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October 5
UVM professor Cheryl Morse—who studies how people perceive, co-produce, and experience rural places—reports on how different groups of Vermonters have engaged with land as landscape, place, and environment in recent years, and why these engagements matter in contemporary land debates.
November 2
Why do we consider Vermont’s hills beautiful? What’s attractive about a ruined barn? National Book Award-winner M. T. Anderson, author of the satirical novel Landscape with Invisible Hand, will discuss the national longings behind our sense of landscape.
December 7
Richard Watts, Director of the Center for Research on Vermont, leads a panel of journalists as they explore what journalism means in the digital age, and examine ways in which youth take part in current journalism trends. Panelists include Meg Little Reilly, Deputy Associate Director at the White House Office of Management and Budget for President Obama.
March 1
Greenagers engages young adults in environmental conservation, sustainable farming, and natural resource management. Sarah Monteiro from the Massachusetts non-profit reflects on the importance of getting youth involved in environmental and agricultural industries.
April 5
Poet Keiselim (Keysi) Montás discusses how to read the traditional Japanese poetic form of haiku, illustrated with works from his haiku collection, Like Water.
May 3
Michael Bosia, a leading scholar on global trans- and homophobia, argues that manufactured “LGBTQI+ peril” helps obscure growing social inequality and the policy failures of politicians who have turned their backs on democratic accountability. In this talk, Bosia focuses on laws and rhetoric that target LGBTQI+ youth, teachers, and allies as part of a global anti-democratic effort.
Statewide Underwriters: The Institute of Museum & Library Services through the Vermont Department of Libraries.
Series Underwriters: Montpelier Community Fund
Program Underwriters: Bear Pond Books; Leonine Public Affairs, LLP; Federation of State Humanities Councils funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Pomerleau Real Estate; Preservation Trust of Vermont
We’ll share the PDF of the Montpelier First Wednesdays talks by September 21.
Poet Sarah Audsley joined us at the Taconic Mountains Ramble State Park for Words in the Woods.
Humanities Camps are filled with reading and writing projects, field trips, and outdoor activities.
We won a 2020 Schwartz Prize for best public humanities programming in the U.S. for Vermont Reads 2019: “March: Book One.”
We supported Historic New England’s “More than a Market” project that explored the experiences of new Americans through food markets.
Our free public events help bring the power of the humanities to communities across Vermont.
