Past Events
Perspectives of Love: a Senior Recital by Talia Mayo, soprano. An afternoon reflection on how love changes over time featuring works by Gioachino Rossini, Gabriel Fauré, Adam Guettel, Jason Robert Brown, and more.
A Musical Repast. What is better than food and music? Music about food! Songs about eating by Orlando Gibbons, Clément Jannequin and others. Drew Minter, conductor
This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live
Vassar Students sing Broadway and American Songbook classics.
Modern Pieces for Marimba. Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center.
The screening will feature the 98-minute full version of the film, followed by a live Zoom Q&A session with director Yujiro Seki, who will share the origin story and vision behind this cross-disciplinary project. Open to the public.
Léa Greenberg, Vassar Class of 2025 and Loeb Curatorial Intern, shares insights into Where We Go, Where We Stay: Exploring Place and Identity Through Photography, an exhibition she organized on the reciprocal relationship between place and personal identity.
Bridge for Laboratory Sciences
Join scholar Khaled Beydoun for a small group discussion. Breakfast will be served.
Campus community only, please.
Join scholar Ken Stern for a small group discussion on antisemitism and hate. Lunch will be served. RSVP is required.
Campus community only, please.
Vassar will celebrate Grace Hopper, America’s “Queen of Code,” with an event at The Vassar Institute for the Liberal Arts. While this event is open to the public, registration is required.
The event will feature a Zoom presentation and Q&A with Dr. Ngubane who will talk about his background, his activist and academic work, and ongoing struggles for land justice in post-apartheid South Africa, followed by a screening of his film, Spirits of the Land.
A solid grasp of the distinct theories of the self, which inform Afro-Caribbean philosophy are vital for an understanding of the distinctness of Afro-Caribbean phenomenology. Thus, in addition to discussing briefly the historicist and poeticist schools, Professor Paget Henry, Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies at Brown University, will take up in greater the details the Adinkra theory of the self that has profoundly influenced the development of Afro-Caribbean phenomenology.
Associate Professor of Law, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University Khaled Beydoun and Director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate, legal scholar Ken Stern will engage in a moderated dialogue with Associate Professor of Religion Kirsten Wesselhoeft about Islamophobia, antisemitism, free speech/expression and hate. This event is open to the public. Vassar attendees will need to show their ID. Non-Vassar attendees will need to register.
Fauré Piano Quartet #2 and the Dohnányi Serenade: Faculty members Marka Young, violin, and Marija Ilić, piano, perform two great works that bridged the gap between Romanticism and Modernity. With Lauren Byrne, viola, and Jeanne Fox, cello.
Join us for a special panel event at the Vassar Repertory Dance Theatre (VRDT) Homecoming to hear from Vassar dance alums as they share their career journeys within and outside the dance world.
Exploring Cello: featuring works by J. S. Bach, Elgar, and Mark Summer.
Awake, Arise, Dance! Music by Gustav Holst, Gabriel Fauré, Mark Patterson, Lisa Young, Sheena Phillips, and others. Susan Bialek, conductor. Please note a change: This concert will start at 7:00 p.m.
This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live
Former students and colleagues offer tribute through words and dance to Jeanne Czula, who passed away in early March 2025.
The 2025 Science, Technology, and Society Pauline Newman ’47 Distinguished Lecture by Naomi Oreskes.
Discover the power of storytelling with the TMI Project! Join us for dynamic workshops where you’ll learn to transform personal experiences into impactful stories that replace shame with freedom, and spark empathy and action. Open to the entire Vassar community.