Academic Affairs sponsors a wide array of events, lectures, and symposia featuring Middlebury faculty.
Middlebury faculty are eager to share their research and creative works to further knowledge and foster conversation. Faculty, students, and staff are encouraged to attend signature events such as the Clifford Symposium, the Fall Faculty Forum, and the Carol Rifelj Faculty Lecture series, as well as additional academic events included in the calendar listings below. For faculty publication information, see individual faculty profiles.
See our faculty meeting calendar.
Come celebrate spring over good conversation and delicious drinks at the last AnthroCafe of the year! Bring your ideas, discoveries, questions, and news. Friends are always welcome! -The Anthropology Department
Davis Family Library Bittner Terrace
A family of six settles into their new home on Vancouver Island as internal dynamics are slowly revealed through the eyes of the youngest child.
Come at 6:30 pm for free pizza, popcorn, and snacks!
“A bold and intimate stunner and extraordinary debut feature.” - IndieWire
“An unexpected triumph…Heartbreaking, masterful, and transcendent.” - The Daily Beast
“One of the best of the year…Hits with such precision, it could break you open from the inside.” - RogerEbert.com
Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)
Open to the Public
Please join us for the Middlebury Dance Department’s Spring Dance Concert, an evening of original choreography, music, and improvisation. The concert features students from Daniel Miramontes’ Choreography & Performance (DANC 0360), Lida Winfield’s Advanced Improvisation (DANC 0461), and McLean Macionis’ Advanced Electronic Music (MUSC 0212) courses. The performance will also feature live music by Ron Rost and Deborah Felmeth along with original lighting design.
Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre
Open to the Public
$15/10/5
Davis Family Library, Upper Level Display Cases
The students in JAPN 290 (“Reading the Tale of Genji” in English”) and Prof. Otilia Milutin (Japanese Studies) are cordially inviting you and your students to view their exhibit, “Living with Genji: The World’s First Novel in 21st Century Japan.” The exhibit features a selection of objects, artwork, movies, and manga inspired by the 11th century classic The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu. Our exhibit aims to showcase a few selected items that speak both of the tale’s enduring legacy in traditional Japanese arts, and, equally important, of its contemporary reiterations, be they manga and movies adaptations or commercial, consumer-oriented products such as mascots, stationary, fabrics, and other everyday objects. Through our exhibit, we hope to demonstrate how a millennium old classic lives and thrives today in contemporary Japan.
Middlebury College
Open to the Public
Anna Cerveny
“Distribution and Morphology of Chemosensory Hairs in a Model Butterfly”
Isabel Pentony
“Molecular Mechanisms of Plant-Pollinator Interactions in Cucurbita pepo.”
Ariel Zhang
“Testing the island rule using an introduced population of muskrats in the Gulf of Maine”
Claire Ellerbrook
“Using stable isotope analysis to assess carnivore diet in the northeast”
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 220
Open to the Public
Kathryn Blek
“Dose-Dependent Effects of Testosterone on Place and Response Memory in Young Rats”
Will Beckerman
“Genetic influences on electric shock learning and memory in D. Melanogaster.”
Gabriela Clemente
“Mitochondrial and Immune Responses Following Traumatic Brain Injury”
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 220
Open to the Public
Please join us for the Middlebury Dance Department’s Spring Dance Concert, an evening of original choreography, music, and improvisation. The concert features students from Daniel Miramontes’ Choreography & Performance (DANC 0360), Lida Winfield’s Advanced Improvisation (DANC 0461), and McLean Macionis’ Advanced Electronic Music (MUSC 0212) courses. The performance will also feature live music by Ron Rost and Deborah Felmeth along with original lighting design.
Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre
Open to the Public
$15/10/5
The Arabic Department invites the Middlebury College community to enjoy Arabic food at “Shawarma Night.” This is a chance to gather to celebrate Arab culture and share wonderful food.
McCullough Wilson Cafe
Davis Family Library, Upper Level Display Cases
The students in JAPN 290 (“Reading the Tale of Genji” in English”) and Prof. Otilia Milutin (Japanese Studies) are cordially inviting you and your students to view their exhibit, “Living with Genji: The World’s First Novel in 21st Century Japan.” The exhibit features a selection of objects, artwork, movies, and manga inspired by the 11th century classic The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu. Our exhibit aims to showcase a few selected items that speak both of the tale’s enduring legacy in traditional Japanese arts, and, equally important, of its contemporary reiterations, be they manga and movies adaptations or commercial, consumer-oriented products such as mascots, stationary, fabrics, and other everyday objects. Through our exhibit, we hope to demonstrate how a millennium old classic lives and thrives today in contemporary Japan.
Middlebury College
Open to the Public
