﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>schedule-office</title><link>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/</link><description /><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2013 17:47:30 GMT</pubDate><lastBuildDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2018 21:33:54 GMT</lastBuildDate><category>Calendar of Events</category><atom:link href="http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/RSSFeeds.aspx?data=xK80F%2fbc%2f4UErlXy9atsfzR2q2%2fNLc6MZgHp9WaWrx0%3d" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><generator>:: Master Calendar ::</generator><copyright>2026</copyright><ttl>30</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Whole Grain: Flaherty Film Seminar: Session 2 10/9/2026 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM - Tang Teaching Museum Somers: Join us Thursday, October 8, through Saturday, October 10, for an  immersive weekend of experimental and documentary film screenings and  discussion. The Tang, along with MDOCS and Troy’s Picture Lock One  microcinema, offers all six 2026 Flaherty Film Seminar programs—each  consisting of short works followed by discussions—that engage this  year’s theme Gestures of Refusal. In this year’s  Flaherty, acts of remembering, reworking, and refusing take shape  through gestures of archival intervention, fragmented narration, and  embodied recollection, exploring how memory is constructed, displaced,  or reclaimed.   While the in-person Seminar is held this weekend  in Marlboro, Vermont, our pod is one of five internationally that offer  local Seminar experiences. These programs are free and open to the public, though registration is requested, and are part of the Tang’s Whole Grain series, which explores classic and contemporary work in experimental film and video.     Schedule    In the tradition of all Flaherty screenings, details of each program  are not revealed until the start of the show.  Each screening runs  roughly 90 minutes and will be followed by a robust, moderated  discussion.  Thursday, October 8 - 6:00 pm: Program 1  Friday, October 9 - 6:00 pm: Program 2 - 8:00 pm: Program 3   Saturday, October 10 - 1:00 pm: Program 4 - 3:30 pm: Program 5 - 7:00 pm: Program 6     About the 71st Flaherty Film Seminar Gestures of RefusalAt  a time when images risk losing their capacity to affect and transform  sensibilities, as Spanish philosopher of aesthetics Andrea Soto Calderón  proposes, this year’s Flaherty Film Seminar turns toward images that  resist such disintegration: works that excavate what empire and erasure  have buried beneath landscapes, archives, and the surfaces of images  themselves.If to imagine is to register a possibility for life,  then this loss signals not only an aesthetic crisis, but an existential  one. And yet, before accepting such disintegration, we might ask  instead: how can images take on other forms, other temporalities, other  densities, in order to resist the circulation of sensibility imposed by  dominant cultural regimes?Across this year’s program, acts of  remembering, reworking, and refusing take shape through gestures of  archival intervention, fragmented narration, and embodied recollection,  exploring how memory is constructed, displaced, or reclaimed. Territory  and home appear not as stable grounds but as haunted, contested spaces.  The material properties of the image carry political weight in these  films in every grain, pixel, and archival residue, making visible what  has been concealed. This year’s invited artists and their works engage  with grief and historical erasure not by resolving them, but by creating  spaces for their partial reappearance and shared witnessing.But  how do we encounter such images together? We offer a program to think  without reliance on fixed frameworks or inherited categories, a program  that asks us to remain open, provisional, and exposed to uncertainty.  These films challenge habitual modes of spectatorship and require a  different kind of attention: durational, relational, and willing to  inhabit ambiguity. Confusion here becomes generative, not a failure of  meaning but a condition through which new forms of understanding might  emerge collectively.      About the Flaherty Film SeminarNow  in its seventh decade, the Flaherty is an internationally recognized  forum whose mission is to create and nurture spaces around the globe for  field-building collective inquiry into the form and function of  independent non-fiction cinema.   With a focus on curation as a  means of gathering, and cinema as an invitation to step outside oneself,  the Flaherty brings together an international and intergenerational  community dedicated to exploring the transformative, world-building  power of non-fiction cinema, the exchange of cinematic ideas across  cultures, and the expansion of the limits of cinema itself.  Through  its annual Flaherty Film Seminar, Flaherty Fellows Program,  International Seminar Pods, Seminar Gatherings, Online Seminar  Experience, Educational Seminar Activations, and stewardship of its  archives, the Flaherty works to expand and strengthen the foundation for  meaningful ongoing dialogue and debate among a diverse and  ever-expanding community of filmmakers, scholars, curators, archivists,  and cinephiles.The Seminar is an exploratory process, which  emulates the concept of non-preconception. To this end, the Flaherty  does not announce the Seminar program beforehand. Beyond the programmers  and production team, no one knows what they will be watching until the  lights go down in the cinema. Film notes and trigger warnings will be  made available upon request to participants before each screening  begins. The Seminar is programmed as a continuum wherein individual  screening programs relate to, riff off of, and expand upon one another.       About Whole GrainThe  Tang Museum’s Whole Grain series explores classic and contemporary work  in experimental film and video. Whole Grain is programmed by Assistant  Director for Engagement Tom Yoshikami. All events are free and open to  the public.]]></description><author>selfeldt@skidmore.edu</author><category>Film</category><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate><link>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J7vxGzXjR21QlEk%2fwm%2bM0lPMfl02WloSKSVyYXeymdW74U%2bW1uucKZT</link><guid>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J7vxGzXjR21QlEk%2fwm%2bM0lPMfl02WloSKSVyYXeymdW74U%2bW1uucKZT</guid><enclosure url="http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/imagewriter.aspx?imageId=5442" length="5000" type="image/jpg" /></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whole Grain: Flaherty Film Seminar: Session 3 10/9/2026 8:05 PM to 10:30 PM]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 8:05 PM to 10:30 PM - Tang Teaching Museum Somers: Join us Thursday, October 8, through Saturday, October 10, for an  immersive weekend of experimental and documentary film screenings and  discussion. The Tang, along with MDOCS and Troy’s Picture Lock One  microcinema, offers all six 2026 Flaherty Film Seminar programs—each  consisting of short works followed by discussions—that engage this  year’s theme Gestures of Refusal. In this year’s  Flaherty, acts of remembering, reworking, and refusing take shape  through gestures of archival intervention, fragmented narration, and  embodied recollection, exploring how memory is constructed, displaced,  or reclaimed.   While the in-person Seminar is held this weekend  in Marlboro, Vermont, our pod is one of five internationally that offer  local Seminar experiences. These programs are free and open to the public, though registration is requested, and are part of the Tang’s Whole Grain series, which explores classic and contemporary work in experimental film and video.     Schedule    In the tradition of all Flaherty screenings, details of each program  are not revealed until the start of the show.  Each screening runs  roughly 90 minutes and will be followed by a robust, moderated  discussion.  