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Heather Cachia awarded $10,500 in recognition of her commitment to interior architecture + design
Events
EventsThanksgiving recess
Classes resume. Thanksgiving Recess is November 28-30, 2024
Classes resume at 8am today.
Fall 2024 Course Withdrawal period (grade of a W) ends for the Third 5-week session MLT-MLS Program classes.
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh is founder and volunteer director of the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability at Bethlehem University. He has taught at universities in the U.S. and elsewhere, and is the author of numerous books and articles, including Sharing the Land of Canaan. Sponsored by the Departments of Sociology and Anthropology and Crime and Justice Studies, UMassD Faculty for Justice in Palestine, and Massachusetts Peace Action.
Ines Beleza Barreiros (Universidade Nova de Lisboa/Brown University) is an art historian, cultural critic, and curator. Her research delves into how art and images become knowledge-producing objects, and she has published on the visual culture, public memory, and afterlives of colonialism in the Portuguese-speaking worlds. She is presently preparing the monograph Thinking Visually: The Afterlives of Portuguese Imperialism.