April 2009 Events

April 28, 8:00 pm ~ Fine Arts Center Concert Hall New Classics for Wind Band.  Laura Rexroth, conductor. For more informaiotn, click here.

April 27, 2009 at 4:30PM in the Memorial Hall ~ The Robert and Pamela Jacobs Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Life and Culture: Yehuda Bauer, “Holocaust / Genocide / Today". To learn more, click here.

April 27, 2009 ~ The annual UMass/Five College History Graduate program lecture, "The Splendid Dead: An American Ordeal" given by Prof. Kevin Boyle from Ohio State University will take place on  Monday, April 27 at 7 p.m. in Herter Hall, room 227.

April 26th ~ JONES JUBILAT POETRY READINGS SERIES presents Lucie Brock Broido and Timothy Donnelly. At 3 p.m. in the Trustees Room of the Jones Library, Amherst. Free and open to the public.

April 24 - 25 ~ 9th ANNUAL JUNIPER LITERARY FESTIVAL celebrating the Massachusetts Review's half century at the forefront of contemporary letters and the vibrant literary and publishing landscapes of which it is a part with two days of readings and performances by emerging and renowned poets and writers; addresses; roundtables; and an independent press fair. Readers include poets Yusef Komunyakaa, Marilyn Hacker, and Christian Hawkey; and writers Thomas Glave, Lucy Corin, and lê thi diem thúy.
Fine Arts Center Lobby & University Gallery, UMass
Friday 6-10 p.m.
Saturday 12:30-10:00 p.m.
Free and open to the public.

April 17th at 8:00 pm ~ Fine Arts Center Concert Hall University Orchestra featuring Concerto Competition winners. Lanfranco Marcelletti, Jr., conductor. For more information, click here.

April 16th at  8:00 pm ~ Bezanson Recital Hall "Japanese Sun Goddess".  Featuring a theatrical work with percussion and poetry. For more information, click here.

April 15th ~ Feminist Foundations Spring 2009 Series.

     Feminist Approaches to Methodology and Indigeneity
(co-sponsored and in collaboration with the Five College Women’s Research Center). Panelists: Marta Carlson (Anthropology, UMass), Joel Martin (History, UMass), Alice Nash (History, UMass), Robert Paynter (Anthropology, UMass), Manuela Picq (Women and Gender Studies, Amherst College), Daniel Rivers (Program for the Study of Women and Gender, Smith College).

     This panel will take place on April 15th, 4:00 p.m. in 202 Bartlett Hall. For more information, click here.

April 12th at 2 pm ~ "Othello" at Amherst Cinema Center, Starring Lawrence Fishburne.
Shakespeare Film Festival a collaboration between the Renaissance Center and Amherst Cinema. Pre-show talk by Arthur Kinney. For more information, click here.

April 9 ~ VISITING WRITERS SERIES presents Kevin Stewart reading from his new fiction at 8 p.m. Memorial Hall, UMass Free and open to the public. For more informaiton, click here.

April 9th at 4:30 pm  ~ "Otium Reformed: Bolonese Villa Culture in the Age of Gabriele Paleotti"
Nadja Aksamija, Wesleyan University, Five College Renaissance Seminar. For more information, click here.

April 8th at 4 pm ~ "Astronomically Good Dances from the Renaissance, or 'By Jove, They're Going the Wrong Way"
BillBob Brown, UMass Dept of Dance, Renaissance Center Reading Room. For more information, click here.

April 7th at 4:30 pm ~ THE GREAT HALL PANEL Rand Theater, Fine Arts Center
Six internationally known scholars discuss the role of the 16th-century English country Great Hall in the history and development of early modern dramatic performance - Free and open to the public. For more information, click here.

April 6th ~ W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture Series Race and the New Europe: Black Europeans.

     Donald Carter of Africana Studies in Hamilton College will speak on "Blackness over Europe: Meditations on Migrancy, Culture and Belonging" on April 6th at 7:30 p.m. in 917 Campus Center. For more information, click here.

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