UPCOMING EVENTS and IMPORTANT DATES |
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Full UMass Amherst Academic Calendar click here.
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For Department of Afro-American Studies Events click here.
For Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies Events click here.
For Everywoman's Center Events click here.
For Stonewall Center Events click here.
Events
FALL 2011
Tuesday, September 13
7:00 pm |
STPEC Movie Night
inside job
In the STPEC Office
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Thursday, September 22
6:00 pm |
STPEC POTLUCK
Inquire in the STPEC Office for more information |
Friday, September 23 and
Saturday, September 24 |
Coop Power Sustainability Summit
Greenfield Community College
Registration and additional info |
Sunday, September 25
7:30 pm |
Civil Rights Leader Dr. Bernard LaFayette, Jr. and Civil Rights Documentary "Passing the Torch to America's Youth"
Amherst Cinema; $10 students, $25 general
Sponsored by The Peace Development Fund |
Monday, September 26 -
Friday, September 30 |
New Student Meetings, for entering STPEC students
Contact the STPEC office to sign up. |
Thursday, October 6
4:30 pm |
Journalism, the Environment and the Future
Peter Thomson
Memorial Hall
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Wednesday, October 12
7:00 pm |
STPEC Movie Night
WHITE MATERIAL
In the STPEC Office |
Thursday, October 13
4:00 pm |
Re-reading de Beauvoir 'after race': /woman-as-slave/revisited
more info
301 Herter Hall |
October 18
6:30 pm |
Grassroots Community Organizing (GCO) info session
STPEC office |
Tuesday, October 25
7:00 pm |
Creating Healthy Masculinities
Campus Center 903 |
Wednesday, October 26
7:00 pm |
STPEC MOVIE NIGHT
NOT JUST A GAME
In the STPEC office
More info here |
Thursday, November 3
7:00 PM |
STPEC Potluck
In Amherst, contact the STPEC Office for more information |
Tuesday, November 15
7:00-8:00 pm |
Study Abroad Info Session
In the STPEC Office, E-27A Machmer Hall |
Monday, November 21
5:30-7:30 pm |
Food for Today
Thompson 620 |
SPRING 2011 ARCHIVE
Wednesday January 26
7:00 pm |
STPEC Movie Night
SLAM
In the STPEC Office
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Thursday, February 17
7:00 pm |
STPEC MOVIE NIGHT
Documentary: Spotlight on the Congo
King Leopold's Ghost
In the STPEC Office |
Monday, February 28
4:30 pm |
17th Annual Du Bois Lecture
“W.E.B. Du Bois: Personal Stories/Political Reflections”
Cape Cod Lounge
http://www.library.umass.edu/ |
Thursday, March 3
7:00 pm |
STPEC MOVIE NIGHT
Documentary: Spotlight on the Congo
The Greatest silence, rape in the congo
In the STPEC Office |
Wednesday, March 9
5:00 pm
7:30 pm |
The War of Information in the Middle East
Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall, Smith College
Occupied Minds - documentary
Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall, Smith College |
Monday, March 28
4:00-5:30 pm |
Racism on College Campuses: Neither Dead Nor Dying
Joe R. Feagin
Campus Center 101
More info |
Monday, March 28
4:00 pm |
A Woman Among Warlords
Malalai Joya speaks
Thompson 106, UMass Amherst
details |
Monday, March 28
7:30 pm |
A Woman Among Warlords
Malalai Joya speaks
Neilson Browing room, Smith College
details |
Monday, March 28
6:30 pm |
A Look Inside SB1070
Film and panel discussion with Professor Agustin Lao-Montes and Professor John Bracey
Machmer West 25
click here for more info |
April 5 & 6
8:00 pm |
Peggy Shaw in MUST
2nd Annual UMass Edinburgh After-Festival Event
Bartlet 65
Tickets $5.00 each available from the UMass Fine Arts Center
More info
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| April 2011 |
Career Services Events |
Thursday, April 7
5:30-7:00 pm |
MAKING CONNECTIONS: The 2011 Internships, Jobs, and Social Change Fair
Networking with STPEC, Afro-Am, Labor Center, and Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies Alumni/ae
details
Cape Cod Lounge |
Thursday, April 7
4:30-6:00 pm |
Community College Information Day
Campus Center 905-09
An info session for Community college students considering transfering to UMass as STPEC, WGSS or AfroAm majors. |
Thursday, April 7
7:30 pm |
The Anti-Immigrant Movement and Attacks on Women
UMass Campus Center 905-09
Cloee Cooper and Becca Poswolsky, STPEC alumnae and National Field Organizers for the Center for New Community |
Tuesday, April 12
4:30 pm |
Popular Upheavals in Tunisia and Egypt, and its Implications for the Middle East and the World
Smith College, 106 Seelye Hall |
Events specifically for STPEC students
| Friday, January 28 |
STPEC Welcome Back Potluck
in Amherst, contact the STPEC office for more info |
| February 3-14 |
STPEC new student meetings. Please come into the STPEC office to sign up for a new student meeting time!
