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The Amherst College Musical Presents Green Day’s "American Idiot"
Sat, Feb 1, 2020
7:30 pm
The Amherst College Musical presents Green Day’s American Idiot!
You must reserve tickets using the follo...
Tickets Required
CAST and STAGE by a canary torsi
Sat, Feb 1, 2020
7:30 pm
The Department of Theater and Dance is excited to present a special showing of CAST, STAGE, AUTHOR by a canary t...
The Amherst College Musical Presents Green Day’s "American Idiot"
Sun, Feb 2, 2020
7:30 pm
The Amherst College Musical presents Green Day’s American Idiot!
You must reserve tickets using the follo...
Tickets Required
Join the Indicator Magazine!
Mon, Feb 3, 2020
All day
Morrow Dormitory, Indicator Office (basement)
Become a member of the Indicator Magazine staff! Be a writer, editor and/or artist and see your work published and distrib...
Students Only
Protik K. Majumder, Williams College: "Heavy Metals, Cheap Lasers and Precision Measurements of Atomic Structure"
Tue, Feb 4, 2020
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Science Center, A011
With important contributions from many Williams undergraduates over recent years, we have completed a series of high-preci...
Imam Ibrahim Kazerooni: "Islamic Law and Human Rights"
Tue, Feb 4, 2020
7:30 pm
Fayerweather Hall, Pruyne Lecture Hall
Born in Iraq, Ibrahim Kazerooni was imprisoned under Saddam Hussein's regime and eventually fled the country in fear of Ir...
Join the Indicator Magazine!
Wed, Feb 5, 2020
All day
Morrow Dormitory, Indicator Office (basement)
Become a member of the Indicator Magazine staff! Be a writer, editor and/or artist and see your work published and distrib...
Students Only
CHI Salon: "Through Composed" with Kate Lilley
Wed, Feb 5, 2020
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Frost Library, 210
In both poetry and scholarship, Kate Lilley tarries with the problematic of queer historical transmission and the constitu...
Helene Keyssar Lecture: "The Girlfriend Film: Affection and Affiliation" with Melissa Hardie
Thu, Feb 6, 2020
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Frost Library, 210
Long before the Bechdel Test codified and implicitly critiqued the failure of films to make female interaction the focal p...
Statistics Colloquium: "Tackling Disparities in Genetics Research: Building the Research and Researchers Together" - Lori Chibnik
Thu, Feb 6, 2020
4:30 pm
Since the sequencing of the first human genome, over 30,000 disease-associated variants have been identified, the majority...
Exhibition Opening and Lecture on Petrov-Vodkin’s “Mother of God and Child”
Thu, Feb 6, 2020
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Center for Russian Culture, 202 Webster Hall
Please join us for the opening of the exhibition One Scholar, One Work: Masterpieces from the Thomas P. Whitney Collect...
Math Colloquium: "Unsupervised Clustering, Harmonic Analysis and Applications" - James Murphy
Thu, Feb 6, 2020
4:30 pm
Machine learning is revolutionizing the sciences, but most existing methods require large amounts of human-generated train...
"What Would Equality in Education Look Like?": A Conversation with Tara Westover and Tony Jack ’07
Thu, Feb 6, 2020
8:00 pm
Tara Westover and Anthony Jack ’07 will discuss “What Would Equality in Education Look Like?” in a conversation mode...
Join the Indicator Magazine!
Fri, Feb 7, 2020
All day
Morrow Dormitory, Indicator Office (basement)
Become a member of the Indicator Magazine staff! Be a writer, editor and/or artist and see your work published and distrib...
Students Only
Marsh Coffee Haus VI: Haus of Love
Fri, Feb 7, 2020
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Marsh House, Ballroom
St. Valentine’s Day is right around the corner, so take your sweetie's hand and skip up the hill to Marsh Coffee Haus (w...
Cameron Chandler ’20 and Shane Auguste ’20 Senior Thesis Concert: “The Motley Crew” and “Outlets”
Sun, Feb 9, 2020
3:00 pm
The Amherst College Department of Music presents The Motley Crew and Outlets, original theses in composition...
David Hall ’91, Amherst College: “Tying Knots in a Quantum Fluid”
Tue, Feb 11, 2020
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Science Center, A011
Knots are familiar entities that appear at a captivating nexus of art, technology, mathematics and science. They have rece...
