Most Nostoi events occur in April, but our program begins in March with major events featuring Doug Anderson,
Michael Casey, Ralph Hexter, Tracy Kidder and Brian Turner. Return to Nostoi Site
Hampshire College, 893 West Street (Route 116), Amherst, MA
Jerome Liebling Center
Photo Exhibit: Iraq: A War, Pulitzer Prize-winning AP photos
This show continues, Monday through Friday, to April 14.
Contact: Robert E. Meagher, rmeagher@hampshire.edu
Time:
9:00am
Description:
Holyoke Community College, 303 Homestead Avenue, Holyoke, MA
Frost 309
Lecture: Chris Hedges, “War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning”
Contact: Vivian Ostrowski, vostrowski@hcc.mass.edu, 413-552-2418
Time:
11:00am
Description:
Mount Holyoke College, 50 College Street, South Hadley, MA
Reese 316
A Conversation with Chris Hedges
Contact: Kavita Khory, kkhory@MtHolyoke.edu
Co-sponsored by the International Relations Program of Mount Holyoke College.
Time:
4:30pm
Description:
Hampshire College
Jerome Liebling Center
Photo Exhibit Opening: "Iraq: A War" — Pulitzer Prize-winning photos from the forthcoming volume published by the Interlink Publishing Group.
Hosted and co-sponsored by the Film, Video and Photography Program.
Opening remarks from special quests, including: Chris Hedges and Michel Moushabeck.
Contact: Robert Meagher
rmeagher@hampshire.edu
Time:
7:30pm
Description:
Hampshire College, 893 West Street (Route 116), Amherst, MA
Franklin Patterson Hall, Main Lecture Hall
Lecture: Chris Hedges, “War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning”
Contact: Robert E. Meagher, rmeagher@hampshire.edu
Time:
9:00am - 4:00pm
Description:
Hampshire College, 893 West Street (Route 116), Amherst, MA
Jerome Liebling Center
Photo Exhibit: Iraq: A War, Pulitzer Prize-winning AP photos
This show continues, Monday through Friday, to April 14.
Contact: Robert E. Meagher, rmeagher@hampshire.edu
Time:
4:30pm
Description:
Mount Holyoke College, 50 College Street, South Hadley, MA
Gamble Auditorium
Lecture: C. Brian Rose, “Excavations at Troy: 1988–2005”
Contact: Bettina Bergmann, bbergman@MtHolyoke.edu
Time:
7:00pm
Description:
Hampshire College, 893 West Street (Route 116), Amherst, MA
Franklin Patterson Hall, West Lecture Hall
Film: The Soldier’s Heart
Time:
9:00am - 4:00pm
Description:
Hampshire College, 893 West Street (Route 116), Amherst, MA
Jerome Liebling Center
Photo Exhibit: Iraq: A War, Pulitzer Prize-winning AP photos
This show continues, Monday through Friday, to April 14.
Contact: Robert E. Meagher, rmeagher@hampshire.edu
Time:
9:00am - 4:00pm
Description:
Hampshire College, 893 West Street (Route 116), Amherst, MA
Jerome Liebling Center
Photo Exhibit: Iraq: A War, Pulitzer Prize-winning AP photos
This show continues, Monday through Friday, to April 14.
Contact: Robert E. Meagher, rmeagher@hampshire.edu
Time:
7:00pm
Description:
Jones Library, 43 Amity Street, Amherst, MA
Large Meeting Room
Film: After the Fog
Time:
9:00am - 4:00pm
Description:
Hampshire College, 893 West Street (Route 116), Amherst, MA
Jerome Liebling Center
Photo Exhibit: Iraq: A War, Pulitzer Prize-winning AP photos
This show continues, Monday through Friday, to April 14.
Contact: Robert E. Meagher, rmeagher@hampshire.edu
Time:
11:30am
Description:
Greenfield Community College Main Campus
1 College Drive. Greenfield MA
Main Building, South 312
Lecture: Robert Meagher, “Herakles Gone Mad: The Hero Returns”
Contact: Abigail Jenks, Jenks@gcc.mass.edu, 413-775-1127
Time:
7:00pm
Description:
Hampshire College, 893 West Street (Route 116), Amherst, MA
Franklin Patterson Hall, West Lecture Hall
Time:
9:00am - 4:00pm
Description:
Hampshire College, 893 West Street (Route 116), Amherst, MA
Jerome Liebling Center
Photo Exhibit: Iraq: A War, Pulitzer Prize-winning AP photos
This show continues, Monday through Friday, to April 14.
