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For the related assignments, see Response papers. Gender-related events (ongoing):Women's Collective meetings—TBA.The Women's Collective is a student organization. Gender-related events (upcoming):Good luck with finals! Gender-related events (past):Tuesday, Aug. 31, 4:00-6:00pm, LGBTQ+ Resource Center (deCordova first floor/patio): LGBTQ+ Resource Center Open House. Come and enjoy some free snacks and refreshments, see the rearranged and redecorated space, enjoy our new patio furniture, or just come and find out about our upcoming programs and events. You will be able to meet our new Associate Director, E. Tejada III (they/them), along with two of our student staff. We are having a raffle for two (2) fanny packs for any student that signs up for our email list at the open house and we will have prizes to give away at the event. (Masks are strongly encouraged while at the event and required when indoors within the Resource Center.) Tuesday, Aug. 31, 8:00pm, Coxe 8: Student Government Ice Cream Social. Go learn about what student government does, help map out this year's goals, talk to the executive board, class presidents, and student trustees! Saturday, Sept. 4, 12:00 noon, S. Main St. bridge over 5 & 20: Geneva Women's Assembly, Banner Drop in Support of Abortion Rights.In response to the horrific new abortion law that went into effect in Texas this week, the Geneva Women's Assembly (GWA) is going to hold a banner drop on the S. Main St. bridge over 5 & 20 (our usual spot) at noon on Saturday (tomorrow). This will be a chance to stand in solidarity and express our rage that we are still having to fight for women in the US to have bodily autonomy. All are welcome. Please join us. Tuesday, Sept. 7, 8:00pm, via Zoom: HSG & WSC Joint Meeting. Agenda: Q & A with B. Barile about COVID testing and policy at HWS. RED Committee presentation. Upcoming election for Committee on Standards representative. Announcement about BAC. Check your e-mail for the Zoom link! Thursday, Sept. 9, 7:30pm, via Zoom (link available on Canvas): Elizabeth Willis, 2021–2022 Trias Writer in Residence, “Alive: New and Selected Poems.” Elizabeth Willis’s most recent book Alive: New and Selected Poems (New York Review Books, 2015) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Others of her six books of poetry have won the PEN New England/L. L. Winship Prize for Poetry and been a National Poetry Series selection. Her poems can be found in Harper’s, The New Yorker, and Poetry. She has received a Guggenheim fellowship, edited a volume of essays on the poet Lorine Niedecker, and is on the permanent faculty at the Iowa Writers Workshop. Tuesday, Sept. 14, 8:00pm, Coxe Hall 008 or via Zoom: HSG & WSC Joint Meeting. Agenda: committee elections, generate questions for upcoming guest speakers, open discussion. All are welcome to attend. Check your e-mail for the Zoom link! Thursday, Sept. 16, 6:00-8:00pm, Reading Room, Geneva Public Library: Geneva Public Library is sponsoring a Community Book Discussion of Make A Way Somehow: African-American Life in a Northern Community, 1790–1965 by Kathryn Grover on Thursday September 16, 6-8 p.m. in the Reading Room. This was the book that inspired the production of From Beyond: Geneva's Unheard Voices (A Theatrical Walking Tour) [see below]! Copies of the book may be purchased from Historic Geneva or Stomping Grounds or requested through a local library. Attendees will also get a preview performance of an excerpt of From Beyond: Geneva's Unheard Voices. Friday, Sept. 17, 4:45pm, via Zoom (check Canvas for link): HWS Constitution Day Speaker, Professor Sharon Dolovich, “COVID, Prisons, and the Eighth Amendment.” Professor Dolovich is Professor of Law at UCLA Law School, where she is also the Director of the UCLA Prison Law & Policy Program. She teaches courses on criminal law, the constitutional law of prisons, and other post-conviction topics, and her scholarship focuses on the law, policy, and theory of prisons and punishment. Dolovich has been a visiting professor at NYU, Harvard, and Georgetown, and a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Professor Dolovich is a recipient of the UCLA Distnguished Teaching Award, the university’s highest honor for excellence in teaching. Dolovich also directs the UCLA Law COVID-19 