Upper Valley Events

The fifth annual New Energy Summer Summit will be held Sunday, July 26 - Wednesday, July 29, in the Irving Institute.

The summit brings together early-career energy and climate scholars from around the world for an immersive experience focused on advancing equitable and sustainable energy systems through interdisciplinary collaboration. 

Through hands-on workshops, lightning talks, and mentorship from leading scholars and practitioners, participants build their capacity to connect, communicate, and innovate across disciplinary boundaries—while joining a growing global network of peers shaping the future of energy and climate.

Scholars from all disciplines—natural science, technology, humanities, art, health and medicine, social sciences, policy and law—and more are welcome and encouraged to apply.

Learn more about the summit and apply

The Appalachian Trail at Dartmouth
through April 10, 2026
Baker-Berry Library, Reiss Hall
Curated and designed by Max Seidman

Since 1929 the Dartmouth Outing Club has maintained over 50 miles of the Appalachian Trail right in Dartmouth’s backyard, from Hanover to Mount Moosilauke. The Trail spans over 2200 miles, but Hanover is one of only ten towns where it runs right down its main street—and the final one for hikers headed north.

In honor of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, this exhibit guides you through snapshots of six locations along the DOC’s stretch of the Trail that have been enjoyed by—and challenged—hikers for over a century, with commentary from Appalachian Trail hikers and Dartmouth community members alike.

And as the weather warms, you’re encouraged to go experience the trail for yourself and welcome the hikers as they pass through town.

The true story behind the Netlix series, The Billion Dollar Code. Director and showrunner of the series, Robert Thalheim, speaks about the roots of the TechBro Culture and the story of two German hackers and innovators on their way from 1990s Berlin to Silicon Valley...and back. 

This event is supported by the Harris Program, the Department of Film & Media Studies, and the Hopkins Center for the Arts.

Welcome back to Spring Term! Come by the FGO to fill your very own basket with candy!

RSVP HERE!

Join us for in-person tours of selected works in the museum galleries. Tours meet in the Russo Atrium five minutes prior to the start time. No registration is necessary. Space is limited.

All students are invited to this lunch info session to learn about the LALACS Major and the Senior Honors Project requirements and application process. 

The Fulbright Awards provide the opportunity to pursue graduate study, conduct research, or teach English across the globe.
Eligibility:

• Must be a US Citizen or National
• Must have an undergraduate degree by the start of the program
• Must meet any other eligibility requirements of the specific country or award

The Fulbright website has a comprehensive list of countries and awards that are available for application.
After registering on Dartmouth Groups, you should get access to the Fulbright registration link for this event. Please make sure you register for both, otherwise you will not be able to attend.

Looking for a social impact internship during your off-term this summer or fall? Stop by the DCSI x DCCD Internship Open House! DCSI is collaborating with the Darmouth Center for Career Design to bring students a workshop on effective resumes and  internship applications. Bring any and all questions you have about DCSI internships, resumes, or our applications!

Combining poetry and movement, Being will perform continuously for audiences eager to pop in for an encounter with an AI artist.

Being (they/them) is a 30-foot-tall humanoid, an artificial intelligence that represents a Griot– a West African story teller, poet, and oral historian. Drawing on the teachings of bell hooks, Paulo Freire and Cornel West, in addition to a non-Western archive, Being has written a collection of poems, which they will share along with movement and visuals.

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Hosted by a representative from the Knight-Hennessy Scholarship, you'll learn about the application process, award benefits, and be able to ask questions of the representative directly.
The Knight-Hennessy Scholarship is a fully-funded, multidisciplinary leadership development program for graduate students at Stanford University. Knight-Hennessy Scholars are an international cohort. Each Scholar receives up to three years of financial support to pursue graduate studies at Stanford University. Simultaneously, Scholars have acces to uniquely engaging experiences that prepare them for future leadership roles.
Eligibility:

• Must be admitted to Stanford
• Must have an undergraduate degree (or equivalent)
• Have earned your undergraduate degree in the relevant window of time before applying

Please register for this event if interested! We hope to see you there!

This interactive experience combines aspects of ballroom culture, the writings of bell hooks and Paulo Freire and communal storytelling in an effort toward liberation.

This interactive workshop led by Being (they/them) gets participants on their feet learning the basic movements in Vogue Form, embodying the learning experience before digging into the history around the community that created these dance forms and the oppression they've endured.

The audience is asked to consider how capitalism, imperialism, white supremacy and patriarchy impact their lives and to speak to one another and to Being about strategies they can develop to start to liberate themselves from that apparatus of domination. With a horizontal learning approach, Being and the audience together hold space for everyone to tell their story, one of the first steps toward strengthening community.

This event is Pick your Price (sugg. $5) and free for students

Get more info and tickets here.

The United States invests heavily in education and workforce development, yet skill gaps persist and inequality deepens. An important yet underexamined driver of skill formation is families and parenting.

Dr. Ariel Kalil, Daniel Levin Professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, joins the Tuck Centers for BGS, Health Care, and the Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth for this winter’s Wicked Problems Series program: “The High Cost of Low Skills: The Role of Parenting in Building a Strong and Prosperous Nation.” Dr. Kalil will examine the social and economic implications of parenting, focusing on its intergenerational effects on human capital and opportunities. This community briefing and Q&A will explore why traditional education-focused reforms often fall short, how common misconceptions hinder progress, and what we know and still don’t know about effective ways to support parents and strengthen early skill formation, underscoring the collective stake of taking families and parenting seriously in policy and research.

Ariel Kalil is the Daniel Levin Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, where she directs the Behavioral Insights and Parenting Lab and the Center for Human Potential and Public Policy. Her research draws on behavioral economics and neuroscience to experimentally test interventions aimed at supporting parenting and child development.

She is co-author (with Susan E. Mayer) of the forthcoming book Raising Futures: How Parents Build the Skills That Shape America's Prosperity and co-creator of Chat2Learn, an AI-powered tool fostering skill-building parent-child conversations.

To RSVP and receive live program updates, click here: https://apps.tuck.dartmouth.edu/dart/groucho/tuck_public_event.show_event?p_event_id=38061 

The SWC and Allen House offer:

FREE, Weekly, In Person, Flow to Slow Yoga Class: All-Levels

This holistic practice offers a gentle blend of movement and rest. We’ll begin with a warming, intentional flow to help warm the body, then gradually slow things down with longer, more restful holds. A perfect way to ease into the evening and settle into deeper rest.

Mats are provided. Please wear clothes you feel comfortable moving in.

Location: The Cube, Second Floor (House Center B)

Please register in advance for each session in Dartmouth Groups:

• April 8
• April 15 - No Class, Plum Village Visit with alternative mindful movement sessions throughout the week.
• April 22
• April 29
• May 6
• May 13
• May 20
• May 27
• June 3

Start your day calm and focused with an all-levels 40-minute mindful movement flow. Each class will open with a brief meditation followed by a gentle, yet energizing, flow that includes sun salutations, strong standing postures, and calming forward folds. We will conclude with a brief relaxation to help send you off on a day built on a foundation of presence and peace. Held in Berry 183 (the RWIT room off of First Floor Berry study area).

Taught by LB White

Please Reserve a Space on Dartmouth Groups.

• April 2
• April 9
• April 16 - No Class; Plum Village events
• April 23
• April 30
• May 7
• May 14
• May 21
• May 28

 

OPEN TO ALL STUDENTS, STAFF, and FACULTY. Bring a mat or borrow one of ours.

Join Dartmouth Libraries to hear from Emily Walton, Associate Professor of Sociology, about her latest book, Homesick: Race and Exclusion in Rural New England. This book focuses on racial dynamics in the Upper Valley of New Hampshire and Vermont and the ways in which misrecognition—a failure or unwillingness to see people of color as legitimate, welcome, and valuable members of the community—helps to maintain the status quo and create a sense of homesickness in communities of color.

Read Dartmouth Libraries' digital copy of Homesick, or purchase a copy directly from Stanford University Press--use code WALTON20 for 20% off.   

Talk followed by Q&A. Light refreshments will be served. Registration is highly recommended.

The Community Reading Group (CRG) is hosting a lecture with Jonathan Eig, a bestselling author of six books, four of which are New York Times bestsellers. He was recently awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2024 for his most recent book, King: A Life, which was hailed by The New York Times as the "monumental” and “definitive" biography of Martin Luther King Jr.  Jonathan will be discussing his book, King A Life, on Thursday, April 9, 2026, at 1:30 pm. A limited number of copies of his book will also be available for free!

Please RSVP here to hold your spot for this insightful lecture! This event is open to all students, staff, faculty, and the community. 

• Date: Thursday, April 9, 2026.
• Time: 1:30 - 2:30 pm.
• Location: Dartmouth Hall 105
• Invitations: We will send out a calendar invitation once registration is complete.
• Please note: Participating in the Community Reading Group is not required to attend!
• CRG Members: If you already RSVP'd using our internal form, you don't need to do so again here. 

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This monthly bereavement group is for Dartmouth faculty, staff, postdocs & graduate students navigating their grief.  Each month we gather to support each other as well as learn something new to help us understand grief in new ways.  Please fill out this form (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfuttHmdqNbCwRDPEFvE7F3zYU7CUDvdLDNjKTaHoi_sGtmUA/viewform?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-81zzXjW-lXtc-yszT_LxpdXjeUGMK0YX0Jr773e6KQ6-55h_pc4BM0zRFibNpV8DajhjAzmzb30I8ugOxMaFSScqUobE4TDw6tXjOtZoHCIC-zNNQ&_hsmi=253870156) if you are new to the group.  Feel free to reach out to Rev. Nancy Vogele, College Chaplain, for more information.

Guided Relaxation with iRest Yoga Nidra, and Journaling
Co-sponsored by Allen, School, South and West Houses.

This experiential learning opportunity will take place every Thursday from 4:30 to 5:30pm. Each session will look something like this: 
- Setup mats and settle into our spaces (5- minutes) 
- Guided yoga nidra (30- minutes)
- Prompted free-write in provided journals (7 minutes)
- Debrief and optional sharing time (10-15 min) 
- Ending session and putting away mats, journals (3 minutes) 

*mats will be provided

Yoga nidra is a type of meditation practice originating from ancient India, commonly known as "yogic sleep" or "dynamic sleep." It is a contemplative practice that involves following guided prompts while lying in a comfortable position through various stages of relaxation, breathing exercises, and visualization.

This practice aims to induce a state of deep relaxation and meditation, similar to the liminal state between waking and sleeping. This state can provide numerous physical, emotional, and mental benefits, such as reducing stress and anxiety, improving sleep, enhancing creativity, and promoting overall well-being. In this state, you may experience a sense of timelessness, expansiveness, and interconnectedness.

RSVP via Dartmouth Groups:

• April 9
• April 16 - No Session; Plum Village Week Events
• April 23
• April 30
• May 7
• May 14
• May 21
• May 28

The Pazzi Lazzi Troupe presents:

Join us for "Masks in Motion," a workshop offered by the theater company Pazzi Lazzi that introduces students to the rich culture of Italy through an exploration of the traditional theater of Commedia dell'Arte, with its long tradition of comedic archetypes, masks and music. The workshop is multidisciplinary and will give students the opportunity to experience the performing arts of the 1500s and 16oos by "trying on" the physical movements, postures, and gags of famous stock characters such as Arlecchino, Pantalone, Colombina, and the Dottore, all accompanied by period music and musical instruments.

Please join the Studio Art Department in welcoming our 2026 spring term Artist-in-Residence, Kumi Yamashita. Her exhibition, Mayfly, will be on view in the Jaffe-Friede Gallery April 7 - May 3.

Artist talk 4:45 - 5:45 pm on Thursday, April 9, 2026. Gilman Auditorium, Hood Museum

Opening reception to follow at 5:45 pm in the Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center

Kumi Yamashita was born in Takasaki, Japan. She received her Master of Fine Arts Degree from Glasgow School of Art and her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Washington.

