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.
The Middlebury College Community Chorus (MCCC) presents: CHOOSING JOY. We believe that choosing joy is an act of resistance. The music selections on this program encourage us all to choose joy in the face of adversity and use our joy as a vessel to transform the world. Ronnie Romano ’20 will lead the chorus through this exciting program.
Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall
Open to the Public
Free
Swiss author Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s The Physicists is a darkly comic thriller set in a psychiatric clinic, where three scientists pretend to be mad. Their hidden identities and inventions trigger a tense battle between ethics and power, revealing how dangerous knowledge can be in the wrong hands.
Chateau 005 (Performance Space)
Open to the Public
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
Mishal Lalani
“Saving Smiles One Protein at a Time: Targeting SloR in S. mutans”
Anabell Cloney
“Proteins have a Social Life: What is SloR’s relationship with the Streptococcus mutans Clp proteasome?”
Ryan Mauney
“Development of Electroporation and Fluorescent Live-Cell Imaging in the Chytrid Fungus Allomyces macrogynus”
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 220
Open to the Public
“Rivers as Persons: Religion, Culture, and the Ecocentric Turn in Bangladeshi Environmental Law”
By Hannah Gilmer ‘26, Religion, Philosophy, and the Environment major.
Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103
Open to the Public
Senior English majors will read excerpts from their critical and creative writing senior theses.
Axinn Center Abernethy Room (221)
Sophie Larocque
“Substance Use Risk Among High School Adolescents Who Have Experienced Intimate Partner Violence”
Owen Snyder-Smith
“Variation in Ethanol Sensitivity and Tolerance in Diversity Outbred Mice.”
Katherine Vasquez
“That Gave Me Goosebumps:” Personality Trait-Mediated Responses to Frisson and Methods for Studying Aesthetic Chills
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 220
Open to the Public
This event will be a poster presentation by ECON and IPEC thesis students, followed by Q/A from the audience including faculty, students, staff and community.
Wilson Hall, McCullough Student Center
Open to the Public
This will be a mandatory meeting for students planning to study on the program in Amman in the Fall of 2026. Students will receive a Zoom link via email.
Virtual Middlebury
Join us for a screening of 7 short films made by Film and Media students.
Fiction, Documentary, Experimental, there will be something for everybody!
Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)
Open to the Public
