The Coalition for Immigrant Student Advancement present four short films addressing Dreamers, family separation, and the undocumented immigrant as a part of our Immigrant Week. 11/14, Paresky Auditorium, 8:30 PM. We will have snacks!

Join us for CDE Intercultural night on Saturday, February 2 at 7 PM in the Paresky Auditorium. Enjoy a performance featuring music, dance, songs, and fashion from the CDE fellows' countries. It's a wonderful opportunity to learn more about this year's class and the countries they represent. Intercultural night is open to all members of the Williams and Williamstown community.…

Join us in celebrating this years Black History Month keynote, brought to you by the Black Student Union. Activist, rapper, producer, screenwriter, and director of the acclaimed Sorry to Bother You, Boots Riley is coming to campus to talk about his activist and artistic work, as well as the making of his debut film. There will be time for questions…

What are we allowed to say? Should there be restraints on ideas and public discourse? On Wed., April 3, the Society for Conservative Thought will host "Considering the Case for Campus Free Expression" to explore these questions and more.

The Williams Summit is a conference designed to bring together entrepreneurial minds in the Williams College community.

The Mask You Live In April 16th 2019 Paresky Auditorium Talkback led by Kendra Werst The Social Change Film Series is a collaboration between the Davis Center at Williams College, the Multicultural Resource Center at MCLA, and the Office of Student Engagement at Bennington College. The Mask You Live In follows boys and young men as they struggle to stay true…

Lecture: “Diverse Perspectives on Food Access in Communities of Color," by Dr. Dorceta Taylor, James E. Crowfoot Collegiate Professor of Environmental Justice and the Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at U Michigan.

WOC and the Williamstown Rural Lands Foundation (WRLF) will be hosting a talk by Dustin Griffin titled “A Layman’s History of Williamstown’s Trees” on Saturday, January 18 at 11 a.m. at the Paresky Center Auditorium of Williams College.

Are you interested in Palestine-Israel? Feminism? Learning more about how these things are intertwined? Hearing the behind-the-scenes of making a documentary? If so, join us for a screening of Naila and the Uprising, a film by Just Vision!

In this documentary film, Isabelle Boni-Claverie explores the role of race and the persistence of racism in France, as well as the impact of the French colonial past.

PAIN AND GLORY tells of a series of re-encounters experienced by Salvador Mallo, a film director in his physical decline. Winner of the Goya Award for Best Film and nominated by the Academy Awards for best International Feature Film.

A documentary screening marking the anniversary of the 3.11.2011 Great Tōhoku Earthquake and Tsunami. Ostriches, cows, hogs, cats, a pony and a dog…and a single person remain in the nuclear zone in Fukushima.

The day after her film showing, film director, Amandine Gay will give a talk entitled "Practicing intersectionality and being actively antiracist : working towards equality and social justice is a dirty job, are you still up for it?"

Isaac Wilkins! Melia Hagino! Noah Cohen-Greenberg! Owen Foster! Izzy Levi! Ethan Cooper! Shenba Vairavan! Darlie Kerns! Obi Nwako (in spirit)! Greer Ingoe-Gerney! David Wignall!

Come to Paresky Auditorium at 8pm to see these funny folk!

English Join us for a virtual panel about the ongoing political crisis occurring in Nicaragua. Since April 2018, Nicaraguans have been affected by increasingly serious government repression, even leaders within the Catholic Church have been silenced -- this has extended into every aspect of Nicaraguan life. In 2018 alone, 300+ civilians, including many university students, lost their lives during anti-government…

In honor of Trans Day of Visibility, come to the Paresky Auditorium and watch three short films about the predominantly Black and Latinx trans/queer ballroom scene! There will be pizza!

The Role of Reparations in the Arts: An Artistic Presentation and Panel with Kristen Adele Calhoun, 2024–2025 Sterling A Brown '22 Distinguished Visiting Professor of Africana Studies, Dr. K. Melchor Quick Hall, author, educator and founder of Solidarity Arts & Education Decolonial initiatives (SAEDi) Collective, an organization working at the intersection of Black reparations, food sovereignty, and prison abolition movements,…

James Baldwin tells his own story in this emotional portrait: what it is to be born black, impoverished, gifted, and gay in a world that has yet to understand that “all men are brothers.” A discussion with director and co-writer follows.

The first film of the Grieving Landscapes series, Y Tu Mamá También by Alfonso Cuarón, will show at Paresky Auditorium on Wednesday April 30th at 7:30 pm! Arrive early for pizza and a short introduction!