Behind Bars Data Project, which she launched early in the pandemic to track the impact of COVID-19 in prisons, jails and detention centers nationwide. Among other things, the Data Project publishes facility level data on infection rates and COVID deaths in all state and federal prisons and many jails, tracks jail and prison releases in response to the pandemic, and has partnered with Columbia Law School, Bronx Defenders and others to develop a comprehensive, searchable database of all court opinions addressing the claims of incarcerated people during COVID. It also hosts student research and draws on the work of more than 80 volunteers to support its many projects. Tuesday, Sept. 21, 8:00pm, Coxe Hall 008: HSG & WSC Joint Meeting. Agenda: Q&A session with the Deans, HWS Dems funding proposal, open discussion. All are welcome to attend. Wednesday, Sept. 22, 7:00–8:15pm, via Zoom (check Canvas for link): Professor Anindita Banerjee, “Alien Justice.” With a billionaires’ space race underway against the backdrop of a literally burning planet ravaged by a pandemic starkly unequal in its impact, it is difficult to extricate science fiction’s long history of imagining outer space and its hypothetical forms of life from the extractivist, imperial logic of death on planet earth. This talk presents a different genealogy, however, not as a handbook of hope but as an ethics for a livable future. It is a science fiction of alien bodies, languages, and ecologies that offer templates of justice impossible to conceive within the confines of consensual reality. Friday, Sept. 24, 4:30pm, 112 Houghton House: Professor Rebecca Murtaugh, Artist’s Talk; Friday, Sept. 24, various times beginning 5:30–7:15pm, Seneca Street parking lot (behind Stomping Grounds in downtown Geneva): HWS Theatre / Historic Geneva co-production of From Beyond: Geneva's Unheard Voices (A Theatrical Walking Tour). Take a walk through the history of Geneva's African American community! Tickets are now available for the HWS Theatre / Historic Geneva co-production of From Beyond: Geneva's Unheard Voices (A Theatrical Walking Tour). Tickets are $10 but FREE for all students (K-12, College). Tickets must be purchased / reserved in advance through Historic Geneva: https://historicgeneva.org/products/from-beyond-genevas-unheard-voices// All proceeds from this production benefit Historic Geneva. The show is SOLD OUT but you can watch it via Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/hwstheatre/ (Facebook app or on a computer only, not via a browser on a mobile device). Alternatively, you can try to get on the waitlist by showing up early on performance night, but this is not guaranteed. The production is directed by Associate Professor of Theatre Chris Woodworth. This is the third version of the From Beyond series by Historic Geneva and the first to focus solely on the African American community. This project was initially inspired by Make A Way Somehow: African-American Life in a Northern Community, 1790-1965 by Kathryn Grover (Syracuse UP, 1995), which documents the history of Black Genevans through archival research and oral histories. The historic figures depicted in From Beyond: Geneva’s Unheard Voices include Daniel Prue, Nancy Lucas Curlin, Marie Gray, Robert Linzy, Henry McDonald, Arthur Kenney, and Mary Georgetta Cleggett Kenney. Actors portraying historic figures include Anthony Bray, Samari Brown, Sal Fabio, KJ Johnson, Sydney Moore, Christina Roc, and Rafael Vasquez. Tour Guides are portrayed by Hannah Angelico, Henry Barton, Lily Davis, August Deimel, Derrielle Faulkner, Hannah Haines, Syed Jafri, Audrey King, Van Nguyen, Eliyah Roberts, Gabriela Rosa, and James Sarver. The design and production team consists of Ed Hallborg (Scenic and Lighting Design / Technical Director), Katharine Tarkulich (Costume Designer), Kelly Walker (Sound Design / Video Streaming), Grace Amonette (Costume Assistant), Troy Tedeschi (Stage Manager), and Hailey Adams, Ali Khan, and Berit Schönnege (Assistant Stage Managers). Beginning at 5:30 pm on September 24 and 25, audience groups of 10–15 people will depart every 15 minutes from the back Seneca St. parking lot (behind Stomping Grounds). Each audience group will be accompanied by two actors portraying tour guides. Latecomers forfeit their spot in a tour group. The performance lasts