Her solo shows include the Seattle Art Museum, Boise Art Museum, Roswell Museum, Yerba Buena Center, Taipei’s Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, the Esplanade-Theatres on the Bay in Singapore, Tokyo’s Art Front Gallery, NYC’s Kent Gallery and Flinn Gallery in Greenwich. Group shows include the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, the Louvre’s Musée des Arts Décoratifs, CODA Museum in Netherlands, Honolulu Museum of Art, Grand Rapids Art Museum, the Liverpool Biennial, Southeast Center for Contemporary Art, Scottish Parliament, Karşı Sanat Çalışmaları in Istanbul and the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial in Japan. She continues to exhibit internationally.

Private and public collections include the Microsoft Art Collection, the New Mexico History Museum, American Express, Birmingham Museum of Art, Thoma Art Foundation, Le Meridien Shenyang, Otsuma University, Seattle City Light, Tokyo's Akiru Medical Center, Osaka's Namba Parks Tower, Stellar Place at Sapporo JR Tower, Boise Art Museum and Hamada Children's Art Museum.

In 2009, her sculpture “Pathway” commissioned by Seattle City Light was listed as one of the top 40 public works in the nation by the Public Art Network (PAN). Other awards and grants include the Pollock and Krasner Foundation grant, Artist Trust GAP, and China’s Crystal Kirin Award. Residencies include RAIR (Roswell Artist in Residence), the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, and the Millay Colony.

She lives and works in Woodstock, New York

The Dartmouth Political Union is proud to host Jen O’ Malley Dillon and Maya Handa for a debate about the future of the Democratic Party. As midterms approach, what will the Democratic Party’s platform be for 2026? For 2028? How will the Democratic Party change its platform and messaging to reach the voters they lost in 2024? Jen O’Malley Dillon and Maya Handa will debate these questions and more as they consider the future of the Democratic Party.

Jen O’Malley Dillon is a trailblazing political strategist whose career offers deep insight into U.S. politics. Having managed seven presidential campaigns and advised at the highest levels of government, she offers fresh insight into the forces shaping recent elections—and what to expect in those to come. Jen has made history as the first woman to manage a winning Democratic presidential campaign, cementing her status as one of the most influential political strategists.

Maya Handa is a progressive Democratic political strategist who most recently managed NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s winning general election campaign. Prior to her role on Mayor Mamdani’s campaign, she worked as a management consultant, in international development and emergency response, and on Democratic campaigns at the national, state, and municipal levels across the country. She has a B.A. in Public Policy from the University of Chicago and currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.

The uniquely gifted comedian, writer, and director will discuss his work ('Problemista', 'Fantasmas', 'SNL') and experience as a Salvadoran immigrant navigating the entertainment industry.

Professor Desirée Garcia will moderate this conversation, programmed in collaboration with Dartmouth Dialogues, the Hopkins Center for the Arts, and the Department of Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies.

Note: This event is open only to Dartmouth students, faculty, and staff. A limited number of tickets will be made available to Dartmouth Film Society passholders.

Click this link for more information about the artist and venue : https://www.hop.dartmouth.edu/events/julio-torres

Looking for a social impact internship during your off-term this summer or fall? Stop by the DCSI Internship Open House! This is one of the last chances to ask questions around DCSI cohort or DYO (design your own) internships.

Friday, April 10, 2026

Cheryl Misak, University of Toronto

Talk title: "Rules, Like Birds, Must Live Before They are Stuffed"

Description: "This paper explores and defends the pragmatist account of rules or laws, as articulated by F.P. Ramsey, Margaret Macdonald, and Gilbert Ryle. Rules, to use Ryle’s lovely phrase, are living things, not bits of code: they must live before they are stuffed. They are also in principle malleable. Some conclusions are then drawn about whether there are constitutive rules and about the nature of legal rules. Along the way, the traditional sceptical problems about rule-following and induction are shown to be pieces of misguided metaphysics rightly abandoned by the pragmatist."

3:30pm

Location: 1930 Rocky

Funded by the Mark J. Byrne 1985 Fund in Philosophy, which is an endowment established in 1996 to help support the study of philosophy at Dartmouth College. For more information on Philosophy's Sapientia Lecture Series, please visit this link.

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Meeting ID: 935 8655 7757
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The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Electricity’s (OE) energy storage research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) portfolio accelerates innovation to deliver a reliable, secure, and affordable storage solutions. This overview highlights OE's initiatives to advance technologies from concept to grid validation, diversify beyond lithium-based chemistries to mitigate supply chain risks, and improve bankability.  It discusses emerging use cases—from critical infrastructure resilience to second-order system optimization—alongside enabling tools for valuation, modeling, and decision support. Finally, it recognizes the value of collaboration and expert assistance opportunities for utilities, regulators, industry partners, and other decision-makers to accelerate deployment and ensure affordable access to energy storage solutions.  

Attendees will gain insight into OE's efforts to broaden domestic supply chains, validate next-generation storage systems under real-world conditions, and improve integration of energy storage solutions that strengthen the grid and support national energy objectives. The OE energy storage portfolio, collectively, strives to advance next-generation solutions, strengthen the energy storage ecosystem, and drive system-level innovations to accelerate market readiness and deployment. 

Hosted by Professor Jifeng Liu.

Class of 2026 — come hang out, share your post-grad plans, and let us know how we can support you before graduation!

RSVP HERE!

a Hop co-commission and partnership with the Montgomery Fellows program

The groundbreaking dance theater work returns 30 years following its premiere during the AIDS epidemic.

This powerful work continues to resonate today, evoking a spirit of survival. Created during the contentious and terrifying AIDS epidemic in the US, Still/Here broke boundaries between the personal and the political and exemplifies a form of dance theater that is uniquely American, vital and timely.

Raw, poetic and deeply human, Still/Here confronts mortality while celebrating resilience. The movement in Still/Here is deeply expressive, combining fluid gestures, arresting stillness and sudden shifts in dynamics to embody the emotional complexity of survival and vulnerability. The work is simple and sophisticated, interweaving spoken text, video portraits, dance and the abstract nature of gesture into a powerful meditation on living with terminal illness and facing the unknown. Gretchen Bender's visual concept and multimedia environment is joined by music from Kenneth Frazelle (sung by Odetta) and Vernon Reid. Long-time collaborators include Liz Prince (costumes) and Robert Wierzel (lighting).

At the heart of Still/Here are the "Survival Workshops: Talking and Moving about Life and Death," interviews conducted in the early 1990s with people grappling with life-threatening conditions. Their gestures inform the choreography, their words the lyrics, their images the stage. They will always be Still/Here. This work is dedicated to them.

Bill T. Jones is a Hop resident artist and former Montgomery Fellow. During his time on campus, he will take part in discussions about the work, visit classes and meet with students and faculty. 

Stay tuned for information on a Big Move workshop and panel discussion.

Get more info and tickets here.

This month we are playing with paper! Drop in to the Russo Atrium to make table sculptures with paper using a range of techniques. All materials are free, and instructions are provided. For all ages. No experience is necessary.

Join us for Storytime in the Galleries, designed for our youngest visitors. Discover what makes a museum special through stories, art exploration, and hands-on activities. We’ll learn about the kinds of things museums collect, why they matter, and how to look closely at art together. For children ages 4–5 and their adult companions. Space is limited; register for free here.

Gillo Pontecorvo's landmark film vividly recreates a key moment in the tumultuous Algerian struggle for independence from the French in the 1950s.

With its documentary-style immediacy and its vivid depiction of the struggle between oppression and resistance, The Battle of Algiers is one of the most influential and important of all political films. This cinematic tour-de-force is more relevant now than ever—and not just because it is so heavily referenced in Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another. 

It's 1957. French paratroopers inch their way through the labyrinthine byways of the Casbah to zero in on the hideout of the last rebel still free in the city. Flashback three years earlier, as the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN) decides on urban warfare. Thus begin the provocations, assassinations, hair-breadth escapes and reprisals; Algerian women—disguised as chic Europeans—depositing bombs at a sidewalk café, a teen hang-out and an Air France office; and massive, surging crowd scenes unfolding with gripping realism. 

Get more info and tickets here.

Every Sunday, you're invited to join in a mindfulness practice session, including sitting meditation, mindful movements/walking meditation, a brief reading, and sharing. The practices are in the Plum Village tradition of Buddhist Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. All are welcome to join the sessions and no prior registration is required.

Claire Foy and Brendan Gleeson star in this exquisite adaptation of Helen Macdonald's bestselling memoir about channeling grief over her father's death into training a falcon.

As a kid Helen Macdonald (Claire Foy, The Crown) was determined to become a falconer. When her father (Brendan Gleeson) dies and she is knocked sideways by grief, she becomes obsessed with the idea of making her childhood dream a reality. She buys Mabel for £800 on a Scottish quayside and takes her home to Cambridge, embarking on the long, strange business of trying to train this wild and marvelous creature. 

Though the relationship between woman and bird of prey flourishes, it can't erase Helen's grief. The bird turns out to be an avatar of death as well as life. Director Philippa Lowthorpe, working with Emma Donoghue to adapt Helen Macdonald's bestselling memoir, combines lyrical elegance with the tough-mindedness of a Robert Frost poem. Premiering at the Telluride Film Festival, this beautiful film soars, thanks to mesmerizing performances by Foy and her goshawk costar.

Note: MacDonald has come out as nonbinary since the book's publication; the film uses she/her pronouns for the character of Helen.

Get more info and tickets here.

Mindful Dartmouth welcomes monastics from Thich Nhat Hanh's Plum Village Tradition of Engaged Buddhism the week of April 13th-19th for shared mindfulness practice, reflection, and community. The week includes daily practice sessions led by monastics featuring guided meditation, mindful movement, talks, mindful eating, live music, and space for meaningful connection. There is also the opportunity to deepen practice with a 4.5 hr. retreat and 2-day retreat. 

All events are open to the Dartmouth community and the public, unless otherwise posted. No prior meditation experience is required. Full details available here.

A guided meditation led by a Buddhist monastic to develop our capacity to cultivate peace and joy.

This event is part of a week of mindfulness at Dartmouth, including meditation practice, public talks, drop-in events, and retreats with monastics from the Plum Village Tradition of Zen Master, scholar, poet, and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh.

More details and full schedule: PlumVillageatMindfulDartmouth.org

The week is sponsored by Mindful Dartmouth in collaboration with campus partners, including Dartmouth Synergy; the William Jewett Tucker Center for a Spiritual & Ethical Life; the Student Wellness Center; the Office of the President; Wellness at Dartmouth; the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning; the Dartmouth Center for Career Design; the Geisel School of Medicine; the Dartmouth Cancer Center; the Tuck School of Business; Dartmouth Athletics and Recreation; the Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies; the Hopkins Center for the Arts; the Thayer School of Engineering; and the undergraduate House Communities.

On April 13th, Dartmouth will host a Vet Net Ally workshop with Dr. Marshall Thomas, focused on helping faculty and staff better understand, connect with, and support our student veteran community. The session emphasizes practical, everyday ways we can create a campus culture where veterans feel recognized for the strengths, leadership, and lived experiences they bring with them.

Together, we’ll explore what it means to be a “Vet Net Ally,” learn about the transition from military to campus life, and discuss simple, actionable ways to make our classrooms, departments, and offices more welcoming and supportive.

All faculty and staff are welcome- whether you work closely with students or just want to learn more! If you’re interested in attending, you can sign up using this form by March 20th. Please reach out to Morgan Ogreen (morgan.a.b.ogreen@dartmouth.edu) with any questions.

Dartmouth Cancer Center Cancer Population Sciences Special Lecture

Auditorium G, DH

Hosts:  Cancer Population Sciences Research Program and Dr. Brock Christensen

This moderated discussion brings together leaders from across Dartmouth with Buddhist monastics from the Plum Village Tradition to explore what compassionate leadership looks like in practice, why it is beneficial, and how to cultivate our capacity for compassionate leadership with mindfulness practice. A livestream will be available (link to be posted).  Panelists will include Sister True Vow (Blue Cliff Monastery), Sister Huong Nghiem (Deer Park Monastery), Steve Leach (Professor and Interim Dean of Geisel School of Medicine), Jose Alvarez (Professor at Tuck School of Business and former CEO of Stop and Shop), Jennifer Rosales (Senior Vice President for Community and Campus Life, and Chief Student Affairs Officer), and Katie Dowty (Head Coach of Dartmouth Women's Rugby Team). The panel will be moderated by Janice Veronica Williams of The Center for Career Design.

