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Adriana Mendoza and Hawina Bulcha at Ethiopian restaurant

“Views and Values”: Adriana Mendoza Leigh from Peru

"One’s environment may propitiate change, but it is ultimately upon the individual to decide how they change and grow."

"At the end of the lab period, the local students asked if they could eat the sea urchins we studied."

Austin Okigbo, Visiting Assistant Professor of Music

Visiting Assistant Professor Austin Okigbo specializes in church music, music in the African, African American, and African Diaspora religious experience,...

Christopher Nugent, Assistant Professor of Chinese

Christopher Nugent, Assistant Professor of Chinese, specializes in the dissemination of oral poetry and in Tang Dynasty literature. He teaches...

Cornelius Kubler, Professor of Asian Studies

Professor Kubler is the Stanfield Professor of Asian Studies at Williams--and speaks twelve languages.

Crossing Cultural Bounderies: Sara in Senegal

"Everything is joked about in Senegal--and is not viewed as an intrusion of personal privacy."

Emily Spine (’11): “Intercambios en Española”

"For me, study abroad was a time for exploration. I grew personally, becoming more self-reliant on myself, due to traveling."

Julie Cassiday, Professor of Russian

A Professor of Russian who wishes to travel to Iran! Read on to find out why.

Madeline King (’11) Encounters a New Language in Kenya

"I realized how much communication just relies on body language and those pure emotions, like laughter."

Magnus Bernhardsson, Professor of Middle Eastern History

Magnus Bernhardsson is an Associate Professor of History at Williams and is Chair of the International Studies Program. He came...

Uttara Partap from Nepal

"I have met some of my most special friends here, and we define our group as a family."

Ville Satopää (’11)

"I came to Williams with an open mind! I really wanted to understand and learn from the American culture."

Wen Han (’12): Moments in the US

"Students are often times multilingual and have lived in a number of different countries."

Why I Chose Williams: Eugene from New Zealand

"I have become more independent, given the many situations in which I have had to stand up for myself."

Noah Coburn to Present Alternative Approach to International Intervention in Afghanistan

On Tuesday, May 8, Noah Coburn will give a talk entitled, “Potters and Warlords in an Afghan Bazaar.” Coburn, who now works as a Professor of Anthropology at Skidmore College, has spent the past four years studying in Afghanistan, focusing during the last year and a half on a group of potters in a town more »

Professor D. Fairchild Ruggles to Address Islamic Architecture in Medieval Spain

Alhambra, the medieval Spanish mosque in Granada, Spain

On Monday, May 7, at 4:15 PM, Professor D. Fairchild Ruggles will present about the development of Islamic mosque and palace architecture in medieval Spain. Professor Ruggles is an associate of the Landscape Architecture Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she also teaches in the Gender and Women’s Studies Department, the Medieval more »

James Hoffman Gives an “Outrageously Brief” Summary of Japanese History

On Wednesday, May 2nd, students, faculty, and town members gathered in Hollander 241 to hear Professor James Hoffman summarize trends of Japanese history as they drank green tea and nibbled on sweet rice cakes. Hoffman, who describes himself as an “unashamed Japanophile,” came out of retirement this year to act as Visiting Assistant Professor of more »

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Let's Eat!: An International Recipe Exchange

Russian Cabbage Borscht (Beet Soup)

Borscht is a beet soup that originated in the Ukraine but has become popular in most eastern European countries, especially Russia. Russian borscht, unlike its Ukrainian counterpart, often, though not always, includes cabbage, potatoes, and meat as well as beets. Other eastern European cultures sometimes replace beets with tomatoes and...

Chè Bắp (Sweet Corn Pudding) from Chau Vo ’14

Chè refers to a variety of traditional Vietnamese desserts.

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