News & Events 10/2009

October 7, 2009

A three-day symposium sponsored by the German government and held at Amherst College Oct. 14-16 will feature lectures, personal reminiscences and photographic and historical exhibits, as well as a free buffet lunch of German food, all to commemorate the 20^th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

October 6, 2009

Already renowned for its state-of-the-art cogeneration plant that recycles hot exhaust to generate steam, Amherst College’s electrical use has become even greener lately, thanks to a new agreement that’s bringing power to the campus from Canada.

October 6, 2009

AMHERST, Mass. — Ilan Stavans, the Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College and Five College 40th Anniversary Professor, is the editor of Becoming Americans: Four Centuries of Immigrant Writing (Library of America, 2009, $40). The book is an anthology of writings about the thrills and challenges of immigrating to America, from colonial times to the present. Author Maxine Hong Kingston has said of the book, “[These] stories are our treasured legacy.”

October 6, 2009

AMHERST, Mass. — Ilan Stavans, the Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College and Five College 40th Anniversary Professor, is now in charge of a subcommittee of Massachusetts’ Latino-American Advisory Commission. The subcommittee’s mandate is to produce a thorough report on the state of education of Latinos in the Commonwealth.

September 21, 2009

AMHERST, Mass.–Robert Audi, the David E. Gallo Professor of Business Ethics at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, will give a talk titled “Testimony as a Social Foundation of Knowledge” on Thursday, Oct. 1, at 4:30 p.m. in Pruyne Lecture Hall of Amherst College’s Fayerweather Hall.

September 21, 2009
Contact: Karen Cardinal
Accounting, Web and Marketing Manager, Mead Art Museum
413/542-2551

AMHERST, Mass.– Randall Griffey, curator of American Art at Amherst College’s Mead Art Museum, has found much more than meets the eye in William Rimmer’s Massacre of the Innocents (ca. 1858), a key painting in the Mead’s collection and currently on view in the museum.

September 8, 2009    
Contact: Sara R. Leonard
Concert and Production Manager
413/542-2195

AMHERST, Mass. – The Music at Amherst Parallels Series will open its 2009-2010 season on Friday, Oct. 2, with a concert by Czech violinist and vocalist Iva Bittová at 8 p.m. in Buckley Recital Hall in the Arms Music Center at Amherst College.

September 8, 2009
Contact: Sara Leonard
Concert and Production Manager
413/542-2195

AMHERST, Mass. – The Amherst Symphony Orchestra will present its season-opening concert on Saturday, Oct. 3, at 8 p.m. in Buckley Recital Hall in the Arms Music Center at Amherst College. The event will celebrate and welcome the school’s Class of 2013.

September 9, 2009
Contact: Sara R. Leonard
Concert and Production Manager
413/542-2195

AMHERST, Mass. – The yearlong Amherst College music festival Faultlines: Mapping Jazz in the 21st Century will continue on Sunday, Oct. 4, with a concert by the Steve Lehman Trio (featuring Lehman on alto saxophone, Matt Brewer on bass and Damion Reid on drums) at 4 p.m. in the Cole Assembly Room of the college’s Converse Hall.

September 14, 2009
Contact: Sara R. Leonard
Concert and Production Manager
413/542-2195

AMHERST, Mass. – The Amherst Symphony Orchestra makes its New York City debut at the Peter Norton Symphony Space on Monday, Oct. 12, at 7:30 p.m.

September 10, 2009                    

AMHERST, Mass.—Novelist Jedediah Berry will read from his work at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 14, at Amherst Books (8 Main Street).

October 15, 2009
Contact: Karen Cardinal
Accounting, Web and Marketing Manager, Mead Art Museum
413/542-2551

AMHERST, Mass.—On Friday, October 16, Amherst College’s Mead Art Museum will raise the curtain on a new exhibition of Russian costume design.

September 18, 2009
Contact: Sara R. Leonard
Concert and Production Manager
413/542-2195

AMHERST, Mass. – Faultlines: Mapping Jazz in the 21st Century, the yearlong Amherst College music festival, continues with a performance workshop by renowned percussionist Adam Rudolph from 2 to 3:20 p.m. in Room 7 of the Arms Music Center on the college’s campus Thursday, Oct. 15.