Events

  • Fall Family Weekend Campus Tree Tour!

    Meet at the front porch of Franklin Environmental Center at Hillcrest to join the popular Fall Family Weekend Campus Tree Tour led by passionate Middlebury horticulturalist and tree expert Tim Parsons. Learn fun facts and hear stories about various trees around campus. Tim will also explain how he manages our rural Vermont campus as an urban forest.

    Check out Tim Parson’s blog, The Middlebury Landscape, or follow Tim on Instagram.

    Middlebury College

    Closed to the Public
  • FFW: Growing with the Knoll: 20 Years in the Garden - Book Release Party!

    We’re delighted to release our community sourced book filled with memories, photos, art, and poetry submitted by 60+ alumni, students, faculty, staff, and friends. Light refreshments provided, followed by a short program and readings from contributors.

    Axinn Center Abernethy Room (221)

    Open to the Public
  • FFW: Poetry Workshop with Julia Alvarez

    The Knoll welcomes Writer in Residence Emerita, award-winning Dominican-American novelist, poet, and writer Julia Alvarez, for an immersive poetry workshop at the Knoll. In case of location change due to weather, please visit go/knollhours/ for up-to-date information.

    The Knoll

    Closed to the Public
  • 28th annual First Show: Look, Dream, Begin

    First Show: Look, Dream, Begin, is a series of brand new, short plays from around the world interwoven into an inventive, truthful, and life-affirming piece about what it means to dream up a future during climate crisis.

    Hepburn Zoo

    Open to the Public
  • 28th annual First Show: Look, Dream, Begin

    First Show: Look, Dream, Begin, is a series of brand new, short plays from around the world interwoven into an inventive, truthful, and life-affirming piece about what it means to dream up a future during climate crisis.

    Hepburn Zoo

    Open to the Public
  • 28th annual First Show: Look, Dream, Begin

    First Show: Look, Dream, Begin, is a series of brand new, short plays from around the world interwoven into an inventive, truthful, and life-affirming piece about what it means to dream up a future during climate crisis.

    Hepburn Zoo

    Open to the Public
  • 28th annual First Show: Look, Dream, Begin

    First Show: Look, Dream, Begin, is a series of brand new, short plays from around the world interwoven into an inventive, truthful, and life-affirming piece about what it means to dream up a future during climate crisis.

    Hepburn Zoo

    Open to the Public
  • Howard E. Woodin Environmental Studies Colloquium Series talk by Megan McKenna

    “Listening to a changing world: what soundscapes can teach us” an Environmental Studies Colloquium Series talk by Megan McKenna, Academic Director of Study Away at Monterey, including California Coast and Climate Semester, Middlebury Institute of International Studies. Senior Data Scientist, affiliate with NOAA National Center for Environmental Information.

    Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

    Open to the Public
  • Image of trees surrounded by smoke from a fire

    Elemental: Reimagine Wildfire Documentary Film

    Documentary film screening of Elemental: Reimagine Wildfire followed by panel discussion and Q&A session with film director, experts interviewed in the film, and local experts from Middlebury.

    Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

    Closed to the Public
  • Discerning Our Obligations to Respond to Climate Change

    Chuck Collins is coming to campus this fall! He is the Director of the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies in DC, and the author of a new book, Altar to an Erupting Sun. The book has won praise from Bill McKibben, Kim Stanley Robinson and Winona LaDuke, among others, and asks us to confront our moral obligations to act in the face of climate change.

    Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

    Open to the Public
  • Howard E. Woodin Environmental Studies Colloquium Series: The Texture of Landscape

    “The Texture of Landscape” Environmental Studies Colloquium Series talk by Nancy Winship Milliken, Environmental Artist.

    What is Celebratory Ecology? How do we memorialize a global event, such as climate change, that seemingly has no end? Where are the nature-centric monuments? Nancy shares her open studio approach that holds these questions at the center of her practice.

    Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

    Open to the Public
  • "Dolores" Film Screening - Releaf x CAP!

    We are happy to announce that we are hosting a FREE screening of the PBS documentary “Dolores”. This film is about the iconic Dolores Clara Fernández Huerta, a labor leader and civil rights activist who, with Cesar Chavez, is a co-founder of the United Farmworkers Association, which later merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee to become the United Farm Workers.

    Axinn Center 232

    Open to the Public
  • Alumni Panel: Applying to Graduate School in Chemistry-Related Fields

    Come hear alums share their insights on the graduate school application and selection process. Panelists will represent diverse areas of chemistry, biochemistry, molecular biology, and related interdisciplinary fields, as well as myriad grad years and career aspirations. The session will be moderated by Professor Molly Costanza-Robinson (Chemistry & Biochemistry and the Program for Environmental Studies).

    No registration necessary.

    Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

    Closed to the Public
  • Environmental Studies Program Fall Cider Social

    Come meet fellow Environmental Studies majors, minors, and faculty. Learn more about the major and opportunities in the program and get any questions answered prior to spring registration. Prospective majors and minors are also encouraged to attend. Apples, cider, and cider doughnuts will be served.

    Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

    Closed to the Public
  • Howard E. Woodin Environmental Studies Colloquium Series

    ENVS 0401 A Community Engaged Practicum Student Presentations: Inclusive Paths Forward: Navigating a Sustainable Decarbonized Future for All

    Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

    Open to the Public

Related Events Around Campus

  • Howard E. Woodin Environmental Studies Colloquium Series

    “Defending Conserved Land: The Challenge of Data Centers and Energy Infrastructure” by Christopher G. Miller, President, The Piedmont Environmental Council.

    Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

    Open to the Public
  • Queer Mystic

    Cultivating personal spirituality through the arts, nature, ceremony, food, &

    Charles P. Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Life - 46 South Street

  • Book cover of 'Brothers on Three' by Abe Streep. Text reads: 'A true story of family, resistance, and hope on a reservation in Montana.' Background is a photograph of a group of people playing basketball, silhouetted against a dusk sky.

    Author Talk by Abe Streep '04 about Brothers on Three

    Award-winning journalist Abe Streep (‘04) will be in conversation with esteemed sports writer, Alexander Wolff to discuss his first book, Brothers on Three: A True Story of Family, Resistance, and Hope on a Reservation in Montana (Celadon Books, 2021). The book follows the boys basketball team from Arlee High School as they defend their state championship. Streep reports on the place of basketball in the lives of members of the Flathead Reservation’s Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes.

    Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

    Open to the Public
  • Howard E. Woodin Environmental Studies Colloquium Series

    MIDD-ES CORE PANEL DISCUSSION: Restoration

    Mez Baker-Medard, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies
    Kathryn Morse, John C. Elder Professor of Environmental Studies, and
    Professor of History
    Alexis Mychajliw, Assistant Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies

    Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

    Open to the Public
  • Image of a man wearing a white shirt

    Howard E. Woodin Environmental Studies Colloquium Series

    “The Progress Illusion: Reclaiming Our Future from the Fairytale of Economics” by Jon D. Erickson, Blittersdorf Professor of Sustainability Science and Policy, University of Vermont.

    Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

    Open to the Public
  • Howard E. Woodin Environmental Studies Colloquium Series

    “Building a Soccer Club driven by Environmental Justice” by Sam Glickman & Patrick Infurna, Co-founders of Vermont Green FC, and Markus Gerke, Visiting Scholar, Department of Sociology, Middlebury College.

    Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

    Open to the Public
  • Image of a woman wearing a pink shirt

    Howard E. Woodin Environmental Studies Colloquium Series

    “Climate Theatre: Stories of Kinship, Community, and Climate Justice” by Theresa May, Faculty of Theatre, Environment and Indigenous Studies at the University of Oregon, and Artistic Director of the EMOS Ecodrama Playwrights Festival.

    Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

    Open to the Public
  • Image of a woman

    The Scott A. Margolin ’99 Lecture in Environmental Affairs

    The 2023 Scott A. Margolin ‘99 Lecture in Environmental Affairs presents Elizabeth Rush, author of The Quickening: On Motherhood and Antarctica in the Twenty First Century and Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

    On Rising Together: Collective and creative responses to the climate crisis

    Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

    Open to the Public
  • Yellow sky with clouds. A barn. 2 people on bikes and 3 people standing in tall grass.

    Somewhere

    A play by Marisela Treviño Orta directed by Olga Sanchez Saltveit.
    Almost all the insects are gone, but Cassandra and her brother Alexander are tracking the world’s last monarch butterflies heading to the west coast instead of south. Their path intersects with an Oregon truffle farm where a small group of people are hunkering down to wait out the apocalypse. Will their encounter provoke the collapse of humanity or a new beginning?

    Performances: April 6th – 8th, 7:30 pm each evening and 2 pm on Saturday.

    Mahaney Arts Center Seeler Studio Theatre

    Open to the Public
  • Yellow sky with clouds. A barn. 2 people on bikes and 3 people standing in tall grass.

    Somewhere

    A play by Marisela Treviño Orta directed by Olga Sanchez Saltveit.
    Almost all the insects are gone, but Cassandra and her brother Alexander are tracking the world’s last monarch butterflies heading to the west coast instead of south. Their path intersects with an Oregon truffle farm where a small group of people are hunkering down to wait out the apocalypse. Will their encounter provoke the collapse of humanity or a new beginning?

    Performances: April 6th – 8th, 7:30 pm each evening and 2 pm on Saturday.

    Mahaney Arts Center Seeler Studio Theatre

    Open to the Public
  • Yellow sky with clouds. A barn. 2 people on bikes and 3 people standing in tall grass.

    Somewhere

    A play by Marisela Treviño Orta directed by Olga Sanchez Saltveit.
    Almost all the insects are gone, but Cassandra and her brother Alexander are tracking the world’s last monarch butterflies heading to the west coast instead of south. Their path intersects with an Oregon truffle farm where a small group of people are hunkering down to wait out the apocalypse. Will their encounter provoke the collapse of humanity or a new beginning?

    Performances: April 6th – 8th, 7:30 pm each evening and 2 pm on Saturday.

    Mahaney Arts Center Seeler Studio Theatre

    Open to the Public
  • Yellow sky with clouds. A barn. 2 people on bikes and 3 people standing in tall grass.

    Somewhere

    A play by Marisela Treviño Orta directed by Olga Sanchez Saltveit.
    Almost all the insects are gone, but Cassandra and her brother Alexander are tracking the world’s last monarch butterflies heading to the west coast instead of south. Their path intersects with an Oregon truffle farm where a small group of people are hunkering down to wait out the apocalypse. Will their encounter provoke the collapse of humanity or a new beginning?

    Performances: April 6th – 8th, 7:30 pm each evening and 2 pm on Saturday.

    Mahaney Arts Center Seeler Studio Theatre

    Open to the Public
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