Events

“Toxic Chemicals Deregulation is Bad for Your Health: Let’s Talk About the Toxics in Your Water and Food” a Howard E. Woodin Environmental Studies Colloquium Series talk by Wendy Heiger-Bernays, Clinical Professor Emerita of Environmental Health Boston University School of Public Health.

Are you considering studying abroad/off campus? Stop by the Study Abroad Fair any time between 2:00 and 5:00pm to learn about programs/universities and talk to representatives from all around the world. Learn about options to study away for a semester, year, or summer. More study abroad information: https://www.middlebury.edu/study-abroad.

HOW TO WRITE A PLAY WHEN YOU’RE STUCK/FEEL LIKE YOU CAN’T/DON’T WANT TO (EVEN THOUGH YOU WANT TO)/HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO GET STARTED

In this workshop, we’ll be thinking about how the body exists on stage. We’ll talk a lot about how different theatre is from the story-telling media we engage with on a daily basis: film, TV,  podcasts. Film and TV are visual media. Podcasts are all about aural experience. But theatre is visual and aural. It’s the only storytelling medium that engages—or can engage—every single sense. (You can’t smell or taste or touch a movie or a podcast, right?

Sleepless in Middlebury is a 72hr filmmaking competition designed as an optional orientation event for first year students. A small team of creative collaborators will make a film from start to finish in only a few short days. This screening is the culminating event and will showcase the films made in the last 72 hours.

This public event will welcome a delegation of Maori and Pasifika colleagues visiting Middlebury College from Aotearoa/New Zealand. Panel members will discuss the role of purakau (storytelling), waiata (song), and whakatauki (proverbs) in Indigenous Maori and Polynesian practices of wellbeing and planetary stewardship. Through the teachings of the kuaka, a shorebird known for its remarkable migration from Aotearoa to North America, this event invites attendees to explore the idea that journeys are collective and community futures can soar in spaces of mutual learning, responsibility, and relationship.

Learn to play the Korean percussion genre samulnori. Samulnori blends traditional Korean rhythms into dynamic pieces using four Korean percussion instruments: janggu (hourglass drum), buk (barrel drum), jing (large gong), and ggwaenggwari (small gong). Participants will start by learning technique and basic rhythms and progress to more complex rhythms and sequences. Free. No experience needed.

Students, staff, alumni and the public are invited to attend this weekly nonpartisan discussion of recent political events, hosted by Professor Matthew Dickinson. Held almost every Tuesday 12:30-1:30 pm EST. in person and by zoom. Check the calendar for dates. No expertise assumed. All viewpoints welcome. To register for the zoom sessions, please contact Prof. Dickinson at his email: dickinso@middlebury.edu

The IGS program welcomes majors, prospective majors, and faculty to celebrate the beginning of the academic year. The reception is also meant as a way for students returning from abroad to reconnect with friends and professors.

Stephanie Savage, PhD Candidate in Classical Archaeology at New York University, will give a presentation on her research on Megalopolis, Greece, and her digital reconstructions of the walls of that city. The lecture will be followed by a Q&A.