Thursday, October 8 - 6:00 pm: Program 1  Friday, October 9 - 6:00 pm: Program 2 - 8:00 pm: Program 3   Saturday, October 10 - 1:00 pm: Program 4 - 3:30 pm: Program 5 - 7:00 pm: Program 6     About the 71st Flaherty Film Seminar Gestures of RefusalAt  a time when images risk losing their capacity to affect and transform  sensibilities, as Spanish philosopher of aesthetics Andrea Soto Calderón  proposes, this year’s Flaherty Film Seminar turns toward images that  resist such disintegration: works that excavate what empire and erasure  have buried beneath landscapes, archives, and the surfaces of images  themselves.If to imagine is to register a possibility for life,  then this loss signals not only an aesthetic crisis, but an existential  one. And yet, before accepting such disintegration, we might ask  instead: how can images take on other forms, other temporalities, other  densities, in order to resist the circulation of sensibility imposed by  dominant cultural regimes?Across this year’s program, acts of  remembering, reworking, and refusing take shape through gestures of  archival intervention, fragmented narration, and embodied recollection,  exploring how memory is constructed, displaced, or reclaimed. Territory  and home appear not as stable grounds but as haunted, contested spaces.  The material properties of the image carry political weight in these  films in every grain, pixel, and archival residue, making visible what  has been concealed. This year’s invited artists and their works engage  with grief and historical erasure not by resolving them, but by creating  spaces for their partial reappearance and shared witnessing.But  how do we encounter such images together? We offer a program to think  without reliance on fixed frameworks or inherited categories, a program  that asks us to remain open, provisional, and exposed to uncertainty.  These films challenge habitual modes of spectatorship and require a  different kind of attention: durational, relational, and willing to  inhabit ambiguity. Confusion here becomes generative, not a failure of  meaning but a condition through which new forms of understanding might  emerge collectively.      About the Flaherty Film SeminarNow  in its seventh decade, the Flaherty is an internationally recognized  forum whose mission is to create and nurture spaces around the globe for  field-building collective inquiry into the form and function of  independent non-fiction cinema.   With a focus on curation as a  means of gathering, and cinema as an invitation to step outside oneself,  the Flaherty brings together an international and intergenerational  community dedicated to exploring the transformative, world-building  power of non-fiction cinema, the exchange of cinematic ideas across  cultures, and the expansion of the limits of cinema itself.  Through  its annual Flaherty Film Seminar, Flaherty Fellows Program,  International Seminar Pods, Seminar Gatherings, Online Seminar  Experience, Educational Seminar Activations, and stewardship of its  archives, the Flaherty works to expand and strengthen the foundation for  meaningful ongoing dialogue and debate among a diverse and  ever-expanding community of filmmakers, scholars, curators, archivists,  and cinephiles.The Seminar is an exploratory process, which  emulates the concept of non-preconception. To this end, the Flaherty  does not announce the Seminar program beforehand. Beyond the programmers  and production team, no one knows what they will be watching until the  lights go down in the cinema. Film notes and trigger warnings will be  made available upon request to participants before each screening  begins. The Seminar is programmed as a continuum wherein individual  screening programs relate to, riff off of, and expand upon one another.       About Whole GrainThe  Tang Museum’s Whole Grain series explores classic and contemporary work  in experimental film and video. Whole Grain is programmed by Assistant  Director for Engagement Tom Yoshikami. All events are free and open to  the public.]]></description><author>selfeldt@skidmore.edu</author><category>Film</category><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:05:00 GMT</pubDate><link>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J697c3KwuqIxHEFl0wKxLeUdZ08j%2fxXJsA%2fJS7fTO5zHf2c48ZmJ9rY</link><guid>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J697c3KwuqIxHEFl0wKxLeUdZ08j%2fxXJsA%2fJS7fTO5zHf2c48ZmJ9rY</guid><enclosure url="http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/imagewriter.aspx?imageId=5443" length="5000" type="image/jpg" /></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whole Grain: Flaherty Film Seminar: Session 4 10/10/2026 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM - Tang Teaching Museum Somers: Join us Thursday, October 8, through Saturday, October 10, for an  immersive weekend of experimental and documentary film screenings and  discussion. The Tang, along with MDOCS and Troy’s Picture Lock One  microcinema, offers all six 2026 Flaherty Film Seminar programs—each  consisting of short works followed by discussions—that engage this  year’s theme Gestures of Refusal. In this year’s  Flaherty, acts of remembering, reworking, and refusing take shape  through gestures of archival intervention, fragmented narration, and  embodied recollection, exploring how memory is constructed, displaced,  or reclaimed.   While the in-person Seminar is held this weekend  in Marlboro, Vermont, our pod is one of five internationally that offer  local Seminar experiences. These programs are free and open to the public, though registration is requested, and are part of the Tang’s Whole Grain series, which explores classic and contemporary work in experimental film and video.     Schedule    In the tradition of all Flaherty screenings, details of each program  are not revealed until the start of the show.  Each screening runs  roughly 90 minutes and will be followed by a robust, moderated  discussion.  Thursday, October 8 - 6:00 pm: Program 1  Friday, October 9 - 6:00 pm: Program 2 - 8:00 pm: Program 3   Saturday, October 10 - 1:00 pm: Program 4 - 3:30 pm: Program 5 - 7:00 pm: Program 6     About the 71st Flaherty Film Seminar Gestures of RefusalAt  a time when images risk losing their capacity to affect and transform  sensibilities, as Spanish philosopher of aesthetics Andrea Soto Calderón  proposes, this year’s Flaherty Film Seminar turns toward images that  resist such disintegration: works that excavate what empire and erasure  have buried beneath landscapes, archives, and the surfaces of images  themselves.If to imagine is to register a possibility for life,  then this loss signals not only an aesthetic crisis, but an existential  one. And yet, before accepting such disintegration, we might ask  instead: how can images take on other forms, other temporalities, other  densities, in order to resist the circulation of sensibility imposed by  dominant cultural regimes?Across this year’s program, acts of  remembering, reworking, and refusing take shape through gestures of  archival intervention, fragmented narration, and embodied recollection,  exploring how memory is constructed, displaced, or reclaimed. Territory  and home appear not as stable grounds but as haunted, contested spaces.  The material properties of the image carry political weight in these  films in every grain, pixel, and archival residue, making visible what  has been concealed. This year’s invited artists and their works engage  with grief and historical erasure not by resolving them, but by creating  spaces for their partial reappearance and shared witnessing.But  how do we encounter such images together? We offer a program to think  without reliance on fixed frameworks or inherited categories, a program  that asks us to remain open, provisional, and exposed to uncertainty.  These films challenge habitual modes of spectatorship and require a  different kind of attention: durational, relational, and willing to  inhabit ambiguity. Confusion here becomes generative, not a failure of  meaning but a condition through which new forms of understanding might  emerge collectively.      About the Flaherty Film SeminarNow  in its seventh decade, the Flaherty is an internationally recognized  forum whose mission is to create and nurture spaces around the globe for  field-building collective inquiry into the form and function of  independent non-fiction cinema.   