Mammoth Moments in Miniature: Nov. 19 to Nov. 25
Mammoth Moments in Miniature provides quick updates on campus happenings. This week’s edition includes Association of Amherst Students' new app, a talk by Japanese diplomat Suguru Minoya, and a discussion of queer Muslim belonging.
Association of Amherst Students Launches Amherst Connect App
Amherst Connect is a new comprehensive campus events map and calendar, created in collaboration with the i2i engineering team. The app gathers publicly available events from the Events Calendar and the Hub, showing them in real time through a filter page, a built-in calendar, and a stats dashboard highlighting the most popular times, categories, and locations on campus.
Bridging Nations: Lessons from My Career as a Japanese Diplomat
On Thursday, at 4:30 p.m. in the Lyceum, Suguru Minoya will discuss his time working at the Embassy of Japan in Sri Lanka. His work included collaborating with the Japan International Cooperation Agency and donor countries and organizations that supported recovery assistance and visiting mine-clearing sites after the civil war, during the reconstruction period.
Can You See Us? Queer Muslim Belonging in Muslim Communities
Momin Rahman, Professor of Sociology at Trent University, is an expert of Muslim sexualities and homocolonialism in world politics, is giving a lecture using his theoretical model of homocolonialism to explain how the political discourses of exclusion prevent the recognition of queer Muslim existence on Thursday at 5:30 p.m. in the Lyceum.
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