Hampshire College Culture, Brain, & Development

11/24/2020

Wasp Venom Can Save Lives. But the Supply Chain Is Shaky.

https://undark.org/2020/11/16/wasp-venom-shaky-supply-chain/

Venom is crucial to make medicines for those with severe allergic reactions to wasp, hornet, and yellow jacket stings.

11/19/2020

Today at 4:15!
IDENTITY & WELLNESS CBD/CoCo STUDENT GROUP: POETRY HEALING! with Zia Durnin
VIA ZOOM (check the Digest or HampEngage for link)
& IN-PERSON (Franklin Patterson, West Lecture Hall)

How can we use poetry to heal?
Poetry therapy is a form of writing therapy that has been practiced since the 1800s but has recently gained more popularity. This week Zia Durnin will talk about forms of narrative therapy, writing therapy, and intergenerational narratives that can lend themselves to poetry, and what makes poetry different from other forms of writing therapy. We will also share poems that explore these themes, and discuss ways poetry or creative writing helps folks figure things out. Zia Durnin is a third-year student at Hampshire studying early life and intergenerational trauma, and storytelling/poetry therapy.

Join a community of students from all different fields for friendly conversation and discussion.
All are welcome, from artists to zoologists! Come once, or come every week!
Yummy snacks/light dinner, CEL credits every time you come!

Sponsored by the Community Commons (CoCo), the Culture, Brain & Development Program (CBD), the LeBron Wiggins-Pran Cultural Center and the Wellness Center.

11/19/2020

Joy Harjo will serve a rare third term as U.S. poet laureate

Joy Harjo will serve a rare third term as U.S. poet laureate

Harjo is the second poet laureate to serve this many terms in a row since the current duties of the position were established 77 years ago.

11/18/2020

IDENTITY & WELLNESS CBD/CoCo STUDENT GROUP: POETRY HEALING! with Zia Durnin

THURSDAY, 11/5 4:15 - 5:30pm—VIA ZOOM (check the Digest or HampEngage for link)
& IN-PERSON! (Franklin Patterson, West Lecture Hall)

Bring your laptop or phone so you can participate on Zoom, even if you come to FPH!

How can we use poetry to heal?
Poetry therapy is a form of writing therapy that has been practiced since the 1800s but has recently gained more popularity. This week Zia Durnin will talk about forms of narrative therapy, writing therapy, and intergenerational narratives that can lend themselves to poetry, and what makes poetry different from other forms of writing therapy. We will also share poems that explore these themes, and discuss ways poetry or creative writing helps folks figure things out. Zia Durnin is a third-year student at Hampshire studying early life and intergenerational trauma, and storytelling/poetry therapy.

Join a community of students from all different fields for friendly conversation and discussion.
All are welcome, from artists to zoologists! Come once, or come every week!
Yummy snacks/light dinner, CEL credits every time you come!

Sponsored by the Community Commons (CoCo), the Culture, Brain & Development Program (CBD), the LeBron Wiggins-Pran Cultural Center and the Wellness Center.

11/17/2020

IDENTITY & WELLNESS CBD/CoCo STUDENT GROUP: POETRY HEALING! with Zia Durnin

THURSDAY, 11/5 4:15 - 5:30pm—VIA ZOOM (check the Digest or HampEngage for link)
& IN-PERSON! (Franklin Patterson, West Lecture Hall)

Bring your laptop or phone so you can participate on Zoom, even if you come to FPH!

How can we use poetry to heal?
Poetry therapy is a form of writing therapy that has been practiced since the 1800s but has recently gained more popularity. This week Zia Durnin will talk about forms of narrative therapy, writing therapy, and intergenerational narratives that can lend themselves to poetry, and what makes poetry different from other forms of writing therapy. We will also share poems that explore these themes, and discuss ways poetry or creative writing helps folks figure things out. Zia Durnin is a third-year student at Hampshire studying early life and intergenerational trauma, and storytelling/poetry therapy.

Join a community of students from all different fields for friendly conversation and discussion.
All are welcome, from artists to zoologists! Come once, or come every week!
Yummy snacks/light dinner, CEL credits every time you come!

Sponsored by the Community Commons (CoCo), the Culture, Brain & Development Program (CBD), the LeBron Wiggins-Pran Cultural Center and the Wellness Center.

