Event Calendar
Pick a DateItaly in a Tin Can: Views from the Strait of Otranto
Cultural Studies and Language Series—Fall 2021
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Interweaving biographical accounts set against the backdrop of the geo-historical connections of Italy and Albania, this talk explores how technologies of communication and technologies of migration have generated a particular affective relation to Italy among Albanians.
Study Abroad in Taiwan
Cultural Studies and Language Series—Fall 2021OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | In Taiwan, the ancient and the modern, the traditional and the new are seamlessly woven together, creating a fascinating, dynamic society like no other in the world. This event will cover the details of the following topics: Brief information of Taiwan, Study in Taiwan (SIT), Taiwan Scholarship and Huayu Enrichment Scholarship, and Taiwan Experience Education Program (TEEP).
Student Office Hours with Dr. Alfredo Medina
Cabinet Office Hours—Fall 2021-Spring 2022Walk-ins are welcome, or to schedule an appointment with Dr. Medina, please email melissasmith@bennington.edu. Dr. Medina is available to meet outside of Student Office Hours by appointment as well.
Karinne Smith
Visual Arts Lecture Series (VALS)—Fall 2021
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | A Visual Arts Lecture Series presentation by Karinne Smith.
Ways To Be Present (On The Page, In The Body, In The World): A Craft Talk with Camille T. Dungy
Poetry at Bennington—Fall 2021
OPEN TO PUBLIC I Camille T. Dungy is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Trophic Cascade (Wesleyan, 2017) and Smith Blue (Southern Illinois University Press, 2011), a finalist for the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award. Her essay collection Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History (Norton, 2017) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Open Office Hours with Dr. Li-Chen Chin, Dean of Student Life
Cabinet Office Hours—Fall 2021-Spring 2022Li-Chen Chin, Dean of Student Life, will hold open office hours for students every Wednesday. Please feel free to drop in, no appointment needed.
Camille T. Dungy and Deborah Landau
Poetry at Bennington—Fall 2021
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Camille T. Dungy and Deborah Landau read from their poetry collections, followed by a public Q&A.
Gillian Richards-Greaves: African Continuities in Gullah and African Diasporic Musics
Carriage Barn Music Series | Fall 2021
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Carriage Barn Music Series presents a lecture by Gillian Richards-Greaves, Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology and Geography at Coastal Carolina University, entitled "African Continuities in Gullah and African Diasporic Musics."
The Poetics of Play/The Lyric Sequence: A Craft Talk with Deborah Landau
Poetry at Bennington—Fall 2021
OPEN TO PUBLIC | Deborah Landau is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Soft Targets (Copper Canyon, 2019), winner of The Believer Book Award, and The Uses of the Body (Copper Canyon, 2015), featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, and included on “Best of 2015″ lists by The New Yorker, Vogue, BuzzFeed, and O, The Oprah Magazine.
Aiding Software Developers' Information Seeking in Modern Communication Mediums
CAMPUS COMMUNITY ONLY | Science Workshop speaker Esteban Parra Rodriguez will be discussing the introduction to several approaches that aid developers in navigating modern communications mediums when seeking for relevant information for their tasks.
Drowning in Sorrows: A Musical Comedy
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | In an original student-made musical, Isla, a wealthy suburbanite, wakes up at her funeral to find out that she is a ghost and is headed ‘below.’ She has three days to change her lot in the afterlife and earn ‘above’ by making over a newly homeless teenager’s life. Chaos ensues.
Virtual Fall Open House
Info session, student-led virtual tour, and application & financial aid session designed for HS students interested in Bennington College.
BEAUJONOMIE at W. Collective with couch + cork
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | On November 13, join couch + cork at The W. Collective in downtown Bennington, co-owned by Bri Magnifico '08, for BEAUJONOMIE.
Drowning in Sorrows: A Musical Comedy
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | In an original student-made musical, Isla, a wealthy suburbanite, wakes up at her funeral to find out that she is a ghost and is headed ‘below.’ She has three days to change her lot in the afterlife and earn ‘above’ by making over a newly homeless teenager’s life. Chaos ensues.
COVID SCHMOVID Reading at W. Collective
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Join The W. Collective in downtown Bennington, co-owned by Bri Magnifico '08, for a children's book reading with author Colleen E. Kelley.