approximately one hour and will travel the distance of approximately two blocks. There will be a few chairs available at each performance location for those that may need them. Tickets are $10 and must be purchased in advance through Historic Geneva. Tickets will be free for all students (K-12 and college) but will still need to be reserved in advance. Advance ticket sales will close at noon on each performance day. A limited number of walk-up tickets may be available on performance nights if there are unsold tickets. All proceeds benefit Historic Geneva. Actors and production staff will be masked for the duration of the performance. Audience members are strongly encouraged to wear masks while on the tour. For those unable to attend in person, there will also be a livestream of the performance each evening at 6:00 p.m. through the HWS Theatre Facebook page. Please check https://www.facebook.com/hwstheatre for the most up-to-date information on the production, including COVID-19 safety protocols. Tour Times and Tour Guides for Friday September 24: 5:30- Derrielle Faulkner & Lily Davis; 5:45- James Sarver & Syed Jafri; 6:00*- Eliyah Roberts & Henry Barton [*Also livestreamed through the HWS Theatre Facebook page]; 6:15- Hannah Haines & Van Nguyen; 6:30- Gabriela Rosa & August Deimel; 6:45- Hannah Angelico & Audrey King; 7:00- Derrielle Faulkner & Lily Davis; 7:15- James Sarver & Syed Jafri. Repeated on Saturday, Sept. 25, various times beginning 5:30–7:15pm--see below. Saturday, Sept. 25, 2:00pm, Williams Hall 201: HWS Theatre presents a Frame/Works pre-show talk. During the summer of 2021, four Hobart and William Smith Colleges Theatre students (Anthony Bray ‘23, Samari Brown ‘24, Sal Fabio ‘22, and Christina Roc ‘24) conducted archival research on the history of African Americans in Geneva. They then translated the stories of these un– and under-represented figures into a series of monologues and short scenes, which will be performed outdoors, in downtown Geneva by HWS and community actors on September 24 and 25. In this talk, Anthony Bray ‘23, Samari Brown ‘24, Sal Fabio ‘22, and Christina Roc ’24 will discuss their process of researching and writing From Beyond: Geneva’s Unheard Voices during their Summer 2021 Undergraduate Research Fellowship. Saturday, Sept. 25, various times beginning 5:30–7:15pm, Seneca Street parking lot (behind Stomping Grounds in downtown Geneva): HWS Theatre / Historic Geneva co-production of From Beyond: Geneva's Unheard Voices (A Theatrical Walking Tour). Take a walk through the history of Geneva's African American community! Tickets are now available for the HWS Theatre / Historic Geneva co-production of From Beyond: Geneva's Unheard Voices (A Theatrical Walking Tour). Tickets are $10 but FREE for all students (K-12, College). Tickets must be purchased / reserved in advance through Historic Geneva: https://historicgeneva.org/products/from-beyond-genevas-unheard-voices// All proceeds from this production benefit Historic Geneva. The show is SOLD OUT but you can watch it via Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/hwstheatre/ (Facebook app or on a computer only, not via a browser on a mobile device). Alternatively, you can try to get on the waitlist by showing up early on performance night, but this is not guaranteed. For further details, see above. Beginning at 5:30 pm on September 24 and 25, audience groups of 10–15 people will depart every 15 minutes from the back Seneca St. parking lot (behind Stomping Grounds). Each audience group will be accompanied by two actors portraying tour guides. Latecomers forfeit their spot in a tour group. The performance lasts approximately one hour and will travel the distance of approximately two blocks. There will be a few chairs available at each performance location for those that may need them. Tickets are $10 and must be purchased in advance through Historic Geneva. Tickets will be free for all students (K-12 and college) but will still need to be reserved in advance. Advance ticket sales will close at noon on each performance day. A limited number of walk-up tickets may be available on performance nights if there are unsold tickets. All proceeds benefit Historic Geneva. Actors and production staff will be masked for the duration of the performance. Audience members are strongly encouraged to wear masks