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LitFest: How to Get a Job in Publishing
Fri, Mar 1, 2019
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Frost Library, CHI Seminar Room
The world of publishing offers storytellers and literature lovers career paths that can meander from editing, to productio...
LitFest: Crafting a Career in Journalism
Fri, Mar 1, 2019
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Frost Library, CHI Seminar Room
Stellar writing skills, a love of storytelling, and a desire to impact our communities and culture. These connective threa...
Cheminar: 32nd Pryde Lecturer Dr. Gerard Hilinski '04 on "Drug Discovery in Academia"
Fri, Mar 1, 2019
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Science Center, A011
Hilinski is director of biochemistry at the Drug Development Institute of The Ohio State Comprehensive Cancer Center.
...Biology Monday Seminar: "Bacterial Spores: Still Surprises After All These Years"
Mon, Mar 4, 2019
4:00 pm
Science Center, A011
Peter Setlow
Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Molecular Biology and Biophysics
UConn Health, Farmi...
"We Want You Here and Alive: Puerto Rican Feminists Confront the Carceral State"
Mon, Mar 4, 2019
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Frost Library, CHI, Think Tank
Marisol LeBrón is an assistant professor in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at the University of ...
"The Political Language and Discourse in Japan"
Mon, Mar 4, 2019
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Fayerweather Hall, 217
Professor Takashi Ito, professor of faculty of sociology from Doshisha University, has come to Amherst to speak about the ...
Anne Jaskot, UMass: "How to Reionize the Universe: Clues from the Green Pea Galaxies"
Tue, Mar 5, 2019
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Science Center, A011
In the first billion years after the Big Bang, the universe's hydrogen gas became ionized, an event known as reionization....
"Getting Along with Geese and Horses: Val Vinokur Talks About Translating Isaac Babel and Vladimir Mayakovsky"
Tue, Mar 5, 2019
5:00 pm
Center for Russian Culture, 202 Webster Hall
A seminar with Val Vinokur '94 of Eugene Lang College and The New School
In 2017, Val Vinokur published The Esse...
"Women in the Spanish-Speaking World"
Tue, Mar 5, 2019
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Fayerweather Hall, Pruyne
In celebration of National Women’s History Month, Dr. Bárbara Mujica (Georgetown University) and Dr. Rolón-Barada (ind...
Wall Street Journal Wednesdays
Wed, Mar 6, 2019
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Valentine Dining Hall, Terrace Room B
Please join Stephanie Hockman, Loeb Center program director for careers in business and finance, for a weekly informal dis...
Education Studies Initiative Speaker Series Presents Natasha Warikoo: "The Diversity Bargain: And Other Dilemmas of Race, Admissions and Meritocracy at Elite Universities"
Wed, Mar 6, 2019
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Beneski Museum of Natural History, Paino Lecture Hall
We’ve heard plenty from politicians and experts on affirmative action and higher education, about how universities shoul...
"Economies of Recognition: Portrait Photography Competitions in Turkish Journals of the 1920s"
Wed, Mar 6, 2019
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Fayerweather Hall, 113
Dr. Yasemin Gencer, a scholar of Islamic art, will be visiting Amherst College to give a talk on "Portrait Photography Com...
"Media and Content Industry in Today's Japan"
Wed, Mar 6, 2019
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Fayerweather Hall, 217
Professor Takashi Ito, professor of faculty of sociology from Doshisha University, has come to Amherst to speak about the ...
"Beaverland: Travels Among Rodents of Unusual Size with Ben Goldfarb '09"
Wed, Mar 6, 2019
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Science Center, Kirkpatrick Lecture Hall (SCCE A011)
Award-winning environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb '09 will discuss his book Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Bea...
"Brecht and Naturalism"
Wed, Mar 6, 2019
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Webster Hall, 220
Join the Department of Theater and Dance for a special talk by Professor Martin Revermann (University of Toronto). Brecht...
Latinx Colleague Resource Group (CRG) First Meeting
Fri, Mar 8, 2019
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Valentine Dining Hall, Terrace Room A
We invite staff and faculty to join the Latinx Colleague Resource Group for a meet & greet with our college’s Latinx...
Biology Monday Seminar: "Dynamic Cytoskeletal Reorganization in the C. Elegans Reproductive System"
Mon, Mar 18, 2019
4:00 pm
Science Center, A011
Erin Cram, associate professor in biology at Northeastern University, will present "Dynamic Cytoskeletal Reorganization in...
2018-2019 LJST Seminar Series: LAW and ILLIBERALISM with Sharon Krause
Mon, Mar 18, 2019
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Clark House, Room 100
Sharon Krause, Professor of Political Science at Brown University, will present a paper entitled “The Anti-liberalism of...
