Fri October 2, 2026 Top ^
Homecoming and Family Weekend Tang Guide Tour
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
TANG Tang Teaching Museum: Join us Friday, October 2, at 4 pm, for a tour of the Museum and current exhibitions with a Tang Guide. This event is open to the public and is organized for Skidmore’s Homecoming and Family Weekend. Weekly tours are given by Tang Guides, many of whom are Skidmore College students, who are trained gallery ambassadors and tour guides. Through this program, they are introduced to the Tang and the museum world, trained to give tours, and gain valuable real-world experiences interacting with visitors.
Filene Celebration Concert
Time: 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
ZANKEL Helen Filene Ladd Concert Hall: The 2026 Filene Scholar Celebration Concert features the winners of the 45th Annual Filene Scholarship Competition, alongside our current Filene Scholars and faculty artists. Established through the generosity of the Filene Ladd families, this prestigious merit scholarship recognizes exceptional young musicians, providing them with support for private lessons and the freedom to pursue any major while continuing to perform at a high level. We celebrate the Filene Scholars for the ways they enrich Skidmore’s musical life, contributing to a vibrant community of student–musicians through performances, ensembles, and collaborations across campus.Filene Scholars Class of 2030Gina LeBeau, voiceLily Maynard, voiceJacob Miller, celloOliver Wyman, french hornPresented by the Department of Music made possible by the support of the Lincoln and Therese Filene Foundation.This event is free and open to the public, no ticket required. RSVP is encouraged.
Sat October 3, 2026 Top ^
Homecoming and Family Weekend Open House
Time: 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM
TANG Atrium: Join us on Saturday, October 3, between noon and 4 pm for our Homecoming and Family Weekend Open House. Visit all our exhibitions, including: A Feeling of With, a faculty co-curated exhibition featuring work from the Tang collection Mark Thomas Gibson: We Are A Constellation, a solo exhibition from the self-described American history painter Sheila Pepe: When & Where We Rest, an immersive installation that draws on Pepe’s ongoing interest in the material culture of religion, sociology, queer theory, ancient Greece and Rome, and the Silk Road 500 Dams: Art, Ecology, and Radical Care at Anaya Springs, which brings together art and science to create a portrait of the ongoing effort of the Survival Kit Collective to regenerate the grasslands of Anaya Springs, New Mexico Elevator Music 55: Chaia—Yiddishland on the Move, an immersive sound collage composed from newly digitized recordings from the 1950s–1980s in the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research’s Jewish Labor and Political Archives Light refreshments will be available during the open house. This open house is free and open to the public.
Time: 2:30 PM to 5:00 PM
CASE Case North Patio
Homecoming & Family Weekend Fireworks
Time: 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Case Center Case North Patio: From 8:45 PM until the end of the fireworks show, grab a cup of hot chocolate and one of Dining Service's famous chocolate chip cookies to enjoy with the spectacle!Fireworks display expected to begin ~9:15 PM.
Sun October 4, 2026 Top ^
Tang Guide Tours
Time: 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
TANG Tang Teaching Museum: Join us Sunday, September 6, at 2 pm, for a tour of the Museum and current exhibitions. This event is open to the public, and visitors are invited to stay after the tour and look around the galleries.Weekly tours are given by Tang Guides, many of whom are Skidmore College students, who are trained gallery ambassadors and tour guides. Through this program, they are introduced to the Tang and the museum world, trained to give tours, and gain valuable real-world experiences interacting with visitors.
Mon October 5, 2026 Top ^
The Graham Method
Time: 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
CO Calendar Only : If you are fans of classical myth and modern dance, or if you want to learn more about how these disciplines can intertwine, please mark your calendars for the week of October 5. During this week, Classics and Dance will present two interdisciplinary events about and inspired by dancer and choreographer Martha Graham (1894–1991), whose repertory based on Greco-Roman myth continues to delight and fascinate.Our first event is a presentation/demonstration of the Martha Graham technique and contemporary dance-making, led by Dance faculty Bo Brinton (Visiting Assistant Professor) and Emily Gunter (Assistant Lecturer, and Classics/Dance ’19). Our speaker on Wednesday, Ronnie Ancona, will also be in attendance. All members of the community are invited.
