Marianna Ganapini, Union College Assistant Professor of Philosophy, argues that to develop and flourish, “artificial intelligence” (AI) technology needs to have our trust.

Noah Kalina has taken a picture of himself daily since 2000 for his series Everyday, which has amassed over 40 million views. He will discuss his photography career and matters of composition, concept, and duration.

This lecture explores how Catholic devotion offers potent resources for engaging the past and imagining a collective future, focusing on an Italian American Catholic community that stages dramatic devotional rituals in Brooklyn.

Beller, an Associate Professor of English at Tulane University and a regular contributor to the New Yorker, will read from his book Lost in the Game: A Book About Basketball.

STS professor Daniel Schniedewind will speak about his research on biological invasion in the Hudson Valley, reframing the issue through postcolonial and anti-racist lenses.

A Matthew Vassar Lecture, panel discussion, and workshops by syndicated Black cartoonist and children’s book illustrator Jerry Craft, who will discuss his graphic novel New Kid—and how the text has been weaponized and banned from some libraries and classrooms across the country.

Opening Reception: Sunday, March 5, 2:00 p.m. Sponsored by the College’s Department of Education, this show highlights young children’s interest in the visual arts and encourages their use of the arts to express themselves. 

A lecture by Bolivian anthropologist Pamela Calla, a Clinical Associate Professor at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University who is engaged with issues of gender, race, class, and state formation in Latin America.

From Mozart and Mendelssohn to Bartok and Prokofiev, this afternoon program will explore a range of classical pieces that have been inspired by folk music and dance traditions. Assisted by James Fitzwilliam, piano; with Magda Sharff, accordion,  Emma Zuang, piano, Susanna Osborne, cello, and Finn Smith, bouzouki.

Eduardo Navega, conductor.

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

Join PHOCUS, Vassar’s only student photography organization, for a guest lecture by a multidisciplinary artist who will speak about their work involving photography, community, and issues of labor, class, queerness, and representation. Q&A to follow.

An inventive retelling of a Jacobean drama, Jen Silverman’s sharp, subversive fable debates how much our souls are worth when hope is hard to come by. Directed by Claire McHarg. Senior project members: Kelly Hatfield, Louise Ambler, Jack Francis, Emma Skinner, Rose Trammell, Presley Wheeler. Free and open to the public, reservations required.

A talk by Ricardo Montez, Associate Professor of Performance Studies at the New School.

Join the Environmental Cooperative for a screening of Jon Bowermaster and Oceans 8 Films’ WindShipped (40 min.), which follows the schooner Apollonia as it travels up and down the Hudson River on a quest to restart cargo delivery by sail, sans fossil fuels. Q&A with the director will follow.

This will be an informational meeting for Vassar's Summer Academic Research Programs including URSI, Ford, Grand Challenges, CAAD, Beckman Scholars, and Community Fellows.

Campus community only, please.

A Dialogue on Art and Disability with Tatlock Fellow Finnegan Shannon and Gordon Hall, Assistant Professor of Art.

A webinar hosted by the Vassar Institute for the Liberal Arts, featuring: Vassar President Elizabeth H. Bradley; Dr. Abebe Bekele, Dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE); Dr. Peter Mathieson, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh; Parag Saxena, Co-Founder and CEO of Vedanta Capital and New Silk Route; and Tony James, Former Vice-Chairman of Blackstone.

James Osborn, conductor.

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

The PPR is a space where students, faculty, and staff come together to discuss a topic relevant to our community. This year’s topic is “Truth or Consequences?” The retreat, held in the Library’s Class of 1951 Reading Room, will run from 8:30 a.m.–6:00 p.m.; a talent/no talent show will follow from 6:00–8:00 p.m. Registration is free and meals are provided.

In this talk, author Koa Beck will examine the history of feminism, from the true mission of the suffragists to the rise of corporate feminism—paying careful attention to the ways capitalism and racism have functioned as structuring forces within dominant feminist culture.