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Axinn Center 229

Axinn Center 229

Old Chapel Road
Middlebury, VT 05753
United States

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Nana-Ama Danquah,“The Beautiful Deception of Wellness”

Sponsored by:
Disability Resource Center (ADA Office), Axinn Center for the Humanities, American Studies, and Department of English
The line between wellness and illness seems thick, well drawn, and impermeable. We believe ourselves, and others, to be firmly situated on one side or the other. But that is not true. We all come to realize this about physical illness. We come to realize that eventually it will touch and alter our lives, either through our own direct experience or that of a loved one. So, we begin to learn the language of cancer, of Alzheimer’s, of Parkinson’s. What of mental illness, though?

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Open to the Public

MCAB Exec Board Open Meeting

Sponsored by:
Middlebury College Activities Board
The Middlebury College Activities Board (MCAB) will host its first executive board meeting of the 2023-24 academic year. This meeting will be open to all students who wish to learn more about MCAB and how to get involved.

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SGA Finance Committee Budgeting Workshop

Sponsored by:
SGA (Student Government Association)
This event is intended for student organization leaders (presidents and treasurers) to help them prepare their annual budgets for the 2023-24 school year. This event is hosted by the SGA Finance Committee, who will be approving proposed annual budgets during the Annual Budgeting Weekend April 29-30. In the meeting, SGAFC members will be assisting organization leaders with putting together budgets that adhere to SGAFC policy and are likely to be approved. No prior sign-up to attend this event is necessary.

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Completely Free: The Moral and Political Vision of John Stuart Mill

Sponsored by:
Political Science
John Peter Diiulio, the James N. Perry Scholar of Philosophy, Politics, and Society in the Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society at the University of Pennsylvania, will discuss his book on J.S. Mill, Completely Free: The Moral and Political Vision of John Stuart Mill. It provides an original and unified reconstruction of Mill’s practical philosophy, and advances a sympathetic yet critical argument for the cogency and potency of his Utilitarian liberalism.

Co-sponsored by the Alexander Hamilton Forum.

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Open to the Public

Why Global Health? A View from Academic Public Health.“

David H Peters, MD, MPH, DrPH, will give a brown bag lunch talk for students interested in learning more about careers in Global Health. Dr. Peters is the Edgar Berman Professor and Chair of the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. In addition to his medical training and practice, he has extensive experience in health systems creation and development assistance in low and middle income countries.

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Free
Open to the Public

Summerbridge and Teach Kentucky Info Ses

Info Session\B> The Summerbridge internship program provides a stipend and housing and will give you extraordinary hands-on classroom teaching experience that is unparalleled for college undergraduates. Summerbridge internship program is a collaboration between Teach Kentucky and Summerbridge, which is a summer school experience for at-risk youth. In addition to teaching at-risk students transitioning into middle school and high school you will be a full faculty colleague with other outstanding college peers for across the country.

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