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 September 2018
Drupal is the open-source content management system widely used to build websites around UMass. This meeting is open to newcomers and not limited to members of the UMass community
September 6, 2018 2:00 pm
October 4, 2018 2:00 pm
November 1, 2018 2:00 pm
December 6, 2018 2:00 pm
January 3, 2019 2:00 pm
Integrated Sciences Building, 145, behind the first floor elevators

Following on the heels of the Summer of Love, 1968 seemed like a world apart. It was a year of social experimentation and optimism, but also a year of rebellion, assassination, political agitation, and violence.
September 1—December 21, 2018
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November 22
Library, W.E.B. Du Bois, Lower Level and Floor 25

Lynn Peterfreund has been drawing, painting and doing printmaking for decades, working both abstractly and representationally. Observational drawing has been the basis of it all, informing other work done from memory and imagination.
September 10—September 25, 2018, Mon/Tue 1:00 pm-7:00 pm
September 5—September 26, 2018, Wed/Thu/Fri 1:00 pm-5:00 pm
Augusta Savage Gallery

We Grow Accustomed to the Dark is an exhibition that investigates the role of identity in the current political climate by probing the connection between poetry and visual art.
September 5—September 21, 2018, weekdays 11:00 am-4:00 pm
September 9—September 23, 2018, Sundays 1:00 pm-4:00 pm
Herter Art Gallery

This is a weekly drop-in group for students who are coming out as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex, or asexual and for students who are already out and looking for a place of support to talk about being LGBTQIA+.
September 5—April 24, 2019, Wednesdays 6:30 pm-8:00 pm
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November 21, December 19—January 16, March 13
Wilder Hall, 102

Enjoy great conversation and meet new friends over free coffee, tea and tasty snacks.
September 6, 2018 4:00 pm-5:00 pm
September 19, 2018 4:00 pm-5:00 pm
October 1, 2018 4:00 pm-5:00 pm
October 18, 2018 4:00 pm-5:00 pm
November 6, 2018 4:00 pm-5:00 pm
November 26, 2018 4:00 pm-5:00 pm
December 11, 2018 4:00 pm-5:00 pm
Campus Center, Blue Wall, Light Court Room

Enjoy an exciting day of golf at the beautiful Crumpin-Fox Golf Club in Bernardston, MA while supporting UMass Men’s Lacrosse! Coming off an exciting NCAA tournament appearance this spring, the future is bright for the Minutemen and we hope you can participate in this important fundraiser.
September 8, 2018
12:00 pm-7:00 pm
Crumpin-Fox Golf Club

Have an idea you've been itching to talk about? Working on a project you want to pursue as a venture but need help finding a team? Want to be part of your peers’ business brainstorming processes? See you at Idea Jam, hosted by the Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneurship.
September 11, 2018
6:00 pm-7:30 pm
Franklin Dining Commons

At the start of 2017, longstanding political and social rifts in the United States created a sense of fear and anxiety on many campuses across the US. Our sense of a collective public purpose and our desire for an engaged democracy — so important to the public mission of UMass Amherst — were challenged in many ways. The “Building Bridges” project grew out of this key moment.
September 12—December 7, 2018, Tue/Wed/Thu/Fri 11:00 am-4:30 pm
September 15—December 9, 2018, weekends 2:00 pm-5:00 pm
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November 18—November 25
University Museum of Contemporary Art

Dr. Darcy Kelley, Harold Weintraub professor in the department of biological sciences at Columbia University, will deliver the Fall Sinauer Associates Lecture: 'Mechanisms underlying the evolution and expression of vocal communication'.
September 12, 2018
4:00 pm-5:15 pm
Integrative Learning Center, N151

Specific research and extension projects designed and presented to inform visitors about the work of Summer Scholar undergraduates over the summer. A wide range of over 30 projects were undertaken with exciting data amassed. All are welcome!
September 12, 2018
4:30 pm-6:00 pm
Campus Center, Amherst Rm

Awaken your inner creativity and learn to create pieces of jewelry and Native art using beads. Materials and tools provided.
September 13—November 29, 2018, Thursdays 6:00 pm-8:00 pm
December 5, 2018, Wednesdays 6:00 pm-8:00 pm
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November 22
Josephine White Eagle Cultural Center

What does it mean for the fields of art and math to intersect? This exhibition offers glimpses into the work of Pau Atela, a professor in the Department of Mathematics at Smith College, that show how bridges can indeed be built between these two worlds.
September 13—December 9, 2018, Tue/Wed/Thu/Fri 11:00 am-4:30 pm
September 15—December 9, 2018, weekends 2:00 pm-5:00 pm
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November 18—November 25
University Museum of Contemporary Art

