Mutual Aid + Organizing: The Future We Need Starts Now
A conversation with activists and organizers exploring questions about mutual aid, collective care, and organizing in the time of COVID-19.
CoCo Conversations
Every Wednesday, 6:00-7:30PM, APL
A weekly Wednesday dinner, discussion and skill share open to Hampshire students, staff and faculty. No need to register—drop in any time!
Community Commons Open House
Join us for food and conversation, meet Community Commons program staff and peer mentors, learn about the new CoCo weekly event series and how you can get involved.
Living and Learning Community (LLC) Reunion
Thursday November 21st, 2019
Students,Staff, and Faculty that lived or helped manage a Living and Learning Community (LLC) were invited to a reunion to re-connect and building community with one another through food, DIV III presentations, a Q & A session with upper DIV students, and more.
ENGAGE! 3rd Annual Community Day of Education
Thursday October 24th, 2019
The 3rd annual Engage! Community Day of Education is a day-long learning opportunity for all Hampshire community members. This year our focus is on rebuilding bridges, reconnecting with one another, and gaining skills to communicate across our differences. It’s crucial that our many voices are represented, heard, and engaged.
NEX(US): Hampshire Voices
Week of October 21st – 24th 2019
This week-long residency with artist and activist Marty Pottenger includes story circles, interviews, workshops and will culminate with a workshop performance at Engage! Community Day of Education.
2nd Annual Division III Showcase
Monday, May 6th at 4:30pm, FPH West Lecture Hall
Join us for our 2nd Annual Ethics and the Common Good Division III Showcase. We’ll be celebrating the multidisciplinary projects of some of our Division III students connected to the Ethics and the Common Good Project. Come hear about their work and learn how their research is processing, navigating, and transforming the systems they’ve interrogated, pushing us to redefine what we believe and value. All are welcome to attend.
Another Door Opens: ECG Community Celebration
Monday April 29th, 4:30-6:30pm, Prescott Tavern
Congratulations to our ECG community – we made it! Join us as we celebrate all that we’ve been through, collaborated on, and accomplished together this year. We’re especially excited to honor our Division III students. This is ECG’s fourth year on campus, so for the students who came in the same year we did, it feels like we’re graduating with you. We look forward to sharing space and stories, as well as cake!
Autonomy Is in Our Hearts with Dylan Fitzwater 12F
Wednesday, April 17th from 5-6:30pm, Roos Rohde House
Join Dylan Eldredge Fitzwater 12F, author of Autonomy Is in Our Hearts: Zapatista Autonomous Government through the Lens of the Tsotsil Language, for a discussion of his book which gives a detailed account of this autonomous government system based on hundreds of testimonies from within the Zapatista base communities. Autonomy Is in Our Hearts provides a comprehensive analysis of Zapatista autonomous government that unfolds a new political language for understanding their movement. It is one of the first and most in-depth studies of the political categories of Tsotsil and an indispensable guide to the inner workings of Zapatista autonomous government.
Philip Boehm on Translating Dangerously Ambiguous Narratives
Thursday, April 11th from 6-7:30pm, FPH ELH
Literature like life is full of ambiguities, and their presence in a text helps convey the complexity of human relations. For Gerard Manley Hopkins an ambiguous line may be intended to help the reader approach something ineffable–while in a poem by Osip Mandelstam it might conceal a message deemed so dangerous by the state it could cost a poet’s life.So what happens to these ambiguities when we as translators take a text out of one context and plop it into another? How do we preserve modify transform or metamorphose danger?