CAPA Archive

Conferences & Lectures

• October 2019 | The Great Transformation at 75

• March 2018 | Our Impending Crisis: Climate Change, Failing Elites, and Economic Transformation

• December 2017 | Interview with Jordan Thomas '92

• September 2017 | Neoliberalism: The Idea that Swallowed the World

• September 2017 | Legislative Convening: Clean Water and Agriculture

• May 2015 | Boundless Informant: Digital Surveillance in the Post-Privacy Era

• April 2015 | Lecture by Joe Masco

• 2014 - 2015 | Confronting the Present

Global Politics

• November 2017 | Dignity, Compassion, and Action: In Conversation with Saria Samakie

• April 2017 | CAPA Leadership Institute: Afghanistan and Pakistan

• November 2015 | Syria Before the Deluge

• September 2014 | Our Shared Home: Opportunities and Challenges in an Area of Conflict

• March 2014 | Participating in Politics: Art, Anthropology, & Advocacy in Afghanistan

• 2014 | (Un)governed Spaces, A Portrait of Afghanistan, Opens at Bennington College

• September 2014 | Climate Change: Our Shared Home 

Public Policy Forums

• September 2020 | Public Policy Forum @ CAPA: Governor Peter Shumlin

• October 2019 | College Campuses and Our Responsibilities to Mitigate and Prepare

• October 2019 | Governing in the Era of Climate Change

• September 2019 | Agriculture and a Changing Climate

• September 2019 | Protecting Our Ponds, Lakes, Rivers, and Drinking Water

• September 2019 | Vermont's Energy Future

• September 2019 | Vermont's Changing Climate: What to Expect and How to Prepare

• December 2018 | The State of Vermont's Democracy

• December 2018 | Having a Voice in Democracy

• November 2018 | An Assessment of Democracies Around the World

• November 2018 | The Role of Journalism in a Divisive Age

• November 2018 | How We Got Here: Women in the Era of Trump

• November 2018 | What Everyone Needs to Know About the Constitution

• October 2018 | A Life in Politics: Governor Howard Dean

• October 2018 | Turning our Oceans into Landfills: The Growing Problem of Plastic Pollution

• October 2018 | The Trump Administration's Foreign Policy Priorities

• October 2018 | The Environmental and Health Impacts of Herbicides and Pesticides

• September 2018 | Food And Social Justice

• September 2018 | Gender And Race In America

• September 2018 | Powers And Limitations Of State Government Today

• September 2018 | Public Policy and How to Make Social Change

• October 2017 | Media and Democracy: The Rights and Responsibilities of a Free Press

• October 2017 | Incarceration in America: Prison Education and Reform in Vermont

• October 2017 | Foreign Policy: International Affairs in the Era of Trump

• October 2017 | Immigration: Policy and Practice

• September 2017 | The Healthcare Debate: Current Issues

• September 2017 | Clean Water: What Will it Take to Clean the Waters of Vermont?

• September 2017 | States’ Rights: The Struggle Between the President and the States

US Politics

• Legislative Internships

• October 2020 | Election 2020 with Governor Michael Dukakis

• December 2019 | Jennifer Taub: On Impeachment

• April 2017 | Democracy Now!: Covering the Movements Changing America, A Talk by Journalist Amy Goodman

• April 2017 | Trust Me: The Public, The Press, and The Credibility Deficit

• November 2016 | Election Debriefing Panel

• October 2016 | VT Legislative Forum: Building a Healthy Bennington

• November 2014 | Imperial Duress: Concept-Work for Our Times

The January 6 Project

• September 2021 | How Did We Get Here? Perspectives on American Democracy from its Founding to Today
   
• September 2021 | Witnessing January 6 and the Response from Congress
   
• September 2021 | Religion, Race, and American Politics
   
• September 2021 | The Alt-Right and White Nationalism on the American Landscape
   
• October 2021 | Teaching About January 6
   
• October 2021 | The Republican Party's Turn to Extremism

Film

• March 2020 | Frontline's Plastic Wars

• March 2029 | Film Screening: "Welcome to Refugeestan"

