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Thu, Apr 25, 2019
3MT®: Three-Minute Thesis Competition
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Stirn Auditorium, Mead Art Museum, Stirn Auditorium
Thesis students compete for cash prizes as they each talk about their thesis in a compelling and accessible way—in just three minutes! Support the competitors and vote for the "People's Choice" award. Winner and runner-up prizes will be awarded by external judges.
Host: Susan Daniels, associate in public speaking
"What Is Democracy?": A Film Screening and Community Discussion with Director Astra Taylor
4:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Science Center, Lipton Lecture Hall
Discussants:
Professor Amel Ahmed, political science, UMass Amherst
Professor Thomas Dumm, political science, Amherst College
Mie Inouye, political science, Yale Graduate School
Astra Taylor is a filmmaker, writer and organizer. Her work focuses on the shared human search for truth, community and freedom. Her latest book, Democracy May Not Exist, But We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone (Metropolitan, May 7), has garnered advance praise from Danielle Allen, Robin DG Kelley and Rebecca Solnit. In recognition of her work on the student debt crisis, she has been named “a new civil rights leader” among scholars and activists such as Michelle Alexander, Patrice Cullors and Bryan Stevenson (Los Angeles Times). She lives in New York City.
This event is generously supported by the Lamont Fund, the Department of Political Science and the Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Amherst College. It is free and open to the public.
For further information, please contact mbrangan@amherst.edu.
A Scholars' Roundtable on "Paste, Stick, Glue: Constructing Collage in Russia"
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Center for Russian Culture, 202 Webster Hall
With Ilya Kukulin (Brown University), Jane Sharp (Rutgers University) and Tomas Glanc (University of Zurich)
The roundtable will be moderated by Galina Mardilovich, acting curator of Russian and European art at the Mead Art Museum and curator of the exhibition.
Third and Final Lecture of the 2018-2019 Forry and Micken Lecture Series on the "Philosophy of Time"
5:00 pm - 6:45 pm
Fayerweather Hall, Pruyne Lecture Hall
Ned Markosian (University of Massachusetts Amherst) will present the third and final lecture in the 2018-2019 Forry and Micken Lecture Series on "Philosophy of Time." His lecture will be held on Thursday, April 25, at 5 p.m. in Pruyne Lecture Hall, Fayerweather Hall. The title of his lecture is "Three New Arguments for the Dynamic Theory of Time." All lectures are free and open to the public. For further information, please contact the Department of Philosophy at (413) 542-5805.