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Axinn Center Abernethy Room (221)

Axinn Center Abernethy Room (221)

Old Chapel Road
Middlebury, VT 05753
United States

AXINN CENTER ABERNETHY ROOM (221)

Sound of Childhood: Listening Room

Sponsored by:
Interdepartmental Courses
An evening of listening. Enjoy the audio documentary work by students of Sounds of Childhood - a new course created with support of the Professor’s of the Practice program. Students explored the social construction of childhood through reading, writing and production of original sound works.

Axinn Center Abernethy Room (221)

Resisting the Trump Agenda: A Conversation with ACLU Director James Lyall

Sponsored by:
History
James Lyall is a graduate of Middlebury College, where he majored in art with a minor in classical studies. His law degree is from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Between college and law school, Lyall worked in Boston at the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center, taught in Shanghai, China, and worked as a human rights observer in Chiapas, Mexico. Lyall joined the ACLU of Vermont in 2016 and is the 12th director in the organization’s 50-year history.

Axinn Center Abernethy Room (221)

Open to the Public

Reading, by New Yorker staff writer William Finnegan

William Finnegan is the author of Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life; Cold New World: Growing Up in a Harder Country; A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambique; Dateline Soweto: Travels with Black South African Reporters; and Crossing the Line: A Year in the Land of Apartheid. He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1987. He has won numerous journalism awards, including two Overseas Press Club awards since 2009, and in 2007 he served as a visiting reporter for the Middlebury Fellowships in Environmental Journalism. He lives in New York.

Axinn Center Abernethy Room (221)

Free
Open to the Public

Poor Form Poetry Showcase

Sponsored by:
ZZ Poor Form Poetry
Come one come all to the semesterly Poor Form Poetry Showcase, where members of the only Spoken Word/Slam Poetry group on campus perform their original poems.

Axinn Center Abernethy Room (221)

Parker Merrill Speech Contest – Semi-Finals

Sponsored by:
Theatre
Oratory Now revives a Middlebury tradition that began in 1825: the Parker-Merrill Speech Contest. In this semi-final round, a dozen students will compete for a place in the finals (April 29), at which prizes of $500, $250 and $250 will be awarded. The topic is “True North: A Principle To Guide Us.” For information (or to register, by April 9) visit oratorynow.org or go/SpeechContest.

Axinn Center Abernethy Room (221)

Free
Open to the Public