College Connection
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College Connection is lectures and panel talks from colleges and universities from western New England, particularly from the Five Colleges in western Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst College, Smith College, Mount Holyoke College and Hampshire College.
This forum provides an opportunity for listeners to engage with researchers, intellectuals, poets and authors active within our academic communities.
NOTE: The lectures recorded for College Connection are designed to build a public audio library of the western New England experience, and are not intended as news content, or endorsements by NEPM’s staff or Board of Directors.
Latest Episodes
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John Rickford is a professor of linguistics at Stanford University, where he studies the relationship between language and social structure.In this talk,… -
Majora Carter is an American urban revitalization strategist based in the South Bronx, New York. Last fall she was invited to deliver the keynote address… -
Daniel Lieberman, a paleoanthropologist and biology professor at Harvard University, spoke about his work studying human athletic behavior and performance… -
Steve Waksman, Professor of Music and American Studies at Smith College, gave a historical view of the movement of jazz from “lowbrow” popular music, to… -
Dennis Childs, associate professor of African American literature and an affiliate faculty member of the department of ethnic studies and critical gender… -
Franklin Odo is the John J. McCloy Visiting Professor of American Institutions and International Diplomacy at Amherst College. As part of the UMass… -
Republican political commentator and strategist Ana Navarro was recently invited to speak as part of Smith College’s Presidential Colloquium Series.… -
Rachel Maddow is a political commentator, author, and host of MSNBC’s Emmy Award-winning The Rachel Maddow Show.She was recently invited to speak at Smith… -
As a guest of Smith College’s Poetry Center, prized American poet Gerald Stern read from a collection of works that included poems from: “American… -
Ross Douthat, New York Times columnist and author, spoke about modern American conservatism, the liberal crisis, what conservatives should learn from the…
