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.
Are you interested in studying abroad/off-campus during 2026-27? Come by the study abroad fair anytime between 2:00 and 5:00pm to gather information and talk with representatives from programs all over the world.
Axinn Center Reading Room
The 2025 Northeastern Old Growth Conference: Wildlands and Old-Growth Forests, co-hosted by Middlebury College and the University of Vermont, will be held September 17–20, 2025, at Middlebury’s scenic Bread Loaf Campus in Ripton, Vermont. Scientists, conservationists, policymakers, health professionals, writers, and artists will gather to share knowledge and inspire a future with more wildlands and old-growth forests in the Northeast. This year’s themes include The Future of Old Growth, Healthy Forests, Healthy People, and Old Growth Ecology.
Bread Loaf Campus
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 220
Open to the Public
The Carillon Concert Series features beautiful concerts from Middlebury Chapel’s bell tower. The melodic sounds of the carillon bells will ring out across the campus. Bring a lawn chair or a blanket! Free and open to the public.
Performer: Charles Semowich, Carillonneur Emeritus, Riverside Church, NYC
For more information about the performers and programs, please click here.
Middlebury Chapel
The 2025 Northeastern Old Growth Conference: Wildlands and Old-Growth Forests, co-hosted by Middlebury College and the University of Vermont, will be held September 17–20, 2025, at Middlebury’s scenic Bread Loaf Campus in Ripton, Vermont. Scientists, conservationists, policymakers, health professionals, writers, and artists will gather to share knowledge and inspire a future with more wildlands and old-growth forests in the Northeast. This year’s themes include The Future of Old Growth, Healthy Forests, Healthy People, and Old Growth Ecology.
Bread Loaf Campus
Composer-pianist Matthew Quayle (Visiting Assistant Professor of Music) presents an eclectic recital of original music, joined by cellist Jameson Platte and clarinetist Kate Forman Quayle. This energetic and expressive program features premieres of several works: Sonata No. 6, Episodes for bass clarinet and piano, and Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (revised, in an arrangement for cello and piano). Other pieces include Sonata No. 5 and Quayle’s virtuosic take on the pas de deux from Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker.
Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall
Open to the Public
Free
Members of the Department of Studio Art’s Class of 2015 showcase the work of their professional artist careers in the Johnson Memorial Building’s second floor gallery.
Johnson Gallery/Crit (208)
Open to the Public
With environmental Filmmaker Kathy Kasic and UVM Professor and Author Paul Bierman
Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)
Open to the Public
Mondays in September, come 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. No experience needed.
The Bunker (FIC 121)
Open to the Public
Students, staff, alumni and the public are invited to attend this weekly nonpartisan discussion of recent political events, hosted by Professor Matthew Dickinson. Held in person and by zoom almost every Tuesday, 12:30-1:30 pm EST. 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
Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103
