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Homecoming & Family Weekend kicks off on Friday! Make your plans to take part in the fun and excitement now!

Friday, September 22 and Saturday, September 23

Highlights include:

• A performance by the Bruce Mattson Band on Friday at 4:30 on the McCarthy Center Patio, along with a free food truck.
• Casino Night on Friday from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Forum.
• A performance by the Suit Jacket Posse in DPAC
• The annual Moonlight Breakfast from 9 to 11 p.m. Friday
• Great sports viewing with Football, and Women's Soccer in action
• Several programs specifically for families of current students, including classroom experiences, a meeting of the Family Network and more.
• Alumni events, including the Alumni Endzone gathering, Class Meetups, an Alumni of Color Networking event and much more!   

For more information, including a complete list of events and registration details, visit www.framingham.edu/homecoming. 

Call for Annual Homecoming & Family Weekend Moonlight Breakfast Volunteers

Join us for the 2023 Moonlight Breakfast as a volunteer! Serve up breakfast late at night to our students, families, friends, and alums of FSU! Shift begins at 8:30pm, ends at 11:30pm. Details and sign-up here!

McCarthy Center Forum
Wednesday, Sept. 20
11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Join the community of FSU stu­dents who stud­y abroad each year. Some people go on programs that last one week, others on programs that last a full academic year! No matter where you go, you’ll gain new friends, have expe­ri­ences you can’t have in Massachusetts, and gain new perspectives and cross-cultural understanding that will impact the trajectory of your life.

Study abroad is affordable and your financial aid transfers to cover the costs. Study abroad is possible for students in every major and your courses will be pre-approved before you leave to count towards your degree requirements at FSU. This type of international experience will help you cultivate independence, confidence, and intercultural skills which will enhance the value of your education and expand your future career possibilities. The FSU Office of International Programs where your international academic experience begins!

Monday, September 18th, 12:30-2:30pm

Join FSU community members as we travel around campus to pick up litter as a part of Keep Framingham Beautiful World Clean Up Week events.

Groups will meet outside the McCarthy Center at 12:30 and 1:30 and depart together for the clean-up route. Gloves, trash bags, and trash pickers will be provided. Sign up here for one or both departure times.

Framingham State University is hosting two events connected to the University's first African American graduate Mary Miles Bibb (Class of 1842) and hosted by historian Irene Moore Davis.

FILM SCREENING: ACROSS THE RIVER TO FREEDOM SERIES
Wednesday, Sept 27, 2023 at 12:30 PM in Alumni Room

Historian and producer Irene Moore Davis offers a film screening of Across the River to Freedom: Mary and Henry Bibb and Across the River to Freedom: Lucie and Thornton Blackburn, the heroic stories of fugitive slaves and other Black abolitionists. The documentaries will be followed by a Q&A with Ms. Davis, recipient of the Harriet Tubman Award for Commitment to a Purpose from the Ontario Black History Society and named to the 100 Accomplished Black Canadian Women.

MARY MILES BIBB, ABOLITIONIST, TEACHER, AND FRAMINGHAM'S FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN GRADUATE: THE CANADIAN YEARS
Thursday, Sept 28, 2023 at 9:00 AM in Alumni Room
Zoom Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIpde2srjwoGdDt4HF_OkXberrEnO9Q3if4

Irene Moore Davis, Canadian educator, historian, and documentary film producer, brings to life the story of Mary Miles Bibb (FSU’s first African American graduate) and her role in Canada’s underground railroad and the publication of The Voices of the Fugitive, one of Canada’s first Black newspapers. Moore Davis, a teacher at St. Clair College and research associate for the University of Windsor and Ontario Heritage Trust, will screen the documentary she produced, Across the River to Freedom, and lecture on the critical impact of Mary Miles Bibb, recognized as a Person of National History Significance on Canada, and other Black Canadian abolitionists.

