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Campus Events To Explore Medieval Ethiopian Manuscript
… Medeiros The Institute for Curatorial Practice (ICP) and the Hampshire College Art Gallery have co-organized a public keynote panel and faculty seminar centering on a medieval Christian Ethiopian manuscript to be held November 11 and 12. The manuscript, written in Ge’ez (the liturgical …
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Hampshire College to Reinvent Academic Program, Launching its Next 50 Years
… pioneering academic program, engaging its campus community and 12,000 alumni in ongoing meetings this fall and promising to publish a plan by November. The initiative, … Launch,” marks the college’s 50th anniversary next year and the launch of its second half-century. The effort is led …
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Hampshire College Cuba Exchange Program Marks 15th Anniversary with Eqbal Ahmad Lecture, Colloquium
… lecture is titled “U.S.–Cuba Relations: Past, Present, and Future.” Speakers are former chief of mission at the U.S. Interests Section in Havana Wayne Smith and the eminent historian and leading U.S. scholar of Cuba Louis A. Pérez, Jr. The …
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HIV-Prevention Education
… more than two decades Jill Lewis, professor of literature and gender studies , has used education as a powerful tool in … of the HIV epidemic. Approaching the issue from cultural and gender-focused perspectives, she has developed and … in the time of HIV and AIDS at www.protectionthefilm.com. … More Engaged For more than two decades Jill Lewis, …
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Hampshire Protects 46 Acres on the Mount Holyoke Range
… College, Kestrel Land Trust, Massachusetts Energy and Environmental Affairs, and the Town of Hadley permanently protects 46 acres of the … northeast flank of the Mount Holyoke Range near Bay Road and Chumura Road. It will serve as a resource for outdoor …
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Letter from Ken Rosenthal, Interim President: June 13, 2019
… that would empower them to direct their own education and lead independent work. As a community of lifelong … about — instead, we wish to pursue intellectual exercise and active inquiry. This remains the heart of Hampshire's program, as Franklin Patterson and Chuck Longsworth wrote in The Making of a College . Five …
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Commencement Speaker Sonya Renee Taylor
… class has selected award-winning poet, activist, and transformational leader Sonya Renee Taylor as their … on the Harold F. Johnson Library Lawn. Taylor is founder and radical executive officer of The Body is Not An Apology. … Apology believes that discrimination, social inequality, and injustice are manifestations of our inability to make …
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Getting to Know the Fall 2020 Entering Students
… 119 new students. Of this group, 79 are first-years and 40 are transfers. Including returning students, we have … of 2021. After weeks of intense heat, clear blue skies and temps in the low 80s made check-in and move-in to Dakin, where new students are housed this …
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Hampshire Students Premiere African Art Exhibition in Their First Semester
… of African artifacts from Hampshire’s special collections and authoring its catalogue. The presentation of … project in the fall course, Art/Artifact: African Art and Material Culture. In Professor Rachel Engmann’s tutorial … the ways African objects have been collected, interpreted, and displayed, on and beyond the African continent. The …
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Jonathan Lash Announces Retirement in 2018
… me. I believe profoundly in the importance of Hampshire and the originality of this learning community. It spoke to … who interviewed me—they put me on the spot, again and again, with their thoughtful questions and the way they challenged my answers. Who has students like …
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For Alum Artemis Joukowsky III 81F, His Family’s Lasting Legacy of Support for Hampshire College Shines On
… On Amy Diehl When non-profit activist, film producer, and venture capitalist Artemis Joukowsky III 81F first chose … a trustee, instrumental in supporting the medical school, and later became chancellor emeritus of the university. … mother, Martha Sharp Joukowsky, a well-known archeologist and past president of the Archaeological Institute of America …
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President-elect Ed Wingenbach Greeting to Hampshire College
… Ed Wingenbach to a campus gathering of staff, faculty, and students. Wingenbach was unanimously appointed this … education is not healthy. I believe that with all my heart and I have always believed that. This should be a quick … what are places that you look at as models for higher ed. And I said, well it's easy, there's two places. There's Berea …
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Roddenberry Big Impact Grants Awarded
