Week of November 17—23, 2019
Join the W. E. B. Du Bois Center for a weekly light breakfast and discussion of a text by or about Du Bois. All are welcome.
September 2—May 25, 2020, Mondays 9:30 am-11:00 am
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December 23—December 30, January 20, May 25
Library, W.E.B. Du Bois, W. E. B. Du Bois Center, Floor 22, Room 2220

Matthew Mattingly ’02 is an artist living and working in Western Massachusetts. The exhibit includes new and recent oils, watercolors, and ink drawings, including landscapes, figures, sketches, and works from imagination.
September 3—December 13, 2019, weekdays 9:00 am-5:00 pm
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November 28
Science and Engineering Library

The 15th annual installment of the semester-long film series, New Asia Cinema, explores diverse, transcendent, and transformative stories, identities, representations, and experiences of migrants, exiles, refugees, asylum seekers, returnees, and outsiders.
September 11—December 4, 2019, Wednesdays 7:30 pm
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November 13, November 27
Isenberg School of Management, 137

Drawing from the burgeoning collections of visual materials in Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA), the exhibit follows the history of documentary photography from its century origins to its flowering in the post-World War II era.
September 20—January 30, 2020
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November 28, December 21—December 22, weekends, December 25, December 28—January 1
Library, W.E.B. Du Bois, Lower Level and Floor 25

During the past 30 years, Leonardo Drew has become best known for his installations, both sweeping in scale and intimate in detail, which transform materials such as cotton, metal, animal hides, and wood — often oxidizing, burning, and decaying them — into something completely different from their original state.
September 20—December 6, 2019, Tue/Wed/Thu/Fri 11:00 am-4:30 pm
September 21—December 8, 2019, weekends 2:00 pm-5:00 pm
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November 23—November 30
University Museum of Contemporary Art

Avital Sagalyn: A Life of Exploration, researched and curated by a team of UMass Art History students, explores the range of Sagalyn’s work and rich cultural history.
October 4—December 6, 2019, Tue/Wed/Thu/Fri 11:00 am-4:30 pm
October 5—December 8, 2019, weekends 2:00 pm-5:00 pm
October 3, 2019, Thursdays 11:00 am-8:00 pm
November 7, 2019, Thursdays 11:00 am-8:00 pm
December 5, 2019, Thursdays 11:00 am-8:00 pm
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November 23—December 1
University Museum of Contemporary Art

This cultural engagement program seeks to cultivate, sustain and increase knowledge of own and/or other cultures through arts and crafts.
October 30, 2019 6:00 pm-8:00 pm
November 13, 2019 6:00 pm-8:00 pm
November 20, 2019 6:00 pm-8:00 pm
December 11, 2019 6:00 pm-8:00 pm
Yuri Kochiyama Cultural Center

The third exhibit in a three-part series: 'Games of Chance." Shawn Farley’s mixed-media Constructions apply discarded and found materials to yield soulful results. Lois Guarino exhibits pen drawings created by making marks,which she follows obsessively until completion.
November 7—November 22, 2019, Wed/Thu/Fri 1:00 pm-5:00 pm
November 12—November 19, 2019, Mon/Tue 1:00 pm-7:00 pm
November 6, 2019 1:00 pm-7:00 pm
Augusta Savage Gallery

Gobble! Gobble! Remember making construction paper turkeys (tracing your hand and using a brown paper lunch bags) in elementary school? Come join Team Positive Presence as we get crafty and are thankful about the Thanksgiving break! We will also be decorating mini pumpkins (everyhting provided).
November 18, 2019 12:00 pm-2:00 pm
November 20, 2019 6:00 pm-8:00 pm
Bartlett Hall, 103

U.S. immigration policy is dominating the headlines and promises to be one of the top controversial issues of the 2020 election. The upcoming panel brings together an array of prominent local immigration scholars for a moderated conversation about why we can't seem to resolve the immigration issue, why it is such a divisive topic, and what citizens should know about immigration in order to be informed voters.
November 19, 2019
12:00 pm
Old Chapel, Great Hall

This workshop introduce attendees to 3D printing, its processes, and associated software. Attendees will learn what can be made via 3D printing, what to consider, pitfalls, and resource. Software to be introduced are: TinkerCAD, Meshmixer and Cura.
November 19, 2019
12:00 pm-1:00 pm
Agricultural Engineering Building, 120

Kelsey Donohue, communications strategist and former Assistant Press Secretary to First Lady Michelle Obama, joins the UMass Department of Journalism and its new Public Relations Student Club to discuss career paths in politics and the communications strategy behind Obama's most memorable moments.
November 19, 2019
2:30 pm-3:30 pm
Integrative Learning Center, Journalism Hub, 4th floor

Join the Jones Library's Civics and Democracy Series, the UMass Amherst History Department and the Center for Popular Economics for a community discussion of “Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America” by award-winning historian Nancy MacLean.
November 19, 2019
7:00 pm
Woodbury Room, Jones Library

Record a lecture presentation, narrated tutorial, or a software demonstration and then post the resulting "screencast" on your Moodle course or class website. In this hands-on workshop we will use Camtasia. We will also discuss the different ways screencasting is being used to enhance classroom and online instruction.
November 20, 2019
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Library, W.E.B. Du Bois, TBD

Do you have clothing you desperately need to repair? Want to learn how to sew cool patches onto your clothing or embroider art onto dull clothing? Come by Agricultural Engineering Building, room 120, anytime between 2:30 to 6:30 PM on November 20th.
November 20, 2019
2:30 pm-6:30 pm
Agricultural Engineering Building, 120

The UMass Amherst Institute for Global Health (IGH) in collaboration with the STEM Ambassadors Program will host a symposium titled “Achieving Global Equity through STEM Education: Health, Environment & Policy” on Thursday, November 21, from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm in the Old Chapel.
November 21, 2019
9:00 am-3:00 pm
Old Chapel

Ethan Carr will discuss his latest book, The Greatest Beach: A History of Cape Cod National Seashore (2019). When Congress passed the park's authorizing legislation in 1961, it set a new pattern for large landscape conservation in the United States.
November 21, 2019
4:00 pm-5:00 pm
Olver Design Building, 170

In 1619, the Dutch brought the first African slaves to Jamestown, Virginia. Acclaimed bassist and composer Avery Sharpe marks this 400th anniversary with a new original piece of music touched by spirituals, gospel, blues, jazz and classical idioms, and featuring a video component.
November 21, 2019
7:30 pm
Bowker Auditorium
