﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>All Lectures</title><link>https://vas.emscloudservice.com/calendar/</link><description /><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2023 23:56:17 GMT</pubDate><lastBuildDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2023 23:56:17 GMT</lastBuildDate><category>Calendar of Events</category><atom:link href="https://vas.emscloudservice.com/calendar/RSSFeeds.aspx?data=OiNeXA6LJItp%2bLkkMsbi4%2b2JtQ%2fG8s7vxtgv9exO4LQ%3d" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><generator>:: Master Calendar ::</generator><copyright>2026</copyright><ttl>30</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[ 'Agnes Rindge Claflin Lecture: Joyce Kozloff']]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM - Taylor Hall 203-Auditorium Beginning in 1970, energized by participation in the feminist art movement, Joyce Kozloff became an originating figure of the Pattern and Decoration movement, exploring applied and decorative arts as source and inspiration, especially visual cultures of the nonwestern world. During the 1980s, Kozloff concentrated on ambitious public commissions in the US and abroad, many in transportation centers, executed in ceramic tile and/or glass and marble mosaic. By the 1990s, maps had become the foundation for Kozloff’s private work, structures into which she would insert the role of cartography in human knowledge and as an imposition of imperial will. Her map and globe works, which image both physical and mental terrain, employ mutations to raise geopolitical issues. ]]></description><author>lanewman@vassar.edu (Laura Newman)</author><category>Lecture</category><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate><link>https://vas.emscloudservice.com/calendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J6aXEGMZcO0sfcq0tRKk4SuVjKoUwi0D72I2qQQpXCtNcNoOmmPf0tN</link><guid>https://vas.emscloudservice.com/calendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J6aXEGMZcO0sfcq0tRKk4SuVjKoUwi0D72I2qQQpXCtNcNoOmmPf0tN</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Professor Julie Hardwick]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 5:30 PM to 7:15 PM - Taylor Hall 203-Auditorium Prof. Hardwick will hold a lecture regarding the slavery system in early modern France.]]></description><author>kperrucci@vassar.edu (Karen Perrucci)</author><category>Lecture</category><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 21:30:00 GMT</pubDate><link>https://vas.emscloudservice.com/calendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J7J7NVQFZRgPDmJ1AaK7rN2tx9DMsuhUHoyUTDVTRDmoHx5q28NL9Hq</link><guid>https://vas.emscloudservice.com/calendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J7J7NVQFZRgPDmJ1AaK7rN2tx9DMsuhUHoyUTDVTRDmoHx5q28NL9Hq</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["The Death and Life of Gentrification"]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM - Rockefeller Hall 200-Auditorium Professor and Chair of Sociology at Boston University, Japonica Brown-Saracino will present a talk based on her 2026 book 'The Death and Life of Gentrification: A New Map of a Persistent Idea'. She will address both the popular wisdom on “gentrification” as well as its rapid evolution as a phenomenon first studied in 1964. Prof. Brown-Saracino’s lecture will draw upon her expertise as a scholar of gentrification and author of several well-regarded works on the subject, including 'A Neighborhood That Never Changes: Gentrification', 'Social Preservation, and the Search for Authenticity (2009)' and 'The Gentrification Debates (editor, 2010)'. At the heart of her lecture is a provocative argument about what is gained and what is lost when a word that once narrowly referred to neighborhood change takes on a life all its own.]]></description><author>hpilkington@vassar.edu (Haley Pilkington)</author><category>Lecture</category><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 22:30:00 GMT</pubDate><link>https://vas.emscloudservice.com/calendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J4y2LmUSYdb3D%2b53O5Rb3X8mhSuvLpPhDT%2bIgtVdZwlU2A%2bUUs5wX0H</link><guid>https://vas.emscloudservice.com/calendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J4y2LmUSYdb3D%2b53O5Rb3X8mhSuvLpPhDT%2bIgtVdZwlU2A%2bUUs5wX0H</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Is this a very Chinese time of your life? Chinamaxxing throughout the centuries," a lecture by John Pomfret]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM - Taylor Hall 203-Auditorium Chinamaxxing didn't begin yesterday, it's been around since 1776. In his talk, Mr. Pomfret will