This Week at Ilsley
First Wednesday Talk
Wilson HallDecember 4, 7:00PM
1st Wednesdays
Graphic Novels to Watch Out For
Alison Bechdel, author of the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For and the graphic memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomedy, discusses what makes comics such a powerful medium for addressing and upending oppression.
A program of Vermont Humanities.
1st Wednesdays
Community Room 75 Main St., Middleburywhen the Bicycle Came to Vermont. UVM Professor Luis Vivanco explores the fascinating early history of the bicycle in Vermont, an invention that generated widespread curiosity when it arrived in the 1880s - helping spark important changes in the industrial production, consumerism, road policies, gender relations, and cultural ideas. A program of Vermont Humanities.
CANCELLED: David Macaulay – Life in The Studio
Community Room 75 Main St., Middlebury1st Wednesdays David Macaulay, award-winning author and illustrator of Castle, Cathedral and The Way We Work, traces the development of his books and discusses current projects and the challenges in his work. A program of Vermont Humanities. Free and open to the public.
1st Wednesdays
VirtualConspiracy Talk and American Democracy Today Conspiracy theory, once on the fringes of American democracy, is now at its center. And often conspiracies are presented without any theory. Dartmouth professor Russell Muirhead examines the nature of current conspiracy talk, and what it is doing to our democracy. Register to attend this virtual talk Vermont Humanities.…
1st Wednesdays – Friends with Academic Benefits
Virtual*DIGITAL* Friends with Academic Benefits: How College Friendship Networks Matter For her book Connecting in College, Dartmouth professor Janice McCabe examined 82 students’ friendships over five years and identified three types of friendship networks: tight-knitters, compartmentalizers, and samplers. Challenging views of friendships as either helping or harming, McCabe will show how and for whom friends help…
1st Wednesdays
Virtual*DIGITAL* How to Read Chinese Poetry (If You Can’t Read Chinese): The Case of Ezra Pound In 1915, Ezra Pound published a collection of early “translations” of Chinese poetry that took the poetic world by storm. However, Pound didn’t know a word of Chinese. Middlebury professor Timothy Billings was the first scholar to decipher the…