Academic Affairs

Eliza Garrison, Department of History of Art & Architecture, will give a talk as part of the 2020-21 Carol Rifelj Faculty Lecture Series.

This talk will examine the connections between the golden case and the manuscript illuminations of the Uta Codex, an artwork created ca. 1025 for use at the Bavarian canonry of Niedermünster in honor of Abbess Uta and her legacy of reform.

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Patricia Saldarriaga, Department of Luso-Hispanic Studies, will give a talk as part of the 2020-21 Carol Rifelj Faculty Lecture Series.

Kristin Bright, Department of Anthropology, will give a talk as part of the 2020-21 Carol Rifelj Faculty Lecture Series. She will be joined by student panelists Emma Bernstein, Amun Chaudhary, Claire Martens, and Katie van der Merwe of Middlebury College and Jessica Bytautus, Yasmine Hassen, Yiran Li, and Anneliese Mills of the University of Toronto.

Please join us for a panel discussion featuring commentary and reflections on the 2020 election by professors and students.  There will also be an opportunity for those joining the webinar to ask questions.

Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://middlebury.zoom.us/j/99002198873?pwd =eTMxMkFmbXFYdU11cm5TV2prd2xZZz09
Passcode: 593810

Sponsored by Critical Conversations

Bill McKibben, Schumann Distinguished Scholar, a founder of 350.org (a climate-change organization with deep Middlebury roots), and acclaimed author, including of the recent book, Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?, and the New Yorker article, “What Vermont and Its History Might Teach the Nation About Handling the Coronavirus,” will be speaking on “This Crisis and the Next One: What the Pandemic Suggests About the Centur

Join us for this inaugural lecture by Stephen Ratcliff, Jacob Abbott Professor of Natural Sciences