Fall 2007 - Spring 2008
Events & Conferences

September

25: "Dismembering and Remembering Apartheid," Stéphane Robolin. Weston 10 at 2:45 p.m. International Studies Colloquium.

29 and 30: Rewind: a cantata for voice, tape and testimony which is based on the text of the truth and reconcilliation commission. It will be sung by an 100 voice choir comprised of the Williams Choir, the Total Praise Choir from the Emmanuel Baptist Church and a south african chorus conducted by our own professor Brad Wells. MainStage '62 Center for Theatre and Dance. Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.

October

1: Freddie Bryant plays with Scott Feiner's Pandeiro Jazz. Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall at 8:00 p.m.

17: "Witchcraft, Sorcery, and AIDS in Africa," Adam Ashforth, Director of African Studies, Northwestern University Graduate School. Prof. Ashforth is author of three books, including the Herskovits award winning Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa, and Madumo, a Man Bewitched. Griffin 7 at 7:00 p.m.

29: "Gade Min Baron," Michael Martin's Voodoo Aesthetic in "Da Crossroads" video. Ferentz Lafargue, Assistant Professor of Literature at Eugene Lang College, the New School for Liberal Arts, and author of the memoir, "Songs in the Key of My Life". Griffin 3 at 4 p.m.

November

7: Chris Washburn and the Syotos Band play Latin Jazz. Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall at 8:00 p.m.

March

1: Artistic Crossings of the Black Atlantic: The Migratory Aesthetic in Contemporary Art.

Through transatlantic connections among Africa, Britain, the Caribbean, and the United States, Black intellectuals and literary figures such as W.E.B. Du Bois and Richard Wright fashioned a specifically Black Atlantic culture making a central contribution to the creation of the modernist aesthetic. Today this Black Atlantic aesthetic extends into the realm of the visual where a number of artists working internationally have critically engaged cross-Atlantic migration as a principal focus of their work. This symposium features presentations and discussions with some of these acclaimed artists: British filmmaker Isaac Julien, whose video and dance performance Cast No Shadow recently premiered at London’s Sadler’s Wells Theatre; MacArthur Fellow Fred Wilson, who has just completed a major project in Jamaica; sculptor Willie Cole, whose mixed media works draw on African sources; and Hank Willis Thomas, whose photography-based works explore global economies and issues of race. This program has been organized by the Williams College Museum of Art in partnership with The Clark Art Institute Department of Research and Academic Programs and is presented in conjunction with related exhibitions at WCMA.