The Event as posted on the College's Website:

Africana Studies presents a series of three consecutive panels with former and current community members (10:00-10:50am), former and current faculty (11:00-11:50am), and former and current students (12:00-12:50pm) as part of the weekend-long commemoration of its 50-year presence at Williams. Panelists will convene, and in conversational style, reflect on the myriad of experiences that have informed their lives within and beyond Williams, with attention to their hopes for and the particular impact of Africana Studies. Attendees will leave with a broad picture of the diverse experiences that comprise Black experience at Williams College.

Panel No. 1 - former and current community members (10:00-10:50 am)

• Facilitated by Sandra Burton,  Lipp Family Director of Dance, Williams College

• Bilal Ansari,  Director of Community Outreach & Acting Director, Williams College

• Adrianna DeGazon '16,  Admission Counselor, Williams College

• Arif Smith,  Program Manager, Old Town School of Folk Music, Chicago, IL     Assistant Director, Multicultural Center, 2008-2010; Campus Life Coordinator 2006-2008)

Panel No. 2 - former and current faculty (11:00-11:50 am)

• Facilitated by Neil Roberts, Associate Professor of Africana Studies, Williams College

• Eileen Julien, Director, Institute of Advanced Study, and Professor of Comparative Literature, French and Italian, and African Studies, Indiana University (formerly Assistant Dean and Lecturer in English, 1975-1978, and Assistant Professor of French, 1978-1981, Williams College)

• David Lionel Smith, John W. Chandler Professor of English, Williams College

• James Manigault-Bryant, Associate Professor and Chair, Africana Studies, Williams College

Panel No. 3 - former and current students (12:00-12:50 pm)

• Facilitated by Shanti Singham, Professor of Africana Studies and History, Williams College

• Olaide Adejobi '19

• Sevonna Brown '15

• Bobette Reed Kahn '73

• Robin Powell Mandjes '82

• Khalil Abdullah '72

A Time of Sharing: One Generation with the Next

The Event as posted on the College's Website:

The Department of Africana Studies and Special Collections invite you to a reception and special walk through of this spring’s exhibit celebrating fifty years of Africana Studies at Williams. The walk through, which will be led by Professor Rhon Manigault-Bryant (curator), will provide a unique perspective through which to consider the complex contours of Black experience at Williams, will offer intimate insights to the exhibits contents, will invite guests to remember and recall pivotal moments in the life of Africana Studies at Williams, and will highlight the cyclical passage of time in the Department’s history, where tides of student, staff, and faculty have had unique impacts upon the study of the Black Diaspora.

Alumni are also invited to audio record brief oral histories in the Curtain Room during this time.