The Benefits Fair offers a once-a-year opportunity for walk-up counseling with specialists for retirement planning, elder care, health coverage and more! Come and meet with:TIAA-CREF * Fidelity Investments * Blue Cross * MVP * Delta Dental * Life Insurance * Flex Spending * EAP * Community Works * Medicare & Social Security * HSBC * Benefits and HR Staff.
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SOUP and SUBSTANCE. What is the Political Climate at Vassar? Staff, faculty, students, and administrators are invited to attend a free-flowing ongoing conversation about campus life, campus climate, and the campus community.We provide the soup; you bring the substance---ideas, thoughts, and reflections. The atmosphere will be relaxed, so stay for as long as you are able! Sponsored by the Campus Life Office and the Campus Life Resource Group.
College Center, 223
The Artful Dodger returns to the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center. These popular talks are relaxed and informal discussions in which an engaging member of the Vassar community shares personal experiences and interpretations of a work of art in the collection. Join us for "A Brilliant Shaft of Light: Medieval Art in the FLLAC Collection," Marc Epstein, Associate Professor of Religion.
FLLAC, Gallery
The Expert Is In! Stop by the Computer Store every Wednesday from 2-5 to see Chad our Resident Expert for answers to all of your technology related questions. Your answer comes complete with FREE POPCORN! http://computing.vassar.edu/gethelp/training.html
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Dr. Mark Buller, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at St. Louis University School of Medicine will give a talk on"The Coming Plague: Infectious Disease in the 21st Century."3:00pm, Olmsted 301. Sponsored by the Biology Department.
Olmsted, 301
Mon., October 27 through Fri., November 14. The idea of a community is ever-changing, meaning different things to different people. Picturing Community is an exhibition of photography by Vassar students and employees. The juried exhibition, presented by the Vassar Community Works campaign, will feature photographs taken in Poughkeepsie and the surrounding Hudson Valley. Funded by donations from employees and students of Vassar College, Community Works is a philanthropic campaign whose mission is to provide financial assistance to local not-for-profit organizations. Recipients are selected each year by a committee of staff, administrators, faculty, and students. Gallery reception, Wed., November 5, 4:30pm-6:30pm. James W. Palmer III '90 Gallery. College Center.
College Center, Palmer Gallery
College Center, Faculty Commons
Main Building, Jade Parlor
College Center, 223
"The Wall Street Meltdown: the View from Global Civil Society." .A lecture by Walden Bello, Filipino author, academic, and political analyst, and one of the world's most recognized critical voices of economic globalization. Bello was born in Manila, Philippines, and received his Ph.D. in sociology at Princeton University in 1975, and serves as professor of sociology and public administration at the University of the Philippines. He is founding director of Focus on the Global South, a policy research institute based in Bangkok, Thailand, and research associate with the Center for South East Asian Studies. In March 2008 he was named Outstanding Public Scholar for 2008 by the International Studies Association.
Rockefeller Hall, 300
Rob Nixon. "Slow Violence, Gender, and Environmental Time." Rob Nixon was born in South Africa. He is the Rachel Carson Professor of English Literature at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. His book Slow Violence and Environmental Time is forthcoming. Author of Dreambirds: The Natural History of a Fantasy, Homelands, Harlem and Hollywood: South African Culture and World Beyond, and London Calling: V.S. Naipaul, Postcolonial Mandarin. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the Village Voice, the Nation, the London Review of Books, the Chronicle of Higher Education, New York Times, the TLS, Critical Inquiry, South Atlantic Quarterly and elsewhere.
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Taylor Hall, 203
A dinner promoting solidarity among students of color.
Students' Building, Second Floor
Come celebrate Eid and Diwali with the South Asian Student's Alliance (SASA). Local vendors will cater South Asian cuisine. All are welcome! $6. before; $8 at the door.
Ely Hall, Aula
Indian Cuisine night with the Religion professors.
Main Building, Faculty Parlor
Movie screening of the Israeli film, "Yossi and Jagger." Free Zorona's. Sponsored by VJU.
Bayit, Multipurpose Room
"Afghan Women in the Reality Gap: The Failure of Chivalrous Liberation." Anne Brodsky '87, associate professor, Psychology, Gender and Women's Studies, University of Maryland, author of With All Our Strength: The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan. Sponsored by the American Culture and Women's Studies Programs.
New England Building, 104
Soiree Cine presents a French film series. All films are presented in French with English Subtitles. Screenings inChicago Hall, FLRC Screening Room, on Wednesdays at 8pm. For more information, contact: Lindsay Cook, licook@vassar.edu. Le Tango des Rashevski (2003) by Sam Garbarski. ?When 81-year-old family matriarch Rosa Rashevski passes away, her descendants are left unprepared, as they have no idea what traditional Jewish rites they should be practicing. As a result, various Rashevski begin some rather intense periods of spiritual introspection, resulting in romantic turmoil as they struggle to integrate their all-but-forgotten Jewish ancestry with their current lives.? -Ryan Shriver, All Movie Guide. Soiree Cine is generously sponsored by the Department of French and Francophone Studies.
Chicago Hall, VIDEO