Discourse and Discord at Middlebury: A Way Forward

Wednesday, September 20 | 4:30 PM
Dana Auditorium | Map
Open to the Public

Part of the Carol Rifelj Faculty Lecture Series

Speaker: Jonathan Miller-Lane, Education Studies Program

Representing trauma: from Testimony to (Post)memory in my own artistic practice

Wednesday, October 4 | 4:30 PM
The Orchard (Room 103), The Franklin Environmental Center at Hillcrest | Map
Open to the Public

Part of the Carol Rifelj Faculty Lecture Series

Speaker: David Miranda-Hardy, Department of Film and Media Culture

Finding Common Ground: Economic Progress in the Trump Era

Wednesday, October 11 | 4:30–6:00 PM
Wilson Hall, McCullough Student Center | Map
Open to the Public

What does economic progress in the Trump era look like? Former Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) and former Republican Governor of New Hampshire John Sununu discuss the possibilities. Moderated by Gail Russell Chaddock, former correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor. Opening remarks by former Governor of Vermont and Middlebury College Executive in Residence Jim Douglas.

Sponsored by the Common Ground Committee, Christian Science Monitor, Political Science Department, and the Center for Community Engagement

How I Shed My Skin: Unlearning the Racist Lessons of a Southern Childhood

Thursday, October 26 | 7:00 PM
Wilson Hall, McCullough Student Center | Map
Open to the Public

In 1968, three black girls entered the all-white, sixth-grade classroom at Alex H. White Elementary School in Pollocksville, North Carolina. Their presence left a lasting impact on Jim Grimsley, a white boy in that classroom, who found himself confronted with his own ideas about race and difference. Now, nearly 50 years later, Jim Grimsley and those three classmates—Donnie Meadows, Fernanda Copeland, and Rose Bell—gather for a conversation about the history that they lived through when Jones County integrated its public schools.

Sponsored by the Alliance for an Inclusive Middlebury

What is Hate Speech?

Wednesday, November 8 | 4:30 PM
The Orchard (Room 103), The Franklin Environmental Center at Hillcrest | Map
Open to the Public

Part of the Carol Rifelj Faculty Lecture Series

Speaker: Erik Bleich, Department of Political Science

Rethinking Thoreau: Race, Religion and Renewal

Wednesday, February 28, 2018 | 4:30 PM
The Orchard (Room 103), The Franklin Environmental Center at Hillcrest | Map
Open to the Public

Part of the Carol Rifelj Faculty Lecture Series

Speaker: Rebecca Gould, Program in Environmental Studies

To ‘construct a virtuous…community in Africa’: Extending the Great Redeemer's Kingdom through the American Colonization Society

Wednesday, March 14, 2018 | 4:30 PM
The Orchard (Room 103), The Franklin Environmental Center at Hillcrest | Map
Open to the Public

Part of the Carol Rifelj Faculty Lecture Series

Speaker: Bill Hart, Department of History

First Food Justice: Why Infant Feeding is a Central Social and Environmental Equity Issue in the United States

Wednesday, March 21, 2018 | 4:30 PM
The Orchard (Room 103), The Franklin Environmental Center at Hillcrest | Map
Open to the Public

Part of the Carol Rifelj Faculty Lecture Series

Speaker: Erica Morrell, Department of Sociology/Anthropology

Is Civility Dead? Religion, Political Virtue, and Deliberative Democracy in the Age of Trump

Wednesday, April 4, 2018 | 4:30 PM
The Orchard (Room 103), The Franklin Environmental Center at Hillcrest | Map
Open to the Public

Part of the Carol Rifelj Faculty Lecture Series

Speaker: James Davis, Department of Religion