﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Public-and-Student-Events</title><link>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/</link><description /><pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2016 17:39:46 GMT</pubDate><lastBuildDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2019 15:41:31 GMT</lastBuildDate><category>Calendar of Events</category><atom:link href="http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/RSSFeeds.aspx?data=E9EHDCYhsryOWwFb30ViucJ6AVRsi7%2fQD2z8DIgft73EtQ5I3hlC48W6oFXZlPlQ" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><generator>:: Master Calendar ::</generator><copyright>2026</copyright><ttl>30</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Periclean Keynote-Roger Berkowitz 11/10/2026 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM - Palamountain Hall Gannett Auditorium: Honors Forum's fall Periclean Keyonte LectureFeaturing: Roger Berkowitz Tuesday, November 10, 5–6:30Gannett Auditoriumfollowed by a short reception in the Gannett LobbyFor more information about Roger's new book, A World We Share, click here For questions, please contact Joseph Cermatori, jcermato@skidmore.edu]]></description><author>jcermato@skidmore.edu</author><category>Lecture</category><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2026 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate><link>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J6MTW4llKCV7PcvAh7t6%2f%2bYwuXccC%2bYhx3wnO3C%2bDJjO4%2bl073Q5oXF</link><guid>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J6MTW4llKCV7PcvAh7t6%2f%2bYwuXccC%2bYhx3wnO3C%2bDJjO4%2bl073Q5oXF</guid><enclosure url="http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/imagewriter.aspx?imageId=5447" length="5000" type="image/png" /></item><item><title><![CDATA[Making a Life of Art 11/10/2026 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM - Tang Teaching Museum Payne: Join us Tuesday, November 10, at 6 pm, for a talk with with curator, author, and cultural organizer Nato Thompson. Thompson’s talk Making a Life of Art explores how artists build lives and communities around their work, from art and activism to DIY organizing and publishing, and what it means to sustain a creative practice outside conventional ideas of career and success.  Thompson’s visit is co-sponsored by MDOCS and the Tang Museum. It is free and open to the public.  About Nato ThompsonNato Thompson is a curator, author, and cultural organizer whose work bridges contemporary art, politics, and culture. He is the founder of Dreaming in Public and co-founder of The Alternative Art School, a global platform connecting artists across generations and communities. From 2007 to 2017, he served as Chief Curator at Creative Time, where he organized major public art projects with artists including Kara Walker, Trevor Paglen, and Tania Bruguera. He is the author of Seeing Power: Art and Activism in the Twenty-First Century (Melville House, 2015) and Culture as Weapon: The Art of Influence in Everyday Life (Melville House, 2018). His forthcoming book, Making a Life of Art, considers precarity, care, and creative survival.]]></description><author>selfeldt@skidmore.edu</author><category>Artist Talk</category><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2026 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><link>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J5IN3MnznqeTiFOflz1dIQ%2fYpWuUdMy2KvN91Sbb1GWbSS%2bxufZHJHd</link><guid>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J5IN3MnznqeTiFOflz1dIQ%2fYpWuUdMy2KvN91Sbb1GWbSS%2bxufZHJHd</guid><enclosure url="http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/imagewriter.aspx?imageId=5482" length="5000" type="image/jpg" /></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chemistry Seminar - Melanie Sanford 11/11/2026 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM - Palamountain Hall Davis Auditorium: Please join us as we welcome Professor Melanie Sanford (University of Michigan) as Skidmore's 2026 Distinguished Scholar in STEM. Professor Sanford will present a talk on her laboratory's research in organic chemistry entitled "New Synthetic Methods for Carbon–Fluorine Bond Formation: From Fundamental Science to Applications."The talk will be held on Wednesday, November 11, at 5:30 pm, in Davis Auditorium. Professor Sanford will be introduced by Assistant Professor of Chemistry Daniel Brandes, who can be reached with questions about the event. This lecture is open to the public. Biography: Melanie S. Sanford is currently the Moses Gomberg Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She received her B.S. and M.S. degrees at Yale University in 1996 where she carried out undergraduate research in the laboratory of Professor Bob Crabtree. She pursued graduate studies at the California Institute of Technology working with Professor Bob Grubbs. Following postdoctoral work at Princeton University with Professor Jay Groves, she joined the faculty at the University of Michigan in the summer