This event is part of a week of mindfulness at Dartmouth, including meditation practice, public talks, drop-in events, and retreats with monastics from the Plum Village Tradition of Zen Master, scholar, poet, and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh.

More details and full schedule: PlumVillageatMindfulDartmouth.org

The week is sponsored by Mindful Dartmouth in collaboration with campus partners, including Dartmouth Synergy; the William Jewett Tucker Center for a Spiritual & Ethical Life; the Student Wellness Center; the Office of the President; Wellness at Dartmouth; the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning; the Dartmouth Center for Career Design; the Geisel School of Medicine; the Dartmouth Cancer Center; the Tuck School of Business; Dartmouth Athletics and Recreation; the Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies; the Hopkins Center for the Arts; the Thayer School of Engineering; and the undergraduate House Communities.

Need help polishing your resume, updating your Linkedin, or getting connected to campus resources? Drop in during PL office hours for one-on-one support tailored to your goals! Every week, starts April 13th

A mindful walk with the community, where we cultivate awareness and enjoyment of walking the contact that we make with the ground.

This event is part of a week of mindfulness at Dartmouth, including meditation practice, public talks, drop-in events, and retreats with monastics from the Plum Village Tradition of Zen Master, scholar, poet, and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh.

More details and full schedule: PlumVillageatMindfulDartmouth.org

The week is sponsored by Mindful Dartmouth in collaboration with campus partners, including Dartmouth Synergy; the William Jewett Tucker Center for a Spiritual & Ethical Life; the Student Wellness Center; the Office of the President; Wellness at Dartmouth; the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning; the Dartmouth Center for Career Design; the Geisel School of Medicine; the Dartmouth Cancer Center; the Tuck School of Business; Dartmouth Athletics and Recreation; the Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies; the Hopkins Center for the Arts; the Thayer School of Engineering; and the undergraduate House Communities.

A guided meditation to relax the body and mind that can be practiced in a lying or seating position. A monastic will guide the relaxation using verbal prompts and singing. A limited number of yoga mats and cushions will be available.

This event is part of a week of mindfulness at Dartmouth, including meditation practice, public talks, drop-in events, and retreats with monastics from the Plum Village Tradition of Zen Master, scholar, poet, and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh.

More details and full schedule: PlumVillageatMindfulDartmouth.org

The week is sponsored by Mindful Dartmouth in collaboration with campus partners, including Dartmouth Synergy; the William Jewett Tucker Center for a Spiritual & Ethical Life; the Student Wellness Center; the Office of the President; Wellness at Dartmouth; the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning; the Dartmouth Center for Career Design; the Geisel School of Medicine; the Dartmouth Cancer Center; the Tuck School of Business; Dartmouth Athletics and Recreation; the Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies; the Hopkins Center for the Arts; the Thayer School of Engineering; and the undergraduate House Communities.

Guided gentle movements to invigorate the mind and body. Meet on Baker Lawn.  In the event of rain, the event will be inside Rollins Chapel.​

This event is part of a week of mindfulness at Dartmouth, including meditation practice, public talks, drop-in events, and retreats with monastics from the Plum Village Tradition of Zen Master, scholar, poet, and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh.

More details and full schedule: PlumVillageatMindfulDartmouth.org

The week is sponsored by Mindful Dartmouth in collaboration with campus partners, including Dartmouth Synergy; the William Jewett Tucker Center for a Spiritual & Ethical Life; the Student Wellness Center; the Office of the President; Wellness at Dartmouth; the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning; the Dartmouth Center for Career Design; the Geisel School of Medicine; the Dartmouth Cancer Center; the Tuck School of Business; Dartmouth Athletics and Recreation; the Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies; the Hopkins Center for the Arts; the Thayer School of Engineering; and the undergraduate House Communities.

A public talk by a Buddhist monastic from the Plum Village tradition that will introduce mindfulness practice and how it can help us to build our capacity for positive impact on ourselves, others, and the world.
 

This event is part of a week of mindfulness at Dartmouth, including meditation practice, public talks, drop-in events, and retreats with monastics from the Plum Village Tradition of Zen Master, scholar, poet, and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh.

More details and full schedule: PlumVillageatMindfulDartmouth.org

The week is sponsored by Mindful Dartmouth in collaboration with campus partners, including Dartmouth Synergy; the William Jewett Tucker Center for a Spiritual & Ethical Life; the Student Wellness Center; the Office of the President; Wellness at Dartmouth; the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning; the Dartmouth Center for Career Design; the Geisel School of Medicine; the Dartmouth Cancer Center; the Tuck School of Business; Dartmouth Athletics and Recreation; the Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies; the Hopkins Center for the Arts; the Thayer School of Engineering; and the undergraduate House Communities.

The early-music icon leads 30 musicians from three continents in a dialogue with the music of Africa, America and the Caribbean.

Renowned Spanish ethnomusicologist Jordi Savall returns to the Hop with his latest project. Songs, Battles and Dances is a sound journey that traces the map of the influences crossed between the old and the new world through a vibrant collection of music spanning Medieval troubadours, Slave Songs from the African diaspora, indigenous melodies and Sephardic prayers.

The viola da gamba virtuoso joins forces with his usual ensembles—La Capella Reial de Catalunya and Hespèrion XXI—and with musicians from Canada, Guadeloupe and Mexico (with the Tembembe Ensamble Continuo). More than 20 musicians come together on a single stage to remind us that music has always been the refuge of oppressed communities. 

Get more info and tickets here.

Guided gentle movements to invigorate the mind and body. Meet on Baker Lawn.  In the event of rain, the event will be inside Rollins Chapel.​

This event is part of a week of mindfulness at Dartmouth, including meditation practice, public talks, drop-in events, and retreats with monastics from the Plum Village Tradition of Zen Master, scholar, poet, and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh.

More details and full schedule: PlumVillageatMindfulDartmouth.org

The week is sponsored by Mindful Dartmouth in collaboration with campus partners, including Dartmouth Synergy; the William Jewett Tucker Center for a Spiritual & Ethical Life; the Student Wellness Center; the Office of the President; Wellness at Dartmouth; the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning; the Dartmouth Center for Career Design; the Geisel School of Medicine; the Dartmouth Cancer Center; the Tuck School of Business; Dartmouth Athletics and Recreation; the Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies; the Hopkins Center for the Arts; the Thayer School of Engineering; and the undergraduate House Communities.

Stop by the First Gen Office and create your own flower bouquet. Take a break, get creative, and leave with something beautiful!

RSVP HERE!

Dartmouth Cancer Cener Grand Rounds

Auditorium E, DH

Hosts:  TEC and Dr. Charles Thomas Jr.

Dr. Soni Lacefield is Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. She is a leading investigator in meiotic cell-cycle regulation and chromosome segregation. Her research focuses on understanding how errors in germ cell division impact fertility, developmental integrity, and tumor initiation.

Dr. Lacefield completed her PhD from MIT and postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University. She is an elected Fellow of the American Society of Cell Biology (ASCB) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and is committed to advancing scientific rigor, mentoring the next generation of scientists, and translating fundamental discoveries in cell biology into insights relevant to women’s reproductive health and cancer.

A guided meditation to relax the body and mind that can be practiced in a lying or seating position. A monastic will guide the relaxation using verbal prompts and singing. A limited number of yoga mats and cushions will be available.
 

This event is part of a week of mindfulness at Dartmouth, including meditation practice, public talks, drop-in events, and retreats with monastics from the Plum Village Tradition of Zen Master, scholar, poet, and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh.

More details and full schedule: PlumVillageatMindfulDartmouth.org

The week is sponsored by Mindful Dartmouth in collaboration with campus partners, including Dartmouth Synergy; the William Jewett Tucker Center for a Spiritual & Ethical Life; the Student Wellness Center; the Office of the President; Wellness at Dartmouth; the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning; the Dartmouth Center for Career Design; the Geisel School of Medicine; the Dartmouth Cancer Center; the Tuck School of Business; Dartmouth Athletics and Recreation; the Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies; the Hopkins Center for the Arts; the Thayer School of Engineering; and the undergraduate House Communities.

On Tuesday, April 14, Dartmouth honors the work and dedication of student employees during the Student Employee Appreciation Festival, which will be from 3pm - 5pm in Collis Common Ground. All attending student employees are eligible for great raffle prizes, including the grand prize $325 gift certificate to the Computer Store!

The event is sponsored by the Student Employment Office, with prizes provided by several college departments. All student employees are invited to attend!

This event will provide a general overview of the Churchill, Fulbright, Keasbey, Marshall, and Rhodes awards. We will describe the application processes, award benefits, and timeline for each of the awards. We will also be lucky to have recent winners in attendance to share their experiences.
Each award has different eligibility requirements and benefits. Read more about each on our website:

• Churchill
• Fulbright ETA
• Fulbright SR
• Keasbey
• Marshall
• Rhodes

Please register ahead of the event on Dartmouth Groups!

This event, hosted by the Marshall Scholarship program, will share information aboyut the scholarship's eligibility requirements, application process (with guidance on each step), and their mission and values. Recent Marshall alumni will also be there to share their personal experiences on living and studying in the UK, academics, daily life abroad, making the most of your experience, and to answer any other questions you may have.
The Marshall Scholarships provide the opportunity to pursue a fully-funded graduate degree in the UK. They are available to applicants in all fields.
Eligibility:

• Must be a US Citizen
• Must have an undergraduate degree
• GPA higher than 3.7

To fully register, you'll need to first register for this Dartmouth Groups event. After doing so, you should immediately have access to the registration for the actual Marshall Scholarship event. You will need to register in both places to be able to attend. If you have any questions, please reach out to us!

Guided gentle movements to invigorate the mind and body. Meet on Baker Lawn.  In the event of rain, the event will be inside Rollins Chapel.​

This event is part of a week of mindfulness at Dartmouth, including meditation practice, public talks, drop-in events, and retreats with monastics from the Plum Village Tradition of Zen Master, scholar, poet, and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh.

More details and full schedule: PlumVillageatMindfulDartmouth.org

The week is sponsored by Mindful Dartmouth in collaboration with campus partners, including Dartmouth Synergy; the William Jewett Tucker Center for a Spiritual & Ethical Life; the Student Wellness Center; the Office of the President; Wellness at Dartmouth; the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning; the Dartmouth Center for Career Design; the Geisel School of Medicine; the Dartmouth Cancer Center; the Tuck School of Business; Dartmouth Athletics and Recreation; the Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies; the Hopkins Center for the Arts; the Thayer School of Engineering; and the undergraduate House Communities.

A mindful walk with the community, where we cultivate awareness and enjoyment of walking the contact that we make with the ground.

Join the Department of English and Creative Writing and the Crossroads Academy 7th grade for "You Come Too": A Robert Frost Celebration on Wednesday, April 15, 2026, at 4 p.m. in Sanborn Library. Bring a favorite Frost poem to recite, or come to listen and enjoy! The event is free and open to the public and will feature Emmy award-winning actor Gordon Clapp. Email english.department@dartmouth.edu with questions or access needs.

The Sanborn Library is located on the first floor of Sanborn House, 19 N. Main Street, Hanover NH. View on campus map.

The Department of Art History will welcome Professor Maria H. Loh, Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ for the 2026 Annual Riley Family Class of 2013 Lecture titled, "Michelangelo in the Valley of the Shadow of Death"

Wednesday, April 15, 4:30pm in Carpenter 13
Reception to follow in Carpenter 106

The Riley Family Class of 2013 Art History Lecture Fund is a true endowment established by a gift from Donald J. and Donna J.G. Riley, Dartmouth Parents '13, and Benjamin M. Riley, Class of 2013. It is designed to support a lecture series organized by the Department of Art History at Dartmouth College.

The Annual Riley Family Class of 2013 Art History Lecture supports the Department of Art History's pre-1850 art and architecture curriculum.

When it comes to student success in college, or the lack thereof, it’s easy to identify deficits in our students. They should learn more in high school, party less in college, and so on. While these deficit models have some truth, we will challenge their validity and explore some logical consequences. Then we will critically analyze a few components of higher education with an intentional avoidance of deficit thinking. The talk will be interactive and accessible to everyone in higher education.

