Picturing Enlightenment: Thangka in the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
This special exhibition marks the completion of an extensive project to conserve the Mead Art Museum’s collection of thangka (pronounced “tan-kah”)—scroll paintings of Buddhist figures. So fragile that they have remained largely inaccessible to scholars and museum visitors for nearly six decades, Amherst College’s eighteen thangka, primarily from Tibet, have been gently cleaned, stabilized, and repaired by conservators at Museum Textile Services in Andover, Massachusetts, under the leadership of Camille Myers Breeze. A generous grant from the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation and additional support from the Amherst College Department of Religion underwrote the conservation treatment. The Louis and Nettie Horch Foundation provided further support for the conservation of one thangka.
For more information, visit www.amherst.edu/museums/mead/programs/2011exhib/picturingenlightenment.

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Photo Exhibition: The Gesture in Light: Illuminated
Exhibit: The Gesture in Light: Illuminated by Theresa Antonellis runs from Monday Jan. 9 through Sunday May 11.
A reception will be held Thursday, February 2, from 4-6pm.

The exhibit consists of a related series of framed prints featuring photo-enhanced light photography by Theresa Antonellis.

Info: 577-0785, mcharney@library.umass.edu  

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Photography Exhibit: Photos of Don David
Photos of Don David

“The subjects in my images are those of nature and wildlife. Although there are no photographic topics in which I am not interested, I pursue these subjects in my travels concentrating on landscapes, creatures, great and small, and unique aspects and lighting that define the region and give the viewer an appreciation for beauty and sense of place.

I spent my career as a Senior Science Fellow and Research Manager at the Monsanto Company, as a Research Professor at the University of Massachusetts, and as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Minnesota. My career training and interests have reinforced my interest in nature and landscape photography which I have pursued for over 30 years.

I have exhibited locally at the New England Camera Club, Robert Floyd Gallery, Cooley Dickinson Hospital Gallery, Baystate Medical Center Gallery, Valley Photo Center, Nashawannuck Gallery, Vermont Center for Photography, and the Jasper Rand Art Museum in the Westfield Athenaeum.

A number of my photographs have been selected as prize winning images, featured in Photographer's Forum “Best of Photography “ Annual 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and have been featured in books, magazines, and on the cover of the Amherst farm book, “Harvesting History”. I am a member of the Vermont Center for Photography and the Pioneer Valley Photographic Artists.

No reservations required.

Handicapped Accessible.

Sponsor: The Renaissance Center.

Contact: Jeff 413-577-3600 or renaissance@english.umass.edu

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Studying Human Behavior: Epistemological, Ontological, and Social Quandaries

Helen Longino, Chair and Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University presents "Studying Human Sexuality and Aggression: Epistemological, Ontological, and Social Quandaries" The nature-nurture debate is a construal on the periphery of scientific research of the various approaches (genetic, neurophysiological, developmental) available for studying human sexuality and aggression. If that is not the proper construal of this plurality of approaches, what is? Analyzing their evidential structure raises new questions about these approaches, the phenomena they purport to illuminate, and the social consequences of their pursuit. Open to the Public
Refreshments will be served

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The Graduate Research in the Renaissance Series
This new lecture series will feature the Center's current doctoral candidate discussing material from their dissertations in the field of Renaissance Studies. Each talk will be followed by a question and answer session. The series is intended to give the center's graduate students experience sharing their work with a larger audience and to give the center the opportunity to showcase some of the cutting edge research and intellectual inquiry done by its students. Renaissance specialists from the Five Colleges, including faculty and students, are particularly invited to attend.

This week, Jessica Landis will speak on the topic of her research: "To Slaughter Noblemen and Cherish Flatterers:" Anxious Masculinity and the Early Modern Stage Fop at Court."

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Choral Ensembles
CHORAL ENSEMBLES
University Chorale, Recital Choir & Women's Choir
Stephen Paparo, conductor
Marius Bahnean, Joshua Harper, HyunKyung Jang & Eric Perry, graduate conductors
8pm Bowker Auditorium $5/$10

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