Events

Department of Music & Dance Listening Room: The Harmony of Water and Music

Bezanson Recital Hall. Bromery Center for the Arts—East Wing
11:00 am to 12:00 pm

An Elements concert. Organized by Jonathan Hulting-Cohen and Lindsay Pope.

'Character in Search of a Play: Parmigianino’s Portrait of a Dignitary'

650 East Pleasant Street Amherst, MA 01002
4:30 pm

Five College Renaissance Seminar with Monika Schmitter, University of Massachusetts Amherst...

'Toward a Speculative Expansion of Pearl, Line 735,' with Arthur Bahr, MIT

Amherst College, Lyceum 201
5:00 pm

Five College Medieval Studies Seminar with Arthur Bahr, Associate Professor, Department of English, MIT...

'A Sonically Reimagined Silence: How the Discovery of Whale Songs Inspired an Environmental Commitment to the Ocean' with Marie Comuzzo

650 East Pleasant St. Amherst
4:30 pm

An Elements talk with Marie Comuzzo (Brandeis University)...

'Fatal Flora: Poisonous Revenge Narratives' Exhibit opening with Susan Montgomery

650 East Pleasant St. Amherst
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm

Please join us for the opening reception of Artist in Residence Susan Montgomery's exhibit of original work, 'Fatal Flora: Poisonous Revenge Narratives'....

'"Fountain of Civility": Early Reflections on Civility in 16th-Century France' with Dariusz Krawczyk

Center for Humanistic Inquiry's Think Tank Aliki Perroti and Seth Frank Lyceum, Amherst College, 197 South Pleasant St, Amherst, MA
4:30 pm

Dariusz Krawczyk (Assistant Professor of French Renaissance Literature at the University of Warsaw & Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow at the University of Lille)...

Five College Seminar in Book History with Nicholas Basbanes

Online (Zoom)
5:00 pm

Nicholas A. Basbanes is the author of ten critically acclaimed works of cultural history, with a particular emphasis on various aspects of books and book culture. A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles,...

'Muslim-Crusader Religious "Dialogue": Nature, Context, & Impact,' with Suleiman Ali Mourad

UMass, South College E470
5:00 pm

Five College Medieval Studies Seminar with Suleiman Ali Mourad, Myra M. Sampson Professor of Religion and Middle East Studies, Smith College. ...

Book History with Erin McGuirl

650 East Pleasant St. Amherst
5:00 pm

Five College Faculty Seminar in Book History...

Renaissance Jukebox Concert

650 East Pleasant St. Amherst
2:00 pm

Renaissance Jukebox, the Center’s Musicians in Residence, perform renaissance and early baroque English lute songs, ballads, and traditional folk songs accompanied on lutes and viols. As regular...

'The Witches' Brew: Potions and Poisons in Renaissance Europe' with Alisha Rankin

650 East Pleasant St. Amherst
4:30 pm

Five College Renaissance Seminar...

'Editing Sylvia Plath' with Amanda Golden and Karen Kukil

Online (Zoom)
5:00 pm

Five College Seminar in Book History...

Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting - Boston 2025

12:00 pm

Annual Meeting Joint conference with the Renaissance Society of America Boston, Massachusetts For more information please see: http://www.shakespeareassociation.org/annual-meetings/

Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting - Boston, 2025

12:00 pm

Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting...

'Humans: A Monstrous History' with Surekha Davies

650 East Pleasant St. Amherst
4:30 pm

Five College Renaissance Seminar ...

'Francesco di Giorgio Martini's Drawings: Notes on a Practice and a Project' with Pari Riahi

650 East Pleasant St.
4:30 pm

Five College Renaissance Seminar with Pari Riahi (University of Massachusetts Amherst)...

'Mughal Albums as Big Data,' with Yael Rice (Amherst College)

650 East Pleasant St. Amherst
5:00 pm

Five College Faculty Seminar in Book History...

'Music in early modern Ethiopia' with Janie Cole

650 East Pleasant St. Amherst
4:30 pm

Five College Renaissance Seminar with Janie Cole (UConn Storrs)...