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Black Art Matters: Students’ Work Celebrated at Annual Festival

February 25, 2021 In an upcoming festival both on-campus and online, Black Art Matters at the Mead Art Museum and beyond.
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Major Restoration Project Launches for the Emily Dickinson Homestead

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The Men “Black Men of Amherst” Left Out

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Amherst College’s Sixth Annual LitFest, Feb. 25-28

January 21, 2021 National Book Award winner Charles Yu among acclaimed authors, poets to participate in Amherst College’s sixth annual LitFest, Feb. 25-28

The Art of Solidarity

February 16, 2021 Sonya Clark ’89, the renowned artist and Amherst professor, talks about the communal Solidarity Book Project for Amherst’s Bicentennial

The Incubator Program: Hatching the STEM Scientists of the Future

October 15, 2020 A new initiative aims to provide students from underrepresented backgrounds with the tools to succeed in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. And life, of course.
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Professor Ilan Stavans on Spanglish as the Language of the Future

“[Spanglish] is the fastest growing hybrid language in the world,” says Stavans in a recent video for NBCLX. “I would say it is the most important linguistic phenomenon in the Hispanic world, in the Spanish-speaking world, and in the English-speaking world.”

Visiting Professor Tess Wise Interviewed 48 Bankrupt Americans—Here’s Who They Blame for Their Financial Troubles

In an article for The Conversation, Wise, a Karl Loewenstein Fellow and visiting assistant professor of political science at Amherst, describes what she found when she interviewed dozens of Americans who have filed for bankruptcy to get rid of personal debt.

Pioneer Valley Symphony to Host Evening with Professor Emeritus Lewis Spratlan

The Pioneer Valley Symphony has announced that it will present Life Is a Dream: Celebration of Lewis Spratlan on Saturday, Feb. 20, at 7 p.m. The virtual event will honor the 80th birthday of Spratlan, Amherst’s Peter R. Pouncey Professor of Music, Emeritus, and the 10th anniversary of the world premiere of Life Is a Dream, the opera whose second act garnered him a Pulitzer Prize in 2000.

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Mar 3

CHI Salon: "From Student to Explainer: The Public-Facing Work of Students in the Arts and Sciences"

4:30 PM - 5:30 PM

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Mar 3

Fania Davis: "Restorative Justice and Racial Justice in a Time of Heartache, Awakening and Repair"

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Mar 4

Statistics and Data Science Colloquium: "Statistical and Computational Methods for Whole-Genome Sequencing Studies," Dr. Sheila Gaynor

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM

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Mar 4

Black Art Matters Festival

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Mar 5

"The Media Turn in the Environmental Humanities: Insights from a Black Oil Ecology"

12:00 PM

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Mar 9

The Broken Heart of America: A Conversation with Walter Johnson ’88

7:00 PM

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Amherst Magazine

In the Winter 2021 issue: an interview with screenwriter and political strategist Kate Stayman-London ’05; an update about Professor Elizabeth “Buffy” Aries' 15-year study about race and class; a preview of Founding Narratives, an exhibition in the Mead Art Museum, and more.

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