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Professor Calestous Juma of Harvard’s Kennedy School will give the inaugural lecture in the PERI African Development Policy Program’s Speaker Series on “GROWING AFRICA: Agricultural Innovation and Economic Transformation”. Calestous is one of the leading scholars on

As part of Smith College’s Chaired Professor Lecture series, Professor Elliot Fratkin presents his lecture, titled “Africa: The Good, the Bad, the Unexpected,” discussing his anthropological research. Introduction by Professor Gregory White, Mary Huggin

Professor David E. Schneider, Amherst College, speaks on Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring and Musical Modernism on the Eve of World War I. Earle Recital Hall, Smith College, Northampton, MA http://www.smith.edu/music/artsfest/

We are proud to announce the inauguration of the STPEC Activist Brown Bag Lunch Series. Most acclaimed for her pioneering work fighting mass incarceration, Lois Ahrens has been an activist and organizer for social justice for more than forty-five years. In 2000 she began the Real

University of Massachusetts historian Stephen R. Platt will offer rare glimpse into the Taiping Civil War on Thursday, Jan. 24 as part of a celebration of his book “Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War,” which won McGill

Mark Anthony Neal is Professor of Black Popular Culture in the Department of African and African-American Studies at Duke University. He has written and lectured extensively on Black popular culture and music, Black masculinity, sexism and homophobia in Black communities, and

Professor Imani Perry will introduce her research on hip-hop culture and analyze the intersections between women, gender, and hip hop culture on Friday, Nov. 2, at 4 p.m. in Stirn Auditorium. Perry is a professor at Princeton University’s Center for African American Studies

Doron Goldman is a former lecturer in the Mark H. McCormack Department of Sport Management at UMass Amherst. Doron “Duke” Goldman is currently a baseball historian and presenter as well as an elder care researcher. At UMass Amherst, Doron taught a course called “Baseball: Myths

Jeffrey Toobin works as a staff writer for The New Yorker and also as a senior analyst for CNN Worldwide. In addition, Toobin is a best selling author of several critically acclaimed books, including The Nine, Too Close to Call, A Vast Conspiracy, and The Run of his Life. Jeffrey

On Jan. 3, 2012, at age 22, Morse was sworn in as the youngest mayor in Holyoke’s history. He has spent much of his time since then working on early childhood literacy; building a local economy around art, innovation and technology; supporting community policing initiatives; and