Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

David Palumbo-Liu teaches comparative literature at Stanford University. He will discuss the relationship between scholarship and activism and address ongoing debates about the role of freedom of expression in higher education.

Arguing NO: Oren Cass, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Mr. Cass’s work addresses issues ranging from the labor market to environmental regulation to trade and immigration to education and organized labor. He also writes extensively on the nature and implications of climate change and on the process of formulating and evaluating public policy. Cass has written for publications including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Foreign Affairs, and he regularly speaks at universities and testifies before Congress.

A lecture by Ross Douthat (New York Times) with Q & A

Moderated by Governor James H. Douglas

Graduates and guests are welcome to view a live stream from Mead Chapel of the Middlebury Baccalaureate ceremony.

Short films produced by students in the Collaborative Video Projects course during winter term. Free.

With compelling high-seas blue-water action, this eco-thriller is an antipoaching documentary that sees the marine conservation group Sea Shepherd’s vessels chasing the Thunder, the notorious pirate poacher, to the bottom of the sea.

Movie trailer and movie poster

College Democrats are thrilled to be screening “Denial,” a film about Christine Hallquist’s lifelong work in the renewable energy sector as well as her gender transition. Ruth Hardy, Executive Director of Emerge Vermont, and Christine will then join us for a question and answer session with the audience! 

Margaret MacMillan, one of the most well-known historians of our time, will deliver the next Charles S. Grant Memorial Lecture. Professor MacMillan teaches at the University of Toronto, and she is the emeritus Professor of International History and former Warden of St.

A Lecture by Bill Kristol of The Weekly Standard and ABC News

Bill Kristol is founder and editor at large of The Weekly Standard, an influential journal of politics and ideas located in Washington, D.C. He is a regular on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos and has appeared frequently on other leading political commentary shows such as Fox News Sunday.

During the 2016 elections, Mr. Kristol emerged as a prominent Republican critic of then-candidate Donald J. Trump. He remains a vocal critic of the President.