"Torrid Zones: Sexual Politics in Jamaican Dancehall Culture"
Mon, Mar 18, 2019
5:00 pm
Fayerweather Hall, Pruyne Lecture Hall
Carolyn Cooper, professor emerita from the University of the West Indies in Mona, Jamaica, will give a talk on "Torrid Zon...
Keyssar Lecture: "My Completely Impossible and Yet Partially Successful Effort to Stop Time: Jenni Olson on Landscape Filmmaking"
Tue, Mar 19, 2019
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Keefe Campus Center, 008
A major voice in the use of film as personal essay, queer documentarian Jenni Olson has been making 16mm durational urban ...
"Biomechanics of Underwater Walking: Sea Stars, Crabs, Octopi": Talk by Olaf Ellers, Bowdoin College
Tue, Mar 19, 2019
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Science Center, A011
The biomechanics of terrestrial legged locomotion has been extensively studied, but underwater legged locomotion is virtua...
Education Studies Initiative Presents Roberto G. Gonzales: "Lives Still in Limbo: UnDACAmented and Navigating Uncertain Futures"
Tue, Mar 19, 2019
4:30 pm
Beneski Museum of Natural History, Paino Lecture Hall
Roberto G. Gonzales, Ph.D.
Harvard University
Graduate School of Education
Due to the political gridloc...
Wall Street Journal Wednesdays
Wed, Mar 20, 2019
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Valentine Dining Hall, Terrace Room B
Please join Stephanie Hockman, Loeb Center program director for careers in business and finance, for a weekly informal dis...
CHI Salon: “My Way: Crossing the U.S., from Venice to Babylon” with Laure Murat
Wed, Mar 20, 2019
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Frost Library, Center for Humanistic Inquiry
The Department of French and the Center for Humanistic Inquiry invite you to join us for the second lecture in a series in...
17th Annual Five College PoetryFest
Wed, Mar 20, 2019
7:30 pm
Frost Library, Center for Humanistic Inquiry
The 17th annual reading in celebration of poetry at Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke and Smith Colleges and the Universit...
"Decolonizing Indigenous Masculinities: Perspectives from Hawai‘i" with Ty P. Kāwika Tengan
Wed, Mar 20, 2019
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Ty P. Kāwika Tengan (Kanaka ‘Ōiwi) is an associate professor of ethnic studies and anthropology at the University of H...
Psychology Club Meeting
Wed, Mar 20, 2019
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Science Center, D303
Join the Psychology Club for our weekly meeting. All majors and class years are welcome and snacks will be provided.
Opening Lecture and Reception with Artist-in-Residence Macon Reed
Thu, Mar 21, 2019
4:30 pm
Fayerweather Hall, 115 - Pruyne Lecture Hall
Join Macon Reed for a lecture and the opening of her exhibition Against Doom, on view in the Eli Marsh Gallery thro...
"Courts at War: Federal Judges, National Security and the Rule of Law"
Thu, Mar 21, 2019
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Science Center, Kirkpatrick Lecture Hall - Room A011)
Exploring both contemporary debates and the 1944 Korematsu ruling endorsing the Japanese-American internment camps, Steve ...
"Protest Songs in Putin's Russia": Talk by Artemy Troitsky
Thu, Mar 21, 2019
5:30 pm
Center for Russian Culture, 202 Webster Hall
After a decade of relative economic prosperity and political laziness, the 2010s became the decade of growing conflict bet...
"The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges are Failing Poor Students" with Anthony Jack '07
Thu, Mar 21, 2019
8:00 pm - 9:15 pm
Science Center, Lipton Lecture Hall
Join us for a talk, followed by a Q&A, with Anthony Jack '07 on his recently released book The Privileged Poor: How...
"A Brief Introduction to the Number Theory" presented by Harris Daniels
Fri, Mar 22, 2019
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 "A Brief Introduction to the Number Theory" presente...
5C Film and Media Studies Undergraduate Conference
Sat, Mar 23, 2019
12:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Frost Library, 210
The 5C Film and Media Studies Undergraduate Conference is designed to build community among students studying film and med...
Folger Fellows Presentations
Mon, Mar 25, 2019
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Frost Library, 210
Faculty and staff are invited to join us in the CHI Think Tank to learn about the fascinating research our talented Folger...
Biology Monday Seminar: "Stress! Plants Have It Too"
Mon, Mar 25, 2019
4:00 pm
Science Center, A011
Susan Bush, Ph.D. and assistant professor in biology at Trinity College, will present "Stress! Plants Have It Too." This t...
"Constructions of Europe/Europeans"
Mon, Mar 25, 2019
4:00 pm
Fayerweather Hall, Pruyne Lecture Hall (Room 115)
This panel discussion on "The Future of European Studies" will reflect on what it means to study Europe in the era of the ...
