Events
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
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Mock Trial Meeting
- Sponsored by:
- Middlebury Mock Trial
Weekly J-Term meeting for Mock Trial members.
Axinn Center 104
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Yarn and Yap J-Term Weekly Meeting
- Sponsored by:
- Yarn and Yap
Come to our weekly meeting where we chat, do fiber arts, and generally have a great time! Open to anyone regardless of experience levels.
Brooker Main Floor Lounge (Outdoor Interest)
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Birdie Battle - Midd Badminton Club
- Sponsored by:
- Middlebury College Badminton Club
Looking for a fun way to stay active? No skill or experience required—just bring yourself! We provide rackets and shuttles, or feel free to bring your own. Come play singles or doubles, meet new people, and enjoy a fast-paced, exciting sport.
All students are welcome—drop in, give it a try, and you might just fall in love with badminton!
Memorial Field House Nelson Multi-Use Area
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Spencer Prize in Oratory 2026 Grand Championship
- Sponsored by:
- ORATORY NOW
January 27, Tuesday
Grand Championship: Spencer Prize in Oratory
7:30 PM, Wilson Hall, McCullough Student Center
Featuring the 2026 Spencer Prize Finalists… and special guests, the Middlebury Mamajamas!
McCullough - Mitchell Green Lounge
Open to the Public
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First Year Committee Meeting
- Sponsored by:
- SGA - First Year Committee
The meeting with the first-year committee, which plans events and works on initiatives to make the best first year possible for freshmen.
Davis Family Library 105A
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Wednesday, January 28, 2026
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Before I Die
- Sponsored by:
- Mahaney Arts Center and Elizabeth Hackett Robinson ’84 Innovation Hub
This interactive public art installation invites members of the Middlebury community to reflect on what matters most. By sharing personal hopes and aspirations on a communal wall, the project fosters connection, introspection, and a celebration of our shared humanity. Inspired by the global Before I Die project, this installation transforms public space into a canvas for gratitude, memory, and possibility.
Mahaney Arts Center Lower Lobby
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Living with Genji: The "World's First Novel" in 21st Century Japan
- Sponsored by:
- Japanese and Axinn Center for the Humanities
Davis Family Library, Upper Level Display Cases
The students in JAPN 290 (“Reading the Tale of Genji” in English”) and Prof. Otilia Milutin (Japanese Studies) are cordially inviting you and your students to view their exhibit, “Living with Genji: The World’s First Novel in 21st Century Japan.” The exhibit features a selection of objects, artwork, movies, and manga inspired by the 11th century classic The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu. Our exhibit aims to showcase a few selected items that speak both of the tale’s enduring legacy in traditional Japanese arts, and, equally important, of its contemporary reiterations, be they manga and movies adaptations or commercial, consumer-oriented products such as mascots, stationary, fabrics, and other everyday objects. Through our exhibit, we hope to demonstrate how a millennium old classic lives and thrives today in contemporary Japan.
Middlebury College
Open to the Public
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Weekday Morning Sitting Meditation
- Sponsored by:
- Charles P. Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Life
Join us for 15 minutes of silent meditation every weekday morning, led by various staff, faculty, and students. No registration required. Drop in any day that works for you!
McCullough Crest Room
Closed to the Public
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The SlowDown
- Sponsored by:
- Charles P. Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Life
Come slow down with beads, collaging, watercolors, grown-up coloring books and more. Homemade hot chai and cookies too!
McCullough Crest Room
Closed to the Public
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Proof of Life Multimedia Exhibit
- Sponsored by:
- Writing and Rhetoric Program and Gender, Sexuality, & Fem Studies
This exhibit features the fieldwork and reflections of students in the winter term course: Acting Your Age: Meanings of Adulthood. Through images, sound and text, students will share personal reflections and highlights from readings. They will reveal traces of “adulting” norms found in college archives, and tell stories of growing, ageing and being alive shared by youth and elders in Addison County. They will explore how notions of childhood, adulthood and ageing are shaped by economic, political and social structures, and envision new possibilities for becoming “adult.”
Axinn Center Winter Garden
Open to the Public