Greenfield Community College Main Campus
1 College Drive. Greenfield MA
Social Science Studio, East 115
Photo Exhibit: Iraq: A War, Pulitzer Prize-winning AP photos
This show continues, Monday through Friday, to April 28.
Contact: Abigail Jenks, Jenks@gcc.mass.edu, 413-775-1127
Time:
9:00am - 4:00pm
Description:
Hampshire College, 893 West Street (Route 116), Amherst, MA
Jerome Liebling Center
Photo Exhibit: Iraq: A War, Pulitzer Prize-winning AP photos
This show continues, Monday through Friday, to April 14.
Greenfield Community College Main Campus
1 College Drive. Greenfield MA
Social Science Studio, East 115
Photo Exhibit: Iraq: A War, Pulitzer Prize-winning AP photos
This show continues, Monday through Friday, to April 28.
Contact: Abigail Jenks, Jenks@gcc.mass.edu, 413-775-1127
Time:
7:00pm
Description:
Hampshire College, 893 West Street (Route 116), Amherst, MA
Franklin Patterson Hall, West Lecture Hall
Film: Achilles in Vietnam
Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker, Charles Berkowitz.
Time:
9:00am - 4:00pm
Description:
Hampshire College, 893 West Street (Route 116), Amherst, MA
Jerome Liebling Center
Photo Exhibit: Iraq: A War, Pulitzer Prize-winning AP photos
This show continues, Monday through Friday, to April 14.
Greenfield Community College Main Campus
1 College Drive. Greenfield MA
Social Science Studio, East 115
Photo Exhibit: Iraq: A War, Pulitzer Prize-winning AP photos
This show continues, Monday through Friday, to April 28.
Contact: Abigail Jenks, Jenks@gcc.mass.edu, 413-775-1127
Time:
11:00am
Description:
Holyoke Community College, 303 Homestead Avenue, Holyoke, MA
Frost 309
Film: Achilles in Vietnam
Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker, Charles Berkowitz.
Contact: Justin P. West, jwest@hcc.mass.edu
Time:
9:00am - 4:00pm
Description:
Hampshire College, 893 West Street (Route 116), Amherst, MA
Jerome Liebling Center
Photo Exhibit: Iraq: A War, Pulitzer Prize-winning AP photos
This show continues, Monday through Friday, to April 14.
Greenfield Community College Main Campus
1 College Drive. Greenfield MA
Social Science Studio, East 115
Photo Exhibit: Iraq: A War, Pulitzer Prize-winning AP photos
This show continues, Monday through Friday, to April 28.
Contact: Abigail Jenks, Jenks@gcc.mass.edu, 413-775-1127
Time:
9:00pm - 11:00pm
Description:
WGBY Channel 57
Public television premier of "After the Fog" directed by Jay Craven and produced by Robert Miller. The screening of the film will be preceded (9:00–9:30pm) by a panel discussion with Robert Miller, Robert Meagher, and Lt. Col. David T. Vacchi.
Time:
9:00am - 4:00pm
Description:
Hampshire College, 893 West Street (Route 116), Amherst, MA
Jerome Liebling Center
Photo Exhibit: Iraq: A War, Pulitzer Prize-winning AP photos
This show continues, Monday through Friday, to April 14.
Greenfield Community College Main Campus
1 College Drive. Greenfield MA
Social Science Studio, East 115
Photo Exhibit: Iraq: A War, Pulitzer Prize-winning AP photos
This show continues, Monday through Friday, to April 28.
Contact: Abigail Jenks, Jenks@gcc.mass.edu, 413-775-1127
Time:
1:30pm
Description:
Jones Library, 43 Amity Street, Amherst, MA
Large Meeting Room
"Coming Home" sponsored by the Vet Center, White River Junction, Vermont.
Films and discussion with and for veterans and their families about the medical, psychological and economic challenges they confront in returning to their lives. There will be a special presentation on and discussion of TBI, Traumatic Brain Injury. Veterans and their families (and all others wanting to learn more about how to support them) are welcomed especially to this event.
Sponsors and Speakers: Travis Jones, M.A., GWOT Outreach Counselor, and David Frantz, M.H.S., , White River Junction Vet Center. Travis Jones is a veteran of the war in Iraq.
Time:
7:00pm
Description:
Greenfield Community College Downtown Center
270 Main Street, Greenfield, MA
Film: Achilles in Vietnam.
Sponsored by the GCC Response Initiative.
