7 a.m.
Chores at the Farm Center *
Farm Center, Dairy Barn
Lend a hand to help Leslie Cox, farm manager; and Hampshire students at the Farm Center. Please be on time! Coffee will be served.
8 a.m.-4 p.m.
Registration
Franklin Patterson Hall, Lobby
8-9 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
Franklin Patterson Hall, Lounge
9:00-10:30 a.m.
Workshop: Noticing is the Beginning of Change...
Music and Dance Building, Small Dance Studio
This movement session melds Pilates, imagery techniques, and joyful movement in a way we all have been missing. A series of integrated exercises helps us focus on where we are in our bodies and helps us get closer to where we would like to be. Feet, shoulder, and pelvic girdles will all be happier after this session. It's never too late!
From Assessment to Avatars: Mental Health in the 21st Century
Franklin Patterson Hall, East Lecture Hall
This panel examines the changing landscape of mental health assessment and treatment, particularly in relation to developmental disorders such as autism that have shifted in terms of how they are assessed, the populations that are affected (once seen as a disorder of childhood, as these children become adults new challenges emerge), as well as how technology and technological advances change the way we treat disorders.
10:30 a.m.-Noon
The Future of the Brain
Franklin Patterson Hall, Main Lecture Hall
This talk will focus on the future of neuroscience, and what it will mean for medicine, artificial intelligence, and understanding human nature. Can computers simulate the human brain? Will Obama's BRAIN Initiative revolutionize neuroscience? How close are we to understanding the operation of the human brain? Conversation to follow.
Getting Reacquainted with Hampshire *
Franklin Patterson Hall, Lobby
Franklin Patterson Hall, West Lecture Hall (rain location for a virtual tour)
Enjoy revisiting your favorite places on campus and explore the sites for exciting new building projects.
11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Lunch
Dining Commons
Noon-12:45 p.m.
Lunch conversation with President Jonathan Lash
Dining Commons
Jonathan Lash will speak on the state of the College, followed by a question and answer period.
1 p.m.
Hidden in Plain Sight: Trauma in America
Franklin Patterson Hall, West Lecture Hall
Workshop: The Science of Stress
Franklin Patterson Hall, East Lecture Hall
Have some fun exploring the mind-body connection. Participants will be introduced to multiple methods for detecting a stress response, and then get to play with them in some simple activities. This is a low-key, low-stress (promise!) workshop that will introduce you to some of the techniques Hampshire students are using to learn about the biology of stress. Come try a stress dot, a galvanic skin conductance recorder, and more.
2-5 p.m.
Open Swim
Robert Crown Center, Pool
2 p.m.
Bodies, Pleasures, and Disruptions: Sexuality in U.S. Society
Franklin Patterson Hall, East Lecture Hall
What pleasures, secrets, shames, and joys do our sexualities contain? How can we think and talk about our sexualities within a complex, contradictory, and confusing culture? How can we create action and activism around key issues confronting us as we move further into the 21st century? Through a combination of personal perspectives and experiences and academic scholarship, the panelists will address these questions.
On the Archaeology of Mind: Animal Emotions and How the Brain Generates Human Affective Feelings and Implications for New Psychiatric Treatments
Franklin Patterson Hall, West Lecture Hall
This talk will focus on our emerging understanding of the neural circuits that control natural emotional behaviors and their rewarding and punishing properties. Not only does this provide a new (constitutive) understanding of how emotional feelings are created in human brains, but it also highlights possible foundations of consciousness and suggests new treatments for psychiatric disorders.
3:30 p.m.
Film Screening: Bitter Honey (a documentary film in progress)
Franklin Patterson Hall, Main Lecture Hall
A documentary film in progress, Bitter Honey offers a dynamic, intimate, and emotionally charged portrait of three polygamous Balinese families. Shot over a four-year period on the island of Bali, Indonesia, this feature-length film draws attention to the plight of Balinese women in polygamous marriages, which are frequently characterized by psychological manipulation, economic hardship, infidelity, and domestic violence. Due to a social structure where men predominate in many domains, these women are often left with little voice. Bitter Honey draws attention to their struggle, documents those making courageous efforts to better protect and empower them, and aims to trigger a wider conversation about contemporary polygamy and women’s rights in contemporary Indonesia.
Flash Sessions
Franklin Patterson Hall, West Lecture Hall
Share what you've been working on since Hampshire and learn about your fellow alums at the same time. Do you make visual art? Do you work with homeless youth? Have you written a song? Invented something? Speakers will have 7 minutes to present their work in a lecture style format, slide-show, video, performance, etc.
5:30-6:00 p.m.
Reception
Franklin Patterson Hall, Lobby
Celebrating ten years of the Foundation for Psychocultural Research-Hampshire College Program in Culture, Brain, and Development. All are welcome to attend and celebrate.
6-7 p.m.
Dinner
Dining Commons
Reunion Celebrations
Class of 1973 Reunion Reception starts at 5 p.m.
Red Barn
Classmates and friends are invited to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the entry class of 1973. Class photo at 6 p.m.
Class of 1988 Reunion Reception starts at 7 p.m.
Prescott, Tavern
Classmates and friends are invited to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the entry class of 1988. Class photo at 7:30 p.m.
Class of 1993 Reunion Reception starts at 7 p.m.
Liebling Gallery, Jerome Liebling Building
Classmates and friends are invited to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the entry class of 1993. Class photo at 7:45 p.m. Join the class back on campus for dinner following the reception.
Class of 1998 Reunion Reception starts at 7 p.m.
Bridge, Robert Crown Center
Classmates and friends are invited to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the entry class of 1998. Class photo at 8 p.m.
Class of 2003 Reunion Reception starts at 7 p.m.
Location TBD
Classmates and friends are invited to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the entry class of 2003. Class photo at 8:15 p.m.
* Indicates family-friendly event
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