Axinn Center for the Humanities

Film Screening of the documentary Spaces of Exception (2018, 90 minutes), followed by Q&A with filmmakers Matt Peterson and Malek Rasamny, moderated by Professor James Sanchez.

Come see and celebrate the final projects of Feminist Joy students. There will be zines, podcasts, videos, photograph exhibits, essays and soundscapes. This will be an informal event.

Abstract: Two big earthquakes hit Turkey and Syria on February 6. Thousands of buildings collapsed, and hundreds of thousands became trapped under the rubble. So far more than 21,000 lost their lives, and many more are injured. The death toll is estimated to reach 200,000 as more bodies are recovered. Entire cities and villages have been destroyed. With more than 10 million people left homeless, some doubly by war and now natural disaster, the earthquake stands as one of the biggest humanitarian crises of this century.

Midd.Data welcomes historian Dan Bouk, Associate Professor and Chair of History, Colgate. to speak on Democracy’s Data: The Hidden Stories of the U.S. Census and How to Read Them (Macmillan, 2022).

 Dr. Jeremy Greene, MD, PhD, will discuss his latest book The Doctor who Wasn’t There: Technology, History, and the Limits of Telehealth (University of Chicago Press, 2022) which traces the long arc of enthusiasm for—and skepticism of—electronic media in health and medicine. This lecture also celebrates the launch of the new History of Science, Medicine, and Technology (HSMT) major at Middlebury.

Dr. Jeremy Greene, MD, PhD, will discuss how Humanities majors provide a critical and much-needed pathway to those seeking careers in the healthcare profession and/or in attending medical school. Lunch will be served at 12:15 PM.

In this event, Dr. Grace Cho will read excerpts and discuss themes from her award-winning book Tastes Like War (Feminist Press, 2021), a hybrid text about a daughter’s search through intimate and global history for the roots of her mother’s schizophrenia. In her mother’s final years, Grace learned to cook dishes from her mother’s childhood in Korea in order to invite the past into the present, and to hold space for her mother’s multiple voices.

Please note that this event has been canceled due to inclement weather.

Award-winning journalist Abe Streep (‘04) will be in conversation with esteemed sports writer, Alexander Wolff to discuss his first book, Brothers on Three: A True Story of Family, Resistance, and Hope on a Reservation in Montana (Celadon Books, 2021). The book follows the boys basketball team from Arlee High School as they defend their state championship. Streep reports on the place of basketball in the lives of members of the Flathead Reservation’s Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes.

This event will place in conversation two high profile translators of Asian novels. Stephen Epstein, translator of The Wandering by Intan Paramaditha, and Stephen Snyder, translator of The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa will discuss their work as professional translators of novels in Asian languages. Epstein, Director of the Asian Languages and Cultures Programme at Victoria University in Wellington has translated multiple novels from Korean and Indonesian to English.