The Concinnitas Portfolio comprises the contributions of ten mathematicians and physicists in response to the prompt to transcribe their "most beautiful mathematical expression."
September 13—December 7, 2018, Tue/Wed/Thu/Fri 11:00 am-4:30 pm
September 15—December 9, 2018, weekends 2:00 pm-5:00 pm
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November 18—November 25
University Museum of Contemporary Art

Have an idea you've been itching to talk about? Working on a project you want to pursue as a venture but need help finding a team? Want to be part of your peers’ business brainstorming processes? See you at Idea Jam, hosted by the Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneurship.
September 13, 2018
7:00 pm-8:30 pm
Berkshire Dining Commons

This year’s Mark Roskill Symposium includes a lecture, panel discussion, and exhibition tour that will illuminate the ways in which a shared history of curiosity, collection, and categorization influences, informs, or problematizes our study of art and science.
September 14, 2018
4:00 pm-7:00 pm
Integrative Learning Center, N211

Throughout Murray’s career, her art process has traversed the terrain between the studio and interactive public collaboration. The content of her art is concerned with cultural and social issues.
September 16—October 7, 2018, Sundays 2:00 pm-5:00 pm
September 18—October 11, 2018, Tue/Wed/Thu/Fri 1:00 pm-8:00 pm
Hampden Gallery

This presentation by Sarah Doyle looks at ways to teach about dinosaur footprints, glaciers, the formation of the Connecticut River Valley, and related topics by using the stories, documents, interactive map, special features, and other features on the Impressions from a Lost World website.
September 18, 2018
4:00 pm
Hasbrouck Hall, 109

If post-truth political discourse might be characterized by a play on affective predispositions and bodily responses of old beliefs that re-appear as new, that is particularly of our condition of computational culture (Parisi, 2017), then we might understand post-truth as a play on the ‘error’ of quantitative instrumental reason.
September 20, 2018
11:30 am-12:45 pm
Furcolo Hall, 101

adrienne maree brown, author of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds, shares keen insights into how the natural world teaches us about transformative justice, through ideas of adaptation, decentralization, resilience, iteration, fractal selves, and creating more possibilities.
September 20, 2018
7:00 pm-9:00 pm
Library, W.E.B. Du Bois, 2601, Floor 26

Join us for a day of presentations and dialogue between local community leaders/partners, faculty, staff, and students who are developing social justice approaches to university-community partnerships within Latinx communities in Western Massachusetts.
September 21, 2018
9:00 am-4:00 pm
Campus Center, Amherst Room (10th floor)

This program validates cultural knowledge and identity by providing a space for faculty and staff to share their stories with undergraduate students of similar backgrounds.
September 24, 2018 7:00 pm-9:00 pm
October 22, 2018 7:00 pm-9:00 pm
November 5, 2018 7:00 pm-9:00 pm
December 3, 2018 7:00 pm-9:00 pm
Josephine White Eagle Cultural Center, Chadbourne Hall B-3

Kermit Dunkelberg, Assistant Vice President of Adult Education and Workforce Development at Holyoke Community College, will provide an overview of changes in HCC's Life Sciences program and facilities, including expanded credit and non-credit offerings, and Clean Room training facility.
September 25, 2018
4:00 pm
Hasbrouck Hall, 109

Enrich your knowledge of Latin American Countries! Each session, trivia questions will focus on the history, customs and traditions of a specific Latin American country.
September 25, 2018 8:00 pm-9:00 pm
October 9, 2018 8:00 pm-9:00 pm
October 23, 2018 8:00 pm-9:00 pm
November 6, 2018 8:00 pm-9:00 pm
December 4, 2018 8:00 pm-9:00 pm
Latin American Cultural Center

Please join us for the first event of the new campus-wide documentary screening series "Watch, Learn, Grow" conducted by the Office of Equity and Inclusion. "A Dream in Doubt" follows Rana Singh Sodhi, Balbir’s brother, as he attempts to fight the hate threatening his family and community.
September 26, 2018
6:00 pm
Integrative Learning Center, N151

This session provides information that will assist faculty who need to go through the expedited review process for their existing GenEd course with a DU/DG designation to meet the new General Education Diversity Requirements, and faculty who want to propose a new course seeking a GenEd DU or DG designation.
September 27, 2018
2:30 pm-4:00 pm
Campus Center, 803

The UMass Amherst Italian Studies Program and the Libraries host a panel discussion to celebrate the acquisition of an important collection of Cesare Pavese's books, a gift from Lawrence G. Smith, author of Cesare Pavese and America.
September 27, 2018
4:30 pm-7:00 pm
Library, W.E.B. Du Bois, 2601, Floor 26

Christine Schutt is the author of the novels Prosperous Friends; Florida, a National Book Award finalist; and All Souls, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She is also the author of three collections of stories, Nightwork and A Day, A Night, Another Day, Summer, and most recently, Pure Hollywood.
September 27, 2018
8:00 pm
Old Chapel, Great Hall
