This is a drop-in group: come to as many sessions as you’d like. No commitment needed, but you will need to email Brian Tobin for the Zoom link (bstobin@middlebury.edu).
Guided on Mondays by Brian Tobin, LCMHC and on Fridays by Hollis Easter, MA
Steven Klein is a lecturer of political theory in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. This lecture will be on his first book, The Work of Politics: Making a Democratic Welfare State (CUP 2020), which examines the democratic potential of struggles over welfare institutions. His research has focused on democratic theory, critical social theory, theories of political economy and the welfare state, the theory and politics of European integration, and the history of European social and political thought (especially of 19th- and 20th-century Germany).
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Students and the public are invited to attend this weekly nonpartisan discussion of recent political events, hosted by Professor Matthew Dickinson. Held virtually almost every Tuesday 12:30-1:30. Check the calendar for dates. No expertise assumed. All viewpoints welcome. Contact Professor Dickinson at dickinso@middlebury.edu to receive zoom link.
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Do smaller class sizes improve student learning? Does raising the minimum wage increase unemployment? Does teen motherhood cause poverty? Important policy questions like these are fundamentally about causality, and to answer them we need to move beyond “correlation isn’t causation” and figure out when it is. Professor Scott Cunningham will introduce students and faculty to directed acyclic graphs (DAGS), a powerful graphical tool that helps clarify the relationships between variables and guide theory-based research design decisions.
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Missed the activities fair? Still not sure how to get involved on campus? It’s not too late! Join the Student Activities Office for a virtual workshop open to both remote and on-campus learners that will explore how to get involved in student activities at Middlebury College! The workshop will feature a discussion with active student organization members who will share their tips on involvement. Bring your own concerns and questions if you have any, and leave with an action plan and further resources!
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Join Spiritual and Religious Life Dean Mark R. Orten for a half-hour of quiet contemplation with reading and music for our times. Intentional silence and guided meditation will be interspersed with music and readings from secular worldviews and sacred traditions to open our awareness and to find strength and perspective for living during pandemical, political, racial, ecological and other upheavals. Until gatherings can be held live, connect each Wednesday by Zoom. All are welcome.
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Ajay Verghese, Department of Political Science, will give a talk as part of the 2020-21 Carol Rifelj Faculty Lecture Series. Political scientists have theorized the implications of various religions on political behavior, yet their analyses rarely extend beyond the Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. This talk examines Hinduism in India, the world’s largest Asian religion with over one billion followers.
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Dr. Ma is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Kentucky. Her primary research area lies in environmental economics with a focus on non-market valuation. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Duke University in 2014. This event is sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs Program on Global Economics.
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A Howard E. Woodin Environmental Studies Colloquium Series talk by Virginia Rauh ‘69, Professor and Vice Chair, Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University.
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Presented virtually, Dr. Kristen Stern, Ph.D. at University of Massachusetts Lowell will discuss in English, her current project in which she sketches a model of what she calls performative authorship, and explains why and how this is a necessary tool to understand the works of contemporary francophone writers from the African continent specifically.
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Research shows that one in three women and almost one in six men will be sexually assaulted in their lifetime, Middlebury is no exception to this statistic. Join our virtual talk with Jennifer Hirsch and Shamus Khan, authors of Sexual Citizens.
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This support group space is open to all Middlebury in-person and remote students who are in quarantine or isolation. The focus of this support group is connecting with one another, sharing your experiences, and together identifying ways to cope during a time that can feel isolating and uncertain. This support group space is a weekly, mostly drop-in group (students still need to “sign up” by reaching out to group counselor to request zoom link) offered through the Spring 2021 semester.
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International and Global Colloquium lecture “An Open Work: Alfredo Jaar’s Studies on Happiness” by Edward Vazquez, associate professor of history of art and architecture, Middlebury College.
To join this webinar, use this Zoom Link (password = 141150) or visit the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs events.
Image: Alfredo Jaar, Public Interventions (Studies on Happiness: 1979-1981), 1981.
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This is a drop-in group: come to as many sessions as you’d like. No commitment needed, but you will need to email Brian Tobin for the Zoom link (bstobin@middlebury.edu).
Guided on Mondays by Brian Tobin, LCMHC and on Fridays by Hollis Easter, MA
Join the Muslim Chaplain’s Office and Muslims Student Association for virtual Jumma on Fridays at 1 PM.
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Welcome! There will be introductions, some quiet reflection time, a short devotional or two given by Christine (something to get the brain chugging for the hour) and prayer.
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InterVarsity (@ivmidd) is gearing up to start small groups! If you consider yourself spiritually open or curious, we invite you to explore with us.
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This is a drop-in group: come to as many sessions as you’d like. No commitment needed, but you will need to email Brian Tobin for the Zoom link (bstobin@middlebury.edu).
Guided on Mondays by Brian Tobin, LCMHC and on Fridays by Hollis Easter, MA
Students and the public are invited to attend this weekly nonpartisan discussion of recent political events, hosted by Professor Matthew Dickinson. Held virtually almost every Tuesday 12:30-1:30. Check the calendar for dates. No expertise assumed. All viewpoints welcome. Contact Professor Dickinson at dickinso@middlebury.edu to receive zoom link.
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Last March, theatre professor Dana Yeaton and actor-playwright Cole Merrell ’21 started writing a play together. Their inspiration was the legendary teacher-student relationship between Aristotle and Alexander the Great. Actor Ethan Bowen joined the weekly Zoom sessions to improvise the role of Aristotle, with Merrill playing the teenaged Alexander. Join Bowen and Merrill for an online performance of this two-character show, followed by a Q&A with Yeaton, Merrell, Bowen, and Alexander Buchinger Shea ’22, the project’s research assistant and dramaturg.
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