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 April 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
Help UMass and your residence hall out-green the competition by participating in the 2017 RecycleMania competition.
January 23—April 1, 2017
All Campus
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
Weekly 30-minute mindfulness practice followed by sharing of resources, action-based opportunities, and ideas.
January 30—May 8, 2017, Mondays 3:00 pm-3:45 pm
Library, W.E.B. Du Bois, 1638
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
“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
A drop-in group for students of color facilitated by Michelle Youngblood of CMASS and Linda Scott, CCPH.
February 2—May 4, 2017, Thursdays 4:00 pm-5:30 pm
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March 11—March 18, Thursdays
CMASS Wilder hall 102 and various sites listed on flyer
The Humanities and Fine Arts Student Leadership Board plan field trips and events, and does fun activities.
February 6—April 24, 2017, Mondays 8:00 pm-9:00 pm
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March 13
South College, E470
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
Learn about keeping yourself, your friends, family, pets, and the community safe with the UMass Medical Reserve Corps (MRC).
February 7—April 18, 2017, Tuesdays
May 3, 2017
April 6, 2017, Thursdays
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March 14—March 21
Skinner Hall, 12
Represent UMass Amherst to new and returning students during move-in.
March 1—April 7, 2017
Online
The 24th annual Massachusetts Multicultural Film Festival presents its spring season.
March 1—April 19, 2017, Wednesdays 7:30 pm-10:00 pm
April 4, 2017 6:30 pm-10:00 pm
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March 15
Isenberg School of Management, 137
Adam Hall of UMass Amherst will teach a class that will explore some of the central ideas of Renaissance Humanism and will include reading “Romeo and Juliet” as a class in depth.
March 16—May 4, 2017, Thursdays 7:00 pm-9:00 pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
The late artist and Holyoke resident Edward Kwiatkowski was born with cerebral palsy and had only a 6th grade level education.
March 22—April 28, 2017, Wed/Thu/Fri 1:00 pm-5:30 pm
March 27—April 25, 2017, Mon/Tue 1:00 pm-7:00 pm
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April 17
Augusta Savage Gallery
Celebrate an exhibition of digital prints, lithographs, and mixed-media maquettes by the Brooklyn-based artist Caitlin Cherry.
March 23—April 30, 2017, Tue/Wed/Thu/Fri 11:00 am-4:30 pm
March 23—April 30, 2017, weekends 2:00 pm-5:00 pm
University Museum of Contemporary Art
New works are the lifeblood of the American theater.
March 30, 2017 7:30 pm
April 1, 2017 7:30 pm
April 6, 2017 7:30 pm
April 8, 2017 2:00 pm
April 8, 2017 5:30 pm
Curtain Theater
The Scandinavian Studies program will hold an interdisciplinary two-day symposium with guest scholars from the U.S. and Scandinavia, who will address the topic “Managing Multicultural Scandinavia.”
March 31—April 1, 2017 2:00 pm-6:00 pm
Integrative Learning Center, 400
The College of Nursing will be holding our annual Scholarship Ceremony Brunch to celebrate our student awardees and the wonderful donors that make the scholarships possible.
April 1, 2017
10:30 am-12:30 pm
Campus Center, Amherst Room
Softball vs. George Washington
April 1, 2017
12:00 pm
Sortino Field Softball Complex
Softball vs. George Washington
April 1, 2017
2:00 pm
Sortino Field Softball Complex
The event includes a Sustainability Showcase featuring a variety of UMass Amherst campus-based sustainability initiatives, talks by UMass Amherst geosciences professors Julie Brigham-Grette and Robert DeConto, as well as the presentation of the Libraries’ 2017 Sustainability Hero Award to Massachusetts State Representative Solomon Goldstein-Rose, and the awarding of first place prize for the Undergraduate Sustainability Research Award.
April 1, 2017
4:00 pm-7:00 pm
Library, W.E.B. Du Bois, Lower Level
Participate in the Talking Truth reflective writing exercise as part of the UMass Libraries’ spring Climate Change event, which will also include a Sustainability Showcase, speakers and refreshments.
April 1, 2017
4:00 pm-5:00 pm
Learning Commons in W.E.B. Du Bois Library, Lower Level
Casting Crowns “The Very Next Thing” Tour features K-LOVE Radio's Male Artist of the Year Danny Gokey and special guests Unspoken.
April 1, 2017
7:00 pm
Mullins Center
The Cape Verdean Student Alliance of UMass Amherst presents our annual Cultural Night focused on celebrating 35 years of being a successful RSO on campus.
April 1, 2017
7:30 pm-1:45 am
Student Union Ballroom
Students and teachers from area public schools and from as two schools in Eastern Massachusetts show their work in a collaborative exhibit organized by the UMass Amherst Department of Art.
April 2—April 9, 2017, Sundays 1:00 pm-4:00 pm
April 3—April 10, 2017, weekdays 11:00 am-4:00 pm
Herter Art Gallery, all
Softball vs. George Washington
April 2, 2017
12:00 pm
Sortino Field Softball Complex
Women's Lacrosse vs. Saint Joseph's
April 2, 2017
1:00 pm
Garber Field
The Department of Music & Dance presents the UMass Concert Band, conducted by Timothy T. Anderson.
April 2, 2017
2:00 pm
Fine Arts Center Concert Hall
Alta Luna Consort will perform a program titled “Master to Student: Isaac to Senfl.”
April 2, 2017
2:00 pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
The Department of Music & Dance presents Bach's Solo Cello Suites in performance.
April 2, 2017
9:30 pm
Fine Arts Center Bezanson Recital Hall
Registration for fall semester courses begins.
