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What We Think: Resilience in a Pandemic
Thu, Sep 3, 2020
4:00 pm - 4:45 pm
Professor Catherine Sanderson presents the first lecture in the six-part Psychology Department Lecture Series. "Resilienc...
Students Only
Here and Now: A Welcome Event with Theater & Dance
Thu, Sep 3, 2020
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
The Department of Theater and Dance welcomes all students (and especially new students!) to join us for sharing and conver...
Genomic Consequences of Non-Lethal Doses of Cadmium
Fri, Sep 4, 2020
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Via Zoom Link.
Cheminar: Professor Shanen Sherrer, St. Mary's College of Maryland, Department of Chemistry
M@A: A Virtual Season Presents the Calidore String Quartet
Tue, Sep 8, 2020
8:00 pm
Please join online for the third in the series of free virtual M@A performances:
Recipient of a 2018 Avery Fisher C...
Stories in STEM with the Honorable Bella Dinh-Zarr
Wed, Sep 9, 2020
12:40 pm - 1:30 pm
Bio191 is launching a "Stories in STEM" series where speakers share their paths in STEM. Our first speaker, the Honorable ...
CHI Salon: Constellations of Modernism: Writing New Art Histories
Wed, Sep 9, 2020
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Zoom
This CHI salon brings together art historians who teach or who have previously taught at the Five Colleges whose recently ...
AC Reads Plays Together
Thu, Sep 10, 2020
7:00 pm
The Department of Theater and Dance invites any interested students to meet several times this semester to read plays alou...
Cheminar - SURF Video Presentations
Fri, Sep 11, 2020
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Via Zoom Link.
Beneski Guided Visit (ON SITE)
Fri, Sep 11, 2020
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm
Beneski Museum of Natural History
“A Mammoth History”: Participants will explore the migration of mammoths into North America, a little about life in t...
Students Only
The 2020 Tell It Slant Poetry Festival: Remote Event
Mon, Sep 14, 2020
9:30 am on Sep 14, to 5:00 pm on Sep 20
Virtual
The Tell It Slant Poetry Festival (formerly the Amherst Poetry Festival) is a free event that celebrates the poetic legacy...
Registration Required
Shayla Lawson Reading and Q&A
Tue, Sep 15, 2020
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Virtual
Join poet Shayla Lawson as she reads from her new essay collection This is Major: Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and ...
Registration Required
CHI Salon: Affects for Abolition: Feeling the Ends of the Prison, a Book Talk with CHI Fellow Stephen Dillon
Wed, Sep 16, 2020
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Zoom
Stephen Dillon is a CHI Fellow at Amherst College and associate professor of critical race and queer studies at Hampshire ...
Registration Required
Black Lives and Black Poetics Matter: A Reading and Discussion Curated by Faraday Publishing
Thu, Sep 17, 2020
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Virtual
Join us for an evening of vibrant poetry and dialogue on the vitality and importance of Black Lives and Black Poetics in c...
Registration Required
What We Think: Amherst College Psychology Department Lecture Series
Thu, Sep 17, 2020
7:30 pm - 8:15 pm
Join the Psychology Department for the fall lecture series, What We Think. This Thursday, September 17, at 7 PM, Professo...
Students Only
OFTW: from founding to $1,000,000 donated
Fri, Sep 18, 2020
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Virtual
Join Amherst EA and OFTW's co-founder Josh McCann to hear about OFTW's journey from being founded at Wharton to donating i...
Registration Required
Cheminar: Student Thesis Talks
Fri, Sep 18, 2020
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Via Zoom Link
Thesis Student Presenters:
Yusrah Kaudeer, Nejc Nagelj, Alyson Plaman and Clara Seo
Presentation Titles:
Poetry Open Mic & Franny Cho
Fri, Sep 18, 2020
7:00 pm - 8:45 pm
Virtual
If you’d like to hear a wide variety of poets bravely sharing their work, be sure to tune in to our Festival open mic ni...
Registration Required
Music on the Val Balcony
Fri, Sep 18, 2020
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Come join us in listening to our own Amherst students performing from the Valentine Balcony. Some chairs will be provided,...
Poetry Masterclass with Jericho Brown
Sat, Sep 19, 2020
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Virtual
Hone your craft with Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Jericho Brown. In the “Jumpstart Your Engines” Poetry Workshop, Jer...
Registration Required
Festival Headliners Ada Limón and Jericho Brown with Music by Kimaya Diggs
Sat, Sep 19, 2020
7:00 pm - 8:45 pm
Virtual
Settle in for an evening of music and poetry celebrating Emily Dickinson’s ongoing creative legacy with the work of thre...
Registration Required
Professor of Physics Janice Hudgings, Pomona College: "Building Equity: Creating Inclusive STEM Classrooms and Departments"
Tue, Sep 22, 2020
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
zoom
Despite decades of effort to create a more welcoming environment, women and people of color remain dramatically underrepre...
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote and Insisted on Equality for All
Tue, Sep 22, 2020
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Virtual
Martha S. Jones is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University...
CHI Salon: Exploring Afro-Asian Solidarities in the Aftermath of George Floyd
Wed, Sep 23, 2020
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Virtual
In conversation, Karin Aguilar-San Juan and Lili Kim will explore the contexts for Afro-Asian solidarities with reference...
Registration Required
Faculty Colloquim Series: "Advancing Science by (Not) Testing Billions of Hypotheses, Fast and Well," Presented by Matteo Riondato
Fri, Sep 25, 2020
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
To Be Held Via Zoom, Zoom Link: https://amherstcollege.zoom.
The Faculty Colloquium Series for 2020-21 presents a lecture entitled "Advancing Science by (Not) Testing Billions of Hypo...
Cheminar: Student Thesis Presentations
Fri, Sep 25, 2020
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Via Zoom Link
Student Thesis Presenters: Jordan Aucoin '21, Katherine Boback '21, Nina Fitzgerald '21 and Shantam Jha '21
This is...
Music on the Val Balcony
Fri, Sep 25, 2020
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Come join us in listening to our own Amherst students performing from the Valentine Balcony. Some chairs will be provided,...
M@A: A Virtual Season Presents Regina Carter and Friends
Fri, Sep 25, 2020
8:00 pm
Regina Carter and Friends open the Music@Amherst 2020-2021 Virtual Series with a live, ...
Poupeh Missaghi: A Reading and Conversation
Tue, Sep 29, 2020
7:00 pm
Join writer Poupeh Missaghi as she reads from her novel Trans(re)lating House One, about which Publishers Weekly...
Registration Required
CHI Salon: Arts of Address, a Book Talk with Monique Roelofs
Wed, Sep 30, 2020
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Virtual, Zoom
Join Monique Roelofs in a discussion of her new book Arts of Address: Being Alive to Language and the World (Columb...
Registration Required
Why Democracy Matters? A Panel Discussion
Wed, Sep 30, 2020
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Via Zoom
The Department of Political Science would like to invite the entire Amherst College community to a panel discussion on "Wh...
Registration Required
Ongoing Events
Poetry in the Pandemic
Fri, Apr 17, 2020
until Sep 17
TBA
In the time of uncertainty and anxiety, poetry brings us hope, inspiration and reflection. Have you been reading or writin...