About the Speaker: Nate Brown is a theoretical mathematician committed to equity and inclusion in STEM education. His research has received continuous grant support since 1999. His teaching awards include Penn State’s Eisenhower Award in 2022, while his equity work earned a Robinson Equal Opportunity Award in 2017. He thinks John Lewis was a total badass. (From https://sites.psu.edu/mathnate/).

A discussion of human perception from the neuroscience and Buddhist perspectives presented by Dartmouth Prof. Tor Wager and Zen Buddhist monastic Br. Phap Lu'u. The discussion will be moderated by Dartmouth Prof. Diane Gilbert-Diamond. **A livestream will be available (link to be posted).

This event is part of a week of mindfulness at Dartmouth, including meditation practice, public talks, drop-in events, and retreats with monastics from the Plum Village Tradition of Zen Master, scholar, poet, and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh.

More details and full schedule: PlumVillageatMindfulDartmouth.org

The week is sponsored by Mindful Dartmouth in collaboration with campus partners, including Dartmouth Synergy; the William Jewett Tucker Center for a Spiritual & Ethical Life; the Student Wellness Center; the Office of the President; Wellness at Dartmouth; the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning; the Dartmouth Center for Career Design; the Geisel School of Medicine; the Dartmouth Cancer Center; the Tuck School of Business; Dartmouth Athletics and Recreation; the Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies; the Hopkins Center for the Arts; the Thayer School of Engineering; and the undergraduate House Communities.

Welcome back and welcome home! Come to Common Ground on Wednesday the 15th for a dinner with your First Gen Community! RSVP on Groups!

Join us for a conversation with Ezra Klein, New York Times Opinion Page Columnist, and host of the "Ezra Klein Show," as part of our "Law and Democracy: The United States at 250" speaker series. He will be joined in conversation by Heather Gerken, 11th President of the Ford Foundation and Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law at Yale Law School, moderated by Russ Muirhead, Robert Clements Professor of Democracy and Politics and Co-Director of the Political Economy Project.

Ezra Klein, Heather Gerken, and Russ Muirhead will discuss the state of U.S. democracy, the prospects for what Klein and co-author Derek Thompson call an ‘Abundance Agenda,’ and the future of U.S. politics and policy.

This program is cosponsored by the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy at Dartmouth, the Hopkins Center for the Arts, the Dartmouth Political Union, the Office of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and the Office of the Associate Dean for the Social Sciences.

Registration is required for both in-person and virtual attendance and is available at http://dartgo.org/250klein. No bags, including purses, will be allowed in the auditorium. All in-person attendees will need to be seated in Loew Auditorium by 4:45 p.m. or the seat will be forfeited to individuals on standby.

The livestream link will be shared with virtual registrants ahead of the public program.

Please join the Department of English and Creative Writing for the annual Black Life and Letters Lecture Series in Honor of William Cook featuring Wendy Walters.

Wendy S. Walters is the author of A Dead White: An Argument Against White Paint forthcoming from Scribner; Multiply/Divide: on the American Real and Surreal (Sarabande) and two books of poetry. Her work has received support from Creative Capital; The Architectural League of New York; NYFA; Mass MoCA, and others. For The Metropolitan Museum of Art, she co-curated the exhibition Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast which was called “a masterclass in presenting complicated, troubling art.” She also co-edited the volume Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux's Why Born Enslaved! Reconsidered (Yale). Walters is an associate professor of nonfiction in the Writing Program of the School of the Arts at Columbia University.

William W. Cook was the Israel Evans Professor of Oratory and Belles Lettres Emeritus at Dartmouth College, where he served as chair of the Departments of English and African and African American Studies. A pioneering scholar in Black Studies, Bill brought a wide-ranging integrative approach to literature. This lecture series brings together poets, writers, critics, and scholars to celebrate and promote the scholarship Bill championed at Dartmouth.

“How Did We Get Here? Thoughts on American Painting in the United States”

John R. Stomberg, Virginia Rice Kelsey 1961s Director

Using the collections at the Hood Museum of Art as his primary focus, Stomberg will share thoughts on the endlessly fascinating, and frustratingly elusive, idea of “American” painting. This lecture coincides with the Hood Museum’s presentation of twelve exhibitions inspired by the 250th anniversary of the United States. A reception will follow in Russo Atrium.

In light of recent loss in the Dartmouth community, Zen Buddhist Monastics from the Plum Village tradition will offer an interactive public talk on caring for grief and the strong emotions that can arise.

This event is part of a week of mindfulness at Dartmouth, including meditation practice, public talks, drop-in events, and retreats with monastics from the Plum Village Tradition of Zen Master, scholar, poet, and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh.

More details and full schedule: PlumVillageatMindfulDartmouth.org

The week is sponsored by Mindful Dartmouth in collaboration with campus partners, including Dartmouth Synergy; the William Jewett Tucker Center for a Spiritual & Ethical Life; the Student Wellness Center; the Office of the President; Wellness at Dartmouth; the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning; the Dartmouth Center for Career Design; the Geisel School of Medicine; the Dartmouth Cancer Center; the Tuck School of Business; Dartmouth Athletics and Recreation; the Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies; the Hopkins Center for the Arts; the Thayer School of Engineering; and the undergraduate House Communities.

Music meets storytelling in a blend of Punjabi rhythms, American jazz and collective celebration. A moving call to compassion and connection.

Sunny Jain draws on his South Asian heritage and experience as a second-generation immigrant in America to dive into the concept of "love force"—satyāgraha—embracing your oppressor with compassion. Jain, founder of Red Baraat, brings his signature talent for creating immediate community to theater, blurring the lines between performers and audience. Each element of Love Force is carefully crafted for frequencies, rhythm, and vibrations unleashing a powerful gathering through song and story. Love Force explores the universal nature of music, and how through compassion and love we can break down barriers created by religion, cultural traditions, racism and time. Jain invites us to feel the past in the present and to imagine healing through love.

Get more info and tickets here.

Join Osher at Dartmouth for a musical day with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, featuring Conductor Susanna Mälkki and Pianists Lucas and Arthur Jussen. The performance will include Ravel's Mother Goose Suite, Andrew Norman's New Work for two pianos and orchestra (world premiere; BSO co-commission), and Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances.

We will travel to Boston, departing from Lebanon at 8:15 AM. We will arrive in Boston about two hours before the performance begins at 1:30 PM, leaving time for you to explore on your own! We will leave Boston immediately after the performance and return to Lebanon around 6:30 PM.

Your registration fee includes the cost of transportation and admission to the performance; it does not include meals or other expenses.

Contact us regarding a bus-only registration option.

Join us for the day!

LEARN MORE AND REGISTER

A mindful walk with the community, where we cultivate awareness and enjoyment of walking the contact that we make with the ground.
 

This event is part of a week of mindfulness at Dartmouth, including meditation practice, public talks, drop-in events, and retreats with monastics from the Plum Village Tradition of Zen Master, scholar, poet, and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh.

More details and full schedule: PlumVillageatMindfulDartmouth.org

The week is sponsored by Mindful Dartmouth in collaboration with campus partners, including Dartmouth Synergy; the William Jewett Tucker Center for a Spiritual & Ethical Life; the Student Wellness Center; the Office of the President; Wellness at Dartmouth; the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning; the Dartmouth Center for Career Design; the Geisel School of Medicine; the Dartmouth Cancer Center; the Tuck School of Business; Dartmouth Athletics and Recreation; the Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies; the Hopkins Center for the Arts; the Thayer School of Engineering; and the undergraduate House Communities.

A guided meditation to relax the body and mind that can be practiced in a lying or seating position. A monastic will guide the relaxation using verbal prompts and singing. A limited number of yoga mats and cushions will be available.

This event is part of a week of mindfulness at Dartmouth, including meditation practice, public talks, drop-in events, and retreats with monastics from the Plum Village Tradition of Zen Master, scholar, poet, and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh.

More details and full schedule: PlumVillageatMindfulDartmouth.org

The week is sponsored by Mindful Dartmouth in collaboration with campus partners, including Dartmouth Synergy; the William Jewett Tucker Center for a Spiritual & Ethical Life; the Student Wellness Center; the Office of the President; Wellness at Dartmouth; the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning; the Dartmouth Center for Career Design; the Geisel School of Medicine; the Dartmouth Cancer Center; the Tuck School of Business; Dartmouth Athletics and Recreation; the Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies; the Hopkins Center for the Arts; the Thayer School of Engineering; and the undergraduate House Communities.

Join Belinda Chiu D'98 for a guided embodied practice to cultivate reciprocity with the more than human world.

Based on shinren-yoku (“bathing in the atmosphere of the forest”), this evidence-based experience is a mindful, sensory journey that invites restoration and reconnection. 

No experience necessary. Please wear comfortable clothing, shoes, a water bottle, and something to sit on outside (e.g., cushion, yoga mat).

Register here. Space is limited.
For more information email: Belinda.H.Y.Chiu@dartmouth.edu

Optional ZOOM LINK
Meeting ID: 935 8655 7757
Passcode: 008066

The first quantum revolution brought us the great technological advances of the 20th century—the transistor, the laser, the atomic clock and GPS, the global positioning system. We now realize that this 20th century hardware does not take full advantage of the power of quantum machines. A second quantum revolution is now underway based on our relatively new understanding of how information can be stored, manipulated, and communicated using strange quantum hardware that is neither fully digital nor fully analog.    

This talk will give a gentle introduction to the basic concepts that underlie this quantum information revolution and describe major challenges as well as recent remarkable experimental progress in the race to build quantum machines for computing, sensing and communication.

Hosted by Prof. Mattias Fitzpatrick.

A 4.5-hour mindfulness retreat including guided meditations and contemplative practices to support well-being and our deep connection to ourselves and others.  This retreat is only open to current Dartmouth students, faculty and staff.

Click here to register for this event.

This event is part of a week of mindfulness at Dartmouth, including meditation practice, public talks, drop-in events, and retreats with monastics from the Plum Village Tradition of Zen Master, scholar, poet, and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh.

More details and full schedule: PlumVillageatMindfulDartmouth.org

The week is sponsored by Mindful Dartmouth in collaboration with campus partners, including Dartmouth Synergy; the William Jewett Tucker Center for a Spiritual & Ethical Life; the Student Wellness Center; the Office of the President; Wellness at Dartmouth; the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning; the Dartmouth Center for Career Design; the Geisel School of Medicine; the Dartmouth Cancer Center; the Tuck School of Business; Dartmouth Athletics and Recreation; the Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies; the Hopkins Center for the Arts; the Thayer School of Engineering; and the undergraduate House Communities.

Michael B. Jordan stars in Ryan Coogler's supernatural Blues-infused thriller about twin brothers returning to their hometown. A must-see in Spaulding!

Building on their collaborations on Black Panther and Creed, director Ryan Coogler and star Michael B. Jordan team up again for this supernatural suspense movie, set in the deep South of the 1930s. Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers (Jordan in a dual role) return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back. 

As the brothers navigate a web of deception and danger, their bond is tested as they grapple with their own inner demons and the external threats that seek to tear them apart. Hailee Steinfeld (Marvel's Hawkeye), Jack O'Connell (Ferrari), Wunmi Mosaku (Lovecraft Country), Jayme Lawton (The Woman King) and Delroy Lindo (Da 5 Bloods) round out the cast for this jazz-fueled Southern Gothic mystery thriller.

This event is free and unticketed.

Get more info here.

The Saami Brothers are a highly acclaimed ensemble led by the sons of renowned master Ustad Naseeruddin Saami. Rooted in the 800-year-old Qawal Bachcha Delhi Gharana tradition, they are noted for delivering traditional Sufi devotional music and the use of a rare 49-note microtonal scale. Qawwali music is known for its rhythmic intensity, melodic improvisation, and lively call-and-response structure.

Free and open to the public.

Presented by the Dartmouth Pakistani Students Association. Sponsored by the Dept. of Asian Societies, Cultures & Languages and the Bodas Family South Asia Programming Funds at Dartmouth College, with additional support from the Syke Fund.

Monastics from Thich Nhat Hanh's Plum Village Tradition of Engaged Buddhism will lead this 2-day mindfulness retreat that will include guided meditations, mindful movement, walking meditation, mindful eating, talks, and time for meaningful conversation. This event is open to the general public. Navigate to the registration link on The Dartmouth Mindfulness Week website. Early registration suggested as space is limited. Register by April 14th 6:00 PM to receive the included vegan lunch on both days. Attendance on both days is highly encouraged. 

