James Bamford, author of A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of the Intelligence Agencies,, will speak on “Iraq, Torture, and Preemptive War — What Is Happening to Democracy in America?” on Thursday, Dec. 8 at 7 p.m. in 101 Campus Center.

Open forums have been scheduled with three candidates for the new post of associate vice chancellor for the Center for Student Development.

Shepherds, enchanted plants, a clock, a teapot and an armchair represent just a few of the fanciful roles cast recently for a February production being presented by the Five College Opera Project.

The DEFA Film Library in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures was awarded a 5,000-euro Program Prize on Nov. 24 at the Kino Babylon: Mitte in Berlin, Germany. The award recognizes the library for “Rebels with a Cause: The Cinema of East Germany,” a retrospective of 22 films presented in October at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.