April 3, 2017
Linda Tropp, professor of social psychology in the department of psychological and brain sciences, will speak on “Are We Stronger Together? How Contact Between Groups Transforms Attitudes and Social Relations.”
April 3, 2017
12:15 pm-1:15 pm
Thompson Hall, 620
Panelist will discuss their recent work and offer insights into the present and future of media and U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East.
April 3, 2017
3:00 pm-4:30 pm
Integrative Learning Center, Hub, 3rd floor
Marie Roche of UMass Amherst will teach a class on “King John” and “Richard II.”
April 3—May 22, 2017, Mondays 5:00 pm-6:30 pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
The Dinner On Us parent-to-parent roundtable offers campus and Amherst Family Center families with young children the opportunity to learn more about themselves while acquiring new approaches to raising children.
April 3, 2017
5:30 pm-7:30 pm
Student Union
May is Asian-Pacific Islander American Heritage Month (APIA)– a tribute to the generations of Asians and Pacific Islanders who have enriched America’s history and are instrumental in its future success.
April 4, 2017
All Campus
The Yuri Kochiyama Cultural Center will be hosting an opening reception for this student-led art exhibit. The exhibit showcases the art created by Jerome Tiunayan, an artist based in New York. His more recent work focuses on Filipino familial relations and ingrained sexual repression.
April 4, 2017
6:30 am-8:00 pm
Student Union Art Gallery
The School of Public Health and Health Sciences (SPHHS) presents its 20th Annual Research Day.
April 4, 2017
2:00 pm-5:00 pm
Student Union Ballroom
Softball vs. Fairleigh Dickinson
April 4, 2017
2:00 pm
Sortino Field Softball Complex
Center for Women and Community and Career Services present "$tart $mart: Salary Negotiation Skills for Women."
April 4, 2017
4:00 pm-6:00 pm
New Africa House, 203
In this energetic cinematic treat, filmmakers Shaul Betser and Asaf Galay trace the little-known history of Israeli comics—and show how local artists redefined the American superhero for Israeli and Jewish contexts.
April 4, 2017
4:00 pm
Integrative Learning Center, S404
Manuel Pastor's talk, "Equity, Growth, and Community: Progressive Economics, Metro Strategies, and Social Movements in Uncertain Times," reviews the emerging evidence on the relationship between equity and economic growth, situates this in the changing demographics of metropolitan America, and suggests how all the emerging activism at the state and metro level could bubble up to transform national discourse and policy.
April 4, 2017
4:00 pm-5:30 pm
Gordon Hall, 303
Professor Christian Appy of the Department of History will present his talk, “The Atomic Origins of America’s National Security State: How Nuclear Weapons Produced an Imperial Presidency and Degraded Democracy.”
April 4, 2017
4:00 pm
Goodell Hall, Bernie Dallas Room
Softball vs. Fairleigh Dickinson
April 4, 2017
4:00 pm
Sortino Field Softball Complex
Professor Joseph B. Berger presents his talk titled “Global Challenge in Higher Education Research.”
April 4, 2017
4:00 pm
Hasbrouck Hall, 138
The personal identity and the reconstruction of memories and the past are the theme of Carla Subirana's intimate film Nedar.
April 4, 2017
6:30 pm
Integrative Learning Center, S350
Through creative expression and discourse, let’s grapple as a community about the issues that students face and work together to build solidarity in our communities.
April 4, 2017
7:00 pm-9:00 pm
Berkshire Dining Commons, Malcolm X Cultural Center
Jason Vieaux has earned a reputation for putting his expressive gifts and virtuosity at the service of a remarkably wide range of music.
April 4, 2017
7:30 pm
Bowker Auditorium
Join MaryBeth Kimball, Director of New Business Development and Recruitment for Professional Programs, for an overview of Isenberg's Online MBA admissions process, curriculum overview, and student experience.
April 5, 2017
12:00 pm-1:00 pm
Online
“The Happiest Song Plays Last” is written by Quiara Alegría Hudes and directed by Jennifer Onopa.
April 5, 2017 7:30 pm
April 7—April 8, 2017 7:30 pm
April 12—April 15, 2017 7:30 pm
April 15, 2017 2:00 pm
Rand Theater
Mazen Naous of the English Department will be presenting a Renaissance Wednesday Lecture titled “The Reinvention of Othello in Diana Abu-Jaber's novel Crescent.”
April 5, 2017
4:00 pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Research from social psychology offers many insights into the ways in which Whites are responding to shifts in norms and demographics in our country.
April 5, 2017
4:30 pm
Student Union, Cape Cod Lounge
Join us for a remarkable talk by Sally Butcher, London based cookbook author and proprietress of the notable Persian food store Persepolis as she takes us on a journey around the world via the salad bowl.
April 5, 2017
7:00 pm
Bowker Auditorium
Director Rama Thiaw (born 1978) is an African filmmaker and screenwriter. She is known for her 2009 documentary “Boul Fallé, la Voie de la lutte and e”her most recent documentary “The Revolution Won’t be Televised.”
April 5, 2017
7:30 pm
Isenberg School of Management, 137
The UMass Department of Music and Dance presents Complete Violin Sonatas and Partitas with the UMass Violin Studio.
April 5, 2017
9:30 pm
Fine Arts Center Bezanson Recital Hall
Third Annual Five College Native American and Indigenous Studies Symposium presents Braiding Story, Skills and Sustenance with Hope for a Sustainable Future.
