Lectures
Wednesday, October 26th
12:30 p.m.
Behind-the-Scenes Lunch and Discussion: Big Love
Director Cláudio Medeiros ’90 introduces the play and leads a discussion about the upcoming production; members of the cast and crew share insights on their work. Lunch is provided. Free to College ID card holders; community donations accepted.
Wright Memorial Theatre
Thursday, October 27
7:00 p.m.
Architectural Studies Lecture: Koichiro Aitani
Koichiro Aitani, architect and professor at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan, began his career in the office of famed Japanese architect Tadao Ando. After studying architecture in the U.S., he worked with the Thompson Design Group in Boston and in the San Francisco and London offices of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill before returning to his native Japan to practice and teach. View an exhibition of his work October 20–November 3. Sponsored by the Department of History of Art and Architecture and the Cameron Family Arts Enrichment Fund.
Free, Johnson Memorial Building, Room 304
Friday, October 28
4:30 pm
Patrick Dougherty Revisits So Inclined
The artist who created the dramatic site-specific structure at the entrance to the Mahaney Center for the Arts returns to the College to mark the formal departure of Middlebury’s installation and to provide an account of his latest projects. His illustrated lecture is sponsored by the Committee on Art in Public Places and the Middlebury College Museum of Art.
Free, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Room 221
Saturday, October 29
4:30 pm
Rethinking Power and Authority in the Classic Maya Lowlands
James Fitzsimmons, assistant professor of anthropology, examines how the Classic Maya viewed power and the boundaries of their kingdoms. He draws not only upon the written record left to us by ancient texts but also upon examples from his current research at the archaeological site of Zapote Bobal, also known in the first millennium as Hiix Witz, or “Jaguar Hill.” This illustrated lecture is given in conjunction with the exhibition Painted Metaphors: Pottery and Politics of the Ancient Maya.
Free, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Room 221

