Special Programs

UVM professor Adrian Ivakhiv, founder of EcoCultureLab, introduces the rapidly growing field of Environmental Humanities, which is designed to address ecological crisis, climate crisis, dramatic global inequality, political polarization, media frenzy, future pandemics, and much more.

Please join us for this important discussion co-hosted by Grace Initiative Global, the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma, and NWPL.

You are invited to join us for a free noontime concert on the Mezzanine!

UVM Professor of African American History Pamela Nicole Walker tells how Virginia Naeve, of Jamacia, VT, fought for peace and civil rights using mostly pen, paper, and a lot of gumption. 

Constitution Day, on September 17, celebrates the signing of the U.S. Constitution by the Philadelphia Convention in 1787. Immense challenges of the twenty-first century threaten to overwhelm many of the eighteenth-century assumptions and principles. We’ll review these challenges and inquire whether it’s time to revise some of these assumptions.