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Updated to Virtual. Register here: https://bit.ly/eWestervelt-21 Eric Westervelt is a San Francisco-based correspondent for NPR’s National Desk. He has reported on major events for the network from wars and revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa to historic wildfires and terrorist attacks in the U.S.

His visit to Vermont is connected to a fall conference on climate change sponsored by the Vermont Humanities Council, and supported by the Engaged Listening Project (go/elp).

The Engaged Listening Project (go/elp) and Vermont Humanities Council welcome Elizabeth Yeampierre as part of VHC’s First Wednesdays Speaker Series.

Puerto Rican climate justice leader Elizabeth Yeampierre has helped pass climate legislation at all levels, including New York’s progressive Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act. In this talk she describes how intergenerational BIPOC activists are changing the landscape of national climate priorities by speaking up for themselves and their neighborhoods.

Who’s Responsible for Our Health? The limits of public health paternalism.

Trauma and the Brain: How extraordinary events change how we look at the world

Of the many commodities carried on Dutch East and West India Company ships in the 17th and 18th centuries, textiles were by far the most numerous. Not only valuable trade items, textiles were also potent signifiers in an increasingly global world, where clothing played a critical role in shaping identities in colonial and European circles. Although extant examples of these textiles are scarce, painted images and archival documents hint at their social and economic importance.

Precolonial Ethnic Violence: The roots of Hindu-Muslim conflict in India

Is ethnic violence in the non-Western world a legacy of colonialism or the precolonial period? Professor Verghese evaluates these competing perspectives using the influential case of Hindu-Muslim violence in India. He has constructed a new dataset of all conflicts between Hindu and Muslim states from 1000 to 1850 AD and finds that historical violence began around 1700 AD—before the British ruled the subcontinent.

Same but Different is a dance-theater performance created and performed by Christal Brown and Lida Winfield. The scholar-artists explore their similarities and differences in a cultural commentary on race, age, and gender. In this webinar, the artists will share excerpts of the work and discuss how it is a reflection of their lived values, artistic practice, and communal existence.

Is the Snow Bowl getting higher? How recent tectonic events have shaped the New England landscape

Digging beneath the surface of something very familiar can be richly rewarding. Such is the case with Old Chapel. Beyond its importance to Middlebury College, this structure recorded in the Historic American Building Survey and listed on the National Register of Historic Places has connections that transcend its accumulated local associations. Prof.

A presentation of four new initiatives that illustrate Middlebury’s strategic framework. 

Public Humanities Labs Initiative – Presented by Marion Wells, Henry N. Hudson Professor of English and American Literatures and Co-Director of the Axinn Center for the Humanities and Febe Armanios, Professor of History and Co-Director of the Axinn Center for the Humanities