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Friday, November 6, 2026

  • Engines of Power: Energy, Trade, and Statecraft

    Sponsored by:
    Int'l Politics & Economics, Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Economics, and Political Science

    Critical chokepoints in global supply chains – such as Black Sea ports and the Strait of Hormuz – concentrate economic power and generate opportunities for state coercion. In this year’s International Politics and Economics Symposium, experts in energy politics and economic statecraft will examine how states use these chokepoints for leverage, how government and private actors respond, and how the Russian war in Ukraine demonstrates these dynamics.

    Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

    Open to the Public
  • Quartet standing in a marsh holding their instruments

    Katarina String Quartet

    Sponsored by:
    Performing Arts Series

    Fresh off their Juilliard residency, the multi-award-winning Katarina String Quartet makes a Vermont debut in our annual free quartet concert, courtesy of the Sunderman Family Concert Fund.  Their program “The Rest Will Change” follows the compositional journey of Gourzi, Fung, Beethoven, and Quebecois traditional music to pursue the thought that the only constant is change. Come hear one of North America’s most exciting young ensembles, founded in Montreal and now based in New York.

    Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

    Free
    Open to the Public

Saturday, November 7, 2026

Sunday, November 8, 2026

  • young and old shape note singers together

    Shape Note Singing

    Sponsored by:
    Charles P. Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Life

    Described as spiritual, joyful, powerful, and raucous, Shape Note (or Sacred Harp) singing is a traditional American style of four-part, a capella, community singing popular in the United States before the Civil War. This style still thrives across the US and in the UK, with strongholds in the American South and New England. It is called Shape Note because the notes of the scale are indicated by distinctive shapes and names.

    McCullough - Mitchell Green Lounge

    Open to the Public

  • College Choir and Catamount Singers in Concert

    Sponsored by:
    Music

    This concert will also be streamed, with access to the performance stream available starting at showtime. https://www.youtube.com/@robisonhall

    About streaming and sound: Our streams are meant to capture the “sound in the room” without post-production sound editing. Bear in mind the sound quality will not compare to a studio recording.

    Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

    Open to the Public

Monday, November 9, 2026

Tuesday, November 10, 2026

Wednesday, November 11, 2026

Thursday, November 12, 2026

  • Professionalizing the Environment: Architecture and Regulation in the Age of Ecology

    Sponsored by:
    History of Arts and Architecture

    This lecture considers the rise of the American environmental movement as a drive of changes in professional-managerial expertise, and how architects responded to a growing list of controls over land use and development with new design tools and techniques of persuasion. Placing architects at the heart of debates over the fate of the built environment, the lecture examines how aesthetic judgment, computational software, and bureaucratic regulation converged to remake both the products and practice of architecture.

    Johnson Classroom 204

    Open to the Public

  • Albertine Film Festival: L’étranger film screening

    Sponsored by:
    French and Francophone Studies

    In 1930s French Algeria, indifferent Frenchman Meursault faces upheaval after his mother’s death and a fatal beach encounter with an Arab man, leading to a trial that scrutinizes his detached character in this adaptation of Albert Camus’s existential novella. The story explores his emotional aloofness amid a violent intrigue involving his neighbor and the victim’s brothers.

    Twilight Auditorium 101

    Open to the Public