Academic Affairs

Associate Professor of Dance and Director of MiddCORE, Christal Brown will give this lecture.

“Art and Innovation; Understanding Transferrable Skills”

Pat Manley, Professor of Geology and Director of the Sciences will kick off this year’s Carol Rifelj Faculty Lecture series.

“Seismic Triggered Lacustrine Landslides and Lake Tsunamis in Lake Champlain.”

Amit Prakash, First Year Seminar Program, “The French Connection: The French Wars of Empire and Contemporary American Police Practices”

Michael Kramer, Acting Director, Digital Liberal Arts will give this week’s talk as part of the Carol Rifelj Faculty Lecture Series.

“The Republic of Rock: Music & Citizenship in the Global Sixties Counterculture.”

Michelle McCauley, Professor of Psychology will give this week’s talk as part of the Carol Rifelj Faculty Lecture Series.

“Identifying Words: Facilitating Environmental Engagement.”

We know we “ought” to be addressing climate, mass extinction, ecosystem collapse, toxins, and social inequity, but words, frames, and our identities get in the way. In her talk, Michelle McCauley will share her emerging ideas, based on data, and on hunches, about creating communities that will not only care but act.

Where’s the Artist? Explorations in Generative Art”

Professor Emeritus Emory Fanning will perform these six brief, beautiful hymn preludes, and discuss Bach’s approach to the chorales and the compositional techniques involved in each. Bach published nearly none of his famous church cantatas during his lifetime, but these organ pieces, nearly entirely arrangements of his own cantata movements, were published a few years before his death.

Frank Van Gansbeke, Professor of the Practice will give a talk as part of the 2018-19 Carol Rifelj Faculty Lecture Series.

“Blockchain in the Liberal Arts? Emerging Opportunities for a Sustainable Society.”

In this lecture, Frank Van Gansbeke will focus on the basic tenets of blockchain, true decentralized economy and governance, and modern day applications particularly in the field of sustainable development.

Refreshments will be served.

The Poetry of Sport, The Sport in Poetry

Gary Margolis ’67, former Middlebury College varsity athlete, Executive Director of Counseling, Emeritus, and English and American Literatures Department member (part-time) will read sports poems from his seven collections and reflect on the relationship between athletics and poetry. An award-winning poet, ABC Channel 5 interviewed him on the Middlebury campus reading his poem, “Winning the Lunar Eclipse”, after the 2004 World Series. Boston Globe sportswriter, Dan Shaughnessy, has called Gary’s poetry, “thoughtful” and “inspired.”

Michael Olinick, Department of Mathematics, will give a talk as part of the 2019-20 Carol Rifelj Faculty Lecture Series.