11/11/2020

CBD/CoCo STUDENT GROUP: Racism & Health Disparities, with Dr. Evelynn Hammonds

THURSDAY, 11/12, 4:15 - 5:30pm—VIA ZOOM & IN-PERSON! (Franklin Patterson, West Lecture Hall)

Bring your laptop or phone so you can participate on Zoom, even if you come to FPH!

Join us at https://hampshire.zoom.us/j/99598428572

11/10/2020

CBD/CoCo STUDENT GROUP: Racism & Health Disparities, with Dr. Evelynn Hammonds

THURSDAY, 11/12, 4:15 - 5:30pm—VIA ZOOM & IN-PERSON! (Franklin Patterson, West Lecture Hall)

Bring your laptop or phone so you can participate on Zoom, even if you come to FPH!

Join us at https://hampshire.zoom.us/j/99598428572

11/09/2020

CBD/CoCo STUDENT GROUP: Racism & Health Disparities, with Dr. Evelynn Hammonds
THURSDAY, 11/12, 4:15 - 5:30pm—VIA ZOOM & IN-PERSON! (Franklin Patterson, West Lecture Hall)
Bring your laptop or phone so you can participate on Zoom, even if you come to FPH!
Join us at https://hampshire.zoom.us/j/99598428572

11/06/2020

Is Mass Incarceration Driving Racial Disparities in the Pandemic?

https://undark.org/2020/11/02/convictions-mass-incarceration-racial-disparities-pandemic/

One study in June linked 16 percent of Covid-19 cases in Chicago and across Illinois to Cook County Jail.

11/06/2020

CBD/CoCo STUDENT GROUP: Racism & Health Disparities, with Dr. Evelynn Hammonds

THURSDAY, 11/12, 4:15 - 5:30pm—VIA ZOOM & IN-PERSON! (Franklin Patterson, West Lecture Hall)
Bring your laptop or phone so you can participate on Zoom, even if you come to FPH!

Join us at https://hampshire.zoom.us/j/99598428572

11/04/2020

IDENTITY & WELLNESS CBD/CoCo STUDENT GROUP: REWRITING OUR STORIES, with Djola Branner & Will MacAdams on Thursday, 11/5...IS CANCELLED, SO FOLX CAN ATTEND THE COMMUNITY MEETING AT 4PM WITH PRESIDENT ED--we'll reschedule Djola & Will soon!

11/03/2020

Resist! Practice Joy!

“If you’re not angry, you’re either a stone, or you’re too sick to be angry. You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure. So use that anger, yes. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking it.” #MayaAngelou

11/03/2020

Hampshire College Community Commons - CoCo

Post-Election Comfort!
Hot Cookie Truck from 4-6pm in front of FPH!
Dissent! reading from 4-6pm & Rosa Clemente from 7-8:30PM in FPH and via Zoom!

11/03/2020

IDENTITY & WELLNESS CBD/CoCo STUDENT GROUP: REWRITING OUR STORIES, with Djola Branner & Will MacAdams

THURSDAY, 11/5 4:15 - 5:30pm—VIA ZOOM (check the Digest or HampEngage for link)
& IN-PERSON! (Franklin Patterson, West Lecture Hall)

Bring your laptop or phone so you can participate on Zoom, even if you come to FPH!

This week much loved Hampshire professors Will MacAdams and Professor Djola Branner will share old and new poetry and dramatic writing, facilitate a collective writing exercise, and lead a conversation about creative writing as a way to explore and nurture our identities and wellness.

Djola Branner combines movement, sound and light to create compelling portraits of American life for the stage. Co-founder of the critically acclaimed performance group Pomo Afro Homos, he toured nationally and internationally with their shows Fierce Love Stories from Black Gay Life and Dark Fruit. Will MacAdams is a playwright, educator, and dialogue facilitator whose work focuses on community building, the transformative power of storytelling, and racial justice. As a theater maker, he has worked around the world and in cities and rural communities across the U.S.

IDENTITY & WELLNESS CBD/CoCo STUDENT GROUP: REWRITING OUR STORIES, with Djola Branner & Will MacAdams on Thursday, 11/5...IS CANCELLED, SO FOLX CAN ATTEND THE COMMUNITY MEETING AT 4PM WITH PRESIDENT ED--we'll reschedule Djola & Will soon!

11/02/2020

IDENTITY & WELLNESS CBD/CoCo STUDENT GROUP: REWRITING OUR STORIES, with Djola Branner & Will MacAdams!

THURSDAY, 11/5 4:15 - 5:30pm—VIA ZOOM (check the Digest or HampEngage for link) & IN-PERSON!