Sponsors: Arts & Ideas, the Division of Diversity, Inclusion, and Community Engagement, and the Political Science Department

Partnership with The Amherstburg Freedom Museum of Ontario, Canada and The Essex County Black Historical Research Society in Ontario, Canada.

September 30, 2023
10:00 am - 11:30 am
Warren Conference Center

Please join us on September 30, 2023 at 10 am at the Warren Conference Center in celebration of President Emerita, Dr. Helen Heineman's, latest novel, Emma Redux 1 - Happily Ever After. Dr. Heineman will be reading from the book and signing copies. All registrants will receive a copy of the book, as well as a continental breakfast. This event is open to the public.

Register today at: https://www.alumni.framingham.edu/redux

Dr. Heineman’s Emma Redux series, is a continuation of Jane Austen’s Emma, and begins after the marriage of Emma and Knightley and continues through life with Mr. Woodhouse at Hartfield, as an array of Heineman’s new characters interact with Austen’s, including two “real” characters, the sister of Charles Dickens, and Anthony Trollope. Frank Churchill’s story concludes, and the second novel follows the romantic relationships of Emma’s daughters Hetta and Caroline. The progeny of Emma’s sister Isabella take center stage in Emma Redux 3, and the fourth novel takes place 20 years later, focusing on a new central character, the honorable William Ashley Sundquist, age 30, and his encounter with the 17 year old Celestia, grand-daughter of Isabella Knightley, as a chance event becomes part of an inescapable design. Heineman’s novels conclude with episodes featuring Arabian horses, a scarlet fever outbreak, and the fate of two outsiders: a governess and the illegitimate brother of Lord Sundquist. The last of the Knightley daughters plans a history of the Knightleys, beginning with Emma who, “handsome, clever, and rich” was the start of it all.

The series of novels will include four entries:

EMMA REDUX 1: HAPPILY EVER AFTER
EMMA REDUX 2: FULL CIRCLE
EMMA REDUX 3: FAMILY SECRETS
EMMA REDUX 4: MATCHMAKING MAGIC

Whittemore Library Events Fall September 2023

Bookable Study Rooms Now Open!
You can now book our Group and Individual Study Rooms! Visit https://framingham.libcal.com/reserve/individualstudy or https://framingham.libcal.com/reserve/groupstudy for more information and to reserve your time!

No Homework Book Club
Wednesday September 20, 2023
12:30pm-1:30pm
Whittemore Library UM-14

Join the Whittemore Library for the No Homework Book Club! What is the No Homework Book Club? It’s a discussion group for people who like to read and talk about books but don’t want to do assigned reading! It’s for people who are looking for their next great read! It’s for everyone, whether you finished a book last night or last month!

Each meeting will feature a discussion topic to get the conversation started and you don’t need to read anything ahead of time. Just join us for a fun discussion about books and reading!
Registration and more information: https://framingham.libcal.com/event/10952988

Workshop Wednesday: Ram Search
Wednesday September 27, 2023
1:30-2:15 Whittemore Library UM-14 (https://framingham.libcal.com/event/11073122)
6:30-7:15 Zoom (https://framingham.libcal.com/event/11073153)

Ram Search makes searching the Henry Whittemore Library's databases and online research simple, but finding the right articles and materials can be more difficult. Join the Research and Learning Staff and learn how to refine your searches and use filters to help you search better and find resources easier. Staff will lead you through search techniques and be available to answer your questions.

Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors with Tory Stephens Climate Fiction Creative Manager for Grist
Wednesday, September 27, 2023
6:30pm - 7:00pm
Zoom

The Whittemore Library is participating in CREW Week! Join Tory Stephens of Grist Magazine, an independent non-profit media organization focused on the climate crisis, and learn how he created Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors. Imagine is a storytelling initiative that calls for fiction writers to envision the next 180 years of equitable climate progress, imagining intersectional worlds of abundance, adaptation, reform, and hope. The initiative also seeks narratives that center solutions from the communities most impacted by the climate crisis, and stories that are rooted in cultural authenticity (a deep sense of place, customs, cuisine, and more) and rich subcultures that uplift traditions not often seen in mainstream literature. Over the course of three years the project has encouraged 3,000 plus writers from 91 countries to submit stories, and of which 700,000 people have read. Writers and readers alike will enjoy this climate justice romp.

