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Professor Michael Lesy's Historic Stereography Exhibit Presented by California Museum of Photography
… Michael Lesy, presenting a unique "3D" portrait of the world at the beginning of the 20th century, will debut this week at the California …
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PVTA Agrees to Five Colleges Bus Route Recommendations
… leaders and representatives have successfully petitioned the Pioneer Valley Transit Authority (PVTA) to reverse course on some of the proposed bus service reductions it had announced in May and to retain routes serving the colleges and the local community. In May, PVTA had …
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R. W. Kern Center Groundbreaking Ceremony on Nov. 14
… Ceremony on Nov. 14 A groundbreaking ceremony for the new R. W. Kern Center will be held November 14 at 3:30 … College will build its new R. W. Kern Center according to the most rigorous environmental design standards in the world. The building will create its own energy, treat its …
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Invitation for Public Comments for NEASC Reaccreditation
… visit October 15-18, 2017, by a team representing the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. The Commission on Institutions of Higher Education is one of …
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PopDev Program Writes Background Chapter for UN Report
… Program Writes Background Chapter for UN Report PopDev, the Population and Development Program at Hampshire College, is proud to announce the launch of the UN Women flagship report The World Survey of the Role of …
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Hampshire College Faculty News: Fall 2017
… films, plays, and panel presentations — outside of the classroom. Whether it’s through nationwide screenings of … Holding Hands with Ilse , or Andrea Dezsö’s nomination for the prestigious Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, Hampshire … Media Studies Susana Loza recently contributed “Remixing the Imperial Past: Doctor Who , British Slavery and the White …
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Wetlands Boxes as Water Filters
… Wetlands Boxes as Water Filters The water pouring from spigots on the wetlands boxes into buckets below ranges from almost … measuring how tap water is affected when filtered through the constructed wetlands system. Tests will determine pH, …
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Professor Johnson Publishes Book on China's One-Child Policy
… of Asian studies and politics, was recently published by the Chicago University Press. In her book, subtitled Abandonment, Adoption, and the Human Costs of the One-Child Policy , Johnson assesses the effects of the …
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Public Performances To Address U.S. Imperialism from Puerto Rico Viewpoint
… art piece featuring a 175-foot scroll that tells the story of U.S. imperialism from the perspective of the economic and environmental state of Puerto Rico and its …
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Troncoso's International Exhibit and Capstone Research Celebrate Blackness in Cuba
… During Aurelis Troncoso’s second study-abroad trip with the Hampshire in Cuba program, she was talking with the curator Diarenis Calderon Tartabull and made an off-hand … transform her college experience. “I realized that, over the duration of two semesters in Cuba, I had connected with …
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Experimental Dance Show by Dean Slepian and Collaborators To Premiere This Week
… This Week Joshua Murray, Photos by Christopher Duggan “The Dancing Room,” an experimental work that is part dance, part light show, featuring the work of Dean John Slepian and collaborators, will premiere this week at the Quick Center for the Arts at Fairfield University, …
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Friends of Alum Sander Thoenes, Slain as a Journalist, Dedicate Memorial to Inspire World Citizens
… Montreal, and Wolofsky remembers that on their walk to the courts he asked what she wanted to do with her life. She … wanted to be a foreign correspondent, travel, and change the world. He said his goal was basically the same: world traveler, foreign correspondent, ideally for …
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Hampshire Students Premiere African Art Exhibition in Their First Semester
… first semester of college, students in a tutorial had the remarkable experience of curating a debut exhibition of … special collections and authoring its catalogue. The presentation of centuries-old Asante goldweights, never studied or displayed since their donation to the College in 1984, was the students’ final project in the …
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Jan. 31: Ken Burns, Screening of 'The Central Park Five'
… Jan. 31: Ken Burns, Screening of 'The Central Park Five' Award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns 71F screened his new film The Central Park Five and participated in a … to 5 p.m. in Franklin Patterson Hall (Main Lecture Hall). The event was free and the public is welcome. Read more about …
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Ground Broken for R. W. Kern Center
… Ground Broken for R. W. Kern Center The groundbreaking for the R. W. Kern Center on November 14 marked the official beginning of Hampshire College’s most ambitious …
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Hampshire Alum Curates Exhibit by Professor Sara Greenberger Rafferty at SUNY New Paltz
… known for unsettling works on topics such as domesticity, the body, consumer culture, fashion and violence, is now on exhibit at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz. The exhibition is curated by Hampshire alum Andrew Ingall. …
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Valentin-Escobar Exhibit Named Top 20 Museum Show of 2015 by Art Media
… by Hampshire Professor Wilson Valentín-Escobar about the history of the revolutionary, paramilitary, Puerto Rican organization the Young Lords Party has been named one of the best shows of …
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Personal Experience Shapes Occupy Class
… Personal Experience Shapes Occupy Class The Occupy movement will be the focus of a Hampshire course in the fall 2012 semester, and literature professor and course …
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Hampshire Honors Ken Rosenthal for Fifty Years of Service
… 14, at a celebration of his decades at Hampshire—one of the reasons the College exists. He’s also now the official Historian of the College. The title was bestowed …
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Student Use of Academic Services Doubles in Knowledge Commons
… nearly doubled after Hampshire College centralized the services into Harold F. Johnson Library, in a large, … newly renovated space starting this past September 2017. The concept behind the new Knowledge Commons was funded by a $1.2 million Andrew …
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Exhibition by Senegalese Graffiti Artists Opens October 15, 2021
… Mansour Fall) and Mow 504 (Mouhamadou Moustapha Souaré) of the Dakar-based graffiti supergroup, Radikl Bomb Shot Crew . The residency will offer exciting opportunities for the Hampshire, Five College, Town of Amherst, and Pioneer …
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Hampshire Library Extends Five College Partnerships
… Hampshire Library Extends Five College Partnerships The partnership among the libraries of the Five Colleges continues to strengthen and expand for the …
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For Alum Artemis Joukowsky III 81F, His Family’s Lasting Legacy of Support for Hampshire College Shines On
… Hampshire College, he remembers worrying he would be the black sheep of his family. Joukowsky’s father, Artemis … held a long, successful career in global business with the American International Group Incorporated (AIG) before … Joukowsky, Jr., was a trustee, instrumental in supporting the medical school, and later became chancellor emeritus of …
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Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony Honors Hundreds Who Helped Build R.W. Kern Center
… a committee of faculty, staff, and students began planning the campus’s first major building in more than 25 years, … Hampshire hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the completion of the R.W. Kern Center. Among the speakers was Board Chair Gaye …
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Campus Events To Explore Medieval Ethiopian Manuscript
… To Explore Medieval Ethiopian Manuscript Michael Medeiros The Institute for Curatorial Practice (ICP) and the Hampshire College Art Gallery have co-organized a public … Ethiopian manuscript to be held November 11 and 12. The manuscript, written in Ge’ez (the liturgical language of …
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