Tue October 6, 2026 Top ^
EAC
Time: 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
LADD Ladd 106
Between the Courtroom and the Stadium: Revisiting the Legacies of Ottoman Modernity, A conversation between Professor Avi Rubin and Associate Professor Murat C. Yıldız
Time: 5:30 PM to 6:45 PM
PALMTN Gannett Auditorium: What did it mean to be "modern" in a rapidly changing Eurasian empire? This question has animated the research of Greenberg Middle East Scholar-in-Residence Professor Avi Rubin and Skidmore’s Associate Professor Murat C. Yildiz. While Rubin has examined these shifts through the lens of legal reform and bureaucratic halls, Yildiz has explored them in sports clubs and the city’s public spaces. This public conversation brings together Rubin and Yıldız to discuss two ends of the late Ottoman experience: the state’s effort to institutionalize justice and order through law, and society’s aspiration to forge a new "body" and identity through bodily culture and leisure. Together, Rubin and Yildiz will explore why (Ottoman) history matters when thinking about the present Middle East and explore how Ottomans did not merely adopt foreign models but instead crafted a distinct local modernity of their own whose legacies continue to live in today.Avi Rubin earned his Ph.D. in History and Middle East Studies from Harvard University (2006) before becoming a faculty member in the Department of Middle East Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. A specialist in the socio-legal history of the late Ottoman Empire, Rubin has published extensively on legal change in the modern era, exploring themes such as codification, legal culture, political trials, and the rule of law. His first monograph, Ottoman Nizamiye Courts: Law and Modernity (2011), is a pioneering, "law-in-action" study that revised our understanding of nineteenth-century Ottoman legal reform. His second book, Ottoman Rule of Law and the Modern Political Trial: The Yildiz Case (2018), examines the emergence of a new culture of legalism during the late Ottoman period. Building on this trajectory, his current research explores the legalist foundations of modern Turkish autocracy by tracing the continuities between the Hamidian regime and the early Republic. Murat C. Yildiz is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Skidmore College. He is author of The Ottoman World of Sports: Refashioning Bodies, Men, and Communities in Late Imperial Istanbul (University of Texas Press, 2026). He serves as Assistant Editor of Arab Studies Journal and as an Editorial Board Member of International Journal of the History of Sport.
How to work in American Politics
Time: 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
CASE Wyckoff Main Stage: Skidmore College Congress to Campus presentsCareers in politics and public service Questions and Answers. Want to change the world but don't know where to start?Want to work in Washington? Journalism? Law? Here is your chance to ask former members of Congress about how to find one's path in American politics.John Yarmuth (D-KT3), 2007 - 2023, Chair, House Budget Committee 2019 - 2023 and Ann Marie Buerkle (R - NY25), 2011 - 2013, U.S. Consumer Produt Safety Commission, 2013 0 2019For more information contact Bob Turner at bturner@skidmore,edu
SGA Senate
Time: 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Murray-Aikins Dining Hall Rooms 3 & 4
Wed October 7, 2026 Top ^
SGA Senate
Time: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Murray-Aikins Dining Hall Rooms 3 & 4
Fall Classics Lecture
Time: 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM
CO Calendar Only : If you are fans of classical myth and modern dance, or if you want to learn more about how these disciplines can intertwine, please mark your calendars for the week of October 5. During this week, Classics and Dance will present two interdisciplinary events about and inspired by dancer and choreographer Martha Graham (1894–1991), whose repertory based on Greco-Roman myth continues to delight and fascinate.Our second event is a lecture by Ronnie Ancona (Professor of Classics emerita, CUNY Hunter) based on her new book Martha Graham’s Greek Myth-Based Dances and Her Collaboration with Isamu Noguchi (Oxford 2026). Ancona will discuss Noguchi’s and Graham’s visual-performative collaboration, with an eye toward how her bold and woman-centered receptions of Greek myth emerged over time.
Making Congress Work Again: A Bipartisan Discussion with Former Members of Congress
Time: 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
PALMTN Gannett Auditorium: Skidmore College Congress to Campus presents: Making Congress Work Again: A bipsartisan discussion with former members of Congress.John Yarmuth (D-KY3) 2007 - 2023, Chair, House Budget Committee 219 - 2023 and Ann Marie Buerkle (R-NY25), 2011 - 2013 U.S. Consumer Product Saety Commission, 2013 - 2019For more information contact Bob Turner at bturner@skidmore.edu
Philosophy Club
Time: 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Ladd Hall Ladd 106
Thu October 8, 2026 Top ^
Lively Lucy’s
Time: 6:15 PM to 10:30 PM
Falstaff's Falstaff's
Sun October 11, 2026 Top ^
Tang Guide Tours
Time: 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
TANG Tang Teaching Museum: Join us Sunday, September 6, at 2 pm, for a tour of the Museum and current exhibitions. This event is open to the public, and visitors are invited to stay after the tour and look around the galleries.Weekly tours are given by Tang Guides, many of whom are Skidmore College students, who are trained gallery ambassadors and tour guides. Through this program, they are introduced to the Tang and the museum world, trained to give tours, and gain valuable real-world experiences interacting with visitors.