retrieve the history about America's enduring obsession with China and speak about the more recent history of the obsession from his own experience as a China correspondent for a national newspaper]]></description><author>kapanebianco@vassar.edu (Kathleen Panebianco)</author><category>Lecture</category><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 21:30:00 GMT</pubDate><link>https://vas.emscloudservice.com/calendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J5rTdsvZ2xOIHJsGYGXAygPLUngWewcWHaQN6aLmJBXYNuf5hK%2bwDeU</link><guid>https://vas.emscloudservice.com/calendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J5rTdsvZ2xOIHJsGYGXAygPLUngWewcWHaQN6aLmJBXYNuf5hK%2bwDeU</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Solidarity in Journalism]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM - Taylor Hall 203-Auditorium A talk by Anita Varma (Vassar 2008), based on her 2026 Columbia University Press book Solidarity in Journalism, about journalism and social justice. The talk will explore how conventional journalistic norms discourage reporters from taking sides; journalists are supposed to remain neutral, impartial, and objective. Yet there is also a long tradition in journalism, dating back to the 1800s, that pursues truth by practicing solidarity for social justice. Solidarity in Journalism offers a bold defense of reporting for social justice, showing what journalistic solidarity looks like in principle and in practice.]]></description><author>mmcalley@vassar.edu (Melissa McAlley)</author><category>Lecture</category><pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 21:30:00 GMT</pubDate><link>https://vas.emscloudservice.com/calendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J5qDZw1bZ6rT3gTGWem1ulhm1M02tiIsyQ%2bSd9x7%2fz1%2feCpOocIvNYQ</link><guid>https://vas.emscloudservice.com/calendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J5qDZw1bZ6rT3gTGWem1ulhm1M02tiIsyQ%2bSd9x7%2fz1%2feCpOocIvNYQ</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“A Swordswoman Worth a Thousand: Tomoe the Warrior in Literature, Legend, and Cultural Heritage,” lecture by Roberta Strippoli]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM - Taylor Hall 203-Auditorium Characters in the warrior narrative The Tale of the Heike (13th–14th century) generally belong to one of two groups: men, who fight and die, andwomen, who survive, remember, make sense of history, and pray for the dead. In thestory of Tomoe we find the two sets of functions combined in the same character. Sheis an accomplished warrior at the service of Kiso Yoshinaka (1154–1184), but also awoman who survives the Genpei War (1180–1185) to fulfil the task of retelling whathappened in Kiso’s last battle and, by becoming a nun, pray for his rebirth. This talkexplores the connections between The Tale of the Heike and cultural heritage such astemples and graves, showing how they are complementary ways of remembering,mourning, and, in the case of cultural heritage, affirming local identity.]]></description><author>kapanebianco@vassar.edu (Kathleen Panebianco)</author><category>Lecture</category><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 21:30:00 GMT</pubDate><link>https://vas.emscloudservice.com/calendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J7%2bfgyCk8%2bflTSzWW1pW8QR41EToLzKgFTUONoT%2bbvvUWH8sS6L2iLt</link><guid>https://vas.emscloudservice.com/calendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J7%2bfgyCk8%2bflTSzWW1pW8QR41EToLzKgFTUONoT%2bbvvUWH8sS6L2iLt</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage Equality Didnt Fix Everything]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM - Rockefeller Hall 200-Auditorium]]></description><author>lhawley@Vassar.edu (Lyndonna Hawley)</author><category>Lecture</category><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate><link>https://vas.emscloudservice.com/calendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J6bKvytt9W%2bzKehWyBEUETHH5czww8VoLwKGjOO1a0cmBZ7tMLOh5cr</link><guid>https://vas.emscloudservice.com/calendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J6bKvytt9W%2bzKehWyBEUETHH5czww8VoLwKGjOO1a0cmBZ7tMLOh5cr</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Starr Lecture]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM - College Center Villard Room Starr Lecture for author of Class of '30 common readingOrganization is not Biology as shown above but rather is Dean of Studies]]></description><author>maczesak@vassar.edu (Mary Ellen Czesak)</author><category>Lecture</category><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2026 22:30:00 