Strain, Professor of Film and the Moving Image at Wesleyan University, will lecture on her experience as a documentary filmmaker of color and woman dedicated to representing issues of race and history in the United States.

A 20–30 minute lunchtime recital series by members of the Vassar College Chamber Music Program in a relaxed atmosphere outside the Bridge Cafe.

Composers Jonathan Chenette and Harold Meltzer lament one building’s violent destruction (Chenette) and reflect another’s fantastical construction (Meltzer).
 

A lecture by Eleonore Neufeld of the University of Massachusetts.

Join us to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, 160 years of the collection, and the official launch of our new collection catalogue Making & Meaning.

James Osborn, conductor.

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

Christine Howlett, conductor

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

Jing Hu will discuss the legacy of the Chinese writing reform movements that occurred from the closing years of the Qing dynasty through the mid-twentieth century.

A 20–30 minute lunchtime recital series by members of the Vassar College Chamber Music Program in a relaxed atmosphere outside the Bridge Cafe. 
 

Journalist Chip Reid ’77 discusses his recently released book, Battle Scars, moderated by members of the Vassar Veterans Association. Includes audience Q&A.

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

Transdisciplinary artist Maravilla grounds his practice in activism and healing.

Students, faculty, and staff are invited to meet with the Office of Community-Engaged Learning’s community partner organizations to explore possible partnerships through community-engaged opportunities. Campus community only, please.

Chabon is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of several bestselling books, including The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. Free and open to the public.

From October 30 to November 1, 1969, Vassar’s Main Building was taken over and occupied by thirty-four Black female students. They demanded the creation of a program awarding a major in Black Studies. Far from being an isolated event, the takeover was part of a nationwide wave of student-organized sit-ins and protests to expand the boundaries of college and university curricula.

Larson, a Pulitzer Prize winner and Professor of History at Pepperdine University, will speak on “a century of cultural warfare in America.”

Campus community only, please.

A lecture by Elizabeth A. Patton, Associate Professor of Media and Communication Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Campus community only, please.

In the U.S., black leisure and tourism have long been used to resist entrenched systemic racism. Prof. Elizabeth Patton (UMBC) uses photographs, documentary films, and guidebooks, advertisements, and personal home movies to shed light on the multifaceted ways African Americans harnessed media and cultural memory to document leisure.

A poetry reading and conversation on women, home, exile, and identity featuring poet-scholar and activist Saba Hamzah.

Presentation on the history of classical Arabic scripts like Thuluth and Naskh. Students will have a chance to practice Arabic letter art with reed pens during the workshop.

Christine Howlett, Conductor

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