Program News and Campus Events
2009-2010
- "On Public Service and the Common Good": U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder's address to the Vassar community, 4/22/10. (Posted 4/22/2010)
- Award-winning author Paula Giddings discusses Ida B. Wells and the origins of the civil rights movement, 4/27 (Posted 4/14/2010)
- "The Art of Imagination in Three Voices,” features readings by three alumnae/i authors, 4/30 (Posted 4/7/2010)
- "Are 'Nice White Ladies' Only for Black and Brown Youth? Exploring Race and Gender in Hollywood School Movies" (Posted 4/5/2010)
- "Ida B. Wells and the Beginning of the Modern Civil Rights Movement." 4/27 at 6:00pm (Posted 3/29/2010)
- "The Art of Imagination in Three Voices." Alumnae/i book readings. 4/30 at 5:30pm (Posted 3/29/2010)
- Somali Documentary Project, 3/30 at 5:30pm (Posted 3/29/2010)
- Two lectures are offered by art historians in April at Vassar College. (Posted 3/23/2010)
- "Somali Women: Transforming Home and the Diaspora," 3/26 at 12pm (Posted 3/18/2010)
- Film screening of "William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe" on 4/2, presented in conjunction with annual Green Haven Prison Program Reunion, 4/3 (Posted 3/11/2010)
- Author and United Nations bureau chief for the New York Times, Neil MacFarquhar, discusses the case for change in the Middle East, 4/8 (Posted 2/22/2010)
- Sociologist Salvador Vidal-Ortiz discusses the practice of Santería, an Afro-Cuban religious cultural practice, 2/17 (Posted 2/12/2010)
- Vassar Modfest celebrates the arts of the 20th and 21st centuries, 1/21-2/7 (Posted 12/15/2009)
- Mia Mask and Jonathon Kahn discuss their recent books in “Diasporic Dialogues,” on 11/20 (Posted 11/16/2009)
- The Dance Theatre of Harlem Ensemble in special performance on 11/8 (Posted 10/20/2009)
- Reading and lecture by award-winning novelist Samuel Delany, 10/29 (Posted 10/20/2009)
- Rich Moser speaks about the new academic labor system, 10/30 (Posted 10/15/2009)
- Readings in October: poet Thylias Moss (10/1) & Pulitzer-winner Junot Diaz (10/28) (Posted 9/18/2009)
- International conference examines intersection of Black GIs, civil rights, Germany, and the U.S. 9/30-10/4 (Posted 9/14/2009)
- Exhibition "The Civil Rights Struggle, African-American GIs, and Germany" on view 10/1-29 (Posted 9/9/2009)
- Mahmood Mamdani discusses the history and politics of crisis in Darfur, 9/21 (Posted 8/31/2009)
- Peace Week features film screening, lectures, panels, and a peace vigil, 9/21-25 (Posted 8/27/2009)