"'Strange Radio' as Method" with Dr. Karen Werner
Mon, Mar 25, 2019
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Frost Library, Center for Humanistic Inquiry
Strange Radio explores the transmission of Holocaust postmemory in Vienna through a series of radio fragments made ...
"Engineering Applications of Light-Matter Interactions": Talk by Tina Shih
Tue, Mar 26, 2019
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Science Center, A011
Tina Shih, of the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, will discuss "Engineering Applications of Light-Matter Interactions."
Ab...
“'When Shall We Meet Again?': Remembering a Trip to Japan in an Album"
Tue, Mar 26, 2019
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Fayerweather Hall, 117
Naoko Adachi, Ph.D. candidate in the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania, will discuss “'When Shall We Meet...
"Cultivating Healthy Communities: Addressing the Mental Health and Well-Being of a Diverse Student Body"
Tue, Mar 26, 2019
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Science Center, Lipton Lecture Hall
Alfiee Breland-Noble provides a unique perspective on examining the mental health needs of diverse students using over 20 ...
Literary Reading: Alexander Chee
Tue, Mar 26, 2019
8:00 pm
Amherst Books, 115
Named a Best Book of 2018 by New York Magazine, The Washington Post, NPR, and Time Magazine, among ot...
Clare Malone at Amherst
Tue, Mar 26, 2019
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Stirn Auditorium, Mead Art Museum
FiveThirtyEight Senior Political Reporter Clare Malone is coming to Amherst. She has written for The New York Times...
Wall Street Journal Wednesdays
Wed, Mar 27, 2019
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Valentine Dining Hall, Terrace Room B
Please join Stephanie Hockman, Loeb Center program director for careers in business and finance, for a weekly informal dis...
Theory of Mind and the Brain Hosted by Psychology Journal Club
Wed, Mar 27, 2019
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Science Center, D303
How does the brain understand other people's thoughts? Join us for Antonio's pizza as we watch a Ted Talk and discuss an a...
CHI Salon: "The Hero's Mass" with Constantine Nakassis
Wed, Mar 27, 2019
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Frost Library, 210
Constantine V. Nakassis, assistant professor of anthropology and associate faculty of cinema and media studies at the Univ...
Cha Time: A Conversation with Asian American Studies Faculty and Staff
Wed, Mar 27, 2019
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Beneski Museum of Natural History, Paino Lecture Hall
The Amherst Asian American Studies Working Group invites you to Cha Time, an informal panel with Amherst’s incredible As...
Embracing Entrepreneurship Speaker Series: Being a College Student and a Successful Entrepreneur
Wed, Mar 27, 2019
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Science Center, Lipton Lecture Hall
E2 – Embracing Entrepreneurship Speaker Series
Innovation exists in every aspect of our lives whether working for ...
Five College Faculty Seminar in Digital Humanities: Dr. Amanda Henrichs on "Computational Approaches to Shakespeare's Sonnets"
Thu, Mar 28, 2019
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Frost Library, Periodical Reading Room
The Five College Faculty Seminar in Digital Humanities and the Amherst College Library welcome Amanda Henrichs for a talk ...
"Fake Publics" with Michael Warner
Thu, Mar 28, 2019
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Frost Library, 210
In this talk, Michael Warner will take a long view of media infrastructures as grounds from which to project publics, to a...
First Lecture in the Forry and Micken Lecture Series on "Philosophy of Time"
Thu, Mar 28, 2019
5:00 pm - 6:45 pm
Fayerweather Hall, Pruyne Lecture Hall
Nina Emery from Mount Holyoke College will present the first lecture in the 2018-2019 Forry and Micken Lecture Series on "...
Mocktails and Machimos
Thu, Mar 28, 2019
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Queer Resource Center, Keefe Campus Center, Keefe 213
Join the QRC, La Causa and Professor Sony Coranez Bolton for a conversation on toxic masculinity in the LatinX community. ...
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"Protest, Prison and Purim: A Rabbi Remembers 1965 in Selma, Alabama"
Thu, Mar 28, 2019
7:00 pm - 8:45 pm
Stirn Auditorium, Mead Art Museum
Rabbi Saul Berman, a leading Orthodox thinker and teacher, was part of a group of clergy who responded to a plea from Sout...
Spanish Table
Fri, Mar 29, 2019
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Valentine Dining Hall, Mezzanine
Spanish Table meets on Fridays from 12-2:00 p.m. on the Mezzanine in Valentine Dining Hall. Faculty, college staff and st...
Chemistry Seminar with Professor Kendra Frederick: "In-Cell Structural Biology of Proteins Behaving Badly"
Fri, Mar 29, 2019
3:15 pm - 4:30 pm
Science Center, A011
Professor Kendra Frederick of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School Biophysics Department, an NIH New Innova...