If you’ve been carrying a lot—work, family, the world—consider this your invitation to pause. Join the Jeh Vincent Johnson ALANA Cultural Center and Affinity Engagement for a two-day gathering centered on well-being, intentional community, and the vital role of the ALANA Cultural Center on April 10 and 11. Registration is required.

This event is free and open to the public.

Prof. Laura MacManus-Spencer of Union College presents her research on organic UV filter chemicals, examining their environmental fate, behavior in sunlight, and effects at the cellular level.

Campus community only, please.

Chris Appy, Professor of History and Director of The Ellsberg Initiative for Peace and Democracy at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

Free and open to the public.

The Ullŭng Islander’s Drift through Classical and Post-classical Japanese Poetry, lecture by Jeffrey Niedermaier.

Vassar celebrates Soweto with a screening of Sifiso Khanyile’s critically acclaimed documentary Uprize!, followed by a faculty roundtable featuring Professors Mia Mask, Ismail Rashid, and Samson Opondo, along with local activist and South African native Dr. Ereshnee Naidu. The discussion will be moderated by Professor Mariam Rashid.

Campus community only, please.

This talk will introduce attendees to the concept of Indigenous geographies, and will encourage them to think about the field as not just an academic area of study, but a lived experience and something that they can experience, whether they are Indigenous or not.

This event is free and open to the public.

Music of Bach, Liszt, Ravel & Rachmaninoff

This event is open to the public.

Join playwright Mahesh Dattani, guest playwright and author, and the student cast of Dance Like a Man, for a compelling new play reading of his new work, Dance Like a Goddess and conversation exploring the dynamic intersection of performance and politics in modern India.

This event is free and open to the public.

Award-winning author Adam Ross ’89 will be reading from his current novel, Playworld.

This event is free and open to the public.

In this C. Mildred Thompson lecture, Professor Jennifer Brody ’87 discusses her forthcoming book, Moving Stones: About the Art of Edmonia Lewis. It explores the extraordinary life and work of Edmonia Lewis, the Black and Ojibwe sculptor who rose to international fame in the nineteenth century.

This event is free and open to the public.

7:00 p.m.

Campus community only, please.

Vassar College's Office of Religious and Spiritual Life and Contemplative Practices (RSLCP), along with the Episcopal Church at Vassar, welcome all Vassar community members to attend.

Campus community only, please.

Lecture by Brandon A. Jackson, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois and author of Brotherhood University: Black Men's Friendships and Transition to Adulthood.

Free and open to the public.

In this presentation, Dr. Liu will introduce the research methods of “Clothing, Food, and Traveling,” the speaker’s new work on Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan, a seventeenth-century magnum opus writing under the pseudonym of Xizhou Sheng.

This event is free and open to the public.

Internationally acclaimed German artist Barbara Beisinghoff discusses how her work explores the subversive dimensions of the Grimms’ fairy tales.

This event is free and open to the public.

Screening of Fred Kudjo Kuwornu’s documentary, We Were Here: The Untold History of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe, followed by a discussion with the director.

This event is free and open to the public.

Artist Marie Watt is a member of the Turtle Clan of the Seneca Nation of Indians whose work draws on images and ideas from Haudenosaunee protofeminism and Indigenous teachings. Through printmaking, painting, sculpture, and textile, she explores how history, community, and storytelling intersect. 

This virtual event is free and open to the public.

Dr. Consuelo Amat, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins, researches state repression, resistance, political violence, and civil society, particularly in Latin America. Her Vassar talk, “Conversations on nonviolence, peace, and civic life,” will address the definition of violence, coalition-building against repression, and non-state aid in conflict. Dinner is included and RSVP is required.

This event is free and open to the public.

Abendmusik, New York’s period instrument string band, presents a special performance of Antonio Vivaldi’s first collection of printed concerti for 1, 2, and 4 violins: L’estro armonico, Op. 3., to honor the legacy of women in music.

This event is free and open to the public.

Featuring pieces for flute by European composers Debussy, Gahn, Hindemith, and Hue.

This event is open to the public.