In accordance with Massachusetts regulations, strict restrictions are in effect for in-person campus events. Most of the the events listed here are taking place remotely on Zoom and other online platforms. See each listing for details. All times are United States Eastern Time Zone.
March 2, 2017
The high prevalence of pediatric obesity is setting children on a trajectory that includes health disparities throughout life. Maureen Black will address the evidence from systems-level interventions conducted among child care centers in promoting healthy habits and preventing obesity among young children.
March 2, 2017
1:00 pm-2:30 pm

Valerie Young, internationally-known expert and author on impostor syndrome, will lead an interactive workshop on how to mitigate [your own] impostor feelings in yourself or others, recognize and address it in the classroom, and work to positively affect changes in academic culture that can fuel self-doubt in students and faculty.
March 2, 2017
2:30 pm-4:00 pm
All Campus

Patricia Strach, associate professor, department of political science and public administration and policy at the University at Albany, presents her talk titled “The Garbage Problem: Corruption, Capacity and Access in Four American Cities, 1880-1910.”
March 2, 2017
3:00 pm
Integrative Learning Center, N400

Find out from four experts what the future holds for U.S.-Philippine relations as the panel tackles the issues of the dispute over the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, the Muslim wars and insurgency in southern Philippines, the “extrajudicial killings” and the strained U.S.-Philippine relations under the Duterte government.
March 2, 2017
4:00 pm-6:00 pm
Herter Hall, 601

In this lecture, Miriam Ticktin, associate professor of Anthropology and Co-Director of Zolberg Institute for Migration and Mobility, The New School, is concerned by the ways in which border walls and zones come not simply to defend (i.e. certain territories), but to define -- that is, to shape or alter categories of natural and human kinds.
March 2, 2017
4:00 pm
Integrative Learning Center, 3rd Floor Communication Hub

The exhibit examines the history of Quakers and Quakerism in New England drawing upon the extraordinary records of the New England Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends.
January 23—August 18, 2017, Mon/Tue/Wed/Thu/Fri/Sat
This event does NOT occur on:
July 4
Library, W.E.B. Du Bois, Lower Level, Floor 25

The UMass Amherst Libraries host “Color Woodblock Prints,” an exhibition by Linda Mahoney ’79.
January 23—April 27, 2017, Mon/Tue/Wed/Thu 8:00 am-11:00 pm
January 27—April 28, 2017, Fridays 8:00 am-5:00 pm
January 28—April 22, 2017, Saturdays 9:00 am-5:00 pm
January 29—April 23, 2017, Sundays 1:00 pm-11:00 pm
This event does NOT occur on:
March 11—March 12, March 18—March 19
Science and Engineering Library, Second Floor

“Emancipating the Past: Kara Walker's Tale of Slavery and Power” from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation.
February 2—April 30, 2017, Tue/Wed/Thu/Fri 11:00 am-4:30 pm
February 2—April 30, 2017, weekends 2:00 pm-5:00 pm
This event does NOT occur on:
March 11—March 20
Fine Arts Center

Groundbreaking at the time of its premiere, yet condemned for its portrayal of a “vicious, heartless, cowardly, unmoral, mischief-making vixen,” Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler has since come to be regarded as one of the most dimensional character portraits in theatrical history.
February 22, 2017 7:30 pm
February 24—February 25, 2017 7:30 pm
March 1—March 4, 2017 7:30 pm
March 4, 2017 2:00 pm
Rand Theater

Using textile techniques such as knitting, weaving, and embroidery, Jenine Shereos explores a dialog with the natural world in which threads interact with the landscape or the architecture surrounding it.
February 26—March 27, 2017, Tue/Wed/Thu/Fri 1:00 pm-6:00 pm
February 26—March 27, 2017, Sundays 2:00 pm-5:00 pm
This event does NOT occur on:
March 12—March 19
Hampden Gallery