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Thursday, March 24
7:00 pm |
STPEC Movie Night
Invisible Children
See STPEC newsletter for more details |
| Friday, March 25 |
STPEC Mid-Semester Potluck!
Contact the STPEC Office for more information |
Thursday, March 31
7:30 pm |
STPEC Night Out
The Contestado - Mortal Remains
Amherst Cinema
5-college students: $5.00 tickets available at Amherst Cinema before 3/30 |
Thursday, April 14
7:00 pm |
STPEC Movie Night
Harold and Maude
In the STPEC Office
More details... |
Saturday, May 7
6:30 pm |
STPEC End of Semester Potluck Party and Graduation ceremony.
In Amherst, contact the STPEC Program Office for more information. |
Saturday, May 14
Approx. 2:15-4:00 pm |
STPEC post-commencement reception
In the STPEC Program Office, E-27A Machmer Hall |
Fall 2010 archive
Wednesday September 15
5:30-7:00 |
PHENOM presentation and film on student activisim
Science and Engineering Library, Lederle Lowrise |
Wednesday September 22
7:30 pm |
Immigration, Population & Racism
Franklin Patterson Hall, Hampshire College
West Lecture Hall |
Thursday September 23
7:30 pm |
First STPEC Movie Night. In the STPEC Office. More details coming soon! |
Tuesday, October 26
7:00 pm |
STPEC MOVIE NIGHT!
L'Haine
In the STPEC Office. |
Wednesdays
4:00-6:00 pm |
LGBT Life over the Past 25 Years
1 credit WGSS course
weekly presentations, open to all
Room 119, Agricultural Engineering Building |
Tuesday, November 16
7:00 pm |
STPEC Movie Night:
A Collection of films on the Congo
In the STPEC Office |
Sunday, November 14
Amherst Coffee at 6:15
Amherst Cinema at 7:30 |
STPEC Night Out!
Meet at Amherst Cinema to see This Land is Our Land.
Regular ticket prices apply. |
| September 22-24 |
STPEC new student meetings. Please come into the STPEC office to sign up for a new student meeting time!
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September 30
5:30 pm |
STPEC new student info session. In the STPEC office. A chance to hang out with other new STPEC majors and the STPEC Academic Advisors. |
| November 9 |
Advising for STPEC seniors begins |
| November 15 |
Advising for all STPEC majors begins |
| November 19 |
STPEC Potluck! Contact the STPEC Office for more information |
| December 1-3 |
STPEC new student meetings. Please come into the STPEC office to sign up for a new student meeting time! |
December 2
4:00-5:30 pm |
Career Services Night
W-25 Machmer Hall |
December 3
3:00-5:00 pm |
STPEC Executive Committee Meeting
E-25 Machmer Hall |
December 10
6:00 pm potluck
8:00 pm graduation ceremony |
STPEC graduation party and potluck
North Amherst, contact STPEC Office for directions |
November 18-20 |
Art & Power in Movement: An International Conference Rethinking the Black Power and Black Arts Movements
UMass Amherst
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Spring 2010 archive
Fall 2009 archive
Spring 2009 archive
Thursday, February 26
4:00-6:45 pm |
The Secret Pain
Thompson Room 102 |
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
5:30 pm |
Got Job?: Networking, Self-Marketing & Interview Skills
Memorial Hall |
March 6th: 7:30pm and
March 7th: 6pm and 9pm |
THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES 2009
Bowker Auditorium, UMass Amherst
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009
5:30 p.m. |
The Interview: De-Stress, Dress and Impress
Memorial Hall |
Thursday March 19-
Sunday March 22 |
Solidarity Economy Forum
UMass Amherst. |
Wednesday, March 25 and Thursday, March 26, 2009
9:00 - 11:00 p.m. |
2009 SENIOR CAMPAIGN TRIVIA NIGHTS
Grad Lounge, Campus Center |
New England Campus
Compact Spring 2009
Conference
March 30-31, 2009
UMASS, Amherst, MA |
Reaxamining the Engaged Campus
Community, Reciprocity and Social Justice |
Thursday, April 2
4:00-6:00 pm
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Career Fair: Making Connections; Jobs, Internships and Social Change
Cape Cod Lounge, Student Union Building |
Thursday, April 9
7:00 pm
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Robert Hillary King
3rd Floor Gordon Hall |
Thursday, April 30
6:00 pm
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Kevin Bales