of 2003 as an Assistant Professor of chemistry. She was promoted to associate professor in 2007, to full professor in 2010, and to Moses Gomberg Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry in 2016. Professor Sanford has won a number of awards, including the ACS Award in Pure Chemistry, the Sackler Prize, the Blavatnik Award, a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, and the ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Fellow of the ACS. She has trained more than 100 graduate students and post-docs. Research in the Sanford group aims to develop and interrogate the mechanisms of new chemical reactions that enable the production of pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and fuels in a more efficient and environmentally friendly manner.  ]]></description><author>dbrandes@skidmore.edu</author><category>Lecture</category><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2026 22:30:00 GMT</pubDate><link>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J6fyHog%2fGwRr6wMI8363uwnAhRrqXRwHjHI1kcIit9otPOXib8aG9Rq</link><guid>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J6fyHog%2fGwRr6wMI8363uwnAhRrqXRwHjHI1kcIit9otPOXib8aG9Rq</guid><enclosure url="http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/imagewriter.aspx?imageId=5453" length="5000" type="image/png" /></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dunkerley Dialogue with Mark Thomas Gibson and Jennifer Delton 11/12/2026 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM - Tang Teaching Museum Wachenheim Gallery: Join us Thursday, November 12, at 6 pm, for a Dunkerley Dialogue with exhibiting artist Mark Thomas Gibson and Jennifer Delton, professor and chair of History at Skidmore. Gibson is a self-proclaimed American history painter whose works are on view in the exhibition Mark Thomas Gibson: We Are A Constellation.Dunkerley Dialogues pair Skidmore professors with artists in a conversation format, which is often a catalyst for new connections and understandings across disciplines, and can spark new ideas for all participants. Dunkerley Dialogues are made possible by a generous gift from Michele Dunkerley ’80.   This event is free and open to the public. About the SpeakersMark Thomas Gibson draws from an eclectic range of sources and inspirations, including comic books, caricatures, historical paintings, and the work of Philip Guston, Robert Colescott, Kara Walker, and Honoré-Victorin Daumier. In his work, Gibson attempts to stir our emotions and reinforce our connections to past events so that we will not forget them, or lose sight of them in the waves of new headlines. He received his BFA from Cooper Union in 2002 and his MFA from Yale School of Art in 2013. He is currently an Assistant Professor Art &amp; Design at Rutgers University. A reoccurring character in several of his works is the Town Crier, a figure who rings a bell and shouts out important announcements to his fellow citizens. Gibson began the series in 2021 as a daily ritual for processing the news and events of the day. What began as a personal reflection has become a historical archive shared regularly to Gibson’s Instagram.Jennifer Delton is the Harriet Johnson Toadvine ’56 Chair in 20th-Century History at Skidmore College. She holds a PhD in History from Princeton University and teaches courses in US history from the Civil War to the present. Her work focuses on race and ethnicity, civil rights, politics, and business in twentieth-century America. She is the author of four books, including, most recently, The Industrialists: How the National Association of Manufacturers Shaped American Capitalism (2020). Her current book project is American Utopia: A Father’s Secret, a Daughter’s Search for Answers, and the Hidden History of Boys Town, USA.]]></description><author>selfeldt@skidmore.edu</author><category>Artist Talk</category><pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2026 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><link>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J7TateD6MOdMkaXd%2fKMwqXDntm%2fAEqm2Ass0C1GXWMbrrCITLOagOuw</link><guid>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J7TateD6MOdMkaXd%2fKMwqXDntm%2fAEqm2Ass0C1GXWMbrrCITLOagOuw</guid><enclosure url="http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/imagewriter.aspx?imageId=5491" length="5000" type="image/jpeg" /></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Activity of Freedom 11/12/2026 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM - Palamountain Hall Davis Auditorium: The Activity of FreedomYarran HominhAssistant Professor of Philosophy  Bard CollegeWe live in a world fundamentally structured by unfreedom. It shapes who we are, how we think and feel, what we can know. How might we understand freedom, beginning from unfreedom? Traditionally, freedom has been understood as a state, an ideal at which we can aim. In this talk I sketch a conception of freedom as an ongoing activity, not as an ideal state. The activity of freedom has two