Essay writing workshop
Time: 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Library, Lucy Scribner 213: Stuck and worried about writing assignments? Writing Center peer tutors offer this 1-hour workshop on foundational writing strategies like coming up with ideas, organizing your thoughts, and building an academic argument and thesis. Hot cider and doughnuts will be served!
Tue October 13, 2026 Top ^
EAC
Time: 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
LADD Ladd 106
Wed October 14, 2026 Top ^
Pam Tanowitz and the Pastoral: Artists in Conversation
Time: 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM
TANG Payne: Join us on Wednesday, October 14, at 5:30 pm, for a discussion with acclaimed choreographer Pam Tanowitz, Skidmore’s 2026 McCormack Visiting Artist-Scholar in Residence, about her latest full-length dance work, Pastoral. Alongside two of her collaborators, artist Sarah Crowner and artistic director Gideon Lester, Tanowitz will provide a look into the creative process that shaped this piece. April Bernard, Professor of English, will join the panel discussion, which will be moderated by Brian Lawson, Assistant Professor of Dance. Pastoral, which features a score by composer Caroline Shaw, premiered in the summer of 2025 at Bard College, and used Beethoven’s 6th Symphony as a springboard for multidisciplinary creation. This event is part of Tanowitz’s 2026 McCormack Endowed Visiting Artist-Scholar Residency at Skidmore, and is free and open to the public. About the ParticipantsPam Tanowitz is a celebrated New York–based choreographer and founder of Pam Tanowitz Dance who has steadily delineated her own dance language through decades of research and creation. She is the first-ever choreographer in residence at the Fisher Center at Bard in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, and is an assistant professor of professional practice at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. Other honors include the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award, LMCC Liberty Award for Artistic Leadership, Doris Duke Artist Award, Herb Alpert Award, BAC Cage Cunningham Fellowship, and Bessie Awards, among others. She has created works for The Australian Ballet, New York City Ballet, Martha Graham Dance Company, Paul Taylor American Modern Dance, The Royal Ballet, Kennedy Center’s Ballet Across America, Vail Dance Festival, Juilliard Dance, Ballet Austin, and New York Theatre Ballet. Originally from New Rochelle, New York, Tanowitz holds degrees from Ohio State University and Sarah Lawrence College. Brooklyn–based artist Sarah Crowner’s diverse practice explores the spaces where geometry abuts gesture, materiality merges with composition, and the graphic confronts the handmade. Incorporating two- and three-dimensional works across a variety of media (painting, sculpture, installation, and set design), Crowner’s work points to an expanded field of painting, investigating the relationship between the element and the whole, and how parts build an entirety. Her work is held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; The Contemporary Austin; Dallas Museum of Art; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York. Recent exhibitions and installations include Faire Foyer: Sarah Crowner in Dialogue with Etel Adnan, The Bass Museum, Miami (2025–26); Platform as Platform, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA (2025); and Around Orange, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis (2023–24).Gideon Lester is Artistic Director and Chief Executive of the Fisher Center at Bard, and Senior Curator at the Open Society University Network’s Center for the Arts and Human Rights. A Tony- and Olivier Award–winning creative producer, festival director, and dramaturg, he has collaborated with and commissioned a broad range of American and international artists across disciplines, including Romeo Castellucci, Justin Vivian Bond, Tania El Khoury, Brice Marden, Sarah Michelson, Claudia Rankine, Kaija Saariaho, Peter Sellars, and Anna Deavere Smith. Recent projects include the world premiere of Justin Peck and Sufjan Stevens’s Illinoise; Common Ground, an international festival on the politics of land and food; Daniel Fish’s Oklahoma! (Tony Award; Olivier Award); and Pam Tanowitz’s Four Quartets and Song of Songs.April Bernard’s The World Behind the World, her sixth book of poems, was published in 2023 by W. W. Norton; previous collections are Brawl & Jag, Romanticism, Swan Electric, Psalms, and Blackbird Bye Bye, which won the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. Her novel Miss Fuller was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award; she has also published short fiction in Little Star, Electric Literature, and The Southampton Review, and is a contributor of reviews and essays to The New York Review of Books and Book Post, among other journals. She teaches at Skidmore College and is currently at work on