Arts Extension Service , UMass Amherst is excited to announce this panel. Take part in the free symposium. Panelists Susan Theberge, Citizen’s Action Network / Extinction Rebellion Red Brigade; Carolina Aragón, Landscape Architecture UMass, Climate Visualization Artist; and Nicole Young, Performance Poet and Philanthropy Professional, and others will share...Read more
Events Archive
April 14, 2021 - 12:00pm
Zoom webinar
April 8, 2021 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Zoom webinar
Resistance Studies Initiative Spring Webinar Speaker Series: Distinguished researchers and activists share critical reflections on resistance issues
Dr. Mahmoud Soliman activist-scholar and Resistance Studies Initiative and Sociology Departmental affiliate at UMass Amherst. He is the Co-founder of the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee.Read more
April 7, 2021 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Zoom webinar
What does #landback look like, in practice? How can non-Native settlers actively participate in disrupting settler colonialism? We hear from people involved in Indigenous resistance about their work, what #landback means to them, and what possibilities the future holds if there is an authentic collective effort to disrupt the...Read more
March 24, 2021 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Zoom webinar
Resistance Studies Initiative Spring Webinar Speaker Series: Distinguished researchers and activists share critical reflections on resistance issues
Ynestra King: (above) Independent Scholar, Five College Womens Studies Research Center. Ynestra was mentored by Barbara, and is working on a book about her life and work across movements for revolutionary nonviolence.
Joanne Sheehan: (below) Resistance Studies Fellow at The Resistance Studies Initiative at UMass Amherst, Activist with War Resisters League and Voluntown Peace Trust. Read more
March 22, 2021 - 6:00pm
Zoom Webinar
February 25, 2021 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Zoom webinar
Resistance Studies Initiative Speaker Series: Distinguished researchers and activists share critical reflections on resistance issues
Dr. Craig Brown is a Resistance Studies Initiative and Sociology Departmental affiliate at UMass Amherst. He is an Assistant Editor of the Journal of Resistance Studies and board member of the European Peace Research Association. His PhD assessed the methods of resistance during the 2011 Tunisian Revolution.
February 21, 2021 - 1:00pm to 3:30pm
Zoom webinar
The Ahimsa Center in the College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona presents this virtual Public Lecture
Speaker: SATISH KUMAR - author, thought leader, Editor emeritus of Resurgence magazine, Director emeritus and Co-Founder of Schumacher College, UK.
February 19, 2021 - 2:00pm
Zoom webinar
National Advocates for Pregnant Women presents
Anti-Abortion and Pro-Insurrection: How White Supremacists, Male Supremacists, and Anti-Abortionists Converged at the Capitol
February 10, 2021 - 7:30pm to February 12, 2021 - 9:30pm
Zoom Webinar from UMass Fine Arts Center
Devised & directed by Rudy Ramirez, with coordinator Yao Chen | | Immersive theater works by placing its audience amid the action; we’re taking this concept remote. Café Subterrain invites audience members to gather in a digital café where they’ll journey through virtual rooms to meet resistance agents from...Read more
February 1, 2021 - 12:00pm
Zoom Webinar, Facebook & YouTube
Planet on a Precipice:Histories and futures of the environmental emergency
Young people have transformed the climate movement. Youth of color and youth from the Global South have been especially central in this process. Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate, executive director of the Sunrise Movement Varshini Prakash ‘15, and other leading climate organizers will reflect on their personal experiences in the movement and share their organizing strategy, insights, and visions for the world they’re fighting to win. Read more
