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Sep 27, 2023 - Mar 30, 2024

Shakespeare Unbound: A Campuswide Special Exhibit

650 East Pleasant St. & 154 Hicks Way
9:00 am to 5:00 pm

September 2023 - May 2024 ...
Feb 5, 2024 - Mar 8, 2024

Shakespeare and Mass Incarceration Rare Book Exhibit

650 East Pleasant Street
9:00 am to 5:00 pm

Why is Shakespeare so often found in prisons? His plays frequently appear in prison libraries, arts programs, and higher education classrooms. This is, in part, because of the plays’ cultural...
Mar 1, 2024
A sheet of Renaissance music

Sounding Waters: Elements of Water, Ice, and Snow in Sound and Music

650 East Pleasant St. Amherst
4:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Sounding Waters: Elements of Water, Ice, and Snow in Sound and Music...
Mar 7, 2024

Shakespeare & Mass Incarceration Symposium

650 East Pleasant St. Amherst
4:00 pm

Shakespeare has been in American prisons for the last forty years, in arts programs and college-in-prison classrooms. Even as the landscape of incarceration has shifted—from the War on Drugs to the...
Illuminated manuscript

'Teaching and Learning about Race in the Middle Ages'

Dewey Common Room, Dewey Hall, Smith College
5:00 pm

Five College Medieval Studies Seminar...
Mar 11, 2024 - May 30, 2024

Water-Worlds: Ripple Effects or Sea Change?

650 East Pleasant St.
9:00 am

The Shakespeare Unbound exhibit joins the Renaissance of the Earth Project to set Shakespeare in conversation with the Blue Humanities. "Water-Worlds" is a transhistorical exhibition exploring how...
Mar 12, 2024

Ice-Blue: Toward a Poetics of Solid Water

650 East Pleasant St. Amherst
4:00 pm

Multimodal workshop on sonic and poetic icescapes with Steve Mentz, an early modern scholar and a pioneer of the Blue Humanities. In association with Elements, Renaissance of the Earth, and...
Mar 13, 2024

'Art and the Arctic', with Siobhán MacDonald

South College E 470
4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

The Renaissance of the Earth in conjunction with the Anthropocene Lab presents 'Art and the Arctic', an art talk by artist Siobhán MacDonald, whose award-winning works respond to the climate crisis...
Mar 14, 2024

'Coming to our Senses: Fire and Ice', with Anne McClintock

Amherst Room, Campus Center, UMass
4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

The Renaissance of the Earth in conjunction with the Anthropocene Lab presents 'Coming to our Senses: Fire and Ice', an Environmental Humanities talk by renowned interdisciplinary scholar Anne...
Mar 21, 2024 - Mar 23, 2024

Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting - Chicago, 2024


12:00 pm

Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting  Chicago For more information please see https://www.rsa.org/page/Futuremeetings
Mar 21, 2024
Headshot of Andrew Yang

'Reading (and Writing) the Book of Nature', with Andrew Yang, Hampshire College

650 East Pleasant St. Amherst
5:00 pm

Five College Seminar in Book History...