With a focus on curation as a  means of gathering, and cinema as an invitation to step outside oneself,  the Flaherty brings together an international and intergenerational  community dedicated to exploring the transformative, world-building  power of non-fiction cinema, the exchange of cinematic ideas across  cultures, and the expansion of the limits of cinema itself.  Through  its annual Flaherty Film Seminar, Flaherty Fellows Program,  International Seminar Pods, Seminar Gatherings, Online Seminar  Experience, Educational Seminar Activations, and stewardship of its  archives, the Flaherty works to expand and strengthen the foundation for  meaningful ongoing dialogue and debate among a diverse and  ever-expanding community of filmmakers, scholars, curators, archivists,  and cinephiles.The Seminar is an exploratory process, which  emulates the concept of non-preconception. To this end, the Flaherty  does not announce the Seminar program beforehand. Beyond the programmers  and production team, no one knows what they will be watching until the  lights go down in the cinema. Film notes and trigger warnings will be  made available upon request to participants before each screening  begins. The Seminar is programmed as a continuum wherein individual  screening programs relate to, riff off of, and expand upon one another.       About Whole GrainThe  Tang Museum’s Whole Grain series explores classic and contemporary work  in experimental film and video. Whole Grain is programmed by Assistant  Director for Engagement Tom Yoshikami. All events are free and open to  the public.]]></description><author>selfeldt@skidmore.edu</author><category>Film</category><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate><link>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J59L5Hsgtgw12KqImSZlq9ZZGH%2bQnlxY4%2fIOykjyWTCzaYwVGX1TTPC</link><guid>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J59L5Hsgtgw12KqImSZlq9ZZGH%2bQnlxY4%2fIOykjyWTCzaYwVGX1TTPC</guid><enclosure url="http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/imagewriter.aspx?imageId=5444" length="5000" type="image/jpg" /></item><item><title><![CDATA[Family Saturday 10/10/2026 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM - Tang Teaching Museum Payne: Join us Saturday, October 10, at 2 pm, for a Family Saturday art-making program.  Family  Saturday programs foster multigenerational creative cooperation through  looking at artwork, discussing it, and engaging in a hands-on  art-making activity. Programs run from 2-3:30 pm and include a tour of  selected works. All programs are free and open to the public, and  suitable for children age 5 and older, accompanied by their adult  companions. No registration required; supplies provided on a first-come,  first-served basis.]]></description><author>selfeldt@skidmore.edu</author><category>Community</category><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 18:00:00 GMT</pubDate><link>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J5HwWjGQsg0%2fDSTCYePdsXq%2fuUpirj%2bo6wtQG4lv3QnRsggm%2bq3Fx4D</link><guid>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J5HwWjGQsg0%2fDSTCYePdsXq%2fuUpirj%2bo6wtQG4lv3QnRsggm%2bq3Fx4D</guid><enclosure url="http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/imagewriter.aspx?imageId=5440" length="5000" type="image/jpg" /></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whole Grain: Flaherty Film Seminar: Session 5 10/10/2026 3:30 PM to 6:00 PM]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 3:30 PM to 6:00 PM - Tang Teaching Museum Somers: Join us Thursday, October 8, through Saturday, October 10, for an  immersive weekend of experimental and documentary film screenings and  discussion. The Tang, along with MDOCS and Troy’s Picture Lock One  microcinema, offers all six 2026 Flaherty Film Seminar programs—each  consisting of short works followed by discussions—that engage this  year’s theme Gestures of Refusal. In this year’s  Flaherty, acts of remembering, reworking, and refusing take shape  through gestures of archival intervention, fragmented narration, and  embodied recollection, exploring how memory is constructed, displaced,  or reclaimed.   While the in-person Seminar is held this weekend  in Marlboro, Vermont, our pod is one of five internationally that offer  local Seminar experiences. These programs are free and open to the public, though registration is requested, and are part of the Tang’s Whole Grain series, which explores classic and contemporary work in experimental film and video.     Schedule    In the tradition of all Flaherty screenings, details of each program  are not revealed until the start of the show.  Each screening runs  roughly 90 minutes and will be followed by a robust, moderated  discussion.  Thursday, October 8 - 6:00 pm: Program 1  Friday, October 9 - 6:00 pm: Program 2 - 8:00 pm: Program 3   Saturday, October 10 - 1:00 pm: Program 4 - 3:30 pm: Program 5 - 7:00 pm: Program 6     About the 71st Flaherty Film Seminar Gestures of RefusalAt  a time when images risk losing their capacity to affect and transform  sensibilities, as Spanish philosopher of aesthetics Andrea Soto Calderón  proposes, this year’s Flaherty Film Seminar turns toward images that  resist such disintegration: works that excavate what empire and erasure  have buried beneath landscapes, archives, and the surfaces of images  themselves.If to imagine is to register a possibility for life,  then this loss signals not only an aesthetic crisis, but an existential  one. And yet, before accepting such disintegration, we might ask  instead: how can images take on other forms, other temporalities, other  densities, in order to resist the circulation of sensibility imposed by  dominant cultural regimes?Across this year’s program, acts of  remembering, reworking, and refusing take shape through gestures of  archival intervention, fragmented narration, and embodied recollection,  exploring how memory is constructed, displaced, or reclaimed. Territory  and home appear not as stable grounds but as haunted, contested spaces.  The material properties of the image carry political weight in these  films in every grain, pixel, and archival residue, making visible what  has been concealed. This year’s invited artists and their works engage  with grief and historical erasure not by resolving them, but by creating  spaces for their partial reappearance and shared witnessing.But  how do we encounter such images together? We offer a program to think  without reliance on fixed frameworks or inherited categories, a program  that asks us to remain open, provisional, and exposed to uncertainty.  These films challenge habitual modes of spectatorship and require a  different kind of attention: durational, relational, and willing to  inhabit ambiguity. Confusion here becomes generative, not a failure of  meaning but a condition through which new forms of understanding might  emerge collectively.      About the Flaherty Film SeminarNow  in its seventh decade, the Flaherty is an internationally recognized  forum whose mission is to create and nurture spaces around the globe for  field-building collective inquiry into the form and function of  independent non-fiction cinema.   With a focus on curation as a  means of gathering, and cinema as an invitation to step outside oneself,  the Flaherty brings together an international and intergenerational  community dedicated to exploring the transformative, world-building  power of non-fiction cinema, the exchange of cinematic ideas across  cultures, and the expansion of the limits of cinema itself.  Through  its annual Flaherty Film Seminar, Flaherty Fellows Program,  International Seminar Pods, Seminar Gatherings, Online Seminar  Experience, Educational Seminar Activations, and stewardship of its  archives, the Flaherty works to expand and strengthen the foundation for  meaningful ongoing dialogue and debate among a diverse and  ever-expanding community of filmmakers, scholars, curators, archivists,  and cinephiles.The Seminar is an exploratory process, which  emulates the concept of non-preconception. To this end, the Flaherty  does not announce the Seminar program beforehand. Beyond the programmers  and production team, no one knows what they will be watching until the  lights go down in the cinema. Film notes and trigger warnings will be  made available upon request to participants before each screening  begins. The Seminar is programmed as a continuum wherein individual  screening programs relate to, riff off of, and expand upon one another.       