while on the tour. For those unable to attend in person, there will also be a livestream of the performance each evening at 6:00 p.m. through the HWS Theatre Facebook page. Please check https://www.facebook.com/hwstheatre for the most up-to-date information on the production, including COVID-19 safety protocols. Tour Times and Tour Guides for Saturday September 25: 5:30- Hannah Haines & Van Nguyen; 5:45- Hannah Angelico & Audrey King; 6:00*- Gabriela Rosa & August Deimel [*Also livestreamed through the HWS Theatre Facebook page]; 6:15- James Sarver & Syed Jafri; 6:30- Eliyah Roberts & Henry Barton; 6:45- Derrielle Faulkner & Lily Davis; 7:00- Hannah Haines & Van Nguyen; 7:15- Hannah Angelico & Audrey King. Tuesday, Sept. 28, 8:00pm, Coxe Hall 008 or via Zoom: HSG & WSC Joint Meeting. Agenda: Club proposals: Spikeball Club and Pre-Law Club, brainstorming questions for future Q&A sessions with President Jacobsen and Provost Kirk, open discussion. All are welcome to attend. Check your e-mail for a Zoom link! Wednesday, Sept. 29, 6:00pm, the Quad (rain location Bartlett Theatre): Unity + Connection BIPOC Community Cookout. Open and welcome to students, faculty, and staff of color who identify as Black, Brown, Indigenous, Asian/Pacific Islander, Latinx, and beyond to engage and connect at HWS. Hosted by the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Intercultural Affairs; and the LGBTQ+ Resource Center. Saturday, Oct. 2, 10:00am, First Amendment Space at Women's Rights National Historic Park (outdoors), Seneca Falls: Protest Rally to Defend U.S. Reproductive Rights. Take the HWS shuttle—which will be running in loops beginning at 9:00am through the end of the event—there and back by signing up through studentactivities@hws.edu by Wednesday, Sept. 29. The event will be held at the Women's Rights National Historic Park, 136 Fall Street, Seneca Falls (about a 25-minute drive from campus). Tuesday, Oct. 5, 8:00pm, Coxe Hall 008 or via Zoom: HSG & WSC Joint Meeting. Agenda: Q&A session with President Jacobsen, open discussion. All are welcome to attend. Check your e-mail for a Zoom link! Wednesday, Oct. 6, 6:00pm, Bartlett Theatre: Pride documentary showing, Episodes 1 and 2. This event is held in conjunction with LGBTQ+ History Month. The LGBTQ+ Resource Center invites the campus community, as allies or those that identify within the LGBTQIA+ community, to join us in celebrating this month by attending or participating in our events. Wednesday, Oct. 6, 7:00–8:15pm, via Zoom (check Canvas for link): Student Presentations, Summer 2021 Woodsworth Fellows. Sadia Rahman ‘22 will present on the topic “Hashtags and Social Media in the Farmers’ Protest,” Aroob Ahmad ‘22 will present on the topic “Immigration, Identification, and Capitalism,” and Caleb Austin ‘22 will present on the topic “Antidemocracy in America.” Friday, Oct. 8, 8:00pm, Boswell Field at Urick Stadium: Herons Soccer Development Team vs. St. John Fisher. Saturday, Oct. 9, 1:00pm, McCooey Field: Herons Field Hockey vs. Ithaca. Saturday, Oct. 9, 4:30pm, Cozzens Field: Herons Soccer vs. Clarkson. Wednesday, Oct. 13, 12:30pm, DEI Office, Coxe Hall: Coming Out Day, Photo and Reception. This event is held in conjunction with LGBTQ+ History Month. The LGBTQ+ Resource Center invites the campus community, as allies or those that identify within the LGBTQIA+ community, to join us in celebrating this month by attending or participating in our events. We continue an annual HWS tradition with our Coming Out Day photo, and this year will include a small reception with refreshments and snacks. The photo is open to LGBTQIA+ individuals and we welcome allies in support of LGBTQIA+ identities and the coming out journey! Traditionally, we have asked that you come dressed in a solitary rainbow color of your choosing (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple) for the photo, but accept you as you are! The Resource Center will provide pride flags as well. After the photo a small reception will be held for anyone that is able to stay in the DEI Office Space (Coxe Hall 11, next to Bartlett Theatre). Wednesday, Oct. 13, 7:00pm, Bartlett Theatre: Coming Out Stories. This event is held in conjunction with LGBTQ+ History Month. The LGBTQ+ Resource Center invites the campus community, as allies or those that identify within the LGBTQIA+ community, to join us in celebrating this month by attending or participating in our events. Coming Out Stories is a new tradition at HWS. At this event we will highlight some coming out stories and allow participants to share their experiences around coming out, being LGBTQIA+, and more. Spaces like these allow for individuals to find support in commonality with others and maybe be able to share their story for the first time. Allies are welcome to the event in support of LGBTQIA+ individuals and their coming out journey, but we ask that sharing out be held for LGBTQIA+ identifying folks. Friday, Oct. 15, 4:00pm, Cozzens Field: Herons Soccer vs. Union. Friday, Oct. 15, 4:00pm, Houghton House: Roundtable, Afrofutures: Before and Beyond. Professor Christine Goding-Doty of Africana Studies moderates a roundtable of artists featured in the exhibition Afrofutures: Before and Beyond, in the Davis Gallery at Houghton House, Oct. 15–Dec. 1, 2021. Read more about the exhibition here: https://www2.hws.edu/davis-gallery/. Friday, Oct. 15, 5:00pm, McCooey Field: Herons Field Hockey vs. St. Lawrence. Friday, Oct. 15, 5:00–7:00pm, Davis Gallery at Houghton House: Opening Reception, Afrofutures: Before and Beyond. Afrofutures: Before and Beyond, in the Davis Gallery at Houghton House, Oct. 15–Dec. 1, 2021, is an exhibition of art that communicates the philosophies, politics, and aesthetics of Afrofuturism. The Afrofuturist art included imagines a place and time wherein Black identity and experience are defined absent of colonial ideologies. Like much Afrofuturist art, it is hybrid, diasporic, technocritical, and malleable. It figures bodies and ways of being that are neither necessarily utopic nor apocalyptic. In short: It builds other worlds. Afrofutures: Before and Beyond will feature a variety of media including digital collage, sculpture, installation, graphic arts, music and film. Artists include Kimberly Ashby, Tania Balan-Gaubert, and Stacey Robinson. The exhibition is organized by Christine Goding-Doty, James McCorkle, Robinson Murphy, Angelique Szymanek, and Anna Wager. Read more about the exhibition here: https://www2.hws.edu/davis-gallery/. The opening reception will be DJ-ed by artist Stacey Robinson. Saturday, Oct. 16, 11:00am, Seneca Lake State Park, Geneva: Herons Cross Country in Cross Country Only Conference Championship. Saturday, Oct. 16, 2:00pm, Cozzens Field: Herons Soccer vs. RPI. Saturday, Oct. 16–Sunday, Oct. 17, Bozzuto Boathouse: Hobart and William Smith Sailing in the David Lee Arnoff Trophy. Tuesday, Oct. 19, 8:00pm, Coxe Hall 008 or via Zoom: HSG & WSC Joint Meeting. Agenda: Day of Service funding proposal, Constitution Conversation Series part 1 (elections, meetings, quorum), open discussion. All are welcome to attend. They will have pizza. Check your e-mail for a Zoom link! Friday, Oct. 22, 5:00pm, McCooey Field: Herons Field Hockey vs. Rensselaer. Tuesday, Oct. 26, 11:00am–2:00pm, Scandling Center: Historic Trans & Queer Folks of Color Exhibit. The LGBTQ+ Resource Center staff have highlighted various Trans and Queer People of Color that have made contributions to society, both within the U.S. and Internationally. These are writers, advocates, politicians, indigenous community leaders, international movers and shakers, and more. We invite you to take a look at this exhibit in Scandling Center this week and learn more about historic trans and queer people of color! This event is held in conjunction with LGBTQ+ History Month. The LGBTQ+ Resource Center invites the campus community, as allies or those that identify within the LGBTQIA+ community, to join us in celebrating this month by attending or participating in our events. Tuesday, Oct. 26, 8:00pm, Coxe Hall 008 or via Zoom: HSG & WSC Joint Meeting. Agenda: Red Committee funding proposal, Q&A with Provost Sarah Kirk. All are welcome to attend. Check your e-mail for a Zoom link! Wednesday, Oct. 27, 11:00am–2:00pm, Scandling Center: Historic Trans & Queer Folks of Color Exhibit. The LGBTQ+ Resource Center staff have highlighted various Trans and Queer People of Color that have made contributions to society, both within the U.S. and Internationally. These are writers, advocates, politicians, indigenous community leaders, international movers and shakers, and more. We invite you to take a look at this exhibit in Scandling