April 6, 2017 6:30 pm-8:30 pm
April 7—April 8, 2017 9:00 am-7:00 pm
April 8, 2017 10:00 am-12:00 pm
UMass Student Union Cape Cod Lounge
Meet ISSR's new Foundations Grants Developent Specialist to strategize for your foundation grant-seeking. This meeting will offer insight and guidance to faculty in developing winning proposals to foundations - focusing in on three major grant programs with upcoming deadlines.
April 6, 2017
12:00 pm-1:30 pm
Bartlett Hall, 107
The Faculty Senate is a representative body responsible for faculty participation in university planning and governance.
April 6, 2017
3:30 pm
Herter Hall, 227
“Managing Risks to Infrastructure with Real-Time Monitoring of Performance” presented by W. Allen Marr, founder and CEO of Geocomp.
April 6, 2017
4:00 pm-5:00 pm
Integrative Learning Center, S240
Enjoy great conversation with students and UMass community members over free coffee, tea and tasty snacks.
April 6, 2017
4:00 pm-5:00 pm
Campus Center, Blue Wall
Come watch the top entrepreneurship teams of UMass compete for up to $65k for their startups.
April 6, 2017
5:00 pm-8:00 pm
Campus Center, Amherst Room
The Department of Music & Dance presents the Advanced Percussion Ensemble, directed by Ayano Kataoka.
April 6, 2017
7:30 pm
Fine Arts Center Concert Hall
Called "an American original" by the Daily Beast, Edie Meidav is the author of Kingdom of the Young (Sarabande, 2017), a collection of stories with a nonfiction coda, as well as three novels, most recently "Lola, California" (FSG) and "Crawl Space" (FSG).
April 6, 2017
8:00 pm
Memorial Hall, Memorial Hall
Susan Clayton, Whimore-Williams professor of psychology at the College of Wooster in Ohio, presents “Psychology and Global Climate Change: From Denial and Depression to Adaptation and Resilience.”
April 7, 2017
1:00 pm-2:30 pm
Tobin Hall, 423
Dawn Wright, chief scientist, ESRI, presents “Swells, Soundings, and Sustainability in the Ocean,” a brief history of how the ocean has been mapped from ancient times to the present.
April 7, 2017
3:00 pm-4:35 pm
Old Chapel, auditorium
Come and meet the Tobacco-Free Ambassadors at the Five Colleges Relay for Life event.
April 7, 2017
3:00 pm-6:00 pm
Boyden Gymnasium
Teams, consisting of three members, strive to arrive first at “pit stops” at the end of each leg of the race.
April 7, 2017
6:30 pm-11:00 pm
All Campus
The Department of Music & Dance presents the 19th Annual High School Jazz Festival, coordinated by Jeffrey W. Holmes, with guest adjudicator, Terence Blanchard, trumpet.
April 8, 2017
8:30 am-6:00 pm
Fine Arts Center
Horticultural topics covered will be the basics of planting fruit trees, including site selection, choice of variety and rootstock, planting best practices, tree training and pruning, fertilization and ongoing fruit tree care.
April 8, 2017
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Dowse Orchards
The Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies Program presents the inaugural Five College Symposium on "Politics in Russia and Eurasia in Turbulent Times."
April 8, 2017
10:30 am-5:00 pm
Herter Hall, 601
Join campus and community members for the eighth annual 5K Dash and Dine, hosted by UMass Dining.
April 8, 2017
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Southwest Residential Area
Special Saturdays is a program of the UMass Office of Family Resources.
April 8, 2017
1:00 pm-4:00 pm
Amherst Town Common
UMass International Students Club (ISC) is hosting its 3rd Annual International Festival.
April 8, 2017
1:00 pm-4:00 pm
Amherst Town Common
Learn the basics of pest and disease identification and Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in the home orchard.
April 8, 2017
1:00 pm-3:00 pm
Dowse Orchards
Foam N' Glow exploded onto the scene in 2011, and has since sold-out live tour productions in more than 50 cities across the United States.
April 8, 2017
8:00 pm
Mullins Center
The Department of Music & Dance presents a performance by the University Chorale with Hampshire Young People's Chorus, conducted by Stephen A. Paparo and KC Conlan.
April 9, 2017
4:00 pm
Wesley United Methodist Church
The Department of Music & Dance presents a Shakespeare Concert, coordinated by Joshua Michal, horn and Joseph Summer, director of The Shakespeare Concert series.
April 9, 2017
7:30 pm
Fine Arts Center Bezanson Recital Hall
Join us for an informative discussion with Attorney Dan Berger, a partner at the law firm, Curran and Berger, LLP Immigration Law.
April 10, 2017
5:00 pm-7:00 pm
Campus Center, 165-169
The Dinner On Us parent-to-parent roundtable offers campus and Amherst Family Center families with young children the opportunity to learn more about themselves while acquiring new approaches to raising children.
April 10, 2017
5:30 pm-7:30 pm
Student Union
Join the Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneurship for a film screening of "She Started It," a new documentary film that follows five trailblazing young female entrepreneurs through their journeys of entrepreneurship.
April 10, 2017
6:00 pm-8:00 pm
Integrated Sciences Building, 135
Join College of Nursing alumni at Tavern in the Square-Central Square to socialize, network, and have fun with alumni and graduating seniors.
April 10, 2017
6:00 pm-9:00 pm
Tavern in the Square - Central Square
Louise Wallenberg of Stockholm University will speak on “Fashion, Film, Stardom: Scandinavians in Hollywood” as part of mini-residency in German and Scandinavian Studies.
April 10, 2017
7:30 pm
Integrative Learning Center, S240
The Department of Music & Dance presents a chamber concert by ensembles from the UMass String program, directed by Elizabeth Chang.