About Whole GrainThe  Tang Museum’s Whole Grain series explores classic and contemporary work  in experimental film and video. Whole Grain is programmed by Assistant  Director for Engagement Tom Yoshikami. All events are free and open to  the public.]]></description><author>selfeldt@skidmore.edu</author><category>Film</category><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 19:30:00 GMT</pubDate><link>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J6dtrAzZPevMiCBGBPjBA8HLqow1koIhBV6qqKBjFUUJR8awWHv3%2fMW</link><guid>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J6dtrAzZPevMiCBGBPjBA8HLqow1koIhBV6qqKBjFUUJR8awWHv3%2fMW</guid><enclosure url="http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/imagewriter.aspx?imageId=5445" length="5000" type="image/jpg" /></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whole Grain: Flaherty Film Seminar: Session 6 10/10/2026 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM - Tang Teaching Museum Somers: Join us Thursday, October 8, through Saturday, October 10, for an  immersive weekend of experimental and documentary film screenings and  discussion. The Tang, along with MDOCS and Troy’s Picture Lock One  microcinema, offers all six 2026 Flaherty Film Seminar programs—each  consisting of short works followed by discussions—that engage this  year’s theme Gestures of Refusal. In this year’s  Flaherty, acts of remembering, reworking, and refusing take shape  through gestures of archival intervention, fragmented narration, and  embodied recollection, exploring how memory is constructed, displaced,  or reclaimed.   While the in-person Seminar is held this weekend  in Marlboro, Vermont, our pod is one of five internationally that offer  local Seminar experiences. These programs are free and open to the public, though registration is requested, and are part of the Tang’s Whole Grain series, which explores classic and contemporary work in experimental film and video.     Schedule    In the tradition of all Flaherty screenings, details of each program  are not revealed until the start of the show.  Each screening runs  roughly 90 minutes and will be followed by a robust, moderated  discussion.  Thursday, October 8 - 6:00 pm: Program 1  Friday, October 9 - 6:00 pm: Program 2 - 8:00 pm: Program 3   Saturday, October 10 - 1:00 pm: Program 4 - 3:30 pm: Program 5 - 7:00 pm: Program 6     About the 71st Flaherty Film Seminar Gestures of RefusalAt  a time when images risk losing their capacity to affect and transform  sensibilities, as Spanish philosopher of aesthetics Andrea Soto Calderón  proposes, this year’s Flaherty Film Seminar turns toward images that  resist such disintegration: works that excavate what empire and erasure  have buried beneath landscapes, archives, and the surfaces of images  themselves.If to imagine is to register a possibility for life,  then this loss signals not only an aesthetic crisis, but an existential  one. And yet, before accepting such disintegration, we might ask  instead: how can images take on other forms, other temporalities, other  densities, in order to resist the circulation of sensibility imposed by  dominant cultural regimes?Across this year’s program, acts of  remembering, reworking, and refusing take shape through gestures of  archival intervention, fragmented narration, and embodied recollection,  exploring how memory is constructed, displaced, or reclaimed. Territory  and home appear not as stable grounds but as haunted, contested spaces.  The material properties of the image carry political weight in these  films in every grain, pixel, and archival residue, making visible what  has been concealed. This year’s invited artists and their works engage  with grief and historical erasure not by resolving them, but by creating  spaces for their partial reappearance and shared witnessing.But  how do we encounter such images together? We offer a program to think  without reliance on fixed frameworks or inherited categories, a program  that asks us to remain open, provisional, and exposed to uncertainty.  These films challenge habitual modes of spectatorship and require a  different kind of attention: durational, relational, and willing to  inhabit ambiguity. Confusion here becomes generative, not a failure of  meaning but a condition through which new forms of understanding might  emerge collectively.      About the Flaherty Film SeminarNow  in its seventh decade, the Flaherty is an internationally recognized  forum whose mission is to create and nurture spaces around the globe for  field-building collective inquiry into the form and function of  independent non-fiction cinema.   With a focus on curation as a  means of gathering, and cinema as an invitation to step outside oneself,  the Flaherty brings together an international and intergenerational  community dedicated to exploring the transformative, world-building  power of non-fiction cinema, the exchange of cinematic ideas across  cultures, and the expansion of the limits of cinema itself.  Through  its annual Flaherty Film Seminar, Flaherty Fellows Program,  International Seminar Pods, Seminar Gatherings, Online Seminar  Experience, Educational Seminar Activations, and stewardship of its  archives, the Flaherty works to expand and strengthen the foundation for  meaningful ongoing dialogue and debate among a diverse and  ever-expanding community of filmmakers, scholars, curators, archivists,  and cinephiles.The Seminar is an exploratory process, which  emulates the concept of non-preconception. To this end, the Flaherty  does not announce the Seminar program beforehand. Beyond the programmers  and production team, no one knows what they will be watching until the  lights go down in the cinema. Film notes and trigger warnings will be  made available upon request to participants before each screening  begins. The Seminar is programmed as a continuum wherein individual  screening programs relate to, riff off of, and expand upon one another.       About Whole GrainThe  Tang Museum’s Whole Grain series explores classic and contemporary work  in experimental film and video. Whole Grain is programmed by Assistant  Director for Engagement Tom Yoshikami. All events are free and open to  the public.]]></description><author>selfeldt@skidmore.edu</author><category>Film</category><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><link>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J4RGoDaKsLawq2AICCyNamHghGGzoHWpz2um3Dko8BfFQf%2bu5wSMvIN</link><guid>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J4RGoDaKsLawq2AICCyNamHghGGzoHWpz2um3Dko8BfFQf%2bu5wSMvIN</guid><enclosure url="http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/imagewriter.aspx?imageId=5446" length="5000" type="image/jpg" /></item><item><title><![CDATA[Naghmeh Sohrabi Event 10/13/2026 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM - CASE Wyckoff.ALL: Documenting, Archiving and Analyzing During War A conversation with Professor Naghmeh Sohrabi  Tuesday, October 13, 6:15 pm  Wyckoff CenterSponsored by the History DepartmentCo-sponsored by Asian Studies, IA, MB, MDOCS, &amp; Political Science  ]]></description><author>smatrazz@skidmore.edu</author><category>Presentation</category><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate><link>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J6rog9yD%2btbC8S8Jh1AfICTWIREohRFKRp9JC5DNH5mEg5zI%2fVu6PGL</link><guid>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J6rog9yD%2btbC8S8Jh1AfICTWIREohRFKRp9JC5DNH5mEg5zI%2fVu6PGL</guid><enclosure url="http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/imagewriter.aspx?imageId=5452" length="5000" type="image/png" /></item><item><title><![CDATA[CS Department Lecture - Henny Admoni, Carnegie Mellon University 10/14/2026 4:00 PM to 5:45 PM]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 4:00 PM to 5:45 PM - Palamountain Hall Davis Auditorium: Henny AdmoniAssociate Professor of RoboticsCarnegie Mellon University     Wednesday, October 14, 2026  Palamountain Hall – Davis Auditorium  Talk 4:30 pm  Reception 4:15 pm     jdougla3   16.00       Microsoft: Print To PDF               Print   0               false   false   false      EN-US   X-NONE   X-NONE                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; 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Such assistive interactions inherently involve bidirectional communication, in which humans and agents both try to interpret and respond to their partner’s actions. As intelligent systems become more complex, their decision making becomes simultaneously more useful and harder to understand. In this talk, I will present several examples from my lab’s research on how people interpret the behavior of AI agents, and how agents can interpret the behavior of people. I’ll describe how we can use cognitive science concepts like theory of mind to improve the communication and explainability of AI systems, making them more useful for assistive and collaborative tasks with people.  ]]></description><author>knewsom@skidmore.edu</author><category>Lecture</category><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:00:00 GMT</pubDate><link>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J7AqYiVsPXLpFMbVTqvvOCHy8Pfj7kfq78H6RqtzkfdXY%2fyCFq%2fyN0w</link><guid>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J7AqYiVsPXLpFMbVTqvvOCHy8Pfj7kfq78H6RqtzkfdXY%2fyCFq%2fyN0w</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pam Tanowitz and the Pastoral: Artists in Conversation 10/14/2026 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM - Tang Teaching Museum Payne: Join us on Wednesday, October 14, at 5:30 pm, for a discussion with  acclaimed choreographer Pam Tanowitz, Skidmore’s 2026 McCormack Visiting  Artist-Scholar in Residence, about her latest full-length dance work, Pastoral.  Alongside two of her collaborators, artist Sarah Crowner and artistic  director Gideon Lester, Tanowitz will provide a look into the creative  process that shaped this piece. April Bernard, Professor of English,  will join the panel discussion, which will be moderated by Brian Lawson,  Assistant Professor of Dance. Pastoral, which features a score  by composer Caroline Shaw, premiered in the summer of 2025 at Bard  College, and used Beethoven’s 6th Symphony as a springboard for  multidisciplinary creation. This event is part of Tanowitz’s 2026  McCormack Endowed Visiting Artist-Scholar Residency at Skidmore, and is  free and open to the public.  About the ParticipantsPam Tanowitz  is a celebrated New York–based choreographer and founder of Pam  Tanowitz Dance who has steadily delineated her own dance language  through decades of research and creation. She is the first-ever  choreographer in residence at the Fisher Center at Bard in  Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, and is an assistant professor of  professional practice at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers  University. Other honors include the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award, LMCC  Liberty Award for Artistic Leadership, Doris Duke Artist Award, Herb  Alpert Award, BAC Cage Cunningham Fellowship, and Bessie Awards, among  others. She has created works for The Australian Ballet, New York City  Ballet, Martha Graham Dance Company, Paul Taylor American Modern Dance,  The Royal Ballet, Kennedy Center’s Ballet Across America, Vail Dance  Festival, Juilliard Dance, Ballet Austin, and New York Theatre Ballet.  Originally from New Rochelle, New York, Tanowitz holds degrees from Ohio  State University and Sarah Lawrence College.  Brooklyn–based artist Sarah Crowner’s  diverse practice explores the spaces where geometry abuts gesture,  materiality merges with composition, and the graphic confronts the  handmade. Incorporating two- and three-dimensional works across a  variety of media (painting, sculpture, installation, and set design),  Crowner’s work points to an expanded field of painting, investigating  the relationship between the element and the whole, and how parts build  an entirety. Her work is held in the collections of the Art Institute of  Chicago; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; The Contemporary Austin;  Dallas Museum of Art; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum of  Modern Art, New York. Recent exhibitions and installations include Faire Foyer: Sarah Crowner in Dialogue with Etel Adnan, The Bass Museum, Miami (2025–26); Platform as Platform, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA (2025); and Around Orange, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis (2023–24).Gideon Lester  is Artistic Director and Chief Executive of the Fisher Center at Bard,  and Senior Curator at the Open Society University Network’s Center for  the Arts and Human Rights. A Tony- and Olivier Award–winning creative  producer, festival director, and dramaturg, he has collaborated with and  commissioned a broad range of American and international artists across  disciplines, including Romeo Castellucci, Justin Vivian Bond, Tania El  Khoury, Brice Marden, Sarah Michelson, Claudia Rankine, Kaija Saariaho,  Peter Sellars, and Anna Deavere Smith. Recent projects include the world  premiere of Justin Peck and Sufjan Stevens’s Illinoise; Common Ground, an international festival on the politics of land and food; Daniel Fish’s Oklahoma! (Tony Award; Olivier Award); and Pam Tanowitz’s Four Quartets and Song of Songs.April Bernard’s The World Behind the World, her sixth book of poems, was published in 2023 by W. W. Norton; previous collections are Brawl &amp; Jag, Romanticism, Swan Electric, Psalms, and Blackbird Bye Bye, which won the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. Her novel Miss Fuller was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award; she has also published short fiction in Little Star, Electric Literature, and The Southampton Review, and is a contributor of reviews and essays to The New York Review of Books and Book Post, among other journals. She teaches at Skidmore College and is currently at work on a volume of new and selected poems.  Brian Lawson,  Assistant Professor of Dance at Skidmore, is a dance performer and  educator. He graduated summa cum laude with a BFA in dance performance  from SUNY Purchase in 2010. Lawson performed with Pam Tanowitz Dance  before joining the Mark Morris Dance Group in 2011. With MMDG, he  originated numerous roles and had the pleasure of touring the US and the  world performing Morris’s dances. He earned his MFA in Dance from the  University of Washington in 2020 and began teaching at Skidmore in 2022.  His choreographic research is collaborative in nature and focuses on  queerness in concert dance. He also engages in pedagogical research with  regard to contemporary balletic practices. He continues to research via  performance as a dancer with Pam Tanowitz Dance and MMDG. Lawson enjoys  teaching dance to diverse populations and has given master classes at  Purchase College, NYU Tisch, and the American Dance Festival, among  others. He acts as a guest ballet teacher for the José Limón Dance  Company, Mark Morris Dance Group, and Gibney Dance.     About The McCormack Endowed Visiting Artist-Scholar ResidencyThe McCormack Endowed Visiting Artist-Scholar Residency  exemplifies Skidmore’s commitment to experiential learning, close  faculty-student collaboration, and interdisciplinary exploration. The  residency is a signature academic program that brings internationally  recognized artists and scholars to Skidmore College for an intensive,  week-long residency during the academic year. It is designed as a  total-immersion experience that embeds the visiting artist directly into  the academic and creative life of the College, with sustained focus on  student learning and faculty collaboration.McCormack Residents  represent the highest levels of artistic achievement across visual,  performing, and literary arts, including recipients of major honors such  as the MacArthur Fellowship, Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award,  Grammy Award, Tony Award, and Nobel Prize in Literature. Through  classroom engagement, studio practice, mentorship, and public  scholarship, the McCormack Residency advances Skidmore’s mission by  uniting theory and practice and modeling interdisciplinary inquiry  within a liberal arts context. The residency is presented by Skidmore’s  Office of Special Programs, in partnership with the Dance Department for  the 2026 residency.]]