
5 Takes Offers Inside Look at the Life of an Art Collector
Friday, December 8, 2017

Viet Thanh Nguyen Explores ‘War, Fiction, and the Ethics of Memory’ in the 2017 Troy Lecture
Thursday, December 7, 2017
This year’s Troy Lecturer, Viet Thanh Nguyen, recently received a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and was a finalist for the 2016 National Book Award for nonfiction.

University Dancers Interpret Surrealism Through Movement with Cadáver Exquisito
Wednesday, December 6, 2017
On December 1 through 2, the University Dancers presented Cadáver Exquisito, an evening of surrealist dance theater directed by faculty members Thomas Vacanti and Leslie Frye Maietta. Staged in the round at the Totman Performance Lab, the production was inspired by the lives and historically experimental writing of Federico García Lorca and Pablo Neruda.

Junior Year Writing Students Collaborate with University Museum to Present Virtual Exhibition: Dis/playing Dis/ability
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
Through January 1, 2018 the University Museum of Contemporary Art is displaying a virtual exhibition, created in collaboration with students from English 300: “Dis/ability and Literature.”

UMass New Play Lab Features Both Professional and Student Work
Saturday, December 2, 2017