… Grants Awarded Two Hampshire graduates, Aaron Wieler 01F and Benjamin Herson 95F , have been awarded a total of … Impact grant program. Funded by the Roddenberry Foundation and run by Hampshire's Creativity Center, the grant program … or environmental problems around the world. Wieler and Herson's projects were selected from a pool of 22 …
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Hampshire Names 2019 Commencement Speaker Ericka Hart
… change the face of sexual health education for children and adolescents with innovative programs that promote frank talk about sexuality across race and gender orientation. A breast cancer survivor by age 29, … including better access to screenings, timely diagnoses, and state-of-the art treatment. Hart’s work stands at the …
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Sura Levine
… Levine holds a B.A. from the University of Michigan and an M.A. and Ph.D. in art history from the University of Chicago. She is a specialist in the social history of 19th and 20th century European and American art with a particular …
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Announcing the Creative Media Institute at Hampshire College
… Celebrated filmmakers Ken Burns 71F , Brett Morgen 87F , and Erica Huggins 83F are among Hampshire College alumni who … when practically every well-known documentary filmmaker and photographer of the day joined Hampshire professor and Burns mentor Jerome Liebling on campus to conduct …
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Hofstra Emerita Professor Silvia Federici to Deliver 2018 Schocket Lecture
… to Deliver 2018 Schocket Lecture Activist, teacher, and writer Silvia Federici will be the featured speaker at … the 11th-Annual Eric N. Schocket Memorial Lecture on Class and Culture, to take place March 29. The event starts at 4:30 … p.m. in the Main Lecture Hall of Franklin Patterson Hall and is free and open to the public. Federici is Emerita …
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Hampshire College Offers Scholarship to Attend Vermont Law School
… to Attend Vermont Law School Hampshire College students and alums who would like to shape policy affecting the … ten years after graduation to earn a master’s degree and/or JD from Vermont Law School (VLS), consistently ranked … Craig 08F attended VLS for a master’s in environmental law and policy while earning her JD at Northeastern. She is now a …
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A Project-Based Approach to Teaching Game Design
… At Hampshire College this fall, Professors Chris Perry and Ira Fay led Cognitive Science 327, a cutting-edge class … of three months, a group of students, faculty, staff, and community members designed, developed, and published the free digital game Word Snack . Students …
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William Brayton
… B.A. in studio art from the University of New Hampshire and an M.F.A. from Claremont Graduate University. In addition … has taught visual art at the University of New Hampshire, and the Chautauqua School of Art, and been a visiting artist … plants. His website can be found at williambrayton.com William Brayton 157720 Professor Emeritus of Art …
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2014 Convocation Keynote Address from Walter Greenleaf 75S
… of platitudes. As Hampshire students, Hampshire faculty, and Hampshire staff, you do not need much further motivation and inspiration – you are inherently self-propelled , and if and when you do run low on steam, and perhaps need to …
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For His Div III, Armon Walker 17F Leads a Collaborative Game Design Team to Create the Iaijutsu Project
… For Armon Walker 17F’s Div III, he worked as game producer and project manager for an interdisciplinary team of five … he chose Hampshire, his favorite facets of game design, and the work he hopes to do after he rings the Div-Free bell. … brought you to Hampshire? I am from St. Louis, Missouri, and I’ve known I wanted to study game design since I was ten. …
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Professor Susana Loza on Why a Hampshire Education is a Dialogue, Not a Monologue
… Loza is associate professor of critical race, gender, and media studies at Hampshire. Her research interests include the social construction of race and sex in speculative media; power, privilege, and cultural appropriation; gender and ethnic performativity …
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Update from President Lash on Title IX Compliance Review by Office for Civil Rights
… worked collaboratively with OCR to provide information and to enhance our Title IX program. This month, Hampshire … continue to foster a safe community as we work to address and prevent sexual assault and harassment on campus. While OCR made some findings about …
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Hampshire Update On Strategic Options: February 23, 2019
… This was a difficult week on campus. Passions are high and nerves are frayed. It’s not surprising that as a … Board is in active communication with the academic deans and faculty leadership to resolve differences and reach an understanding about how we can move forward …
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