Djola Branner combines movement, sound and light to create compelling portraits of American life for the stage. Co-founder of the critically acclaimed performance group Pomo Afro Homos, he toured nationally and internationally with their shows Fierce Love Stories from Black Gay Life and Dark Fruit.

Will MacAdams is a playwright, educator, and dialogue facilitator whose work focuses on community building, the transformative power of storytelling, and racial justice. As a theater maker, he has worked around the world and in cities and rural communities across the US.

10/28/2020

Grants Info Session at the CBD/CoCo Student Group this Week!

THURSDAY, 10/29, 4:15 - 5:30pm—VIA ZOOM & IN-PERSON! (Franklin Patterson, West Lecture Hall)
Bring your laptop or phone so you can participate on Zoom, even if you come to FPH!

*Check the Digest & HampEngage for the Zoom Link*

Learn how to find grant funding on campus & hear from students who have been awarded grants. Get tips on how to write a strong grant proposal & put together a budget.

10/27/2020

IDENTITY & WELLNESS CBD/CoCo STUDENT GROUP: Student Grants Info Session

THURSDAY, 10/29, 4:15 - 5:30pm—VIA ZOOM & IN-PERSON! (Franklin Patterson, West Lecture Hall)

Bring your laptop or phone so you can participate on Zoom, even if you come to FPH!

*Check the Digest & HampEngage for the Zoom Link*

10/26/2020

The Hidden Structure of the Universe

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-hidden-structure-of-the-universe-20201022/

Our new series of articles explores the search for fundamental structure at the edge of science.

10/26/2020

Grants Info Session at the CBD/CoCo Student Group this Week!

THURSDAY, 10/29, 4:15 - 5:30pm—VIA ZOOM & IN-PERSON!
(Franklin Patterson, West Lecture Hall)

Bring your laptop or phone so you can participate on Zoom, even if you come to FPH!

*Check the Digest & HampEngage for the Zoom Link*

Need Funding for Your Divisional Work? Trying to Support an Independent Project? Apply for a grant!

Learn how to find grant funding on campus & hear from students who have been awarded grants. Get tips on how to write a strong grant proposal & put together a budget.

10/22/2020

IDENTITY & WELLNESS CBD/CoCo STUDENT GROUP: Reimagining Education

THURSDAY, 10/22, 4:15 - 5:30pm—VIA ZOOM & IN-PERSON! Food from El Comalito!

*Check the Digest & HampEngage for the Zoom Link*

This week Iyanu Bishop, Brittany Craigen & Josie Garcia-Euyoque will lead a conversation around identity and education, the impacts of racism on child development and learning, and the ways in which we might reimagine and redefine educational spaces.

10/21/2020

IDENTITY & WELLNESS CBD/CoCo STUDENT GROUP: Reimagining Education

THURSDAY, 10/22, 4:15 - 5:30pm—VIA ZOOM & IN-PERSON! Food from El Comalito!

*Check the Digest & HampEngage for the Zoom Link*

This week Iyanu Bishop, Brittany Craigen & Josie Garcia-Euyoque will lead a conversation around identity and education, the impacts of racism on child development and learning, and the ways in which we might reimagine and redefine educational spaces.

10/19/2020

IDENTITY & WELLNESS CBD/CoCo STUDENT GROUP: Reimagining Education
THURSDAY, 10/22, 4:15 - 5:30pm—VIA ZOOM & IN-PERSON!
(Franklin Patterson, West Lecture Hall)
*Check the Digest & HampEngage for the Zoom Link*

This week Iyanu Bishop, Brittany Craigen & Josie Garcia-Euyoque will lead a conversation around identity and education, the impacts of racism on child development and learning, and the ways in which we might reimagine and redefine educational spaces.Join a community of students from all different fields for friendly conversation, a light dinner and discussion. Food from El Comalito!

