January 2009
Amilcar Cabral/Martin Luther King Jr. Conference
Monday, January 19, 2009. From: 11:00am to 7:00pm
Ryan Lounge, McCormack Hall, 3rd Floor
February
Black History Month Celebration with Walter Beasley, Professor Berklee College of Music/ Contemporary Jazz recording Artist. Lecture and performance on Tuesday, Feb. 3 at 2:30 in the Snowden Auditorium. Free and open to the public. For more information contact 617-287-5640.
On February 18 the Africana Studies Department is presenting a Colloquium Research Forum, Blacks In Europe: Presence and Prospects, from 2:30 - 4:30 p.m at our our campus student center. The department will be hosting historian and scholar Dr. Allison Blakely of Boston University who will be discussing his research related to African and African American contributions to Europe.
Global Voices Reading Series
Friday, February 20 at 11:00 am - Poet, memoirist, and art critic William Corbett will read from his latest book of poetry Opening Day at the UMass Boston Bookstore. Bill is Director of Student Writing Activities in MIT’s Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies and an editor at Pressed Wafer, a poetry publisher. He is also a frequent contributor of book reviews for the Boston Phoenix. Global Voices Reading Series
The RCUCH is hosting a screening and lecture of Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place. Lecture by film director Henry Ferrini followed by discussion. Tues., Feb 24, from 7:00 to 9:30 in CC 3540. For more information contact Meagan at 617-287-6733.
Global Voices Reading Series
Wednesday, February 25 at 11:00 am - Join us for readings from poets Andrea Cohen and Jill McDonough at the UMass Boston Bookstore. Andrea Cohen, author of The Cartographer's Vacation, will read from her new book, Long Division. Her awards include a PEN Discovery Award, the Owl Creek Poetry Prize, and a Glimmertrain prize for short fiction. Poet Jill McDonough has taught incarcerated college students through Boston University's Prison Education Program since 1999. Her poems have appeared in The Threepenny Review, The New Republic, and Slate. Her first book of poetry, Habeus Corpus contains fifty sonnets, each about a historical execution.
Working Paper Seminar Series (Department of Sociology)
Professor Russell Schutt presents Professions, Preferences and Public Policy: Challenges for Translating Research into Practice. Wednesday February 25, 2:30-4:00pm, Sociology Conference Room, 4th Floor Wheatley Hall. For more information contact Phil Kretsedemas at 617 287 6273 or Email Philip.Kretsedemas@umb.edu
March
Global Voices Reading Series
Tuesday, March 3 at 2:00pm - Award winning poet Richard Tillinghast is the author of eight books of poetry and three books of non-fiction. He spent many years as a poetry editor for the New York Times Book Review and has reviewed and written literary essays for the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post. Richard's latest books are Finding Ireland and The New Life.
March 4 – 6 in the McCormack Theatre. Shape of Things by Neil LaBute directed by faculty member Carrie Ann Quinn.
Working Paper Seminar Series (Department of Sociology)
Enhancing Entry and Successful Completion of Vocation Services by Veterans with Mental Illness: The Pathways Study. Presented by Charles Drebing, Assoc. Director of Mental Health for Psychosocial Rehabilitation, Veterans Administration and Kendra King, Research Assoc., New England Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center on Wednesday March 11, 2:30-4:00pm, Sociology Conference Room, 4th Floor Wheatley Hall. For more information contact Phil Kretsedemas at 617 287 6273 or Email Philip.Kretsedemas@umb.edu
Global Voices Reading Series
Monday, March 23 at 11:00am – Award winning writer Helen Elaine Lee will be at the UMass Boston bookstore reading from her work. Helen’s books include The Serpent’s Gift and Watermarked. She is currently at work on a novel about the lives of a group of people who are incarcerated in two neighboring American prisons. Helen is an associate professor in MIT’s Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies and she serves on the Board of PEN New England and is a member of its Freedom To Write Committee.
Working Paper Seminar Series (Department of Sociology)
Wednesday March 25, 2:30-4:00pm, Rahsaan Mahadeo, Masters Candidate, UMass Boston Graduate Program in Applied Sociology presents A Study of Life Course Transitions among Men of Color Living in Urban Communities and the Implications for Younger Generations.
April
The Philosophy Department is sponsoring a talk by Prof. Gary Hatfield of the University of Pennsylvania on Friday, April 3 from 12:30 to 2:30 in Campus Center 1313.
The topic is: the internal sense in the medievals and in Descartes. For more inforamation contact
Yumiko Inukai at 617-287-6518
“How to Beat the LSAT,” to be held on Wednesday, April 1, 2:30-4 p.m., Campus Center, 3rd floor, room 3545. Light refreshments provided. This session, sponsored by the Political Science and Philosophy Departments, will be conducted by a UMB graduating senior who scored in the top 1/10 of 1% on the Law School Admission Test (LSAT), which is the bane of most law-school applicants’ existence. The student will share her preparation strategies and tips.