A 2-day mindfulness retreat including guided meditations and contemplative practices to support well-being and collectively cultivate our understanding of and compassion for ourselves, others, and the world. Open to all.

Click here to register for this event.

This event is part of a week of mindfulness at Dartmouth, including meditation practice, public talks, drop-in events, and retreats with monastics from the Plum Village Tradition of Zen Master, scholar, poet, and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh.

More details and full schedule: PlumVillageatMindfulDartmouth.org

The week is sponsored by Mindful Dartmouth in collaboration with campus partners, including Dartmouth Synergy; the William Jewett Tucker Center for a Spiritual & Ethical Life; the Student Wellness Center; the Office of the President; Wellness at Dartmouth; the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning; the Dartmouth Center for Career Design; the Geisel School of Medicine; the Dartmouth Cancer Center; the Tuck School of Business; Dartmouth Athletics and Recreation; the Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies; the Hopkins Center for the Arts; the Thayer School of Engineering; and the undergraduate House Communities.

Wholesome, Heartfelt, Hilarious!

Come and enjoy a funny, fast-paced and highly interactive variety show which delights the young and the young at heart. You will meet several larger-than-life, hand-crafted puppets. Perhaps you'll meet a goofy moose, a heroic tiger or a lovable bear. Maybe a dancing robot or flamingo, an adorable mouse, a stubborn goat, a shy dragon, or a singing dinosaur. Discover who will join us this time!

Lindsay Aucella has been performing full-time since 2011, presenting to several thousand children each year. Through animated storytelling and thoughtful messaging, she hopes to inspire creative play, resilience and empathy in even the youngest. She also believes shared joy and laughter strengthen communities.

This program is a great fit for ages 3-8 and families.

This event is free and unticketed.

Get more info here.

The Dartmouth Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life marks the anniversary of this groundbreaking film's release with Academy-Award nominated actress Wunmi Mosaku, blues music and dance performance.

Breaking the all-time record with its 16 Academy Award nominations, Ryan Coogler's Sinners is a film that speaks to both the historical legacy of racism and our current moment where Black artists struggle to be properly recognized and compensated for their work. Reflecting this central theme of the film, Coogler negotiated a landmark deal with Warner Brothers that ensures that in 25 years, ownership of the film will return to him. The horror elements and captivating soundtrack make for an entertaining film that requires repeated viewings in order to fully process all of the complex ideas and rich details contained within. The film ultimately took home four Academy Awards, including Best Actor (Michael B. Jordan), Best Original Screenplay (Ryan Coogler), Best Cinematography (Autumn Durald Arkapaw) and Best Original Score (Ludwig Göransson).

Actress Wunmi Mosaku, Academy Award nominee for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Sinners, will join Professor Iyabo Kwayana and Professor Michael Boyce Gillespie in conversation about creating her layered, powerful character and what it's like working on a historically-grounded film with a unique genre blend.

This celebration also includes performances by Mississippi blues "The Steve L. Johnson Band" led by musician Steven Johnson—the grandson of Robert Johnson, who inspired the character of Preacher Boy Sammy in Ryan Coogler's film, as well as Eden Brooklyn Dance Theater.

This event is hosted by the Dartmouth Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life in collaboration with Hopkins Center Film, screening Sinners on April 17 in Spaulding.

This event is free and unticketed.

Get more info here.

The complete sequencing of the human genome some 20 years ago has unleashed a wealth of information and new technologies that have revolutionized healthcare as well as our understanding of the history of the human race. But with new knowledge comes both opportunity and risks. Together, we will survey the benefits and discuss the ethical issues that have arisen from this great enterprise.

Note: This course is part of Osher's "A Little of This and That" series. We’ve gathered some of our finest Study Leaders from across the fields of science, religion, culture, literature, music, and hands-on crafting. If you’ve never taken an Osher class, try us out and discover what makes the Osher experience so rewarding. If you’re already a member, this is a perfect opportunity to explore new ideas, reconnect with friends, and continue to challenge and delight your mind.

We look forward to seeing you this spring.

COST:

$10 per Osher member
$15 per non-member

REGISTER
 

The glorious, forbidding Moroccan desert and techno music provide the backdrop for a father looking for his missing daughter in this Oscar nominee for Best International Feature.

A father (Sergi López) and his son arrive at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco. They are searching for Mar—daughter and sister—who vanished months ago at one of these endless, sleepless parties. Surrounded by electronic music and a raw, unfamiliar sense of freedom, they hand out her photo again and again. Hope is fading, but they push through and follow a group of ravers heading to one last party in the desert. The natural hazards of the unforgiving (but cinematically majestic) wasteland run in counterpoint with man-made dangers as something like World War III unfolds in the background. 

Although this desert thriller will bring Mad Max and John Ford's Westerns to mind, the film's undercurrent of desperation and emotional shocks carry the audience on an existential journey. Named after the razor-thin bridge that, in Islam, is said to pass over hell en route to paradise, Sirât is a visually stunning, emotionally charged tale. Winner of the Jury Prize in Cannes, French-born Galician director Oliver Laxe's fourth feature sealed his place as one of the new masters of cinema in the world.

Academy Award nominee for Best International Feature

Get more info and tickets here.

Flow through a range of styles and moods with original jazz works, stunning improvisations and new takes on the American Songbook.

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, percussionist and multi-instrumentalist Tyshawn Sorey is one of the most visionary artists of his generation—known for a practice that defies category and a sound that reshapes the possibilities of improvisation.

Joined by longtime collaborators Aaron Diehl on the piano and Harish Raghavan on bass, Sorey blends rigorous structure with boundless spontaneity, drawing on everything from 20th-century classical to post-bop, minimalism to free jazz.

Get more info and tickets here.

Flow through a range of styles and moods with original jazz works, stunning improvisations and new takes on the American Songbook.

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, percussionist and multi-instrumentalist Tyshawn Sorey is one of the most visionary artists of his generation—known for a practice that defies category and a sound that reshapes the possibilities of improvisation.

Joined by longtime collaborators Aaron Diehl on the piano and Harish Raghavan on bass, Sorey blends rigorous structure with boundless spontaneity, drawing on everything from 20th-century classical to post-bop, minimalism to free jazz.

Get more info and tickets here.

Each week, after introductions, we will sit for 25 minutes of guided meditation followed by 
discussion. Feel free to leave at 8:30 after the meditation or stay for the 
discussion. Open to students, staff, faculty and community members. No 
experience needed.

 This counts as WE credit for students enrolled in a WE Tucker or WE SWC course.

Sponsors: Student Wellness Center, Tucker Center, & Wellness @ Dartmouth.

Questions? Contact the Tucker Center at: tucker.center@dartmouth.edu. 

This event will provide a general overview of the Churchill, Fulbright, Keasbey, Marshall, and Rhodes awards. We will describe the application processes, award benefits, and timeline for each of the awards. We will also be lucky to have recent winners in attendance to share their experiences.
Each award has different eligibility requirements and benefits. We recommend that if you are interested, you read more about each on our website:

• Churchill
• Fulbright ETA
• Fulbright SR
• Keasbey
• Marshall
• Rhodes

Please register on Dartmouth Groups!

SURFD is hosting Dartmouth's very first Undergraduate Research Week from April 20-24, 2026. This celebration of curiosity, creativity, and academic achievement will showcase the innovative research students are conducting across disciplines and will recognize the dedication and mentorship that supports this work.

Stop by on your way through the library to grab snacks and swag, and test your knowledge with “Guess That Researcher.” Winners will be entered into a $200 cash prize raffle, announced at the end of the week. You can also visit our thank-you card station to write a note of appreciation to a mentor who has supported your research journey.

Most importantly, come discover how you can get involved in research at Dartmouth!

Jordan Stump's translation of Marie Ndiaye’s novel The Witch, first published in French in 1996, was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2026. Join us for a conversation between translator and writer. 

12:30 - 2:00 pm. 

Haldeman 246 (lunch will be served). 

Limited complimentary copies of The Witch are available by contacting roger.arnold@dartmouth.edu after April 7. 

Open to students, faculty, & staff

Take time for yourself and set the tone for the week ahead with this 30-minute mindfulness session where you will learn and practice with friends in a laid back, compassionate community—open to everyone. Absolutely no pressure and plenty of support for all levels!

Most Mondays of the term on Zoom.

RSVP in Dartmouth Groups to get a reminder!

• April 6
• April 13 No Session - Plum Village Monastics Events this week
• April 20
• April 27
• May 4
• May 11
• May 18
• May 25 No Session - Memorial Day Holiday
• June 1

SURFD is hosting Dartmouth's very first Undergraduate Research Week from April 20-24, 2026. This celebration of curiosity, creativity, and academic achievement will showcase the innovative research students are conducting across disciplines and will recognize the dedication and mentorship that supports this work.

Dating back to the Ottoman Empire and 17th-century European, coffeehouses have historically served as spaces for intellectual exchange, breaking through social barriers. With the URW research coffeehouses, we aim to bring together students who are ready to ramp up their research and those who have designed their own research projects before.

How it works: Mentees sign up on our website to meet with one of our wonderful mentors in coffee spots on and around campus. At the appointed time and location, a SURFD staff member will make introductions and purchase coffee or tea for participants. Bring your questions about research, designing projects, and connecting with faculty mentors.

A form with the list of mentors, times, and locations will be posted during the first week of spring term.

Time commitment: 1 hour

All participants will receive an entry into the cash prize raffle at the end of the week.

Yoga for EveryBODY: All-Levels Slow Flow Yoga Classes

Taught by Natasha Goodwin

The first thing to know about yoga is that it is truly for everyBODY. Whether you're just beginning or rediscovering your practice, Yoga for EveryBODY will be helpful for anyone who wants to bring greater mobility, strength, and peace to their bodies and minds.

These classes aim to create a space that feels comfortable, safe and accepting for ALL bodies. We'll explore a range of yoga traditions, breathing techniques and all-levels mindful-movement practices to help discover a sense of comfort, love, and resilience in our body-mind. All are welcome.  

Note: Please plan to wear comfortable clothing. It is helpful if you are able to move from the floor to standing with some comfort. 
 

Click on the Date to RSVP in Dartmouth Groups. Space is limited by our location.

• March 31
• April 7
• April 14 - No class, Plum Village Mindfulness Week
• April 21
• April 28
• May 5
• May 12
• May 19
• May 26
• June 2

Join us on April 21st from 5:30 to 6:30 PM in Haldeman 246 for a conversation in French with acclaimed French author Marie NDiaye,as she discusses her literary journey and her latest book, Le Bon Denis.

Join us for a weekly meditation session at the Student Wellness Center. This is a space to slow down, reconnect, and practice being present with your experience—just as it is.

Whether you’re new to meditation or have an established practice, all are welcome. Each session includes guided meditation and time to sit quietly together in a supportive, easygoing environment.

Open to students, staff, and faculty.

RSVP in Dartmouth Groups

• April 21
• April 28
• May 5
• May 12
• May 19
• May 26
• June 2

Join us for the inagural Dartmouth Climate Week! From April 22–29, campus will come together for a dynamic week of vital conversations, research, and calls to action showcasing the breadth of climate work across Dartmouth. Featuring climate activits, student and faculty research, alumni in climate careers, and a keynote from Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, the week highlights Dartmouth’s leadership and our shared commitment to climate resilience. See the full schedule of events here!

Join the Native American Program, Office of Community and Campus Life, Office of Outdoor Programs, Dartmouth Climate Collaborative, and the Pine Park Association for an interactive fun run or walk in Pine Park.

Featuring Rising Hearts founder Jordan Marie Brings Three White Horses Whetstone, the event will begin at 1pm in front of the DOC House with a blessing and grounding on our responsibility and relationship to the land. Participants are then invited to engage with Pine Park and featured stations while running or walking along an accessible pathway.

SURFD is hosting Dartmouth's very first Undergraduate Research Week from April 20-24, 2026. This celebration of curiosity, creativity, and academic achievement will showcase the innovative research students are conducting across disciplines and will recognize the dedication and mentorship that supports this work.

Join us to share your work in progress. Are you working on a senior thesis? Conceptualizing an art project? Presenting your science research at the Wetterhahn Symposium on May 27?