a volume of new and selected poems. Brian Lawson, Assistant Professor of Dance at Skidmore, is a dance performer and educator. He graduated summa cum laude with a BFA in dance performance from SUNY Purchase in 2010. Lawson performed with Pam Tanowitz Dance before joining the Mark Morris Dance Group in 2011. With MMDG, he originated numerous roles and had the pleasure of touring the US and the world performing Morris’s dances. He earned his MFA in Dance from the University of Washington in 2020 and began teaching at Skidmore in 2022. His choreographic research is collaborative in nature and focuses on queerness in concert dance. He also engages in pedagogical research with regard to contemporary balletic practices. He continues to research via performance as a dancer with Pam Tanowitz Dance and MMDG. Lawson enjoys teaching dance to diverse populations and has given master classes at Purchase College, NYU Tisch, and the American Dance Festival, among others. He acts as a guest ballet teacher for the José Limón Dance Company, Mark Morris Dance Group, and Gibney Dance. About The McCormack Endowed Visiting Artist-Scholar ResidencyThe McCormack Endowed Visiting Artist-Scholar Residency exemplifies Skidmore’s commitment to experiential learning, close faculty-student collaboration, and interdisciplinary exploration. The residency is a signature academic program that brings internationally recognized artists and scholars to Skidmore College for an intensive, week-long residency during the academic year. It is designed as a total-immersion experience that embeds the visiting artist directly into the academic and creative life of the College, with sustained focus on student learning and faculty collaboration.McCormack Residents represent the highest levels of artistic achievement across visual, performing, and literary arts, including recipients of major honors such as the MacArthur Fellowship, Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, Grammy Award, Tony Award, and Nobel Prize in Literature. Through classroom engagement, studio practice, mentorship, and public scholarship, the McCormack Residency advances Skidmore’s mission by uniting theory and practice and modeling interdisciplinary inquiry within a liberal arts context. The residency is presented by Skidmore’s Office of Special Programs, in partnership with the Dance Department for the 2026 residency.
Skidmore Democrats Monthly Meeting
Time: 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Ladd Hall Ladd 107
Philosophy Club
Time: 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Ladd Hall Ladd 106
Thu October 15, 2026 Top ^
Lively Lucy’s
Time: 6:15 PM to 10:30 PM
Falstaff's Falstaff's
Fri October 16, 2026 Top ^
Skidmore Orchestra Feat. Molly Lewis
Time: 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
ZANKEL Helen Filene Ladd Concert Hall: With a sound The New Yorker describes as “part Snow White communing with the birds, part haunted theremin,” Molly Lewis has made the human whistle a distinctive contemporary musical voice. Millions heard her in Barbie, where she whistles the melody of Billie Eilish’s “What Was I Made For?” during a pivotal scene and over the film’s closing credits. In 2026, the Metropolitan Museum of Art featured newly commissioned footage of Lewis in Musical Bodies, an exhibition tracing the relationship between music and the human body across 4,000 years.Born in Sydney, Australia, Lewis grew up whistling, and eventually pursued it as a career. After her parents showed her the documentary Pucker Up: The Fine Art of Whistling, she entered her first whistling competition, the 2012 International Whistlers Convention in North Carolina. She later won first place in the Live Band Accompaniment Division at 2015’s Masters of Musical Whistling competition in Los Angeles. Her debut EP The Forgotten Edge was released in 2021 on Jagjaguwar, after the label saw her lounge show Café Molly in LA. A second EP, Mirage, followed in 2022 and her debut LP On the Lips was released in 2024, which she promoted by playing headline shows all over the world, as well as supporting Weyes Blood and Beck on his symphony tour. She is currently co-starring in a new documentary, Whistle, which has been making the rounds of film festivals across the globe after debuting at the Toronto International Film Festival last September.Lewis brings her singular artistry to the Skidmore Orchestra under the direction of Dr. Georgia Mills, with arrangements by Icelandic composer Thomas Stankiewicz. The program places the whistle in the role of orchestral soloist through beloved melodies from Delibes’s Lakmé, Saint-Saëns’s The Swan, Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, Fauré’s Pelléas et Mélisande, and Mozart’s famously virtuosic “Queen of the Night” aria, alongside Lewis’s own Oceanic Feeling and Miracle Fruit. The Skidmore Orchestra also takes the spotlight in “Carillon,” “Pastorale,” and “Farandole” from Georges Bizet’s L’Arlésienne.
