Events

Joel Michael Reynolds, “Worldcreation: A Critical Phenomenology of Disability and Care.”

Nov205:30pm2019

Location Rockefeller Hall, Room 200

Reynolds’s lecture is part of the Philosopher’s Holiday Lecture Series and sponsored by the Philosophy Department.

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Artist Lois Dodd to Talk About Her Work

Nov206:00pm2019

Location Taylor Hall, Room 203

Lois Dodd (b.1927) first studied art and textile design while attending Cooper Union in the 1940s. She was one of five artists to establish the legendary Tanager Gallery in 1952, an important 10th Street co-op gallery where many young artists first found a platform for their work.

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An Evening with Lydia Davis, “Translating Madame Bovary”

Nov215:30pm2019

Location Taylor Hall, Room 203

Author and translator talks about the experience of translating Gustave Flaubert's 1857 novel Madame Bovary

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Vassar Repertory Dance Theatre “Final Showings”

Nov217:00pm2019

Location Kenyon Hall, Frances Daly Fergusson Dance Theater

VRDT presents three performances for the 2019-20 season.

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Vassar Voices: A Story-Sharing Initiative by The EPI.

Nov221:00pm2019

Location Thompson Memorial Library

We hope to foster a more extensive and inclusive space for connection among Vassar students, faculty, staff, and administration.

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Khury Petersen-Smith, “Nations of Walls: Colonialism, Racism, and Undoing Empire”

Nov256:00pm2019

Location Rockefeller Hall, Room 300

Khury Petersen-Smith will lecture on empire, borders, militarization, and migration, as well as activism for a less militarized, less violent U.S. both within and beyond U.S. borders.

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Balancing Work and Personal Life

Dec510:00am2019

Location Main Building College Center MPR

An administrative workshop promoting boundaries between work and social life, encouraging professional fulfillment and healthy time management. ADMINISTRATORS ONLY

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Shai Secunda, “A Sea of Text, or A Material History of the Immaterial Oral Talmud”

Dec105:00pm2019

Location Taylor Hall, Room 203

Professor Shai Secunda holds the Jacob Neusner Chair in Judaism at Bard College, where he directs the college’s Religion Program. His research focuses on the Babylonian Talmud and Babylonian Judaism, and their development in Sasanian Iran.

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Elizabeth Rush, “On Rising Together: Creative and Collective Responses to the Climate Crisis”

Dec105:30pm2019

Location Taylor Hall, Room 102

Elizabeth Rush is the author of Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore and Still Lifes from a Vanishing City: Essays and Photographs from Yangon, Myanmar. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Gaurdian, Harper’s, The Atlantic, Pacific Standard, and the New Republic, among others.

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Exhibition Opening for Fine Presses and Poetry of the Great War, Curated by Livia Bartels ’20.

Dec102019

Location Archives & Special Collections Library

Library exhibit showcasing the work of the "war poets", whose works and worldviews were shaped by their experiences in World War I.

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