Sign up to give us your "elevator pitch!" You will have 90 seconds to talk about your work in progress - with a focus on being concise. Your peers will have a minute to offer feedback.

We know presentations can be daunting - that's why it's nice to have a safe place to practice and get pointers for how to communicate your research! 

Each participant will receive an entry into the cash prize raffle at the end of the week.

This event is co-hosted by DURA (Dartmouth Undergraduate Research Association).

Study after study reveals what any woman in the humanities academia already knows: sexism thrives here. From its upper echelons, where men are hired more often into tenure track jobs and given prestigious named chairs at higher rates, to lower ranks, where women disproportionately fill poorly paid contingent instructor roles, disparities play out in everything from course evaluations to salaries. Drawing on her recent book on sexism within Islamic Studies, Kecia Ali focuses on research-related discrimination: whose work is cited, by whom, in what ways? Although some of her findings apply most clearly to faculty who study Islam and Muslims, many apply to the contemporary academy at large.

Join the Native American Program, Office of Community and Campus Life, Office of Outdoor Programs, Dartmouth Climate Collaborative, and the Pine Park Association for a film screening from Rising Hearts Stories. The short films will be shown at Filene Auditorium in Moore Hall followed by an audience Q&A featuring Jordan Whetstone and Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Lydia Jennings, who is featured in one of the films. 

Late works by Beethoven, Schumann and Brahms.

In this program, Pinkas explores the later fruits of three magnificent composers. Beethoven's Sonata Op. 110, Schumann's Gesänge der Frühe and Brahms Intermezzi Op. 118 are distillations of wisdom, experience, joy and perhaps sorrow: a celebration of a rich life lived in music.

Get more info and tickets here.

SURFD is hosting Dartmouth's very first Undergraduate Research Week from April 20-24, 2026. This celebration of curiosity, creativity, and academic achievement will showcase the innovative research students are conducting across disciplines and will recognize the dedication and mentorship that supports this work.

This self-paced scavenger hunt will take you to five research hubs on campus (here's the map). Snap a picture of yourself doing the following:

• Standing with a blooming plant at the Life Sciences Center Greenhouse
• Giving a thumbs-up at the Visual Arts Digital Lab at the Black Visual Arts Center
• Pointing to the latest public exhibit at Rauner Library
• Making a heart with your hands near the penguin lamp at the Jones Media Center front desk (he's their mascot!)
• Posing in front of a poster at the Climate Week Student Poster Session in the ECSC Atrium (only April 23, 2-4PM)

Make sure to use the hashtag #DartmouthURW2026 to be entered into the cash prize raffle at the end of Undergraduate Research Week! Want TWO entries? Make sure you're wearing Dartmouth branded clothing or a piece of flare in your photos.

Don't have social media? No problem! A Google form will be opened on Monday, April 20, at 8:30AM, for you to upload your pictures.

IMPORTANT:

• The scavenger hunt officially ends at 9:00PM on Thursday, April 24. No late entries will be accepted.
• Please check the hours of the locations listed above, as some have restricted public access times.

Explore the breadth of climate work happening across campus at this community-wide poster session. From student projects to faculty research and creative scholarship, this event highlights the many ways Dartmouth is engaging with climate challenges. Open to presenters and attendees alike, it’s an opportunity to connect and learn. Register to present here. This event is part of the inaugural Dartmouth Climate Week sponsored by the Dartmouth Climate Collaborative and numerous campus partners. Light refreshments will be provided.

* Kenneth Bernier - Bezanilla Lab, Biology * Adwaita Bose - Shoemaker Lab, Biochem/Cell Biology

Juliet Schor is an American economist and Sociology Professor at Boston College.[1] She has studied trends in working time, consumerism, the relationship between work and family, women's issues and economic inequality, and concerns about climate change in the environment.  Visit the Ethics Institute website to learn more.

An Oscar Nominee for Best International Feature, this gripping docudrama follows emergency volunteers attempting to rescue a five-year-old girl trapped under fire in Gaza.

January 29, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A five-year-old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her. Her name was Hind Rajab.

Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania spares the audience the visual horrors, instead focusing the action on the dispatch center. As with her previous documentary-drama hybrid Four Daughters, she blends the actual phone recordings, which went viral several weeks after this incident, with dramatizations of the emergency workers racing against time to coordinate paramedics who could save her.

Despite taking home the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival (after a 22-minute standing ovation) and earning an Oscar nomination for Best International Feature, the film has received criticism for Ben Hania's blend of fiction and nonfiction, which she "sets in daring oil-and-water opposition" (The New Yorker). Depending on your perspective, the film exploits the tragedy for a control-room thriller or dilutes the raw power of the real story with melodrama. But even taking this criticism into account, the director raises a question worth exploring: whether a blend like this is necessary for the full truth of this heartbreaking story to sink in.

Programmed as part of the Dartmouth Film Society series "Borders and Belonging" in collaboration with Professor Mimi Thi Nguyen's class "War and Visual Culture"

Get more info and tickets here.

The Irving Institute Class of 1972 Lecture Series presents a Fireside Chat on AI & Energy. 

Featuring: Adrian Anderson, Senior Vice President for Global Energy at Equinix, one of the world’s largest data center companies
Moderated by: Miranda Ballentine, Distinguished Industry Fellow, Irving Institute

Register for the Fireside Chat livestream

The discussion is a featured session of The Future of the Energy Industry Conference, hosted by the Revers Center for Energy, Sustainability & Innovation at the Tuck School of Business in partnership with the Irving Institute for Energy and Society.

Please note that only the Fireside Chat will be livestreamed. The full conference is an in-person event. 

Mental health ranks consistently as one of the highest reasons why students request accommodations. In this session, we’ll explore strategies for co-creating classroom spaces where students with anxiety feel supported to engage in the good struggle of learning. Participants will leave with concrete strategies and resources.

Register for Teaching Students with Anxiety

A forgotten dance that bridges generations, defies gender norms and pulses with life.

In Save the Last Dance for Me, Italian creative artist Alessandro Sciarroni revives the Polka Chinata—a nearly extinct courtship dance performed exclusively by men in villages near Bologna beginning in the early 20th century.

The piece was created in collaboration with Giancarlo Stagni, a Filuzziani dance master who rediscovered the form through archival footage from the 1960s. When Sciarroni encountered the dance in December 2018, it was practiced by only five people in all of Italy.

These performances by dancers Gianmaria Borzillo and Giovanfrancesco Giannini will be followed by workshops designed to share and revive this vibrant popular tradition on the verge of extinction.

Sciarroni is perhaps the most intriguing performative artist currently active in Italy. His enormously varied body of work addresses issues around personal and communitarian identity through the reconfiguration of performing practices that are often far from what is conventionally thought of as dance. Preferring to characterize himself as a creative artist rather than as a choreographer or dancer, Sciarroni was nevertheless awarded the Golden Lion Prize for Lifetime Achievement by the Venice Biennale of Dance in 2019.

Get more info and tickets here.

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Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are potent mediators of intercellular communication, yet their stable integration into biomaterials has remained a persistent challenge. In this seminar, I describe a framework for designing injectable, supramolecular hydrogels crosslinked by EVs, as well as the key material design principles that make this possible. Using scalable, agriculturally sourced EVs as a model system, I show how precise polymer engineering unlocks robust, tunable gel formation across multiple EV sources, from microbial to mammalian cell-derived nanovesicles. Intriguingly, yogurt-derived EV hydrogels are intrinsically bioactive, with in vivo implantation driving spontaneous angiogenesis and recruiting a distinct immune niche without requiring any additional biological payload, and highlighting a potential application in wound healing and regeneration. I will also present new findings on the functionality of EV hydrogel-induced vasculature and a more detailed picture of the immune landscape that emerges—pointing toward a possible crosstalk between immunity and vascular remodeling that may be central to how these materials instruct tissue repair.

Hosted by Professor Katie Hixon.

SURFD is hosting Dartmouth's very first Undergraduate Research Week from April 20-24, 2026. This celebration of curiosity, creativity, and academic achievement will showcase the innovative research students are conducting across disciplines and will recognize the dedication and mentorship that supports this work.

Come see the incredible videos created by Dartmouth students through the MAD (Made At Dartmouth) Research video competition! Support your friends, enjoy some popcorn, and vote for the People's Choice Award!

Are you interested in submitting your own video into the competition? 

The deadline to submit is 11:59 PM on Wednesday, April 15th. Check out the website for eligibility, rules and regulations! 

For more information, contact: alexis.l.jablonski@dartmouth.edu

A forgotten dance that bridges generations, defies gender norms and pulses with life.

In Save the Last Dance for Me, Italian creative artist Alessandro Sciarroni revives the Polka Chinata—a nearly extinct courtship dance performed exclusively by men in villages near Bologna beginning in the early 20th century.

The piece was created in collaboration with Giancarlo Stagni, a Filuzziani dance master who rediscovered the form through archival footage from the 1960s. When Sciarroni encountered the dance in December 2018, it was practiced by only five people in all of Italy.

These performances by dancers Gianmaria Borzillo and Giovanfrancesco Giannini will be followed by workshops designed to share and revive this vibrant popular tradition on the verge of extinction.

Sciarroni is perhaps the most intriguing performative artist currently active in Italy. His enormously varied body of work addresses issues around personal and communitarian identity through the reconfiguration of performing practices that are often far from what is conventionally thought of as dance. Preferring to characterize himself as a creative artist rather than as a choreographer or dancer, Sciarroni was nevertheless awarded the Golden Lion Prize for Lifetime Achievement by the Venice Biennale of Dance in 2019.

Get more info and tickets here.

Of all the figures in the Bible, David is arguably the most complicated and enigmatic. A warrior, a king, a poet, a servant of God, he is also a schemer, a deceiver, and an adulterer. His life and place in the Bible have inspired multiple and sometimes contradictory interpretations. In this class we will begin with an overview of David’s rise to power and then read closely sections of 2 Samuel (chapters 11-19) that describe his fall from power and finally observe some of the Biblical authors’ own perplexities about David as a leader of Israel.

No Bibles are necessary. The relevant text from 2 Samuel will be provided in class.

Note: This course is part of Osher's "A Little of This and That" series. We’ve gathered some of our finest Study Leaders from across the fields of science, religion, culture, literature, music, and hands-on crafting. If you’ve never taken an Osher class, try us out and discover what makes the Osher experience so rewarding. If you’re already a member, this is a perfect opportunity to explore new ideas, reconnect with friends, and continue to challenge and delight your mind.

We look forward to seeing you this spring.

COST:

$10 per Osher member
$15 per non-member

REGISTER

Two jazz legends. One unforgettable evening.

Vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater and pianist Bill Charlap—each a towering figure in American jazz—join forces for a night of intimate, electrifying music-making.

A three-time Grammy winner and NEA Jazz Master, Bridgewater brings her unmistakable voice, theatrical flair and fearless spirit to every note. Charlap, one of the most sensitive and swinging pianists of his generation, is celebrated for his deep knowledge of the Great American Songbook.

The duo will interpret classics by iconic composers such as Ellington, Porter, Sondheim and more—reimagining each song with warmth, wit, and soul.

Part of Dartmouth's celebration of America's 250th anniversary 

Get more info and tickets here.

Join us for a conversation with Mimi Rocah, former District Attorney for Westchester County, New York, Adjunct Professor of Law, Fordham School of Law; Joyce White Vance, former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, Distinguished Professor of the Practice of Law, Alabama Law; and Dahlia Lithwick, contributing analyst at MSNBC and Senior Editor at Slate Magazine .This program is part of the Rockefeller Center's "Law and Democracy: The United States at 250" speaker series, and is presented as the 2025-26 Roger S. Aaron '64 Lecture. Established in honor of Roger S. Aaron '64, Esq in October 1996 from gifts from the Dartmouth Lawyers Association, this fund falls under the larger Daniel Webster Fund umbrella and supports the study of the role of law and justice, ethics and public policy in the lives of individuals and society.

The conversation will be moderated by Professor Anna Mahoney, Executive Director of the Rockefeller Center, and Professor Julie Kalish.

This program is cosponsored by the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy at Dartmouth, The Dartmouth Institute, Ethics Institute, the Government Department, Dartmouth Dialogues, the Office of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and the Office of the Associate Dean for the Social Sciences.