• December 2018 | Film Screening: The Devil We Know"

• November 2018 | Water Film Festival

• May 2018 | Film Screening and Q&A: "Milford Graves Full Mantis"

• November 2016 | Film Screening and Panel Discussion: "13th" 

• October 2015 | Film Screening: & Discussion with Avijit Halder: "Born into Brothels"

• October 2014 | Film Screening and Panel Discussion: "DamNation"

Multimedia

• 2018 | CreateNow 

• 2016 | Future Studio

• 2014 | (Un)governed Spaces, A Portrait of Afghanistan, Opens at Bennington College

Music

• April 2020 | Emergent Publics: Musical Practices of Syrian Migrants in Istanbul

• October 2016 | Human Endeavor: Milford Graves and Improvisation

Performing Arts

• October 2017 | Theatre and Protest: Tahrir Tales

• May 2017 | White State | Black Mind: Black Fugitivity in the Wake of Loss

• March 2017 | "Down on Griffin Alley"

• March-April 2012 | Festival of Wit

Visual Arts

• September 2020 | Students Develop Art Commission for U.S. Consulate in Thailand

• April 2017 | Theaster Gates

• November 2017 | Empty Bowls

• June 2016 | True North

• 2014-2015 | Cities Art Forum 

• September 2014 | Art in Embassies: Oslo Project

• March 2014 | Participating in Politics: Art, Anthropology, & Advocacy in Afghanistan

Clean Water

• September 2019 | Protecting Our Ponds, Lakes, Rivers, and Drinking Water

• November 2018 | Water Film Festival

• September 2017 | Clean Water: What Will it Take to Clean the Waters of Vermont?

• 2016 | Paran Creek Watershed Project

• November 2015 | Vermont Water Forum

• April 2012 | The Water Dialogues

Climate Change

• April 2021 | White Nationalism from Trumpism and Beyond

• April 2021 | Root and Branch: Climate Migration, Racial Crises, and the History and Future of Climate Justice

• March 2021 | CAPA Interview Series: Carmen Yulín Cruz

• November 2019 | Climate Change and the American South

• November 2019 | Climate Change and Human Rights

• October 2019 | Governing in the Era of Climate Change

• September 2019 | Agriculture and a Changing Climate

• September 2019 | Vermont's Changing Climate: What to Expect and How to Prepare

• March 2018 | Our Impending Crisis: Climate Change, Failing Elites, and Economic Transformation

• April-May 2015 | Climate, Capitalism, Creativity

• September 2014 |Climate Change: Our Shared Home 

Energy Efficiency

• September 2019 | Vermont's Energy Future

• December 2016 | The Paran Creek Watershed Project Feasibility Study Presentation for Hydropower

• September 2015 | Vermont's Energy Future

• April 2015 | Bennington Contractor Meeting on Energy Efficiency

• April 2015 | Energy Efficiency Training for Students and Homeowners

• October 2014 | Film Screening and Panel Discussion: "DamNation"

• 2013 | LED Project

Environmental Protection

• October 2018 | Form-Based Standards for Municipal Land Use Planning: A Public Workshop with Randall Arendt

• March 2018 | POSTPONED–The Trump Assault on Environmental Protection and What You Can Do About It 

• May 2017 | Chicago Environment Conference

• May 2017 | Breaking Away

• May 2017 | Living In and Against Planetary Crisis

• May 2017 | The Storms Already Among Us

• May 2017 | Between the Planetary and the Personal

• May 2017 | Sensing an Unruly Beyond

Food Security and Justice

• October 2020 | Gather: The Fight to Revitalize our Native Foodways

• October 2020 | Storage Crops

• September 2020 | Community Gardens and Gentrification in New York City: Appropriation and Resistance

