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
In honor of the late Professor Emeritus and former trustee John Spencer, Oratory Now is pleased to present the ninth annual speech competition for first-year students (including sophomore febs!). Qualifying rounds culminate in a Jan 27 Grand Championship event. Details are at go/spencer. FREE and open to the public.
Adirondack Coltrane Lounge
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
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
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
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
George Thompson brings his Publisher-in-Residence series back to Middlebury in the second week of Winter Term ‘26. Join George for a 75-minute lunch session on Wednesday, 1/14, where he will provide the latest intel and insights about the state of the publishing world. There will also be a limited number of advising sessions on Wednesday, 1/14, and Thursday, 1/15, for faculty to meet individually with George about their scholarly hopes, plans, and questions.
Davis Family Library Center for Teaching, Learning and Research
The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs J-Term Speaker Series presents Jeffrey Lewis and Sam Lair. Details for talk to follow.
The RCGA J-Term Speaker Series features Middlebury College winter term faculty examining some of the most challenging issues in their areas of expertise.
In-person event. RAJ CON
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
“Witness Marks: Anatomy of a Memory” is a multi-media installation, premiering at the Kent Museum, in Calais, VT, in September, in which I explore how we create, store, and access memory. While there have been theories of how the brain works for millennia, we only have accurate imagery of brain structures based on dissection spanning from the 1860s (drawings by scientists Deiters, Golgi, Bevan-Lewis, and Dejerine, to name a few), to Ramon y Cajal’s drawings of neurons (1899 – 1930s), all the way to the colorful and beautiful photo imagery of neuronal circuits generated by supercomputers.
Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103
Networking outreach is critical for any job search. Research shows it speeds up your job search, results in better fit/higher job satisfaction, and is even associated with higher starting salaries. Join this session to learn how to find and contact professionals relevant to your interests, how to prepare, and how to lead an engaging and impactful conversation with them. We’ll cover all types of outreach—from basic informational interviews, to follow-up outreach, to advocacy calls inquiring about job opportunities. Open to all students graduating in Feb or May 2026.
Axinn Center 109
Come slow down with beads, collaging, watercolors, grown-up coloring books and more. Homemade hot chai and cookies too!
McCullough Crest Room
A comprehensive introduction to traditional Chinese brush calligraphy. We will start from the very basics: how to hold a brush and the basic strokes. Each week will consist of two sessions, with each week focusing on a new style or calligrapher. The leader will give an introduction to each style and demonstrate writing. The participants will then have the opportunity to practice, with the workshop leader giving feedback. During the last session (or two) we will write traditional Spring Couplets on red paper for Spring Festival. No experience necessary.
Sunderland IL1
