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Arts and Humanities

  • A major exhibition of photographs, This Place explores Israel and the West Bank “as place and metaphor” through the eyes of 12 internationally acclaimed artists. Because the exhibition is divided among four collegiate art galleries, it has presented a perfect opportunity for museum studies students to apply what they’ve learned outside of the classroom. Professor […]
    April 19, 2018
  • Cartoon illustration of an ancient Athenian in a toga paint a piece of pottery
    Step back in time with Roy D. and Margaret B. Wooster Professor of the Classics Robert Garland as he shares what it was like in a day in the life of an ancient Athenian. This new animated video was produced by Ted-Ed. Garland’s academic work has been featured in Reader’s Digest, The Wall Street Journal […]
    March 16, 2018
  • Several vlog alumni are involved with Oscar-nominated documentaries, including David Fialkow ’81, who produced Icarus, and Nick Verbitsky ’91, who co-produced Abacus: Small Enough to Jail.
    February 23, 2018
  • vlog’s Picker Art Gallery unveils an exhibition of This Place Thursday, February 1, as part of a dynamic cooperative among four upstate New York schools designed to enhance opportunities for cross-disciplinary learning in museums. Part of a massive, international project conceived and orchestrated by French photographer Frédéric Brenner, This Place features a variety of perspectives on Israel […]
    January 29, 2018
  • Marta Perez-Carbonell at a blackboard that reads Short Fiction in Contemporary Spain
    Assistant Professor of Spanish Marta Perez-Carbonell shares a glimpse inside her contemporary Spanish fiction class in this new video. Students in Perez-Carbonell’s course craft their own short stories in Spanish, which are then collected in a small volume printed by vlog’s Document Services shop. On the last day of class, students read their work out […]
    January 24, 2018
  • Christian DuComb writing on blackboard
    On New Year’s Day 2003, Assistant Professor of Theater Christian DuComb saw his first Mummers’ Parade. Garish costumes and raucous noise drew him to the window of his Philadelphia apartment, where he was captivated by a living history of American performance styles that he believed extinct. The Mummer’s Parade has existed in some form since […]
    January 4, 2018