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Monday, April 8, 2024

Tuesday, April 9, 2024

  • Special Collections Post-(Apoc)-Eclipse Party

    Sponsored by:
    College Libraries
    Reminisce about eclipses past! Materials on view include a newly donated 1748 eclipse map, a 1653 book featuring Galileo’s lunar observations, and a drawing of an 1806 eclipse by a Middlebury student! Themed snacks provided.

    Davis Family Library, Special Collections Reading Room

    Open to the Public

  • Weekly Politics Luncheon

    Sponsored by:
    Political Science
    Students, staff, alumni and the public are invited to attend this weekly nonpartisan discussion of recent political events, hosted by Professor Matthew Dickinson. Held almost every Tuesday 12:30-1:30 pm EST. in person and by zoom. 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

    Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

    Open to the Public

  • Open Darkroom Hours

    Sponsored by:
    Darkroom Club
    A couple of hours that a student can come to the darkroom to checkout film photography equipment, develop film or print photos with a mentor there for aid. 

    Forest Darkroom

  • Holistic Futures Circles

    Sponsored by:
    Sustainability & Environmental Affairs
    What is the world we want to live in? How can we cultivate a stronger sense of interconnection, interdependence and holistic healing? Franklin Environmental Center Artist in Residence Dr. Carolyn Finney, Sophia Calvi, and Tara Federoff are holding circle to continue exploration into what holistic sustainability and futures can look like in a changing world.

    Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

    Closed to the Public

  • Amy Smith Public Lecture

    Sponsored by:
    History of Arts and Architecture
    Disiecta Membra: What can small and broken black-figure pots tell us about festivals in ancient Athens?

    An analysis of the ceramics of Classical Athens known as ‘late black figure’ has begun to reveal that they served very important functions for participants in the ample festivals in ancient Athens. In this talk Prof. Smith will reveal the clues—shape, size, and images—that point to the festival use of these small and fragmentary vessels that are found in abundance in Mediterranean excavations and the storerooms of museums.

    Mahaney Arts Center 209

  • Robert W. van de Velde, Jr. ’75 Memorial Lecture 2024

    Sponsored by:
    Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Int'l Politics & Economics, and Academic Affairs
    Xan Smiley’s career in journalism has spanned more than half a century, predominantly as a writer and editor for The Economist, focusing on coverage of sub-Saharan Africa, Russia and the Soviet Union, the Middle East, the European Union, and the United States. In this lecture, Xan will analyze the success and failures of The Economist’s (and his own) coverage of events that have shaped the world.

    Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

    Open to the Public

  • Zach Nader: Our Own Sense of Time

    Sponsored by:
    Studio Art
    Zach Nader will discuss his artistic practice, sharing the ways in which his recent image-based experiments destabilize photographs, using them as locating devices that shape our understanding of the way images function in the world. Nader is a Brooklyn-based artist investigating the feedback loop between images and our world, altering and interrupting photographic information while compressing the distinctions between physical and virtual mark-making.

    Johnson Classroom 204

    Open to the Public