Join Ruth Butler, professor emerita, as she discusses her new book - Hidden in the Shadow of the Master: The Model-Wives of Cezanne, Monet, and Rodin. Co-sponsored by The Research Center for Urban Cultural History and the Department of Art. Tuesday, April 7, 5:30pm, Campus Center Room 3540. For more information contact Meagan at 617-287-6733.
This year the Sixth Annual Social Theory Forum will explore the relationship between immigration and the changing cultural, political and social landscape of the global North. It will take place in Ryan Lounge on April 8 and 9, 2009. The Social Theory Forum, an international conference has attracted a lot of attention both inside and outside our university. The Sociology Department has sponsored this forum since 2003.
Working Paper Seminar Series (Department of Sociology)
Andrew Papachristos, Assistant Professor of Sociology, UMass Amherst
More Coffee, Less Murder: The Influence of Gentrification on Neighborhood Homicide Rates in Chicago. Wednesday April 8, 2:30-4:00pm, 2:30-4:00pm, Sociology Conference Room, 4th Floor Wheatley Hall. For more information contact Phil Kretsedemas at 617 287 6273 or Email Philip.Kretsedemas@umb.edu
Global Voices Reading Series
Monday, April 13 at 11:00am – Poets Micheal Cirelli and Dick Lourie will be reading at the campus bookstore. Once a poetry slam champion, Michael Cirelli’s first full-length collection of poetry Lobster with Dirty Ol’ Bastard is a contemporary exploration of hop-hop culture and features poems about well-known artists. A blues musician and poet, Dick Lourie’s books of poetry include Ghost Radio and If the Delta was the Sea. Ghost Radio includes the poem “Forgiving Our Fathers” which was featured in the film Smoke Signals. Dick is co-founder of NY State Poets in the Schools and often mixes music with poetry at readings and workshops.
Dr. Christopher N. Matthews, Visiting Professor, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Hofstra University presents “The Archaeology of Captivity and Freedom in Early New York” Thursday, April 16th, 3 pm, Healey Library, 11th Floor, Room 0011A (Lounge) Open to all faculty, staff, students, and public. Sponsored by the Department of Anthropology
"Questions of Identity: The Politics of Reading Nietzsche in South Africa," a lecture by Rebecca Bamford, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Hunter College at 3:00 p.m., Friday, April 17th, Wheatley Hall, Floor 5, Room 41. For more information contact C. Heike Schotten 617-287-6927
UMB/Boston State College Alumni Information Forum on Law School and Graduate School Admissions and Professional Development, to be held on Wednesday, April 22, 4-6:30 p.m., University Dining Room, Campus Center, 2nd floor, room 2550. Light refreshments provided. Sponsored by the Political Science Department, we will have about 15 panelists who will give practical advice to UMB students on how to translate one’s interests into a career plan; how to navigate the application processes for law school and graduate school admissions; how to thrive in law and graduate school; and how to attain professional success and fulfillment after receiving one’s advanced degree.
UMB/Boston State College Political Science Alumni Gathering and Town Meeting on “Assessing the First 96 Days of the Obama Administration,” to be held on Saturday, April 25, 2-4 p.m., Alumni Room, Campus Center, 2nd floor. Light refreshments provided. Sponsored by the Political Science Department, this will be an informal gathering and discussion, with the main intent of reconnecting with our alumni and giving alumni the opportunity to reconnect with each other, which, in an ailing economy, may be more important than ever.
Working Paper Seminar Series (Department of Sociology)
Laura Watts, Masters Candidate, UMass Boston Graduate Program in Applied Sociology presents Dorchester Business’ Evaluation of Local Police Service Wednesday, April 29, 2:30-4:00pm, Sociology Conference Room, 4th Floor Wheatley Hall. For more information contact Philip.Kretsedemas@umb.edu
The Economics Department will sponsor a panel presentation and discussion on “The Financial Crisis: What Happened and Where It’s Going” on Wednesday, April 29 in the Troy Colloquium Room from 2:30 – 4:00pm. Panelists will include Arthur MacEwan, former chair of the Economics Department and a Fellow at the Center for Social Policy, James Campen (formerly of UMB Economics Dept and a researcher and consultant on banking and housing issues) and Yolanda Kodrzycki, Senior Economist and Policy Advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. For more information contact janis.kapler@umb.edu
May
Kate Caffrey will be directing All in the Timing by David Ives. May 6 – 9 in the McCormack Theatre.
May 29 - Commencement begins at 9:30.
November
The New England Archivists, a regional affiliate of the Society of American Archivists, will hold their Fall 2009 meeting on the UMB campus on November 6 & 7. Program and registration information can be found at www.newenglandarchivists.org/meetings/meetings.html. This is an outstanding opportunity for graduate and undergraduate students to learn about current challenges, issues and opportunities in archives and information management.