Calendar of Events

This space centers those who identify as queer/trans/genderqueer people of color. This group seeks to provide a safe space for queer people of color to build community, to celebrate all facets of our identities, and to engage in meaningful discussion.

For accessibility questions or concerns, please contact jsmartin@amherst.edu or call 413.542.5964

Gradescope is an online program for consistent grading through the use of rubrics for point assignment and standard responses for common errors. You can grade assignments, quizzes, and exams faster and more uniformly. Gradescope is especially useful for materials that are handwritten and for larger classes.

Many faculty are already using Gradescope, and there will be two idea-sharing sessions at lunch time on Wednesday, Nov. 11, and Thursday, Nov. 12.

Join the Queer Resource Center staff and Dr. Darien McFadden & Dr. Sarah Erickson from the Counseling Center for a open discussion and support space centering conversations concerning our current moment, navigating gender, sexuality, identity at large, and what it means to be LGBTQ+ at Amherst and beyond.

For accessibility questions or concerns, please contact jsmartin@amherst.edu or call 413.542.5964

Curious about how films can play a role in de-stigmatizing mental health and sexual violence? Looking for an easy way to build community through art?

Join us on Wednesday, November 11, from 4:00-5:30 PM for a virtual workshop with Art With Impact on Movies 4 Mental Health: Creating Supportive Communities for Survivors of Sexual Violence. This event will focus on exploring the mental health impacts that sexual violence can have on individuals and communities through a series of short films as a tool to build empathy and support survivors. The event also connects students with campus and community mental health and sexual violence-oriented resources available to them, empowering them to seek support as individuals and communities to heal from sexual violence.

Pre-registration is required for all attendees at: bit.ly/m4mh-online-amherst. There is an option to join anonymously. Questions or concerns can be directed to Lauren Kelly, Sexual Respect Educator, at lakelly@amherst.edu.

This event is hosted by the Department of Health Education and the Counseling Center, and co-sponsored with the Community Mental Health Fund and the Arts at Amherst Initiative.

In 2012, the town of Madison, Maine, erected a series of new monuments at the site of Nanrantsouak, a Wabanaki homeplace and Jesuit Mission Village that was destroyed in a brutal attack by English colonial forces in 1724. Despite the ongoing relationship that Wabanaki peoples have with this place, mainstream narratives about the site’s history proclaim the 1724 attack to be the end of Wabanaki belonging in this region. Drawing on these narratives as foundational, the new monuments were designed to convey “the national significance” of the site and spark interest in its history among visitors. Yet, despite the project manager’s intensions to include Indigenous histories, the project sparked deep concern among Wabanaki peoples regarding its representation of history and the tendency for projects like this one to reinforce popular stories of Indigenous “vanishing.” What would it mean to “include” Indigenous voices into histories that were designed to erase them from their own lands?

In this presentation, CHI Fellow and Assistant Professor of Native American Studies and Environmental Justice Ashley Smith shares the story of competing forms of “memory work” at the site of Nanrantsouak in her hometown. Engaging deeply with Indigenous methods and place-based ethnography, her talk considers the ongoing relationship Wabanaki peoples have with this place and the production and repetition of settler narratives that deny this relationship in order to unpack the potential dangers of “inclusion” in local public history projects such as this one.

Ashley Smith is a CHI Fellow and visiting lecturer in the Department of American Studies at Amherst College. She is assistant professor of Native American studies and environmental justice at Hampshire College. Smith will discuss her current work, which focuses on the place, history and memory of the Wabanaki village at Nanrantsouak on the upper Kennebec River in Maine. In this work, she considers how Wabanaki story, memory,and kinship to this place resist settler colonial productions of history and memory that have narrated this place as the “end” of the Wabanaki in this area while simultaneously enacting new possibilities for the future.

This event will take place over Zoom. It is open to the public. Pre-registration is required.

What do you think of when you imagine networking? Networking is a catch-all term for making and sustaining connections over time. How can you imagine making connections in an authentic way that contributes to your career exploration and growth?

In this virtual workshop, learn about cultivating personal relationships, re-activating past connections, engaging in your field through news and social media communities, and more. At the end of this workshop, you will identify five different ways you can begin networking that align with you and your interests.

Note: This workshop will fulfill the Internship Preparation Workshop requirement for the Charles Hamilton Houston Internship Program. Learn more about the Program here: https://www.amherst.edu/mm/575805

More than 200 years of Amherst College history is held in the Archives & Special Collections inside Frost Library. In preparation for the Bicentennial, the team in Frost has made a wealth of materials available online for everyone to explore. Meet Martin Garnar, the newly-arrived Library Director, and hear Mike Kelly give a brief overview of college history, including an introduction to Amherst College Digital Collections. We will leave ample time for your questions about college history and library services during the pandemic.