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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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
