Bill Porter: "The Chinese Search
for Solitude and the Rise of Zen"
From the GMC Journal
Week of April 22, 2013
Bill Porter, an award-winning translator of Chinese religious texts and poetry, will present a lecture and slideshow on the rise of the Zen tradition in China this Thursday, April 25 at 7 p.m. in the East Room.
Mr. Porter has personally visited many of the culturally and historically significant sites related to the poetic and religious history of China, and will share his experiences.
Nepal Course Presentation
From the GMC Journal
Week of March 26, 2012
On Tuesday, March 27 from 4 – 5 p.m. in Terrace 124, participants in the recent December – January international anthropology course will present and reflect on their recent three-week study of “culture and environment” in Nepal.
GMC Professor Mark Dailey Receives Grant of $27,000
From the GMC Journal
Week of February 6, 2012
Professor Mark Dailey and five GMC students recently received a grant of $27,000 from the ASIANetwork Freeman Student-Faculty Fellows Program to conduct anthropological, ethnographic research in China this coming summer. The study will investigate how massive outmigration from the Chinese countryside is affecting the human-environment relationship in these increasingly depopulated areas.
Jane O'Reilly at GMC
From the GMC Journal
Week of February 6, 2012
Green Mountain College will host Ms. magazine co-founder Jane O'Reilly for a talk on women's rights and the feminist movement on February 7, 2012, at 9:30 a.m., in the Gorge. The event is free and open to the public. A coffee reception will follow.
Culture and Environment in Nepal. Winter Break '11-'12
From the GMC Journal
Week of January 30, 2012
For three weeks over winter break, Green Mountain College was well represented in the foothills of the Himalayas, where students studied and experienced “Culture and Environment in Nepal” for three credits in sociology/anthropology. The group included a vibrant cross-section of the GMC community: 19 students, anthropology professor Mark Dailey, vice president of student life and trip organizer Joe Petrick, and board of trustees member Al Wakefield all joined the extended exploration.
Indigenous Agriculture, Policy, and Human Migration, Chiapas, Mexico, Winter Break 11-12
From the GMC Journal
Week of January 23, 2012
During the winter break seven GMC students found themselves in the state of Chiapas in southern Mexico in the small village of San Isidro just north of the Guatemalan border. The course Indigenous Agriculture, Policy, and Human Migration focused on the issues at the root of migration. The students explored why approximately 120 young people from San Isidro, a town of 1,200, have migrated to Vermont in order to work endless hours on Vermont dairy farms.
Faculty Colloquium Series: Mark Dailey
From the GMC Journal
Week of February 7, 2011
Prof. Mark Dailey drew on 2010 sabbatical research in southern China to examine what is happening to traditional botanical knowledge and practices amidst the rapid social and economic changes occurring in Chinese society.
The title of his presentation was “Why Don’t People Know the Plants Any More?: Modernization and Disappearing Knowledge in China.”
Fem Fair to Celebrate Women's History
From the GMC Journal
Week of March 15, 2010
“Writing Women Back into History:” It’s the theme for this year’s Fem Fair, to be held March 18 from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. in Withey Hall lobby. The Women’s and Gender Events (WAGE) group sponsors the celebration in honor of Women’s History Month. The event’s purpose is to raise awareness about gender issues through posters and exhibits of some 20 local and regional organizations, including the GMC women’s studies class. GMC's Shakti Tribal Dance students will perform at 12:30 and 1:30 p.m. outside of Withey Hall, weather permitting. Rain location is the Gorge.
