Carleton College

Carleton issued the following clarification to a piece in the Friday, June 19 edition of the New York Times entitled "For Colleges, Small Cuts Add Up to Big Savings" in regards to the College's switch from a six-course to a five-course teaching load for its faculty.

Carleton will hold a community gathering to reflect on the life of recent graduate Wade Bruce Johnson ’07, on Monday, June 8 at 2:45 p.m. in the College’s Skinner Memorial Chapel...

Carleton’s Ninth Annual “Lighten-Up” Garage Sale will take place in the West Gym on Thursday, June 18 and Friday, June 19 from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. (with a bag sale beginning at noon on the second day of the sale)...

Carleton College will award the Bachelor of Arts degree to 506 graduating seniors at the 135th annual commencement exercises on Saturday, June 13 at 9:30 a.m. on the Bald Spot, the lawn west of Hulings Hall on the Carleton campus...

Carleton College proudly announces that it will confer two honorary degrees at its 135th commencement ceremony on Saturday, June 13. Acclaimed concert pianist and Northfield native Peter Basquin and philanthropic businesswoman Annie S.C...

Gao Hong, a master of the pear-shaped Chinese lute and member of the Carleton College music faculty, will join local new-music ensemble Zeitgeist in Converging Traditions, a rare concert experience joining the best of Eastern and Western music...

The Carleton College African Drum Ensembles will perform their annual spring concert on Tuesday, June 2 at 4 p.m. outdoors on the campus Bald Spot...

The Carleton College Chinese Music Ensemble will perform in concert Sunday, May 24 at 3 p.m. in the Concert Hall. The performance is free and open to the public.

The Carleton College Semaphore Repertory Dance Company, comprised of advanced dance students, will perform its annual spring concert on Friday, May 22 and Saturday, May 23 at 8 p.m. in the Arena Theater...

The Carleton College Choir will perform its final concert of the year on Saturday, May 23 at 8 p.m. in the Carleton Concert Hall. This special performance, commemorating the work of three master composers—Henry Purcell, George Handel, and Josephy Haydn—is free and open to the pub

Spring is the time for bird watching, and the Carleton College Cowling Arboretum is sponsoring a beginning bird watching field trip on Saturday, May 23, from 6:30-9 a.m.

Carleton College’s student-led Experimental Theater Board will perform “The Pillowman,” a psychological thriller written by Irish playwright Martin McDonagh, on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, May 14, 15 and 16, nightly at 8 p.m...

Spring is the time for bird watching, and the Carleton College Cowling Arboretum is sponsoring a beginning bird watching field trip on Saturday, May 23, from 6:30-9 a.m...

Carleton’s senior studio art majors will display their final projects in an exhibit and reception opening Friday, May 15 at 7 p.m...

Disconnected, a documentary film made by eight students from Carleton College, will make its television debut on Twin Cities Public Television (tpt) on Sunday, May 10 at 10:30 p.m. The documentary will re-air on Monday, May 11 at 4:30 a.m...

“Bollywood,” the very popular Hindi-language film industry in India, will be the focus of a lecture by Carleton College professor Arnab Chakladar on Tuesday, May 12 at 4 p.m. in the Gould Library Athenaeum. Entitled “Why all the Song and Dance...

The Carleton’s Players will present “in/BED/dead,” an original cast-written theatrical production, at 8 p.m. nightly on Friday and Saturday, May 8, 9, 15, and 16. The performances will be held in the Arena Theater and are free and open to the public; reservations are sugg

As part of a psychology seminar, students will present an episode of “Mental Engineering,” modeled after the popular public television program of the same name. The Carleton edition of “Mental Engineering” will take place Wednesday, May 6 from 4:15-5 p.m...

Carleton’s annual International Festival, sponsored by the Office of Intercultural Life and International Student Programs, will take place Saturday, May 9 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. in the Sayles-Hill Great Space and Great Space Balcony...

Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Medical Ethics Dr. Edmund Pellegrino will present a convocation address entitled “The Moral Foundation of Medical Practice” at Carleton College on Friday, May 8 at 10:50 a.m. in the Skinner Memorial Chapel. This event is free and open to the pub

Guest Artist and pianist John Milbauer will perform in concert on Saturday, May 9 at 7 p.m. in the Carleton College Concert Hall...

Teatro del Pueblo, a non-profit Latino theater group based in St. Paul, will perform a short play on Friday, May 8 at 8 p.m. in the Severance Great Hall...

Acclaimed writer and wide-ranging cultural critic Lawrence Weschler will appear Wednesday, May 6 at 7:30 p.m. in the Boliou Hall Auditorium on the Carleton College campus...

