Past Events
Xizhen Cai, Williams College
Faculty members are invited to a lunch discussion on community-based learning opportunities supported by the Community-Engaged Intensives in the Humanities (CEIH) initiative. Please RSVP by October 26.
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.
The 16th Annual Steven and Susan Hirsch Disability Awareness Lecture features David Flink, founder of the national ADHD/LD mentoring program Eye to Eye.
Dr. Square is Assistant Professor at Parsons School of Design and a fellow in the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He will speak about his present research, which explores connections between histories of enslavement and the fashion system.
In 2015-2016 over one million people from Syria and other countries fled violence in their homelands to Turkey, where they crossed the Aegean Sea to Greek islands. In this talk, Thompson speaks as a sociologist and poet, drawing upon her years meeting rafts, walking with people, and teaching poetry in refugee centers on the Greek mainland and in Lesvos.
Molly Shanley, Professor Emerita of Political Science, will discuss educational initiatives at the Dutchess County Jail with which she has been involved—including a women’s writing group.
Blake’s work explores play, eroticism, and the subjective experiences of desire, power, and loss. Inspired by feminist theory and queer subcultures, they address the contradictions of representation in sculptures, drawings, performances, and videos, particularly as it relates to their own identity as a nonbinary multiracial artist.
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.”
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.
An exploration of individual and collective history as viewed through multiple lenses, proposing alternatives to the systemic representations ordered by colonial narratives. Gallery talk & opening reception: October 28, 2022, 5:00–7:00 p.m.
Join us as we kick off Vassar’s next comprehensive campaign. In addition to the official announcement, there will be panels, faculty presentations, and more.
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.
Art historian Dora Apel considers the dynamic nature of memory, how it can be mobilized for social justice, and how memory is embodied, including through her own experience as a daughter of Holocaust survivors and a cancer survivor. A reception for Dora Apel and artist Buzz Spector will precede the lecture.
An exhibition in the Vassar College Art Library.
Dr. Janet Sheung from W. M. Keck Science Department, The Claremont Colleges, will discuss her current research.
Eduardo Navega, conductor
This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live
Members of VOCES8 will present a variety of sessions, including composition and choral arranging, vocal production and diction, and career paths in music and music education. Registration required.
A wide-ranging recital of music from the Renaissance to the present day performed by internationally renowned choral ensemble VOCES8.
Multicultural fall festival featuring highly artistic performances by residents of the Poughkeepsie community and student organizations who contribute to the cultural mosaic of the campus. At this festival everyone can enjoy a variety of hands-on arts & crafts, interactive games, and food from various cultures.