Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

Romanticizing the Premodern: Charting Indices of Indigenous and Asian Religions in Contemporary American Spirituality

The marches happened. Trump is in office. Come hear Bill McKibben, Laurie Essig, Linus Owens, and a representative from Rights and Democracy VT (a local grassroots activist organization) speak on maintaining momentum and moving activism forwards under the Trump administration.

Please join Ryan D’Agostino ‘97 as he reads from—and takes questions about—his gripping new book The Rising: Murder, Heartbreak, and the Power of Human Resilience in an American Town. Books will be available for purchase and signing by the author.

The second session of Middlebury’s Climate Justice symposium will feature a panel on Resistance to Climate Change both Local and Abroad: from Indigenous land rights to justice in the city. Come by to listen to panelists Anthony Rogers Wright (Policy and Organizing Director, Environmental Action), Nicholas Reo (Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies and Native American Studies, Dartmouth College), Gina Cosentino (Social Development Specialist, World Bank), and Erica Morrell (Mellon C3 Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology, Middlebury College) speak on climate justice and current affairs.

Paul Julian Smith, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, will continue a line of inquiry developed in his recent book Mexican Screen Fiction by discussing the intersection of popular cinema and “quality” television in contemporary Mexico.

Mabrouka M’barek will analyze the National Dialogue and the Nobel Prize commission’s decision to grant this year’s peace prize to it.

The students in Zero Energy School Design will be presenting the results of their winter term effort to design a Zero Energy Elementary School in Middlebury, VT. We will present floor plans and site drawings as well as renderings and any of our programmatic ideas. We will discuss how the building ties in with the community and why Zero Energy is an important design goal. We will be entering our design in the Department of Energy’s Race to Zero student design competition.

Join us for a panel on World Aids Day! Panelists will be speaking briefly about their research and/or field experience, followed by a Q&A
Panelists include:
Assistant Professor of Psychology Robert Moeller
Assistant Professor of Economics Erick Gong
Director of Vermont Cares Peter Jacobsen

Join Middlebury Women Leaders for a discussion of women’s rights with women from the local Nulhegan Abenaki Native American tribe. Our hope is to host a conversation that compares and contrasts Western feminism with other traditions of feminism. We will explore differences in matriarchal vs patriarchal traditions with our Abenaki guests.

Sponsored by Middlebury Women Leaders and the MCAB Speakers Committee

Garrison Nelson is a retired Elliott A. Brown Green and Gold Professor of Law, Politics and Political Behavior from the University of Vermont. He is the author of more than 150 articles and professional papers on national politics with a major focus on the U.S. Congress and elections in Vermont and is a regular media commentator on those topics. His most recent book is a biography of Speaker John McCormack.