Congratulations to UMass Amherst professors Juana Valdés and Stephen Platt for being named 2026 Guggenheim Fellows! Stephen is also an active instructor in the Five College Center for East Asian Studies, educating K-12 teachers on East Asia.
✒ On Saturday comes the Folger Shakespeare Library's Shakespeare Birthday Celebration! Celebrate the writer with activities like quill writing, trying out costumes and face paint, stage combat demonstrations, and more. Birthday cupcakes will be served in the afternoon as well!
🎉 Doors open at 11am. To party, or not to party, that is the question!
🍛 This Friday, the UMass African Graduates' and Scholars' Association presents the UMass Diasporic Rice Festival. Open to all members of the Five College community, this event centers the grain that connects cultures around the world—rice!
🌎 Visit the UMass Campus Center at 4:30 p.m. on April 10th to enjoy rice recipes, storytelling, a keynote talk, and more. RSVP is encouraged, check the link in our bio to do so!
On Monday, Smith College hosted the Five College Reception for Faculty and Staff of Color and Allies. Some 70 people from all five campuses came to catch up with friends and colleagues and make new connections.
Photos by Candace Hope.
We at Five Colleges recently celebrated the launch of a website that gives students, researchers, and art lovers around the world access to over 100,000 objects from the shared collections, while also helping museums track and share their collections.
Photos by Candace Hope.
Read all about it! The Daily Hampshire Gazette's Scott Merzbach recently released a wonderful piece about our recently released digital database of Five College-affiliated museums' collection objects.
Visit the link in our bio to read Merzbach's article or check out our new site!
On March 2, new faculty members from the five campuses were introduced to the Consortium and each other at the Five College New Faculty Reception at the Hampshire College Red Barn.
🌏 Hosted by Mount Holyoke College's Chinese Program, Inside the Moso World will be presented this Friday! Listen and learn from Jason Ou's talk about the unique matrilineal Moso culture and enjoy refreshments, trivia, and even a Mosuo dance lesson.
🇨🇳 Visit the Blanchard Student Center's Great Room on March 6th at 1pm to participate in this edu-taining experience. See you there!
✒️ The East Asian Language and Culture programs at UMass and Five Colleges present the Korean Calligraphy Showcase this Wednesday! Honor the written beauty of Hangeul through Five College community members' submissions based around a theme of language, expression, and freedom.
🇰🇷 This event will take place in UMass's Herter Hall room 301 from 3-5pm, and is free and open to Five College students and staff. Don't miss it!
Did you know? 2026 marks the 100 year anniversary of Black History Month in the US, the month where we take some extra time to celebrate the accomplishments and resilience of the Black community. Join us in celebrating across the Five Colleges!
Visit the link in bio for links to calendars of Black history events across the campuses, or keep an eye out for posts about upcoming events.
