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Events

< September 2022 >

Events listed in white are at the bookshop; events listed in yellow are elsewhere.

Unless noted otherwise all events at the bookshop are free & open to the public.   We recommend masks!

For events elsewhere, there may be vaccine or masking requirements.   Please follow the links to check.





Michael Sakamoto, Bruce Baird, & Tanya Calamoneri will discuss their new books in the Lobby of the Fine Arts Center (Bromery Center for the Arts), UMass, Amherst.   Sakamoto, Performing Arts Curator at the Fine Arts Center & Director of the Asian American Arts & Culture Progam, is recently author of An Empty Room: Imagining Butoh & the Social Body in Crisis.   Baird is UMass Associate Professor of East Asian Studies & is author of many books on Butô, including the new A History of Butô.   Calamoneri’s new book is Butoh America: Butoh Dance in the United States & Mexico from 1970 to the Early 2000s.   She is a dancer, choreographer, & Assistant Professor of Dance at The Ohio State University & will Zoom in for the discussion.
Scott Bane will discuss his new book, A Union Like Ours: The Love Story of F. O. Matthiessen & Russell Cheney in Room 2601, Du Bois Library, UMass, Amherst.   Bane’s book describes their story: After a chance meeting aboard the ocean liner Paris in 1924, Harvard University scholar & activist F. O. Matthiessen & artist Russell Cheney fell in love & remained inseparable until Cheney’s death in 1945.   During the intervening years, the men traveled throughout Europe & the United States, achieving great professional success while contending with serious personal challenges, including addiction, chronic disease, & severe depression.
Readings of banned books at the Jones Library, Amity Street, Amherst.   Show your support of intellectual freedom by joining us for a reading of some of the most challenged books in the country!  In the past year, communities across the country have challenged & banned increasing numbers of books from school & public libraries.   Books for teens are frequently targeted.   In response, we’re organizing an event, to be held on the eve of Banned Books Week, to celebrate banned books & show our support for libraries & intellectual freedom.   Featuring readings by: Senator Jo Comerford, State Rep Mindy Domb, local authors, ARHS student leaders, Jones Library trustees, & more!
Bree Barton will read as part of Amherst College’s Visiting Writer series.   Barton is an author, speaker, performance artist, & mental health advocate.   Her books for young readers have been published in nine countries & six languages, including the “Heart of Thorns” fantasy series, & her bestselling middle grade debut, Zia Erases the World.   For more information, see here.   N.B. Masks must be worn.
Social Justice Education 30th Anniversary Celebration  The Social Justice Education (SJE) program at UMass Amherst is thrilled to invite you to our 30th anniversary celebration to be held Friday, September 23 through Saturday, September 24, 2022 at Furcolo Hall, UMass, 813 North Pleasant Street, Amherst.   We will bring together students, faculty, alums, & other beloved friends & community members to take part in a variety of programming & other festivities.   For more information see here.
Social Justice Education 30th Anniversary Celebration  The Social Justice Education (SJE) program at UMass Amherst is thrilled to invite you to our 30th anniversary celebration to be held Friday, September 23 through Saturday, September 24, 2022 at Furcolo Hall, UMass, 813 North Pleasant Street, Amherst.   We will bring together students, faculty, alums, & other beloved friends & community members to take part in a variety of programming & other festivities.   For more information see here.
Daniel Bullen will talk about his recent book, Daniel Shays’s Honorable Rebellion: An American Story, at the place where it all began, the Pelham Historical Society, 376 Amherst Road, Pelham, Massachusetts.   Bullen recounts the months from summer 1786 through winter 1787 when Massachusetts farmers organized nonviolent resistance to flagrantly unjust laws & economic policies.   From his headquarters in Pelham, Daniel Shays maintained the peace for five months, closed four courts with thousands of men before being forced into exile in Vermont, shortly before the people won reforms in an electoral landslide.   This book removes Shays’ Rebellion from the shadows of American history, & restores the people’s legacy of dignified, nonviolent protest.   Bullen is also author of The Love Lives of the Artists & The Dangers of Passion: The Transcendental Friendship of Ralph Waldo Emerson & Margaret Fuller.   See the Library's website for more details.
Help us celebrate the publication of a new book by Austin SaratLethal Injection & the False Promise of Humane Execution. Sarat is author of numerous books, including Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions & America’s Death Penalty, The Death Penalty on the Ballot: American Democracy & the Fate of Capital Punishment, & When the State Kills: Capital Punishment & the American Condition.   He is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence & Political Science at Amherst College.
Abigail Chabitnoy will read from recent poetry at the Old Chapel, UMass, Amherst.   Chabitnoy is a Koniag descendant & member of the Tangirnaq Native Village in Kodiak.   She is the author of, among other volumes, How to Dress a Fish, shortlisted for the 2020 International Griffin Prize for Poetry & winner of the 2020 Colorado Book Award; & the new In the Current Where Drowning Is Beautiful.   She has recently joined the M.F.A. faculty in UMass’s English Department.

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