The Following review by William Gutierrez was published by the Williams Record on October 3, 2012. You can also find it on the Williams Record website here. Visiting Professor leads Jazz sextet in stunning concert by WILLIAM GUTIERREZ, CONTRIBUTING WRITER on OCTOBER 3, 2012… Continue reading »
Africana’s Professor Rhon Manigault-Bryant and our Concentrator Sevonna Brown have written a review essay on Tyler Perry’s film, Madea’s Witness Protection (Lionsgate, 2012). The essay, which is published in the online magazine ReligionDispatches, was the result of their work together this summer as part… Continue reading »
This travel course will give students the unique opportunity to explore the question-“What is black religion?”-from the inside. We will travel to the Florida’s west coast and visit 3 different church communities (a small mainstream denominational church, a Pentecostal-Holiness church, and a mega-church) to understand Black Protestant religion as currently… Continue reading »
REUTERS/Mike Segar Media contact: Noelle Lemoine, communications assistant; tele: (413) 597-4277; email: [email protected] WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., September 10, 2012 – Neil Roberts, assistant professor of Africana studies and faculty affiliate in political science at Williams College, has guest edited a symposium in the journal Theory & Event, published… Continue reading »
Photo: Steven Sussman Friday, September 28 at 8:00pm Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall, Bernhard Music Center 54 Chapin Hall Dr, Williamstown, MA 01267 Avery Sharpe is Sterling Brown ‘22 Distinguished Visiting Artist in Residence in Music, Artist Associate in Jazz Bass, Jazz Coach, Faculty Advisor to Gospel… Continue reading »
To the Williams Community, I am sad to report the death of Ernest Brown, professor of music. Since joining the faculty in 1988, Ernest broadened culturally the college’s engagement with music. As an ethnomusicologist he taught such courses as “Music Cultures of the World,” “History of African American Music,”… Continue reading »
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts will celebrate its 113th Commencement exercises on Saturday, May 19, 2012 beginning at 11 a.m. in the Amsler Campus Center Gymnasium. Among those honored this year will be Sandra Burton, Lipp Family Director of Dance and chair of the Dance Department at Williams College,… Continue reading »
The Memory of Love: A Book Reading, signing and Conversation. Please join us in welcoming award-winning author Aminatta Forna for a book reading and conversation about her novel, The Memory of Love, a brilliant new work elucidating the costs and damages of civil war in… Continue reading »