April 10, 2017
7:30 pm
Fine Arts Center Bezanson Recital Hall
In this lecture, Antonia Darder draws on her extensive scholarship on Paulo Freire to talk about the politics of classroom life, and the relationship between students' bodies in the classroom and the social and material processes of knowledge construction.
April 11, 2017
11:30 am-12:30 pm
Furcolo Hall, 101
The University Women's Network (UWN) will continue their speaker luncheon series with an expert staff member from the Hadley Garden Center. The focus will be on the basics of growing your own food, whether in a pot or plot.
April 11, 2017
12:00 pm-1:00 pm
Campus Center, Hadley
Jose Antonio Vargas is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, filmmaker and media entrepreneur.
April 11, 2017
4:00 pm
Student Union Ballroom
Michael Puett, the leading scholar in early Chinese history, literature, and philosophy, the author of The Path: What Chinese Chinese Philosophers Can Teach US about Good Life, one of the most popular professors at Harvard University, featured in New York Times, Boston Globe, and The Guardian will visit UMass Amherst and talk about early Chinese history and culture.
April 11, 2017
5:00 pm-6:45 pm
Herter Hall, 301
The Hope Animal-Assisted Crisis Response team and four-pawed member Brinkley are guests at the UMass Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) meeting.
April 11, 2017
5:30 pm-7:00 pm
Skinner Hall, 112
The Stonewall Center and University Health Services sponsor rapid HIV and sexually transmitted infection (gonorrhea and chlamydia) testing on campus during the school year for UMass students.
April 12, 2017
10:00 am-1:00 pm
University Health Services (UHS), Ground Floor
Techspresso Retreats are drop-in events where faculty can work with key instructional innovation staff and resources, along with campus partners to bring instructional ideas to life. Transform your course completely or simply add a new component.
April 12, 2017
10:00 am-4:00 pm
Library, W.E.B. Du Bois, 7th Floor
John Drury, Reader in Social Psychology at the University of Sussex, presents (Dis)empowering Prejudice Through Collective Action: An Elaborated Social Identity Model.
April 12, 2017
12:00 pm-1:30 pm
Tobin Hall, 423
This forum featuring scholars in education and Africana studies seeks to engage overlapping conversations about the illusion of freedom, language of difference, and centrality of race in education as part of ongoing national public discourse.
April 12, 2017
12:00 pm-2:00 pm
Furcolo Hall, 101
Patricia Marten DiBartolo, Faculty Director of the Sciences, Caroline L. Wall '27 Professor of Psychology and 2008 recipient of Smith’s Sherrerd Prize for Distinguished Teaching at Smith College, will highlight in this talk the strategies and principles that can help to propel our classrooms toward better learning for all students.
April 12, 2017
12:15 pm-1:30 pm
Campus Center, 174-76
Keith Nislow of UMass Amherst and NE CSC will speak about "Drought in the Northeast and Implications for Ecosystems."
April 12, 2017
3:30 pm
Morrill Science Center, 134
Joel Mason, professor of medicine and nutrition at Tufts University, will provide the keynote lecture titled “Micronutrients and Cancer Prevention: Making Sense of a U-shaped World.”
April 12, 2017
4:00 pm-6:45 pm
Student Union, Ballroom
The Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management (HTM) at the Isenberg School of Management invites you to its Annual Awards Dinner at the Boston Park Plaza.
April 12, 2017
6:00 pm-8:30 pm
Boston Park Plaza
At the dawn of the 20th century, a multi-generational family in the Gullah community on the Sea Islands off of South Carolina struggle to maintain their cultural heritage and folklore while contemplating a migration to the mainland, even further from their roots.
April 12, 2017
7:30 pm
Isenberg School of Management, 137
Ruth Milkman, professor of sociology at the CUNY Graduate Century and the Joseph F.
April 13, 2017
11:30 am-1:30 pm
Campus Center, Amherst Room
For the final session of this semester, we will have an open forum with the topics that you bring to the space. Come for lunch, connect, and exchange ideas, views, and teaching practices with other international faculty, post-docs, and graduate students.
April 13, 2017
12:15 pm-1:45 pm
Goodell Hall, 301 Conference Room
This past June Congress approved the establishment of a fiscal oversight board to take control over all budgetary decisions by the government of Puerto Rico.
April 13—April 14, 2017 1:30 pm-7:00 pm
Campus Center
Glennys Farrar of New York University speaks on "Dark Matter: Puzzles and Clues."
April 13, 2017
4:00 pm-5:00 pm
Integrated Sciences Building, 135
Get the inside stories of the new Design Building, renovated Old Chapel, South College addition, Integrative Learning Center and others.
April 13, 2017
4:00 pm-5:30 pm
Library, W.E.B. Du Bois, Meet in Lobby
Feeling stressed and overwhelmed? Want a little break from school and work? Come join Active Minds and SASE for a day of de-stressing and relaxation! We have tons of fun and relaxing activities for everyone.
April 13, 2017
5:00 pm-7:00 pm
Campus Center, 165-169
The lecture explores how the figure of "the terrorist" and the “war on terror” were invented by the media and political elites to justify increasing surveillance and violence domestically, and an illegal war in the Middle East internationally.
April 13, 2017
5:30 pm
Integrative Learning Center, HUB, 3rd Floor
The world-renowned linguist, philosopher, author and political activist Noam Chomsky will speak on “Prospects for Survival.”
April 13, 2017
7:30 pm
Mullins Center
The Department of Music & Dance presents a performance by the Jazz Lab Ensemble, directed by Nate Gowen and Dann Friedman.
