J-Term Class Untangles History of Police Power
By ELSA KORPI
February 21, 2019
Filed under Arts & Academics
Visiting Professor Amit Prakash taught the Winter Term course “Policing the Globe.”
Reel Critic: ‘Cold War’
By RILEY BOARD
February 21, 2019
Filed under Arts & Academics
'Cold War' makes stunning use of mirrors, in shots that had audience members faintly gasping.
The Librarian Is In
February 21, 2019
Filed under Arts & Academics
If I am honest with you, the author of this work is everything I’ve ever wanted to be: a smart, paid and recognized writer who addresses issues of race in her writing without being beholden to them (and who has a solid plan B for a career, just in case). In this debut collection of short storie...
Poet and Painter: Connections Between Chopin and Debussy
By JOHN VAALER
February 21, 2019
Filed under Arts & Academics
Paden’s interpretation of Debussy and Chopin highlighted the two composers’ similarities in color and technique, but also their stark differences — Chopin’s restlessness, Debussy’s obliqueness.
What is Overdrive?
February 21, 2019
Filed under Arts & Academics
The Middlebury College Libraries have recently acquired dozens of new audiobooks on the Overdrive platform. Try them out at go/overdrive/.
Reel Critic: Eighth Grade
February 14, 2019
Filed under Arts & Academics
Bo Burnham's directorial debut was chosen by the National Board of Review and the American Film Institute as one of 2018's Top 10 Films.
The Librarian Is In
February 14, 2019
Filed under Arts & Academics
“Becoming” is everything you’d expect from the former First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama. It is a thoughtful, conscientious and well-crafted memoir that studies the first years of her life in Chicago, her arrival to undergrad at Princeton University in New Jersey, the ways she navi...
Experimental Film-Theater Thesis Entrances Audiences
By JOHN VAALER
February 14, 2019
Filed under Arts & Academics
Leo Tolstoy lacked a firm definition for his seminal work, “War and Peace.” “It is not a novel, still less an epic poem, still less a historical chronicle,” wrote the Russian author. “‘War and Peace’ is what the author wanted and was able to express, in the form in which it is expr...
J-term Musical Brings Color and Light to Town Hall Theater
By RILEY BOARD
February 14, 2019
Filed under Arts & Academics
The life of French impressionist Georges Seurat, served as the backdrop for a cast of 22 Middlebury College students and members of the Middlebury community to showcase their talents on the stage and behind it in the J-term musical “Sunday in the Park with George."
‘It Felt Like Freedom’: Celebrating Identity through Drag
By JOHN VAALER
February 14, 2019
Filed under Arts & Academics
The Middlebury Queers and Allies Organization hosted the college’s first drag show of 2019 at Crossroads Cafe in the McCullough Student Center.
Coming to Schumann with the Heart
By BEN BEESE
January 28, 2019
Filed under Arts & Academics
Mark Padmore and Paul Lewis, a tenor-pianist duo from the UK, performed a selection of “Lieder,” German romantic poems set to music, by Brahms, Mahler, and Schumann.
Faculty Retirement Program: ‘The End Comes as a Choice’
By APRIL QIAN
January 24, 2019
Filed under Arts & Academics, Staff
23 faculty members have signed agreements to participate in the Faculty Retirement Incentive Program (FRIP).
