The Witch Craze in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Lecture by Professor Teofilo F. Ruiz
Monday, November 7, 2011
Monday, November 7, 2011
Watch a panel discussion with Amherst trustee Cullen Murphy ’74, editor-at-large for Vanity Fair magazine; Wyatt Mason of Harper’s Magazine; and Ann Kjellberg of the New York Review of Books and Little Star. Jennifer Acker ’00 organized the panel as a supplement to her English class, “Little Magazines,” on the history of literary magazines and the art and practice of editing. The event was part of the Copeland Colloquium in the Humanities and was hosted by Bryn Geffert and the Frost Library.
November 30, 2011
The Amherst Political Union invited New York Times columnist Joe Nocera to speak in the Cole Assembly Room (the “Red Room”) about the financial issues underlying Occupy Wall Street and to discuss a path forward. Watch video below, and read an interview with Nocera at the Hampshire Gazette.
On April 12, 2011, the Amherst Political Union presented its second debate of the year: “Is Health Care Reform Constitutional?”
To help explore this question, four of the nation’s most prominent legal scholars were brought together for the first time to debate the constitutionality of the individual mandate—the central provision of the Affordable Care Act. These are the voices shaping the public debate on this topic:
This debate was sponsored by the AAS, Committee for the American Founding, President’s Office, Student Activities Office, Social Council, Program Board, Interdepartmental Student Fund and History and Political Science Departments.