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Flash Seminar on Friendship

Can you be friends with your cat? How about your dog? How many kinds of friendship are there, and what’s the difference between them? Professor…

Dr. Imo Nse Imeh

Imo Nse Imeh investigates women’s aesthetics and scholarship in Nigeria. He will speak on Thursday, March 29, 2012 in Knapton Lecture Hall at 6:30pm.

Philosophy Open House on Thurs. 3/29

The Philosophy Department welcomes students to the annual Open House on Thursday, March 29 at 5 pm in the Knapton Atrium.

“A Picture Holds Us Captive”

The Philosophy Department was pleased to invite recent alum, Robert Carry Osborne ’11, to give a lunchtime talk on March 23.

Philosophy and The Hunger Games

Several students joined Philosophy Club Co-President, Haley Gallant ’12, and Philosophy Department Chair, Professor Partridge, to discuss The Hunger Games on March 7th.

Professor Lectures at the Cervantes Institute in Tel-Aviv

Professor de Alba was invited by the Cervantes Institute at Tel-Aviv (Israel) to lecture about the 80’s Spanish cultural movement la Movida.

Constance Congdon presents “Is Sex Possible?”

March 20, 2012 Amherst College’s playwright-in-residence, Constance Congdon, whom Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Kushner has called ”one of the best playwrights this language has produced,”…

The Six Days of Writing

Delanie Honda, Class of 2014

Who is the Happy Person?

he Philosophy Club hosted an exploration of this question on March 21, 2012, at 7 pm in Knapton 114.

Professor Celada conducts a symposium in Cambodia

For two weeks January, 2012, Professor Celada worked with members of the National Institute of Public Health and the Ministry of Health in Phnom Penh,…

Laura González ’10

Laura González is a Youth Organizer for Centro Presente in Boston.

A Robot, Beowulf and Algorithms

Many students (and even recent graduates) continue their scholarly pursuits on campus after classes have finished.