Category Archives: Academic

Plan to Attend the 2012 Spring Student Symposium

Spring SymposiumThe symposium opens on Thursday night, April 19, in the Mahaney Center with a welcome by Ron Liebowitz and keynote speech by Brian Deese ’00, Deputy Director of the National Economic Council. Deese worked on the restructuring of the US automotive industry and advises on the economics of topics from tax policy to clean energy. Join us for a celebratory night of presentations, performances, and good food. Come early- the D8 will be performing in the concert hall as you arrive.

The symposium will continue on Friday, April 20, all day in McCardell Bicentennial Hall and Johnson with 168 oral and 41 poster presentations ranging in topics from popular music to biochemistry. Presenters will have a special lunch with their sponsors in Atwater but Dining also has a cook out (weather permitting) planned for everyone else. The entire campus community is invited to congratulate the presenters at a spirited reception at 5 pm in the Great Hall. The day concludes with several exciting student performances in the Mahaney Center.

This year’s symposium features the academic work of over 300 students from 27 disciplines. Come see what what everyone has been up to this year and have some fun in the process! A schedule can be found online at go/sym

Blackbird Cawl for Submissions!

Blackbird Literary Arts Magazine is inviting submissions for our spring issue. We publish writing of any length and genre, and art of any form. Anything that can be photographed or printed can be published in Blackbird.

If you would like to submit, send your piece to blackbird@middlebury.edu. The deadline for submissions is Friday February 17th. 

Collecting Community: Perspectives on Middlebury

The students of the J-Term course Community Dialogue Through the Arts are proud to announce their community engagement project:

Collecting Community: Perspectives on Middlebury

As part of this project, you’re invited to a Community Sing!

When: Tuesday, January 17, 6:30-8 pm

Where: Ilsley Library Public Meeting Room (Downstairs)

We’ll be singing a variety of songs from the best of the oldies to your favorite childhood tunes. Everyone from the greater Middlebury community is invited.  Bring your instruments. All ages welcome. No experience necessary. If you have any questions contact middartsdialogue@gmail.com. Refreshments will be provided.

 

The goal of this project is to collect individual perspectives from the greater Middlebury community through a variety of artistic mediums (visual, written, and recorded).  The culmination of this process will be an exhibition of these individual narratives as works of art. The hope is to capture these passing moments in history and to take time to re-imagine the Middlebury community.

 

 

New ART CMP WT Course

This coming Winter Term, Middlebury College is offering the following course at Trinchera Ranch in southern Colorado.

INTD 1119 Landscape and Soundscape
This course will be held at Trinchera Ranch in southern Colorado.  We will focus on musical engagements with environmental implications to explore, both critically and creatively, musical forms and related media that are shaped by a culture’s local landscapes and environmental understandings. Area studies include Tuva/Mongolia, Ghana, the Caribbean, and Australia.  We will directly engage with the surrounding landscape of Trinchera Ranch and the diverse local cultural approaches to it via the arts (music, dance, ceremony, and art).  No musical background is necessary, but students should expect to participate actively in various forms of music, dance, and outdoor activities. (Approval Required) ART CMP (S. Trombulak, V. J. Price)

The course will be taught by Steve Trombulak (Environmental Studies and Biology at Middlebury College) and V. Josselyne Price (Fine Arts at St. Michael’s College, visiting instructor).

The course is limited to 10 students, and enrollment is by application only.  All travel and lodging expenses are paid by Middlebury College, independent of one’s financial aid package.

An open information meeting about the course will be held on Wednesday, November 2nd, at 7:30 pm in Hillcrest Environmental Center, Rm. 103.  At this meeting we will provide details about the course, travel and housing logistics, and the application process.   Please note that students who matriculated in February 2011 and September 2011 are required to take their first WT course on campus and are not eligible for INTD 1119.

Please feel free to forward this to anyone who you think might be interested in hearing about this opportunity.

Cheers,

Steve Trombulak
ES and Biology