HFA Days Schedule

Monday, April 1

Special Program: Art Exhibit

Withdrawn
An MFA Thesis Exhibition by Dan Willig
On View: April 1-12
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 11, 4 – 6 PM
Herter Art Gallery

Special Program: Art Exhibit

Wallpapered: An Examination of Femininity
An exhibition of prints by Christina Fallon
On view: April 1 - 12, 2024
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 11, 4 – 6 PM
Herter Art Gallery 

Wednesday, April 3

Open Classroom

Italian 240 - Intermediate Italian II
Melina Masterson, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
11:15 a.m. to 12:05 p.m.
Herter 102
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Friday, April 5

Open Classroom

Theater 341 - Stage Movement
Milan Dragicevich, Department of Theater
11:20 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.
"Arts Bridge" wing of Bromery Center for the Arts, 4th Floor, Studio 413
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Special Program: Writer and Author Panel

Juniper Literary Fest: The Writer’s Life
With Susan Straight and Edie Meidav
2:30 p.m. 
Herter Hall, Room 231

Special Program: Publishing Panel

Juniper Literary Fest: Publishing in Today’s Market
With agent/editor Anjali Singh 
3:30 p.m.
Herter Hall, Room 231 

Special Program: Faculty Reading

Juniper Literary Fest: MFA Visiting Faculty Reading
With Hannah Brooks-Motl & Bianca Stone
6 p.m.
Herter Hall, Room 231 

Special Program: Public Reading

Juniper Literary Fest: LiveLit
4-5:30 p.m.
South College Commons

Saturday, April 6

Special Program: Writer and Editor Chat

Juniper Literary Fest: Writer & Editor Chat
With Sarah Ghazal Ali & Carey Salerno of Alice James Books
3:30 p.m.
Commonwealth Honors College Events Hall

Special Program: Public Reading

Juniper Literary Fest: MFA Alumni Reading
With Sarah Ghazal Ali ’21MFA, Eric Baus ’05MFA, Yvette Lisa Ndlovu ’23MFA, and Susan Straight ’84MFA
6 p.m.
Commonwealth Honors College Events Hall

Monday, April 8

Special Program: Latinx Theater Symposium

Building Bridges As We Walk: A Latinx Theater Symposium
April 8, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Curtain Theater and New Africa House

Open Classroom

English 891WC - Writing across the Curriculum
Haivan Hoang, Department of English
10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
South College E370
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Tuesday, April 9

Open Classroom

Art History 725 - Drawing in Color
Karen Kurczynski, Department of History of Art and Architecture
2:30-5:15 p.m.
South College W369
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Special Program: Performance for Climate Action

Awakening
4:30-7 p.m.
Design Building Atrium

Wednesday, April 10

Open Classroom

Classics 224 - Greek Mythology
Tony Tuck, Department of Classics
10:10-11 a.m.
Thompson Hall, Room 106
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Open Classroom

ARCH 404 / 603 - Design VI Studio
Erika Zekos, Department of Architecture
1-3:45 p.m.
Design Building 380
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Open Classroom

LING 201 - How Language Works: Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics
Kyle Johnson, Department of Linguistics
1:25-2:15 p.m.
Integrative Learning Center S211
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Thursday, April 11

Faculty Lightning Talks

11-1 p.m.
Bromery Center for the Arts
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Featured topics: 

  • Traces of Turkish Migration in West Berlin
  • Music, Noise, and Movement at the Boston Marathon
  • Pleasure, Play, and Politics: A History of Humor in U.S. Feminism
  • The Continuum of Black American Artistry: Building Infrastructure for Success
  • DIY Climate Change Adaptation
  • Language in Minds and Machines: Comparing AI language models to human readers
  • Another Journey to the West

Special Program: Dance Rehearsal

Emerging Choreographers: Integrative Experience Rehearsal
11:30 a.m. to 2:15 p.m.
Totman, Rooms 202/204

Special Program: Undergraduate Internship Event

HFA Undergraduate Internship and Research Reflections
1-2:30 p.m.
Bromery Center for the Arts, Lobby

Open Classroom

ART 490STB - Topics in Design: Public Art
Jeffery Kasper, Department of Art
1-3:45 p.m.
Studio Arts Building, Room 240
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Open Classroom

WGSS 393A - Feminism and Social Justice Activism
Laura Briggs, Department of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies
1-2:15 p.m.
South College E470
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Open Classroom