intertwined faces, one negative (the struggle to resist and to change conditions of unfreedom), the other positive (the development of capacities, the creation of spaces and relationships). But at what does this activity aim? Through reading Gandhi and Fanon on the question of (non-)violence, I argue that the activity of freedom stands in a constitutive relation to freedom understood as an end, such that what freedom as an end might be can only come about and be known through the activity of freedom itself. This activity conception of freedom, however, contains a deep and irresolvable tension: what if the activity of freedom does not lead successfully to whatever its end may be? I close with some reflections on what this tension reveals about our political lives together.]]></description><author>jlewis2@skidmore.edu</author><category>Presentation</category><pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2026 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><link>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J6jtvetpkjcWKhG2sa%2fGJCeXRnj7qhBo0kKSwqTXHRwHhI2m6g2C6de</link><guid>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J6jtvetpkjcWKhG2sa%2fGJCeXRnj7qhBo0kKSwqTXHRwHhI2m6g2C6de</guid><enclosure url="http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/imagewriter.aspx?imageId=5468" length="5000" type="image/jpg" /></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lively Lucy’s 11/12/2026 6:15 PM to 10:30 PM]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 6:15 PM to 10:30 PM - Falstaff's Falstaff's]]></description><author>ccaplan@skidmore.edu</author><category>Performance - Music</category><pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2026 23:15:00 GMT</pubDate><link>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J4XpQjZCCBDkYDVPNqcx%2b90y%2bXWbYOrP75R%2bn4fE6YczNolYFU23Gvx</link><guid>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J4XpQjZCCBDkYDVPNqcx%2b90y%2bXWbYOrP75R%2bn4fE6YczNolYFU23Gvx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Off-North Broadway Cabaret 11/13/2026 4:00 PM to 11:00 PM]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 4:00 PM to 11:00 PM - Filene Hall Filene 115:  Join us for our cabaret, ONS Spills the Tea, Friday 11/13 at 8:00 pm! Tickets are free and will be linked in our Instagram bio :)]]></description><author>talilissai@skidmore.edu</author><category>Performance - Other</category><pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2026 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate><link>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J7luknGYn2dMAkoFkuDl9owvzjLQOaY%2fEohyU4T2HvuIIRLHTs50Cx7</link><guid>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J7luknGYn2dMAkoFkuDl9owvzjLQOaY%2fEohyU4T2HvuIIRLHTs50Cx7</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Off-North Broadway Cabaret 11/13/2026 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM - Filene Hall Filene Recital Hall]]></description><author>talilissai@skidmore.edu</author><category>Performance - Other</category><pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><link>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J7luknGYn2dMAkoFkuDl9owXlryiHsYotNA2BD63exL5B%2f8q399OhhT</link><guid>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J7luknGYn2dMAkoFkuDl9owXlryiHsYotNA2BD63exL5B%2f8q399OhhT</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Off-North Broadway Cabaret 11/14/2026 9:00 AM to 11:00 PM]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 9:00 AM to 11:00 PM - Filene Hall Filene 115: Join us for our cabaret, ONS Spills the Tea, Saturday 11/14 at 3:00 pm and 8:00 pm! Tickets are free and will be linked in our Instagram bio :)]]></description><author>talilissai@skidmore.edu</author><category>Performance - Other</category><pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2026 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate><link>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J4OUq2Ii0tLxv%2ba0jC%2f7ec3apKKZly12Hxywf4n73Et93mLVTUSFWWo</link><guid>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J4OUq2Ii0tLxv%2ba0jC%2f7ec3apKKZly12Hxywf4n73Et93mLVTUSFWWo</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Off-North Broadway Cabaret 11/14/2026 9:00 AM to 11:00 PM]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 9:00 AM to 11:00 PM - Filene Hall Filene Recital Hall]]></description><author>talilissai@skidmore.edu</author><category>Performance - Other</category><pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2026 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate><link>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J4OUq2Ii0tLxv%2ba0jC%2f7ec3T5uPUFudr7TfjZQDDLTMVlomr2gTgRU3</link><guid>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J4OUq2Ii0tLxv%2ba0jC%2f7ec3T5uPUFudr7TfjZQDDLTMVlomr2gTgRU3</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tang Guide Tours 11/15/2026 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM - Tang Teaching Museum Tang Teaching Museum: Join us Sunday, September 6, at 2 pm, for a tour of the Museum and current exhibitions. This event is open to the public, and visitors are invited to stay after the tour and look around the galleries.Weekly tours are given by Tang Guides, many of whom are Skidmore College students, who are trained gallery ambassadors and tour guides. Through this program, they are introduced to the Tang and the museum world, trained to give tours, and gain valuable real-world experiences interacting with visitors.]]