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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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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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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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Conference Examining Alcohol Policy in the United States

… is using an historical framework to examine cultural and social taboos around alcohol policy in the United States. By tracing the history of both alcohol use and legal controls in the United States, Torpey's Div III, … striking parallels between contemporary alcohol policy and antiquated—and commonly regarded as failed—attempts at …

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Faculty

James Miller

… University of Pennsylvania. Professor Miller's teaching and research have mainly concerned new media and political culture. The latter includes work on the … subjectivity of citizenship, which can be more affective and popular-cultural than overtly political, and the use of …

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2015 Staff Excellence Awards

… 2015 Staff Excellence Awards Joan Barrett and Debora Nelson received the 2015 Carol and Blair Brown Staff Excellence Awards, presented May 1. … administrative assistant in the School of Natural Sciences and Nelson is an annual giving associate in the advancement …

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New Graduate’s Div III Uses Her Own Poetry to Address the Western Literary Canon

… with the Western literary canon — the poems are intimate and personal exchanges with their source texts. I integrated … fields of study, such as literature, creative writing, and history: A comprehensive understanding of a specific work necessitates substantial contextual and historical research as well as close observation of …

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Experimenting at Hampshire Summer Academic Programs

… dive into study areas they're passionate about with alums and other faculty at the forefront of their fields. The Creative Media Institute; the Food, Farm, and Sustainability Institute; the Institute for Curatorial … Practice; the Institute for Transforming Social Justice; and TESOL teacher training gave participants opportunities to …

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Design, Art, Technology Grants for Innovative Student Projects

… Innovative Student Projects   Hampshire's new Design, Art, and Technology (DART) program announces the first six … learning, expand colors available for steel surfaces, and use ice as a medium for exposing light to the human eye. … the ever-evolving relationship between humans, animals, and objects. One explores the relationship between sound and

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Assistant Professor Bynum Debuts New Course on #BlackJoy

… Joshua Murray In the realm of African American literature and culture, the idea of joy is often ignored. This lack of … about the concept, inspired African American Literature and Culture Assistant Professor Tara Bynum to design a course … Pleasures, #BlackJoy.  During the fall term, Bynum and her students delved into black joy and #blackjoy. The …

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Hampshire Board of Trustees Names Ed-Tech Entrepreneur Jose Fuentes as Chair

… campaign , apply a new sustainable business model, and celebrate its 50th anniversary. An alumnus of Hampshire, Fuentes 05F began his two-year term this month and is eligible to serve two more terms with Board approval. He previously served as Vice Chair and has been a trustee since 2016. Fuentes is currently …

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"Guarding the Doors of Our Dream Palaces"

… history project," focusing mainly on the usherettes and their place in cinema history. Usherettes served multiple roles. "They were performative, and played an aesthetic and ornamental role. They also kept order in the theaters," …

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Hampshire Alum Orisanmi Burton 99F Named 2021 Freedom Scholar

… Scholar The annual award from Marguerite Casey Foundation and Group Health Foundation provides “unrestricted support to … can provide critical insight to social justice leaders and whose ideas encourage all of us to imagine how we can radically improve our democracy, economy and society.” Abolitionist archivist Orisanmi Burton 99F is …

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Jeffrey Wallen

… Wallen Jeffrey Wallen's teaching interests include 19th- and 20th-century comparative literature (German, French, … studies, modernism, Jewish studies, psychoanalysis, and philosophy. He has published widely on 19th- and 20th-century European literature; on biography and

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Division III Profile: Five Students Develop Tech Venture for Assessing Livestock Health

… thesis project seeks to level the playing field for small and medium farms by offering affordable technology to monitor the health of livestock. Minot and a team of four other Hampshire students, merging their … The team is developing a system that detects disease and predicts breeding cycles through individual animal’s …

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A Sumptuous 'Repast'

… When Professor Michael Lesy sat down at his computer and clicked on a collection of menus from 1908, he found they "could conjure up the taste, smell, and sight of food that had been prepared, served, and eaten more than one hundred years ago." Just as the menus …

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Notable Alumni

Jacob Reider 83F P10

… our communities through the innovative use of technology, and the promotion of benevolence in business.  He is … Health, a New York health transformation initiative,  and serves as adviser, investor, and/or Director for several small health-focused companies.  …

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February 8, 2019: Hampshire Update

… Dear Hampshire Students, Faculty, Staff, Parents, Alums, and Friends, This has been a full-on week of meetings and interactions on campus and off, following Friday’s Board announcement—extremely …

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Jutta Sperling

… Sperling received her M.A. from the Universität Göttingen and her Ph.D. from Stanford University. Sperling’s teaching interests focus on medieval/early modern history and visual culture, with a special emphasis on the Italian … decolonial archive studies, (queer) body history, and comparative legal studies of the Mediterranean. Her most …

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Barbara Yngvesson

… emerita of anthropology, received her B.A. from Barnard and her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.  … Dean of the School of Social Science at Hampshire College, and founding director of the interdisciplinary Program in Culture, Brain, and Development there. Her interests include the cultural …

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Letter from Ken Rosenthal, Interim President: July 10, 2019

… College Community, As we start our new fiscal year and prepare for what promises to be a transformative school … anniversary in fall 2020—I want to recognize our staff and faculty who have remained with the College under the most fluid, ambiguous, and in some cases severely challenging circumstances. Since I …

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Hampshire College Welcomes Hitchcock Center for the Environment to its Cultural Village

… 9,000-square-foot facility located between the Red Barn and the Hampshire College Farm, with access to nature trails and a range of ecological habitats on the College's property. … environmental education programs to some 8,000 children and adults each year, and has plans to leverage its new …

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