Dr. Janet Sheung from W. M. Keck Science Department, The Claremont Colleges, will discuss her current research.

Director/producer Michael Dwyer made this 20-minute film featuring Tomiko Morimoto West, a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima who taught Japanese language courses at Vassar for a decade until she retired in 1994. Both will be available for a Q&A session after the screening.

People talk a lot about freedom. But unfreedom is what faces us. A Bard College assistant professor of philosophy will describe the problem and how it might be addressed.

Vassar students, along with area college and high school AP chemistry students, are invited to form teams to participate in a fun chemistry game based on the old TV show “College Bowl.”

Join us for our 20- to 30-minute lunchtime recital series by members of the Vassar College Chamber Music Program. Thursdays, October 27 and November 3, 10, & 17 at 12 noon.

This event has been postponed.

Vassar faculty member Trevor Babb, guitar, leads Quintet 2x, a 21st-century chamber music quintet with rock band instrumentation.

In this lecture, Professor Nick Rees-Roberts of the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, mobilizes failure as a critical tool to unpack the structural fault lines of an industry invested in the promotion of success and celebrity in which no one can afford to fail.

Koestenbaum—a poet, critic, fiction-writer, artist, filmmaker, and performer—has published 22 books and received an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature in 2020. He is a Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature at the City University of New York Graduate Center.

Chabitnoy, a Koniag descendant (Aleut) and member of the Tangirnaq Native Village in Kodiak, is an award-winning writer and an Assistant Professor of English at UMass Amherst. Her works include How to Dress a Fish, which addresses the lives disrupted by the Indian boarding school policy of the U.S. government.