The Lecture Committee 2022 – 23:
Julie Cassiday, faculty chair
Nelly Rosario
Bill Jannen
Carrie Greene
Julian Spiro ’25, student chair
Emily Zas ’25
Matt Shareshian ’25
The Lecture Committee has three deadlines for funding requests this year: September 23, 2022 and November 14 (extended from October 28), 2022 for fall semester/Winter Study and February 16, 2023 for the spring semester. Proposals should be submitted via our online form, which can be found on the Lecture Committee website.
https://committees.williams.edu/faculty-standing-committees/lecture- committee/
The Lecture Committee funds visits by scholars, writers, and artists who will contribute to the academic life of departments, programs, and the college community as whole. This memo is both an invitation to submit proposals and a description of our funding policy and procedure.
Policy: The Committee will fund up to 50% of the cost of an event. The maximum contribution the Lecture Committee can make will be $1000. Speaker visits must have a public component and should be of interest to a variety of constituencies across the campus. To ensure that events have broad support, proposals must successfully raise funds from at least one source other than the Lecture Committee. Although students may identify speakers of possible interest, they must have a faculty sponsor to request support from the Committee.
Procedure: The committee will meet three times this year to evaluate proposals. Proposals are to be submitted by Google form (link above). If you have questions or issues with the form, please contact Carrie Greene: [email protected]. Proposals are due by Friday, September 23 for the first review, Monday, November 14 for the second review (proposals for Fall and Spring semester) and by Thursday, February 16 for the second review (additional proposals for Spring Semester). Spring projects that are not funded in the first two reviews can be re-submitted for the February review. Applicants will be notified of funding allocations by September 30 (for the first round), December 4 (for the second round), and February 24 (for the third round).
Requests for funding should include:
1. An itemized budget.
2. A list of groups expected to contribute and the size of their contributions.
3. A brief description of the talk/panel, along with a description of the speaker’s background.
4. A description of the intended audience with an estimate of its size, and an outline of how the event will be publicized.
5. A description of how you are managing the event (i.e., RSVPs. Zoom, etc.)
6. An account number to which funds can be transferred.
7. The name of the faculty or staff contact person for the event.
Please supply as much of this information as you can when you first make your request, estimating whenever necessary. To minimize conflict with other events and to maximize exposure to the Williams community, sponsors should check the online Public Events Calendar(https://events.williams.edu) as well as the Google Campus Events Planning Calendar (email [email protected] for access) to find the best time to schedule the event. For information on speaker contracts and event planning, please visit https://faculty.williams.edu/resources/event-planning/ Please contact Julie Cassiday or Carrie Greene with any questions.
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