The world's leading expert on modern slavery and founder of Free the Slaves
227 Herter Hall |
Friday, May 1
7-9pm {doors open 6:30} |
Celebrate International Workers’ Day
& the Movement for Good Green Jobs
Campus Center Auditorium, UMass Amherst
followed by Sustainable Energy Summit Dance Party
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Friday, May 15
6:00 pm |
STPEC's End of semester and graduation potluck party
Contact the STPEC Program office for details. |
Event Descriptions:
Creating Healthy Masculinities
October 25, 7:00pm - 10:00pm, Campus Center 903
The purpose of this group is to provide a space for men to have honest discourse about the impact masculinity has on our lives, our interactions, and our communities. Emphasis will include male gender socialization, relationships, homophobia, race, male privilege, creating change, and much more. We aim to shine a light on problematic aspects of masculinity by engaging in conversation and action in an effort to do what we can to dismantle it. Our goal is to support and encourage the men of STPEC to think about their actions as men and to present alternatives ways of being a man that are healthy and productive for individuals and the STPEC community.
The first event on October 25th will be open to all STPEC students. There will be three subsequent meetings on the following three Tuesday evenings (November 1, 8, 15) for men in STPEC to discuss masculinity.
Harold and Maude
April 14, 7:00 pm, STPEC Office
And now for something a little different... NOT a documentary!
A famous dark comedy from 1971. Directed by Hal Ashby.
Death-obsessed teen Harold Chasen (Bud Cort) is being hassled by his domineering mother (Vivian Pickles) to play the dating game, but he'd much rather attend funerals, which is where he meets the feisty Maude (Ruth Gordon), a geriatric widow who's high on life.
MAKING CONNECTIONS: LIFE AFTER UMASS AMHERST
A STUDENT/ALUMNI/AE NETWORKING EVENT
Featuring Afro-American Studies, Labor Center,
Social Thought and Political Economy (STPEC)
and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies alums
DATE: THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 2010
TIME: 4:30-6:00 PM
LOCATION: CAPE COD LOUNGE, STUDENT UNION BUILDING
UMASS AMHERST
UMass Amherst grads from the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, the Labor Center, STPEC (Social Thought and Political Economy) and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies return to campus to meet students and offer internships and career information.
This is an opportunity to meet with alumni/ae and discuss their experiences in the working world. Come visit, meet the grads, pick up literature, make contacts, and discover internship opportunities
SPONSORED BY:
CAREER SERVICES
WOMEN, GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES
SOCIAL THOUGHT AND POLITICAL ECONOMY PROGRAM (STPEC)
LABOR CENTER
AFRO-AMERICAN STUDIES
This event is free and open to the public
For information please contact the co-sponsors:
Career Services, www.umass.edu/careers, 545-5224
The Labor Center, www.umass.edu/lrrc/, 545-4875
STPEC/Social Thought and Political Economy Program, www.umass.edu/stpec, 545-0043
W.E.B. Dubois Department of Afro-American Studies, www.umass.edu/afroam, 545-2751
Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, www.umass.edu/wost, 545-1922
FEMINIST AID TO CENTRAL AMERICA Presents:
Nicaraguan Feminists and former Revolutionaries to speak at campus and community events in the Pioneer Valley
Free, wheelchair accessible and everyone is welcome!
PUBLIC EVENTS
Thursday April 8th at 4pm they will be presenting a talk titled The Nicaraguan Women's Movement and the FSLN: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives for the Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latina(o) Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst at the UMass Campus Center, room 917.
Friday April 9th from 4-6 pm, they will be participating in the International Reproductive Rights Workshop at the Civil Liberties and Public Policy conference on Reproductive Rights at Hampshire College in Franklin Patterson Hall.