Spring Opening Reception at the Mead
Tue, Feb 11, 2020
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Celebrate the opening of the Mead’s spring exhibitions at this evening reception, featuring “The Best Impressions: Ins...
Dr. Theodore S. Gonzalves to Present “Smithsonian’s Years of Music”
Wed, Feb 12, 2020
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Fayerweather Hall, Pruyne Lecture Hall
Dr. Gonzalves will discuss the Smithsonian Institution’s ambitious programming challenge—to present tie-based music-re...
Fiction Reading: Steven Dunn
Wed, Feb 12, 2020
8:00 pm
Steven Dunn, aka Pothole (because he’s deep in these streets), is the author of two novels from Tarpaulin Sky Press— Come learn how to visualize data using maps taught by Professor Nussbaum, a lecturer at Mount Holyoke College. In addition... Join us as we welcome Nikki Giovanni, poet and University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech. Ms. Giovanni will be t... Lewis-Sebring Commons, Valentine Hall, Mullins & Faerber Rooms The Faculty Colloquium Series for 2019-20 presents a lecture titled “Hyper Education: When Good Grades, Good Schools, an... Named the Cleveland Quartet Award-winner and honored with the coveted Avery Fisher Career Grant, the Dover has become one ... Boston-based punk band SNOOZER and local punk band LANDOWNER come to Amherst for a show that is FREE and open to all Five ... The Amherst College Jazz Ensemble and the Jihye Jazz Orchestra perform Lee’s new work, "Try Out," for the McBride Jazz C... Science Center, Kirkpatrick Lecture Hall A011 Seminar with Javier Apfeld, Ph.D., assistant professor in the biology department at Northeastern University C. e... Fayerweather Hall, 113 Professor Isomae Jun’ichi from the International Research Center for Japanese Studies will address the experience of pra... Fayerweather Hall, 117 The Paris Musée d’Ennery owes its existence to a young woman who, in the 1840s, had an interest in acquiring the Chines... Science Center, A011 “I shall describe the means of vision, which no one at all to my knowledge has yet examined and understood in such detai... Students compete with five- to seven-minute speeches using this year’s theme: Justice. Winners receive cash priz... Fayerweather Hall, 117 Each country’s judgment is valid only in that country, as making a judgment is a sovereign act of the country. However, ... Fayerweather Hall, Pruyne Lecture Hall Want to learn more about vaping? Curious about recent studies and the various health effects? Christine Johnston, M.P.H., ... Science Center, Lipton Lecture Hall, E110 Join us for a keynote lecture from Dick Goldsby, Amherst's Thomas B. Walton Jr. Memorial Professor of Biology, Emeritus, o... Stirn Auditorium, Mead Art Museum Come celebrate Toni Morrison’s birthday with a film screening of Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am. Drinks and desse... Science Center, E108 Learn how two Amherst College statistics professors got to where they are now in their careers in data science. Everyone i... An evening of poetry and performance from Dao Strom, whose work explores hybridity through melding disparate “voices”... Multicultural Resource Center, Keefe Campus Center Christopher Myers is an artist and writer based in New York City. A widely acclaimed author of literature for young people... Frost Library, CHI Think Tank Rhonda Cobham-Sander, the Emily C. Jordan Folger Professor of Black Studies and English, will reflect with us about her te... Clark House, 100 Keramet Reiter, Associate Professor of Criminology, Law & Society in the School of Social Ecology at the University of... Fayerweather Hall, 117 "After giving an overview of the Japanese court system, I would like to talk about the mediation system, which has been ev... Some definitions of the word symmetry include “correct or pleasing proportion of the parts of a thing,” “bala... Christopher Myers is an artist and writer based in New York City. A widely acclaimed author of literature for young people... Chapin Hall, 101 Sarah Knott is a writer, feminist and professor of history. She is the author, most recently, of Mother Is a Verb: An U... This year’s Five College Dance Faculty Concert features five faculty and guest artist works (one from each campus) that ... Enjoy a children’s storybook reading and signing with author and artist Christopher Myers. Books will be available for