(2024-2025) Understanding and Confronting Authoritarian Narratives and Practices
The 2024-2025 Five College Working Group explored the topic of “Understanding and Confronting Authoritarian Narratives and Practices.” The project organizers were David Mednicoff, Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Public Policy at University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Jon Berndt Olsen, Associate Professor of History at University of Massachusetts Amherst.
(2022-2023) Emergency! Ecological Breakdown and Climate Refugees
The 2022-2023 Five College Working Group explored the topic of “Emergency! Ecological Breakdown, Environmental Commons, and the Climate Refugee.” The project organizers were Malcolm Sen, Associate Professor in the Department of English at University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Olivia Aguilar, Leslie and Sarah Miller Director of the Miller Worley Center for the Environment, and Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at Mount Holyoke College.
(2021-2022) “Race, Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism in Global Perspective”
The 2021-2022 Five College Working Group explored the topic of “Race, Indigeneity, and Settler Colonialism in Global Perspective.” The project organizers were Iyko Day, Elizabeth C. Small Associate Professor in the Department of English and Chair of Critical Social Thought at Mount Holyoke College, and Adam Dahl, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
(2020-2021) "Race and Representations"
The 2020-2021 Five College Working Group explored the topic of “Race and Representations.” Project organizers were Stephen Clingman, Distinguished Professor in the Department of English, and Whitney Battle-Baptiste, Professor in the Department of Anthropology, both at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
(2019-2020) "Citizenship and Other States of Belonging"
The 2019-2020 Five College Working Group explored the topic of “Citizenship and Other States of Belonging.” The project organizers were Aviva Ben-Ur, Professor in the Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, and Luis A. Marentes, Associate Professor in the Program in Spanish and Portuguese, both at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
(2018-2019) "1948: A Global History"
The 2018-2019 IHGMS Five College Working Group explored the topic of “1948: A Global History.” The project organizers are Alon Confino, Director of the IHGMS and Professor of History and of Judaic Studies; and Daniel Gordon, Professor of History, both at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.