GMT</pubDate><link>https://vas.emscloudservice.com/calendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J5%2bnAldr75fpYScOWEr2Kh5nIPR%2bNWw7%2bX5PHTyFEfQrMWK99%2fGVoXN</link><guid>https://vas.emscloudservice.com/calendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J5%2bnAldr75fpYScOWEr2Kh5nIPR%2bNWw7%2bX5PHTyFEfQrMWK99%2fGVoXN</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Claflin Lecture- Lisa Reilly ]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM - Taylor Hall 203-Auditorium]]></description><author>hpilkington@vassar.edu (Haley Pilkington)</author><category>Lecture</category><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2026 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate><link>https://vas.emscloudservice.com/calendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J6TNCRV2FvpbfdEjItQP2YpO4%2f%2f4LRM7KZXsV9NgPFtqmfFSZmfxtru</link><guid>https://vas.emscloudservice.com/calendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J6TNCRV2FvpbfdEjItQP2YpO4%2f%2f4LRM7KZXsV9NgPFtqmfFSZmfxtru</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“How to Write Poetry Like a Monster: Fiction as a Guide to Poetic Creativity in Early Modern Japan”, lecture by David C. Atherton]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM - Rockefeller Hall 300-Auditorium Can poetic creativity be taught? What creative attitude makes for a good poem? Where doespoetic authority come from? What role should originality play in poetic composition? Doesintention matter in crafting a poem? Is there an ethics to poetic creativity? These questions, stillrelevant today, were hotly contested in eighteenth-century Japan: a time of profoundtransformation for waka, the archipelago’s most ancient and prestigious verse form. In this talk, Iexamine the answers to these questions put forth by the polymathic writer, poet, and scholarUeda Akinari (1734-1809), one of the early modern period’s most dynamic creative figures.Rather than elaborating his poetic theories in the traditional form of a treatise, Akinari couchesthem within works of fiction, in which they are voiced by alter egos such as famous poets of thepast or uncanny gods and monsters. Focusing in particular on the story “The One-Eyed God,”and probing the connections the work draws between monstrosity, creativity, idiosyncrasy, andunconventionality (both textual and corporeal), I show how this fictional approach gives shape tocreative dynamics for which no expository language yet existed. And I show how the story’sintersection of monsters and poetry points to the complex—and uncannily modern—newpathways opened for authorship and creativity in the eighteenth century.]]></description><author>kapanebianco@vassar.edu (Kathleen Panebianco)</author><category>Lecture</category><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2026 22:30:00 GMT</pubDate><link>https://vas.emscloudservice.com/calendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J6pDtNg5XkE1zIW4nD3bJCPonc6NyOhJC2xBTBFVvh6n627chZ7jzeS</link><guid>https://vas.emscloudservice.com/calendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J6pDtNg5XkE1zIW4nD3bJCPonc6NyOhJC2xBTBFVvh6n627chZ7jzeS</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Claflin Lecture by Lucia Allais]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM - Taylor Hall 203-Auditorium]]></description><author>acanino@vassar.edu (Ana Canino)</author><category>Lecture</category><pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2027 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate><link>https://vas.emscloudservice.com/calendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J6ZvE7XRloPJrbIwbNzKf%2fMxID0eh9kSBDrk5gNXoVbcyCGsxWEy0QP</link><guid>https://vas.emscloudservice.com/calendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J6ZvE7XRloPJrbIwbNzKf%2fMxID0eh9kSBDrk5gNXoVbcyCGsxWEy0QP</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Martin H. Crego Lecture in Economics]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM - Taylor Hall 203-Auditorium The Martin H. Crego Lecture in Economics featuring Christopher "Kitt" Carpenter.]]></description><author>jbrochu@vassar.edu (Jessica Brochu)</author><category>Lecture</category><pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2027 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate><link>https://vas.emscloudservice.com/calendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J4Gdem9BHlGbNpAHyCoX1tgnQaAXdhJ34FcpdiOL50asATGgXVEThQl</link><guid>https://vas.emscloudservice.com/calendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J4Gdem9BHlGbNpAHyCoX1tgnQaAXdhJ34FcpdiOL50asATGgXVEThQl</guid></item></channel></rss>