January 27, Tuesday
Grand Championship: Spencer Prize in Oratory
7:30 PM, Wilson Hall, McCullough Student Center
Featuring the 2026 Spencer Prize Finalists… and special guests, the Middlebury Mamajamas!
McCullough - Mitchell Green Lounge
In honor of the late Professor Emeritus and former trustee John Spencer, Oratory Now is pleased to present the ninth annual speech competition for first-year students (including sophomore febs!). Qualifying rounds culminate in a Jan 27 Grand Championship event. Details are at go/spencer. FREE and open to the public.
Adirondack Coltrane Lounge
In honor of the late Professor Emeritus and former trustee John Spencer, Oratory Now is pleased to present the ninth annual speech competition for first-year students (including sophomore febs!). Qualifying rounds culminate in a Jan 27 Grand Championship event. Details are at go/spencer. FREE and open to the public.
Adirondack Coltrane Lounge
In honor of the late Professor Emeritus and former trustee John Spencer, Oratory Now is pleased to present the ninth annual speech competition for first-year students (including sophomore febs!). Qualifying rounds culminate in a Jan 27 Grand Championship event. Details are at go/spencer. FREE and open to the public.
Adirondack Coltrane Lounge
Welcoming our newest scholars to the Academic Community! Twenty-two First Year Seminars will celebrate the end of their first semester at Middlebury with a wide variety of short presentations, posters, and performances.
Free and open to the public. Details are at oratorynow.org/fysymposium
Axinn Center
Calling all O-lumna!
Join us to celebrate Oratory Now’s 10th birthday and help Dana pass the torch to our next fearless leader, Miguel Fernandez!
Homecoming weekend, Sat Oct 19, 10am
132 Blinn Ln, Middlebury
Elizabeth Hackett Robinson ‘84 Innovation Hub
Local coffee, bagels, and cider donuts
Please RSVP.
132 Blinn Lane, Innovation Hub
In honor of the late Professor Emeritus and former trustee John Spencer, Oratory Now is pleased to present the eighth annual speech competition for first-year students (including sophomore febs!).
Show your support of the speakers, wear RED on Jan 9, BLUE on Jan 12, and GREEN on Jan 14!
Qualifying rounds culminate in the Jan 28 Grand Championship event featuring the 2025 finalists. Details are at go/spencer. FREE.
Adirondack Coltrane Lounge
In honor of the late Professor Emeritus and former trustee John Spencer, Oratory Now is pleased to present the eighth annual speech competition for first-year students (including sophomore febs!).
Show your support of the speakers, wear RED on Jan 9, BLUE on Jan 12, and GREEN on Jan 14!
Qualifying rounds culminate in the Jan 28 Grand Championship event featuring the 2025 finalists. Details are at go/spencer. FREE.
Adirondack Coltrane Lounge
In honor of the late Professor Emeritus and former trustee John Spencer, Oratory Now is pleased to present the eighth annual speech competition for first-year students (including sophomore febs!).
Show your support of the speakers, wear RED on Jan 9, BLUE on Jan 12, and GREEN on Jan 14!
Qualifying rounds culminate in the Jan 28 Grand Championship event featuring the 2025 finalists. Details are at go/spencer. FREE.
Adirondack Coltrane Lounge
Fresh poetry, prose, and the voices of Middlebury College students come together in this warm and inviting event. Students from Oratory Now read selections from the New England Review, lending their voices to the work on the page, and student writers read their own poetry and prose for an audience of students, faculty, and community members. Everyone is invited to a dessert reception in the lobby after the show.
Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre
