![Wards book, Sing, Unburied, Sing, was inspired by her experience growing up as a black woman in the South. It was this years Williams Reads book.
Sophia Shin/Photo Editor](https://williamsrecord.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Jesmyn-Ward_5-1024x683.jpg)
Sing, Unburied, Sing author Jesmyn Ward speaks on storytelling
Kristen Bayrakdarian
• October 17, 2018
![Louise Wakerakatse Herne and Makota Valdina Pinto came to speak at the College as part of an Africana Studies symposium. Sophia Shin/Photo Editor](https://williamsrecord.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/3Z8A9154-1024x649.jpg)
Indigenous groups’ elders discuss power of wisdom, community
Jeongyoon Han
• October 3, 2018
![Alicia Garza, Reza Aslan and moderator Jamelle Bouie discussed free speech and intolerance. Photos courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.](https://williamsrecord.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/1280px-Black_Politics_in_Trumps_America_33660918526-1024x682.jpg)
Visitors debate free speech at roundtable
Samuel Wolf
• October 3, 2018
![Word on The Quad: What does Mountain Day mean to you?](https://williamsrecord.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/wrecord-wotq-771x578.png)
Word on The Quad: What does Mountain Day mean to you?
Katie Brule
• October 3, 2018
![Steven Pinker argued that the Enlightenment has ushered in a golden age of human prosperity through reason, science, humanism and progress.
Katie Brule/Photo Editor.](https://williamsrecord.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Enlightenment-Now-tb-Katie-1024x683.jpg)
Steven Pinker speaks on Enlightenment
Yasmina Cabrera
• September 26, 2018
![President Maud Mandel awarded medals to alums Michael Wynn ’93, Shoshana Clark Stewart ’02, Cheryl Robinson Joyner ’85 and John Walcott ’71.
Photo courtesy of Roman Iwasiwka.](https://williamsrecord.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/credit-Roman-Iwasiwka-1024x683.jpg)
College awards Bicentennial Medals to four alums
Sofie Jones
• September 19, 2018
![At the 2018 Berkshire Bioblitz, held in Hopkins Forest, students, scientists and community members came together to document wildlife in the area.
Photo courtesy of Sarah Gardner.](https://williamsrecord.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/from-sarah-gardner-vole-captured-e1537320583736-768x1024.jpg)
Berkshire Bioblitz hosted by College for first time
Allie Campbell
• September 19, 2018
![In his lecture, Keating discussed his physics research and critiqued the Nobel Prize selection process.
Photo courtesy of USCD library.](https://williamsrecord.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Brian-Keating_pulled-from-UCSD-The-Library-website.jpg)
Brian Keating speaks on losing the Nobel Prize
Samuel Wolf
• September 19, 2018
![Word on the Quad: What is convocation?](https://williamsrecord.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/wrecord-wotq-771x578.png)
Word on the Quad: What is convocation?
Haeon Yoon
• September 19, 2018
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