Axinn Center 229

For fans of The Kite Runner comes this remarkable debut, the number one bestselling title in Iraq, Dubai and the UAE.

Jose Gonzalez, the founder of non-profit Latino Outdoors, an organization that aims to connect Latinx communities with outdoor experiences, will discuss what boundaries keep natural experiences inaccessible to large portions of Americans and how to combat the whiteness of environmentalism. Latino Outdoors NYC Program Coordinator Anahi Naranjo ‘17 will speak about the work of organizations like Latino Outdoors in changing conventional environmental narratives and Professor Kathryn Morse will add to this discussion on how these concerns manifest on Middlebury’s campus.

Join the Feminist Resource Center at Chellis House and the Vermont Book Shop for a reading by former Governor Madeleine May Kunin, Vermont’s first woman governor and author of the new memoir, “Coming of Age: My Journey to the Eighties”.

Faculty author event: Spirals: A Family Education in Football - a reading by Tim Spears, VP for Academic Development and Professor of American Studies

Learn how to handle outdoor emergency situations in this two-day Wilderness First Aid certification course, SOLO’s most popular class. You will learn how to stabilize emergencies, dress exposed wounds, treat weather exposure and practice other common survival skills. Like all SOLO courses, students learn both in a classroom setting and through structured scenarios. WFA is a 2-year certification and, for an additional fee, will also recertify a soon-to-expire WFR or AWFA qualification.

Learn how to handle outdoor emergency situations in this two-day Wilderness First Aid certification course, SOLO’s most popular class. You will learn how to stabilize emergencies, dress exposed wounds, treat weather exposure and practice other common survival skills. Like all SOLO courses, students learn both in a classroom setting and through structured scenarios. WFA is a 2-year certification and, for an additional fee, will also recertify a soon-to-expire WFR or AWFA qualification.

Who’s in the Room: Managing Power and Privilege Dynamics
Part of the Inclusive Practitioners Program, this 90-minute workshop will explore the ways power and privilege can manifest in interpersonal dynamics and how to increase students’ self-awareness of the way their behavior impacts others in order to promote greater equity, inclusion, access and full participation. Contact Renee Wells at rwells@middlebury.edu to register.

Hillcrest is not available, therefore I have scheduled this in Axinn 229.

How have Syrians lived the uprising and war transforming their country? What can their personal stories teach us about both tragedy and resilience? Wendy Pearlman, the Martin and Patricia Koldyke Outstanding Teaching Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern and a core faculty member of the MENA Program, will explore these questions in this presentation of her acclaimed new book, We Crossed a Bridge and it Trembled: Voices from Syria.