Upcoming Events
The Film Department is hosting a screening of the 2026 Oscar-nominated film The Secret Agent, followed by a discussion with filmmakers Kleber Mendonça Filho and Emilie Lesclaux, along with Fabio Andrade, Assistant Professor of Film.
This event is free and open to the public.
We are on the cusp of a golden age of space travel in which, for the first time, large numbers of people will be able to venture into space. Some intend to stay. But what happens—and will happen—to us in the extreme conditions of space? Join us for a talk by Scott Solomon, Teaching Professor of BioSciences at Rice University and Director of the Center for Science Communication and Public Engagement.
This event is free and open to the public.
Kleber Mendonça Filho and Emilie Lesclaux, in conversation with Prof. Fabio Andrade, will discuss how popular genre films—the kind of movies we often associate with escape from the real world and its troubles—can be used to think through and speak out against authoritarian regimes.
This event is free and open to the public.
This lecture explores the dramatic and human factors that transformed the Chinese landscape from wooden buildings supported by ceramic-tile roofs to twisted metal and megatall. The political and emotional story begins around 1840.
This event is free and open to the public.
In this biography, written from the vantage point of Chapal Rani herself, author Sandip Roy documents the life and experiences of a once-famous female impersonator of the Jatra theater.
This event is free and open to the public.
A night of jazz, soul, and rock featuring new arrangements of old classics, a band of student musicians, and original compositions.
This event is free and open to the public.
Poughkeepsie Farm Project’s biggest celebration of the year—a day filled with food, music, and community on the farm.
Celebrate the opening of the Loeb’s new exhibition, Photo-Design: Persuasion, Critique, Fantasy, which looks at the many ways designers have used photography over the last century to imagine new possibilities. Featured artist Sarah Elawad joins exhibition curator Jessica D. Brier in conversation, followed by a reception.
This event is free and open to the public.
The Jupiter String Quartet performs works by Clarice Assad, Alban Berg, Juri Seo and Franz Schubert.
This event is free and open to the public.
Ongoing Events
In The Patient Looks Back: Portraits of My Therapist, Catskill-based painter Joyce Polance reverses therapy’s usual direction of attention by turning the patient’s gaze toward the therapist. Painted in oil entirely with her fingers, the three-year series moves between likeness and disruption, testing how much close looking can—and cannot—reveal.