Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

Biology professors who recently received their PhD’s will share their experiences in accomplishing this degree and answer questions about grad schools.

Connect with Midd alums at the Global Health Field Guide. 

Presented by the Center for Careers and Internships and cosponsored by the Global Health Department, this Field Guide brings alumni back to campus to share knowledge and experience related to their post-Middlebury careers and professional lives with current students. 

On Thursday alumni join us for a panel discussion. Friday morning, our alumni guests have volunteered to hold one-on-one chats with students (Sign up in Handshake) 

Mapping the Global: The Middlebury Atlas of Globalization

More than five years ago, three Middlebury College faculty embarked on an ambitious project: to create an atlas textbook for courses in global studies, international relations, and geography that offer a road map to the omnipresent strands of globalization. Our talk will cover the story behind the creation of the atlas and its companion website.  We will discuss the writing process, challenges of covering novel topics, and collaborating with 18 student researchers.

Radical Implications: Politicization, Pedagogy, and Planetary Ecological Crisis

This lecture will explore questions of politicization and planetary environmental crisis by looking at how these dynamics are playing out in three contexts: (1) among global change scientists, (2) among climate activists trying to formulate movement strategies, and (3) among environmental educators and their students.

Clocking In: Time and Painting

Since 2019, Visiting Assistant Professor Roger White (Studio Art) has been making a series of “Calendar Paintings” that explore variations of conventional time-keeping formats. In this lecture, White will present this body of work in the context of its art-historical precursors—from medieval books of hours to the “Date Paintings” of conceptual artist On Kawara—and his broader interest in art and the everyday.

‘Woe to Those Who Fail to Reckon with History’: The Brothers Karbelashvili and the Fate of Empire in the South Causasus, 1860-2024

In 1924, Fr. Vasili Karbelashvili penned a passionate letter to his former student, Joseph Stalin. His desperate bid to stave off Bolshevik violence failed: his family fell victim to Stalinist repression. Yet by 2011, Vasili and his four brothers were canonized by the Georgian Orthodox Church.

Mural Painting and the Nineteenth Century Civic Imagination

‘The Dance of Life: Figure and Imagination in American Art, 1876–1917’ exhibition explores the American Renaissance, a pivotal yet neglected period in American history, that inspired an ambitious generation of artists to develop a movement in mural painting that captivated a divided nation.

Bridging Scholarship and Practice: A Conflict Transformation Story

Conflict transformation is an approach that grew out of international relations (IR), and that intellectual history informed the work of IR scholar Sarah Stroup as she took the helm of the Conflict Transformation Collaborative at Middlebury. Yet the core ethics of conflict transformation are deeply interdisciplinary and applicable at all levels of conflict, from the interpersonal to the organizational to the global.

Pierre Bolotte and the Colonial Origins of the Anti-Crime Brigade

When we think of the police, we usually think of a local institution. However, this talk is about the global circulation of police power, tactics, and ideology. I will focus on the life of a mostly forgotten French civil servant who spent his career abroad in the French empire before bringing his expertise back home to the suburbs of Paris.

Food System Transformation Narratives

The global food system is widely criticized for failing to meet goals of sustainability, justice and equity. A plethora of solutions have been proposed and are expressed through different narratives or discourses. In this presentation, I describe leading narratives of transformation and suggest that food democracy, agroecology and food sovereignty are the most promising among them, if enacted within a framework of respect for human rights and the rights of nature.