></description><author>selfeldt@skidmore.edu</author><category>Panel Discussion</category><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 21:30:00 GMT</pubDate><link>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J6EWWqvQlaPnMnTY8IIL5veWg%2fmKCH%2byAEmeV9YrC7FHBFK8qSiFdQj</link><guid>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J6EWWqvQlaPnMnTY8IIL5veWg%2fmKCH%2byAEmeV9YrC7FHBFK8qSiFdQj</guid><enclosure url="http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/imagewriter.aspx?imageId=5411" length="5000" type="image/jpg" /></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skidmore Orchestra Feat. Molly Lewis 10/16/2026 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM - Zankel Music Center Helen Filene Ladd Concert Hall:  With a sound The New Yorker describes as “part Snow White communing with the birds, part haunted theremin,” Molly Lewis has made the human whistle a distinctive contemporary musical voice. Millions heard her in Barbie, where she whistles the melody of Billie Eilish’s “What Was I Made For?” during a pivotal scene and over the film’s closing credits. In 2026, the Metropolitan Museum of Art featured newly commissioned footage of Lewis in Musical Bodies, an exhibition tracing the relationship between music and the human body across 4,000 years.Born in Sydney, Australia, Lewis grew up whistling, and eventually pursued it as a career. After her parents showed her the documentary Pucker Up: The Fine Art of Whistling, she entered her first whistling competition, the 2012 International Whistlers Convention in North Carolina. She later won first place in the Live Band Accompaniment Division at 2015’s Masters of Musical Whistling competition in Los Angeles. Her debut EP The Forgotten Edge was released in 2021 on Jagjaguwar, after the label saw her lounge show Café Molly in LA. A second EP, Mirage, followed in 2022 and her debut LP On the Lips was released in 2024, which she promoted by playing headline shows all over the world, as well as supporting Weyes Blood and Beck on his symphony tour. She is currently co-starring in a new documentary, Whistle, which has been making the rounds of film festivals across the globe after debuting at the Toronto International Film Festival last September.Lewis brings her singular artistry to the Skidmore Orchestra under the direction of Dr. Georgia Mills, with arrangements by Icelandic composer Thomas Stankiewicz. The program places the whistle in the role of orchestral soloist through beloved melodies from Delibes’s Lakmé, Saint-Saëns’s The Swan, Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, Fauré’s Pelléas et Mélisande, and Mozart’s famously virtuosic “Queen of the Night” aria, alongside Lewis’s own Oceanic Feeling and Miracle Fruit. The Skidmore Orchestra also takes the spotlight in “Carillon,” “Pastorale,” and “Farandole” from Georges Bizet’s L’Arlésienne.]]></description><author>vtremper@skidmore.edu</author><category>Performance - Music</category><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><link>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J5J7Wv5MHr%2fSpNPiwxfGOhYMGmFDqnJxDZF%2fk63Bze%2fcvtZmpY38twZ</link><guid>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J5J7Wv5MHr%2fSpNPiwxfGOhYMGmFDqnJxDZF%2fk63Bze%2fcvtZmpY38twZ</guid><enclosure url="http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/imagewriter.aspx?imageId=5419" length="5000" type="image/jpg" /></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fall Opening Reception 10/17/2026 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM - Tang Teaching Museum Atrium: Join us Saturday, October 17, at 5 pm, for a celebration of our fall exhibitions: A Feeling of With, a faculty co-curated exhibition featuring work from the Tang collection  Mark Thomas Gibson: We Are A Constellation, a solo exhibition from the self-described American history painter  Sheila Pepe: When &amp; Where We Rest,  an immersive installation that draws on Pepe’s ongoing interest in the  material culture of religion, sociology, queer theory, ancient Greece  and Rome, and the Silk Road  500 Dams: Art, Ecology, and Radical Care at Anaya Springs,  which brings together art and science to create a portrait of the  ongoing effort of the Survival Kit Collective to regenerate the  grasslands of Anaya Springs, New Mexico  Elevator Music 55: Chaia—Yiddishland on the Move,  an immersive sound collage composed from newly digitized recordings  from the 1950s–1980s in the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research’s Jewish  Labor and Political Archives  This open house is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be available. ]]></description><author>selfeldt@skidmore.edu</author><category>Reception</category><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate><link>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J7cpvj71Q6q%2bOIV1JfOwFaG6A%2fTmkf4mshFn%2fKon2hJvvD3GLurUdc2</link><guid>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J7cpvj71Q6q%2bOIV1JfOwFaG6A%2fTmkf4mshFn%2fKon2hJvvD3GLurUdc2</guid><enclosure url="http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/imagewriter.aspx?imageId=5429" length="5000" type="image/jpg" /></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alash 10/18/2026 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM - Zankel Music Center Helen Filene Ladd Concert Hall: Alash are masters of Tuvan throat singing, or xöömei, a vocal tradition in which a singer can produce multiple pitches at the same time. Trained in Tuvan music since childhood, the members of Alash bring deep knowledge of traditional instruments, song forms, and vocal techniques to performances that are both rooted and contemporary.What sets Alash apart is their careful integration of modern influences into traditional Tuvan music. Their songs may include complex harmonies, Western instruments, or contemporary forms, but the sound and spirit remain distinctly Tuvan. The ensemble has won major international throat-singing competitions and has toured widely in the United States, where The Washington Post called their music “utterly stunning."Alash has collaborated with artists across genres, from the Sun Ra Arkestra to Béla Fleck &amp; the Flecktones, appearing on the Grammy-winning album Jingle All the Way. Beyond the stage, the ensemble is committed to teaching and cultural exchange, introducing audiences and students of all ages to the music, instruments, and traditions of Tuva.About the ArtistsBady-Dorzhu Ondar performs vocals, igil, guitar, and bayan. A graduate of Kyzyl Arts College and the East Siberia State Academy of Culture and Art, he has received major honors in traditional ensemble and xöömei competitions and was named People’s Xöömeizhi of Tuva in 2007.Ayan-ool Sam performs vocals, doshpuluur, igil, and xomus. He studied at the Republic School of the Arts, Kyzyl Arts College, and Moscow State Pedagogical University. He won first prize at the 2008 International Xöömei Symposium and was named People’s Xöömeizhi of Tuva in 2015.Ayan Shirizhik performs vocals, kengirge, shyngyrash, shoor, and xomus. A graduate of Kyzyl Arts College and the East Siberia State Academy of Culture and Art, he was named a Distinguished Artist of Tuva in 2009 and People’s Xöömeizhi of Tuva in 2021.Presented by the Skidmore College Department of Music.]]