A book talk by Andrew Lipman ’01 in conversation with James H. Merrell, Professor Emeritus of History. This event is open to the public.

Whitehead has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Open to the public, no reservations required.

James Osborn, conductor

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

Susan Bialek, conductor

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

Foxman, author of Dancing with Fear and The Worried Child, and director of the Vermont Center for Anxiety Care, will lecture on “The Anxiety Epidemic in our Kids and Teens, and the College Students They Become.” Q&A and book signing to follow.

Join us for our 20-30 minute lunchtime recital series by members of the Vassar College Chamber Music Program. Eduardo Navega, director.

Laments and farewells in Gaelic and Scots from the 16th–18th century Scottish Highland repertoire for voice and harp, composed, collected or inspired by women. James Ruff, Tenor & Early Gaelic Harp.

An Agnes Rindge Claflin Lecture by New Yorker magazine staff writer and critic Hilton Als.

Andrea McDonnell is a media scholar and author whose work examines the production, content, and audience reception of popular media and American celebrity culture. Her research seeks to understand the ways in which audiences engage, take pleasure in, and make sense of celebrity gossip across media platforms, including print, television, and social media.

Campus community only, please.

By situating racism and capitalism as interlocking systems of dispossession and displacement, University of Toronto Associate Professor of Sociology Prentiss Dantzler brings the “housing question” into perspective as a way to understand broader calls for reparative justice.

Lewis will speak on “TERF Island Comes to America: Buried Histories of the Feminism of Cisness.”

Join us for a reading and conversation with author Luisa Weiss on the occasion of the publication of her new cookbook, Classic German Cooking.

A different take on the music for harpsichord, with guitar and violin. The program includes music by Bach, Martinû, Milhaud, Wilson, and others. Marija Ilić, harpsichord, Roberto Granados, guitar, Anna Elashvili, violin.

A harp, viola, and flute program of works by primarily modern and contemporary composers inspired by the natural world. The Walden Trio: Chelsea Lane, harp, Ginevra Petrucci, flute, Maren Rothfritz, viola.

Join us at the Olmsted Greenhouse for a calm doodling session with Vassar’s Counseling Service!

A play and a senior Drama project.

Campus guests only, please. 

Reservations required: please contact boxoffice@vassar.edu.

Residential Life and Restorative Practices are facilitating Election Circles, a student community space to share and be heard.

Campus community only, please.

Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds (Cheyenne and Arapaho Nation) is an acclaimed multidisciplinary artist whose work has long advocated for recognition of historic and ongoing forms of oppression of Indigenous peoples in the US and globally. 

Join us for a spooky celebration at the greenhouse! Enjoy treats as you wander among our unusual plants. Everyone is welcome—feel free to wear your Halloween costume or come as you are (the plants won’t mind!).

Palmer Gallery exhibit. Artist’s Reception: Nov. 1, 5:00–7:00 p.m.