Past Events
A play by Robert O’Hara. Guest Director, Taylor Reynolds. Barbecue is about a dysfunctional family staging an intervention. Campus guests only, please. Reservations required.
Nicole Holliday, Acting Associate Professor of Linguistics at UC Berkeley, will present her latest research on how tone-detection systems and digital voice assistants like Siri and Alexa reinforce linguistic and racial bias.
This event is open to the public.
Elijah Anderson, Sterling Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Yale University and one of the nation’s leading urban ethnographers, discusses his book The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life. Open to the public.
A dynamic, interactive experience that blends performance art, game-show fun, a thought-provoking lecture, and a captivating film screening—all aimed at exploring the horror and danger of nuclear weapons and nuclear war. Open to the public.
Award-winning early music ensemble Concordian Dawn performs a concert of love songs from medieval France and Italy, preceded by a short pre-concert lecture by ensemble director Christopher Preston Thompson. Free and open to the public.
At a time of both urgent need for algorithmic literacy and heightened social division, it is vital to understand the politicized grammar with which we talk and think about AI. This talk by Gerald Sim will focus on visual media whose power derives from being uniquely vivid, engaging, and visceral.
Campus community only, please.
A talk by Natalia Milanesio, Professor of Modern Latin American History at the University of Houston. This event is open to the public.
Do you know someone who has been meaning to visit the Loeb but hasn’t made it happen yet? Or someone who thinks art isn’t for them, and you’d like to convince them otherwise? Please join us for our second annual Bring a Friend Day, and enjoy a day full of activities—together. The day’s offerings include art-making, engaging mini-tours, and light refreshments.
Music by Percy Grainger, Arturo Márquez, and Aaron Copland. James Osborn, conductor.
This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live
Gathering historic and contemporary art in various media, the exhibition invites viewers to explore how the Hudson Valley has been pictured as a place both proximate to the city and its opposite—a “great green hope” as much fantasy as reality. Artists Tanya Marcuse, Qiana Mestrich, and Lisa Sanditz will discuss how their work responds to the Hudson Valley landscape in myth and reality.
Curious about the Institute? Want to learn how to secure up to $25,000 for an Institute-funded Signature Program? Join two experts from the Vassar Grants Office for a 90-minute workshop on translating your ideas into impactful projects for your community or organization. Catering from the Salt Line provided.
Campus community only, please.
Discover the power of storytelling with the TMI Project!
Adrian Morjean, bassoon, Alex Davis, bassoon, Joshua Hodge, bassoon, Brad Balliett, bassoon & contrabassoon, Mark Risinger, bass, Richard Wilson, piano.
Jackson has worked experimentally across genres including drawing, painting, printmaking, bookmaking, poetry, dance, theater, and costume design.
Tatlock Chair Molly McGlennen and Tatlock Fellow Sarah Biscarra-Dilley will present a screening of two short films by the New Red Order. Open to the public.
Jacob McNulty, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, considers two arguments from Sartre’s Being and Nothingness that take aim at Heidegger’s attempt to purge philosophy of Cartesian categories like consciousness, the subject and the cogito. Open to the public.
Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs, the first researcher to explore the full depths of Audre Lorde’s manuscript archives, will give a talk on her new book, Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde. Open to the public.
A lecture by renowned activist Dr. Ira Helfand, a member of the International Steering Group of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), which received the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize.
This event is open to the public.
Join the Race & Racism in Historical Collections Working Group as they dive into powerful stories and materials from the college archives about the impactful 1969 Black Studies Sit-In.
Campus community only, please.
Philip N. Jefferson ’83 is the Vice Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. This event is open to the public.