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February 18, 2021 Cecilia Aldarondo AMHERST, Mass. – The 28th Annual Massachusetts Multicultural Film Festival and the 2020-2021 UMass Amherst History Department Feinberg Series co-present an online conversation with the acclaimed director-producer and academic, Cecilia Aldarondo, on Wednesday, Feb. 24 at 7:30 p.m., on her award-winning 2020 documentary film, “Landfall.” The film will stream on-demand from Feb. 19 through March 5. Both the screening and conversation are free and open to the public. Cecilia Aldarondo is a documentary director-producer from the Puerto Rican diaspora who m...

February 9, 2021 Felicity Aulino Human history has been shaped by vivid experiences of gods and spirits, from Augustine’s conversion to Christianity after hearing a disembodied voice to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s decision, after hearing God’s voice, to move ahead with the Montgomery bus boycotts. Now an international, multi-disciplinary team of researchers including Felicity Aulino, assistant Five College professor of anthropology, has identified two attributes, porosity and absorption, that make individuals more likely to have these kinds of experiences. Over the course of four studi...

December 22, 2020 Evan A. MacCarthy Evan A. MacCarthy, a Five College visiting assistant professor of music history in the UMass Amherst department of music and dance, has been elected president of the New England Chapter of the American Musicological Society for a two-year term. The AMS is the foremost national organization dedicated to expanding the understanding of music and sound through research, teaching, learning and advocacy. The New England Chapter of the AMS presently has 150 active members from New England and the Maritime provinces of Canada and (eastern) Quebec. As president, Ma...

Biden team taps Amherst, Hampshire alums for speech writing, economic advising President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris introduce nominees and appointees for economic policy posts Tuesday in Wilmington, Del.  AP Photo By CHRIS GOUDREAU Two members of President-elect Joe Biden’s administration have roots in western Massachusetts as Five College graduates: Dan Cluchey, one of Biden’s speechwriters, is a 2008 graduate of Amherst College, while Hampshire College graduate Heather Boushey was recently named to the president-elect’s Council of Economic Advisers. Clu...