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Student Research and Student Films Featured in April 2005

Five College student symposia provide a unique opportunity for students to share their research with peers at all the campuses. Replicating the format followed at professional academic gatherings, the four undergraduate symposia taking place this spring will enable students to have a pre-professional experience of presenting their research in a public forum featuring either a series of panels, individual readings, or poster sessions. In some cases, the student symposium is a longstanding tradition that constitutes a highlight of the academic year for the students and faculty involved.

Anthropology Symposium
Budding anthropologists will present their research at a meeting at Hampshire College on April 9 from 9 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. In addition to highlighting undergraduate work, the symposium will feature as keynote speaker Pamela Stone, a Hampshire graduate and currently Assistant Professor of Biological Anthropology at Western Michigan University.

For further information, contact Professor Michelle Bigenho.

Ethnomusicology Symposium
Students pursuing work in ethnomusicology will have a chance to share their work in an all-day symposium at Smith College on Sunday, April 10 from 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the Earle Recital Concert Hall, Sage Hall; Smith College. Student presenters will take part in a series of panels throughout the day. The event concludes with a keynote address entitled "Shoot the Sergeant: Masculinity and Violence in Post-Apartheid Ngoma Song and Dance" to be given by Louise Meintjes, Associate Professor of Music and Cultural Anthropology, Duke University. The symposium is free and open to the public.

More information about the symposium is available online at the Five College Ethnomusicology Web site.

CISA Symposium
The Center for Crossroads in the Study of the Americas (CISA) will host its eighth student symposium at the UMass Amherst Isenberg School of Management, Room 108, on Saturday, April 16 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. This year’s symposium features scholarly papers as well as a video presentation. Work cuts across many disciplines and fields, including American studies, African-American studies, Asian/Pacific/American studies, Native American Indian studies, Women's studies, and Lesbian and Gay studies. Themes include: migration and diaspora, cultural interaction and transformation, varieties of citizenship, contested identities, trade relations, imperialism and resistance, and other questions of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and national identity.

For more information about CISA and its symposium contact Professor Lisa Henderson or visit the CISA Web site.

Classics Colloquium and Convivium
The Classics Departments will offer presentations from 9 students on Sunday, April 17, 2005 at 4:30 p.m. at the Smith College Campus Center in rooms 103 and 104. The moderator is Professor Geoff Sumi from Mount Holyoke College.

Geology Symposium
The Geology departments will host their 26th Annual Five College Geology Student Symposium April 20 at the Red Barn, Hampshire College, from 3:30-7:00 p.m. All the sessions are presented in poster format and the doors are open to the public beginning at 4:00 p.m.

Five College Film Festival
The annual Five College Student Film Festival will be held on Friday, April 29 at 7:00 p.m. in the Main Lecture Hall of Franklin Patterson Hall at Hampshire College. Entries come from all the campuses and are judged by a Five College committee that includes faculty who teach film production.

Entry forms are due by April 8. For further information, contact Alexis Young.

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