Past Events
This film, created by Ahmed Moussa, takes you behind the scenes of The Garbage Monster, an innovative theatrical production that toured Cairo in June 2024, using applied theatre to spark conversation and action around climate change and garbage pollution.
Come get a first look at what the future holds after Ask Banner and our pre-reg systems are replaced!
Campus community only, please.
Julie Riess ’82 will tell how a shared passion and commitment to educating children, training teachers, and empowering parents led to creating DAY ONE.
Ryan Jobson, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago, examines how the rise and fall of the oil industry impacts post-colonial nationalist visions of the future in Trinidad and Tobago. Jobson asks us to consider if there can be a viable political and economic future for Trinidad and Tobago without oil, a question that should be relevant to us all living in a fossil fuel-based global economy.
Brahim El Guabli, Associate Professor of Arabic at Williams College, recenters TAMAZGHA—the ancestral Amazigh homeland extending from the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean to the oasis of Siwa in West Egypt—as a transformative geography helping to reconnect North and sub-Saharan Africa to each other.
Campus community only, please.
Music by Dmitri Shostakovich, George Gershwin, Matthew Mauro, and H. Owen Reed. James Osborn, conductor
This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live
Join us for free drop-in family programs on select Sundays this spring. Each date will feature different hands-on art activities inspired by art on view. Activities can be modified for all ages, but are best suited for children 5 and up.
The Yale Russian Chorus (YRC) performs at Vassar’s Main Chapel in a special one-night free concert.
A Night at the Opera. Choruses from operas by Monteverdi, Gluck, Verdi, Offenbach, and others. Drew Minter, conductor.
This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live
James Osborn, director
This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live
Harrison Brisbon-McKinnon, Vassar Class of 2026 and 2024 Ford Scholar/Pindyck Summer Fellow at the Loeb, discusses their current Spotlight exhibition, Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Black Space-Making from Harlem to the Hudson Valley. The exhibition complicates the myth of the Hudson Valley as a utopia, asking "Utopia for who?"
Join us for our 20–30 minute lunchtime recital series by members of the Vassar College Chamber Music Program. Eduardo Navega, director. Bridge for Laboratory Sciences
Vassar Professor Emeritus of Philosophy Michael McCarthy discusses what it means to be an American citizen today and why so many Americans have become distrustful of government, suspicious of politics, and uncertain of their civic obligations. Open to the public.
Four dates of new and original plays written by Drama students who have studied the art of playwriting. Open to the public, reservations requred.
Religion Professor Kirsten Wesselhoeft hosts an event celebrating her new book, Fraternal Critique: The Politics of Muslim Community in France. She will give a talk and have a question and answer period.
Come celebrate Earth Day by contributing to our community rock garden! No artistic skills necessary—we are just painting for fun. All ages welcome.
Their work is grounded in personal experiences and the work stewarded at the Forge Project.
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.
In this talk, Victor Ray, F. Wendell Miller Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Iowa, draws on two central critical race theory concepts—racial progress narratives and interest convergence—to explain the current backlash to racial inclusion.