Center this week and learn more about historic trans and queer people of color! This event is held in conjunction with LGBTQ+ History Month. The LGBTQ+ Resource Center invites the campus community, as allies or those that identify within the LGBTQIA+ community, to join us in celebrating this month by attending or participating in our events. Thursday, Oct. 28, 11:00am–2:00pm, Scandling Center: Historic Trans & Queer Folks of Color Exhibit. The LGBTQ+ Resource Center staff have highlighted various Trans and Queer People of Color that have made contributions to society, both within the U.S. and Internationally. These are writers, advocates, politicians, indigenous community leaders, international movers and shakers, and more. We invite you to take a look at this exhibit in Scandling Center this week and learn more about historic trans and queer people of color! This event is held in conjunction with LGBTQ+ History Month. The LGBTQ+ Resource Center invites the campus community, as allies or those that identify within the LGBTQIA+ community, to join us in celebrating this month by attending or participating in our events. Thursday, Oct. 28, 7:30–8:30pm, Bartlett Theatre or via Zoom (see Canvas for the link): Stripped: Maggie M. Werner Reads the Erotic Body. Please join the Writing and Rhetoric Department in celebrating Professor Maggie Werner's new book, Stripped: Reading the Erotic Body. The reading will be in person (spooky costumes welcome!) and via Zoom. Friday, Oct. 29, 11:00am–2:00pm, Scandling Center: Historic Trans & Queer Folks of Color Exhibit. The LGBTQ+ Resource Center staff have highlighted various Trans and Queer People of Color that have made contributions to society, both within the U.S. and Internationally. These are writers, advocates, politicians, indigenous community leaders, international movers and shakers, and more. We invite you to take a look at this exhibit in Scandling Center this week and learn more about historic trans and queer people of color! This event is held in conjunction with LGBTQ+ History Month. The LGBTQ+ Resource Center invites the campus community, as allies or those that identify within the LGBTQIA+ community, to join us in celebrating this month by attending or participating in our events. Friday, Oct. 29, 7:30pm, Smith Opera House, 82 Seneca Street, Geneva: Step Afrika! Free to HWS students with ID; tickets available at www.GenevaConcerts.org or at the door. Founded in 1994 by C. Brian Williams, Step Afrika! is the first professional company dedicated to the tradition of stepping. Under Mr. Williams' leadership, stepping has evolved into one of America's cultural exports, touring more than 60 countries across the globe, and the Company now ranks as one of the top ten African American dance companies in the United States. Step Afrika! blends percussive dance styles practiced by historically African American fraternities and sororities; traditional African dances; and an array of contemporary dance and art forms into a cohesive, compelling artistic experience. Performances are much more than dance shows; they integrate songs, storytelling, humor and audience participation. The blend of technique, agility, and pure energy makes each performance unique and leaves the audience with their hearts pounding. Step Afrika! promotes stepping as an educational tool for young people, focusing on teamwork, academic achievement and cross-cultural understanding. The Company reaches tens of thousands of Americans each year through a 50-city tour of colleges and theaters and performs globally as Washington, DC's one and only Cultural Ambassador. Friday, Oct. 29, 10:00pm, Vandervort Room, Scandling Center: CAB presents The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Includes pre-show discussion and free snacks; this is an interactive film. In collaboration with Pride and LGBTQ+ Resource Center. This event is held in conjunction with LGBTQ+ History Month. The LGBTQ+ Resource Center invites the campus community, as allies or those that identify within the LGBTQIA+ community, to join us in celebrating this month by attending or participating in our events. Tuesday, Nov. 2, 8:00pm, Coxe Hall 008 or via Zoom: HSG & WSC Joint Meeting. Agenda: Constitution Conversation Series part 2 (equity in the constitutions), open discussion. All are welcome to attend. Check