Amnesty International is excited to have Mujib Mashal on Skype to discuss his experience growing up in and covering Afghanistan on Tuesday the 22nd at 7 p.m. in the Choral Room. Mujib attended Columbia University after Deerfield and now writes for Al Jazeera English, focusing on politics and conflict in Afghanistan and larger South Asia. [...]

Internationally bestselling writer Darin Strauss, author of the 2010 memoir, Half a Life–winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award–will join us this week as the 2012 Lambert Fellow. Named in honor of esteemed faculty member, Bryce Voter Lambert of the English Department and The Scroll (1952-1990), the Lambert Fellow joins our community each year [...]

Hey everyone, I lost my speakers this saturday in the main gym. They are pretty big white speakers with a hello kitty sticker and my name on the top. I am really upset about missing them, so if anyone knows where they are please let me know. Libby Murray

W.S. Merwin–poet, translator, and U.S. Poet Laureate, 2010-11–will be on campus today and tomorrow, October 12 and 13. Wednesday, October 12 Poetry Reading, Large Auditorium, 7:00-8:00pm *All School Required Event Reception & Book Signing, Ephraim Williams, 8:00-9:00pm Thursday, October 13 Continental Breakfast, Hilson Gallery, 8:00-8:25am Informal Q&A Session with Interested Students, Reid Black Box Theater, [...]

Dean Cycon, innovative entrepreneur, award-winning author, and CEO of Dean’s Beans, a locally-grown, organic coffee company, will speak Tuesday night, April 5, in the Choral Room directly after sit-down dinner. Dean has traveled for over 25 years to coffee villages and indigenous communities throughout the world and is a co-founder

Sunday, February 27, at 6:45 p.m. in the Stolzfus Room Carlos Blanco will be discussing topics addressed in his new book, Why Resurrection?, a survey of the history of the belief in the afterlife as understood through the lenses of Judaism and Christianity.  Mr. Blanco, a native of Spain, is currently a visiting fellow at [...]

James Howard Kunstler, author of The Long Emergency, among other works, will speak on Tuesday the 22nd, thanks to the Deerfield View. In his 2005 book, Kunstler argued that declining oil production will cause the end of industrialized society as we know it and force Americans to live in smaller-scale, localized, agrarian communities. “As brilliant [...]

Benjamin Skinner, modern-day anti-slavery and human trafficking activist, will speak at 6:45pm in the Garonzik Auditorium tonight (October 7) after sit-down dinner. Mr. Skinner has gone undercover to infiltrate human trafficking networks, slave quarries, urban child markets and illegal brothels, and has become the only person in history to have witnessed the sale of slaves [...]

Author, activist, and professor Robert Jensen will speak in the Garonzik Auditorium tonight, directly following sit-down dinner. Mr. Jensen is a professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches media law, ethics, and politics, and conducts research. Mr. Jensen also writes for both alternative and mainstream popular media on feminism, [...]