﻿<?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[Straus Event]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM - Taylor Hall 102-Auditorium TBA]]></description><author>frbrown@vassar.edu (Francine Brown)</author><category>Lecture</category><pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 18:00:00 GMT</pubDate><link>https://vas.emscloudservice.com/calendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J4CcxmaQOAxalcp043T956UX8Acq%2f7S6%2fd3iDlBAakwQdd7l0%2b%2bh4iF</link><guid>https://vas.emscloudservice.com/calendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J4CcxmaQOAxalcp043T956UX8Acq%2f7S6%2fd3iDlBAakwQdd7l0%2b%2bh4iF</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Professor Lisa Tetrault]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM - Taylor Hall 102-Auditorium In honor of the retirement of Professor Rebecca Edwards]]></description><author>kperrucci@vassar.edu (Karen Perrucci)</author><category>Lecture</category><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 21:30:00 GMT</pubDate><link>https://vas.emscloudservice.com/calendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J5ACnabqlYkSOnOAKZ1%2b9pa%2beL%2bhE%2ffWOnTBB9EvFCGHrwnraT32MwO</link><guid>https://vas.emscloudservice.com/calendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J5ACnabqlYkSOnOAKZ1%2b9pa%2beL%2bhE%2ffWOnTBB9EvFCGHrwnraT32MwO</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["China Maxxing" Then and Now" a lecture by John Pomfret]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM - Taylor Hall 203-Auditorium Mr. John Pomfret was an international correspondent for The Washington Post in China, Eastern Europe, Africa, Iraq, and Afghanistan between 1993-2013 after ending his stint for the Associated Press from 1986 to 1993. He then became a global affairs columnist for the paper from 2015 to 2020. When he was off duty as a journalist, he was active in academia. He was a Senior Visiting Fellow on Council on Foreign Relations and a Fulbright Senior Scholar at Peking University. He currently works at Garnaut Global LLC, a China-related consulting firm.He won awards for reporting on Asia from Stanford his alma mater, Harvard and Georgetown Universities as well as from The Asia Society. He is also a prolific author of fiction and non fictions including From Warsaw with Love: Polish Spies, the CIA and the Making of an Unlikely Alliance in 2021, The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China,1776 to the Present, in 2016, and Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China, 2006. Mr. Pomfret's educational background is equally unique and particularly edifying for students of the present time: He obtained his BA and MA degrees from Stanford in East Asian Studies. He also studied at Beijing Language Institute (Beiyu) and Nanjing University, from the former Vassar hired several Chinese language fellows in the past and to the latter Vassar sometimes sent its graduates for graduate studies.  Mr. Pomfret's talk "China Maxxing" Then and Now" will bring us a fun history about American obsessions with China. Given his first hand experience from reporting in China and his lifelong devotion to foreign affairs related Sino-US relations, he will benefit the Vassar campus, both students and faculty, with insights into the past and future relationship between the two superpowers of the world.]]></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[Gifford Lecturer: Marlon James]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM - Sanders Classroom 212-Spitzer Auditorium]]></description><author>ccalcagni@vassar.edu (Cheryline Calcagni)</author><category>Lecture</category><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2026 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><link>https://vas.emscloudservice.com/calendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J5XXDLfGCpcyrwrRJU%2fF1wLFPVL2lVBH5hohbpR7AzR9aqTuObk5T84</link><guid>https://vas.emscloudservice.com/calendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J5XXDLfGCpcyrwrRJU%2fF1wLFPVL2lVBH5hohbpR7AzR9aqTuObk5T84</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[“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 - Taylor Hall 203-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></channel></rss>