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The Department of French and the Center for Humanistic Inquiry invite you to join us for the second lecture in a series in honor of Professor Emerita Leah Hewitt, who taught for 30 years in the French department at Amherst College. We have invited Laure Murat to give a CHI Salon talk titled “My Way: Crossing the U.S., from Venice to Babylon.” Professor Murat is the director of the Center for European and Russian Studies at the University of California, where she also teaches French.
“My Way” is the title of a work in progress, both a road trip and a book. The purpose of this project is to cross the U.S. from the West Coast to the East Coast and back again, stopping only in places named after foreign cities. From Venice, Calif., to Babylon, N.Y., Professor Murat will analyze how America paid homage to the rest of the world, revealing the "elsewhere" hidden within the "here." Paris, Texas, and Memphis, Tenn., will serve as highlights of a trip which is also a wandering of the mind, inspired by the magic of names.
The lecture and reception are free and open to the public. This event is sponsored by the Lurcy Lecture Fund Series at Amherst College, the Amherst College French department, The Center for Humanistic Inquiry and the Turgeon Fund.
The 17th annual reading in celebration of poetry at Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke and Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts, featuring two students from each institution: Eliza Brewer and Aqiil Gopee (Amherst College); Olivia Caldwell and Blue Keller (Hampshire College); Mars Early-Hubelbank and Ariana Sarmiento Fielding (Mount Holyoke College); Ava Goga and Lucy Liu (Smith College); Courtney Janes and Vanan Phan (University of Massachusetts Amherst). Free and open to the public. Refreshments to follow.
Ty P. Kāwika Tengan (Kanaka ‘Ōiwi) is an associate professor of ethnic studies and anthropology at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, as well as the author of Native Men Remade: Gender and Nation in Contemporary Hawai‘i (Duke U, 2008). He has both researched and participated in community-based efforts to regenerate Native Hawaiian masculinities through Indigenous cultural practice. In this talk, he will describe the work carried out by the Hale Mua (Men's House) and the ‘Aha Kāne (Foundation for the Advancement of Native Hawaiian Men) and discuss the potentials and limitations that their respective projects hold for decolonizing Indigenous masculinities.
Visit the Mezzanine Gallery in Frost Library to view Between the Imagined and Seen: The Hand-Pulled Prints of Betsey Garand and Microscope Images of Caroline Goutte, on exhibit from March 4 to Aug. 30. This exhibition is sponsored by the Arts at Amherst Initiative
Professor Caroline Goutte is chair of the Department of Biology and a member of the Program in Biochemistry and Biophysics at Amherst College. Betsey Garand is senior resident artist in the Department of Art and the History of Art at Amherst College.
Gallery hours are 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. on Mondays through Fridays, and from noon - 4 p.m. on Sundays. Closed Saturdays. This exhibition will close at noon on Friday, April 5.