﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Featured</title><link>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/</link><description /><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2018 21:11:35 GMT</pubDate><lastBuildDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2019 17:50:45 GMT</lastBuildDate><category>Calendar of Events</category><atom:link href="http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/RSSFeeds.aspx?data=wau%2bvUNetedCwHRMo9vTole6aUoytHOCg0f%2fMwfAlVM%3d" 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[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[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[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></channel></rss>