Amherst College Event Calendar   Academic Year at a Glance

The UMass office of Career Services and the UMass International Programs office are sponsoring a Work Abroad Information Fair on Wednesday, Nov. 18 from noon to 3 p.m. in the UMass Campus Center Concourse. Following the fair, there will be two break-out sessions from 3:15 to 4 p.m.: one with a representative from the U.S. State Department, and one with a representative from JET: Japan English Teaching program. US State Department Spanish Consulate BUNAC JET CIEE/Teach Abroad Aclipse Peace Corps World Teach International Language Institiute School for International Training -plus- four information tables covering preparing for overseas work; working in non-profits, for-profits,education, and other topics. followed by: State Department info session 3:15-4:15pm Bernie Dallas Room, 5th floor Goodell JET info session 3:15-4:15pm 419 Goodell Aclipse info session 4:15-5pm, TBA Goodell.

On Wednesday, Nov. 18, at 4:30 p.m. in Room 100 of Clark House, Professor Kathryn Abrams from the Berkeley School of Law at the University of California will present a paper entitled “The Private Strikes Back.” This is the second presentation in a series of seminars on the theme “Imagining New Legalities.” Kathryn Abrams has taught at the law schools at Boston University, Indiana University Bloomington, Harvard and Northwestern. She also taught and served as director of the Women’s Studies Program at Cornell. Professor Abrams teaches feminist jurisprudence, voting rights and constitutional law. Her writings and scholarship have focused on questions of employment discrimination, minority vote dilution, campaign finance, constitutional law and most centrally on feminist jurisprudence. Abram’s publications include “Fighting Fire with Fire: Rethinking the Role of Disgust in Hate Crimes” in the California Law Review (2002), “Subordination and Agency in Sexual Harassment Law” in Direction in Sexual Harassment Law (2003) and “The Legal Subject in Exile” in the Duke Law Journal (2001). This event is co-sponsored by The Lamont Lecture Fund. To receive a copy of Professor Abrams' paper in advance, please e-mail mlestes@amherst.edu

"Cloud Tectonics" by Jose Rivera, directed by Patricia McGregor, is Emmanuel Genard and Tanya Jackson’s senior project in acting. The play is Rivera's meditation on life's inexplicable mysteries, including chance and love. A bizarre Los Angeles downpour brings together two strangers, both searching for dreams they lost in the shuffle of life's miles and years. Just as Anibal and Celestina seem to reach an equilibrium, in bursts Nelson, Anibal's reckless missing brother, on leave from his army base. Quickly the sand beneath all their feet begins to shift. In a world where the rules of time and logic fail, where do we find truth? Perhaps, as Rivera puts it, "What better way to respond to a miracle than falling in love with it." Auditions will be held on Monday, Nov. 16, from 5 to 10 p.m. and Wednesday, Nov. 18, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in Studio 3 of Webster Hall. Callbacks will be on Nov. 18 from 8 to 10 p.m. Perusal scripts and sign-up sheets are located outside of the Theater and Dance Office, Webster G27. Performances will be Feb. 18-20 at 8 p.m. in Holden Theater. Available role: Nelson De La Luna, a man in his 20s, with a ferocious desire to penetrate or be penetrated by life. His structured army regime feeds a reactionary wild and destructive side. He lives by the idea of survival of the fittest and masks his pain with a parade of fast living, cheap booze and beautiful women. Mixed with his macho aggression is a deep desire for partnership and fatherhood.