Sat October 17, 2026 Top ^
Fall Opening Reception
Time: 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
TANG Atrium: Join us Saturday, October 17, at 5 pm, for a celebration of our fall exhibitions: A Feeling of With, a faculty co-curated exhibition featuring work from the Tang collection Mark Thomas Gibson: We Are A Constellation, a solo exhibition from the self-described American history painter Sheila Pepe: When & Where We Rest, an immersive installation that draws on Pepe’s ongoing interest in the material culture of religion, sociology, queer theory, ancient Greece and Rome, and the Silk Road 500 Dams: Art, Ecology, and Radical Care at Anaya Springs, which brings together art and science to create a portrait of the ongoing effort of the Survival Kit Collective to regenerate the grasslands of Anaya Springs, New Mexico Elevator Music 55: Chaia—Yiddishland on the Move, an immersive sound collage composed from newly digitized recordings from the 1950s–1980s in the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research’s Jewish Labor and Political Archives This open house is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be available.
Café Molly: An Evening with Molly Lewis
Time: 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM
ZANKEL Helen Filene Ladd Concert Hall: Molly Lewis brings Café Molly—her traveling lounge concept—to the Zankel stage for an evening with her five-piece band. Drawn from On the Lips and other original work, the set pairs Lewis’s precise, expressive whistle with lush arrangements, jazz-inflected grooves, and the elegance and intrigue of mid-century lounge and film music. It’s stylish, cinematic, and a little surreal: a fully realized musical setting built around Lewis’s most unmistakable instrument.About the ArtistWith a sound The New Yorker describes as “part Snow White communing with the birds, part haunted theremin,” Molly Lewis has made the human whistle a distinctive contemporary musical voice. Millions heard her in Barbie, where she whistles the melody of Billie Eilish’s “What Was I Made For?” during a pivotal scene and over the film’s closing credits. In 2026, the Metropolitan Museum of Art featured newly commissioned footage of Lewis in Musical Bodies, an exhibition tracing the relationship between music and the human body across 4,000 years.Born in Sydney, Australia, Lewis grew up whistling, and eventually pursued it as a career. After her parents showed her the documentary Pucker Up: The Fine Art of Whistling, she entered her first whistling competition, the 2012 International Whistlers Convention in North Carolina. She later won first place in the Live Band Accompaniment Division at 2015’s Masters of Musical Whistling competition in Los Angeles. Her debut EP The Forgotten Edge was released in 2021 on Jagjaguwar, after the label saw her lounge show Café Molly in LA. A second EP, Mirage, followed in 2022 and her debut LP On the Lips was released in 2024, which she promoted by playing headline shows all over the world, as well as supporting Weyes Blood and Beck on his symphony tour. She is currently co-starring in a new documentary, Whistle, which has been making the rounds of film festivals across the globe after debuting at the Toronto International Film Festival last September.Molly Lewis’s Skidmore residency began in The Artist-Centered Approach, an Arts Administration course taught by Zankel Director Zhenelle LeBel, that asks students to imagine presenting practices built around artists’ creative identities, needs, and ambitions. For her final project, student Grace Higginbotham developed a proposal for an engagement with Lewis, which her classmates ultimately selected to move forward. Zankel then worked directly with Lewis to grow that student-generated idea into a weeklong residency shaped around her artistry, including performances with the Skidmore Orchestra and her own band. This October, Grace will return to Skidmore as a recent graduate to support Lewis during the residency—giving her the unusual opportunity to see an idea developed in the classroom become a professional artistic engagement and to take part in realizing it firsthand.Presented by the Arthur Zankel Music Center in partnership with the Skidmore Department of Music. Made possible by the Zankel Music Fund, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and the family of Elisabeth Luce Moore.
Sun October 18, 2026 Top ^
Tang Guide Tours
Time: 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
TANG Tang Teaching Museum: Join us Sunday, September 6, at 2 pm, for a tour of the Museum and current exhibitions. This event is open to the public, and visitors are invited to stay after the tour and look around the galleries.Weekly tours are given by Tang Guides, many of whom are Skidmore College students, who are trained gallery ambassadors and tour guides. Through this program, they are introduced to the Tang and the museum world, trained to give tours, and gain valuable real-world experiences interacting with visitors.
