- Families WeekendVassar welcomes family members back to campus for a weekend of panels, performances, outdoor fun, art sales, and lots more!
- The OCEL Community Fellows SymposiumThe Office of Community-Engaged Learning (OCEL) Community Fellows Symposium is a gathering that celebrates and uplifts the collaborative work of our Community Fellows and their partner organizations.
- ReflectionsThe Jeff “Siege” Siegel Quartet presents original compositions celebrating 21 years together, highlighted by four European tours, a tour of Africa, and performances throughout the northeastern U.S.This event is open to the public.
- A Moderated Conversation on Reimagining a New American DemocracySherrilyn Ifill ’84 discusses reimagining a new American democracy, and the role of the legal profession in defending civil rights for this year’s Norman E. Hodges Biennial Lecture.
- Songs of David AlpherA recital of idiosyncratic songs by David Alpher, exploring his settings of uniquely American poetry from the Transcendentalists to the Beat Generation. Courtenay Budd, soprano, Sharon Harms, soprano, Robert Osborne, bass-baritone, and David Alpher, composer/piano.This event is open to the public.
- ALANA FestALANA Fest is one of the Jeh Vincent Johnson ALANA Cultural Center’s core events, and it makes visible, celebrates, and builds community with students of color at Vassar.This event is open to the public.
- Day and NightA recital of works by Mozart, Chopin, Robert Schumann, György Ligeti, Unsuk Chin and Hans Abrahamsen evoking experiences of day and night. Thomas Sauer, pianoThis event is open to the public.
- Being Always in Relation, an Agnes Rindge Claflin Lecture by Elana HerzogElana Herzog is an installation artist and sculptor who uses material culture to consider aspects of ephemerality, entropy, pleasure, and pain, focusing on the global migration of culture and technology as seen through the lens of textiles. Herzog will give a talk on her work titled Being Always in Relation.This event is open to the public.
- Devices of Enlightenment: A Literary History of TechnologyTita Chico, University of Maryland Professor of English, will discuss the literary history of 18th-century technology.This event is open to the public.
- The Great Frost of 1708/09: Enlightenment Thermometers and Representations of Climate DisruptionTita Chico (VC ’91) is a Professor of English at the University of Maryland. She is the author of three books, most recently On Wonder (Cambridge UP, 2025). This talk is drawn from her current book, Devices of Enlightenment: A Literary History of Technology.