• September 2020 | Fall Preparations for Winter Gardens

• August 2020 | Food Preservation

• May 2020 | Resilience Gardening in Bennington

• April 2020 | Local Farmer Responses to COVID-19

• April 2020 | POSTPONED–Bennington Food Summit on Relocalization

• February 2020 | Forgotten Farms: Film Screening and Panel Discusssion

• November 2019 | Uprooting Racism in the Food System

• September 2018 | Food And Social Justice

• April 2017 | Bennington Seed Fest

• 2017 | Empty Bowls

• November 2016 | Empty Bowls Event

Plastic Pollution

• March 2020 | Frontline's Plastic Wars

• October 2018 | Turning our Oceans into Landfills: The Growing Problem of Plastic Pollution

PFOA, PFAS, and Pesticides

• April 2020 | Norlite: Press Release and Fact Sheet 

• April 2020 | Norlite: Map of Sample Sites 

• April 2020 | Norlite: Full Laboratory Results

• April 2020 | Norlite: Audio of News Conference

• October 2018 | The Environmental and Health Impacts of Herbicides and Pesticides

• August 2018 | PFOA Research: Press Release

• August 2018 | PFOA Research: Fact Sheet

• August 2018 | PFOA Research: Community Health Questionnaire

• December 2018 | Film Screening: "The Devil We Know"

• May 2017 | Taconic Mountain Student PFOA Conference

• November 2016 | PFOA Series: Chris Higgins

• October 2016 | PFOA Series: Gloria Post

• October 2016 | PFOA Series: Dr. Joyce Donohue, EPA

• April 2016 | Non-stick Stain Repellent Chemicals: A Poisoned Legacy

Bennington Translates

• November 2019 | Translation to Save Your Life: Matt Zeller and Janis Shenwary

• September 2019 | Translators Without Borders: Language as a Means of Survival in Humanitarian Crisis

• April 2018 | A Writer in Egypt: Basma Abdel Aziz in Spring 2018 Consortium Convening

• April 2018 | Conversation with Elisabeth Jaquette

• April 2018 | Diasporic Translations: A Conversation with Katrina Dodson

• February 2018 | Translating the Classics

• November 2017 | Imagining Arabic Literature Beyond Politics

• November 2017 | Locating and Translating New World Blacknesses

• May 2017 | Ancestors

• March 2017 | Translation and Autobiography: Augustine, Rousseau, Solzhenitsyn

• March 2017 | Ruth Ewing Lecture Presents: Esther Allen

• April 2016 | The Power of Language to Save Lives

• April 2016 | Translating Catastrophe: Yiddish Translation After the Wars

• March 2016 | The Dakota Prisoner of War Letters 

• March 2016 | Publishing the World: Words without Borders

• May 2015 | Bennington Translates: Jeffrey Yang

• April 2015 | Bennington Translates: Eduardo Berinstein

• March 2015 | Bennington Translates: Luke Mogelson and Habib Zahori

• March 2015 | Bennington Translates: Chad Post and Jennifer Zoble

• March 2015 | Bennington Translates: Marjorie Bancroft

• March 2015 | Bennington Translates: Ellen Elias-Bursac

Consortium on Forced Migration, Displacement and Education

• April 2021 | White Nationalism from Trumpism and Beyond

• April 2021 | Root and Branch: Climate Migration, Racial Crises, and the History and Future of Climate Justice

• March 2021 | CAPA Interview Series: Carmen Yulín Cruz

• September 2019 | Translators Without Borders: Language as a Means of Survival in Humanitarian Crisis 

• May 2019 | Addressing the Mental Health Consequences of Fleeing Persecution and Seeking Refuge

• April 2019 | The Kurdish Youth Immigration to the U.S.: Legal Aspects

• March 2019 | Destitution Economies of Migration Control: Poverty, Legality, and the Production of Value

• March 2019 | Four Ways to Think About Forced Migration

• April 2018 | Spring 2018 Consortium Convening 

• April 2018 | A Writer in Egypt: Basma Abdel Aziz in Spring 2018 Consortium Convening

