Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

The endowment of Middlebury College represents a financial resource of nearly $1.2 billion. This resource provides the College with enormous potential to provide funds for financial aid as well as daily operating costs. Come and join a conversation with College CFO David Provost on what the endowment is, where it is invested, its performance over the past few years, and how it can be used to provide for financial aid. Discussion with take place in Dana Auditorium and include an open Q&A after the event

A showcase of senior thesis films produced by Film and Media Culture majors presented on the big screen in Dana Auditorium. A variety of modes and styles may be presented including narrative, non-narrative, experimental, remix, animation, and the videographic essay. Free and open to the public.

While rehearsing a production of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman,” a couple must evacuate their home. After moving, the wife is attacked, leaving her husband determined to find the attacker despite his wife’s objections. The Salesman is a “finely cut gem of neorealist suspense.” –– Owen Gleiberman, Variety. (124 minutes) Admission: Free

“’Where Do We Go From Here?’: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Unanswered Question”, Clayborne Carson

Professor Carson is the founding director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute. In 1985 the late Coretta Scott King asked him to oversee the King Papers Project. His book, “In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s”, won the OAH’s Frederick Jackson Turner Prize. More recently, he is the author of “Martin’s Dream: My Journey and the Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.”

In The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World in Flux, Professor Cathy N. Davidson argues that the American university is stuck in the past—and shows how we can revolutionize it to prepare students for our age of constant change. Our current system of higher education dates to the period from 1865 to 1925, when the nation’s new universities created grades and departments, majors and minors, graduate and professional schools in an attempt to prepare young people for a world transformed by the telegraph and the Model T.

Lecture given by Jonathan Miller-Lane, Associate Professor of Education Studies.

What is a robust public sphere? Why is it important to American society and global citizenship? How should we construct it? How can a liberal arts education prepare students to engage it? What does free expression have to do with the creation of a robust public sphere? How should inclusion and political difference factor in our understanding of a robust public sphere?

A comedy-drama about a Black American female philosophy professor and her insensitive, philandering, and flamboyant artist husband who are having a marital crisis. When the wife goes off on an almost unbelievable journey to find “ecstasy”, her husband is forced to see her in a different light.

The story of Nola Darling’s simultaneous sexual relationships with three different men is told by her and by her partners and other friends. All three men wanted her to commit solely to them; Nola resists being “owned” by a single partner.

The survivor (Barbara Kaye) will share her story of how she was trafficked in New York and how this contributed to a serious drug addition. In addition she will talk about her recovery and we will open up the floor to questions.