Saturday April 10th from 3:15-5:15 pm, they will be participating again in the repeated International Reproductive Rights workshop; and from 5:15-6:45 pm, they will be participating in the Access Abortion International workshop. Both of these workshops take place at Hampshire College in Franklin Patterson Hall
Contact: For further information, please contact Ann Ferguson, 6 Chestnut Hill Rd., Leverett MA 01054. Phones: (H) 413-367-2310; © 413-461-5575, email: ferguson3638@gmail.com
BIOGRAPHIES
Amanda Centeno joined the FSLN as a high school student and went on to serve as the Political Secretary after the revolution in 1979. She taught political theory in a popular revolutionary school for local residents and supported local agricultural cooperatives throughout the 80s. She founded and now is associate director of the Women’s Construction Cooperative in Condega, Nicaragua, and works closely with the autonomous women’s movement nationally.
Patricia Orozco was a student activist and journalist for the FSLN, fought in the insurrection, and has worked for the UN Permanent Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) since 2000. She is a radio journalist now for the Primerisima radio station in Managua, one of the main radio stations in the country. She is known as an advocate for human and civil rights, and works closely with the autonomous women’s movement in Nicaragua.
Helen Shears worked with the UK Nicaraguan Solidarity Movement, as well as other Women’s, GBLT and UK based social justice groups prior to arriving in Nicaragua to live and work in 2001. She is now the director of the Women’s Construction Cooperative in Condega, Nicaragua. She has much experience in the non-governmental organizational development sector.
Feminist Aid to Central America is a local organization founded in 1991 that provides funding and resources to feminist and women’s self-help organizations in Central America. We create bonds of solidarity between activist women’s groups in Central America and the Caribbean who are involved with self-help groups or networks seeking to empower women. We also sponsor women spokespersons who are visiting the U.S. from these regions to come to talk in community or Five College venues about their groups, issues and experiences.
CO-SPONSORS
Five Colleges, Inc.; the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program, Hampshire College; Five College Latin American Studies; Hampshire College Feminist Studies; Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies, UMass; Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies, UMass; Social Thought and Political Economy, UMass, Everywoman's Center, UMass; Amherst College Women and Gender Studies; Smith College Spanish Department; Smith College Latin American Studies; and Smith College Study of Women and Gender: Women's Studies, Keene State College, New Hampshire; Diversity Program, Greenfield Community College.
3rd Annual UMass Amherst Indigenous Peoples Symposium:
Cultural Survival Through Art Education and Health
Thursday April 22 Cape Cod Lounge Student Union Building (all day)
Friday April 23 Campus Center 11th Floor(all day)
30th UMass Amherst Powwow
Saturday April 24, 2010 10am-6pm
Admission: Native Powwow dancers-free
Five colleges students and staff: donation
General public: 5.00 individual
10.00 family
Children 12 and under free
Proceeds will go towards off setting cost of this year's powwow with left over revenue to go towards next year's powwow.
Joyce White Deer-Vincent
Native American Student Services
Bartlett Hall B-11
130 Hicks Way
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003
413-577-0970
Please Join Us on International Women's Day to Celebrate & Support the Re-Building of Haiti!
Event: COMMUNITY FUNDRAISER for HAITI
When: Monday, March 8th
Time: 6-8pm
Where: The Bangs Community Center in Amherst, MA (70 Boltwood Walk)
Food, Raffles, First-Hand Narratives, Music, Dance & Art
This event is being organized by the Committee for the Dignity of Haiti (CDH), a coalition of primarily student organizations from the University of Massachusetts Amherst founded in the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti. We will be holding a community fundraiser on March 8th for Haiti at the Bangs Community Center in Amherst, MA. ALL PROCEEDS will benefit the Foundation Honor for Haiti (FONHOH).
Your donation would go towards supporting an exciting project to build a kindergarten through 6th grade school in Lagoun-Plato Santral, a rural area with lush vegetation northeast of Port-au-Prince. The project, which is now under way, is the initiative of FONHOH (www.fonhoh.org), which is an integral member of CDH, and has already acquired the land for the project.
FONHOH is an established grassroots organization that has been working in Haiti since 2005, and has established a US branch in the Amherst area since 2007 to support their work in Haiti. Prior to the earthquake, the organization shipped a substantial quantity of school supplies, school furnishing, books and other materials donated by local institutions such as Staples, the Jones Public Library, and the North Congregational Church. Education is FONHOH’s main area of intervention. Given the fact that 90% of the schools in Haiti were affected as a result of the earthquake, thus leaving 3 million children out of school according to the current statistics, the construction of the school is all the more urgent. Please join us to support FONHOH's mission of building a K-6 school and to demonstrate that indeed, "A New Haiti is Possible"!
