Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

Professor Rick Bunt, Ph.D., Chemistry & Biochemistry department, will lecture on opioids for the CHEM 0101: World of Chemistry class. Open to the public.

“In the wake of Ryszard Legutko” - A conversation on how we challenge ideas with which we disagree, and how we engage with challenging ideas. This is an opportunity to listen and understand; to question and disagree; and to engage in thoughtful discourse. The panel format will be modeled off of Professor Sarah Stroup’s “Engaged Listening Project.” There will be plenty of opportunities for small group discussion, and audience Q&A. Faculty are encouraged to attend to participate as members of the audience.

Mountainfilm on tour brings a selection of short films from the annual Mountainfilm festival in Telluride, CO to Middlebury, and showcases a variety of films featuring adventure sports, character profiles and conservation efforts. FREE only at Middlebury.

Mountainfilm on Tour in Middlebury is hosted by the Middlebury Mountain Club

Mountainfilm on Tour is coming to Middlebury, bringing a selection of culturally rich, adventure-packed and inspiring documentary films curated from the Mountainfilm festival held every Memorial Day weekend in Telluride, Colorado.

Held at Dana Auditorium on November 4th the show(s) will explore themes connected to Mountainfilm’s mission: to use the power of film, art and ideas to inspire audiences to create a better world.

Mountainfilm on Tour in Middlebury is hosted by the Middlebury Mountain Club

The Mental Health Monologues will follow the format of It Happens Here. It will take place Thursday April 4th at 8pm in Dana Auditorium. MHM is an opportunity for members of the Middlebury College community to share their mental health stories and to bring about awareness and acceptance of mental health challenges. Specifically, we hope to open up dialogue on campus about mental health struggles, triumphs, recovery and courage.

Please join us for this semester’s iteration of It Happens Here, and event in which community members have the opportunity to listen to and share stories of sexual assault, pain, and healing. Please be advised that this event will contain potentially triggering material.

A leading socialist economist and a leading free-market economist/political scientist will advance contrasting views on a crucial question in American public life: IS CAPITALISM WORTH SAVING?

What is it like to live with a disability in Russia? What happens when an ethnographer sets out to write a play based on the stories of fieldwork participants? What happens when American theater-makers with disabilities stage a play about Russia? I WAS NEVER ALONE is an ethnographic play about the experiences of people with mobility and speech impairments in contemporary Russia. Playwright-ethnographer Cassandra Hartblay reflects on the process of developing the script, bringing an anthropologist’s sensibility to examining disability studies and performance ethnography.

CRISPR is a gene editing tool that allows us to manipulate and control the basic building blocks of life. It can be used to cure disease, reshape the environment, and even design our own children! “Human Nature is a documentary about CRISPR’s far-reaching implications, through the eyes of the scientists who discovered it, the families it’s affecting, and the bioengineers who are testing its limits” (Goodwin, Wonder Collaborative, Inc). It is a must-see for those interested in how this technology can change our relationship with nature, and what it means to be human.

Growing up in the Moroccan village of Tazzeka, Elias learned the secrets of traditional Moroccan cuisine from his grandmother who raised him. Years later, meeting a top Paris chef and a young woman named Salma inspires him to leave home. In Paris, Elias faces unstable work and financial hardship as an undocumented immigrant. But he also finds friendship with Souleymane, who helps revive his passion for cooking. In French with English subtitles. Sponsored by the Department of French. (1h 35min). Free.