Events
Tuesday, January 20, 2026
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Mock Trial Meeting
- Sponsored by:
- Middlebury Mock Trial
Weekly J-Term meeting for Mock Trial members.
Axinn Center 104
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Yarn and Yap J-Term Weekly Meeting
- Sponsored by:
- Yarn and Yap
Come to our weekly meeting where we chat, do fiber arts, and generally have a great time! Open to anyone regardless of experience levels.
Brooker Main Floor Lounge (Outdoor Interest)
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Birdie Battle - Midd Badminton Club
- Sponsored by:
- Middlebury College Badminton Club
Looking for a fun way to stay active? No skill or experience required—just bring yourself! We provide rackets and shuttles, or feel free to bring your own. Come play singles or doubles, meet new people, and enjoy a fast-paced, exciting sport.
All students are welcome—drop in, give it a try, and you might just fall in love with badminton!
Memorial Field House Nelson Multi-Use Area
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Creating your First College Résumé
- Sponsored by:
- Center for Careers & Internships
The Center for Careers and Internships (CCI) is ready to help you create your first college résumé. Come for the first part for a short presentation on how to transform the skills and experience you’ve gained through classes, jobs, and other activities into a strong, professional Middlebury résumé. Stay as long as you want to work on your résumé. CCI’s Peer Career Advisors will be on hand to provide personalized feedback and guidance. This is your chance to ensure your résumé is ready for any future opportunities, from campus jobs to summer internships.
Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103
Wednesday, January 21, 2026
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Before I Die
- Sponsored by:
- Mahaney Arts Center and Elizabeth Hackett Robinson ’84 Innovation Hub
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
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Living with Genji: The "World's First Novel" in 21st Century Japan
- Sponsored by:
- Japanese and Axinn Center for the Humanities
Davis Family Library, Upper Level Display Cases
The students in JAPN 290 (“Reading the Tale of Genji” in English”) and Prof. Otilia Milutin (Japanese Studies) are cordially inviting you and your students to view their exhibit, “Living with Genji: The World’s First Novel in 21st Century Japan.” The exhibit features a selection of objects, artwork, movies, and manga inspired by the 11th century classic The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu. Our exhibit aims to showcase a few selected items that speak both of the tale’s enduring legacy in traditional Japanese arts, and, equally important, of its contemporary reiterations, be they manga and movies adaptations or commercial, consumer-oriented products such as mascots, stationary, fabrics, and other everyday objects. Through our exhibit, we hope to demonstrate how a millennium old classic lives and thrives today in contemporary Japan.
Middlebury College
Open to the Public
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Weekday Morning Sitting Meditation
- Sponsored by:
- Charles P. Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Life
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
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Extending Financial Services to the Unbanked Around the World and in Addison County
- Sponsored by:
- Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs J-Term Speaker Series presents “Extending Financial Services to the Unbanked Around the World and in Addison County” with Elizabeth Toder ‘90.
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Open to the Public
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Carol Rifelj Lecture Series: Hungry Monsters: Feeding and Quenching of Black Holes
- Sponsored by:
- Dean of Faculty
The existence of supermassive black holes, with millions to billions of times the mass of the Sun, residing at the centers of galaxies throughout the universe is well supported by a substantial body of indirect and, more recently, direct imaging evidence. When mass is pulled into a black hole gravitationally, in a process called ‘accretion’, a tremendous amount of energy is released signaling this growth in the form of a ‘quasar’. This growth is stochastic and episodic with a variety of routes for triggering and quenching.
Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103
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Environmental Studies Senior Thesis Presentation
- Sponsored by:
- Environmental Studies
“Barriers to Agricultural Change in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons from Ethiopia” an Environmental Studies senior thesis presentation by Ben Rosmarin ‘2025.5 Environmental Policy major.
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 220
Open to the Public
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Seniors: Interviewing like a Pro
- Sponsored by:
- Center for Careers & Internships
Do you have an interview coming up? Or maybe you’ve had some recently that could have gone better? In this session you’ll learn best practices for standing out in your introductions (“tell me about yourself”), fit-based interviews (“why do you want to work here?”) and behavioral interviews (“tell me about a time you had to handle a disagreement”). We will review strategies for responding to common questions and inventory prep resources including a new practice interview tool, Big Interview. Open to all students graduating in Feb or May 2026.
Axinn Center 109
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The SlowDown
- Sponsored by:
- Charles P. Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Life
Come slow down with beads, collaging, watercolors, grown-up coloring books and more. Homemade hot chai and cookies too!
McCullough Crest Room
Closed to the Public
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Winter 2026 Speaker Series: Jasmin Msuya
- Sponsored by:
- Anthropology, Education Studies, and Linguistics
Jasmin Msuya will give the first talk in the annual Anthro & Friends Winter Speaker Series, titled “Rethinking Language of Instruction in Public Secondary Schools in Tanzania: Ethnographic Case Study on the Implementation of the Educational Language Policy in the Classroom.” Jasmin’s research centers on how the transition from Kiswahili instruction in primary school to English instruction in secondary education shapes teaching, learning, and language ideologies in a semi-urban Tanzanian public secondary school.
Munroe 311
Open to the Public