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.
Join the Anthropology Department for delicious café beverages, good conversation, and a chance to celebrate the anthro community at Middlebury. Bring your questions, ideas, and news to share. All students are welcome!
Davis Family Library 105A
Mahaney Arts Center, Dance Theatre
Mahaney Arts Center
Open to the Public
Tuesday-Beginner/Intermediate
Wednesday-Intermediate/Advanced
Ballet returns to the Dance Department this Fall. Classical Ballet technique in traditional ballet class structure. No pointe shoes, please.Each session is open to a maximum of 20 participants. PE credit is available for attendance at 8 classes. Previous dance experience in any form is recommended. Open to Middlebury students only.
Mahaney Arts Center Dance Studio
Closed to the Public
Join Chellis House for our weekly Stitch & Bitch! Gather in feminist community to scheme, make art, meet new people, use your hands, and take a break from screens and school. All materials will be provided, but feel free to bring any projects you’re currently working on. Together we can build a better world, but first we must imagine it!
Chellis House Library
Mariam Ghani is an artist, writer, and filmmaker. Her work examines places, spaces, and moments where social, political, and cultural structures manifest in visible forms, encompassing video, sound, installation, photography, performance, text, and data.
Mahaney Arts Center 125
Open to the Public
Beyond Wall Street: A Field Guide for Students Studying Economics
The Field Guide is one of CCI’s most popular signature programs, designed to help students imagine the many possibilities open to them with an Economics major. It brings together a panel of alumni from a range of sectors and fields to share their stories—highlighting the variety of paths they’ve taken and the lessons they’ve learned along the way.
Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)
Le salaire de la peur (Wages of Fear), dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 216
Open to the Public
From Single Cells to Satellites: Genomics-informed virus-microbe ecology across scales
Julia Brown, Senior Research Scientist, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 220
Open to the Public
The second Trump administration is implementing trade policies that have major impacts on international relations, supply chains, and more. This interdisciplinary symposium brings together leading scholars to assess how these policies are reshaping geopolitics and the global economy.
Speakers
Inu Manak, Fellow for trade policy at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
Robert Staiger, Loren M. Berry Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College; and Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Open to the Public
Music for Theater
The Middlebury College Orchestra presents a celebration of music from opera and ballet, featuring Wagner’s monumental Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, glittering arias with soprano soloist Olga Lisovska (’99), and Tchaikovky’s rapturous music to his ballet Sleeping Beauty. Evan Bennett, conductor.
This concert will also be streamed, with access to the performance stream available starting at showtime. https://www.youtube.com/@robisonhall
Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall
Open to the Public
Free
