As part of this year’s Community Care festivities, please join us at The Vassar Table—a gathering to commemorate what makes Vassar, Vassar. Catered by Vassar Dining, the menu will feature dishes inspired by the land, traditions, and stories that have shaped the college.

Campus community only, please.

Shirley Johnson-Lans, Professor Emerita of Economics, reflects on her role in establishing health economics at Vassar and advancing the field within the discipline of economics.

The event is free and open to the public.

8:00 p.m.

Open to the public. Reservations required.

Join us for a book launch and panel on community-engaged learning, featuring Vassar faculty, staff, and guests. Organized by Maria Hantzopoulos.

This event is free and open to the public.

Jeremy Varon is a Professor of History at The New School and author of Our Grief Is Not a Cry for War: The Movement to Stop the War on Terror (U. Of Chicago Press).

This event is free and open to the public.

At Poughkeepsie Day School, children are active participants in their learning. Through tangible, collaborative, and immersive experiences, students develop curiosity, confidence, and a lasting passion for discovery.

Drew Minter, conductor

This event is free and open to the public.

Milica Jelača Jovanović and Marija Ilić explore a variety of repertoire for the two-piano ensemble. Music by Beach, Bogojević, Bach, and Bolcom.

This event is free and open to the public.

The Film Department welcomes John Cameron Mitchell for a conversation with Professor Stein on his career as a director, actor, playwright, and producer, and queer representation in creative mediums.

This event is free and open to the public.

An immigration law expert will discuss legal rights, protections, and campus support resources.

This event is free and open to the public.

Please join Jasper Craven—a reporter covering the military for outlets including Harper’s, New York, and The New York Times—as he discusses his new book, “God Forgives, Brothers Don’t,” which Publisher’s Weekly called a “vital perspective on America’s masculinity crisis.”

This year’s annual Dr. Maurice Sitomer Lecture, presented by the Jewish Studies Program, will be delivered by Professor David Engel of New York University.

This event is free and open to the public.

Writer Iman Humaydan and Academic-Translator Michelle Hartman in conversation.

This event is free and open to the public.

Josephine Halvorson will give a lecture on her work and process as an artist working from direct observation, foregrounding the firsthand experience of noticing, describing, and learning from the physical world.

This event is free and open to the public.

New York Times bestselling author Cole Arthur Riley is the creator of Black Liturgies, a space that integrates spiritual practice with Black emotion, Black literature, and the Black body.

Join Assistant Professor of History Yu-chi Chang and curator Monique D’Almeida for a closer look at the Meiji war prints in the exhibition Bunmei Kaika: Political Landscape in Early Modern and Modern Japan. This talk explores the 1874 Japanese military campaign against the indigenous peoples of southern Taiwan, discussing how the event demonstrates colonial thinking during the early Meiji period.

This event is free and open to the public.

Vassar Repertory Dance Theatre presents a series of three spring concerts on April 16, 17, and 18 at 7:00 p.m. The programs feature works by iconic 20th-century choreographers, George Balanchine and José Limón, prominent contemporary choreographers Pascal Rioult and Jon Lehrer, a fast-paced ballet by Miriam Mahdaviani, a powerful new Hip-hop piece by Keith Alexander, as well as five new pieces by student choreographers.

This event is free and open to the public.

Sarah Gould of Université Paris, Panthéon-Sorbonne, will give a lecture entitled “The Very Worst Site for Pictures: Art and Contaminated Air in the Victorian Metropolis.”

This talk explores how the ancient Greeks served as a rallying point for Caribbean diasporic communities in New York City in the 1970s. Professor Andújar will discuss how Greek tragedies featuring obstinate figures resisting powerful authorities (such as Prometheus and Antigone) and oppressed groups (like the enslaved women of Troy) provided important models for minoritized communities in the United States.

This event is free and open to the public.

Lecture by Dr. Luis Cárcamo-Huechante, President of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association and Associate Professor at The University of Texas at Austin, discussing his new book Acoustic Colonialism: Acts of Mapuche Interference.

Free and open to the public.