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!

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.

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?

Wednesday, March 20th from 6:30-8:30pm, Art Barn Studio 1
Princess is a performance art duo, a collaboration between Alexis Gideon and Hampshire alum Michael O’Neill that uses music as the backbone of a multi-disciplinary practice. Princess explores queerness and the concept of masculinity. Simultaneously gay, straight, queer, masculine and feminine, Princess embodies the fluidity and coherence between the seemingly contradictory. ‘Out There’ (2019; 4K video, live performance; 55:20min) is a concept video album and live performance piece by the band Princess. It explores the role men ought to be playing during the current cultural reckoning of misogyny. The video’s science fiction narrative explores the power of the Divine Feminine through collaborations with JD Samson, visual artist Jennifer Meridian, and the band TEEN.

Friday, February 22nd from 11:30am-1pm, Hampshire College Art Gallery
Bring yourselves and – if you can (but we’ll supplement so NO pressure if you can’t!) – something to eat and share together in the Gallery this Friday. Sit and chat with colleagues and friends, take in the current exhibition, read your book in the lounge section, make a college to contribute to the community installation, or just BE … TOGETHER. All welcome – students, staff, faculty, alumni, & community members.