Events & CalendarsCalendar of Events

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is a Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) array composed of radio telescopes operati...

Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint is the author of the lyric novel The End of Peril, the End of Enmity, the End of Strife, A Haven<...>

Karin Meyers, visiting assistant professor at Smith College, will examine how and why Western Buddhists are participating ...

You are kindly invited to this talk by renowned Colombian anthropologist Arturo Escobar on ontological design. Escobar is ...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will join Amherst College President Biddy Martin for an onstage conversatio...

Free and open to the public. Lunch provided.

The music department is excited to kick off Research in Music, a new s...

Seminar Title: “Chaperoning Protein Misfolding Diseases: Design of Small Heat Shock Protein Mimics”

Panel 1: 10 a.m.-Noon, Internationalism
Chair and respondent: Boris Wolfson (Amherst College)
Panelists:
...

The CDSL is hosting an artist talk with an undocumented artist/activist, Yehimi Cambron. Through both her art and storytel...

Quantum technologies could enable transformative advances in applications such as computing, cryptography and sensing, whi...

Mae Ngai will deliver the 2019-2020 Hugh Hawkins Lecture, "'Mother of Exiles': Refugees in American History and Myth." Nga...

Brett Story is a nonfiction filmmaker and geographer whose work focuses on capitalism, ideology and the production of spac...

Student Presenters: Ezra Alexander ’21, Kashmeera Baboolall ’21 and Anna Makar-Limanov ’21

In 1929, the Victor Talking Machine Co. of Japan released a record featuring “Tokyo March,” which ultimately became on...

With Kristina Kleutghen, Washington University in St. Louis

When European optical devices were first introduced int...

Robert Tsai, Professor of Law at American University Washington College of Law, will present a paper titled “Processes o...

Daniel C. Dennett, co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy at Tufts...

A filmmaker turns detective to uncover the forgotten story of Li Ling-Ai, the uncredited female producer of KUKAN, ...

Paul Lewis works with Amherst student pianists. This event is free and open to the public.

Lewis is internationall...

Ultrafast lasers produce pulses of light at extremely regular intervals (about 13 nanoseconds apart) that are less than a ...

Filmed in 1986/87 in still-divided Berlin, Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire is both a utopian fairy tale and a fascin...

Professor Angana P. Chatterji is founding co-chair of the Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative, and...

David Freund is a preceptor in the Department of Mathematics at Harvard University.

Abstract: Knots are a part of ...

Current Wade Fellow, Dr. Nadia Biassou ’88, will be presenting a talk titled “Boiling Rocks: Origins of Excellence.”...

Nicholas Mancusi '10 is the author of the new novel A Philosophy of Ruin, which the New York Times Book Review

Abstract: Software runs many things in our lives and our society. It’s important that software running vital systems wor...

Omar Quintero, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Richmond, will deliver a semin...

A poetic, experimental rumination on Audre Lorde’s memoir The Cancer Journals read aloud and responded to by a ch...

Measurements of the Hall coefficient, resistivity, magnetoresistance, magnetic response and thermopower in two-dimensional...

All welcome for a discussion about “Queer Rights and the Courts: The Meaning of Sex, Sexual Orientation, and Transgender...

Join the RCT for our inaugural Faculty Lecture Series in the Resource Centers. Throughout the fall semester we will host f...

Oliver Stuenkel will give a talk titled “Right-Wing Populism in Brazil Today.” He is an associate professor of interna...