Ray Luc Levasseur: Defendant in the Great Sedition Trial of Western Mass Returns After 20 Years
Thursday, November 12, 2009, 7PM
SOM 137, Amherst, MA
November 11, 2009
For Immediate Release
The intent of this message is to clarify that Ray Luc Levasseur will NOT be speaking at tomorrow's event "The Great Western Massachusetts Sedition Trial: Twenty Years Later." He will neither attend nor speak through
video. To do so would be too risky to his parole conditions.
The talk and forum entitled “The Great Western Massachusetts Sedition Trial: Twenty Years Later” will take place on Thursday November 12 at 7:15 p.m. at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in School of Management Room 137.
Participants will include sedition trial defendant Pat Levasseur, members of the 1989 Springfield sedition trial legal defense team, and a juror from the trial.
Related Boston Globe article
November 10, 2009
Press Release
A talk and forum on “The Great Western Massachusetts Sedition Trial: Twenty Years Later” will be held on Thursday November 12 at 7:15 p.m. at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in School of Management Room 137. Participants will include Ray Luc Levasseur and members of the 1989 Springfield sedition trial defense team.
The sponsoring UMass departments and organizations do so because of their commitment to free speech and academic freedom.
Sponsoring departments include:
Communication Department*
Economics Department
History Department
Department of Languages, Literatures, and Culture
Social Thought and Political Economy Program
Sociology Department
Sociology Graduate Student Association
Student Government Association Executive
Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies Program
The event is also sponsored by the following non-profit community organizations, foundations, and businesses: the Rosenberg Fund for Children, Food for Thought Books, Vermont Action for Political Prisoners, and the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities.
Several UMass departments have added their support to this event in the name of protecting the cherished American values of freedom of speech and academic freedom, which they believed to be threatened by the decision to cancel the event under pressure from a variety of outside organizations. Sponsors’ support for this event should in no way be construed as an endorsement of Levasseur, his political beliefs, or any of his past activities.
For further information, contact sedition.trial@gmail.com.
*In the service of instructing student reporters, the Journalism Program in the Department of Communication does not sponsor political guests and is not co-hosting Levasseur's visit to UMass.
Original event description:
In 1989, Ray Luc Levasseur, along with his comrades Pat Levasseur and Richard Williams, stood
trial in Springfield, Massachusetts on Federal charges of seditious conspiracy. After ten months of
deliberation, in the most expensive trial in Massachusetts history, a jury found all three not
guilty of conspiring to overthrow the U.S. government through armed force. In his first public
address in the Pioneer Valley in twenty years, Levasseur will reflect on the past and present
significance of the Springfield sedition trial victory. He will also discuss his life experience as a French-
Canadian youth growing up in a Maine mill town; as a Vietnam veteran; as an anti-imperialist revolutionary
active in the Civil Rights, antiwar, and prison reform movements; as a prisoner arrested with
other members of the “Ohio 7” and incarcerated for twenty years for his involvement in a series of
bombings carried out to protest U.S. backing of South Africa’s racist apartheid regime and Central
American right-wing death-squads, and his 2004 release and ongoing involvement in movements for
social justice.
Part of the UMass Amherst WEB DuBois Library Special Collections Colloquium Series.
For more information contact Erika Arthur at earthur@acad.umass.edu.
Celebrate International Workers’ Day & the Movement for Good Green Jobs
Friday * May 1 * 2009
7-9pm {doors open 6:30}
Campus Center Auditorium, UMass Amherst
followed by Sustainable Energy Summit Dance Party
This event is in conjunction with Co-op Power’s annual Sustainable Energy
Summit. You can register at www.cooppower.coop.
co-hosted by
Western Massachusetts Jobs with Justice
Co-op Power WMUA 91.1FM
UMass Labor Relations & Research Center
UMass Labor/Management Workplace Education
UMass Graduate Student Senate
UMass Student Government Association
University Staff Association / Massachusetts Teachers Association
AFSCME Local 1776
Massachusetts Society of Professors / MTA
American Friends Service Committee
music by
The Raging Grannies * Verne McArthur * Jose <http://www.joseayerve.com/>
Ayerve * Tom Neilson <http://tomneilsonmusic.com/> & Kat Allen * Red Valley
Fog <http://www.myspace.com/redvalleyfog> * Jay Mankita
<http://www.jaymankita.com/>
+
long-time community and labor organizer
Stewart <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-qzEsGJoKM&feature=related> Acuff
{Special Assistant to the President of the AFL-CIO <http://www.aflcio.org/>
{National Jobs with Justice <http://www.jwj.org/> Board Member}
maps & free parking info at http://parking.umass.edu
In Honor of International Women's Day
Everywoman's Center and VOX: Students for Choice Present:
THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES 2009
March 6th: 7:30pm and March 7th: 6pm and 9pm
Bowker Auditorium, UMass Amherst
Open to the public and wheelchair accessible
The Vagina Monologues is an award-winning play based on playwright Eve Ensler’s interviews with over 200 women. The play celebrates women’s lives and sexuality through a series of stories that are at times hilarious, heartbreaking, or sexy. V-Day is a global movement to end the violence that affects one three girls and women in the United States and around the world.
