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Lazerowitz Lecture with Carrie Palmquist (Postponed from 2019-2020)
Mon, Nov 2, 2020
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Lazerowitz Lecture with Carrie Palmquist postponed from 2019-2020 due to Covid-19 pandemic.
Registration Required
Assistant Professor Manasa Kandula: UMASS "Understanding fundamental physics through Colloid experiments"
Tue, Nov 3, 2020
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
zoom
A fundamental challenge in materials physics is to understand the microscopic
underpinnings of various physical phen...
CRG: Doing the Work: White People Committing to Anti-Racism (Group A)
Wed, Nov 4, 2020
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Zoom (link will be shared before meeting)
The current racial justice movement has most likely motivated you to think more about racism and in many ways, question ho...
Registration Required
CHI Salon: Post-Election Salon
Wed, Nov 4, 2020
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Virtual, Zoom
Join us in a supportive space for an open-forum discussion of the November 3rd U.S. presidential election. Restricted to t...
Black Student Activism and the Struggle for Institutional Change in Higher Ed
Thu, Nov 5, 2020
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dr. Stefan Bradley, author of Upending the Ivory Tower: Civil Rights, Black Power and the Ivy League, will speak ab...
Registration Required
What’s Happening / What Happened? Reflections on the Election and Its Aftermath
Fri, Nov 6, 2020
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Virtual
This reflection on the post-election picture will feature Lawrence Douglas, the James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law,...
What’s Happening / What Happened? Reflections on the Election and Its Aftermath
Sun, Nov 8, 2020
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Virtual
This reflection on the post-election picture will feature Tom Davis ’71 H’09, former chair of the House Oversig...
Mairead Case: A Reading and Conversation
Tue, Nov 10, 2020
7:00 pm
Join Mairead Case for a reading from her new novel Tiny, a contemporary, poetic retelling of Sophocles’ Antigo...
Registration Required
Stories in STEM with Dr. Brielle Ferguson
Wed, Nov 11, 2020
12:40 pm - 1:30 pm
Dr. Brielle Ferguson, the co-founder of Black in Neuro and the Standford Black Postdoc Association, will be sharing her jo...
CHI Salon: "So You Want to 'Include' Indigenous Histories?: Monuments, Public History and the Dangers of 'Inclusion'"
Wed, Nov 11, 2020
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Virtual
In 2012, the town of Madison, Maine, erected a series of new monuments at the site of Nanrantsouak, a Wabanaki homeplace a...
Registration Required
Archival Explorations: A Brief Introduction to Amherst College History
Wed, Nov 11, 2020
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
More than 200 years of Amherst College history is held in the Archives & Special Collections inside Frost Library. In ...
Students Only
The Amherst Uprising: Alumni Reflections Five Years Later
Thu, Nov 12, 2020
7:00 pm
Virtual
President Biddy Martin will reflect on the Uprising and its impact with Christine Croasdaile ’17, Katyana Dandridge ’1...
Registration Required
Biology Monday Seminar: "Network Neuroscience Approaches to Language"
Mon, Nov 16, 2020
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Virtual, Zoom
Nadia M. Biassou '88, M.D., Ph.D.
National Institutes of Health Clinical Center
Board-certified physician and ...
"From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime"
Tue, Nov 17, 2020
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Virtual
Elizabeth Hinton is associate professor in the Department of History and the Department of African American Studies at Yal...
CRG: Doing the Work: White People Committing to Anti-Racism (Group B)
Wed, Nov 18, 2020
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Zoom (link will be shared before meeting)
The current racial justice movement has most likely motivated you to think more about racism and in many ways, question ho...
Registration Required
CANCELLED: CHI Salon: “I Will Fight HIV and Hypertension!”: Black Caribbean Women and the Fight Against Illness and Inequality
Wed, Nov 18, 2020
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Virtual
When the famed civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer exclaimed that she was "sick and tired of being sick and tired" in a...
Registration Required
From Protest to Progress Through Partnership: Five Years of Being Human in STEM @ Amherst & Beyond
Thu, Nov 19, 2020
8:00 pm - 9:15 pm
Catalyzed by the Amherst Uprising, the "Being Human in STEM" (HSTEM) course started as a partnership between students, fac...