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"Asking Questions: Trusting What You're Told"
Fri, Nov 2, 2018
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Fayerweather Hall, Pruyne Lecture Hall (Room 115)
Paul Harris of the Harvard Graduate School of Education is interested in the early development of cognition, emotion and i...
M@A Masterclass: Gabriela Montero, piano
Sat, Nov 3, 2018
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
M@A Masterclass: Gabriela Montero, piano. This event is free and open to the public.
Pianist Gabriela Montero’s v...
Biology Monday Seminar: "Environmental Change Shapes Host Defenses Against Parasites"
Mon, Nov 5, 2018
4:00 pm
Science Center, A011
Dr. Sarah Knutie is an assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Connecticut. The overa...
Computer Science Colloquium: Matteo Riondato, "Data Mining: Tasks, Systems, Challenges and Research Directions"
Mon, Nov 5, 2018
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Science Center, A131
Matteo Riondato, who will be joining the Amherst computer science faculty in January, will be giving the next colloquium t...
"Who Is the Dragon Princess?"
Tue, Nov 6, 2018
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Fayerweather Hall, 113
With Professor Ryūichi Abe, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions, Department of East Asian Langu...
Amartya Sen: "Globalism and Its Discontents: Point/Counterpoint with Ilan Stavans"
Tue, Nov 6, 2018
7:00 pm
Stirn Auditorium, Mead Art Museum
Join us as Professor Stavans speaks with Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen.
The "Globalism and Its Disconte...
"Philology, Translation and Mimicry: Vladimir Nabokov’s 'The Song of Igor’s Campaign'": Talk by Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya (Florida State University)
Wed, Nov 7, 2018
5:00 pm
Center for Russian Culture, 202 Webster Hall
Drawing on manuscript collations and findings in the Roman Jakobson Papers at MIT, the Vladimir Nabokov Papers at the Libr...
Influence in Politics, the Arts and Public Education with John Abodeely ’01
Wed, Nov 7, 2018
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Are you interested in the arts as an engine for social change, in advancing equity in public education, or in D.C. politic...
"Putting Pen to Palm Leaf: Buddhism and Contemporary Literature"
Wed, Nov 7, 2018
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Frost Library, Center for Humanistic Inquiry
This year, Five College Buddhist Studies is welcoming a series of visitors focused on Buddhism and contemporary literature...
Poetry Reading: Cameron Awkward-Rich
Wed, Nov 7, 2018
8:00 pm
Amherst Books, O'Connor Common
A poet and critic, Cameron Awkward-Rich is the author of the forthcoming Dispatch and the collection Sympathetic...
Careers in Environmental Studies: A Panel with Recent ENST Alumni
Thu, Nov 8, 2018
1:00 pm - 2:20 pm
Fayerweather Hall, Pruyne Lecture Hall
Sponsored by the Department of Environmental Studies and the Loeb Center for Career Exploration and Planning.
Zack...
Helene Keyssar Distinguished Lecture: "Scaling Down" with Marc Siegel
Thu, Nov 8, 2018
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Frost Library, 210
Marc Siegel is professor of film studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. His research and publications focu...
Celebrate Lipton Lecture Hall with a Talk by Professor Catherine Sanderson
Fri, Nov 9, 2018
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Science Center, Lipton Lecture Hall (E110)
Join us to dedicate and celebrate Lipton Lecture Hall in the new Science Center, named for Richard M. Lipton ’74, P’12...
Screening of JFK: The Last Speech - The Story of President Kennedy’s 1963 Speech at Amherst College
Sat, Nov 10, 2018
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
In an era of political tension when the value of a liberal arts education is questioned, a message from 1963 has particula...
Biology Monday Seminar: "Long-Distance Shoot-to-Root Signaling of Iron Deficiency in Plants"
Mon, Nov 12, 2018
4:00 pm
Science Center, A011
Join Elsbeth Walker, Ph.D and professor of biology at University of Massachusetts Amherst, for a discussion on "Long-Dista...
Assistant Professor Daniel McCarron, University Of Connecticut: "Taming Molecules with Light"
Tue, Nov 13, 2018
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Science Center, A011
Laser cooling and trapping have revolutionized atomic physics, enabling a wide range of advances in science and technology...
"Colombia: Peace Agreements and the Future of Democracy"
Wed, Nov 14, 2018
4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
Beneski Earth Sciences Building, Paino Lecture Hall
Mónica Pachón will discuss the complicated peace process currently going on in Colombia and how that will affect the fut...
"The Edge of the Petri Dish: Wizards and Prophets," by Charles C. Mann '76
Thu, Nov 15, 2018
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Science Center, Kirkpatrick Lecture Hall (SCCE A011)
Charles C. Mann ’76, a local author, will give a talk on his most recent book, The Wizard and the Prophet.
Biology Monday Seminar: "Near Infrared Red Light Exposure Is Associated with Elevations in Nitric Oxide and cGMP"
Mon, Nov 26, 2018
4:00 pm
Science Center, A011
Join Tiffany Oliver, Ph.D, associate professor of biology at Spelman College for a discussion titled "Near Infrared Red Li...
"The Global Rise of Nativism and Illiberalism: A Conversation on the Contemporary Political Pathology"
Tue, Nov 27, 2018
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Frost Library, 210
In the contemporary political pathology, two phenomena appear currently intertwined: exclusionary nativist beliefs and ele...
"Courtesans and Curtains: Photographs of the Countess de Castiglione (1837-1899)"
Wed, Nov 28, 2018
4:00 pm
Fayerweather Hall, 113
The Amherst College Department of French is pleased to present a talk by special guest lecturer Heidi Brevik-Zender titled...
Student Voices from the Frontlines of Climate Change: In Support of CAP
Wed, Nov 28, 2018
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Frost Library, Friendly Reading Room
Join students from across campus as we share our stories about how climate change is affecting our communities right now, ...
2018-19 Annual Vogel Lecture: "Can Competitive Authoritarianism Happen Here? Lessons from Latin America"
Thu, Nov 29, 2018
4:00 pm - 5:45 pm
Beneski Earth Sciences Building, Paino Lecture Hall
The Annual Vogel Lecture on Latin American Politics and Economics will discuss "Can Competitive Authoritarianism Happen He...
Works in Progress Series: Amanda Henrichs Presents "Deforming Shakespeare's Sonnets: Topic Models as Poems"
Thu, Nov 29, 2018
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Johnson Chapel, 202
Join us for the first English department Works in Progress series event of the semester, with Professor Amanda Henrichs, t...
Fiction Reading: Amy Bloom
Thu, Nov 29, 2018
8:00 pm
Fayerweather Hall, 115
Amy Bloom has been called “a national treasure” by Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Cunningham and “one of America’s ...
"Citizens of the Market: How High-Mobility Migration Changes Politics in the Migrants Countries of Origin" presented by Ruxandra Paul
Fri, Nov 30, 2018
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Lewis-Sebring Commons, Valentine Hall, Mullins and Faerber Rooms
The Faculty Colloquium Series for 2018-19 presents a lecture entitled "Citizens of the Market: How High-Mobility Migration...
Martha Nussbaum: "Globalism and Its Discontents: Point/Counterpoint with Ilan Stavans"
Fri, Nov 30, 2018
7:00 pm
Stirn Auditorium, Mead Art Museum
Join us as Professor Ilan Stavans speaks with celebrated philosopher Martha Nussbaum.
The "Globalism and Its Discon...