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Twilight Auditorium 101

Twilight Auditorium 101

50 Franklin Street
Middlebury, VT 05753
United States

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Classics Lecture: Who Were the Greeks?

Sponsored by:
Classics & Classical Studies
Sir John Myres posed this question in his 1927 Sather Lectures at the University of California Berkeley. Contrary to many scholars of his day, Myres did not believe that the issue of Greek identity was self-evident and he argued that it had arisen slowly over a period of time on Greek soil. This lecture will examine how, why, when, and on what grounds the ancient Greeks began to think of themselves as a singular ethnic entity and will trace developments in the definition of what it meant to be Greek in the ancient world. Jonathan M.

Twilight Auditorium 101

Free
Open to the Public

Cameron Visiting Artist Lecture- Rona Yefman

Sponsored by:
Studio Art
Rona Yefman (b. Haifa, Israel) is a New York City-based artist working in Photography, Video and Installation. Her work explores issues of identity through range of human experiences by collaborating with individuals who have formed a radical persona that inscribe the iconic and the absurd of our time. She received her MFA from Columbia University in New York City in 2009.

Twilight Auditorium 101

Open to the Public

Anne Carson: Lecture on the History of Skywriting

Anne Carson is a major poet, one of the finest at work in the English language, and acknowledged as such throughout the world. She is also a gifted translator of Greek drama. In her presentation at Middlebury, called “A Lecture on the History of Skywriting,” she will present a combination of lecture, poetry, and video, performed by herself and Robert Currie. It should make for an exciting and original event.

Twilight Auditorium 101

Open to the Public

Translating Alterity in Syria and Lebanon

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs and Arabic
We often think of translation as a curative to conflict and miscommunication, but what happens if we understand translation as a site of conflict? In this conversation between Beirut-based writer and translator Lina Mounzer and University of Chicago Professor of Arabic literature and translator Ghenwa Hayek, the speakers will seek to interrogate the connection between translation, war zones, and migration.

Twilight Auditorium 101

Open to the Public

A Reading and Conversation with Hisham Matar

Sponsored by:
Department of English
Hisham Matar will discuss his Pulitzer prize winning book The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between. Matar was nineteen when his father was kidnapped and taken prisoner in Libya. Twenty-two years later, after the fall of Gaddafi, Matar was able to return to his homeland for the first time. In this heart-breaking, illuminating memoir he describes his return to a country and a family he thought he would never see again.

Twilight Auditorium 101

Open to the Public

Inaugural Lecture: Leger Grindon

Sponsored by:
Academic Affairs
“Darkness in Dream Factory: the Nightmare in Film Noir.”

Walter Cerf Distinguished Professor of Film and Media Culture, Leger Grindon will be giving an Inaugural Lecture.

Twilight Auditorium 101

FFW 2017: Paul Ward '25 Memorial Prize

Sponsored by:
Alumni & Parent Programs and Center for Teaching, Learning and Research
Come to the awards ceremony for the Paul W. Ward ’25 Memorial Prize in writing for the Class of 2019. The prize recognizes those second-year students who the faculty judge to have produced outstanding essays in writing classes during their first year. Refreshments will be served. Please RSVP to the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Research at 802.443.3131 or by email at ctlr@middlebury.edu.

Twilight Auditorium 101

Open to the Public