Contact: Abigail Jenks, Jenks@gcc.mass.edu, 413-775-1127
Time:
9:00am - 4:00pm
Description:
Greenfield Community College Main Campus
1 College Drive. Greenfield MA
Social Science Studio, East 115
Photo Exhibit: Iraq: A War, Pulitzer Prize-winning AP photos
This show continues, Monday through Friday, to April 28.
Contact: Abigail Jenks, Jenks@gcc.mass.edu, 413-775-1127
Holyoke Community College
303 Homestead Avenue, Holyoke, MA
Frost, 3rd floor corridor
Photo Exhibit: Iraq: A War, Pulitzer Prize-winning AP photos
This show continues, Monday through Friday, to April 28.
Contact: Vivian Ostrowski, vostrowski@hcc.mass.edu, 413-552-2418
Time:
9:00am - 4:00pm
Description:
Greenfield Community College Main Campus
1 College Drive. Greenfield MA
Social Science Studio, East 115
Photo Exhibit: Iraq: A War, Pulitzer Prize-winning AP photos
This show continues, Monday through Friday, to April 28.
Contact: Abigail Jenks, Jenks@gcc.mass.edu, 413-775-1127
Holyoke Community College
303 Homestead Avenue, Holyoke, MA
Frost, 3rd floor corridor
Photo Exhibit: Iraq: A War, Pulitzer Prize-winning AP photos
This show continues, Monday through Friday, to April 28.
Contact: Vivian Ostrowski, vostrowski@hcc.mass.edu, 413-552-2418
Time:
1:00pm
Description:
Holyoke Community College, 303 Homestead Avenue, Holyoke, MA
Frost, 3rd floor corridor
Photo Exhibit Opening: Iraq: A War, Pulitzer Prize-winning AP photos
Presentations by Andre Simkewicz, Vet Center, Springfield and HCC photography faculty.
HCC veterans are specially invited to this event.
Contact: Vivian Ostrowski, vostrowski@hcc.mass.edu, 413-552-2418
Time:
4:30pm
Description:
Mount Holyoke College, 50 College Street, South Hadley, MA
Eliot House Lounge
Reading and Discussion: Kristin Henderson
Local veterans and their families are especially invited to this discussion of the effects of war on spouses and families.
Contact: Lisa Freitag-Keshet, lfkeshet@MtHolyoke.edu, 413-538-3045
Time:
5:15pm
Description:
Smith College, Northampton MA
Graham Auditorium, Hillyer Hall
Illustrated Lecture: James Tatum, “Hector’s Tomb: The War Memorial as Side Show”
Contact: Nancy Shumate, nshumate@email.smith.edu
Sponsored by the Smith College Department of Classical Languages and Literatures.
Time:
7:00pm
Description:
Jones Library, 43 Amity Street, Amherst, MA
Large Meeting Room
Film: Let There Be Light
Time:
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Description:
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
UMass Campus Center, Room 101
Lecture: "To Iraq and Back: One Soldier's Story of War, Homecoming and Healing"
Contact: Lt. Col. David Vacchi
dvacchi@acad.umass.edu
Time:
9:00am - 4:00pm
Description:
Greenfield Community College Main Campus
1 College Drive. Greenfield MA
Social Science Studio, East 115
Photo Exhibit: Iraq: A War, Pulitzer Prize-winning AP photos
This show continues, Monday through Friday, to April 28.
Contact: Abigail Jenks, Jenks@gcc.mass.edu, 413-775-1127
Holyoke Community College
303 Homestead Avenue, Holyoke, MA
Frost, 3rd floor corridor
Photo Exhibit: Iraq: A War, Pulitzer Prize-winning AP photos
This show continues, Monday through Friday, to April 28.
Contact: Vivian Ostrowski, vostrowski@hcc.mass.edu, 413-552-2418
Time:
7:00pm
Description:
Holyoke Community College, 303 Homestead Avenue, Holyoke, MA
Frost 265
Lecture: Kristin Henderson, “Penelope’s War”
Contact: Vivian Ostrowski, vostrowski@hcc.mass.edu, 413-552-2418
Time:
9:00am - 4:00pm
Description:
Greenfield Community College Main Campus
1 College Drive. Greenfield MA
Social Science Studio, East 115
Photo Exhibit: Iraq: A War, Pulitzer Prize-winning AP photos
This show continues, Monday through Friday, to April 28.
Contact: Abigail Jenks, Jenks@gcc.mass.edu, 413-775-1127
Holyoke Community College
303 Homestead Avenue, Holyoke, MA
Frost, 3rd floor corridor
Photo Exhibit: Iraq: A War, Pulitzer Prize-winning AP photos
This show continues, Monday through Friday, to April 28.
