Past Events
Join scholar Khaled Beydoun for a small group discussion. Breakfast will be served.
Campus community only, please.
Join scholar Ken Stern for a small group discussion on antisemitism and hate. Lunch will be served. RSVP is required.
Campus community only, please.
Vassar will celebrate Grace Hopper, America’s “Queen of Code,” with an event at The Vassar Institute for the Liberal Arts. While this event is open to the public, registration is required.
The event will feature a Zoom presentation and Q&A with Dr. Ngubane who will talk about his background, his activist and academic work, and ongoing struggles for land justice in post-apartheid South Africa, followed by a screening of his film, Spirits of the Land.
A solid grasp of the distinct theories of the self, which inform Afro-Caribbean philosophy are vital for an understanding of the distinctness of Afro-Caribbean phenomenology. Thus, in addition to discussing briefly the historicist and poeticist schools, Professor Paget Henry, Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies at Brown University, will take up in greater the details the Adinkra theory of the self that has profoundly influenced the development of Afro-Caribbean phenomenology.
Associate Professor of Law, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University Khaled Beydoun and Director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate, legal scholar Ken Stern will engage in a moderated dialogue with Associate Professor of Religion Kirsten Wesselhoeft about Islamophobia, antisemitism, free speech/expression and hate. This event is open to the public. Vassar attendees will need to show their ID. Non-Vassar attendees will need to register.
Fauré Piano Quartet #2 and the Dohnányi Serenade: Faculty members Marka Young, violin, and Marija Ilić, piano, perform two great works that bridged the gap between Romanticism and Modernity. With Lauren Byrne, viola, and Jeanne Fox, cello.
Former students and colleagues offer tribute through words and dance to Jeanne Czula, who passed away in early March 2025.
Join us for a special panel event at the Vassar Repertory Dance Theatre (VRDT) Homecoming to hear from Vassar dance alums as they share their career journeys within and outside the dance world.
Exploring Cello: featuring works by J. S. Bach, Elgar, and Mark Summer.
Awake, Arise, Dance! Music by Gustav Holst, Gabriel Fauré, Mark Patterson, Lisa Young, Sheena Phillips, and others. Susan Bialek, conductor. Please note a change: This concert will start at 7:00 p.m.
This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live
The 2025 Science, Technology, and Society Pauline Newman ’47 Distinguished Lecture by Naomi Oreskes.
Discover the power of storytelling with the TMI Project! Join us for dynamic workshops where you’ll learn to transform personal experiences into impactful stories that replace shame with freedom, and spark empathy and action. Open to the entire Vassar community.
Anne Washburn’s imaginative dark comedy—a play with music featuring songs by Washburn and Michael Friedman—propels us forward nearly a century, following a new civilization stumbling into its future. Reservations required.
Campus community only, please.
Through an intimate reconstruction of an important phone call, When The Phone Rang investigates dislocation and the nature of remembering. In the protagonist’s eleven-year-old mind, the phone call erases her entire country, history, and identity and hides its existence in books, films, and memories of those born before 1995.
Join us for our 20–30-minute lunchtime recital series by members of the Vassar College Chamber Music Program. Eduardo Navega, director. Bridge for Laboratory Sciences.
Writer and scholar Karen Tongston will be in discussion with Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology, John Andrews, on the possibilities for queer survival and world-making presented by popular culture, television, and quotidian conviviality. This event is free and open to the public.
Join Janice Gallagher, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Rutgers University-Newark as we discuss her new book Bootstrap Justice: The Search for Mexico's Disappeared (2023, Oxford University Press).
Professor Kim explores the historical legacy, reception, and impact of the Council of Nicaea on the history of Christianity.
Harry Tabak, a multi-disciplinary artist in painting, sculpture, and dance shares the personal history that inspires his work.