Axinn Center 229

Old Chapel Road
Middlebury, VT 05753
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Is economics a science?

1:00 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Economics

Economists failed to forecast the Great Recession. They disagree on the minimum wage, the workings of financial markets, and the determinants of growth. One might suspect that whoever first paired the words “social” and “science” suffered a delusion of rigor. Associate Professor of Economics Caitlin Myers will acknowledge and address these criticisms, arguing that “social science” is not a myth. She will illustrate her arguments with a variety of examples, and focus particularly on innovative work being done by Middlebury faculty and students.

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Free
Open to the Public

Fairytale's 'Happily Ever After'? What C.S. Lewis Thought About Sex, Love, and Human Identity

4:30 PM ET

Monika Hilder. Trinity Western University. Monika is the author of The Feminine Ethos is C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, The Gender Dance: Ironic Subversion in C.S. Lewis’s Cosmic Trilogy, Surprised by the Feminine: A Rereading of C.S. Lewis and Gender. She is also a contributor to: Women and C.S. Lewis Co-sponsored by: FYSE 1302, Cook Commons, Ross Commons, and the Department of Religion

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Environmental Coalition Meeting

7:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Campus Sustainability Coordinators

A 1hr Discussion between student organizations on environmental coalition building on campus. All are welcome!

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Environmental Coalition

1:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Campus Sustainability Coordinators

ECO’s goal is to organize a monthly meeting for all environmental groups on campus to come together to discuss their initiatives/ projects for the upcoming semester. With the idea being that each environmental group will send at least one “representative”. Hopefully this will provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and increase the transparency surrounding environmental initiatives on campus.

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Ecosexuality in Performance with guest artist Michael J. Morris

10:00 AM ET

Sponsored by:: Gender, Sexuality, & Fem Studies

In this talk, Michael J. Morris, PhD candidate in the Department of Dance at the Ohio State University, will introduce ecosexuality as a framework for considering the entanglements of human sexuality with the nonhuman world, and in turn, for analyzing the ways in which performances figure possible perspectives of such entanglements.

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Open to the Public

Ecologies of Freedom: Global Political Thinking in the Age of Socrates

4:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Classics & Classical Studies and Political Science

“Ecologies of Freedom: Global Political Thinking in the Age of Socrates” A lecture by Joel Alden Schlosser, Department of Political Science, Bryn Mawr College Drawing on the ancient historian Herodotus as well as ancient Greek poetic and scientific texts, this talk will consider an underappreciated strand of political thinking in the classical world, one deeply concerned with the complexity and interdependency of geography, culture, and political structure among diverse groups of people.

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Free
Open to the Public

Driver Training

1:00 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Environmental Health and Safety

This one and a half hour training program is required for anyone who will drive a College vehicle, including rental of a College passenger vehicle or 15-passenger van. There is no cost for the class. NOTE: A driving orientation (a 1 hour review on the road) is required for 15-passenger vans and larger vehicles. You must have also had a valid state driver’s license for at least 3 years in order to drive a 15-passenger van.

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