Mae M. Ngai, Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History at Columbia University, is a U.S. legal and political historian interested in the histories of immigration, citizenship, nationalism, and the Chinese diaspora. This event is open to the public.

Eduardo Navega, conductor

This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live

Run by the Daughters of Sarah, a rural ecumenical women’s support network located in Upstate New York.

Author Elyssa Maxx Goodman will speak about her book Glitter and Concrete: A Cultural History of Drag in New York City and discuss drag’s effects on the culture of the city and the U.S. overall.

Join us for our 20-30 minute lunchtime recital series by members of the Vassar College Chamber Music Program. Eduardo Navega, director

This program that aims to provide participants with opportunities to see how environmental action can take shape in all aspects of life and highlight how legal innovations might be underused tools to aid and contribute to climate justice.

Whitehead has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Open to the public, no reservations required.

A book talk by Andrew Lipman ’01 in conversation with James H. Merrell, Professor Emeritus of History. This event is open to the public.

James Osborn, conductor

This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live

Susan Bialek, conductor

This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live

Join us for our 20-30 minute lunchtime recital series by members of the Vassar College Chamber Music Program. Eduardo Navega, director.

Laments and farewells in Gaelic and Scots from the 16th–18th century Scottish Highland repertoire for voice and harp, composed, collected or inspired by women. James Ruff, Tenor & Early Gaelic Harp.

Foxman, author of Dancing with Fear and The Worried Child, and director of the Vermont Center for Anxiety Care, will lecture on “The Anxiety Epidemic in our Kids and Teens, and the College Students They Become.” Q&A and book signing to follow.

An Agnes Rindge Claflin Lecture by New Yorker magazine staff writer and critic Hilton Als.

By situating racism and capitalism as interlocking systems of dispossession and displacement, University of Toronto Associate Professor of Sociology Prentiss Dantzler brings the “housing question” into perspective as a way to understand broader calls for reparative justice.

Lewis will speak on “TERF Island Comes to America: Buried Histories of the Feminism of Cisness.”

Andrea McDonnell is a media scholar and author whose work examines the production, content, and audience reception of popular media and American celebrity culture. Her research seeks to understand the ways in which audiences engage, take pleasure in, and make sense of celebrity gossip across media platforms, including print, television, and social media.

Campus community only, please.

Join us for a reading and conversation with author Luisa Weiss on the occasion of the publication of her new cookbook, Classic German Cooking.

A different take on the music for harpsichord, with guitar and violin. The program includes music by Bach, Martinû, Milhaud, Wilson, and others. Marija Ilić, harpsichord, Roberto Granados, guitar, Anna Elashvili, violin.

A harp, viola, and flute program of works by primarily modern and contemporary composers inspired by the natural world. The Walden Trio: Chelsea Lane, harp, Ginevra Petrucci, flute, Maren Rothfritz, viola.