This year’s show spotlights women and girls in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In a war that has raged on and off since 1998, over 300,000 women and girls in the DRC have been raped. Stand up against this violence! Support the Congolese women and girls who have spoken out. Join us for The Vagina Monologues.!
(Due to mature content and language, parental discretion is strongly advised).
Advance tickets are available at the Fine Arts Center, (545-2511) and at Bowker the night of the performances.
Tickets $5 (students and low income), $10 (general public)
Proceeds benefit V-Day, Everywoman’s Center, and VOX: Students for Choice.
For more information about the show or EWC services call 413-545-0883.
SBS Scholarship Application Workshop
The College of Social and Behavioral Sciences is holding a workshop to help
SBS undergraduates build their skills in applying for scholarships. The
workshop will take place:
Thursday, February 12, 2009
5:30 - 7:00 pm
Memorial Hall Lounge
Here is the basic agenda:
1. Where can I find scholarships?
2. How do I put together a competitive application?
3. Q&A
Pizza will be served.
Students are asked to RSVP by email to events@sbs.umass.edu so that we can
order enough pizza.
Presenters include: Anne Peramba (financial aid), Wesley Dunham (Alumni
Association), Meredith Feltus (Commonwealth College), Jackie
Brousseau-Pereira (SBS dean's office), Laura Reed (political science), BJ
Roche (journalism)
Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North
Film in Honor of African-American History Month
Wednesday, February 4, 7 - 9 p.m.
Bartlett Hall Auditorium, Room 65, UMass Amherst
From 1769 to 1820, the DeWolf family trafficked in human beings. Fathers, sons and grandsons sailed from Bristol, RI to West Africa, carrying rum to trade for African men, women and children. Captives were taken to Cuban plantations owned by the DeWolfs or sold at auction. Ships were then loaded with sugar and molasses, bound for the family's rum distilleries in Bristol. Over the generations, the family owned 47 ships that transported thousands of Africans across the Middle Passage into slavery. By the end of his life, James DeWolf had been a U.S. Senator and was reportedly the second richest man in the United States.
In this critically acclaimed film, this Northern family discovers that their ancestors were the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history. Join them as they come face-to-face with the history and legacy of New England's hidden enterprise. The questions the DeWolf descendants face are shared by all of us: What is the legacy of slavery? How does Northern complicity change the equation? What's owed for the actions of our country's ancestor's? What would repair - spiritual and material - really look like? What would it take?
A conversation with filmmaker and family member Katrina Browne; and family member Holly Fulton and her husband, William Peebles, follows the screening of this powerful and deeply personal story. Browne wrote, directed and produced the project, with co-director, editor and writer Alla Kovgan, and co-director and executive producer Jude Ray. In December, the Women Film Critics Circle honored Browne with its "Courage in Film making" award, citing the documentary as one of the three best of 2008. Read more at www.tracesofthetrade.org.
Sponsored by: the Women of Color Leadership Network, the Health Education of University Health Services, the Committee for the Collegiate Education of Black and other Minority Students, and Everywoman's Center, with support from the Sociology Department, the Student Government Association, Student Bridges and the Black Student Union.
Information: Tom Schiff, Ed.D., (413) 577-5181; tschiff@uhs.umass.edu.
Fall 2008 Archive
Tuesday, September 16
and Thursday, September 18
4:00-5:30 pm |
Everywoman's Center Presents: Women and Self-Defense -
Newman Center |
Wednesday, September 17,
4:00 pm |
An Improbable Journey: One Judge's Path to the Federal Bench
Amherst Room, Campus Center 10th Floor |
| Thursday, October 2, 2008, 4:00 pm |
Campus Center 917
(*Your Political Power!) |
| Friday, October 3 8am-4pm |
2nd Annual Nanotechnology and Society Workship:
Nanotechnology and Society: Networks, Risk and Knowledge Sharing
Lincoln Campus Center |
| Monday, October 6 3:30 pm |
An Improbable Journey: One Judge's Path to the Federal Bench
Amherst Room, Campus Center 10th Floor |
Friday, October 10
7:00-10:00 pm |
Nicaraguan Folkloric Dance Ensemble, Newman Center |
| Monday, October 13 |
Columbus Day Holiday |
| Tuesday, October 14 |
Monday class schedule followed |
Saturday, October 18
8:00 am - 12:00 noon |
MOTHERWOMAN PRESENTS: A FAMILY ELECTION EVENT (and onsies party!)