Alash
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
ZANKEL Helen Filene Ladd Concert Hall: Alash are masters of Tuvan throat singing, or xöömei, a vocal tradition in which a singer can produce multiple pitches at the same time. Trained in Tuvan music since childhood, the members of Alash bring deep knowledge of traditional instruments, song forms, and vocal techniques to performances that are both rooted and contemporary.What sets Alash apart is their careful integration of modern influences into traditional Tuvan music. Their songs may include complex harmonies, Western instruments, or contemporary forms, but the sound and spirit remain distinctly Tuvan. The ensemble has won major international throat-singing competitions and has toured widely in the United States, where The Washington Post called their music “utterly stunning."Alash has collaborated with artists across genres, from the Sun Ra Arkestra to Béla Fleck & the Flecktones, appearing on the Grammy-winning album Jingle All the Way. Beyond the stage, the ensemble is committed to teaching and cultural exchange, introducing audiences and students of all ages to the music, instruments, and traditions of Tuva.About the ArtistsBady-Dorzhu Ondar performs vocals, igil, guitar, and bayan. A graduate of Kyzyl Arts College and the East Siberia State Academy of Culture and Art, he has received major honors in traditional ensemble and xöömei competitions and was named People’s Xöömeizhi of Tuva in 2007.Ayan-ool Sam performs vocals, doshpuluur, igil, and xomus. He studied at the Republic School of the Arts, Kyzyl Arts College, and Moscow State Pedagogical University. He won first prize at the 2008 International Xöömei Symposium and was named People’s Xöömeizhi of Tuva in 2015.Ayan Shirizhik performs vocals, kengirge, shyngyrash, shoor, and xomus. A graduate of Kyzyl Arts College and the East Siberia State Academy of Culture and Art, he was named a Distinguished Artist of Tuva in 2009 and People’s Xöömeizhi of Tuva in 2021.Presented by the Skidmore College Department of Music.
Tue October 20, 2026 Top ^
EAC
Time: 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
LADD Ladd 106
Plagues, Famines, and Natural Disasters in the Ottoman Empire: An Environmental History of the Middle East. Lecture by Yaron Ayalon
Time: 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM
PALMTN Davis Auditorium: Examining epidemics, famines, and earthquakes in the Ottoman Empire in the 17th and 18th century, Yaron Ayalon will discuss how disasters affected Jewish, Christian, and Muslim communities. Ayalon asserts that religious identities and communal cooperation were always present in the Ottoman Empire, but the boundaries between confessional communities were porous. Indeed, religion was “neither the sole nor the primary social divider in Ottoman society at large.” The presentation provides a historical lens into natural disasters that affected Jewish communities in the Middle East and offers lessons on how we can approach current environmental challenges, climate change, and natural disasters.Ayalon is a social historian of the Middle East, Ottoman Empire, Sephardic Jews, and Israel, and author of two books: Natural Disasters in the Ottoman Empire: Plague, Famine, and Other Misfortunes (Cambridge University Press, 2015), and Ottoman Jewry: Leadership, Charity, and Literacy (Brill, 2025). He has published over 20 articles on Jewish and Muslim charity, rabbinic leadership, and natural disasters in the Ottoman Empire and Middle East. Dr. Ayalon is Director of the Bennett Center for Judaic Studies at Fairfield University where he also serves as the Carl and Dorothy Bennett Chair in Judaic Studies and Professor of Religious Studies. He has taught Middle Eastern, Jewish, and Israeli history, and courses such as The Arab-Israeli Conflict, Sephardic Jews in the Diaspora and Israel, and Thinking Outside the Box in the Jewish Tradition.This presentation is part of the Jacob Perlow Series sponsored by the Office of Special Programs and co-sponsored by the departments of Environmental Studies & Sciences, Political Science, and History.Free and open to the public.
SGA Senate
Time: 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Murray-Aikins Dining Hall Rooms 3 & 4
Wed October 21, 2026 Top ^
Philosophy Club
Time: 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Ladd Hall Ladd 106
Fri October 23, 2026 Top ^
Kuroda Symposium in Early American Politics and Culture
Time: 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
TANG Wachenheim Gallery: Kuroda Symposium in Early American Politics and CultureDanielle Allen will deliver a public lecture October 23rd at 5:00PM in the Wachenheim Gallery, Tang Museum Danielle Allen is a political philosopher whose current research focuses on democracy renovation: how to reconnect citizens to civic power through education and institutional redesign, how to make political institutions more responsive, accountable, and participatory, and how to make public policy that supports democracy. Professor Allen is the James Bryant Conant University Professor, Harvard University Her most recent book, Justice by Means of Democracy (University of Chicago Press, 2023), provides the theoretical foundation for this work. Her forthcoming book, The Radical Duke, a biography of an 18th-century British political reformer, is due out with Liveright/Norton in 2026. Through the Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation at the Harvard Kennedy School, she leads applied research on electoral reform, civic infrastructure, institutional design, and democracy-supportive public policy. Through the Democratic Knowledge Project-Learn at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, she develops and scales civic education curricula for preK-12 students and higher education. She is the publisher and founder of The Renovator Substack and a contributing columnist at The Atlantic Magazine.
