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Food for Thought: Addressing Difficult Conversations: Moving Beyond a “Bag of Tricks” to Build an Inclusive, Collaborative Classroom that Supports Students’ Intellectual Growth
Wed, Oct 3, 2018
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Frost Library, CHI Seminar Room
Conversation during the dean’s retreat surfaced tensions around implementing strategies for building an inclusive classr...
Sam Abrams: "Milton Friedman and the Evolution of School Choice"
Wed, Oct 3, 2018
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Beneski Earth Sciences Building, Paino Lecture Hall
The Amherst College Education Studies Initiative welcomes Sam Abrams, director of the National Center for the Study of Pri...
Aatish Taseer ’03: "We Shall Be a Country with No History"
Wed, Oct 10, 2018
8:00 pm
Converse Hall, Cole Assembly Room
Join us for an evening with Aatish Taseer ’03, author and contributing opinion writer for The International New York ...
"Motive and Wrongdoing": 13th Annual Amherst Lecture in Philosophy with Barbara Herman
Thu, Oct 11, 2018
5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Fayerweather Hall, Pruyne Lecture Hall (Fayerweather 115)
Barbara Herman, the Griffin Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles, Dep...
Amherst Books Celebrates the Launch of Professor Geoffrey Sanborn's Book, "The Value of Herman Melville"
Thu, Oct 11, 2018
5:00 pm
Join Geoff Sanborn, Amherst's Henry S. Poler '59 Presidential Teaching Professor of English, in celebrating the publicatio...
Food for Thought with Alain Silk, Diabetes Diagnostic Devices Branch of the U.S. Food & Drug Administration
Mon, Oct 15, 2018
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Science Center, Café
"What a science career looks like when med school doesn’t work out" From research to teaching to federal regulatory work...
Registration Required
An Evening with Michael Lewis
Mon, Oct 15, 2018
8:00 pm
Join us for an evening with journalist and best-selling author Michael Lewis, whose forthcoming book The Fifth Risk...
"Everyday Humanitarianism & New Technologies: Civil Society Responses to the Refugee Crisis in Greece"
Tue, Oct 16, 2018
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Converse Hall, 207
Nicholas R. Micinski will give a talk titled "Everyday Humanitarianism & New Technologies: Civil Society Responses to ...
"Women Fleeing Gender-Based Violence: Human Rights Abuses in the Northern Triangle of Central America"
Tue, Oct 16, 2018
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Beneski Earth Sciences Building, Paino Lecture Hall
Dr. Kim Baranowski, associate director of the Mount Sinai Human Rights Clinic, will give context to the immigration crisis...
Fiction Reading: Jordy Rosenberg
Tue, Oct 16, 2018
8:00 pm
Amherst Books, O'Connor Common
Jordy Rosenberg is the author of Confessions of the Fox, which The New York Times named an Editor's Choice s...
"Staging Blackqueer Lives in Anti-Black Queer Times: Visual Possibilities, Poetics and Resistance in/through Collage"
Wed, Oct 17, 2018
5:30 pm
Beneski Earth Sciences Building, Paino Lecture Hall
In “Staging Blackqueer Lives in Anti-Black Queer Times: Visual Possibilities, Poetics and Resistance in/through Collage,...
"Imperial Cities as Capitals of Buddhist Empires"
Thu, Oct 18, 2018
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Fayerweather Hall, 113
Dorothy Wong will introduce and discuss her new book Buddhist Pilgrim-Monks as Agents of Cultural and Artistic Transmis...
Tanya Luhrmann: "How Local Theory of Mind Shapes Spiritual Experience"
Thu, Oct 18, 2018
5:15 pm - 6:30 pm
Fayerweather Hall, Pruyne Lecture Hall
Tanya Marie Luhrmann is the 2018 Willis Wood Lecturer for the Amherst College Department of Religion. She is the Watkins U...
"Hatred in Democracy" Symposium
Fri, Oct 19, 2018
3:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Frost Library, Center for Humanistic Inquiry
On Friday, Oct. 19, at 3 p.m. in the Center for Humanistic Inquiry at the Frost Library, Amherst College, the Practicing D...
