Amherst College Event Calendar   Academic Year at a Glance

The Emily Dickinson Museum presents a lecture on “Edward Hitchcock: Science and Religion in the Embrace of Nature," by Robert L. Herbert, Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at Mount Holyoke College. The talk, part of the Emily Dickinson Museum’s Replenishing the Shelves Lecture Series, is free and open to the public. The lecture will be followed at 3:30 p.m. by a discussion for the museum’s Kinsmen of the Shelf book group. Herbert is a distinguished historian of 19th-century art and author of several well-known books on Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists. He was awarded the 2008 Distinguished Lifetime Achievement for Writing on Art from the College Art Association. Herbert has had a life-long interest in the relationship between art and science and has recently turned his attention to the Hitchcocks of mid-19th-century Amherst. In 2008, he edited and published A Woman of Amherst: The Travel Diaries of Orra White Hitchcock, 1847 and 1850 and is now preparing Edward Hitchcock’s travel writings for publication. For more information about the lecture, the Kinsmen of the Shelf reading group, or to receive advance readings for the discussion, contact Nan Fischlein, Program Coordinator, at 413-542-2034 or nfischlein@emilydickinsonmuseum.org.