p... The music department presents a special talk by jazz historian and professor of American studies Sherrie Tucker. All are... Fayerweather Hall, 115 - Pruyne Lecture Hall Denise Murrell is the curator behind the highly praised exhibition Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Mat... Stirn Auditorium, Mead Art Museum Join us to watch 26 short films from Five College students. Celebrate diverse works of animation, documentaries, experimen... This year’s Five College Dance Faculty Concert features five faculty and guest artist works (one from each campus) that ... Webster Hall, Studio 1 Are you interested in being a part of Amherst Dance this semester? An all-inclusive, low pressure, and low time commitment... This year’s Five College Dance Faculty Concert features five faculty and guest artist works (one from each campus) that ... Science Center, Kirkpatrick Lecture Hall A011 Laura L. Kiessling, Ph.D., the Novartis Professor of Chemistry in Department of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute o... Science Center, A011 The conversion of interstellar gas into stars provides the energy, momentum and chemical enrichment that help drive the ev... The rise of algorithmic analysis has been met by a rise in the interest in storytelling, suggesting that we are most human... Bailey Brown House Join the Arts at Amherst Initiative for our first event of the semester, featuring a panel of members from the Amherst art... Frost Library, CHI Stirn Auditorium, Mead Art Museum This film is based on real life events and tells a story of Soviet hockey player Valeri Kharlamov’s career and the first... Holden Experimental Theater, Webster Hall The Department of Theater and Dance presents Gossamer, written and directed by Sophina Flores ’20. Gossamer
Science Center, Kirkpatrick Lecture Hall - #A011 Professor Ronald T. Raines, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Chemistry ABSTRACT: The lipid bila... Please join us for a public masterclass as M@A Chamber artists the Parker Quartet work with students on their craft. Frost Library, CHI Seminar room The foodie media universe offers storytellers with a passion for the culinary the opportunity to share in and define new c... Keefe Campus Center, Keefe Theater Auditorium Miki Dezaki, a YouTuber who was threatened and harassed by Japan’s notorious netouyo (cyber neo-nationalists) for his vi... Join Professor Judith Frank, in conversation with National Book Award recipient Susan Choi and finalist Laila Lalami. This... Holden Experimental Theater, Webster Hall The Department of Theater and Dance presents Gossamer, written and directed by Sophina Flores ’20. Gossamer
Frost Library, Center for Humanistic Inquiry (2nd floor Join host J. Riley Caldwell-O'Keefe, director of Amherst College’s Center for Teaching and Learning, in conversation wit... Join host Jennifer Acker '00, founder and editor-in-chief of The Common literary magazine, with special guest Jesmy... Holden Experimental Theater, Webster Hall The Department of Theater and Dance presents Gossamer, written and directed by Sophina Flores ’20. Gossamer
Inspiring performances, luminous sound and exceptional musicianship are the hallmarks of the Grammy-winning Parker Quartet... Interested in writing a 10-minute play? Interested in having your 10-minute play performed in an hour-long student-written... RLadies Amherst: A Conversation with Professor Amy Nussbaum
Thu, Feb 13, 2020
4:30 pm
Grit - Grace - & Glow: A Night with Nikki Giovanni
Thu, Feb 13, 2020
7:00 pm
Hyper Education: When Good Grades, Good Schools and Good Behavior are Not Enough
Fri, Feb 14, 2020
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
M@A Chamber Series Presents Dover Quartet with Davóne Tines, baritone
Fri, Feb 14, 2020
8:00 pm
Tickets Required
WAMH 89.3 PRESENTS! A VERY PUNK VALENTINE’S
Fri, Feb 14, 2020
8:30 pm - 11:00 pm
Students Only
McBride Commission Concert: Jihye Lee and the Amherst College Jazz Ensemble
Sat, Feb 15, 2020
8:00 pm
Biology Monday Seminar
Mon, Feb 17, 2020
4:00 pm
"Ghosts from Fukushima"
Mon, Feb 17, 2020
4:30 pm
“Of Monsters and Women: Collecting Japanese Art in 19th-Century Paris”: A Talk by Professor Elizabeth Emery (Montclair State University)
Mon, Feb 17, 2020
4:30 pm
Sanam Nader-Esfahani, Amherst College: “Literature and the Eye in the Age of Kepler”
Tue, Feb 18, 2020
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
