Eduardo Navega, conductor

This event is free and open to the public.

This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live

A workshop with Ruhie Kumar, co-founder of Heatwave Action Coalition and Prof. Kodiveri, will unpack how heat, law and
lived experiences of heat impacts interact.

Campus community only, please.

A talk by Japonica Brown-Saracino.

This event is free and open to the public.

NYC-based photographer Jas Leon discusses her photographic practice and shares black-and-white prints in a guest lecture hosted by PHOCUS.

This event is free and open to the public.

Join us for a lecture delivered by Professor Julie Hardwick.

This event is free and open to the public.

Everyone is welcome to drop in and sketch a still-life scene featuring plants from the Olmsted Greenhouse and unique College artifacts from the Vassar College Artifacts Project (VCAP) at your own pace.

Interested in learning more about the midterm elections? Listen to the Department of Political Science’s latest guest speaker event, featuring a talk and Q&A with Professor Samuel Issacharoff on the role of the courts in the upcoming midterms.

Luke Soucy is an award-winning translator of Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

Joyce Kozloff is an internationally recognized artist and feminist who was an originating member of the Pattern and Decoration movement. Maps are the foundation for her recent paintings which employ mutations to raise geopolitical issues and chart the sites of current wars and conflicts.

This event is free and open to the public.

Lecture by Professor Emeritus of Music, Brian Mann.

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Molly Worthen, Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will present this year’s annual Frederic C. Wood Lecture.

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Celebrate the opening of the Loeb’s new exhibition, Photo-Design: Persuasion, Critique, Fantasy, which looks at the many ways designers have used photography over the last century to imagine new possibilities. Featured artist Sarah Elawad joins exhibition curator Jessica D. Brier in conversation, followed by a reception.

This event is free and open to the public.

Poughkeepsie Farm Project’s biggest celebration of the year—a day filled with food, music, and community on the farm.

A night of jazz, soul, and rock featuring new arrangements of old classics, a band of student musicians, and original compositions.

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This lecture explores the dramatic and human factors that transformed the Chinese landscape from wooden buildings supported by ceramic-tile roofs to twisted metal and megatall. The political and emotional story begins around 1840.

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In this biography, written from the vantage point of Chapal Rani herself, author Sandip Roy documents the life and experiences of a once-famous female impersonator of the Jatra theater.

This event is free and open to the public.

Kleber Mendonça Filho and Emilie Lesclaux, in conversation with Prof. Fabio Andrade, will discuss how popular genre films—the kind of movies we often associate with escape from the real world and its troubles—can be used to think through and speak out against authoritarian regimes.

This event is free and open to the public.

We are on the cusp of a golden age of space travel in which, for the first time, large numbers of people will be able to venture into space. Some intend to stay. But what happens—and will happen—to us in the extreme conditions of space? Join us for a talk by Scott Solomon, Teaching Professor of BioSciences at Rice University and Director of the Center for Science Communication and Public Engagement.

This event is free and open to the public.

The Film Department is hosting a screening of the 2026 Oscar-nominated film The Secret Agent, followed by a discussion with filmmakers Kleber Mendonça Filho and Emilie Lesclaux, along with Fabio Andrade, Assistant Professor of Film.

This event is free and open to the public.