Past Events

Five dancers dressed in grey and black, facing to their left with one arm overhead and the other arm across their bodies.

Vassar Repertory Dance Theatre presents a series of three Spring Concerts on April 17 at 7 p.m., and April 19th at 1:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. The programs feature hip-hop, ballet, modern and contemporary choreography including works by Merce Cunningham and George Balanchine as well as new pieces by faculty and students.

Post-Beydoun/Stern Dialogue with an image of Professor Kimberly Williams Brown and Restorative Practices Director Amanda Munroe.

Join Amanda Munroe, Director of Restorative Practices, and Professor Kimberly Williams Brown, Director of Engaged Pluralism, in one of our intergroup dialogue sessions following Khaled Beydoun and Ken Stern's moderated discussion.

Campus community only, please.

Apr. 17, 2025, 12:00 p.m.

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

Apr. 12, 2025, 12:00 p.m.

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.

Rehearsal image focused on one singer with others in the background.
Apr. 12, 2025, 4:00 p.m.

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

Pictured: Khaled Beydoun. Portrait of a person in a blue suit and tie.
Apr. 10, 2025, 9:30 a.m.

Join scholar Khaled Beydoun for a small group discussion. Breakfast will be served.

Campus community only, please.

Pictured: Ken Stern. Portrait of a person with a beard and glasses standing outside with trees in the background.
Apr. 10, 2025, 12:00 p.m.

Join scholar Ken Stern for a small group discussion on antisemitism and hate. Lunch will be served. RSVP is required.

Campus community only, please.

Pictured: Grace Murray Hopper. Old black and white image of a person.
Apr. 10, 2025, 5:00–7:00 p.m.

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.

Headshot of Paget Henry

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.

The three artists posing with their instruments.

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.

A large group of VRDT dancers on stage all wearing purple in different poses with arms up with text "VRDT Alum homecoming".
Apr. 5, 2025, 10:00–11:15 a.m.

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.