Theater Performance featuring guest artist Sara Felder Side Show is a funny, theatrical, and moving meditation on the balancing act of being human. In a collage of juggling routines and stories from Jewish Brooklyn and queer San Francisco, Felder confronts issues of fear, gender, parents, economic class, college, and more, while keeping audiences laughing along […]
Oliver de la Paz is the Poet Laureate of Worcester, Mass., for 2023-25. He is the author and editor of seven books: Names Above Houses, Furious Lullaby, Requiem for the Orchard, Post Subject: A Fable, and The Boy in the Labyrinth, a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award in Poetry. His newest work, The Diaspora […]
Presented by Miles Rapoport Executive Director of 100% Democracy: An Initiative for Universal Voting Join us for an engaging presentation by national voting rights leader Miles Rapoport, co-author, with Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne, of 100% Democracy: The Case for Universal Voting (2022). 100% Democracy is an initiative to redefine voting as both a fundamental right […]
In this first in a series of gallery-based printmaking workshops, Mary Ellen Hluska, PhD, ATR-BC, invites students, faculty, and staff to a hands-on exploration in printmaking. No experience necessary. A […]
Join the webinar. Presented by Natasha Warikoo Lenore Stern Professor in the Social Sciences, Department of Sociology, Tufts University In this talk, Natasha Warikoo, PhD, EdM, will review the history of affirmative action in college admissions as well as arguments made for and against it. She will discuss how and why Asian Americans became part […]
June 14, 1964, was one of the greatest days in Springfield College history. That was the day when Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the College’s commencement address. Taking place at the height of his fame and the height of the Civil Rights Movement, it also happened in a remarkable context. That included both pressure from […]
Presented by Stephanie R. Logan, EdD Stephanie R. Logan, EdD, is an associate professor of elementary and multicultural education and chair of the Department of Education at Springfield College. Logan received her Doctorate of Education from Morgan State University in 2009. She is a former elementary school teacher and a former elementary and middle school […]
Need a little more peace in your life? Look no further than the spring 2024 conflict management workshops presented by Amy Sereday, CO-OP, Springfield College ombuds. These workshops provide practical […]
Photo by Maria Stenzel. Presented by Lloyd Barba, PhD Assistant Professor of Religion and Core Faculty in Latinx and Latin American Studies at Amherst College In his presentation, Lloyd Barba will ask: Why have houses of worship long protected migrants from immigration enforcement authorities? Barba’s views are based on his ongoing book projects on the […]
Mary Ellen Hluska, PhD, ATR-BC, invites students, faculty, and staff to this hands-on exploration in printmaking. No experience necessary. A recipient of a 2023 Springfield College Empowerment Grant, Hluska was […]
Presented by Anne C. Wheeler, PhD Associate Professor of Composition and Rhetoric On August 13, 1998, the headline of the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco’s longest-running gay and lesbian newspaper, read, “No Obits.” The headline marked the fact that for the first time in 17 years, no obituaries were published in the weekly newspaper. This […]
Join us as representatives of AmeriCorps service programs from western Massachusetts come to campus to share opportunities for those seeking full- or part-time employment, or academic internships in the local community. Besides the Springfield College AmeriCorps program, find out about three others: the Literacy Lab, DIAL/SELF, and TerraCorps. In addition, a panel of former and current […]
