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.
Have you ever heard the story of the Middlebury River? What about Lake Dunmore? In this informal session, students from BIOL 304: Aquatic Ecology will be sharing the work they’ve done this semester to tell the stories of various aquatic ecosystems in Vermont based on concepts we’ve learned in class over the semester.
McCardell Bicentennial Hall Tormondsen Great Hall
An Environmental Studies senior thesis presentation by Elliote Muir ‘2025.5 Environmental Writing major.
Warner 010
115 Franklin Street main floor, Humanities 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
ENVS 0401 B Community Engaged Environmental Studies Practicum Presentations: What Next?
Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103
Open 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
A volatile young woman, a smooth-talking lawyer, a neurotic writer, and his elusive fiancée… What could go wrong? Andrew has grown close to his upstairs neighbor, Georgie, whose heels click on his ceiling when she returns from work every day. All seems well and good until Georgie confides a terrible secret about Andrew’s good friend, Edward. Tensions soar, passions spark, and hidden feelings unravel… And it only gets worse when Andrew’s soon-to-be wife, Lydia, confronts him about the truth of their relationship.
Hepburn Zoo
Open to the Public
$5
Join us for pizza & popcorn at 6:30 PM.
“Memory of Princess Mumbi” directed by Damien Hauser, 2025.
In 2093, filmmaker Kuve visits Umata to document life after a war banned modern tech. Local filmmaker Mumbi challenges him to create without AI, leading him to discover beauty in life’s simple moments.
Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)
Open to the Public
A rollicking adventure filled with deception and mystery, told by a traveling theatre troupe, of two artists fleeing the Spanish Inquisition while traversing the Atlantic and through the southern cone of Latin America in 1796 to deliver a holy relic to the revolutionaries for liberation! Directed by Olga Sanchez Saltveit.
Please join us for a talk-back with the director and cast of the show after the Friday performance.
Performances are December 4, 5, 6 at 7:30 pm.
Wright Theatre
Open to the Public
$15/10/5
Fall Dance Concert showcasing original student choreography by Gabrielle Anchondo, Odette Castillo-Pinto, Evelyn Rodriguez, and Liefe Temple, with a new piece by Artist-in-Residence Daniel Miramontes.
Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre
Open to the Public
$15/10/8/5
