Axinn Center 229

Performativity and Agency of the Material Guise (Vesham) in a South Indian Goddess Tradition

Joyce Flueckiger situates stri vesham in a wider repertoire of guising in Gangamma traditions, which provides commentary on the agency of material guising, and argues that stri vesham does not make men women, but transforms their masculinity.

Talk by Zen teacher, author, and storyteller, Rafe Martin

Join NSA employees who work in the NSA’s language world as they explain what it means to be a language analyst. Find out about the training involved, where your language career might take you, and what to expect of the hiring process. The NSA seeks to hire individuals highly proficient in foreign languages that are of critical importance to the security of the United States and its allies. Learn more from the NSA Language Recruiter and from the Director of the Agency’s Summer Language Program, a 12-week, paid internship for students at the graduate and undergraduate level.

Want to learn more about opportunities with a boutique investment bank? Here is your chance to meet Bob Crowley ‘94, a Managing Director and Head of the Boston office at Moelis & Company. Bob joined at the Firm’s founding to manage the build-out of the Firm’s first office in Boston and to lead its expansion in the homebuilding sector. Bob has over 20 years of investment banking experience advising on and executing various homebuilding merger, acquisition, restructuring, debt and equity transactions. Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Mr.

Evercore is a leading independent investment bank with offices in 11 countries and more than 20 cities around the world. Evercore was founded in 1995 and has advised on over $2 trillion of announced M&A transactions as well as many high profile equity market transactions. A few recent notable transactions include Whole Foods merger with Amazon, Aetna’s sale to CVS, Qualcomm’s acquisition of NXP and Tesla’s acquisition of Solar City.

Additionally, Evercore has been awarded the following merits in recent years:

Join Middlebury Alumni representatives at Bank of America Merrill Lynch to learn about 2019 summer internships in Sales and Trading, Debt Capital Markets and Investment Banking. This program is designed for First years and Sophomores.

The lecture will examine the work of some of Jerusalem’s well known photographers from the early century. Shimon Lev will talk about the significance and complexity from the photographer personal view as for the subject, artistic style and capturing the power of the moment. Photos from his exhibit that will reflect the many faces of the city’s men, women and children, its sites, buildings, streets and familiar places from 1900-1950.

The talk explores the life and writings of the Indian polymath Rahul Sankrityayan (1893-1963) to tease out the implications of the phrase “to carry the fragrance of one’s land/soil” that this inveterate traveler- explorer-scholar-activist deploys in his delightful Treatise for Travelers: Ghumakkar Shastra. This ideal of response and responsibility goes beyond literal travel to embrace a vision of being and belonging in the world, in ways at once quotidian and utopian.