Sun October 25, 2026 Top ^
Tang Guide Tours
Time: 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
TANG Tang Teaching Museum: Join us Sunday, September 6, at 2 pm, for a tour of the Museum and current exhibitions. This event is open to the public, and visitors are invited to stay after the tour and look around the galleries.Weekly tours are given by Tang Guides, many of whom are Skidmore College students, who are trained gallery ambassadors and tour guides. Through this program, they are introduced to the Tang and the museum world, trained to give tours, and gain valuable real-world experiences interacting with visitors.
Tue October 27, 2026 Top ^
EAC
Time: 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
LADD Ladd 106
SGA Senate
Time: 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Murray-Aikins Dining Hall Rooms 3 & 4
Wed October 28, 2026 Top ^
Philosophy Club
Time: 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Ladd Hall Ladd 106
Thu October 29, 2026 Top ^
German Film Night
Time: 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Palamountain Hall 426 WLRC Lab
Lively Lucy’s
Time: 6:15 PM to 10:30 PM
Falstaff's Falstaff's
Sun November 1, 2026 Top ^
Tang Guide Tours
Time: 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
TANG Tang Teaching Museum: Join us Sunday, September 6, at 2 pm, for a tour of the Museum and current exhibitions. This event is open to the public, and visitors are invited to stay after the tour and look around the galleries.Weekly tours are given by Tang Guides, many of whom are Skidmore College students, who are trained gallery ambassadors and tour guides. Through this program, they are introduced to the Tang and the museum world, trained to give tours, and gain valuable real-world experiences interacting with visitors.
Mon November 2, 2026 Top ^
Jovan Scott Lewis (Phi Beta Kappa & Anthropology)
Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Palamountain Hall Davis Auditorium: Please join us for a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar lecture by Dr. Jovan Scott Lewis, Professor of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley.What does it mean to think of freedom as an everyday spatial practice rather than an abstract ideal? Dr. Lewis examines freedom as an everyday spatial practice, analyzing how struggles over land, neighborhoods, and community, as well as imagined desires, constitute core political questions about who freedom is actually for and how it is achieved. The talk explores freedom as directional practice, as movement toward rather than possession of, revealing why making place becomes the necessary work of collective futures. This college-wide event is organized by the Department of Anthropology as part of the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program and is open to the community. November 2, Monday at 5:30-7:00pm Davis Auditorium, Palamountain Hall
Tue November 3, 2026 Top ^
EAC
Time: 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
LADD Ladd 106
Skidmore Democrats Election Night Watch Party
Time: 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Case Center Spa: Watch the midterm election results roll in with us on Tuesday, November 3 from 8-10 PM! Pizza and snacks included!
SGA Senate
Time: 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Murray-Aikins Dining Hall Rooms 3 & 4
Wed November 4, 2026 Top ^
Philosophy Club
Time: 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Ladd Hall Ladd 106
Thu November 5, 2026 Top ^
From Antiracism to Abolition: Professional Learning for Liberating Schools - with Abby Emerson, EdD
Time: 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
PALMTN Emerson Auditorium: Organizing for Freedom: Educators and Facilitators Leading Abolitionist PracticeJoin Dr. Abby Emerson for a discussion on her forthcoming book From Antiracism to Abolition (Harvard Education Press), a vital framework for educators and facilitators looking to lead systemic change in education spaces. Discover how to organize teacher learning spaces that reject punitive practices and cultivate genuine safety, collective care, and educational freedom.Dr. Emerson is an Assistant Professor of Childhood Education at Hunter College, CUNY. She holds both a doctorate and masters in education from Teachers College Columbia University and is a former New York City public school teacher. Her research has appeared in journals such as the Journal of Teacher Education, Review of Research in Education, Whiteness & Education, Bank Street Occasional Papers, and Radical Teacher.https://www.abbyemerson.com/
Lively Lucy’s
Time: 6:15 PM to 10:30 PM
Falstaff's Falstaff's
Sun November 8, 2026 Top ^
Tang Guide Tours
Time: 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
TANG Tang Teaching Museum: Join us Sunday, September 6, at 2 pm, for a tour of the Museum and current exhibitions. This event is open to the public, and visitors are invited to stay after the tour and look around the galleries.Weekly tours are given by Tang Guides, many of whom are Skidmore College students, who are trained gallery ambassadors and tour guides. Through this program, they are introduced to the Tang and the museum world, trained to give tours, and gain valuable real-world experiences interacting with visitors.
