Clifford Symposium 2026

Welcome

Join Dean of the Faculty and Professor of American Studies Roberto Lint Sagarena and President Ian Baucom for the opening event of the symposium.

Opening Faculty Colloquium: What Academic Freedom Is and What It Is Not

Dean of the Faculty and Professor of American Studies Roberto Lint Sagarena and other faculty members.

Keynote Presidential Conversation: Why Academic Freedom Matters at a Liberal Arts College

Ian Baucom, President of Middlebury College

Sian Leah Beilock, President of Dartmouth

Sarah Guyer, Dean of Arts and Humanities at Berkeley

Lunch Conversation

Plenary Debate: A Student Debate on the Liberal Arts College

With the Middlebury College Student Debate Team.