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Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

356 College Street
Middlebury, VT 05753
United States

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Howard E. Woodin Environmental Studies Colloquium Series

Sponsored by:
Environmental Studies
MIDD-ES CORE PANEL DISCUSSION: Conflict Transformation

Dan Brayton, Julian W. Abernethy Professor of Literature
Jeff Howarth, Associate Professor of Geography
Jon Isham, Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies
Monica Przyperhart, Visiting Laboratory Professor in Environmental Studies

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

Open to the Public

FFW: The Liberal Arts and Military Service

Sponsored by:
ZZ Alumni & Parent Programs and Center for Careers & Internships
Join our student panelists, all ROTC cadets, for a discussion about connecting a liberal arts education to national service, including military and national security. Students, faculty, parents, family at all levels, and the wider Middlebury community are invited to attend this candid, student-point-of-view discussion about connecting liberal arts education with commitments to national service, including military and national security.

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

Open to the Public

Robert W. van de Velde Memorial Lecture

Sponsored by:
Academic Office Support
Higher Education: How the Press Shapes the Private Gains Over the Public Good, by Jeffrey J. Selingo Jeffrey J. Selingo has written about higher education for two decades. He is author of three books and a regular contributor to the Washington Post. His newest book, There Is Life After College (HarperCollins, 2016), explores how today’s young adults need to navigate school in order to succeed in the job market of tomorrow. His first book, College (Un)Bound, was a New York Times bestselling education book.

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

Open to the Public

The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life

Sponsored by:
History, Religion, and East Asian Studies
The Vermont Humanities Council and the Ilsley Library present Michael Puett, professor of Chinese history at Harvard, and journalist Christine Gross-Loh, who will speak about their new book, The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life. Hosted by the East Asian Studies program, the History Department, and the Religion Department.

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

Open to the Public

The Hirschfield International Film Series: Microbe & Gasoline

Sponsored by:
Film & Media Culture
Two teenage friends (Ange Dargent, Théophile Baquet) embark on a road trip across France after building a small house on wheels. “An admittedly small but wonderfully sincere portrait of two adolescent outsiders determined to pave their own way in the world.”––Peter Debruge, Variety.

In French with English subtitles. Sponsored by the Hirschfield International Film Series in association with the Vermont International Film Festival. (Michel Gondry, France, 2015, 105 minutes). Free.

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

Open to the Public

The Empathy Gap: Film screening with Dr. Thomas Keith - Masculinity and the Courage to Change

Sponsored by:
Gender, Sexuality, & Fem Studies
In The Bro Code and Generation M, filmmaker Thomas Keith examined how American culture bombards young men with sexist and misogynistic messages. In The Empathy Gap, he looks more closely at the ways these messages short-circuit men’s ability to empathize with women, respect them as equals, and take feminism seriously.

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

Open to the Public

TGR Ski Movie: Paradise Waits Ski Movie Premiere

Sponsored by:
Ski Patrol
Instead of sitting alone daydreaming of snow and waiting for paradise to get here…come watch TGR’s dope new ski film Paradise Waits this Friday at 8pm in Dana Auditorium! Tickets $5 in advance and $7 at the door. Raffle tickets $3 for 1 and $10 for 5. It’s time to get stoked for the season on some wicked skiing and riding (can anyone say Angel Collinson?)

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

TEDxMiddlebury Student Speaker Competition

Come watch or pitch at the 4rd annual TEDxMiddlebury Student Speaker event! Students who wish to be considered as speakers for the 2015 TEDxMiddlebury event will deliver 4 minute talk pitches to a panel of judges, who will then select the speaker. Snacks provided.

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)