Essay writing workshop
Time: 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Library, Lucy Scribner 213
Tue November 10, 2026 Top ^
EAC
Time: 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
LADD Ladd 106
Periclean Keynote-Roger Berkowitz
Time: 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
PALMTN Gannett Auditorium: Honors Forum's fall Periclean Keyonte LectureFeaturing: Roger Berkowitz Tuesday, November 10, 5–6:30Gannett Auditoriumfollowed by a short reception in the Gannett LobbyFor more information about Roger's new book, A World We Share, click here
SGA Senate
Time: 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Murray-Aikins Dining Hall Rooms 3 & 4
Wed November 11, 2026 Top ^
Philosophy Club
Time: 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Ladd Hall Ladd 106
Thu November 12, 2026 Top ^
Lively Lucy’s
Time: 6:15 PM to 10:30 PM
Falstaff's Falstaff's
Sun November 15, 2026 Top ^
Tang Guide Tours
Time: 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
TANG Tang Teaching Museum: Join us Sunday, September 6, at 2 pm, for a tour of the Museum and current exhibitions. This event is open to the public, and visitors are invited to stay after the tour and look around the galleries.Weekly tours are given by Tang Guides, many of whom are Skidmore College students, who are trained gallery ambassadors and tour guides. Through this program, they are introduced to the Tang and the museum world, trained to give tours, and gain valuable real-world experiences interacting with visitors.
Tue November 17, 2026 Top ^
EAC
Time: 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
LADD Ladd 106
SGA Senate
Time: 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Murray-Aikins Dining Hall Rooms 3 & 4
Wed November 18, 2026 Top ^
Skidmore Democrats Monthly Meeting
Time: 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Ladd Hall Ladd 107
Philosophy Club
Time: 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Ladd Hall Ladd 106
Thu November 19, 2026 Top ^
Lively Lucy’s
Time: 6:15 PM to 10:30 PM
Falstaff's Falstaff's
Sun November 22, 2026 Top ^
Tang Guide Tours
Time: 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
TANG Tang Teaching Museum: Join us Sunday, September 6, at 2 pm, for a tour of the Museum and current exhibitions. This event is open to the public, and visitors are invited to stay after the tour and look around the galleries.Weekly tours are given by Tang Guides, many of whom are Skidmore College students, who are trained gallery ambassadors and tour guides. Through this program, they are introduced to the Tang and the museum world, trained to give tours, and gain valuable real-world experiences interacting with visitors.
Tue November 24, 2026 Top ^
EAC
Time: 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
LADD Ladd 106
Wed November 25, 2026 Top ^
Philosophy Club
Time: 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Ladd Hall Ladd 106
Thu November 26, 2026 Top ^
Lively Lucy’s
Time: 6:15 PM to 10:30 PM
Falstaff's Falstaff's
Sun November 29, 2026 Top ^
Tang Guide Tours
Time: 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
TANG Tang Teaching Museum: Join us Sunday, September 6, at 2 pm, for a tour of the Museum and current exhibitions. This event is open to the public, and visitors are invited to stay after the tour and look around the galleries.Weekly tours are given by Tang Guides, many of whom are Skidmore College students, who are trained gallery ambassadors and tour guides. Through this program, they are introduced to the Tang and the museum world, trained to give tours, and gain valuable real-world experiences interacting with visitors.
Tue December 1, 2026 Top ^
EAC
Time: 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
LADD Ladd 106
SGA Senate
Time: 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Murray-Aikins Dining Hall Rooms 3 & 4
Wed December 2, 2026 Top ^
Philosophy Club
Time: 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Ladd Hall Ladd 106
Sun December 6, 2026 Top ^
Tang Guide Tours
Time: 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
TANG Tang Teaching Museum: Join us Sunday, September 6, at 2 pm, for a tour of the Museum and current exhibitions. This event is open to the public, and visitors are invited to stay after the tour and look around the galleries.Weekly tours are given by Tang Guides, many of whom are Skidmore College students, who are trained gallery ambassadors and tour guides. Through this program, they are introduced to the Tang and the museum world, trained to give tours, and gain valuable real-world experiences interacting with visitors.
Tue December 8, 2026 Top ^
EAC
Time: 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
LADD Ladd 106
SGA Senate
Time: 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Murray-Aikins Dining Hall Rooms 3 & 4
Wed December 9, 2026 Top ^
Philosophy Club
Time: 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Ladd Hall Ladd 106
Thu December 10, 2026 Top ^
Lively Lucy’s
Time: 6:15 PM to 10:30 PM
Falstaff's Falstaff's