Kathryn Wasserman Davis Collaborative in Conflict Transformation

The Global Body in Conflict: Movement Matters series welcomes INSPIRIT, a dance company. INSPIRIT’s newest work, “What We Ask of Flesh” sees flesh as the veil between the world and the soul, and explores what people hold, relinquish and collect to create an identity. “What We Ask of Flesh” is about navigating the spaces between our internal and external existence.

Toby will share about their experience making and performing with a fluidly changing embodiment, as a trans and disabled dance artist.

Transfer & Translation - moving movement from one body to another. How does it work? What changes in the process? All levels and all bodies welcome, to create and solve movement puzzles together.

The Global Body in Conflict: Movement Matters series welcomes artist Tatiana Desardouin, whose work explores race, Black culture, immigration and colonization through Hip Hop dance. Join Tatiana for an artist talk.

The Global Body in Conflict: Movement Matters series welcomes artist Tatiana Desardouin, whose work explores race, Black culture, immigration and colonization through Hip Hop dance. Join Tatiana for a Movement Matters Master class.

The Global Body in Conflict: Movement Matters series welcomes artist Tatiana Desardouin, whose work explores race, Black culture, immigration and colonization through Hip Hop dance. Join Tatiana for lunch and discussion. Open to Middlebury College students, faculty, and staff only. Limited to 15 people. Please pre-register here

The Language Studies Department invites you to celebrate the International Day of Peace with us on Thursday, September 21 at the Samson Patio from 10am-12pm. This event will include short speeches and reflections on peace in multiple languages. Cohorts from Arabic, French, English, Japanese, and Spanish will be presenting in their target languages. The event is open to the campus at large and we welcome all students to share how to say “peace” in their native languages. The UN theme for this internationally recognized day is “Actions for Peace: Our Ambitions for the #Global Goals.”

Film Screening of the documentary Spaces of Exception (2018, 90 minutes), followed by Q&A with filmmakers Matt Peterson and Malek Rasamny, moderated by Professor James Sanchez.

This panel features an interdisciplinary look at the pursuit of justice and social change through the lens of conflict transformation.

Panelists:
• Netta Avineri, professor of TESOL/TFL at MIIS and head of the Graduate Pillar of the CT Collaborative (moderator)
• sujatha baliga, attorney, restorative justice practitioner, and MacArthur Fellow
• Sarah Stroup, professor at Middlebury, NGO scholar, and CT Collaborative director

Sponsored by the Conflict Transformation Collaborative

This event is an opportunity to engage with our 2022 Conflict Transformation Grant Recipients and learn more about their work in conflict analysis and transformation. This event will be collaborative and interactive between the Midd and MIIS campuses. See the full list of 2022 grant recipients here.