Registration is highly encouraged and is available at http://dartgo.org/250wil. 

Livestream will be available at http://dartgo.org/250willive.

Join the Climate Collaborative for a conversation with Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson moderated by Earth Sciences Professor, Erich Osterberg. Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson is a marine biologist, policy expert, writer, and teacher working to help create the best possible climate future. She is co-founder of Urban Ocean Lab, a think tank for the future of coastal cities, and is the Roux Distinguished Scholar at Bowdoin College. Ayana authored The New York Times bestseller What If We Get it Right?: Visions of Climate Futures, work that is carried on with her newsletter and podcast of the same name. Previously, she co-edited the bestselling anthology All We Can Save, co-created and co-­hosted the Spotify/Gimlet podcast How to Save a Planet, and co-­authored the Blue New Deal, a roadmap for including the ocean in climate policy. Ayana earned a BA in environmental science and public policy from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in marine biology from Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She serves on the board of directors for Patagonia and GreenWave, and on the advisory board of Environmental Voter Project. Above all: Ayana is in love with climate solutions.

 Event is unticketed and open to the public. This event is part of Dartmouth Climate Week, see the full schedule here!

Join the Climate Collaborative for a "Longest Table" style community potluck dinner in the Fairchild Atrium to celebrate community and climate resilience. A base meal will be provided, please bring homemade sides and desserts! Registration is encouraged though not required. This event in part of Dartmouth Climate Week. See the full schedule here!

Dartmouth Cancer Center Grand Rounds

Auditorium E DH

Hosts:  ICI and Dr. Mary Jo Turk

Beginning in the 1970s, women of the decolonizing world offered new visions of liberation that centered the ideas and lives of women. Galvanized by International Women’s Year in 1975 and the UN’s Decade of Women, Third World women developed novel ideas of equality and self- determination, building a new internationalism in opposition to neocolonialism and postcolonial authoritarianism. In The Future That Was, feminist historian Durba Mitra offers a pathbreaking account of how these women wrote Third World feminism into being, catalyzing a momentous expansion of knowledge about women, gender, and sexuality that transformed emancipatory politics across the globe.

Mitra shows how women from former colonies in South Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, and beyond envisioned a radically just world—and did so by insisting that research on the world’s women lay at the heart of debates about global inequality, development, and human rights. Women gathered at international conferences, wrote reports on the dangers facing women, and took to the streets in protest, building a world of knowledge that contested the devastating effects of patriarchy and colonialism. Yet, despite hundreds of laws, institutions, and publications created through the efforts of these women, the future they imagined was never fully realized. The Future That Was transforms the story of decolonization and its aftermath through the history and ideas of women. By excavating these vital pasts, Mitra shows how we might envision a future of our own that is freer than the present.

Connect with fellow entrepreneurs: founders and innovators, builders or early-stage employees, inventors, or acquirers of businesses.

Our coffees are designed to foster collaboration and conversation across the entrepreneurship ecosystem.

Open to all: students cross-campus, alumni, and members of the broader entrepreneurship ecosystem community!

Register for the Monthly Coffee here!

This panel will feature recent Fulbright ETA winners Zara Kiger, Eliza Dunn, Nina Sloan, and Sasha Usher. They will be sharing their experiences with the Fulbright ETA. There will also be opportunity for direct questions from attendees about their experiences.
The Fulbright website has a comprehensive list of the countries and awards available to apply for.
Eligibility:

• Must be a US Citizen or National
• Must have an undergraduate degree by the start of the program
• Must meet all eligibility requirements of the specific country/award

Please register on Dartmouth Groups!

April 28, 2026
Carson L01
4:30 pm
Free and open to the public.
Cathy Caruth, Cornell University

Falling Stories

      This talk takes as its starting point the retelling of the story of humankind’s Fall in Milton’s Paradise Lost and focuses on Eve’s dream of falling at its center. Reflecting on the entanglement of Satanic and human stories in this dream and its larger relation to the poem, I ask: what does it mean to tell the story of a fall, who can tell it, and whose story is it? Why do the Biblical story and its theological and philological refigurings first meet in a dream? How does this dream of falling reflect on the larger tradition of the Fall? And what does the entanglement of dreaming, falling and waking in Eve’s dream suggest about the narrative and philosophical questions raised by falling stories?

Cathy Caruth is Class of 1916 Professor at Cornell University and teaches in Comparative Literature and Literatures in English. Her books include, among others,Unclaimed Experience: Trauma and the Possibility of History; and Literature in the Ashes of History. She has also edited multiple collections, including Trauma: Explorations in Memory and Listening to Trauma: Conversations with Leaders in the Theory and Treatment of Catastrophic Experience. She helped create the “NIA Project” Archive with her Dr. Nadine Kaslow (a collection of interviews with battered women in Atlanta), and with Professor Laurent Dubreuil has established the “Ape Testimony Archive” at Cornell (a series of interviews with scientists and others who have worked and lived with bonobos and chimps); she is currently involved in an experimental project on language, art and testimony in bonobos. The lecture today is the second in a series on Eve’s Dream in Paradise Lost.

Join us as Professors Cisco and Pena explore themes of desire, space & aesthetics in film.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:

Anaiis Cisco is an award-winning filmmaker and assistant professor of moving image production. Cisco develops narratives that explore the emotional and internal journeys of Black and queer characters, navigating complex story worlds. Her works have screened at numerous festivals and won an array of awards including a 2018 Princess Grace Award, a 2021 Finalist Award in Film for the Mass Cultural Council, and a 2021-2022 Mellon Faculty of Color Working Group fellowship.

Mary Pena is a Mellon Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Dartmouth College. Pena’s work explores intersections of race and gender, visual and material culture, urban ecology, embodiment, and Afro-diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean. Her current book project examines the politics and aesthetics of spatial change in Puerto Plata, an Atlantic port city in the Dominican Republic. From 2022–25, Pena co-curated a three-part exhibition series centered on land, space, and aesthetics in relation to Afrolatinidad and served on the curatorial team for Coastal Relations: Enacting Diaspora at the Avery Research Center. Their publications have appeared in Fieldsights on Cultural Anthropology, entanglements, Open Cultural Studies, Absinthe Journal, and the edited volume Gender: Space.

Join us for a conversation with Stephen Macedo, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, and Frances Lee, Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. This program is part of the Rockefeller Center's "Law and Democracy: The United States at 250" speaker series.

The conversation will be moderated by Herschel Nachlis, Senior Associate Director and Senior Policy Fellow, Rockefeller Center and Research Assistant Professor of Government, and Brendan Nyhan, James O. Freedman Presidential Professor, Department of Government.

This program is cosponsored by the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy at Dartmouth, The Dartmouth Institute, Ethics Institute, the Government Department, Dartmouth Dialogues, the Office of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and the Office of the Associate Dean for the Social Sciences.

Registration is highly encouraged and is available at http://dartgo.org/250macedolee.

Livestream will be available at http://dartgo.org/250macedoleelive.

An immersive listening experience of selections from this newly imagined Shakespeare audio production, followed by a conversation with the artists.

Making its World Premiere at the 2025 Tribeca Festival and featured on Apple Podcasts, MakeBelieve's revelatory new take on Shakespeare's iconic tragedy drops you inside the fractured mind of the prince. Produced and directed by Jeremy McCarter and with breathtaking binaural sound design by Tony-Award winner Mikhail "Misha" Fiksel, this is Hamlet as you've never heard it before. Read more about this production in Jeremy McCarter's essay in The New York Times.

Sharon Washington '81 (who portrays Gertrude) will join actor Daniel Kyri (Hamlet), director Jeremy McCarter and producer Emilia LaPenta in a conversation about bringing the classics to life in the 21st century.

The audio experience and conversation in the Roth Studio Theater will be followed by a reception in Top of the Hop.

Get more info and tickets here.

Free copies of the book will be available on a first come, first served basis.

Occupational licensing boards are designed to ensure standards of hygiene, competency, and professional ethics.Too often, they protect insiders from competition and give cronyistic treatment to unethical conduct. And, they have expanded enormously in recent decades, greatly enlarging their footprint on the American economy. What is the best way forward on occupational licensing? Free copies of her book for the first 20 undergraduate students in attendance.

Join us as doctoral student and writer Channelle Chevelle Russell argues the need for a contemporary theory of Black Feminist Aesthetics at the limits of form, narrative, and visuality

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Join Osher at Dartmouth in welcoming author Steven Ujifusa, who will discuss the story and themes of his book, The Last Ships From Hamburg, a propulsive human drama that chronicles the mass exodus of Jews from Eastern Europe to America in the early years of the twentieth century, and the men who made it possible.

Over thirty years, from 1890 to 1921, 2.5 million Jews, fleeing discrimination and violence in their homelands of Eastern Europe, arrived in the United States. Many sailed on steamships from Hamburg. Moving from the shtetls of Russia and the ports of Hamburg to the mansions of New York’s Upper East Side and the picket lines outside of the notorious Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, The Last Ships from Hamburg is a history that unfolds on both an intimate and epic scale. Meticulously researched, masterfully told, Ujifusa’s story offers original insight into the American experience, connecting banking, shipping, politics, immigration, nativism, anti-semitism, and war—and delivers crucial insights into American Jewish identity and the current immigration debate. 

Steven Ujifusa writes about American social and business history. His third book, The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia's Jews on the Eve of World War I, tells the story of Eastern European Jewish immigration to America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was released by HarperCollins on November 21, 2023, and named by Publishers Weekly as one of the best books of the year, and is a finalist for the Athenaeum of Philadelphia's Literary Award. 
 
His second book, Barons of the Sea: And Their Race to Build the World's Fastest Clipper Ship, tells the saga of the great 19th century American clipper ships and the Yankee merchant dynasties they created. In 2012, The Wall Street Journal named his first book, A Man and His Ship: America's Greatest Naval Architect and His Quest to Build the SS United States (Simon & Schuster), as one of the 10 best nonfiction books of the year.  

Steven is the recipient of the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence from the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York, a MacDowell artist residency, and the Athenaeum of Philadelphia's Literary Award for Non-Fiction. He has appeared on National Public Radio, CBS Sunday Morning, and numerous other media outlets. A native of New York City and raised in Chappaqua, New York, Steven received his undergraduate degree in history from Harvard University and a joint masters in historic preservation and real estate development from the University of Pennsylvania.  

His fourth book, The Age of Traction: The Rise and Fall of the Electric Streetcar, will be published by Grove Press. 
 
Steven resides in Philadelphia with his wife Alexandra (an emergency room pediatrician) and two sons. 

Cost:
$10 per Osher at Dartmouth member
$15 per non-member

REGISTER

A Seat at the Table

Emeline Moss ’26, Erbe Intern

A Seat at the Table explores the different meanings of the table through a selection of 20th-century artworks from the Hood Museum’s extensive collection. This exhibition invites viewers to think about the ritual of sharing a meal, and how gathering allows humans to connect and create meaning in their lives.

Mary and Peter R. Dallman 1951 Great Issues Lecture

Why do some authors and books become known around the world, while others of equal merit languish in relative obscurity? This conversation will explore the role national cultural foundations play in exporting a country’s cultural production and the implications this has for less wealthy nations that don’t have such organizations. In many such instances, the responsibility falls to translators into English, placing them in the role of cultural gatekeepers and mediators. How do national and international prizes affect the literary eco-system? What is the importance of literature as a means of cultural exchange and soft diplomacy? And how will AI and LLMs impact this cultural dialogue? 

Panel participants:

Maureen Freely is a writer with eight novels to her name.  Well known as a translator of the Turkish Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk, she has also brought into English numerous twentieth century classics and works by Turkey’s rising stars. Her translation of Tezer Özlü's Cold Nights of Childhood won the  2024 NBCC Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize.  As Chair of the Translators Association and more recently as President and Chair of English PEN and Vice Chair of the Royal Society of Literature, she has campaigned for writers and freedom of expression internationally.  She teaches at the University of Warwick.

Tess Lewis is a writer and translator from French and German. Her translations include works by Walter Benjamin, Ingeborg Bachmann, Peter Handke, and Montaigne. A Guggenheim, NEA and Berlin Prize Fellow, she was awarded the 2017 PEN Award for Translation. She is an Advisory Editor for The Hudson Review and curator of the Festival Neue Literature, New York City’s only German language literature festival. www.tesslewis.org.

