Plug In to Campus and Local Organizing
Effective struggles for liberation and justice require grounded strategies and creative tactics, context-specific power analysis, and diverse methods for shifting power to the people. The Plug In event is an opportunity for students, faculty, staff, and community members to think about the university as a site where social struggle plays out.
This event will feature local and campus groups that are organizing for immigrant justice, worker power, reproductive justice, and housing justice, and for an end to student debt, carceral violence, and university complicity with the weapons and fossil fuel industries. Participants will hear from organizers and attend two short participatory workshops.
The Plug In is an annual event hosted by the UMass Alliance for Community Transformation (UACT), a program of the Department of Anthropology that prepares students to engage in social change work wisely and sustainably, across many lines of difference.
The 2024-25 Feinberg Series
What Are Universities For? Struggles for the Soul of Higher Education
The 2024-25 Feinberg Family Distinguished Lecture Series explores the historical roots of present-day political, economic, and ethical crises in higher education. It is presented by the UMass Amherst Department of History in partnership with numerous co-sponsors. The Feinberg Family Distinguished Lecture Series is made possible thanks to the generosity of UMass Amherst history department alumnus Kenneth R. Feinberg ’67 and associates.
Departmental (co)sponsorship of various types of events does not constitute an endorsement of the views expressed by the presenters, either at the events in question or in other venues. Rather, sponsorship is an endorsement of the exploration of complex and sometimes difficult topics. The UMass History Department is committed to promoting the free and peaceful exchange of ideas, one of the most important functions of the university.