Campus Currents

Join the Danforth staff for the opening reception of our new show Visionary Boston. There will be light refreshments and a cash bar. Danforth receptions are always a lively gathering of artists and friends!

Saturday, Feb. 25, 6 - 8 p.m.
Danforth Museum, 14 Vernon Street
Register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/opening-reception-for-visionary-boston-tickets-487131141357

The work of John Brook, Steven Trefonides, and Kahlil Gibran all grapple with our desire to see the unseen. The artistic experimentation among these artists fed into the mystical, imaginative, and otherworldly subject matter that permeates much of the work in this exhibition. Visionary Boston offers a closer look at the work of three artists and their contemporaries who were a part of defining the Boston art world mid-century, who worked fervently to translate their visions into something tangible, and whose works reflect their mutual influences—both historical and contemporary.

Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023
Humanity, Design + Happiness by Daryl Christopher

McCarthy Center Alumni Room, at 4:30 PM

How can we sustain joy and connection in our modern, fast paced world? Through design elements, true stories, and reflective dialogue, this participatory event will discuss simple practices for sustaining happiness and be led by Daryl Christopher, a designer, educator, and founder of RE_KIN, a magazine focusing on communal wholeness through responsiveness.

Friday, Feb. 24, 6 p.m.
O'Connor Hall Parking Lot

Participants of all ages are welcome!

Outside in the O’Connor Parking Lot by Maynard Road, use telescopes to observe a first quarter Moon, Jupiter, Venus, Mars, the Pleiades star cluster, and Orion Nebula!

McAuliffe Center staff are available to answer your questions about telescopes and our Universe.

Wednesday, March 8
Hybrid Format, Alumni Room, McCarthy Center at 10:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m.
Register for Zoom Link Here

In the book Nobody’s Girl, Barbara Amaya shared her stories of sexual abuse, human trafficking, drug addiction, rape, imprisonment, and domestic violence. All these sufferings happened on the streets of Washington DC and New York City before she even turned sixteen, as she was brutally exploited and trafficked for over a decade. Amaya was arrested multiple times, even though she was a child and a trafficking victim, not a criminal. Her experiences were far from ordinary, but her life is a reflection of our systemic failures to protect vulnerable teenagers and the pressures that trap them in contemporary slavery and human trafficking. In her lecture, Amaya will describe the process of how she survived contemporary slavery and transformed her pain and agony with courage.

Contact Information:
Abigayle Versackas, aversackas@student.framingham.edu

Sponsorship:
Arts & Ideas, Council on Diversity and Inclusion, the Center for Inclusive Excellence, The Sociology and Criminology Department, the English Department, the History Department

Historians of Color Speaker Series: Mary McNeil, "The Responsibility to Remain: Black Power and Red Power Claims to Massachusetts"

Thursday, March 2, 12:30 p.m.
O'Connor Hall 120

The history of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is undergirded by persistent regimes of dispossession, displacement, and enclosure. It is also undergirded by Black, Indigenous, and Afro-Indigenous resistance, survival, and survivance. In this talk, Mary McNeil shares her research on the spatial imaginaries of the Black Power/Red Power era, examining how Black, Indigenous, and Afro-Indigenous communities and nations developed a political praxis guided by "the responsibility to remain" in Massachusetts.

Here is a bit more information about Mary McNeil:
Mary is an Instructor in the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora at Tufts University. Her research and teaching interests sit at the intersections of Black studies, Native American and Indigenous studies, social history, and geography. Mary received her BA in American studies and History from Wheelock College and is completing her PhD in American Studies. Keenly invested in public humanities, she has worked with the Framingham History Center, and the African American Trail Project at Tufts University; she currently sits on the board of the Royall House and Slave Quarters. Mary was born and raised in Louisville, Ky and is an enrolled member of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe.

Tuesday, March 7
Dr. Charles Steinberg, President of the Worcester Red Sox
6:30 pm in The Forum
Networking to Follow

Dr. Charles Steinberg is the first President of the Worcester Red Sox and was instrumental, together with his mentor Larry Lucchino and ballpark designer Janet Marie Smith, in the creation of Polar Park, located in the “Heart of the Commonwealth.” The rookie year of the WooSox and Polar Park captured Minor League Baseball’s top two awards: one for best community outreach among all 120 teams, and the other for best Hispanic and Latino outreach. 

Register at: www.alumni.framingham.edu/steinberg

Our annual Accepted Student Receptions will be held this year on Saturday, March 25th and Saturday, April 1st.

We hope to have faculty and staff on hand to help demonstrate to our accepted students why Framingham State University is their best option for continuing their education!

-Patricia Horvath's debut short story collection, But Now Am Found, comes out on Friday, February 17th, from Black Lawrence Press! In anticipation of the book's release, we recommend listening to the interview Patti gave to Write On! Radio, a program hosted by Twin Cities Public Radio. Click here for a recording of the interview: https://www.kfai.org/playlists/?programid=258&yr=2023&mon=02
To read more about the collection, or to pre-order a copy, click here:

https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/but-now-am-found/