Contact: Vivian Ostrowski, vostrowski@hcc.mass.edu, 413-552-2418
Time:
4:00pm
Description:
Book signing and reception featuring Kristin Henderson, author of "While They're At War: The True Story of American Families on the Homefront" (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) and Kim Ponders, author of "The Art of Uncontrolled Flight" (Harper Collins, 2005).
Amherst Books
8 Main Street, Amherst MA
413-256-1547
www.amherstbooks.com
Contact: Nat Herold
Time:
7:30pm
Description:
Amherst College, Amherst MA
Johnson Chapel
Panel: “The Ethics of War and the Ethics of Peace”
Panel members: Randy Kehler, Al Miller, Jonathan Shay, Lt. Col. David T. Vacchi
Moderator: Kristin Henderson
Time:
9:00am - 4:00pm
Description:
Greenfield Community College Main Campus
1 College Drive. Greenfield MA
Social Science Studio, East 115
Photo Exhibit: Iraq: A War, Pulitzer Prize-winning AP photos
This show continues, Monday through Friday, to April 28.
Contact: Abigail Jenks, Jenks@gcc.mass.edu, 413-775-1127
Holyoke Community College
303 Homestead Avenue, Holyoke, MA
Frost, 3rd floor corridor
Photo Exhibit: Iraq: A War, Pulitzer Prize-winning AP photos
This show continues, Monday through Friday, to April 28.
Contact: Vivian Ostrowski, vostrowski@hcc.mass.edu, 413-552-2418
Time:
11:30am
Description:
Greenfield Community College Main Campus
1 College Drive. Greenfield MA
Main Building, South 312
Lecture: Jonathan Shay, “Odysseus in America”
Contact: Abigail Jenks, Jenks@gcc.mass.edu, 413-775-1127
Time:
7:30pm
Description:
Hampshire College, 893 West Street (Route 116), Amherst, MA
Franklin Patterson Hall, Main Lecture Hall
Lecture: Jonathan Shay, “Odysseus in America”
Time:
8:00pm
Description:
Arthur Miller's All My Sons"
Arena Civic Theater Production
The Shea Theater, Turners Falls MA
Shea Theater Box Office: 413-863-2281 ext.3
Tickets also available at the World Eye Bookshop, Greenfield
and the Jones Library, Amherst
Adults: $12.50; Seniors, students: $10
The April 23rd performance will be followed by a "talkback" about the play with the actors and with veterans of different generations and different wars, including veterans from the Veterans Education Project.
Time:
9:00am - 3:30pm
Description:
Christ Church Cathedral
35 Chestnut Street, Springfield MA
Symposium: “Rituals of Return and Healing”
Featured participants include: Kristin Henderson, Rev. William P. Mahedy, Very. Rev. James G. Munroe, Rev. Philip Salois, Jonathan Shay
Time:
8:00pm
Description:
Arthur Miller's All My Sons"
Arena Civic Theater Production
The Shea Theater, Turners Falls MA
Shea Theater Box Office: 413-863-2281 ext.3
Tickets also available at the World Eye Bookshop, Greenfield
and the Jones Library, Amherst
Adults: $12.50; Seniors, students: $10
The April 23rd performance will be followed by a "talkback" about the play with the actors and with veterans of different generations and different wars, including veterans from the Veterans Education Project.
Time:
2:00pm
Description:
Arthur Miller's All My Sons"
Arena Civic Theater Production
The Shea Theater, Turners Falls MA
Shea Theater Box Office: 413-863-2281 ext.3
Tickets also available at the World Eye Bookshop, Greenfield
and the Jones Library, Amherst
Adults: $12.50; Seniors, students: $10
The April 23rd performance will be followed by a "talkback" about the play with the actors and with veterans of different generations and different wars, including veterans from the Veterans Education Project.
Time:
9:00am - 4:00pm
Description:
Greenfield Community College Main Campus
1 College Drive. Greenfield MA
Social Science Studio, East 115
Photo Exhibit: Iraq: A War, Pulitzer Prize-winning AP photos
This show continues, Monday through Friday, to April 28.
Contact: Abigail Jenks, Jenks@gcc.mass.edu, 413-775-1127
Holyoke Community College
303 Homestead Avenue, Holyoke, MA
Frost, 3rd floor corridor
Photo Exhibit: Iraq: A War, Pulitzer Prize-winning AP photos
This show continues, Monday through Friday, to April 28.