Media Education Foundation on Masonic Street in Northampton. |
Tuesday, October 21,
4:00-5:30 pm |
Old Dynamics, New Spaces? The Europeanization of Blackness
911-15 Campus Center |
| Monday, October 27 |
Mid-semester date - last day to drop with a W |
| Wednesday, November 5 |
Spring Registration Begins |
Wednesday, November 5
7:00 pm |
Resisting Empire: featuring Camilo Mejia
UMass Student Union Ballroom |
| Tuesday, November 11 |
Veterans Day Holiday |
| Wednesday, November 12 |
Tuesday class schedule followed |
Thursday, November 13
4:00-5:30 pm |
Black Life in Sweden: Beyond Licorice and Chocolate
174-76 Campus Center |
| Thurs-Sun, November 27-30 |
Thanksgiving Holiday |
| December 8 & 9 |
Reconfigurations of Racism and New Scenarios of Power after 2001
UMass Campus Center |
| Friday, December 12 |
Last day of classes |
MOTHERWOMAN PRESENTS: A FAMILY ELECTION EVENT (and onsies party!)
Saturday, October 18th from 8:30am-12noon
Media Education Foundation on Masonic Street in Northampton.
Free, open to the public and wheelchair accessible
Childcare Provided: Please call 253-8990 by October 16th to reserve a slot.
Event Schedule
8:30-9am: schmooze, food provided by Woodstar Café.
9-10am: A showing of the powerful, engaging film "The Motherhood
Manifesto" about the political economy of parenthood in America.
10-11am: The film screening will be followed by discussion.
Representatives from the Obama and McCain campaigns have been invited to
be there to answer your questions about laws and policies that would
help parents, families and children.
11-12noon: Decorate baby "onesies" with messages about our hopes and
dreams for our children and families, and the need for a family friendly
America.
Co-sponsored by: Everywoman's Center; Umass Women's Studies; Women of
Color Leadership Network and STPEC.
For more information please contact Chrystel Romero, MomsRising
Coordinator at 253-8990 or chrystel@motherwoman.org
These onesies will be displayed at the event on a clothesline and
locally as part of the national MomsRising.org Onesie Project which is
designed to increase public awareness of the need for a more family
friendly America.
MotherWoman is YOUR mother's support and family advocacy organization.
Our mission is to support and empower mothers to create positive
personal and social change for ourselves, our families, our communities
and the world.
MomsRising of the Pioneer Valley is our political arm which is
affiliated with the national MomsRising.org movement. Our MomsRising of
the Pioneer Valley program is working right here to organize mothers,
fathers and caregivers as political activists to work on issues that
impact YOUR family. Important issues include: Maternity/paternity Leave,
Open, flexible work, TV we choose and after-school programs, Healthcare
for all kids, Excellent childcare, Realistic & fair wages, Sick leave
(M.O.T.H.E.R.S.).
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NOTE OUR NEW ADDRESS*
Melanie DeSilva
Executive Director
MotherWoman, Inc.
96 N. Pleasant St. Suite 202
PO Box 2635
Amherst, MA 01004
(413) 253-8990
melanie@motherwoman.org
http://www.motherwoman.org
Women and the Vote: Use It or Lose It!*
October 2, 2008 in CC 917 at 4:00
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Free, open to the public and wheelchair accessible
(*Your Political Power!)
On August 26, 1920 the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified by one vote and
after more then 70 years of struggle, women in the United States were
finally allowed to vote. How do we honor the women who fought for our
right to participate in this democratic process? How will the up-coming
Presidential election affect the lives of women? How will it impact your
life? Are you registered to vote?