></description><author>vtremper@skidmore.edu</author><category>Performance - Music</category><pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 20:00:00 GMT</pubDate><link>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J4s5dcxUBc22MdqvVZPdwI6YBMAhA8mVggBVpNCzuZv4tiggywZrPA3</link><guid>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J4s5dcxUBc22MdqvVZPdwI6YBMAhA8mVggBVpNCzuZv4tiggywZrPA3</guid><enclosure url="http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/imagewriter.aspx?imageId=5421" length="5000" type="image/jpg" /></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plagues, Famines, and Natural Disasters in the Ottoman Empire: An Environmental History of the Middle East. Lecture by Yaron Ayalon 10/20/2026 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM - PALMTN Davis Auditorium: Examining epidemics, famines, and earthquakes in the Ottoman Empire in the 17th and 18th century, Yaron Ayalon will discuss how disasters affected Jewish, Christian, and Muslim communities. Ayalon asserts that religious identities and communal cooperation were always present in the Ottoman Empire, but the boundaries between confessional communities were porous. Indeed, religion was “neither the sole nor the primary social divider in Ottoman society at large.” The presentation provides a historical lens into natural disasters that affected Jewish communities in the Middle East and offers lessons on how we can approach current environmental challenges, climate change, and natural disasters.Ayalon is a social historian of the Middle East, Ottoman Empire, Sephardic Jews, and Israel, and author of two books: Natural Disasters in the Ottoman Empire: Plague, Famine, and Other Misfortunes (Cambridge University Press, 2015), and Ottoman Jewry: Leadership, Charity, and Literacy (Brill, 2025). He has published over 20 articles on Jewish and Muslim charity, rabbinic leadership, and natural disasters in the Ottoman Empire and Middle East. Dr. Ayalon is Director of the Bennett Center for Judaic Studies at Fairfield University where he also serves as the Carl and Dorothy Bennett Chair in Judaic Studies and Professor of Religious Studies. He has taught Middle Eastern, Jewish, and Israeli history, and courses such as The Arab-Israeli Conflict, Sephardic Jews in the Diaspora and Israel, and Thinking Outside the Box in the Jewish Tradition.This presentation is part of the Jacob Perlow Series sponsored by the Office of Special Programs and co-sponsored by the departments of Environmental Studies &amp; Sciences, Political Science, and History.Free and open to the public.]]></description><author>cmerrill@skidmore.edu</author><category>Lecture</category><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 21:30:00 GMT</pubDate><link>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J6IL%2f%2bWQ2neiVX3xtlqfmO26Hz1AcfV4AC4BPwymrMCXORprEg4y%2fn%2f</link><guid>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J6IL%2f%2bWQ2neiVX3xtlqfmO26Hz1AcfV4AC4BPwymrMCXORprEg4y%2fn%2f</guid><enclosure url="http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/imagewriter.aspx?imageId=5439" length="5000" type="image/jpg" /></item><item><title><![CDATA[Steloff Lecture 10/22/2026 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM - TANG Payne: Annual Frances Steloff Lecture  Thursday October 22nd at 8 PM, Payne Room/ Tang Museum  GARTH GREENWELL  “THE RELEVANCE OF ART”  GARTH GREENWELL—novelist, literary critic, educator—is the author of three acclaimed novels and a forthcoming book of essays. The novels include “What Belongs To You” (2016), which won the British Book Award for ‘Debut of the Year.’; “Cleanness” (2020); and “Small Rain” (2024), which won the PEN/FAULKNER AWARD for fiction. His essays appear in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Paris Review &amp; other magazines. He won the 2021 Vursell Award for prose style from The American Academy of Arts &amp; Letters, and is at present Distinguished Writer In Residence at New York University. For six years he was a student at Skidmore’s NY State Summer Writers Institute, where he later taught fiction writing for several summers.]]></description><author>ghoefer@skidmore.edu</author><category>Lecture</category><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><link>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J7ljd0jL5R%2f89XlXZFgdMgdpk4JqIZoeUyQLAg7V42%2f6KbRqSBvFofF</link><guid>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J7ljd0jL5R%2f89XlXZFgdMgdpk4JqIZoeUyQLAg7V42%2f6KbRqSBvFofF</guid><enclosure url="http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/imagewriter.aspx?imageId=5432" length="5000" type="image/png" /></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kuroda Symposium in Early American Politics and Culture 10/23/2026 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM - Tang Teaching Museum Wachenheim Gallery: Kuroda Symposium in Early American Politics and CultureAmerica at 250: The Declaration’s Unfinished Promise  As the nation marks its semiquincentennial, no one is better positioned to interpret the moment than the author of Our Declaration, hailed as a modern classic of American civic thought. Allen draws the arc from 1776 to today, showing how the Declaration’s promise of equality has been contested, betrayed, and renewed across two and a half centuries — and what it demands of us now. Neither nostalgic nor cynical, this talk gives audiences a way to celebrate the founding honestly: with clear eyes about its failures and genuine conviction about its unfinished work.October 23rd at 5:00PM in the Wachenheim Gallery, Tang Museum  Danielle Allen is a political philosopher whose current research focuses on democracy renovation: how to reconnect citizens to civic power through education and institutional redesign, how to make political institutions more responsive, accountable, and participatory, and how to make public policy that supports democracy.  Professor Allen is the James Bryant Conant University Professor, Harvard University   Her most recent book, Justice by Means of Democracy (University of Chicago Press, 2023), provides the theoretical foundation for this work. Her forthcoming book, The Radical Duke, a biography of an 18th-century British political reformer, is due out with Liveright/Norton in 2026.  Through the Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation at the Harvard Kennedy School, she leads applied research on electoral reform, civic infrastructure, institutional design, and democracy-supportive public policy. Through the Democratic Knowledge Project-Learn at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, she develops and scales civic education curricula for preK-12 students and higher education.  She is the publisher and founder of The Renovator Substack and a contributing columnist at The Atlantic Magazine.]]></description><author>bmcdonou@skidmore.edu</author><category>Lecture</category><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate><link>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J7YaMhvE31ObLkXKcXojAC%2fap5EkwNUnqZLtNMvuy1ZZfrlPXhVPh4B</link><guid>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J7YaMhvE31ObLkXKcXojAC%2fap5EkwNUnqZLtNMvuy1ZZfrlPXhVPh4B</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ensemble Connect 10/23/2026 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM - Zankel Music Center Helen Filene Ladd Concert Hall:  Following their bi-annual week-long residency at Skidmore, Ensemble Connect brings its signature energy and precision to a program rooted in richly expressive chamber music. The concert opens with Ligeti’s Trio for Violin, Horn, and Piano and Loeffler’s Two Rhapsodies, followed by Kodály’s Serenade, Op. 12 and Bartók’s Contrasts, BB 116. Together, these works highlight the ensemble’s versatility while offering audiences an intimate encounter with music shaped by folk influence, modernist color, and striking instrumental conversation.ProgramLIGETI | Trio for Violin, Horn, and PianoLOEFFLER | 2 RhapsodiesINTERMISSIONKODÁLY | Serenade, Op. 12BARTÓK | Contrasts, BB 116About the ArtistsEnsemble Connect fellows are early-career professional musicians selected for a two-year Carnegie Hall fellowship through a competitive application and audition process. They perform chamber music at Carnegie Hall, Juilliard, Skidmore, and other venues; partner with New York City public schools; lead interactive performances and workshops; and receive professional development in teaching, community engagement, advocacy, entrepreneurship, and leadership. The 2025–2027 Ensemble Connect fellows are:Elena Ariza, celloCameron Cullen, fluteLaurel Gagnon, violinNicole Martin, clarinetCoco Mi, violinGrace O’Connell, trumpetAnoush Pogossian, clarinetWill Sands, French hornDavid Seder, tromboneJJ Silvey, oboeAbby Smith, violaJoseph Vaz, pianoPresented by the Skidmore College Office of Special Programs in collaboration with the Department of Music. Made possible by the generous support of Beverly Sanders Payne '59 and her late husband David B. Payne. Tickets for this event are free. Contributions are appreciated but never required. ]]></description><author>vtremper@skidmore.edu</author><category>Performance - Music</category><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 23:30:00 