﻿<?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[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[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[Annual Nancy Ide Lecture Series in Computer Science]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM - Taylor Hall 203-Auditorium TBA]]></description><author>mihyman@vassar.edu (Mika Purtle)</author><category>Lecture</category><pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2026 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate><link>https://vas.emscloudservice.com/calendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J6Z1jrE1tRLpZFwbtrLpUD%2bcqY1rqDMeI9dn9fS2mRttJFuWvlAmOv5</link><guid>https://vas.emscloudservice.com/calendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J6Z1jrE1tRLpZFwbtrLpUD%2bcqY1rqDMeI9dn9fS2mRttJFuWvlAmOv5</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[Mariah Kupfner, Assistant Professor of American Studies and Public Heritage, Penn State Harrisburg. ]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM - Taylor Hall 203-Auditorium Info and Description forthcoming.]]></description><author>shstukes@vassar.edu (Sheila Stukes)</author><category>Lecture</category><pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2027 22:30:00 GMT</pubDate><link>https://vas.emscloudservice.com/calendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J4u%2f67X8vkJejJQeT1jIYrDaCYdN7ptsodC8hsZ4SAbVk%2feiJSdcGJW</link><guid>https://vas.emscloudservice.com/calendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J4u%2f67X8vkJejJQeT1jIYrDaCYdN7ptsodC8hsZ4SAbVk%2feiJSdcGJW</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><item><title><![CDATA[Claflin Lecture with Brian Goldstein and Mario Gooden]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 4:30 PM to 7:00 PM - Taylor Hall 203-Auditorium Claflin Lecture with Brian Goldstein and Mario Gooden. *Will give more detailed description closer to the date!]]></description><author>hpilkington@vassar.edu (Haley Pilkington)</author><category>Lecture</category><pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2027 20:30:00 GMT</pubDate><link>https://vas.emscloudservice.com/calendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J7VPpTh1l%2bke%2bV%2fUUHqI4hzi4DpO6%2feHLVJN2B6IUy8QgTv0ZjC%2bxgT</link><guid>https://vas.emscloudservice.com/calendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J7VPpTh1l%2bke%2bV%2fUUHqI4hzi4DpO6%2feHLVJN2B6IUy8QgTv0ZjC%2bxgT</guid></item></channel></rss>