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Minimum Monument: Art as Emergency

Sponsored by:
Mahaney Arts Center, Studio Art, Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Environmental Studies, Spanish Department, Academic Affairs, and Portuguese
Brazilian artist Néle Azevedo brings her internationally known “Minimum Monument” event to Middlebury. With help from students, faculty, staff and members of the Middlebury community, she will install 300+ ice sculptures (little men and women) outside Davis Library. And then we will leave them to melt… or will we? A visual metaphor for climate change, Azevedo’s work challenges the traditional meaning of the public monument: “in the place of the hero, the anonym; in the place of the solidity of the stone, the ephemeral process of the ice.” A community event not to be missed.

Davis Family Library

Open to the Public

Inaugural Lecture--Rick Bunt

Sponsored by:
Academic Affairs
Joseph Burr Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Rick Bunt will give this Inaugural lecture.

C2 or Not C2: That is the Question; or How Chiral Phosphinooxazoline Ligands Really Work.

Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

Open to the Public

Inaugural Lecture Cheryl Faraone

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Academic Affairs
In her Inaugural Lecture as Isabel Riexinger Mettler ‘39 Professor of Theatre, entitled “Practice as Research: Working in the Academic and Professional Theatre” Cheryl Faraone provides a thirty-five year overview of her work in both theatrical arenas. The talk particularly references the creation of companies, the necessity of collaboration, and the central position of the academic arena as laboratory and gestator of theatre in America. There is particular reference to the Potomac Theatre Project (PTP/NYC), Middlebury’s affiliated theatre company.

Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

Open to the Public

Inaugural Lecture by Michael Newbury

Sponsored by:
Academic Affairs
Michael Newbury, Fletcher D. Proctor Professor of American History, will give this inaugural lecture.

“Monsters in the Monoculture: Farm Horror in the Twentieth Century”

Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

FREE
Open to the Public

Inaugural Lecture - Carole Cavanaugh

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Academic Affairs
Kawashima Professor of Japanese Studies, Carole Cavanaugh will give this Inaugural Lecture.

The Optics of Resistance in Japanese Cinematic Arts, 1968-2018

Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

Open to the Public