Joseph Stiglitz '64: "Globalism and Its Discontents: Point/Counterpoint with Ilan Stavans"
Fri, Oct 19, 2018
4:30 pm
Science Center, E110 Lecture Hall
Join us as Professor Stavans speaks with Nobel Laureate in Economics and Amherst College alumnus Joseph Stiglitz '64.
...The Second Annual Festival of American Poetry at Amherst College
Fri, Oct 19, 2018
6:30 pm - 11:00 pm
Fayerweather Hall, Pruyne Lecture Hall, Fayerweather 115
The festival is organized by Pioneer Valley Poetry Productions and is co-sponsored by the Amherst College Department of En...
The Second Annual Festival of American Poetry at Amherst College
Sat, Oct 20, 2018
6:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Fayerweather Hall, Pruyne Lecture Hall, Fayerweather 115
The festival is organized by Pioneer Valley Poetry Productions and is co-sponsored by the Amherst College Department of En...
"Big Data, Birds, and Citizen Science: Understanding the Impacts of Global Change"
Mon, Oct 22, 2018
4:00 pm
Science Center, A011
Allen Hurlbert '94, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Biology
University of North Carolina
In...
"Vote Suppression, Gerrymandering and the Supreme Court": Talk by Paul Smith '76
Mon, Oct 22, 2018
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Fayerweather Hall, Pruyne Lecture Hall
The Amherst Political Union welcomes Paul Smith ’76, P’09 for a talk on "Vote Suppression, Gerrymandering and the Supr...
Matthew Rattigan, Center for Data Science, UMass: "Data Science for Political Campaigns"
Tue, Oct 23, 2018
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Abstract: In recent years, presidential campaigns have become increasingly quantitative in nature. Once dominated by a sm...
Christina Frederick on "Aliasing in Sampling Theory and Applications"
Wed, Oct 24, 2018
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Abstract: The area of inverse problems can be thought of as the Jeopardy! of mathematical research. Instead of tryi...
LJST Seminar Series Presents "The New Conspiracism and Immunity to the Law"
Thu, Oct 25, 2018
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Clark House, Room 100
On Thursday, Oct. 25, at 4:30 p.m. in Clark House Room 100 at Amherst College, Nancy Rosenblum, professor of ethics in pol...
Wade Symposium: Careers Inside Out — Non-Traditional Positions in Long Established Industries
Thu, Oct 25, 2018
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Stirn Auditorium, Mead Art Museum
Expand your understanding of career options after graduation. Join us in a discussion with five unique alumni, moderated b...
"Listening to our Microbial Partners: Lessons from Bacterial Pathogens and Beneficial Symbionts" presented by Alexandra Purdy
Fri, Oct 26, 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 "Listening to our Microbial Partners: Lessons from B...
Family Weekend Speaker in Economics: Joe Quinn '69: "The Challenges and Opportunities of Living and Working Longer"
Fri, Oct 26, 2018
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Converse Hall, Cole Assembly Room
The Department of Economics welcomes Joseph F. Quinn '69, professor at Boston College and trustee of Amherst College, for ...
Biology Monday Seminar: "Notch and T Lymphocyte Function: A Complex Tale"
Mon, Oct 29, 2018
4:00 pm
Science Center, A011
Barbara A. Osborne, Ph.D.
Professor, Veterinary and Animal Sciences
Co-director, Center for Bioactive Delivery...
"More than Fair: How Excessive Sympathy ('Himpathy') for Privileged Men Masks and Causes Misogyny" with Kate Manne
Mon, Oct 29, 2018
4:30 pm
Frost Library, 210
Kate Manne is assistant professor at the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University. She works in the areas of moral ...
Fiction Reading: Debra Magpie Earling
Mon, Oct 29, 2018
8:00 pm
Amherst Books, O'Connor Common
Library Journal called Debra Magpie Earling’s Perma Red “a beautiful first novel,” and Louise Erdrich ...