Past Events Archive

November 2008

Nov. 19th, The Avanti Wind Quintet performing works of Shen & Haas. At 8:15 p.m. in Bezanson Recital Hall. For more information click here.

Nov. 19th,  "Black Life in Sweden:  Beyond Licorice and Chocolate."  A lecture by Utz McKnight from the University of Alabama as part of the W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture Series Black Europeans:  Race and the New Europe.  4:00-5:30 p.m.  Campus Center room 174-76.

Nov. 18th,  Author Paula J. Giddings discusses her book Ida:  A Sword Among Lions.  7:00 p.m. New Africa House, Shirley Graham Du Bois Library (2nd floor). For more information click here.

Nov.17th, MASS Marimba Band, UMass Amherst Marimba Ensembles & the Tuba Studio--showcasing percussion ensemble music, with marimbas as the primary instrument. At 8:00 p.m. in Bowker Auditorium. For more information click here.

Nov.16th, German Music: Bach to Weill. Professors Marjorie Malnick, mezzo soprano and Estela Olevsky, piano. At 4:00 p.m. in Bowker Auditorium. For more information click here.

Nov. 14th, "Free Will and the Mind-Body Problem."  A colloquia by Bernard Berofsky, Columbia University. Beginning at 3:30 p.m. in Bartlett Hall room 206.

Nov. 14th,  A lecture "Painted Nuns:  Dead, Live, and Learned," portraits of the nuns in the colonial Americas, particularly Columbia and Mexico, by Nina Scott, UMass Amherst Professor Emeritus.  4:00-5:30 p.m. in Herter Hall room 601.

Oct. 30th-Nov. 8th, The Trestle At Pope Lick Creek. The weight and power of a 153-ton steam engine hang over this striking play by Five College alumna Naomi Wallace. In a small American town in the 1930s, sensitive Dalton and tough-girl Pace find a shared purpose in training for a dangerous race against the train that crosses the town’s railroad bridge nightly.

Admission: $12 general, $6 students/seniors

At the Curtain Theatre of the Fine Arts Center. For more information, click here.

Nov. 6th, The English Department presents The Troy Lecture for 2008. A precision of Language: An Evening with Margaret Atwood. Atwood is a Canadian writer, a poet, novelist, literary critic, a feminist and an activist. She is a winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award, Governor General's Award and many more. The lecture will take place on November 6th, 4:30pm at the Concert Hall of the Fine Arts Center.

October 2008

Sept. 28th-Oct. 27th, LOOK! New Visions for Architecture in Holyoke: An Exhibition of Design Projects in Support of Culture, Community and Sustainable Revitalization

An exhibit at Holyoke's Wisteriahurst Museum featuring designs by Professor Joseph Krupczynski and his Architecture + Planning students.

Exhibit Opening:  September 28 at 2:00 p.m.

Box City, a project by Holyoke school students: October 19 from noon – 4:00 p.m.

October 28th, College of Humanities and Fine Arts Alumni Feedback Forum & Concert at UMass Amherst.  University Club, Stockbridge, Road, UMass Amherst from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

[After the forum those who are interested are invited to attend a faculty recital, Sweets for Viola and Piano, at the Fine Art Center's Bezanson Recital Hall at 8:00 p.m.] Please reply to treed@art.umass.edu.

Oct. 23rd Karl Friday of the Department of History at the University of Georgia presents The Honor Role: Loyalty, Ignominy and Chushingura in the Samurai Tradition. 301 Herter Hall, 2:30-3:45

October 22nd, College of Humanities and Fine Arts Alumni Feedback Forum and Networking Event at the Rendezvous in Turners Falls from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. (78 3rd St., Turner Falls, MA). Please reply to treed@art.umass.edu.

Oct. 21st, W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture Series Race and the New Europe: Black Europeans.

Old Dynamics, New Spaces?  The Europeanization of Blackness

Peggy Piesche, Vassar College

October 21 from 4:00 – 5:30 p.m.

Campus Center 911-15

Oct. 19th, Poetry Reading by Liz Hughey & Michael Teig

followed by a Q & A session with both poets. Sponsored by the poetry journal jubilat.October 19 at 3:00 p.m.Trustees Room, Jones Library. 43 Amity Street, Amherst

Oct. 17-18th, UMass Amherst Homecoming Weekend

Oct. 10th-12th and 17th-19th, Macbeth, Renaissance Center Theater Company.

Renaissance Center graduate student Nate Leonard directs this dark tale of ambition. Black Box Theater, Renaissance Center 650 East Pleasant Street. Admission: $10 students & seniors, $15 general admission. Performance times:  Fri. & Sat. at 7:30 p.m., Sun. at 2:00 p.m.

Oct. 17th, Multiband Pops

A fast-paced showcase of 12 instrumental, vocal and dance ensembles, and the Minuteman Marching Band.8:00 p.m., Fine Arts Center Concert Hall. For tickets: 413-545-1511

Oct. 17th, Music Program Alumni Event in Conjunction with Homecoming Weekend

Oct. 11th-12th, The 2008 Crossroads Conference

A student dialogue on the extraordinary outcomes of cultural encounters, national and ideological borders, disciplines in interaction, the overlapping of distinct historical periods, the interweaving of literary genres, the symbiosis between academics and social change, and the foreplays between rhetorics of war, freedom, memory, and silence.

Oct. 2nd, MFA Program for Poets & Writers Visiting Writer's Series. Heidi Julavits 8:00 p.m. – Memorial Hall

September 2008

Sept. 29th, Julianne Malveaux, talk on race, class and gender in the presidential election

Sept. 25-27th, Architecture program symposium, "Without a Hitch:  New Directions in Prefabrication"

Sept. 25th, Michelle Wright of the University of Minnesota discusses "The Physics of Blackness: Reconsidering the African Diaspora in the Postwar Era" at 4:00 p.m. in the Campus Center

September 21st, The Renaissance Center kicks off its Year of Shakespeare with a production of "As You Like It"

Sept. 18-20th, Art Department 50th Anniversary Celebration and Studio Arts Building Grand Opening