January
1/21
11:00-5:00pm
McCormack Hall, Ryan Lounge
12th Annual Amilcar Cabral - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Commemorative Program
“Common-Unity: Strengthening the Foundation for Our Youth”

1/31
2:40-4:00pm
H-04-031
Dept of Anthropology: Globalization Series
Dr. Mark Schuller: “Killing with Kindness? Impacts of Development Aid on Women’s NGOs in Post-Coup Haiti”

February
2/4
2:30-4:00pm
Campus Center 3540
Laura Zanotti
“Brazil Nuts, Timber, and Macaws: Transnational Networks and Sovereign Communities at the Edge of the Globalized Market”

2/7
2:30-4:00
Campus Center 3540
Dept of Anthropology: Globalization Series
Dr. José Martínez-Reyes: “Entangled Globalizations: Conservation and Changing Livelihoods in the Maya Forest of Mexico and Puerto Rico”

2/11
2:30-4:00pm
H-04-031
Dept of Anthropology: Globalization Series
Alison Lee: “To Get Ahead, We Go to New York: The Impact of Migration in Puebla, Mexico”

2/12
5:30-7:30pm
Ryan Lounge
Engaging Indigenous Critiques:
Reconsidering “Race,” Gender and Politics in New England Native History

2/19
5:30pm
Healey Library
Reading for the Big Read: English Dep’t faculty and students

2/20
2:30-4:00pm
H-04-031
Dept of Anthropology: Globalization Series
Dr. Jean-Philippe Belleau
“Loving the Other, Becoming the Other: Cultural Border-Crossing in the Age of Identity and Ethnicity”

2/21
2:30-4:00pm
Campus Center 3545
Dept of Anthropology: Globalization Series
Dr. Fina Carpena-Méndez

2/21
2:30-3:30pm
Alumni Room, Campus Center
Negro Spiritual & Slave Songs: What Did They Mean?
Arthur Jones, PhD, Art Director of the Spirituals Project

2/27
12:30pm
UMB Bookstore
Reading: Creative Writing faculty Joyce Peseroff (poetry) and Joe Torra (fiction)

2/29
2:30-4:30pm
Healey Library, 11th fl, 0011B
“Destruction Layers: Tracing Palestine inside Israel”
Linda Dittmar, UMB Emeritus English Dept., and Deborah Bright, RISD Photography Dept.
www.rcuch.umb.edu

March
3/5
2:30-4:30pm
Healey Library, 11th fl, 0011B
“Excavating the History of American Modern Architecture.” Gwendolyn Wright, Professor of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University

3/6
2:30pm
Healey Library, Room 15,
Center for Library Instruction
Hispanic Studies Speaker Series
Reading Performance from Queer Latino Testimonio, Keith Haring and Juanito Xtravaganza, “Hard Tails”a book by Arnaldo Cruz Malavé, Fordham University

3/10
4:00pm
(location TBA)
A panel celebrating the Library of America edition of the work of Elizabeth Bishop edited by Lloyd Schwartz with Frank Bidart, Gail Mazur, Joyce Peseroff, Robert Pinsky and Lloyd Schwartz

3/27
2:30pm
Healey Library, Room 15,
Center for Library Instruction
Hispanic Studies Speaker Series
Inmaculada Alvarez, Clark College, MA
"Spain-Cuba in Transnation: Migration and Global Desires in Cinema Co-productions"

3/28
2:30-5:00pm
Healey Library, 11th floor, 0011B
Gender and Cultural Significance
A conference for students interested in gender in cultural history
www.rcuch.umb.edu

3/31
4:00pm
UMB Bookstore
Reading: Fiction writer Nicholas Delbanco

April
4/4
2:30pm
Healey Library, Room 15,
Center for Library Instruction
Hispanic Studies Speaker Series
“The Politics of Paper When it Matters”
Ernesto Livon Grossman, Boston University
(movie screening and talk)

4/5
9:00am
Campus Center
Welcome Day for Accepted Students

4/7
4:00pm
UMB Bookstore
Reading: Poet Elizabeth Alexander

4/14

4:00-5:30 pm

Douglass Bailey, Professor of European Prehistory, Cardiff University, Wales

Special Lecture: “Prehistoric Figurines: Barbie-Dolls, Walt Disney and Sex Abuse”

Healey Library, 11th Floor Lounge, Room 0011B

Sponsored by the Department of Anthropology. Refreshments will be provided.

4/16-17
Location TBA
The Fifth Annual Social Theory Forum
A Foucault for the 21st Century:
Governnentality, Biopolitics and Discipline in the New Millennium

4/25-26
Healey Library, 11th floor, 0011B
Cosmopolitan Culture, Consumption and the Making of Taste, 1600-1770
www.rcuch.umb.edu

May
5/6
5:30-8:00pm
Six Degrees: Research and Discovery at UMass Boston
A Celebration of Faculty Research
Speakers include Rosalyn Negron, Anthropology and John Perez, Psychology
Healey Library, 11th floor

5/28
7:00-9:00pm
Campus Center Ballroom
CLA Honors Convocation

5/30
Campus Center Circle
Commencement
CLA Ceremony TBD