On October 2, 2008, Professor Joyce Averch Berkman, Professor of
History and Women's Studies, (UMass Amherst), will provide a brief
overview of the long fight for women's suffrage and the importance of
women's participation in this years election. We will view selections
from the award winning film, One Woman, One Vote, which documented this
struggle, including why the entrenched opposition feared that the
women's vote would ignite a social revolution. Carol Rothery from the
League of Women Voters will describe their current work to preserve and
promote this right and also conduct voter registration. Don't miss your
chance to be a part of this compelling election! Come and register to
vote! For more information contact: Everywoman's Center @ 545-0883
"This is the only tour that sells”: Tourism, Disaster, and National Identity in New Orleans
Professor Phaedra Pezzullo
Associate Professor of Communication and Culture, Indiana (and 1996 graduate of the STPEC Program)
Monday, October 6 @ 3:30 in the Campus Center 803 UMass-Amherst
For many, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A., was an ideal vacation destination, with the commercial tourist industry providing one third of the municipal budget. This changed on August 29, 2005, when Hurricane Katrina made landfall and, due to a series of events, the majority of the city was submerged underwater. In December 2005, the multinational corporation, Gray Line Tours, announced its business in New Orleans would re-launch featuring “Katrina Tours.” Controversy immediately arose, particularly as neighborhoods previously outside commercial tourist imaginaries now were on tourists’ itineraries. Drawing on secondary debates and participant observation of the tour performances, I argue that tourist practices at disaster sites offer a compelling way to negotiate the social drama of nationhood through challenging tourist imaginaries of space and belonging.
The controversy surrounding Katrina tours also provides an opportunity to consider the ethics and the efficacy of commercial and noncommercial tourist practices in the aftermath of an unjust environmental disaster.
Professor Pezzullo is author of: *Toxic Tourism: Rhetorics of Travel, Pollution, and Environmental Justice* (University of Alabama Press, 2007), Winner of the Winans/Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric/Public Address, the Critical & Cultural Studies Book of the Year, and the Christine L. Oravec Research Award in Environmental Communication. She also co-edited: *Environmental Justice and Environmentalism: The Social Justice Challenge to the Environmental Movement* (MIT Press, 2007). For more information, see her website: http:// www.indiana.edu/~envtrhet
Speaker sponsor: Department of Communication
Host: Prof. Donal Carbaugh: carbaugh@comm.umass.edu
Everywoman's Center Presents: Women and Self-Defense
September 16th and September 18, 2008 from 4:00-5:30 PM
Newman Center/ University of Massachusetts
Free, open to the public and everyone welcome!
On September 16th and September 18, 2008 Everywoman Center at the
University of Massachusetts Amherst will host Janet Aalfs, head
instructor and Director of the Valley Women's Martial Arts, who will
facilitate a two part Women and Self-Defense workshop from 4:00-5:30.
Valley Women's Martial Arts, a not-for-profit school founded in 1977,
provides introductory and ongoing instruction for women and girls of all
ages in an encouraging and friendly environment .The workshop will
combine external and internal martial arts practice, assertiveness
training, and discussion of the issues involved in learning effective
methods for self-protection and violence prevention. This is a special
opportunity not to be missed!
Pre-registration and attendance at both sessions is required and space
is limited. To register please contact: Sandy Mandel at
smandel@admin.umass.edu <mailto:smandel@admin.umass.edu> or 545-5827 and
leave your name, phone number and/or email.
Established in 1972, Everywoman's Center (EWC) is a multicultural
campus-based women's center serving the needs of the diverse cultural
and linguistic populations of the university and surrounding community.
For more information about programs and services contact: 545-0883 or
www.umass.edu/ewc
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An Improbable Journey: One Judge's Path to the Federal Bench
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Time: 4:00 pm
Place: *Amherst Room, Campus Center 10th Floor
Presented by: The Honorable Eduardo C. Robreno '69 (M.S., labor studies),
United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Reception to follow. This event is free and open to the public. Handicap
access is available.
This lecture is part of the annual Dean Alfange, Jr. Lecture Series in
American Constitutionalism, sponsored by the Department of Political
Science.
*Eduardo Robreno, the first Cuban American appointed to the federal bench,
came to the U.S. from Cuba in 1960 through Operation Pedro Pan, which
brought more than 14,000 unaccompanied youth into the country. Following a
brief stay in Florida, he was resettled to Northampton, Massachusetts, to
live with foster parents. He went on to receive a B.A. from Westfield State
College and a master's degree from UMass Amherst. After working as a union
organizer for the Massachusetts Teachers Association, Robreno attended law
school at Rutgers. He served as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of
Justice Antitrust Division from 1978 to 1981 before entering private
practice in Philadelphia. In 1992 he was appointed U.S. District Judge for
the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. *
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Jackie Brousseau-Pereira
Director of External Affairs
Dean's Office
College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
University of Massachusetts Amherst
226 Draper Hall
Amherst, MA 01003
Phone: 413-545-1933
Email: jackie@sbs.umass.edu or jackiebp@gmail.com
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