Join us for free drop-in family programs on select Sundays this winter and spring. Each date will feature a different hands-on art activity inspired by art on view. Activities can be modified for all ages, but are best suited for children ages 5 and up.

This event is free and open to the public.

Lecture by Dr. Luis Cárcamo-Huechante, President of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association and Associate Professor at The University of Texas at Austin, discussing his new book Acoustic Colonialism: Acts of Mapuche Interference.

Free and open to the public.

This talk explores how the ancient Greeks served as a rallying point for Caribbean diasporic communities in New York City in the 1970s. Professor Andújar will discuss how Greek tragedies featuring obstinate figures resisting powerful authorities (such as Prometheus and Antigone) and oppressed groups (like the enslaved women of Troy) provided important models for minoritized communities in the United States.

This event is free and open to the public.

Sarah Gould of Université Paris, Panthéon-Sorbonne, will give a lecture entitled “The Very Worst Site for Pictures: Art and Contaminated Air in the Victorian Metropolis.”

Vassar Repertory Dance Theatre presents a series of three spring concerts on April 16, 17, and 18 at 7:00 p.m. The programs feature works by iconic 20th-century choreographers, George Balanchine and José Limón, prominent contemporary choreographers Pascal Rioult and Jon Lehrer, a fast-paced ballet by Miriam Mahdaviani, a powerful new Hip-hop piece by Keith Alexander, as well as five new pieces by student choreographers.

This event is free and open to the public.

Join Assistant Professor of History Yu-chi Chang and curator Monique D’Almeida for a closer look at the Meiji war prints in the exhibition Bunmei Kaika: Political Landscape in Early Modern and Modern Japan. This talk explores the 1874 Japanese military campaign against the indigenous peoples of southern Taiwan, discussing how the event demonstrates colonial thinking during the early Meiji period.

This event is free and open to the public.

Writer Iman Humaydan and Academic-Translator Michelle Hartman in conversation.

This event is free and open to the public.

This year’s annual Dr. Maurice Sitomer Lecture, presented by the Jewish Studies Program, will be delivered by Professor David Engel of New York University.

This event is free and open to the public.

Josephine Halvorson makes art from direct observation, foregrounding the firsthand experience of noticing, describing, and learning from the physical world. The result is an intimate portrait of the object, capturing both a natural likeness as well as the often unseen or overlooked character of her chosen subject. She works primarily in painting, but also in sculpture and printmaking.

This event is free and open to the public.