Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

Sometimes the best advice comes from your peers! Join the Pre-Medical Society and a handful of your peers who have already taken the MCAT for a panel discussion and Q&A. There’s no right or wrong way to study and prepare for the MCAT exam. Hear peer testimonials, study tips and approaches employed by students who performed well on the MCAT exam.

A new public park is slated for construction in June! As you may be well aware, the Municipal building & Gymnasium have come to the end of their lifespan. Middlebury College is working closely with the Town of Middlebury to create a new public park in that space. The Public Park Advisory Group has carefully selected a Landscape Architect to put together preliminary plans and we would love to hear input from the College Community!

Dennis Washburn, Jane and Raphael Bernstein Professor of Asian Studies, Dartmouth College, will speak about “Translating The Tale of Genji” Sponsored by Japanese Studies Department, Literary Studies Program, Comparative Literature Program and East Asian Studies. Free and open to the public

Lecture by Helena Wong

How should Asians and Asian Americans be relating to social movements of our time like Black Lives Matter, Standing Rock, and Not1More? How are grassroots organizers in Asian communities around the country pushing back against gentrification, discriminatory policing, environmental racism, and what happens when communities are hit with (un)natural disasters? How do we understand what is happening in China and bring it back to what it means to organize with a racial and gender justice lens here in the US?

A two person panel by: James Rojas (urban planner, community activist, artist and scholar; Founder of Latino Urban Forum, Gallery 727 and Place It) and Rodolfo Torres (Professor of Urban Planning, Chicano/Latino Studies, Political Science and Culture and Theory at UC-Irvine’s School of Social Ecology)

Locally-sourced lunch will be served - please email gogreen@middlebury.edu to RSVP if you plan to attend. Land trusts across America are engaged in new approaches to land protection, redevelopment and management in service to urban communities. Conservation attorney Jessica Jay will describe this evolving work of developing new approaches within the land trust community, their focus on new constituencies and different tools, and the effort of many organizations to better understand community dynamics and how those dynamics are at play in serving diverse populations.

Join current Middlebury Kellogg Fellows completing their funded senior work projects and Dean Lisa Gates for an in-depth conversation about this great opportunity for humanities research. Juniors thinking about applying and sophomore students wanting to learn more are all welcome! More information can be found online at go/kellogg.

The shaping of our data shapes modern digital humanities scholarship. This lecture will explore this proposition in detail, looking at the ways in which tools, working practices, research questions, and disciplinary identity intersect with questions of data modeling. As the field matures, we possess increasingly sophisticated models for expressing time, space, cultural formations, language structures, visual forms. What level of knowledge and control over models do we need to engage productively and responsibly as scholars in the digital age?