April 13, 2017
7:30 pm
Fine Arts Center Bezanson Recital Hall
Come by the 7th floor of the W.E.B. Du Bois Library and innovate at a Techspresso Retreat, a drop-in event where faculty can work with key instructional innovation staff and resources to bring instructional ideas to life.
April 14, 2017
10:00 am-4:00 pm
Library, W.E.B. Du Bois, 7th floor
For Native-owned enterprises, entrepreneurs and non-profit organizations to learn and learn from each other.
April 14, 2017
11:15 am
Campus Center, Amherst Room, 1009
Presented by the UMass Student Farming Enterprise and the UMass Permaculture Initiative, this market features student made and grown produce, crafts, art and other goods for sale.
April 14, 2017 12:00 pm-4:00 pm
April 21, 2017 12:00 pm-4:00 pm
April 28, 2017 12:00 pm-4:00 pm
Student Union
Three leading scholars of science in society discuss the theoretical rewards and practical dynamics of international and interdisciplinary collaboration.
April 14, 2017
12:00 pm-1:30 pm
Bartlett Hall, ISSR Lab Room 107
The symposium will focus on the topic of "Methods of Indigenous Empowerment" with keynote speaker Jamie Morisson.
April 14, 2017
2:00 pm-5:45 pm
Campus Center, Amherst Room,1009
Do you have an interest in Science, Engineering, Technology, or Math? Come to STEM Slam to watch fellow graduate and undergraduate students give 3 minute talks on a wide range of topics including:
April 14, 2017
2:00 pm-4:00 pm
Herter Hall, 231
Lecture by Richard Beaudoin, Brandeis University and The Royal Academy of Music.
April 14, 2017
2:30 pm-3:30 pm
Fine Arts Center, 272
As part of the month-long Bach Festival and Symposium at UMass Amherst, the Saxophone Studio presents a concert titled "Organ Works and Beyond."
April 14, 2017
9:30 pm
Fine Arts Center Bezanson Recital Hall
The Northeast Section of the American Scientific Glassblowers Society will be holding their spring meeting at the University Glassblowing Lab.
April 15, 2017
10:00 am-4:30 pm
Lederle Graduate Research Center, A19
This presentation will explore how fruit can be incorporated into an edible landscape setting.
April 15, 2017
10:00 am-1:00 pm
French Hall
Brought to you by the UMass Native American Student Association at the Curry Hicks Cage on the UMass Amherst campus.
April 15, 2017
11:30 am-6:00 pm
Curry Hicks Cage
Track and Field Minutemen Invitational
April 15, 2017
11:30 am
Track & Field Complex
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April 15, 2017
12:00 pm
Sortino Field Softball Complex
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April 15, 2017
2:00 pm
Sortino Field Softball Complex
Featuring Sandra Alvarez and Alberto Abreu, two leading Afro-Cuban intellectual-activists.
April 17, 2017
4:00 pm-7:00 pm
Berkshire Dining Commons, Malcolm X Cultural Center
The Near Death Experience Project is a devised theater piece that explores personal histories, experiences and our potential for change.
April 17, 2017
5:30 pm
UMass NYPOP in NYC
Due to the Patriots' Day holiday, a Monday class schedule will be followed.
April 18, 2017
A collaborative exhibition featuring animations, graphic novels, oil paintings, short films and installations by students.
April 18—April 21, 2017 10:00 am-5:00 pm
Student Union Art Gallery, 326
"The New Antidiscriminatory Subjects: Cartography of Anti-Racist Struggle in The Cuba of the XXI Century" presented by Roberto Zurbano, intellectual-activist, Casa de las Americas, Cuba.
April 18, 2017
5:00 pm-7:00 pm
Library, W.E.B. Du Bois, 2601
Four different women from four different ethnic backgrounds, four voices heard and one story told. HerStory is the single account of love, pain, struggle, and triumph, spoken over melody and song, tear shed and laughter.
April 18, 2017
6:00 pm-8:00 pm
New Africa House, Theater (Basement)
UMass Students for Reproductive Justice present a panel discussion on the intersection of reproductive justice activism and politics on a state and local level.
April 18, 2017
6:00 pm
Campus Center, 174-176
The Department of Music & Dance presents Bach's Solo Piano works performed by Piano students of Gilles Vonsattel and Nadine Shank.
April 18, 2017
9:30 pm
Fine Arts Center Bezanson Recital Hall
The School of Earth and Sustainability (SES) marks its one-year anniversary by hosting the official public launch, showcasing the important work of SES faculty and students, and to celebrate this cross-disciplinary partnership that spans two colleges and includes five departments.
April 19, 2017
10:30 am-3:30 pm
Olver Design Building
“Critical Listening and Storying: Sustaining Relationships Within and Beyond Research,” presented by Timothy San Pedro.
April 19, 2017
12:00 pm-1:15 pm
Furcolo Hall, 101
Elizabeth (Biz) Nijdam (University of Michigan) will investigate how graphic novelist Anke Feuchtenberger came to adopt an early German expressionist style in her comics seventy years after the peak of this artistic movement.
April 19, 2017
4:00 pm-5:00 pm
Herter Hall, 301
The choice to pursue a given professional path may feel free but is often constrained by subtle social cues about who does and doesn’t “belong there.” This lecture will show how such constraints can be lifted to allow students real freedom to pursue any academic and professional path, especially ones where their group is underrepresented.
April 19, 2017
4:00 pm
Goodell Hall, Bernie Dallas Room
A panel of experts in Afro-braiding will choose the winners of the 4-hour competition.