your e-mail for a Zoom link! POSTPONED until Wednesday, Nov. 3, 7:00–8:15pm, via Zoom (check Canvas for link): Professor Jayna Brown, “Speculative Geographies: The Ethics of Terraformation.” Jayna Brown is a professor in the Graduate Program in Media Studies at the Pratt Institute. Brown is the author of Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern (Duke University Press, 2008) and Black Utopias: Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds (Duke University Press, 2021), in addition to numerous essays. Her areas of research and specialization include performance studies, black expressive cultures, black feminism, speculative fictions, music, and our changing media landscape. Her current work is located at the intersections of science and performance. She appears in conjunction with the exhibition Afrofutures: Before and Beyond, Oct. 15–Dec. 1, 2021, at the Davis Gallery at Houghton House. Read more about the exhibition here: https://www2.hws.edu/davis-gallery/. Wednesday, Nov. 3, 7:00pm, via Zoom (check Canvas for link): Professor Roman Utkin, “Queer Exile: Archives of Belonging.” What is it like to be an exile within exile? To find one's queer self doubly alienated among fellow refugees? This lecture explores contours of queer subjectivity in interwar Europe's Russian diaspora. The story of those Russians who moved abroad after the Bolshevik Revolution is richly documented in art and scholarship, yet queer lives and experiences are largely absent. Based on archival research attuned to absences, omissions, and patterns of exclusion, Professor Utkin proposes a narrative of exile that reorients assumptions of kinship, showing how gender, sexuality, and nationhood are interconnected in diasporic belonging. Roman Utkin is an assistant professor of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, as well as Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, at Wesleyan University. Friday, Nov. 5, 7:00pm, The Cooler: Herons Hockey vs. Southern Maine. Saturday, Nov. 6, 11:00am, Cozzens Field: Herons Soccer in the Liberty League Championship Semifinals. William Smith vs. RIT at 11:00am, Ithaca vs. Union at 1:30pm. Saturday, Nov. 6, 12 noon, Smith Squash Center: Herons and Statesmens Squash vs. Denison. Saturday, Nov. 6, 2:00pm, Smith Squash Center: Herons and Statesmens Squash vs. Chatham. Saturday, Nov. 6, 4:00pm, The Cooler: Herons Hockey vs. Salem State. Sunday, Nov. 7, 1:30pm, Cozzens Field: Liberty League Championship (Women's Soccer) featuring Saturday's semifinal winners. Tuesday, Nov. 9, 7:00pm, Herons Basketball, Bristol Gymnasium: William Smith vs. Keuka. Tuesday, Nov. 9, 8:00pm, Coxe Hall 008 or via Zoom: HSG & WSC Joint Meeting. Agenda: Constitution Conversation Series part 3 (Article I: Legislative Branch), open discussion. All are welcome to attend. Check your e-mail for a Zoom link! Wednesday, Nov. 10, 7:00pm, via Zoom (check Canvas for link to register): "Authenticity in Business: An author discussion with Sabrina Horn '83." Best-selling author Sabrina Horn ’83 will be on campus on Wednesday, Nov. 10 to discuss Make it, Don’t Fake It. Attendance for the event is remote via a webinar Zoom presentation. Horn will also visit classes to discuss her career journey and the central themes of her new book, as well as be presented with the Alumna Achievement Award by William Smith College Alumnae Association President Kirra Henick-Kling Guard ’08, MAT’09. The Association’s highest honor is awarded to an alumna who, by reason of outstanding accomplishments in her business, profession or community service, has brought honor and distinction to her alma mater. Please visit sabrinahorn.com for more information on her book. Please register in advance. Wednesday, Nov. 10, 7:00–8:15pm, via Zoom (check Canvas for link): Professor Abou Farman, “No Silence in the Afterlife: Sounds, Illuminations, Words, Wailings, Mournings.” This art performance is part of a series by the Ad Hoc Collective for Improvising Mourning Technologies for Future Grief. Abou Farman, the visionary behind this unusual ensemble of voices, is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the New School for Social Research and the author of On Not Dying: Secular Immortality in the Age of Technoscience (2020, University of Minnesota Press). He studies the practices, rituals, and belief systems that emerged in communities of American transhumanists, especially around Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Arizona. This will be a hybrid event: the live portion of the performance will take place at Macdonald Theater (Gearan Center). Live audience is limited to 25 people, so you will need to register in advance (check Canvas for link).