></description><author>selfeldt@skidmore.edu</author><category>Tang Tour</category><pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2026 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate><link>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J5pBK6WG8BWcSPCjPLJOtlOvUjYS7P7uevraS6skoqa70q3jtbyb6da</link><guid>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J5pBK6WG8BWcSPCjPLJOtlOvUjYS7P7uevraS6skoqa70q3jtbyb6da</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sabbath Queen film screening and discussion with Sandi DuBowski 11/16/2026 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM - Palamountain Hall Gannett Auditorium: A film screening of the documentary Sabbath Queen with a post-screening Q&amp;A featuring director and producer Sandi DuBowski. The film is the result of 21 years of documenting the life of Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie who is “dynastic heir of 38 generations of Orthodox rabbis including the Chief Rabbis of Israel.” The film demonstrates how Lau-Lavie is “torn between rejecting and embracing his destiny and becomes a drag-queen rebel, a queer bio-dad and the founder of Lab/Shul—an everybody-friendly, God-optional, artist-driven, pop-up experimental congregation.” The film traces Lau-Lavie’s life across both Israel and the United States to highlight the differing cultural, political, and religious contexts that shape Jewish identity in these two locations. This presentation is part of the Jacob Perlow Series sponsored by the Office of Special Programs and co-sponsored by MDOCS, Religious Studies, and Jewish Student Life. ]]></description><author>cmerrill@skidmore.edu</author><category>Discussion</category><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><link>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J5SkzpMKgePYjzZ8lItWrAbWsRiibY7uzt9sIm6ye%2bH6pLPSkw631gT</link><guid>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J5SkzpMKgePYjzZ8lItWrAbWsRiibY7uzt9sIm6ye%2bH6pLPSkw631gT</guid><enclosure url="http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/imagewriter.aspx?imageId=5456" length="5000" type="image/jpg" /></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sabbath Queen film screening and discussion with Sandi DuBowski 11/16/2026 9:15 PM to 10:00 PM]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 9:15 PM to 10:00 PM - Palamountain Hall Gannett Lobby]]></description><author>cmerrill@skidmore.edu</author><category>Discussion</category><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2026 02:15:00 GMT</pubDate><link>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J5SkzpMKgePYjzZ8lItWrAbai1iCISyRzLUAMWGVdS1FkVJPjsn%2bY5R</link><guid>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J5SkzpMKgePYjzZ8lItWrAbai1iCISyRzLUAMWGVdS1FkVJPjsn%2bY5R</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lively Lucy’s 11/19/2026 6:15 PM to 10:30 PM]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 6:15 PM to 10:30 PM - Falstaff's Falstaff's]]></description><author>ccaplan@skidmore.edu</author><category>Performance - Music</category><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2026 23:15:00 GMT</pubDate><link>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J4XpQjZCCBDkYDVPNqcx%2b90CvXtsimfRIFelfRWyDdePL76TZ%2bc05ui</link><guid>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J4XpQjZCCBDkYDVPNqcx%2b90CvXtsimfRIFelfRWyDdePL76TZ%2bc05ui</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tang Guide Tours 11/22/2026 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM - Tang Teaching Museum Tang Teaching Museum: Join us Sunday, September 6, at 2 pm, for a tour of the Museum and current exhibitions. This event is open to the public, and visitors are invited to stay after the tour and look around the galleries.Weekly tours are given by Tang Guides, many of whom are Skidmore College students, who are trained gallery ambassadors and tour guides. Through this program, they are introduced to the Tang and the museum world, trained to give tours, and gain valuable real-world experiences interacting with visitors.]]></description><author>selfeldt@skidmore.edu</author><category>Tang Tour</category><pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2026 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate><link>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J5pBK6WG8BWcSPCjPLJOtlOvUjYS7P7ueuN6PgMVleQBIEMWydvB26%2f</link><guid>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J5pBK6WG8BWcSPCjPLJOtlOvUjYS7P7ueuN6PgMVleQBIEMWydvB26%2f</guid></item></channel></rss>