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.
Month of March 2017
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
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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
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March 11—March 12, March 18—March 19
Science and Engineering Library, Second Floor

The Zube Lecture Series, named for former department head of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning Ervin Zube, continues to enrich our community with the thoughts and works of local, national and international academic and professional leaders.
February 2—April 20, 2017, Thursdays 4:00 pm-5:00 pm
March 31, 2017 4:00 pm-5:00 pm
April 12, 2017 4:00 pm-5:00 pm
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February 9, March 2—March 22, Thursdays
Olver Design Building, 170

The College of Humanities and Fine Arts invites students of all class years and majors to participate in an experiential career series that will provide hands on tools and experience that will help them to succeed in searching and interviewing for jobs and internships.
February 1—March 1, 2017, Wednesdays 6:30 pm-8:15 pm
Goodell Hall, 5th Floor Main Lounge

“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
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March 11—March 20
Fine Arts Center

The Marriott Meals is a core course within the HTM program in which students have the opportunity to manage the restaurant with a team of student employees. Students deliver first-class dining experiences to guests for lunches and dinners. All of the menu items served are made fresh-to-order.
February 7—May 2, 2017, Tue/Wed/Thu 11:45 am-12:30 pm
February 7—May 2, 2017, Tue/Wed 5:45 pm-6:30 pm
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February 28, March 1—March 2, March 14—March 16, April 18
Campus Center - Marriott Center, 1101

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
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March 12—March 19
Hampden Gallery

A Live webinar for faculty is presented by the Disciplinary Association Network for Sustainability. Learn to access expert guidance and curricular materials to engage your students in current and future solutions. This webinar is applicable to any course, in any discipline; discussion to follow.
March 1, 2017
12:30 pm-1:30 pm
Library, W.E.B. Du Bois, 2601

Gretchen Hansen of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and Jordan Read of the USGS will speak about “Climate change impacts on lake thermal habitat.” This talk is part of “Engaging Stakeholders in Climate Adaptation,” a webinar series presented by the Northeast Climate Science Center.
March 1, 2017
3:30 pm
Morrill Science Center, 134

Wondering what you can do with a Sociology major? Join five of our recent Sociology graduates for some ideas, perspective, and advice! This is an excellent networking opportunity, and the format will be a panel discussion followed by a Q&A. Refreshments will be served.
March 1, 2017
4:00 pm
Student Union, Cape Cod Lounge

Studying abroad is an incredible opportunity to see the world, experience new cultures and broaden your perspectives while staying inline with your degree. IPO at UMass Amherst offers over 450 study abroad programs all around. Come and learn how you can study abroad during your time at UMass.
March 1, 2017
4:00 pm-6:00 pm
Student Union Ballroom

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 goal of the conference is to explore the possible intersections (and divergences) regarding cultural, political, and theoretical interventions by different minorities into German public and political discourses on memory, racism, citizenship, immigration and history.
March 3—March 5, 2017 10:00 am
All Campus

Que desagradable explores wrong-doingness as an impolite meeting point between the four artists in this exhibition. Taking direction from Giorgio Adorno's Minima Moralia (1944), the show asks the viewer to recognize everyday beauty as a lie. In the context of the horror of our socio-political moment, where the world is unraveling from its constitutional seems, the only beauty that we might catch is the admittance of that which is frighteningly not beautiful at all.
March 3, 2017
6:00 pm-8:00 pm
UMass NYPOP

UMass President Marty Meehan and UMass Amherst Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy invite the University of Massachusetts community to attend an event to honor Justice David A. Lowy '83 as we celebrate his recent appointment to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
March 8, 2017
5:30 pm
The University of Massachusetts Club

The Department of Music and Dance, in association with the Interdepartmental Program in Film Studies and the Massachusetts Multicultural Film Festival, presents the UMass Amherst Symphony Orchestra performance of “Decasia,” conducted by Ng Tian Hui.
March 8, 2017
7:30 pm
Fine Arts Center Concert Hall

The Conversation is an independent source for informed commentary and analysis, written by the academic and research community and edited by journalists for the general public. Our session will address why academics should write for the general public, how academics can learn to pitch to media outlets, and the benefits of reaching a wide audience through our model. This event is sponsored by the Public Engagement Project.
March 9, 2017
12:00 pm-1:00 pm
Campus Center, Hadley Room

David Gruender of the Boston Symphony Orchestra will be presenting a Renaissance Wednesday Lecture titled “Music Printing in Elizabethan England: Madrigals and Ayres from Thomas Tallis and William Byrd to Thomas Morley.”
March 22, 2017
4:00 pm
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies

The Interdisciplinary Studies Institute (ISI) is delighted to welcome Daniel Kanstroom as our distinguished Resident for 2016-17. Professor Kanstroom will deliver a public lecture entitled ‘Global Deportation: The Rise of a Dangerous New Phenomenon.’
March 22, 2017
4:30 pm-6:00 pm
Old Chapel, Great Hall

Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances, The 11th Annual Writer in Residence Lecture featuring Allyson Hobbs has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience. In this talk, Hobbs argues that the national fraternity of American motorists excluded African Americans during the early to mid-20th century despite the ostensibly democratic nature of the “open road.” Providing a textured account of the emotional lives of black drivers including the sense of pride, the seduction, and the exhilaration that owning a car offered, this talk also considers the fears and anxieties that arose once African Americans motorists got behind the wheel.
March 23, 2017
4:00 pm
Campus Center, 174-76

In partnership with Mongabay, an online environmental science and conservation news site, the School of Earth and Sustainability (SES) hosts a live podcast with researchers from Harvard University's Long Term Ecological Research program in nearby Petersham, Massachusetts.
March 23, 2017
7:00 pm
Integrative Learning Center, S240

Progressive Democrats of America, UMass Democrats, and UMass Progressives present: "Progressive Politics in the Era of Trump: A Dialogue with Congressman Jim McGovern and DNC Deputy Chair Congressman Keith Ellison."The event will be an evening discussion with new DNC Deputy Chair Congressman Keith Ellison and Congressional Progressive Caucus member Congressman Jim McGovern.
March 25, 2017
6:30 pm-8:30 pm
Stockbridge Hall, Bowker Auditorium

Do gender dynamics drive drive women away from science? Does studying science put women on equal footing with men? What roadblocks do women scientists face in promotion in academia? Join us in discussing these and many other issues for women in science as we celebrate the release of Pathways, Potholes, and the Persistence of Women in Science: Reconsidering the Pipeline, written by 21 scholars and edited by faculty advisor to the chancellor for diversity and and inclusive excellence Enobong (Anna) Branch.
March 28, 2017
11:30 am-1:00 pm
Life Science Laboratories, S330

What does the anthropology of white supremacy have to say about the Global War on Terror? Junaid Rana will discuss the concepts of racial becoming and racial infrastructure as part of an ethnographic description of everyday life in a working class Pakistani neighborhood in New York.
March 29, 2017
4:30 pm
Goodell Hall, Bernie Dallas Room