Zoom link and more information: https://framingham.libcal.com/event/11078572

The Danforth Art School at Framingham State University presents an art exhibit at the Framingham Public Library featuring works from students participating in the Summer Arts Program. The exhibit runs from Tuesday, September 12 - Thursday September 28.

The works in this exhibit were created by students aged 5-14 over the course of the summer and were chosen for their exceptional demonstration of the lessons set by instructors.

A closing reception will be held to recognize the students with a short program including awards for outstanding achievement in various categories. The reception will be held in the Costin Room at the main library branch, 49 Lexington Street on Thursday, September 28 from 5-7 p.m.

There is a parking lot on Lexington St. with street parking also available. Handicapped ramps are located on both Pearl St. and Lexington St. sides of the library, and there is an elevator in the library building.

For more information please call the Danforth Art School at 508-515-5116.

The Center for Digital Humanities is excited to announce the Fall 2023 National Endowment for the Humanities-sponsored Invited Lecture Series on Race + Digital Humanities.

• Thursday, October 5: Claire Lavarreda (World History, Northeastern University) will be delivering a lecture, “Learning as You Go: Building an Archive of Indigenous Voices.”

• Monday, October 16: Dr. Julia Troche (Ancient Egyptian Archaeology, Missouri State University), will be delivering a lecture, “Current Debates in Digital Egyptology, Or What Happens When Scholars Assign Race to the Pharaohs.”

• Thursday, November 9: Gowthaman Ranganathan (Anthropology, Brandeis University) will be delivering a lecture, “Oral Histories of Queerness in Post-War Sri Lanka.”

All events will take place 4:30-5:30 p.m. in the Heineman Ecumenical and Cultural Center. For more information, contact Dr. Bartholomew Brinkman (bbrinkman@framingham.edu) or Dr. Kristen Abbott Bennett (kbennett5@framingham.edu)

The Admissions Office encourages everyone to Save the Date of our two Fall Admissions Open House Events on campus.

Saturday, Oct. 14

Saturday, Nov. 4

These events are among our best opportunities to promote the FSU community to prospective students! 

Mapping Dominican Youth Politics and Culture during the Global 1960s
Wednesday, October 4, 1:30pm, Heinemann Ecumenical Center

Dr. Cordero examines the rise of 1960s youth mobilizations and cultural politics through the vantage point of the Spanish Caribbean, more specifically, the Dominican Republic. Following the assassination of Dominican dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo in 1961, young political actors and students tied to the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD) unleashed a political and cultural opposition to the legacies of authoritarianism, U.S. imperialism, and local traditions of racism and anti-Haitianism. What resulted was a unique manifestation of 1960s political culture that saw itself stretched between U.S. imperial demands, the reconsolidation of authoritarian regimes, and popular aspirations for revolution and broad social transformation. Dominican 1960s political culture reveals a new and exciting chapter to studies of the Global 1960s by showing how these unexplored political actors engaged the exuberance of the period through multiple fronts – from the divisive political spectrum of U.S. anti-communism and the Cuban Revolution to the unprecedented emergence of race and racism in national politics and across the globe.

Born in the Dominican Republic and raised in Harlem, NYC, Dr. René Cordero is an assistant professor in the Latin American and Latinx Studies department at John Jay College of CUNY and a Gaius Charles Bolin Fellow in history at Williams College.

This event is sponsored by the Department of History and the Center for Inclusive Excellence.
To request disability accommodations, please contact inclusivex@framingham.edu.