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MAlt leaders and Executive Board we will go over the expectations of the MAlt program, and you’ll get to meet with your trip leaders and fellow trip participants. There’ll also be a student photographer who will be taking trip group pictures!

The Literature Society will be hosting its weekly discussion on a short story, play, poem, or novel of the membership’s selection. Tea and snacks will be provided. Message litwits@middlebury.edu if you’d like to join the email list!

What does it mean to ‘build credit’? Why is it important? The National Bank of Middlebury will speak to Middlebury students and answer these questions, and more.

It was not so long ago when Korean food was a minor blip on the radar of American “ethnic” food. In the rare occasions when attention was paid to Korean food, it was often negative, as the media harped on either the stink of kimchi or the inhumaneness of dogmeat. Today, Korean food, and especially the once-maligned kimchi, is all the rage. Consider, for instance, the ubiquity not only of bibimbop and kalbi but the Korean taco.

Discussing his recently published book, Leaks, Hacks, and Scandals: Arab Culture in the Digital Age (Princeton UP 2019), Tarek El-Ariss explores the way modes of confrontation, circulation, and writing shape contemporary knowledge production and critiques of power. Focusing on a new generation of activists and authors from the Arab world and beyond, El-Ariss connects Wikileaks to The Arabian Nights, Twitter to mystical revelation, cyberattacks to pre-Islamic tribal raids, and digital activism to the affective scene-making of Arab popular culture.

JusTalks facilitators will be holding an information session for students interested in social justice and want to create change on campus. We will be discussing the mission of the program and how to get involved through the J-Term course.

Of President John F. Kennedy, few stories are less known or more revealing than his friendship with America’s most celebrated poet. Yet it was Robert Frost that Kennedy made the subject of one of his most famous speeches — just weeks before his assassination. The documentary “JFK The Last Speech” (Bestor Cram, USA, 2018, 60 mins.) explores the dramatic relationship between these two seminal Americans. At its center is an extraordinary speech about poetry and power that inspires a group of Amherst College classmates to alter the course of their lives.

Professor Orit Bashkin (University of Chicago) will discuss her new book Impossible Exodus: Iraqi Jews in Israel (Stanford University Press, 2017). Professor Bashkin’s book is co-winner of the 2018 Nikki Keddie Book Award from the Middle East Studies Association. The lecture will relate the experience of tens of thousands of Arabic-speaking Iraqi Jews who migrated to Israel between 1949-1951, and will survey their struggle for resettlement and civil rights during the 1950s, as well as the discrimination they faced from the Israeli government and Ashkenazi Jews.

If you are a first-year or sophomore interested in learning more about careers in finance, please join representatives from Wells Fargo Securities (all Middlebury alumni) on October 8th for an Investment Banking 101 presentation and networking session. We will provide information and career advice regarding all lines of business within Investment Banking, as well as information about our summer analyst opportunities. We look forward to meeting you and discussing our opportunities!