GMT</pubDate><link>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J4ZEwPzMKdSBFUL6a6nUt8TqIua0EQp5T7eavu1FjIiJXC88%2fmngfVu</link><guid>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J4ZEwPzMKdSBFUL6a6nUt8TqIua0EQp5T7eavu1FjIiJXC88%2fmngfVu</guid><enclosure url="http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/imagewriter.aspx?imageId=5449" length="5000" type="image/png" /></item><item><title><![CDATA[From Antiracism to Abolition: Professional Learning for Liberating Schools - with  Abby Emerson, EdD 11/5/2026 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM - PALMTN Emerson Auditorium: Organizing for Freedom: Educators and Facilitators Leading Abolitionist PracticeJoin Dr. Abby Emerson for a discussion on her forthcoming book From Antiracism to Abolition (Harvard Education Press), a vital framework for educators and facilitators looking to lead systemic change in education spaces. Discover how to organize teacher learning spaces that reject punitive practices and cultivate genuine safety, collective care, and educational freedom.Dr. Emerson is an Assistant Professor of Childhood Education at Hunter College, CUNY. She holds both a doctorate and masters in education from Teachers College Columbia University and is a former New York City public school teacher. Her research has appeared in journals such as the Journal of Teacher Education, Review of Research in Education, Whiteness &amp; Education, Bank Street Occasional Papers, and Radical Teacher.https://www.abbyemerson.com/]]></description><author>cbpark@skidmore.edu</author><category>Presentation</category><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2026 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate><link>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J5rL%2bYL%2fBZOfU3ER5T3PW5uqUM8huTT4hu%2f9bWnCRRioZ7EFXyFPgri</link><guid>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J5rL%2bYL%2fBZOfU3ER5T3PW5uqUM8huTT4hu%2f9bWnCRRioZ7EFXyFPgri</guid><enclosure url="http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/imagewriter.aspx?imageId=5438" length="5000" type="image/png" /></item><item><title><![CDATA[MOVIE LOVE: Skidmore Professors GET PERSONAL at the Movies 11/5/2026 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM - PALMTN Davis Auditorium: SKIDMORE PROFESSORS GET PERSONAL AT THE MOVIESEvent description: Six Skidmore Faculty members talk about themselves in a personal way inspired by their sometimes strange infatuation with a particular film—including “Invasion of the Body-Snatchers,” “Claire’s Knee,” “Dazed &amp; Confused” &amp; others. The faculty panelists are Linda Hall, April Bernard, Peg Boyers, Marc Woodworth &amp; Robert Boyers (of the English Department) &amp; Jennifer Delton (of the History Department). Audience questions &amp; a reception will follow.  The event is the launch for the special fall issue of Skidmore’s SALMAGUNDI Magazine, which features thirty essays by thirty authors “GETTING PERSONAL AT THE MOVIES.”  At the close of the public event audience members will receive a free copy of the 350-page $15.00 special issue of SALMAGUNDI.]]></description><author>tknicker@skidmore.edu</author><category>Presentation</category><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:30:00 GMT</pubDate><link>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J5SNUfsvLQoRey4RPNBgjyaKJKm5XeHcAlgcDgikyzeBIqS%2bSXpzFDY</link><guid>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J5SNUfsvLQoRey4RPNBgjyaKJKm5XeHcAlgcDgikyzeBIqS%2bSXpzFDY</guid><enclosure url="http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/imagewriter.aspx?imageId=5424" length="5000" type="image/png" /></item><item><title><![CDATA[IN COMMUNITY WORKSHOP SERIES: Intersecting Injustices: Ableism and Disability Justice, Anti-Black Racism, and Islamophobia 11/6/2026 4:30 PM to 8:00 PM]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 4:30 PM to 8:00 PM - Murray-Aikins Dining Hall Rooms 1 & 2: The Intergroup Relations Program (IGR) invites you toIn Community - A Workshop Series for Students, Staff, Faculty, Administration  What is collective liberation and how do we get there?   5:30-7:30pm  Intersecting Injustices: Ableism and Disability Justice, Anti-Black Racism, and Islamophobia (Space is Limited, RSVP Now to Register)  Workshops facilitated by Nina Mehta of the Participatory Action Research Center for Education Organizing (PARCEO)]]></description><author>lgradywi@skidmore.edu</author><category>Workshop</category><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2026 21:30:00 GMT</pubDate><link>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J5sgfZqQvEl%2bPBtl6MBFeZ2De0K%2bBPLhJ6TJv2%2fjg%2fEfPZa58WV%2bfJ2</link><guid>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J5sgfZqQvEl%2bPBtl6MBFeZ2De0K%2bBPLhJ6TJv2%2fjg%2fEfPZa58WV%2bfJ2</guid><enclosure url="http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/imagewriter.aspx?imageId=5451" length="5000" type="image/png" /></item><item><title><![CDATA[IN COMMUNITY WORKSHOP SERIES: Antisemitism from a Framework of Collective Liberation & The Palestinian Nakba 11/7/2026 9:30 AM to 5:30 PM]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 9:30 AM to 5:30 PM - Murray-Aikins Dining Hall Rooms 1 & 2: The Intergroup Relations Program (IGR) invites you toIn Community - A Workshop Series for Students, Staff, Faculty, AdministrationWhat is collective liberation and how do we get there? 11am-1pm  Antisemitism from a Framework of Collective Liberation  (Space is Limited, RSVP Now toRegister)      2:30-4:30pm  The Palestinian Nakba  (Space is Limited,                  RSVPNow to Register Workshops facilitated by Nina Mehta of the Participatory Action Research Center for Education Organizing (PARCEO)]]></description><author>lgradywi@skidmore.edu</author><category>Workshop</category><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2026 14:30:00 GMT</pubDate><link>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J5EX%2f67CpyM0Lk7L1ekmjM2qbMB2oOLtrEFdZw85bH%2flRAoXMAk2LYN</link><guid>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J5EX%2f67CpyM0Lk7L1ekmjM2qbMB2oOLtrEFdZw85bH%2flRAoXMAk2LYN</guid><enclosure url="http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/imagewriter.aspx?imageId=5450" length="5000" type="image/png" /></item><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[Blood Drive 2/5/2027 10:00 AM to 4:30 PM]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 10:00 AM to 4:30 PM - DANCE IM Gym]]></description><author>peterfisher@skidmore.edu</author><category>Athletic</category><pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2027 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate><link>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J5aKFx3cvC25IIBd6dRsoiBfnq1Ml440e8e0jVJ9ktOQ5EFCbdiyst0</link><guid>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J5aKFx3cvC25IIBd6dRsoiBfnq1Ml440e8e0jVJ9ktOQ5EFCbdiyst0</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanistic Inquiry Symposium 3/26/2027 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM - CO Calendar Only : Save the date!Humanistic Inquiry Symposium to be held at the Tang Museum, March 26-27, 2027For more information click here ]]></description><author>tknicker@skidmore.edu</author><category>Lecture</category><pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2027 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate><link>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J7akY2CglTf2BDQwXm9Quxy%2f0aow6MtKpcxt34UmTX7yM8SZmguJ14Q</link><guid>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J7akY2CglTf2BDQwXm9Quxy%2f0aow6MtKpcxt34UmTX7yM8SZmguJ14Q</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanistic Inquiry Symposium 3/27/2027 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM - CO Calendar Only : Save the date!Humanistic Inquiry Symposium to be held at the Tang Museum, March 26-27, 2027For more information click here ]]></description><author>tknicker@skidmore.edu</author><category>Lecture</category><pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2027 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate><link>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J7akY2CglTf2BDQwXm9Quxy%2f0aow6MtKpe%2fYmzVcdnD%2bOr4r34pgFtL</link><guid>http://calendar.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J7akY2CglTf2BDQwXm9Quxy%2f0aow6MtKpe%2fYmzVcdnD%2bOr4r34pgFtL</guid></item></channel></rss>