Amherst College Event Calendar   Academic Year at a Glance

The Amherst Select Internship Program (ASIP) features summer internship opportunities sponsored by alumni, parents and friends of Amherst College. Some internships will be funded by the CCE, some are paid by the employer, and some are unpaid. The first step in obtaining a summer internship through this program is the submission of application materials, including a resume, cover letter and list of three references, through Experience by 5 p.m. on Dec. 4, 2009. Learn more about the program at www.amherst.edu/academiclife/cce/students/internships/asip or at an info session on Tuesday, Dec. 1, at 1 in the Career Center.

This information session will be held on Tuesday, Dec. 1, from 7 to 7:30 p.m. in the CCE. Would you like to work to make community engagement the norm at Amherst College? Then you want to join the Center for Community Engagement's Bonner Community Engagement Leader team! Our leaders manage local partnerships, work with campus groups and departments and organize campus events while developing their own leadership and management skills. Come to an info session to learn more about this exciting opportunity and to meet the current BCELs. Positions available for Spring 2010: Training and Enrichment Coordinator, Pipeline Partnership Leader and Advocacy & Activism Liaison. Detailed job descriptions and the online application are available at the CCE Web site.

The Five College area is an excellent place for the study of book history. Please join us for a panel discussion on collection and use of rare books with Phil Palmer, curator of the Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies, and Professors Joe Black and Steve Harris of the UMass English Department.

The film "Die Könige der Nutzholzgewinnung" ("Lumber Kings") will be showing at 4 and 7:30 p.m. In this charming comedy, charismatic loser Krischan sets out to salvage his East German hometown from the doldrums by planning to hold a lumberjack competition there. Will he succeed in overcoming the massive resistance of the less-than-enthusiastic locals?

Movies by Wim Wenders, Terry Gilliam and Jacques Tati are featured in a free film series at Amherst College’s Fayerweather Hall. The Western Massachusetts American Institute of Architects (WMAIA) is sponsoring the series, titled “Architecture through Film – a Conversation about the Built Environment.” The series grew out of the WMAIA’s mission to educate, inform, and create an ongoing open dialogue with the Pioneer Valley community about architecture and design. The series begins on Oct. 22 with “Play Time” by Jacques Tati and continues on Nov. 12 with “Wings of Desire” by Wim Wenders and on Dec. 3 with Terry Gilliam’s “Brazil.” The series will be moderated by Thom Long, Five College Assistant Professor of Architectural Studies and co-director of the Five College Architectural Studies Program. Each film will also be presented by a guest speaker from the Western Mass Chapter of the American Institute of Architects and the Five College Architectural Studies Program. Series originator and architect Erica Gees says, “Through film’s subjective vision, we gain a poetic interpretation and critical understanding of the active - and passive - role that architecture plays in our lives. By working with perspective, light, acoustic resonance, voice and music, film offers us a critical and artistic tool to understand the power of design.” The film series is a long-held dream for Ms. Gees, who has been instrumental in obtaining grant funding to study sustainable design in the Pioneer Valley and the greater United States, including Hawaii; she is also highly active in the AIA at the national level. The public film series and discussion will seek to answer some of these questions: How do we experience architecture today? What is our built environment telling us about ourselves and how we live as a society? Can film further inform our understanding of the built environment and how it impacts our lives? All film screenings will take place at Pruyne Lecture Hall at 6:30 p.m. All films are free and open to the public. For further information about this film series, please contact: Erica Gees AI, Kuhn Riddle Architects Amherst, MA (413) 259-1630 x17 egees@kuhnriddle.com