Allison Markin Powell (D’95) is a literary translator, editor, and publishing consultant. She has been awarded a fellowship from the NEA and a residency from the Hawthornden Foundation, and the 2020 PEN America Translation Prize for The Ten Loves of Nishino by Hiromi Kawakami. Her other translations and co-translations include works by Osamu Dazai, Kanako Nishi, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, and Kaoru Takamura. She serves on the Board of Trustees of PEN America and is on the steering committee of the Literary Translators Division for the National Writers Union.

Samantha Schnee (D’92) is the founding editor of Words Without Borders. Her translation of Carmen Boullosa’s Texas: The Great Theft (Deep Vellum, 2014) was shortlisted for the PEN America Translation Prize, and she was the recipient of a 2023 National Endowment of the Arts Literature Fellowship to translate Boullosa’s novel El complot de los románticos. Schnee also received a 2024 fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin, where she translated Basque author Irati Elorrieta’s debut novel, Luces de invierno, winner of the 2025 Sundial House Prize and forthcoming from Columbia University Press (2027).

Free and open to the public, tickets required, reserve yours here.

This event will be recorded and livestreamed, register for the webinar here. 

Mary and Peter R. Dallman 1951 Great Issues Lecture, Made possible by a gift from Mary and Peter R. Dallman ’51.

Curious about consulting but not sure where to start? Join us for a beginner-friendly workshop to learn what consultants actually do, how to prepare for recruiting, and to discover resources to help you take the next step.

RSVP HERE!

Celebrate America's 250th anniversary with an evening of powerful music.

To mark the occasion, the acclaimed Dover Quartet brings their signature blend of brilliance and heart to a program that reflects the complexity, spirit and evolving soundscape of America. Renowned for their glowing sound, the Dover Quartet has emerged as one of the most compelling chamber ensembles of their generation.

The evening features Strum by Jessie Montgomery and Rattle Songs, an arrangement of traditional songs by Pura Fé, newly reimagined for string quartet by composer Jerod Tate. Tate's voice returns in a compelling new commission—music that speaks to Native identity, memory and continuity. The program culminates in Dvořák's "American" Quartet, written during the Czech composer's stay in the US in 1893. Infused with echoes of spirituals and folk songs, the program is a luminous reflection on the idea of America.

Don't miss a pre-show talk with the artists (6:30 PM, Top of the Hop).

Part of Dartmouth's celebration of America's 250th anniversary.

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Freedom, Emancipation, and Political Representation: New Work in Philosophy and Political Theory

Thursday, April 30 - Friday, May 1, 2026
Class of 1930 Room (Rockefeller 106)

Sponsored by the Leslie Center for the Humanities, the Ethics Institute, and the Philosophy Department

Description: This interdisciplinary conference on freedom, emancipation, and political representation features five invited sessions by leading scholars who have written recent books addressing ethical and political questions about resistance, nonviolence, abolition, emancipation, and political representation. Each of these public talks investigates the ethical nature of politics and political philosophy, with an emphasis on individuals’ roles in promoting a just and equitable society. This event is a two-day conference showcasing newly published books in political philosophy and political theory, with talks from leading invited scholars and Dartmouth faculty from philosophy, religion, world languages, literature, and culture, and political science, and government departments. There will be five panels, each with one speaker and one commentator, and a final roundtable. The event is open to the entire Dartmouth community, but space is limited and registration is required. 

THURSDAY, APRIL 30
9:30am: Welcome
10:30am - 11:45am: Meena Krishnamurthy (Queens University), The Emotions of Nonviolence: Revisiting Martin Luther King, Jr.’s ‘Letter from a Birmingham Jail,’ with comments from Laure Barillas (UNH)
11:45am - 1:15pm: Lunch (Paganucci Lounge, Class of 1953 Commons)
1:30pm - 2:45pm: William Paris (University of Toronto), Race, Time, and Utopia: Critical Theory and the Process of Emancipation, with comments from Jerome Clarke (American University)
3:00pm - 4:15pm: Wendy Salkin (Stanford University), Speaking for Others: The Ethics of Informal Political Representation, with comments from Susan Brison (Dartmouth)
4:15pm - 5:00pm: Break
5 - 6:30 pm: Book Party at Still North Books

FRIDAY, MAY 1
10:30am - 11:45am: Erin Pineda (Smith College), Seeing Like an Activist: Civil Disobedience and the Civil Rights Movement, with comments from Yarran Hominh (Bard College)
11:45am - 1:15pm: Lunch (Paganucci Lounge, Class of 1953 Commons)
1:30pm - 2:45pm: Philip Yaure (Virginia Tech), Seizing Citizenship: Frederick Douglass's Abolitionist Republicanism, with comments from Keidrick Roy (Dartmouth)
3:00pm - 4:15pm: Roundtable on “The Question of Audience and Public-Facing Social and Political Work” with Darien Pollock (BU), Owen Glyn-Williams (Suffolk University), and Samia Hesni (Dartmouth)

Join Dartmouth Libraries to hear from Matthew Ritger, Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Creative Writing, to hear about his first book, Houses of Correction: Carceral Institutions and Humanist Culture in Early Modern England.

From the University of Pennsylvania Press:

"More than 250 years before the rise of the modern penitentiary, houses of correction pioneered the use of forced labor and individualized sentences within institutions of confinement, promoting reform and the “hope of amendment” for every individual. Yet these earlier carceral institutions faced many of the problems that remain familiar today: corruption scandals, recidivism, and abuses of power.

Houses of Correction returns to the archives of England’s first house of correction, Bridewell, to show how humanist reformers provided ideas, justifications, and administration for what came to be called bridewells, workhouses, and “Literary worke-houses,” even as repeated scandals made it clear that these coercive institutions would forever be at odds with the ideals of humanist culture. Examining how the work of writers including More, Shakespeare, and Milton dealt with humanism’s entanglements with these new prisons, Houses of Correction constructs the first book-length literary history of some of early modern Europe’s most influential carceral institutions.The first book-length literary history of some of the era's most influential carceral institutions, Houses of Correction explores the archives of Bridewell--England's first house of correction--to demonstrate the ways that humanist thought was used to justify the carceral system."

Talk followed by Q&A. Light refreshments will be served. Registration recommended.

By students, for students! Enjoy a lively mix of art, music, and entertainment. Organized and hosted by the Museum Club. Free and open to all Dartmouth undergraduate and graduate students.

This wide-ranging conversation about the US, Europe and India will bring together two of our leading commentators. Pratap Bhanu Mehta is a professor of politics at Princeton and Glyn Morgan is professor at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. The event will be moderated by Prof. Russ Muirhead, Robert Clements Professor of Democracy and Politics, and co-director of the Political Economy Project.

Co-sponsored by the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy.

Free and open to the public, reserve your tickets here.

Recorded and live-streamed, register for the webinar here.

Join us for an insightful conversation on the future of energy systems in the age of AI. Discover how industry leaders are balancing speed, scale, and stability to power an era of growth, while navigating shifting geopolitical dynamics. 

Featured Speakers:

• Jeff Immelt '78: Inaugural Teevens Center Leadership Fellow, former CEO of General Electric, and current Venture Partner at New Enterprise Associates.  
• K.R. Sridhar: Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Bloom Energy, and former NASA advisor.
• Lauren Xiaoyuan Lu: Norman W. Martin 1925 Professor of Business Administration at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, will moderate the conversation.

Reserve your spot today — limited seating available! Don't miss the chance to engage with these experts during the Q&A session, followed by a reception. 

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Co-sponsored by the Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society, Tuck School of Business, and Thayer School of Engineering.

Alexander Skarsgård plays Dom to Harry Melling's sub in this charming BDSM gay rom-com, like 'Love Actually' with leather.

Colin (Harry Melling, from the Harry Potter franchise), a shy young man living with his loving parents, hasn't made the connections he's been looking for in the gay bar scene. When he crosses paths with Ray (Alexander Skarsgård), a charismatic leather-clad biker, he begins to learn the joys of sexual submission, or what he comes to call "devotion." First-time writer-director Harry Lighton handles the ups and downs of this love story—including a meet-the-parents scene—with impressive economy and elegance. 

Lighton adapts Adam Mars-Jones's popular novel Box Hill: A Story of Low Self-Esteem into a sweetly melancholic rites-of-passage-into-manhood story. Premiering at the Telluride Film Festival, this endearing film marks the first entry in a new and unexpected genre: the BDSM romantic comedy.

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Join Osher on Friday, May 1, and spend the day walking the halls of the MFA. 

Our entry time for the Framing Nature: Gardens and Imagination special exhibit is between 12:30 PM and 1:00 PM. After the Framing Nature special exhibit, you will have plenty of time to explore Art in Bloom, have lunch, or visit other exhibits at the MFA if you wish! Spend time viewing Hindu Prints from Modern Bengal, Patchwork from Rural China, and Jewish Ritual Art, to name just a few. 

For lunch, you may stop in at the New American Cafe, which is a la carte dining, located on Level 1. Alternatively, you could visit the Garden Cafeteria for comfort food, sandwiches, salads, and snacks. Head to Level G and finish out the day by making a stop at Taste, where you will find coffee, sweet and savory bites, as well as beer and wine!

The price of this day trip includes round-trip bus transportation and your entrance ticket to the MFA; you are responsible for all other expenses, including meals and refreshments.

We will be taking a chartered bus from Dartmouth Coach for this trip. You will need to park at the Dartmouth Coach terminal located at 13 Labombard Road, Lebanon, NH 03766. We are also happy to stop at the New London Park & Ride if any registrants find that a more convenient boarding point. Please email the office at osher@dartmouth.edu to let us know if that is where you wish to join the bus. 

The registration fee for this trip is non-refundable.

Schedule for the day: 

- Depart 8:15 AM from 13 Labombard Road, Lebanon, NH - The Dartmouth Coach station
- Stop at the New London Park & Ride
- Arrive MFA 10:45 AM
- On your own to visit exhibits and enter Framing Nature: Gardens and Imagination exhibit (entry time 12:30 PM to 1:00 PM)
- Leave the MFA at 3:30 PM
- Back in Lebanon around 6:30 PM

Cost:
$95 per Osher member
$125 per non-member

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In this dazzling film, two young lovers long to escape Dakar and discover the glamour and pleasures that they imagine France has to offer.

With a stunning mix of the surreal and the naturalistic, Djibril Diop Mambéty paints a vivid, fractured portrait of postindependence Senegal in the early 1970s. In this picaresque fantasy-drama, the disaffected young lovers Anta and Mory, fed up with Dakar, long to escape to the glamour and comforts they imagine France has to offer, but their plan is confounded by obstacles both practical and mystical. 

Influenced both by French New Wave cinema and the realities of African life, this classic has style to burn, with vivid imagery, bleak humor, unconventional editing and a dazzling soundtrack. "A cinematic poem made with raw, wild energy. Touki Bouki explodes one image at a time!" –Martin Scorsese

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We will explore how composers drew on the songs, stories, and rhythms of their homelands to shape a distinct musical identity. We’ll trace the sweep of national style — from Grieg’s Hall of the Mountain King to Smetana’s Moldau to Sibelius’ Finlandia — in its yearning for freedom. We’ll look at Mussorgsky’s bold portrayal of Russian character and Bartók’s groundbreaking work with true village music. Finally, we’ll come to understand how Copland transformed American folk materials into an unmistakable musical voice. There will be listening examples, lively historical context, and a fresh understanding of how folk traditions continue to pulse through the classical repertoire.

Christiana Whittington: After growing up in Germany and studying at the University of Heidelberg, Christiana moved to the U.S. with her American spouse. A musician by training, she taught school for 21 years. She now is a principal in Travel Meets Culture, offering cultural tours to Germany.

Note: This course is part of Osher's "A Little of This and That" series. We’ve gathered some of our finest Study Leaders from across the fields of science, religion, culture, literature, music, and hands-on crafting. If you’ve never taken an Osher class, try us out and discover what makes the Osher experience so rewarding. If you’re already a member, this is a perfect opportunity to explore new ideas, reconnect with friends, and continue to challenge and delight your mind.

We look forward to seeing you this spring.

COST:

$10 per Osher member
$15 per non-member

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