JUSTICE! Amherst College’s Speaking Competition
Tue, Feb 18, 2020
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
"Recognition of American Judgment in Japan"
Tue, Feb 18, 2020
4:30 pm
"Vaping Debunked: Schooling the JUUL & Beyond"
Tue, Feb 18, 2020
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Keynote: Professor Dick Goldsby: “The Nature and Biology of Race”
Tue, Feb 18, 2020
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Film Screening of "Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am"
Tue, Feb 18, 2020
7:30 pm
RLadies Amherst: A Conversation with Professors Brittney Bailey and Katharine Correia
Wed, Feb 19, 2020
4:00 pm
Poetry and Performance: Dao Strom
Wed, Feb 19, 2020
8:00 pm
Grab and Don’t Go with Christopher Myers
Thu, Feb 20, 2020
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Reflections on Teaching with Rhonda Cobham-Sander
Thu, Feb 20, 2020
4:30 pm
Law’s Infamy: Ashker v. Brown and the Failures of Solitary Confinement Reform
Thu, Feb 20, 2020
4:30 pm - 6:05 pm
"The Court System of Japan"
Thu, Feb 20, 2020
4:30 pm
Math Colloquium: Amanda Folsom, “Symmetry, Almost”
Thu, Feb 20, 2020
4:30 pm
"The Red Plague Rid You for Learning Me Your Language": Artist Talk with Christopher Myers
Thu, Feb 20, 2020
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
"Feminist Theory? Queer Studies? Memoir? How to Write the History of Pregnancy and Birth in Changing Times"
Thu, Feb 20, 2020
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
"Intimate Distance": Five College Dance Faculty Concert
Thu, Feb 20, 2020
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Tickets Required
Art and Reading with Christopher Myers
Fri, Feb 21, 2020
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
"Improvising Across Abilities: Pauline Oliveros and the Adaptive-Use Musical Instrument": A Talk by Professor Sherrie Tucker (University of Kansas)
Fri, Feb 21, 2020
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
“Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today”—A Talk by Denise Murrell
Fri, Feb 21, 2020
4:00 pm
2020 Five College Film & Video Festival
Fri, Feb 21, 2020
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
"Intimate Distance": Five College Dance Faculty Concert
Fri, Feb 21, 2020
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Tickets Required
Amherst Dance Auditions
Sat, Feb 22, 2020
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Students Only
"Intimate Distance": Five College Dance Faculty Concert
Sat, Feb 22, 2020
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Tickets Required
Biology Monday Seminar: “Carbohydrates at the Host–Microbe Interface”
Mon, Feb 24, 2020
4:00 pm
Chris Faesi, UMass: “The Forest AND the Trees: Bridging the Multi-Scale Physics of Star Formation”
Tue, Feb 25, 2020
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Statistics Colloquium: “Are We Not Doing Phrasing Anymore?”: Mining Narrative Texts for Meaning with John Laudun
Tue, Feb 25, 2020
4:30 pm
Spring Semester Kickoff: Arts at Amherst Initiative Open Meeting
Tue, Feb 25, 2020
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Turkey, Syria and the Future of Kurdish Movements
Tue, Feb 25, 2020
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Russian Film Screening: "Legend №17" • Легенда №17
Thu, Feb 27, 2020
4:30 pm
"Gossamer"
Thu, Feb 27, 2020
8:00 pm
Cheminar: "Ghost Proteins"
Fri, Feb 28, 2020
3:15 pm - 4:30 pm
M@A Masterclass: Parker Quartet Feb. 28
Fri, Feb 28, 2020
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Crafting a Career in Food Writing
Fri, Feb 28, 2020
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
"Shusenjo—The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue"
Fri, Feb 28, 2020
4:30 pm
A Conversation with 2019 National Book Award Winner Susan Choi and Finalist Laila Lalami
Fri, Feb 28, 2020
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
"Gossamer"
Fri, Feb 28, 2020
8:00 pm
Poets of Amherst: A Conversation with Karen Skolfield
Sat, Feb 29, 2020
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
An Afternoon with Jesmyn Ward
Sat, Feb 29, 2020
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
"Gossamer"
Sat, Feb 29, 2020
8:00 pm
M@A CHAMBER Series Presents: The Parker Quartet
Sat, Feb 29, 2020
8:00 pm
Tickets Required
Ongoing Events
Student-Written 10 Minute Play Festival
Tue, Dec 17, 2019
until Feb 1, 2020
Students Only