2008-09 Program
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KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Kenneth R. Feinberg, Special Master, September 11th
Victim Compensation Fund
Thursday, September 11, 4:30 p.m. — Please note change in time.
Bernie Dallas Room, Goodell Building
Free and Open to the Public
“The September 11th Victim Compensation Fund: Private Pain and Public Compensation”
The talk will address the circumstances surrounding Congressional
enactment of this Fund, unique in American history. Mr. Feinberg will also address
why the Fund succeeded in its mission but also why it is unlikely that the Fund will
ever again be replicated or used as a precedent. It was a unique
response to an unprecedented historical tragedy. In providing
eligibility for the victims of the 9/11 tragedy, but no others, the
statute creating the Fund raises important philosophical and political
issues about the appropriate role of government in compensating innocent
victims of life’s misfortunes.
Lectures and Panels
Martyrdom and Sacrifice in Ancient Worlds
Thursday, September 18, 4 p.m., Lincoln Campus Center, Rm. 917
DANIEL BOYARIN, Hermann P. and Sophia Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture, Departments of Near Eastern Studies and Rhetoric, University of California at Berkeley; author, Dying for God: Martyrdom and the Making of Christianity and Judaism
CARLIN BARTON, Professor of History, UMass Amherst; author, Roman Honor: The Fire in the Bones
Sustainability: Measuring the Impact of Climate Change on Future Generations
Co-sponsored by The Environmental Institute, UMass Amherst
Wednesday, September 24, 4 p.m., The Commons, 2nd floor, Studio Arts Building
CYNTHIA E. ROSENWEIG, Senior Research Scientist, Columbia University and NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
JAMES K. BOYCE, Professor of Economics; Director, Program on Development, Peace-building and the Environment, Political Economy Research Institute, UMass Amherst
DAVID GLASSBERG, Professor of History, UMass Amherst
What Price Immortality? The Cost of Eternal Life
Thursday, October 2, 4 p.m., Herter Hall 601
JENNIFER HEUER, Assistant Professor of History, UMass Amherst
BRIAN OGILVIE, Associate Professor of History, UMass Amherst
ANN TAYLOR, Assistant Professor of History, UMass Amherst
MELISSA MUELLER, Assistant Professor of Classics, UMass Amherst
Unnatural Selection: Eugenics, Race, and Ideas of Biological Value
Wednesday, October 15, 7:30 p.m., The Commons, 2nd floor, Studio Arts Building
RICHARD LEWONTIN, Alexander Agassiz Research Professor, Harvard University
DIANE PAUL, Associate of Zoology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
LAURA LOVETT, Associate Professor of History, UMass Amherst
What is She Worth? How (or How Not) to Value a Woman’s Life
Wednesday, October 22, 7:30 p,m., The Commons, 2nd floor, Studio Arts Building
NANCY FOLBRE, Professor of Economics, UMass Amherst; author, Valuing Children: Rethinking the Economics of the Family
Democratization at $130 per barrel: The Value of Human and Political Rights in Post-Soviet Azerbaijan
Wednesday, October 29, 4 p.m., Herter Hall 601
AUDREY ALTSTADT, Professor of History, UMass Amherst
Injury: New Perspectives on American Ideas of Suffering and Compensation
Wednesday, November 5, 4 p.m., Herter Hall 601
JENNIFER HAMILTON, Assistant Professor of Legal Studies, Hampshire College
DANIEL GORDON, Professor of History, UMass Amherst
GARY GARRISON, Ph.D. candidate, History Department, UMass Amherst
Mexican Days of the Dead: From the Aztec City of Sacrifice to Chicano/a Murals
Wednesday, November 12, 4 p.m., Lincoln Campus Center, Rm. 917
DAIVD CARRASCO, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America, Harvard Divinity School; author, City of Sacrifice: The Aztec Empire and the Role of Violence in Civilization
Forty Acres and a Mule in the 21st Century
Monday, November 17, 4 p.m., The Commons, 2nd floor,
Studio Arts Building
Co-sponsored by the W. E. B. Du Bois Department of
Afro-American Studies, UMass Amherst
WILLIAM DARITY JR., Arts & Sciences Professor of Public Policy Studies, Professor of African and African-American Studies and Economics, Duke University
Portraits on the Other Shore: The International ‘Reminders’ Photojournalism Project
Co-sponsored by The Lively Arts program, Fine Arts Center, and the Department of Music and Dance, UMass Amherst
Lecture and Panel Discussion, Wednesday, April 8, 7:30 p.m., 601 Herter Hall
GABRIELA BULISOVA, George Mason University and Corcoran College of Art and Design
SAYA NAMIKAWA, Translator for the Reminders Project A panel discussion on the power of photography to shape the value placed on the human lives in global politics. For more on the Reminders project, see http://reminders-project.org/
Thursday Film Series
Co-sponsored by the Lively Arts program, Fine Arts Center and the Department of Music and Dance, UMass Amherst.
All films to be shown at 7:30 p.m., in Herter Hall 227.
September 25: Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North
Shown in honor of the bicentennial of U.S. abolition of the slave trade.
October 16: Gattaca
Hosted by Laura Lovett, Associate Professor of History, UMass Amherst.
October 23: A Healthy Baby Girl
Hosted by Jennifer Hamilton, Assistant Professor of Legal Studies, Hampshire College.
November 6: The House We Live In
(From Race: The Power of an Illusion, a series on race in society, science and history), hosted by Jennifer Hamilton, Assistant Professor of Legal Studies, Hampshire College.
November 13: The Sweet Hereafter
hosted by Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College.
Mediation Workshop for Historians
Dialogue 2.0 Framing the Negotiation
Saturday, September 27, 1-5 p.m., Herter Hall 601
ROBIN DIGIAMMARINO, President and Founder, Lodestar Mediation
Free, but pre-registration is required.
Email: publichistory@history.umass.edu
Oral History Conference
Don’t Talk About That!!!: Measuring the Value of Life Stories
Wednesday, December 3
Performances and Exhibitions
Nuestra Abuelas: Su esperanza, nuestra fortaleza (Our Grandmothers: Their Hope, Our Strength)
September 25 – October 25, Central Gallery
Sweet Honey in the Rock
Saturday, November 1, 8 p.m., Fine Arts Center Concert Hall
Soweto Gospel Choir
Wednesday, December 3, 7:30 p.m., Fine Arts Center Concert Hall
A Menace to Society
December 12-13, 8 p.m., Curtain Stage, Fine Arts Center
From Massachusetts prisoner to Supreme Court victor, Bill Baird, crusader for Women’s Reproductive Rights, is the focus of a new work resulting from collaboration among the History, Theater, Women’s Studies and Legal Studies departments.
What is Life Worth? Explorations in Various Media
Made possible by support from the Graduate Student Senate, the Student Government Association, and the UMass Arts Council.
An exhibition of theme-based work in various media.
April 6-17, Student Union Art Gallery
Opening Reception: Tuesday, April 7, 4-6 p.m.
Open Mike, Poetry, Prose and Music Performance:
Wednesday, April 8, 7-9 p.m.
Closing Reception and Presentation of Awards: Thursday, April 16, 5-7 p.m.
Closing Performance: World Premier: Salvatore Macchia, Amaterasu—Omikami
Based upon four poems written for the occasion by Faith Conat.
Thursday, April 16, 8 p.m., Bezanson Recital Hall, Fine Arts Center
AYANO KATAOKA, percussionist, with SAYA NAMIKAWA, percussionist and translator for the International Reminders Photojournalism Project.