In the last installment of the Caribbean Francophone Film Festival, the French Department and Images Cinema screened Moloch Tropical, a 2009 film produced by Haitian-born Raoul Peck. The event was co-sponsored by the Africana Studies Department. Moloch Tropical takes place on a fictional island in the Caribbean, where President Jean de Dieu is preparing to more »

During her presentation on Thursday, February 28, Diane Purkiss, professor of English literature at Keble College, Oxford, defended British food against its traditionally bad international reputation. Purkiss first addressed why British food has received such a bad reputation, especially in America. While Michelin guides often pour their praises on French and Italian restaurants for their more »

On Wednesday, February 13, Tracey Hucks, Chair of the Religion Department at Haverford College, discussed her work on the legacy of Yoruba traditions among African-American communities in the New World. Hucks was a classmate of Williams Religion Department Chair Denise Buell at Harvard’s Ph.D. program in Religion. She began her talk by reading “What is more »

As the second part of the Francophone Film Festival hosted by the French Department every February, Images Cinema and the Center for Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures screened the 2009 movie Aliker. Produced by Guy Deslauriers, the film is based on the life of André Aliker, an early 20th-century journalist in Martinique. In Martinique as well more »

On Saturday, February 16, students at the Center for Development Economics presented the cultures of their home countries during the Center’s annual Intercultural Night. Williams College students and faculty, as well as townspeople affiliated as host families to the CDE students, milled around the CDE classroom discussing daily life in the CDE students’ home countries, more »

In the first installment of the annual Contemporary Francophone Film Festival, the French Department and Images Cinema showed the 2012 film Toussaint L’Ouverture on Monday, February 18. This year’s theme for the series was “Power, Freedom, and Madness”. Neil Roberts, professor of Africana Studies and Faculty Affiliate of the Political Science Department, introduced the film, more »

Just returned from the Caucasus as a part of Williams’s annual Winter Study trip to Tbilisi, Gabrielle McPhaul-Guerrier ’15 discussed politics and economics in Georgia. During her time in Tbilisi, McPhaul-Guerrier interned at the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies. She focused on Georgia’s fraught relationship with its northern neighbor, Russia. Although Georgia has more »

Leading the second Faculty Lecture Series on Friday, February 15, Professor of English Christian Thorne discussed the absence of novels from the 18th and 19th centuries that function effectively on a global and international scale. He titled his talk, “The Sea Is Not a Place: Putting the World Back in World Literature.” In the past more »

During a lecture hosted by the Muslim Students’ Association as a part of Discover Islam Week, Yahya Michot, professor of Islamic Religion and Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary, highlighted the inherently non-extremist aspects of Islam that are rarely depicted in the sensationalist Western media. Portrayals of Muslims in the American news often focus on a more »

As a part of the Muslim Student Association’s Discover Islam week, Pakistan native Hamza Farrukh ’15, an economics and political science major, examined the effects of the past ten years of American drone strikes on Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. In the wake of 9/11, the U.S. developed secret “kill lists” of terrorists that the C.I.A. more »