- Panel presentation of Summer 2012 SEE-Beyond Award recipients. Students will discuss the process of applying for and receiving the SEE-Beyond Award and how that experience relates to their current goals at Skidmore as well as their post-Skidmore plans.
- Who owns what you eat: Why the use and control of biological diversity matters to global food security" will be the topic of guest speaker Susan Bragdon when she lectures at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 12, at Skidmore.
- Events address issues from hunger to fair trade to domestic violence. Musician and activist Courtney Wong (left) will address the topic of human trafficking in her presentation March 30.
- Thomas B. Coburn of Brown University, a scholar of great goddess tradition in Hinduism, will lecture on meditation and social activism in a talk scheduled at 7 p.m. Oct. 24 in Emerson Auditorium. Admission is free and open to the public.
- Skidmore wraps up a week of lively lectures with a presentation tonight (April 8), by historian Virginia Scharff, whose Kuroda Lecture will focus on The Women Jefferson Loved. Admission is free and open to the public.
- Students in PS 212B have scheduled discussions, a film, and other events to celebrate April as Autism Awareness Month. All events are free and open to the public.
- The acclaimed author of What I Loved and The Shaking Woman: A History of My Nerves will visit Skidmore Feb. 22 for a lecture and panel discussion. Admission is free and open to all. (Originally scheduled for January, this event was postponed due a snow storm.)
- Intersections, a new series of panel discussions, will consider how such topics as religion, gender, race, sexuality, nation, and class inform and frame our campus community. Come hear from fellow students, faculty, and staff?and feel free to share your own perspective.
- Homeruns, money, and ballparks- shorthand for major league baseball in America. Hear from an expert: Skidmore alum Rick Shapiro, senior executive with the MLB Players Association, who will be on campus next week to give two public presentations. Admission is free.
- His talk this Thursday, Oct. 14 on entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship, creativity and passion will feature a creativity exercise. First prize: Two luxury suite VIP passes to a Jets or Giants game.