Imani Perry –“Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop”– Amherst...
Professor Imani Perry will introduce her research on hip-hop culture and analyze the intersections between women, gender, and hip hop culture on Friday, Nov. 2, at 4 p.m. in Stirn Auditorium. Perry is...
View ArticleMark Anthony Neal, Social Justice in the Age of Social Media, UMass-Amherst
Mark Anthony Neal is Professor of Black Popular Culture in the Department of African and African-American Studies at Duke University. He has written and lectured extensively on Black popular culture...
View ArticleStephen Platt, Into the Storm: Some Windows into a Chinese Civil War,...
University of Massachusetts historian Stephen R. Platt will offer rare glimpse into the Taiping Civil War on Thursday, Jan. 24 as part of a celebration of his book “Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom:...
View ArticleLois Ahrens, Real Cost of Prisons, UMass-Amherst
We are proud to announce the inauguration of the STPEC Activist Brown Bag Lunch Series. Most acclaimed for her pioneering work fighting mass incarceration, Lois Ahrens has been an activist and...
View ArticleProfessor David E. Schneider: “How to Cause a Riot”
Professor David E. Schneider, Amherst College, speaks on Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring and Musical Modernism on the Eve of World War I. Earle Recital Hall, Smith College, Northampton, MA...
View ArticleProfessor Elliot Fratkin: “Africa: The Good, the Bad, the Unexpected”
As part of Smith College’s Chaired Professor Lecture series, Professor Elliot Fratkin presents his lecture, titled “Africa: The Good, the Bad, the Unexpected,” discussing his anthropological research....
View ArticleCalestous Juma, Growing Africa – Agricultural Innovation and Economic...
Professor Calestous Juma of Harvard’s Kennedy School will give the inaugural lecture in the PERI African Development Policy Program’s Speaker Series on “GROWING AFRICA: Agricultural Innovation and...
View ArticleDarwin’s Abominable Mystery and the Search for the First Flowering Plants
Charles Darwin’s “abominable mystery” has come to symbolize just about every question we have about the origin and early evolution of flowering plants. William (Ned) Friedman, an Arnold Professor of...
View ArticleViking Fighting Methods: Lecture and Demonstration
As part of the UMass Amherst Scandinavian Impulses series on Vengeance and Violence in Scandinavian Life and Culture, Dr. William R. Short, a research fellow at Higgins Armory Museum, in Worcester,...
View ArticlePutting Hypersexuality to Work: Black Women and Illicit Eroticism in Pornography
Mireille Miller-Young, is an associate professor in the Department of Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
View ArticleStrange Bedfellows: How Corporate-Run NGOS, Middle Class Maya and Persistent...
Fernando Armstrong-Fumero speaks about “Strange Bedfellows: How Corporate-Run NGOS, Middle Class Maya and Persistent Peasants are Changing the Face of Indigenous Politics in Yucatan.”
View ArticleIslamophobia
In response to the events of 9/11, the Bush administration launched a “war on terror” ushering in an era of anti-Muslim racism, or Islamophobia. However, 9/11 did not create Islamophobia, an ideology...
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