HMFNART 101 - Traversing Differences: Local
Una Tanovic, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
1-2:15 p.m.
Herter 212
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Special Program: Art Talk

Public Art Talk and Discussion
with Kiran Jandu, Mike Medeiros, Jeffrey Kasper, and more
1-3:45 p.m.
240 Studio Arts Building

Special Program: Jazz Rehearsal

Rehearsal: Jazz Ensemble I
2:30-4:30 p.m.
Bromery Center for the Arts, Frederick C. Tillis Performance Hall

Open Classroom

PHIL 336 - Existentialism
Ernesto Garcia, Department of Philosophy
4-5:15 p.m.
South College Room E241
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Interdisciplinary and Public Initiative Panel

4-5:45 p.m.
Bromery Center for the Arts
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Featured initiatives:

Special Program: Art Exhibit Opening Reception

Withdrawn
An MFA Thesis Exhibition by Dan Willig
4-6 p.m.
On View: April 1-12
Herter Art Gallery

Special Program: Art Exhibit Opening Reception

Wallpapered: An Examination of Femininity
An exhibition of prints by Christina Fallon
4-6 p.m.
On view: April 1 - 12, 2024
Herter Art Gallery

CANCELED - Special Program: Theater Rehearsal

Rehearsal: Twelfth Night
by William Shakespeare
directed by Milan Dragicevich
7 p.m.
Bromery Center for the Arts, Rand Theater
Space is limited and reservations made by emailing agoossen [at] umass [dot] edu.

Friday, April 12

Special Program: Thesis Poster Session

Architecture Master's Thesis Poster Session
9-11 a.m.
Design Building Atrium

Special Program: Student Art Sale

Art Student Art Sale
10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Studio Arts Building, Lee Edwards Gallery (1st floor) and atrium (2nd floor)

Special Program: Wind Ensemble Rehearsal

Rehearsal: Wind Ensemble
10 a.m. to noon
Bromery Center for the Arts, Room 36

Open Classroom

HIST 394AI - Age of the Crusades
Anne Broadbridge, Department of History
10:10-11 a.m.
Herter 201
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Faculty Lightning Talks

11-1 p.m.
Bromery Center for the Arts
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Featured topics: 

  • Are Dreaming Animals Playing without a Body?
  • The Strange Career of the Artisanal Penitentiary
  • The Humanities are Better than the Natural Sciences
  • Palace Intrigue: Digital Reconstruction and VR at the Palace of Nestor
  • The Hatmaker's Wife
  • Awakening, Revitalizing, and Maintaining Endangered Languages
  • Power of Collaboration
  • Two Anonymous Letters about Slavery from 1788

Special Program: Graduate Student Networking Event

HFA Graduate Careers Beyond the Academy Networking Event
1-2:30 p.m.
Bromery Center for the Arts, Lobby

Open Classroom

Music-ED 211 - Instrumental Techniques for Bassoon
Rémy Taghavi, Department of Music and Dance
1:25-2:15 p.m.
Bromery Center for the Arts, Room 150
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Special Program: Zine and Comic Making

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 40th Anniversary Shell-ebration
Zine and Comic Making Craft Night
2-5 p.m.
W.E.B. Du Bois Library, FL 2 Recess

Special Program: Campus Tour of Brutalist Architecture

Understanding UMass Amherst’s Brutalist Heritage
3 p.m.
Meet in the Bromery Fine Art Center’s lobby 
Led by Timothy M. Rohan, associate professor and chair, Department of the History of Art & Architecture, CHFA, and co-founder of UMass Brut, the advocacy group for Brutalist architecture in the UMass system

Special Program: Public Reading

LiveLit
April 12, 4-5:30 p.m.
South College Commons

LiveLit is a monthly reading series organized by graduate students in the MFA for Poets and Writers in the English Department. Each reading features one prose writer and one poet from each cohort, and provides a space for writers and poets in the MFA to share their work. 

Ongoing Events

Noble Fragments
Part of Shakespeare Unbound: A Campuswide Special Exhibit
Jan. 22 through May 10
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies

Y3K: On Distant Keys
March 25 to April 26th 
Opening Reception: Tuesday, March 26, from 5-6 p.m.
Gallery Talk at 5:15
Olver Design Building, Design Building Gallery