10/19/2020

Tomorrow, Tuesday, 10/20! Link to register and details on the Daily Digest or at hamp.it/communityeducation

10/19/2020

Tomorrow, Tuesday, 10/20! Link to register and details on the Daily Digest or at hamp.it/communityeducation

10/16/2020

Hampshire College Community Commons - CoCo

Schedule

10AM-noon
Panel: Social Movements & Electoral Politics, Annelise Orleck & Alex Aviña, moderated by Jennifer Bajorek (Digital)

Community Reading: My President, a poem by Danez Smith,
led by Amy Dryansky (Digital)

2:00-3:20PM
Workshop: Building Your Circle of Support, with Karina Fernandez & Judah Doty (In-Person)

2-3:30PM
Virtual Tour of the Pioneer Valley Workers Center,
led by Margaret Cerullo (Digital)

2-5:00PM
Workshop: Sexy Survivor, with Ignacio Rivera / The HEAL Project (Digital, Students Only)

3:40-5:00PM
Workshop: Black & Pink Letter Writing to Incarcerated LGBTQ Community Members, with Haley Aronow (Digital)

Workshop: Creative Resilience II, with Naya Gabriel (Digital)

7:00-8:30PM
Circle Practice: A Space for Us by Us, a listening circle with President Ed Wingenbach and students of color about institutionalized racism at Hampshire College (Digital, Students Of Color Only)

No classes are held, and CEL-1 credits can be applied for each program students participate in.

For more details, Zoom links, locations and the full schedule,
check the Daily Digest, HampEngage & hamp.it/communityeducation

10/15/2020

This Thursday-10/15--
Snacks & food from Miss Saigon, creative writing, good company & conversation!

10/13/2020

THURSDAY, 10/15, 4:15 - 5:30pm—
VIA ZOOM (check the Digest or HampEngage for link)
& IN-PERSON! (Franklin Patterson, West Lecture Hall)

Yummy snacks/light dinner from Miss Saigon, good conversation and friendly people!

This week Hampshire staff member, educator and poet, Amy Dryansky, will lead an interactive session on creative process, storytelling and metaphor as paths to wellness.

10/13/2020

Native American imagery is all around us, while the people are often forgotten

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/2018/10/indigenous-peoples-day-cultural-appropriation/?cmpid=org=ngp::mc=crm-email::src=ngp::cmp=editorial::add=History_20201012&rid=F496ECCF27E473BEF8D28351750886D4

For indigenous people, everything from the word “America” to the insulting ways native symbols are used is a reminder of how those of European ancestry nearly killed a culture—and still misrepresent it.

10/12/2020

IDENTITY & WELLNESS CBD/CoCo STUDENT GROUP:
Writing Into Feeling, Feeling Into Writing

THURSDAY, 10/15, 4:15 - 5:30pm—VIA ZOOM (check the Digest & HampEngage for a link)

& IN-PERSON! (Franklin Patterson, West Lecture Hall)
Bring your laptop or phone so you can participate on Zoom, even if you come to FPH!

This week Hampshire staff member, educator and poet, Amy Dryansky, will lead an interactive session with creative writing, and talk about creativity, storytelling and metaphor as paths to wellness.

Join a community of students from all different fields for friendly conversation and discussion. All are welcome, from artists to zoologists! Come once, or come every week!
We meet EVERY THURSDAY this semester--Earn CEL credits every time you come!

Sponsored by the Community Commons (CoCo), the Culture, Brain & Development Program (CBD), the LeBron Wiggins-Pran Cultural Center and the Wellness Center.

The Community Commons is a Hampshire College collaboration, including Critical Studies in Childhood Youth & Learning (CYL), Culture, Brain & Development (CBD), Institutional Diversity & Inclusion, Entrepreneurship, Ethics & the Common Good, James Baldwin Scholars Program, Johnson Library Knowledge Commons, & the LeBron-Wiggins-Pran Cultural Center.

10/08/2020

Today at 4pm! In FPH WLH and via Zoom!

Thursday, 10/8, 4pm: Taiga will talk to us about her work, and invite students to share their ideas about how we can apply the principles of trauma-informed care to our own work.

10/07/2020

Thursday, 10/8, 4pm: Taiga will talk to us about her work, and invite students to share their ideas about how we can apply the principles of trauma-informed care to our own work.

10/07/2020

Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded for CRISPR ‘Genetic Scissors’

Just in: 2020 Chemistry Laureate Emmanuelle Charpentier in a photo she sent right after she found out the news of this year's #NobelPrize;

“My wish is that this will provide a positive message to the young girls who would like to follow the path of science, and to show them that women in science can also have an impact through the research that they are performing.”
- 2020 Chemistry Laureate Emmanuelle Charpentier.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/2020-nobel-prize-in-chemistry-awarded-for-crispr-to-charpentier-and-doudna-20201007/

Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna have been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their development of CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing.

10/06/2020

Thursday! 10/8!

10/05/2020

This week!

10/03/2020

Coming your way soon!

Our next ENGAGE is coming up!