Professor of German at Williams College
Taking the documentary ANIMA – My Father’s Dresses as a point of departure, we will discuss the sharp line between personal and private and how to navigate it in autobiographical storytelling. How can a personal story be told in a way that lifts it from one person’s private experience to a story that touches broader audiences? What role can formal decisions, visual style, music and sound design etc. play in the process?
Africa’s Struggle for Its Art
September 25 Wednesday, 4:30pm | Oakley Center
Bénédicte Savoy, Professor of Art History at the Technische Universität Berlin in conversation with Christophe Koné, Associate Professor of German at Williams College
Puppen: When Uncanny Dolls Toy with German Artists
October 10 Thursday, 4:30pm | Oakley Center
Nathan Timpano, Chair and Associate Professor of Art History, Department of Art & Art History, University of Miami in conversation with Christophe Koné, Associate Professor of German at Williams College
Performance and Activism in India
October 15 Tuesday, 4:30pm | Oakley Center
Maya Krishna Rao, theater maker, teacher, activist in conversation with Shanti Pillai, Assistant Professor of Theatre at Williams College
Oakley movie night: Mr Klein
November 17 Thursday, 7:30pm | Oakley Center
One of the crowning achievements of blacklisted Hollywood director Joseph Losey’s European exile, Mr. Klein is a spellbinding modernist mystery that puts a chilling twist on the wrong-man thriller. Alain Delon delivers a standout performance as Robert Klein, a decadent art dealer in Paris during World War II who makes a tidy profit buying up paintings from his desperate Jewish clients. As Klein searches for a Jewish man with the same name for whom he has been mistaken, he finds himself plunged into a Kafkaesque nightmare in which his identity seems to dissolve and the forces of history to close in on him. Met with considerable controversy on its release for its portrayal of the real-life wrongdoings of the Vichy government, this haunting, disturbingly beautiful film shivers with existential dread as it traces a society’s descent into fascistic fear and inhumanity.
Oakley lunchtime book club: The Knife, by Salman Rushdie
October 21 Monday, 12:15 pm | Oakley Center
Join us for lunch and discussion of a good book. RSVPs required.
Culture and Politics in Contemporary France
October 23 Wednesday, 4:30pm | Oakley Center
Rima Abdul Malak, Former French Minister of Culture in conversation with Olivier Meslay, Hardymon Director of the Clark Art Institute, and Christophe Koné, Associate Professor of German at Williams College
Knowledge-Making in an Age of Uncertainty
October 24 Thursday, 4:30pm | Oakley Center
Mary Louise Pratt, Silver Professor (emerita), Department of Social and Cultural Analysis & Department of Latin American and Iberian Studies, New York University, in conversation with Jennifer French, Rosenburg Professor of Environmental Studies and Spanish at Williams College
Firebrands of Anti-Modernity: Illiberal Populism in the United States and the Russian Federation
October 30 Wednesday, 4:30pm | Oakley Center
Alexandar Mihailovic, Professor Emeritus of Russian & Comparative Literature, Hofstra University in conversation with Olia Kim, Assistant Professor of Russian at Williams College
A Zimbabwean Musical Experience Through Afrocentric Performance: Contemporary Aesthetics and the Diaspora
November 11 Monday, 4:30pm | Oakley Center
Tendai Muparutsa, Artist in Residence in African Music Performance & Lecturer in Music at Williams College, Director of Zambezi, Co-Director of Kusika, in conversation with W. Anthony Sheppard, Marylin & Arthur Levitt Professor of Music at Williams College
Past Events
Jacob’s Pillow, A Legacy Institution: Relevance in a Changing World
Provenance and Restitution: The AfricaMuseum (Belgium) and “Its” Objects
Why Weimar Matters Today: Reflections on Netflix Series Babylon Berlin
Printing in the Darkroom: the Creativity of an Intimate Practice
Abortion Rights in the Deep South: Reflections on the Ongoing Struggle for Reproductive Justice
Zhuangzi and the Tragedy of Personal Freedom in Chinese History
The MENA Question: Studying an Invisibilized Community thru Humanistic and Quantitative Approaches
The U.S. Supreme Court and the Impossibility of Religious Freedom
Feeding Fascism: The Politics of Women’s Food Work: Diana Garvin
Policing Black Women: The Urgency of Reproductive Justice: Dorothy E. Roberts
Post-Discipline: Literature, Professionalism, and the Crisis of the Humanities: Merve Emre
The Secretive Prisons that Keep Migrants out of Europe: Ian Urbina
P@W: Disease, Activism and Student Life, Part 4 in the Pandemic Series
Corona Time: Temporalities of Race and Disease, Part 1 in the Pandemic Series
Corona Time: Isolation, Emergency and Surveillance, Part 2 in the Pandemic Series
Corona Time: Racism and Disease, Part 5 in the Pandemic Series
Corona Time: Racism and Disease, Part 5 in the Pandemic Series
Corona Time: Masks and Vaccines, Part 14 in the Pandemic Series
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