DeMott Lecture by Catherine A. Sanderson
August 29, 2022 - 4:00 pm
STUDENTS ONLY
The annual DeMott Lecture, a welcome address for incoming students, will be held on Monday, Aug. 29, at 4 p.m. in Johnson Chapel. This year’s DeMott Lecturer will be Catherine Sanderson, the Poler Family Professor of Psychology and Chair of Psychology. The DeMott reading will be her recent book The Positive Shift: Mastering Mindset to Improve Happiness, Health, and Longevity.
The DeMott Lecture is open to first-year students but available by livestream to the campus and alumni community. The DeMott Lecture was established in 2005 by Alan P. Levenstein ’56 in honor of Benjamin DeMott, a legendary and much-loved member of the Amherst English faculty from 1951 until his retirement in 1990. The DeMott Lecture seeks to expose incoming students to an engagement with the world marked by originality of thought coupled with direct social action, and to inspire intellectual participation in issues of social and economic inequality, racial and gender bias and political activism.
Additional information about Professor Benjamin DeMott and previous DeMott Lectures, including last year’s talk by Shayla Lawson, is available via the link below.
Contact Info
Rebecca Kennedy
(413) 542-5908
rbkennedy@amherst.edu
Original source can be found here.
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