• March 2018 | Tracking Hate and Nativism: The Southern Poverty Law Center and Non-Violent Resistance

• November 2017 | Dignity, Compassion, and Action: In Conversation with Saria Samakie

• November 2017 | The Peace Petition and the Academic Purge in Turkey

• November 2017 | The ABCs of Immigration

• October 2017 | Immigration: Policy and Practice

Human Rights

• March 2020 | Conversation About Diversity and Racial Justice in Vermont

• November 2019 | Uprooting Racism in the Food System

• November 2019 | Climate Change and Human Rights

• October 2019 | The Great Transformation at 75

• Fall 2014–2018 | CAPA Leadership Institute

• March 2014 | Rebecca Tinsley: 20 Years Since Rwanda Genocide

Incarceration in America

• October 2019 I Incarceration in America Conference

• April 2019 | Freeing the Mind and Building a Future: The Role and Future of the Liberal Arts in Prison Education

• May 2018 | Incarceration in America: Immigration Detention

• October 2017 | Incarceration in America: Prison Education and Reform in Vermont

• May 2017 | Incarceration Conference

• April 2017 | The Future of Higher Education in Prison

• November 2016 | Film Screening and Panel Discussion: "13th"

• September 2016 | Women's Community Justice Project 

• October 2015 | Incarceration in America Forum

• May 2015 | Effecting Change Conference

• March 2015 | The Castle

• October 2014 | Incarceration in America Conference

• 2014-2015 | Incarceration Taskforce

• April 2015 | Think Tank: Higher Education in Prisons

• April 2014 | 40 Years Later: Rightsizing the United States Criminal Justice System 

Peacebuilding

• November 2019 | Translation to Save Your Life: Matt Zeller and Janis Shenwary

• March 2019 | Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Mass Atrocity

• March 2019 | Film Screening: "Welcome to Refugeestan"

• April 2019 | The Role Of Memory and Memorialization in Atrocity Prevention

• 2015-2018 | CAPA Improvisation Archive

• April 2012 | The Water Dialogues

Other Projects & Events

• April 2019 | Addressing Stigma and the Social Determinants of Opioid Substance Use Disorder

• 2015 | Armenian Genocide Commemoration

• 2014 - 2020 | GANAS

Events and Conferences

• April 2018 | Spring 2018 Consortium Convening

• December 2017 | Interview with Jordan Thomas '92

• November 2017 | The Peace Petition and the Academic Purge in Turkey

• May 2017 | Taconic Mountain Student Water Conference: PFOA 

• November 2016 | Davis Project for Peace Presentation

• October 2016 | Peacebuilding In Action Panel Discussion

• September 2016 | VT Legislative Forum: Act 77

• September 2016 | Reunion/Improvisation Discussion and Screening

• October 2015 | Education Forum on Act 46

• May 2015 | Towards an Ethnography of Experimental Psychology

• April 2015 | CAPA Fellow Convening

• April 2015 | Corporate Science

• March 2015 | Rowland Foundation Conference on Education 

• 2015 | Southern Bennington County Educational Assets Map

• 2014-2015 | Bennington Kid's Gym

• September 2014 | CAPA Leadership Institute

• November 2013 | CAPA Fellow Convening

• September 2013 | TEDxBennington

• September 2012 | 05201 Marathon

• September-October 2011 | CAPA Opening Weekend

Teaching Languages and Cultures in K-6

Started in 2013, this program set up advanced Bennington students of Spanish, French, and Chinese to provide weekly language instruction to students pre-K through 6th grade at the Village School of North Bennington (VSNB). Learn more here.

Vermont Act 77

Based on the original and ongoing pedagogy related to the Plan Process at Bennington College, CAPA was asked by the Southwest Vermont Supervisory Union to join a committee to work with them on the policy and implementation of Act 77 in the public schools in Bennington, VT. Learn more here.