Contact: Vivian Ostrowski, vostrowski@hcc.mass.edu, 413-552-2418
Time:
9:00am - 4:00pm
Description:
Greenfield Community College Main Campus
1 College Drive. Greenfield MA
Social Science Studio, East 115
Photo Exhibit: Iraq: A War, Pulitzer Prize-winning AP photos
This show continues, Monday through Friday, to April 28.
Contact: Abigail Jenks, Jenks@gcc.mass.edu, 413-775-1127
Holyoke Community College
303 Homestead Avenue, Holyoke, MA
Frost, 3rd floor corridor
Photo Exhibit: Iraq: A War, Pulitzer Prize-winning AP photos
This show continues, Monday through Friday, to April 28.
Contact: Vivian Ostrowski, vostrowski@hcc.mass.edu, 413-552-2418
Time:
9:00am - 4:00pm
Description:
Greenfield Community College Main Campus
1 College Drive. Greenfield MA
Social Science Studio, East 115
Photo Exhibit: Iraq: A War, Pulitzer Prize-winning AP photos
This show continues, Monday through Friday, to April 28.
Contact: Abigail Jenks, Jenks@gcc.mass.edu, 413-775-1127
Holyoke Community College
303 Homestead Avenue, Holyoke, MA
Frost, 3rd floor corridor
Photo Exhibit: Iraq: A War, Pulitzer Prize-winning AP photos
This show continues, Monday through Friday, to April 28.
Contact: Vivian Ostrowski, vostrowski@hcc.mass.edu, 413-552-2418
Time:
9:00am - 4:00pm
Description:
Greenfield Community College Main Campus
1 College Drive. Greenfield MA
Social Science Studio, East 115
Photo Exhibit: Iraq: A War, Pulitzer Prize-winning AP photos
This show continues, Monday through Friday, to April 28.
Contact: Abigail Jenks, Jenks@gcc.mass.edu, 413-775-1127
Holyoke Community College
303 Homestead Avenue, Holyoke, MA
Frost, 3rd floor corridor
Photo Exhibit: Iraq: A War, Pulitzer Prize-winning AP photos
This show continues, Monday through Friday, to April 28.
Contact: Vivian Ostrowski, vostrowski@hcc.mass.edu, 413-552-2418
Time:
9:00am - 4:00pm
Description:
Greenfield Community College Main Campus
1 College Drive. Greenfield MA
Social Science Studio, East 115
Photo Exhibit: Iraq: A War, Pulitzer Prize-winning AP photos
This show continues, Monday through Friday, to April 28.
Contact: Abigail Jenks, Jenks@gcc.mass.edu, 413-775-1127
Holyoke Community College
303 Homestead Avenue, Holyoke, MA
Frost, 3rd floor corridor
Photo Exhibit: Iraq: A War, Pulitzer Prize-winning AP photos
This show continues, Monday through Friday, to April 28.
Contact: Vivian Ostrowski, vostrowski@hcc.mass.edu, 413-552-2418
Time:
8:00pm
Description:
Arthur Miller's All My Sons"
Arena Civic Theater Production
The Shea Theater, Turners Falls MA
Shea Theater Box Office: 413-863-2281 ext.3
Tickets also available at the World Eye Bookshop, Greenfield
and the Jones Library, Amherst
Adults: $12.50; Seniors, students: $10
The April 23rd performance will be followed by a "talkback" about the play with the actors and with veterans of different generations and different wars, including veterans from the Veterans Education Project.
Time:
8:00pm
Description:
Arthur Miller's All My Sons"
Arena Civic Theater Production
The Shea Theater, Turners Falls MA
Shea Theater Box Office: 413-863-2281 ext.3
Tickets also available at the World Eye Bookshop, Greenfield
and the Jones Library, Amherst
Adults: $12.50; Seniors, students: $10
The April 23rd performance will be followed by a "talkback" about the play with the actors and with veterans of different generations and different wars, including veterans from the Veterans Education Project.
Time:
1:30pm
Description:
Academy of Music
274 Main Street, Northampton MA
Films: Occupation: Dreamland and All That I Can Be
$5 Admission charge. Followed by discussion with the filmmakers.
Time:
2:00pm
Description:
Arthur Miller's All My Sons"
Arena Civic Theater Production
The Shea Theater, Turners Falls MA
Shea Theater Box Office: 413-863-2281 ext.3
Tickets also available at the World Eye Bookshop, Greenfield
and the Jones Library, Amherst
Adults: $12.50; Seniors, students: $10
The April 23rd performance will be followed by a "talkback" about the play with the actors and with veterans of different generations and different wars, including veterans from the Veterans Education Project.