April 19, 2017
5:00 pm-9:00 pm
Berkshire Dining Commons, Malcolm X Cultural Center
Boardwalk Bonanza will feature sidewalk games, free giveaways, and an outdoor viewing of "Finding Dory" at 9:15 p.m.! Enjoy snacks, including a "king-sized" churro bar, during the movie!
April 19, 2017
6:00 pm-11:00 pm
Southwest Residential Area, Southwest Beach
Professor Paul K. Barten will discuss environmental change and sustainability.
April 19, 2017
6:30 pm
Campus Center, Auditorium
Hosted by the University Union debate club and sponsored by UMass departments of Political Science, Communication, History and Legal Studies.
April 19, 2017
7:00 pm-8:30 pm
Student Union Ballroom
Gain insights into your personal journey toward forward-thinking work in sustainable living and community building within the fields of education, entrepreneurialism and green building.
April 19, 2017
7:00 pm-9:00 pm
Library, W.E.B. Du Bois, 2601
A film about the search for the German teenage girl who took care of the filmmaker between 1948-1950 in Walbrzch, Poland where he was born. Knowing only her first name and circulating a small photograph taken in 1950 of the two, the director explores the urban landscapes of western Poland and the journey involved in their unexpected reunion that recently took place in Ibbenburen, Germany. Valley Premiere.
April 19, 2017
7:30 pm
Isenberg School of Management, 137
Directed by Jeffrey W. Holmes, the award-winning Jazz Ensemble I & Studio Orchestra presents their annual spring concert.
April 19, 2017
7:30 pm
Fine Arts Center Concert Hall
Student Legal Services Office and the Graduate Student Senate offer an opportunity to learn more about graduate student rights as an employee.
April 20, 2017
12:00 pm-1:30 pm
Campus Center, 903
Jammin' in the Sand will feature field games, BBQ-style food, fried Oreos and student performances.
April 20, 2017
4:00 pm-9:00 pm
Southwest Residential Area, Southwest Beach
University of Massachusetts Athletics celebrates the annual football spring game with a youth clinic from 5 to 6 p.m., student BBQ from 6 to 7:30 p.m., and kickoff at 7 p.m.
April 20, 2017
5:00 pm
McGuirk Alumni Stadium
The Department of Music and Dance presents a guest artist concert featuring Philipp A. Stäudlin, saxophone, and with Yoko Hagino, piano.
April 20, 2017
7:30 pm
Fine Arts Center Bezanson Recital Hall
Seniors Adan Alarcon, Brianna Anderson, Kiera Cecchini, Selina-Sam Clarke, Helen Duros, Rebecca Finell, Eric Flores, Mackenzie McClung, Melanie Ostiguy, Nichole Perkins and Amanda Somma present their senior thesis concert, In Residence.
April 20—April 22, 2017 7:30 pm-9:30 pm
Bowker Auditorium
Come celebrate Earth Day with over 30 campus and community groups and activities throughout campus.
April 21, 2017
8:00 am-4:00 pm
Student Union, North Lawn
Help the Tobacco-Free Ambassadors clean up the campus on Earth Day.
April 21, 2017
8:00 am-4:00 pm
Student Union, North Lawn
Do you like reducing pollution and free coffee? Join Green Commute Day. Register in advance, arrive to campus by 10 a.m.
April 21, 2017
8:00 am-10:00 am
Student Union, North Lawn
Fun in the Sun will feature a baby animal petting zoo, the two largest inflatable obstacle courses in New England, a Jousting Arena and more.
April 21, 2017
2:00 pm-8:00 pm
Southwest Residential Area, Southwest Beach
Women's Lacrosse vs. George Washington
April 21, 2017
3:00 pm
Garber Field
Enjoy great conversation with students and UMass community members over free coffee, tea and tasty snacks.
April 21, 2017
4:00 pm-5:00 pm
Campus Center, Blue Wall
The Department of Music and Dance presents music by J.S. Bach, a student/faculty collaboration, in conjunction with this year's Bach Festival and Symposium.
April 21, 2017
5:00 pm
Fine Arts Center Bezanson Recital Hall
Closing reception for a collaborative exhibit featuring animations, graphic novels, oil paintings, short films and installations by students.
April 21, 2017
6:00 pm-8:00 pm
Student Union Art Gallery, 326
Protect Our Breasts and its UMass Amherst Chapter will be hosting their fourth annual EARTHDAYogathon fundraiser to celebrate Earth Day.
April 22, 2017
8:00 am-4:00 pm
Fine Arts Center, Terrace
Various speakers will present lectures and demonstrations on the topic of historical swordsmanship.
April 22, 2017
9:00 am-4:00 pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Meet up with representatives from Talking Truth in the Climate Transformer area.
April 22, 2017
10:00 am-4:00 pm
Amherst Town Common
Northeast Area Government presents QuadFest, an annual celebration and get-together for students in the Northeast Quad.
April 22, 2017
12:00 pm-4:00 pm
Northeast Residential Area
The Residence Hall Association (RHA) is hosting its first Hall Brawl, a fun event for residential students who compete in activities such as dodgeball, trivia games, and tug-of-war and one team will win a grand prize.
April 22, 2017
2:00 pm-5:00 pm
All Campus
"Return of the Mothership," Ping Chong and Talvin Wilks in conversation with Priscilla Page about the creative process and social justice in theater one year after Collidescope 2.0.
April 22, 2017
4:00 pm
Rand Theater
Join the UMass Gospel Choir and UMass Brothers and Sisters in Christ for our annual UMass Gospel Concert featuring award-winning gospel singer Deon Kipping.
April 22, 2017
6:30 pm-9:30 pm
Student Union Ballroom
This performance is sold out.
