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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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This symposium brings together scholars working across the Mediterranean and East Asia to explore the manifold dimensions of letter-writing in premodern cultures. Through perspectives spanning ancient Rome, early medieval China, and medieval Japan, the event examines how epistles shaped education, literary self-presentation, emotions, and relationships of power across different historical and cultural contexts.

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Dr. Kathryn Furlong examines how infrastructure financing and public debt have shaped Medellín’s celebrated urban transformation while creating ongoing crises for vulnerable residents.

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Featuring Faculty with Curtis Dozier, Associate Professor and Chair of Greek and Roman Studies.

The True North Jazz Project performs original music, jazz standards, world music, and unique interpretations of pop and rock tunes. Featuring Joe North, saxophone; Ryan Cerullo, piano; Buddy Griffith, bass; and Ryan Odell, drums.

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Celebrate the 2026 Summer Community Fellows and their community partners.

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Vassar welcomes family members back to campus for a weekend of panels, performances, outdoor fun, art events, and lots more!

Lisa Tetrault, Associate Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University, will deliver the C. Mildred Thompson Lecture. The event will include a special message for retiring Professor Rebecca Edwards.

Professor Mary McLeod examines women designers’ influence on European modern architecture between the World Wars.

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Join us at the Olmsted Greenhouse for a calm doodling session with Vassar’s Counseling Center! No artistic skills necessary—we are just doodling for fun and to calm the mind. All ages welcome.

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Writer, essayist, translator, and editor Eliot Weinberger delivers the Elizabeth Bishop Poetry Lecture.

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Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the film’s release, the Film Department is hosting a screening of Vassar’s own Associate Professor of Film, Denise Iris’s Minor Visions (2001), followed by a conversation with Iris Charles H. Arndt, Associate Professor of Russian Studies, and Andreea Drogeanu, Tribeca Film Festival Programmer.

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2026 marks the 40th anniversary of Vassar’s Undergraduate Research Summer Institute (URSI) and was the largest in the program’s history, with over 120 students and faculty working to create a scholarly, scientific community. Please join us in celebrating the accomplishments of our talented faculty and students at this, the 40th annual URSI Symposium.

Campus community only, please.

Join us as we mark the closing weekend of A Living Legacy: Gifts from Lynn Gross Straus with a program featuring three generations of scholars who have been impacted by Lynn's generosity: Elizabeth Prelinger, Professor Emeritus of Art History at Georgetown University; John Murphy, the Philip and Lynn Straus Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Loeb; and Ruby Funfrock, Vassar Class of 2024 and former Loeb curatorial student assistant.

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