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Thursday, October 23, 2025

  • Person writing on a chalk wall

    Before I Die

    This interactive public art installation invites members of the Middlebury community to reflect on what matters most. By sharing personal hopes and aspirations on a communal wall, the project fosters connection, introspection, and a celebration of our shared humanity. Inspired by the global Before I Die project, this installation transforms public space into a canvas for gratitude, memory, and possibility.

    Mahaney Arts Center Lower Lobby

    Free
    Open to the Public
  • sunrise over a green grassy field

    Weekday Morning Sitting Meditation

    Join us for 15 minutes of silent meditation every weekday morning, led by various staff, faculty, and students.  No registration required.  Drop in any day that works for you!

    McCullough Crest Room

    Closed to the Public
  • Maine Gear Share: Repair Workshop and Dinner

    Have a rip that needs fixing? A zipper that doesn’t work anymore? Want to learn how to fix it yourself? Join Maine Gear Share, Sustainability and Environmental Affairs, Outdoor Programs, and Innovation Hub for a hands-on workshop to learn how to repair your gear. 

    Pizza and a discussion of the Maine Gear Share model will follow at 6pm.

    Details and RSVP to come!

    Axinn Center Winter Garden

  • A bright yellow poster with the words "Stitch & Bitch" in pink across the top

    Weekly Feminist Stitch & Bitch

    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

  • Artwork by Antonia Kuo

    Antonia Kuo Artist Talk

    Join the artist Antonia Kuo for a presentation on her practice. Kuo’s work centers around recording, image-making, and the potential of the photographic medium. In her unique “photochemical paintings” she utilizes light-sensitive paper and photochemistry to capture light, time and mark making, collapsing her drawing and painting practice with photographic materiality. Like her photochemical works, Kuo’s sculptures serve as recordings of forms that are lost, obscured, and only partially remembered. FREE

    Johnson Classroom 204

    Open to the Public
  • black and white image of the lecturer

    Extracting the Past: How the 'AI' Industry Exploits Art History & What We Can Do to Stop It

    Over the last several years, universities and museums have partnered with commercial technology firms like Google, Microsoft, and Meta, who have promised that their AI products will enhance both historical research and accessibility to historical collections. These promises, however, are not supported by the reality of what computer vision—the branch of AI most relevant to the history of art—can achieve. So why have major institutions in education and the arts been so quick to take up these firms’ offers?

    Mahaney Arts Center 125

    Open to the Public
  • Middlebury Debate Society Logo

    Middlebury Debate Society Meeting

    During the meeting team members will practice their rhetorical and debating skills by participating in practice debates, lectures, and drills on both specific speech technique as well as lectures on topics related to debate eg. economics, international relations, philosophy, ethics, sociology, etc.

    Munroe 311

  • Students overlooking a street in Beijing.

    Middlebury in Beijing Pre-Departure Orientation

    This will be a mandatory pre-departure orientation for students planning to study in Beijing during the spring (or winter-spring) of 2026. (Students admitted to the program will receive a Zoom invitation via email.)

    Virtual Middlebury

  • Restorative Justice and Lived Religion: Transforming Mass Incarceration in Chicago

    This lecture by Jason Springs (Professor of Religion, Ethics, and Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame) introduces a novel understanding of what restorative justice is and how it should be implemented. It explores the ways in which restorative justice ethics and practices exhibit moral and spiritual dynamics, and what difference such “lived religious” dynamics can make in transforming structural violence.

    Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

    Open to the Public