April 22, 2017
7:30 pm
Grace Episcopal Church
The 11th Annual UMass Car show, hosted by UMass Motorsport, is a free family-friendly event, with something for everyone.
April 23, 2017
9:00 am-5:00 pm
Lot 33 Southwest
Women's Lacrosse vs. George Mason
April 23, 2017
1:00 pm
Garber Field
This program is sold out.
April 23, 2017
3:00 pm
Grace Episcopal Church
The Theater Department, the Amherst College department of music and Pioneer Valley Jazz Shares, present a performance by the Feya Faku Quartet, featuring Feya Faku, trumpet, John Kordalewski, piano, Carlos Pino, bass, and Kesivan Naidoo, drums.
April 23, 2017
7:00 pm
New Africa House
The University Programming Council presents its annual Spring Concert featuring Jon Bellion, Lil Dicky and 2 Chainz.
April 23, 2017
7:00 pm
Mullins Center
"The Art and Science of Social Justice and Healthcare, Substance Abuse: The Lived Experience," a one-day symposium providing an opportunity to engage with local practitioners of social justice, health, and healthcare.
April 24, 2017
8:00 am-4:00 pm
Campus Center Auditorium
"Peter Mack Show" is an exhibit by MFA candidate Peter Mack.
April 24—April 27, 2017 10:00 am-5:00 pm
April 28, 2017 10:00 am-3:00 pm
Student Union Art Gallery
HerbFest is an event brought by the class of Herbs, Spices and Medicinal plants
April 24, 2017
10:30 am-1:15 pm
Student Union, Ballroom
Join us as we recognize our 2017 Distinguished Alumni Award Recipients.
April 24, 2017
11:30 am
The Massachusetts State House
Jessica Taylor Piotrowski will discuss her book Plugged In, which explores the complicated relationship between media and youth.
April 24, 2017
12:30 pm
Integrative Learning Center, Communication Hub
In this talk, Amos Morris-Reich will discuss racial photography as a form of scientific evidence, reconstructing individual cases, conceptual genealogies, and usage of photography and photographic techniques for the study of "race" from the nineteenth century to the Nazi period.
April 24, 2017
5:00 pm
Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies
The Dinner On Us parent-to-parent roundtable offers campus and Amherst Family Center families with young children the opportunity to learn more about themselves while acquiring new approaches to raising children.
April 24, 2017
5:30 pm-7:30 pm
Student Union, Earth Foods/a.k.a. The Commonwealth Room
The UMass Amherst Department of Music and Dance will present a performance titled “Bach and Before: German Music for Strings” by the Euridice Ensembles & Baroque Orchestra, led by Robert Eisenstein.
April 24, 2017
7:30 pm
Fine Arts Center Bezanson Recital Hall
Louise Wallenberg of Stockholm University will speak on “Queering the Canon: Gender-Bending Nordic Stars on Screen" as part of mini-residency in German and Scandinavian Studies.
April 24, 2017
7:30 pm
Integrative Learning Center, S240
The Stonewall Center and University Health Services sponsor rapid HIV and sexually transmitted infection (gonorrhea and chlamydia) testing on campus during the school year for UMass students.
April 25, 2017
11:00 am-3:00 pm
Campus Center, 163C
The Department of Music and Dance presents a masterclass and concert by world-renowned flutist Carol Wincenc.
April 25, 2017
12:00 pm-2:30 pm
Fine Arts Center Bezanson Recital Hall
Career Services has partnered with the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences and the College of Humanities and Fine Arts to bring together recruiters and students who are still searching for full-time jobs after graduation and summer internships.
April 25, 2017
1:00 pm-4:00 pm
South College, Atrium
EPA epidemiologist Danelle Lobdell will keynote the School of Public Health and Health Sciences Dean's Symposium on “Healthy Communities: Health Equity and Environmental Justice.”
April 25, 2017
1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Campus Center, Amherst Room
This game has been canceled because of rain.
April 25, 2017
4:00 pm
Sortino Field Softball Complex
Susan Martin, Donald G. Herzberg Professor Emerita of International Migration, Georgetown University, will put the actions of the Trump Administration and announced plans into historical perspective using the framework she used in her book “A Nation of Immigrants.”
April 25, 2017
4:00 pm
Goodell Hall, Bernie Dallas Room
"Remnants" is a minimalist piece that includes the voices of three men and four women, currently presented as a one-man performance by the author.
April 25, 2017
4:00 pm
Institute for Holocaust, Genocide and Memory Studies
The film chronicles the journey of the first group of African Americans to attempt to summit Denali, North America's largest peak. Followed by a Q&A.
April 25, 2017
6:00 pm-9:00 pm
Campus Center, 904
The Department of Music and Dance presents "Brass Bash," directed by Greg Spiridopoulos, Eric Berlin, Joshua Michal and John Bottomley.
April 25, 2017
7:30 pm
Fine Arts Center Bezanson Recital Hall
The UMass Amherst Peer Health Educators presents its Paws Program to help relieve stress toward the end of the semester.
April 26, 2017
11:00 am-1:30 pm
Student Union Ballroom
Stephanie Pollack, secretary and chief executive officer of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT), will discuss "Transportation Innovation in the Commonwealth."
April 26, 2017
2:15 pm-5:00 pm
Goodell Hall, Bernie Dallas Room
This mushroom walk will explore the identification, uses and ecological functions of different fungi.
April 26, 2017 2:30 pm-4:00 pm
April 27, 2017 2:30 pm-4:00 pm
Franklin Permaculture Garden
Softball vs. Boston College
April 26, 2017
4:00 pm
Sortino Field Softball Complex
Meet fellow alumni living in the Greater New York City Area and hear from Dean Mark Fuller about the recent groundbreaking on the new Isenberg Business Innovation Hub, as well as network with Isenberg faculty and hear about other exciting initiatives.
