Mammoth Moments in Miniature: Dec. 3 to Dec. 9
Mammoth Moments in Miniature provides quick updates on campus happenings. This week’s edition includes a work-in-progress talk by Associate Professor of Sexuality, Women’s, and Gender Studies Krupa Shandilya, a craft fair held by the Employee Council, and a Yale Alumni College course.
“Feminist Selfhood in Raazi [The Willing]” - SWAGS Faculty WIP Seminar
On Wednesday, in the Lyceum Room 329, Associate Professor of Sexuality, Women’s, and Gender Studies Krupa Shandilya will give her work-in-progress talk on the 2018 woman-directed film “Raazi” (The Willing), discussing the role of Bollywood films in critiquing Indian politics. She will discuss how the film’s song sequences demonstrate the feminist protagonist’s rejection of patriarchal nationalism, arguing that her liberation from the structures of the patriarchal family is linked to Kashmiri sovereignty and freedom from the territorial encroachments of India and Pakistan.
Employee Council Craft Fair
On Friday, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., the college Employee Council will be hosting its annual craft fair in the Science Center living room. There will be an array of handmade crafts, ranging from jewelry to homeware, all created by Amherst College staff in time for the holidays.
The Beat Generation’s French Connection: A Yale Alumni Class at Amherst
On Dec. 8, in the Lyceum CHI Think Tank, in conjunction with the Yale Alumni College and Vanderbilt University’s W.T. Bandy Center, the French Department is hosting Professor of Humanities and Law at Vanderbilt and Vanderbilt Head of Libraries Jonathan Shaw, who will lead the Yale Alumni College course to discuss the influence of French modernism on the Beat generation. This is an opportunity to discover French and Beat archival documents from Vanderbilt's collections.
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