The performance features the following artists: Julie Ezelle Patton is a sculptor of sound, image and text. She is the founder of Let It Be ArkHives, a time-based living sculpture. Her visual poetics take the form of found object assemblage, scrolls, extended texts, limited edition work, performances, ephemeral libraries and site-specific installations. Sholeh Asgary (UC Berkeley) is an interdisciplinary sound artist whose immersive works, performances and audience participatory scores implicate the viewer-participant into future mythological excavations, bridging large swathes of time and history, through water, water clocks, crude oil, movement, light, imaging, voice and sound. Leonor Caraballo worked as a photographer and video artist between Buenos Aires and New York. She is the co-director of the feature film Saturday, Nov. 13, 11:00am, Cozzens Field: NCAA 2021 Division III Women's Soccer Championship. 11:00am, William Smith vs. John Jay; 1:30pm, Johnson & Wales vs. Hamilton. Sunday, Nov. 14, 1:00pm, Cozzens Field: NCAA 2021 Division III Women's Soccer Championship, featuring Saturday's winners. Tuesday, Nov. 16, 8:00pm, Coxe Hall 008 or via Zoom: HSG & WSC Joint Meeting. Agenda: Student Trustee Board Meeting read-out, club proposals: Math Club, Club Track Team, Constitution Conversation Series part 4 (voting rights, Article II: Executive Branch). All are welcome to attend. Check your e-mail for a Zoom link! Tuesday, Nov. 16, 8:00pm, Geo Lounge or via Zoom (check Canvas for link): Women in Geoscience (WIGS) presents: Careers in Geoscience! (Hydrology Focus). Come learn about the career path of Carly Ellis '14, a hydrologist at Yuba Water! Carly has worked as a forest technician and at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in recent years as well. Thursday, Nov. 18, 7:00pm, St. John's Chapel: Trans Day of Remembrance Vigil. In collaboration with the Office of Spiritual Engagement. Friday, Nov. 19, 3:30–4:30pm, Davis Gallery at Houghton House: dance performance by students in the Dances of the African Diaspora 2 class. We invite the campus community to join us to witness Afrofutures: Before and Beyond in the Davis Gallery at Houghton House. It features the work of Kimberly Marie Ashby, Tania Balan-Gaubert, Rose Colon-Martinez and Stacey Robinson, in a variety of media including digital collage, sculpture, installation, graphic arts, music and film. We will share dances and rhythms from Guinea West Africa as we celebrate and explore building other worlds. Friday, Nov. 19, 5:30pm, The Dove Block, 495 Exchange Street: "The Future Is Collaborative: Afrofutures: Before and Beyond." The story of Afrofuturism that is told in the exhibition currently on exhibit in the Davis Gallery is rich and cuts across multiple mediums, times, and spaces. Through film, print, assemblage, music, graphic arts, and more, Afrofutures offers a glimpse of the expansive and ever-evolving terrain of Afrofuturist art. It is, however, like the collage aesthetics that are prominent within the show, fragmentary. Join contributing artist Rose Colon-Martinez and co-curator Angelique Szymanek for a talk that offers an introduction to the themes of Afrofuturism that are explored in Afrofutures: Before and Beyond as well as some which exceed it. Tuesday, Nov. 23, 8:00pm, Coxe Hall 008 or via Zoom: HSG & WSC Joint Meeting. Agenda: Constitution Conversation Series part 5 (Article III: Judicial Branch), open discussion. All are welcome to attend. Check your e-mail for a Zoom link! Tuesday, Nov. 30, 8:00pm, Coxe Hall 008 or via Zoom: HSG & WSC Joint Meeting. Agenda: Constitution Conversation Series part 6 (final thoughts), open discussion. All are welcome to attend. Check your e-mail for a Zoom link! Wednesday, Dec. 1, 7:00pm, Albright Auditorium: Picture a Scientist. Join the Office of Title IX for a screening of the 2020 documentary Picture a Scientist, followed by a panel discussion. Donuts and hot chocolate provided! Last updated 5 December 2021. |