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The Wilds: A New Mixed Reality Performance

Sponsored by:
Center for Teaching, Learning and Research
Join midd.data for a Lightning Talk with Laurel Jenkins (Dance). Jenkins will discuss The Wilds—a new mixed reality performance experience where movement instantly becomes music as emerging technology allows dancers to create an immersive journey of sound, light, and visual media in real time. Part mythology, part utopian vision, The Wilds fuses live dancers with motion capture technology and real-time animation inspiring a profound bond of a shared, collective experience.

Davis Family Library Center for Teaching, Learning and Research

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Migration Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Sponsored by:
Center for Teaching, Learning and Research
Join midd.data for a Lightning Talk with Pete Nelson (Geography). As the COVID-19 pandemic emerged in early 2020, the media began reporting stories of people leaving cities to shelter in place in smaller towns and rural regions. With undergraduate research assistant, Wright Frost, Pete Nelson has been using data collected monthly from mobile devices as a proxy for population to explore the temporal and spatial patterns of movement down the urban hierarchy since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Davis Family Library Center for Teaching, Learning and Research

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Canceled: The Diffusion of the Culture Wars in North America and Europe

Sponsored by:
Center for Teaching, Learning and Research
Join midd.data for a Lightning Talk with Erik Bleich (Political Science). Americans are used to mediatized debates about the culture wars. But how recently have terms like “politically correct”, “Islamophobia”, “systemic racism”, “white privilege”, and “Black Lives Matter” entered our public lexicon? And how does this compare to their usage in primarily Anglophone countries like Canada and Britain, and non-Anglophone countries like France and the Netherlands? With William & Mary co-author A.
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Academic Reading Workshop

Sponsored by:
Writing and Rhetoric Program, Center for Teaching, Learning and Research, and International Student & Scholar Services
Shawna Shapiro (WRPR) presents an academic reading workshop to learn how to engage more effectively with readings assigned for your courses. Please have an assigned reading handy—ideally one you’re struggling with! It will be an interactive session with opportunities for Q&A throughout. The workshop is open to all Midd students. The session will be recorded and the handouts are available to preview. If you have any questions please contact Shawna Shapiro directly at sshapiro@middlebury.edu. Register at go.middlebury.edy/reading.

Virtual Middlebury

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NER Poetry Reading Group

Sponsored by:
Center for Teaching, Learning and Research and NEW ENGLAND REVIEW
The New England Review (NER) is hosting a poetry reading group for faculty and staff this fall. Join them to discuss US Poet Laureate Ada Limón’s book The Hurting Kind. Those who sign up will receive a copy of the book. The group will meet on three Thursdays from 12:30-1:30 pm in the CTLR Suite (LIB 225) on Sept. 29, Oct. 27, and Nov. 10. Attend one session or all three. You are welcome to bring your lunch. The CTLR will provide coffee/tea. To sign up or for questions email Leslie Sainz. Books will be available for pickup in the CTLR.

Davis Family Library Center for Teaching, Learning and Research

Closed to the Public
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NER Poetry Reading Group

Sponsored by:
Center for Teaching, Learning and Research and NEW ENGLAND REVIEW
The New England Review (NER) is hosting a poetry reading group for faculty and staff this fall. Join them to discuss US Poet Laureate Ada Limón’s book The Hurting Kind. Those who sign up will receive a copy of the book. The group will meet on three Thursdays from 12:30-1:30 pm in the CTLR Suite (LIB 225) on Sept. 29, Oct. 27, and Nov. 10. Attend one session or all three. You are welcome to bring your lunch. The CTLR will provide coffee/tea. To sign up or for questions email Leslie Sainz. Books will be available for pickup in the CTLR.

Davis Family Library Center for Teaching, Learning and Research

Closed to the Public
Image of a book on a flyer

NER Poetry Reading Group

Sponsored by:
Center for Teaching, Learning and Research and NEW ENGLAND REVIEW
The New England Review (NER) is hosting a poetry reading group for faculty and staff this fall. Join them to discuss US Poet Laureate Ada Limón’s book The Hurting Kind. Those who sign up will receive a copy of the book. The group will meet on three Thursdays from 12:30-1:30 pm in the CTLR Suite (LIB 225) on Sept. 29, Oct. 27, and Nov. 10. Attend one session or all three. You are welcome to bring your lunch. The CTLR will provide coffee/tea. To sign up or for questions email Leslie Sainz. Books will be available for pickup in the CTLR.

Davis Family Library Center for Teaching, Learning and Research

Closed to the Public
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Stem and Quantitative Hub Open House

Sponsored by:
Center for Teaching, Learning and Research
Stop by the CTLR’s STEM and Quantitative Hub in MBH 209 (Armstrong Library) for an open house this week on Thursday or Sunday from 7-9 pm. CTLR Peer Tutors will be available with snacks and info about tutoring for the fall semester. Find out more about meeting with a tutor or becoming one, scheduling appointments at go.middlebury.edu/appt, or just say hello. More information is available right here.

Location: McCardell-Bicentennial Hall, Room 209 (Armstrong Library)

Middlebury College

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