April 26, 2017
6:30 pm-9:30 pm
48 Lounge
The Department of Music and Dance presents a performance by their Marimba Ensembles and Bands led by Thomas P.
April 26, 2017
7:30 pm
Bowker Auditorium
The campus community is invited to celebrate Founders Day on the Goodell lawn for a free cookout.
April 27, 2017
11:00 am-2:00 pm
Goodell Hall, Lawn
“Ta'zieh: Between Two Rivers” conceived by Nikoo Mamdoohi and Q-Mars Haeri, written by Q-Mars Haeri and Ifa Bayeza and directed by Nikoo Mamdoohi. Off Site Location to be announced.
April 27—April 28, 2017 7:30 pm
April 29, 2017 2:00 pm
The Faculty Senate is a representative body responsible for faculty participation in university planning and governance.
April 27, 2017
3:30 pm
Herter Hall, 227
Gail Hareven, one of Israel’s most significant authors and the scion of a family of Hebrew reformers, will present a personal reflection on the parallel development of Hebrew literature and language.
April 27, 2017
4:30 pm
Goodell Hall, Bernie Dallas Room
We will explore various adoption-related topics in an open house forum.
April 27, 2017
6:00 pm-8:30 pm
Campus Center, 168
The Magic Triangle Jazz Series concludes its 28th season with a performance by Tomas Fujiwara & the Hook Up, featuring Fujiwara on drums, along with Brian Settles, tenor saxophone, Jonathan Finlayson, trumpet, Mary Halvorson, guitar and Adam Hopkins, bass.
April 27, 2017
8:00 pm
Fine Arts Center Bezanson Recital Hall
"3X art.umass at large" is the MFA thesis exhibition of artists David Hannon, Ethan Kiermaier and Paul Teeling.
April 28—May 7, 2017
Baustein Building
Presented by Linda Sarsour, co-chair of the Women’s March on Washington
April 28, 2017
3:30 pm
Mahar Auditorium
Focusing on Indian, Pakistani, and Bangladeshi American communities, "Desis Divided: The Political Lives of South Asian Americans" analyzes features such as class, religion, nation of origin, language, caste, gender, and sexuality in mobilization and shows how these internal characteristics lead to multiple paths of political inclusion, defying a unified group experience.
April 28, 2017
3:30 pm
Amherst College Frost Library
Special guest speakers include Patrick Donnelly, poet laureate of Northampton, and professor Stephen Miller, East Asian languages and cultures.
April 28, 2017
5:30 pm-7:30 pm
The Department of Music and Dance presents the Wind Ensemble, conducted by Matthew Westgate.
April 28, 2017
7:30 pm
Fine Arts Center Concert Hall
In conjunction with the Women of Color Leadership Network at the Center for Women & Community, the University Museum of Contemporary Art invites women and non-binary/queer individuals of color to celebrate their diverse and dynamic narratives through storytelling.
April 28, 2017
7:30 pm
Fine Arts Center, Rand Theater
Junior dance majors present original works in nontraditional, site-specific environments, created in collaboration with the art department's digital media students.
April 28—April 29, 2017 8:00 pm
Totman Gym
Supercuts SoccerFest is the largest grassroots soccer tournament in Western Massachusetts.
April 29, 2017
9:00 am-5:00 pm
McGuirk Alumni Stadium, Behind
Join faculty and staff of the Commonwealth Honors College to celebrate our students' achievements.
April 29, 2017
10:30 am
Commonwealth Honors College Events Hall Room 160 E&W
Track and Field Pre-Conference Meet
April 29, 2017
11:00 am
Track & Field Complex
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April 29, 2017
12:00 pm
Sortino Field Softball Complex
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April 29, 2017
2:00 pm
Sortino Field Softball Complex
The Department of Music and Dance presents the University Chorale, Women's Choir and Recital Choir, conducted by Eric Berthiaume and Stephen A.
April 29, 2017
7:30 pm
Bowker Auditorium
The goal of this workshop is to develop the agenda and theme of heritage in the context of the WUN Understanding Cultures Global Challenge Group. Since the topic of cultural heritage is so broad, this workshop will focus on the issue of displacement and migration, which lies at the core of the relevance of cultural heritage globally.
April 30—May 2, 2017 9:00 am-5:00 pm
All Campus
Join the effort to raise awareness and funds for new research and educational programs, advocate for public policy and support survivors of suicide loss at the 3rd annual Out of the Darkness Walk at the Track and Field Complex.
April 30, 2017
10:00 am
Track & Field Complex
Join the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Hampshire County for its annual Daffodil Fun Run.
April 30, 2017
10:00 am
Kendrick Park
Softball vs. La Salle Softball vs.
April 30, 2017
12:00 pm
Sortino Field Softball Complex
The Department of Music and Dance present the Vocal Jazz Ensemble, directed by Catherine Jensen-Hole.
April 30, 2017
1:00 pm
Fine Arts Center Bezanson Recital Hall
Hampden Gallery Critique Group Exhibition. Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Friday, 1 to 6 p.m. and Sunday, 2 to 5 p.m.
April 30—May 12, 2017 1:00 pm-6:00 pm
This event does NOT occur on:
May 1, May 6, May 8
Hampden Gallery
The Department of Music and Dance presents a performance by the UMass Amherst Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ng Tian Hui.
April 30, 2017
4:30 pm
Fine Arts Center Concert Hall
