Past Events
Two original plays presented by students from the playwriting course in Drama.
Campus community only, please.
An award-winning environmental activist will share her story of how her community holds the city of Los Angeles accountable for breaching the Environmental Quality Act.
A multimedia lecture by musicologist Sophie Fetthauer, PhD of the HfMT University of Hamburg, Germany on the little-known story of how over 400 Jewish refugee musicians were integrated into the cafés, nightclubs, and ballrooms of the “Paris of the East.”
A Philosopher’s Holiday Lecture by Licia Carlson, Professor of Philosophy at Providence College and author of Shared Musical Lives: Philosophy, Disability, and the Power of Sonification.
Interactive discussion on how BIPOC, migrant, and working-class communities are organizing to combat extraction and displacement, and how they’re moving resources and people to drive an equitable transition away from fossil fuels.
Anna Elashvili, violin, along with faculty Yves Dharamraj, cello, and Thomas Sauer, piano. A composer not often chosen for such an exposé, Maurice Ravel often found himself going against the grain.
This afternoon program features works by Brown, Chaminade, Martin, Griffes, and Quantz. Assisted by James Fitzwilliam, piano.
Featuring the music of Bach, Schubert, Fauré, Copland and Duke. Assisted by Jon Fuller.
Join students from the Grand Challenges and Alliance for Diversity in Science and Engineering (ADSE) programs for an evening of trivia. Connect with upperclassmen in the departments and disciplines that interest you while enjoying some good snacks! No reservations necessary. Students only, please.
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright will give a talk and Q&A to the campus and public. The event is free, but reservations are required.
The internationally renowned lawyer, peace activist, and President of the Global Security Institute talks to journalist Chip Reid ’77. Immediately following, Granoff will be given the AAVC Distinguished Achievement Award for 2022. Attend in person or via Zoom.
This lecture explores how Catholic devotion offers potent resources for engaging the past and imagining a collective future, focusing on an Italian American Catholic community that stages dramatic devotional rituals in Brooklyn.
Beller, an Associate Professor of English at Tulane University and a regular contributor to the New Yorker, will read from his book Lost in the Game: A Book About Basketball.
Marianna Ganapini, Union College Assistant Professor of Philosophy, argues that to develop and flourish, “artificial intelligence” (AI) technology needs to have our trust.
Noah Kalina has taken a picture of himself daily since 2000 for his series Everyday, which has amassed over 40 million views. He will discuss his photography career and matters of composition, concept, and duration.
STS professor Daniel Schniedewind will speak about his research on biological invasion in the Hudson Valley, reframing the issue through postcolonial and anti-racist lenses.
A Matthew Vassar Lecture, panel discussion, and workshops by syndicated Black cartoonist and children’s book illustrator Jerry Craft, who will discuss his graphic novel New Kid—and how the text has been weaponized and banned from some libraries and classrooms across the country.
Opening Reception: Sunday, March 5, 2:00 p.m. Sponsored by the College’s Department of Education, this show highlights young children’s interest in the visual arts and encourages their use of the arts to express themselves.
A lecture by Bolivian anthropologist Pamela Calla, a Clinical Associate Professor at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University who is engaged with issues of gender, race, class, and state formation in Latin America.
From Mozart and Mendelssohn to Bartok and Prokofiev, this afternoon program will explore a range of classical pieces that have been inspired by folk music and dance traditions. Assisted by James Fitzwilliam, piano; with Magda Sharff, accordion, Emma Zuang, piano, Susanna Osborne, cello, and Finn Smith, bouzouki.