| 2:00 p.m. | Tyshawn Sorey Workshop Arms Music CenterFaultlines: Mapping Jazz in the 21st Century, the yearlong Amherst College music festival, continues with a performance workshop by Tyshawn Sorey, an acclaimed percussionist, pianist, trombonist and composer. |
| 3:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m. | Amherst Yoga Alumni GymThis is the first class of the newly formed club the Amherst Yogis. It will be taught by Kelly Savitri, an experienced instructor from Yoga Center Amherst. Come dressed comfortably. No experience is required. |
| 4:00 p.m. | German Film Series Fall 2009 Stirn AuditoriumThe film "Die Reise nach Kafiristan" ("The Journey to Kafiristan") will be showing at 4 and 7:30 p.m. Two women leave their home in Switzerland to journey together to Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1939 when Europe is on the brink of war. The film is based on the lives of Annemarie Schwarzenbach, a socialite and writer, and Ella Maillart, an ethnologist and photographer. |
| 4:00 p.m. | Alumnus and Author Val Vinokur '94 to Speak Webster CenterVal Vinokur '94, Amherst College alumnus and professor at Peter Lang College of the New School
in New York, will speak about his book "The Trace of Judaism: Dostoevsky, Babel, Mandelstam, Levinas," recently released in soft cover by
Northwestern University Press, on Thursday, Nov. 19, at 4 p.m. at the Russian Center (Webster Hall, 2nd Floor). Books can be purchased, and Val
will be available to sign them at this time. Refreshments will be served. |
| 4:45 p.m.-6:00 p.m. | Physics Seminar Merrill Science CenterPaul Hamilton of the Department of Physics at
Yale University will give a physics talk (title TBA). |
| 5:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. | Peace Corps Information Session Career CenterStudents interested in public service and working abroad are encouraged to attend this information session with Prof. Carleen Basler and Dean Janna Behrens (both Peace Corps alumnae), and a recruiting representative from the Peace Corps on Thursday, Nov. 19, at 5 p.m. in the Career Center. |
| 7:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. | "Crafting Public Policy" Interterm Course Info Session Center for Community EngagementWant to help solve social problems? Explore policy-making as both a problem-solving and a political process. Learn how community organizations respond to four issues-- homelessness, food security, charter schools and biomass. Use a variety of media to develop a policy agenda that supports each organization's work. Milk and cookies served! |
| 7:30 p.m. | German Film Series Fall 2009 Stirn AuditoriumThe film "Die Reise nach Kafiristan" ("The Journey to Kafiristan") will be showing at 4 and 7:30 p.m. Two women leave their home in Switzerland to journey together to Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1939 when Europe is on the brink of war. The film is based on the lives of Annemarie Schwarzenbach, a socialite and writer, and Ella Maillart, an ethnologist and photographer. |
| 8:00 p.m. | Spanish Film Series - Fall 2009 Newport HouseThe next film being shown in the Spanish Film Series this semester is "El bola." All films in this series are in Spanish with English subtitles. Light refreshments will be served. |
