Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

356 College Street
Middlebury, VT 05753
United States

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50th Feud

Sponsored by:
Alumni Engagement

Survey Says! How well did you know your classmates? Did you know their tastes, their behaviors, and what generally made them tick? There’s only one way to find out, even if it’s 50 years later. Come join this spirited game of Fiftieth Feud. 

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

Closed to the Public

Traces of Time screening and Q&A with Filmmaker Sim Hutner ’81

Sponsored by:
Alumni Engagement

Set in Vermont and filmed over six years, Traces of Time follows the final chapter in the life of filmmaker Sim Hutner’s mother, Frankie Hutner, class of 1940, with striking intimacy and restraint. The film won the Shouldice Family Prize for Best Vermont-Made Film at the 2025 Middlebury new Filmmakers Festival.

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

Closed to the Public
Please join us for this film screening and Q&A with award-winning Senegalese film director and screenwriter, Mamadou Dia.
Often based on his life growing up in West Africa, Dia’s films explore the tension between fact and fiction, realism and abstraction. In Baamum Nafi (Nafi’s Father), Dia explores themes like religious extremism, tradition, and family conflict in a small Senegalese town, focusing on an ideological battle between a traditional Imam and his brother.
Monday, April 27, 2026 • 7:30 pm
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Film Screening and Discussion with Mamadou Dia

Mamadou Dia is an award-winning Senegalese film director, screenwriter, and co-founder of the production company, Joyedidi. Often based on his life growing up in West Africa, Dia’s films explore the tension between fact and fiction, realism and abstraction.

THE FILM we are screening is BAAMUM NAFI (Nafi’s Father)

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

Open to the Public

Juana Gamero de Coca Symposium in Hispanic Studies: Femicides and Gendered Violence in Latin America

Presented in Spanish with real-time translation to English

The symposium will kickoff with a keynote presentation by Argentine anthropologist Rita Segato, followed by an open discussion with students, faculty, and community members. Hors d’oeuvres will be provided in Sunderland Lobby beginning at 4:00 PM.

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

Open to the Public

SGA Presidential Debate

Candidates, students, and faculty welcome to the presidential debate! The presidential debate will introduce candidates and inform voters of candidates’ positions. 

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)