Sunday, 10/25 - Saturday, 10/31
Adam Zucker, assistant professor of English, will discuss “The Social Stakes of Gambling in Early Modern London” on Thursday, Oct. 29 at 4:30 p.m. in the Renaissance Center Reading Room.
This year’s Metawampe Hike in the Mount Toby range is being held Sunday, Nov. 1, beginning at noon.
A bus trip to New York City is planned for Sunday, Nov. 22, departing from parking lot 62 at 7 a.m.
Beth Noveck, United States deputy chief technology officer for open government, will speak on “Open Government: Transparency, Participation, and Collaboration” on Friday, Oct. 30 at noon in 108 Isenberg School of Management.
Daniel Boyarin of University of California, Berkeley, will speak on “Socrates and the Fat Rabbis” on Monday, Nov. 2 at 3:30 p.m. in 301 Herter Hall.
Tamar Mayer of Middlebury College will speak on “A Conflict in Place: The Case of Uighur Identity in China” on Thursday, Nov. 5 at 4 p.m. in 301 Herter Hall.
Actor, director and Emmy-winning producer Mike Haley ’65 will discuss “Reality, Morality and Mortality in the Arts” on Thursday, Oct. 29 from 4-6 p.m. in Memorial Hall as part of the Alumni Association’s Eleanor Bateman Alumni Scholar in Residence program.
The Fabos Conference on Landscape and Greenway Planning, organized by the Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning Department, will be held in Europe for the first time next year.
The Everywoman’s Center is offering a five-session workshop on “Mindfulness and Mood: Empowerment Skills for Women” starting Nov. 3. The sessions are on Tuesdays, 6:30-8 p.m.
The 5th Annual UMass String Day, a collection of concerts and classes for string instrumentalists, will be held on Sunday, Nov. 1 from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in Bezanson Recital Hall.
Historian Blake Slonecker of Waldorf College will discuss the Liberation News Service and the New Left of the 1960s and 1970s on Thursday, Oct. 29 at 4 p.m. to open the 5th annual Colloquium on Social Change presented by Special Collections and University Archives.
More than 250 female students, teachers and guidance counselors from across the state are expected to attend the annual Women in Engineering Career Day conference on Thursday, Oct. 29 in the Campus Center Auditorium.