• Monday, February 1st at 5:00 P.M. (Talk)

Robert McChesney & John Nichols will talk at the Bernie Dallas Room in Goodell Hall, University of Massachusetts, on their new book, The Death & Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution That Will Begin the World Again.   McChesney is a professor of communication at the University of Illinois & co-founder, with Josh Silver, of the Northampton-based Free Press, one of the nation’s leading media reform organizations.   Nichols is the Washington correspondent for The Nation magazine.   The event is sponsored by the UMass Department of Communication, the Political Economy Research Institute, the Center for Public Policy & Administration, & the Media Education Foundation.

• Thursday, February 11th at 7:30 P.M. (Talk)

Craig Stephenson will deliver a lecture entitled “Wrestling with Eros: The Myth of Anteros & its Meanings” at the Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies at 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst.   Stephenson is a Jungian Analyst based in Paris who focuses his work on today’s problems in psychiatry & psychotherapy. Stephenson’s most recent work, Possession: Jung’s Comparative Anatomy of the Psyche.

• Friday, February 12th at 8:00 P.M.(Reading)

“Live Lit”   Students in the M.F.A. Program at the University of Massachusetts will read from their recent work.   Evenings usually include a mix of poetry & fiction.

• Thursday, February 18th at 8:00 P.M.(Reading)

Donald Antrim will read at Memorial Hall, University of Massachusetts as part of the University of Massachusetts Visiting Writer Series.   Antrim is the author of three novels, Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World, The Hundred Brothers; & The Verificationist; as well as, The Afterlife, a memoir about his mother.   He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts; the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation; the Dorothy & Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars & Writers at the New York Public Library; & the American Academy in Berlin.

• Sunday, February 21st at 3:00 P.M.(Poetry reading)

“Jubilat/Jones Reading Series”   Jericho Brown & CA Conrad will read from their recent work as part of the jubilat/Jones Reading Series in the Trustees Room at the Jones Library, 43 Amity Street in Amherst.  

• Monday, February 22th at 8:00 P.M.(Reading)

Mark Debeneaux, director of the Seton Hall Law School Center for Policy & Research, & Jonathan Hafetz, an ACLU National Security Project staff attorney & former litigation director of the Brennan Center for Justice’s Liberty & National Security Project, will briefly talk about their new book Guantánamo Lawyers: Inside a Prison Outside the Law, which features over 100 personal narratives from attorneys who have represented Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp detainees.   They will then introduce several local attorneys who are involved in the Guantánamo cases & issues, including Buz Eisenberg (Weinberg & Garber, P.C.), who is President of the International Justice Network; Ellen Lubell (Tennant & Lubell, LLC); Christopher Pyle, who teaches at Mt. Holyoke College; & William Newman, director of the Western Regional Office of ACLU Massachusetts.  

• Wednesday, February 24th at 8:00 P.M.(Talk)

Jayne Pearl will talk about her new book, Kids, Wealth, & Consequences: Ensuring a Responsible Financial Future for the Next Generation.   Inherited wealth can be a blessing or a burden; money can provide education, comfort, travel, & culture—or it can drain ambition & meaning, cause guilt, or instill a toxic sense of entitlement. The question becomes how to raise children with a sense of reality and balance.   Pearl has been a financial journalist for nearly thirty years, focusing on family business financial parenting. She is also author of Kids & Money: Giving Them the Savvy to Succeed Financially

• Friday, February 26th at 8:00 P.M.(Reading)

“Live Lit”   Students in the M.F.A. Program at the University of Massachusetts will read from their recent work.  Evenings usually include a mix of poetry & fiction.