Weekly Bulletin

Director Andrea Segre discusses film work

“Mediterranean Interrupted: Human Rights, Love, Rebellion, Testimony and Filmmaking,” an audiovisual conversation with international award-winning director Andrea Segre, will be presented Tuesday, March 12 at 5:30 p.m. in 301 Herter Hall. The talk will be accompanied by excerpts from his documentaries “The Green Blood,” “Like a Man on Earth” and “Closed Sea.”
 
Segre is a director of fictions and documentaries for cinema and television and also a researcher in sociology of communication.

Author Charles Mann to lecture March 12 at Renaissance Center

Best-selling author and Amherst resident Charles C. Mann will speak Tuesday, March 12 at 4:30 p.m. at the Renaissance Center as part of its Celebrity Lecture Series

Mann's international bestseller "1491" ripped down the notion that Columbus tamed a continent of scattered, uncivilized natives. His subsequent book, "1493," completes this historical re-envisioning, inviting readers to view the arrival of Europeans in the Americas through a powerful lens—as an interaction that sparked the first truly global exchange system.

Visiting Writers Series hosts Lysley Tenorio March 14

The Visiting Writers Series will host author Lysley Tenorio on Thursday, March 14 at 8 p.m. at the University Club.

Tenorio is the author of the short story collection "Monstress." His stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Zoetrope: All-Story, Manoa, and The Best New American Voices and Pushcart Prize anthologies. A Whiting Writer's Award winner and a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, he has received fellowships from the University of Wisconsin, Phillips Exeter Academy and the National Endowment for the Arts.

The event is free and open to the public.

Retired Faculty Association to hear about research libraries in digital age

Jay Schafer, director of Libraries, will discuss “Research Libraries in the Digital Age” as the featured speaker during the Retired Faculty Association meeting on Wednesday, March 13, starting at 10 a.m. in 162-65 Campus Center.
 
The business meeting, with coffee and cookies, will begin at 10 a.m. followed at 10:30 by a presentation by Dennis Swinford, director of Campus Planning, on “Campus construction projects.” Schafer’s talk is at 11.
 
 
 

Dakin Pancake Breakfast set for March 16 at Renaissance Center

The annual Dakin “All You Can Eat” Pancake Breakfast is being held Saturday, March 16, 8 a.m. to noon at the Renaissance Center, 650 East Pleasant St.

Volunteer chefs will provide a palate-pleasing buffet of pancakes, sausage, bacon and beverages with maple syrup tapped from sugar maples on the center’s property and generously donated by local sugarer Richard McIntire and his grandsons.

The suggested donation of $10 for adults and $5 for children.

For information, contact the center at renaissance@english.umass.edu or 577-3600.

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