Carleton College will be the stage for a rare live performance of renowned avant-garde composer Annea Lockwood's controversial yet notable work for piano, "Piano Burning." First performed in 1968, this ground-breaking composition centers around the actual burning of a piano—one that is beyond...

Professor Lev Hakak of UCLA will present the Carleton College Forkosh Family Lecture in Judaic Studies at 8 p.m. on Monday, April 27 in the Severance Great Hall...

The Experimental Theater Board, a theater company managed entirely by students, will present its annual production of student-written and directed one-act plays at 8 p.m. nightly on Thursday, April 30, Friday, May 1 and Saturday, May 2...

Carleton College is pleased to announce the premiere screening of a new documentary film “Cemetery Stories: A Rebel Missionary in South Africa,” directed by Cherif Keita and edited by Dominic Fucci, on Wednesday, April 29 at 7:15 p.m. in Olin Hall, room 149...

Nationally-known art vendors Vamp and Tramp Booksellers, purveyors of fine press and artists' books, will host a trunk show of their offerings on Wednesday, April 22 at 4 p.m. in the Gould Library Athenaeum...

Carleton will host a series of special events Friday and Saturday, April 24 and 25, as part of its annual Foro Latinoamericano (Latin American Forum)...

Lloyd Bond, Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, will give a lecture on "Understanding the Racial Achievement Gap" on April 23 at 5 p.m. in Boliou Hall, room 104. His lecture is free and open to the public.

The soaring sounds of the internationally-acclaimed Chiara String Quartet will be heard on Friday, April 24 beginning at 8 p.m. in the Carleton Concert Hall. Performing the works of composer Jefferson Friedman, this not-to-be-missed performance is free and open to the public.

Robert Oden III, Senior Commercialisation Manager in the New York office of EcoSecurities—one of the world’s leading companies in the business of originating, developing, and trading carbon credits—will present the weekly convocation on Friday, April 24 at 10:50 a.m...

Carleton will host the third annual Northfield Earth Day Contra Dance on Friday, April 24, from 7 to 10:30 p.m. in the Sayles Hill Great Space. Featuring the music of Contratopia!, the dance free and open to the public...

Acclaimed designer, artist, and environmental activist Fritz Haeg will appear at Carleton on Thursday, April 23 at 7:30 p.m. in the Boliou Hall Auditorium...

Award-winning baseball authors Stew Thornley and Dan Levitt will read from, discuss and sign copies of their books at 4 p.m., Monday, April 20, in the Gould Library Athenaeum.

Carleton’s Gender and Sexuality Center will be co-sponsoring a Northfield LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) community forum and potluck on Monday, April 20 in the fellowship room at Northfield’s First United Church of Christ, 300 Union Street...

Dr. Walter G. Andrews ’61, research professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization at the University of Washington, will give the inaugural lecture for the Ira Wender Lecture Series on Cultural Understanding on Tuesday, April 21 at Carleton College’s Gould Library Athenaeum at 7:30 p.m...

Noted political scientist Clifford Orwin will give a presentation entitled “On the Greatest Obstacle to Higher Education Today” at 7:30 p.m. in the Gould Library Athenaeum on Wednesday, April 22. His lecture is free and open to the pub

Dr. Barbara Porter, Director of the American Center for Oriental Research (ACOR), will present the Carleton College Edwin L. Weisl Jr. Lecture in Art History entitled "The Byzantine Churches in Petra excavated by ACOR" on Tuesday, April 21 at 5 p.m. in the Boliou Hall Auditorium...

Carleton will observe Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, with a service and vigil to be held on Monday, April 20, at 7 p.m. in the Skinner Memorial Chapel. As part of the ceremony, two speakers—Nelly Trocme Hewitt and Franceline Lurie —will speak about their experiences in Nazi Europe...

Distinguished mezzo soprano Emily Lodine will perform in recital along with accompanist Nicola Melville on Friday, April 17 at 8 p.m. in the Carleton College Concert Hall...

David Porter, the Tisch Family Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts at Skidmore College and former Carleton College President, will perform on the piano on April 19 in the Concert Hall from 3-4:30 p.m. The event, sponsored by Carleton’s music department, is free and open to the public...

Former Carleton College President and long-time professor David Porter will present a lecture, “On the Divide: How a Musician and Classicist Came to Write About Willa Cather,” on Friday, April 17 at 4 p.m. in Carleton’s Gould Library Athenaeum. The event is free and open to the public...

Carleton will screen a modern dance interpretation of Beauty and Love, a Sufi mystical poem on Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at 4:30 p.m. in Carleton's Gould Library Athenaeum...

Ceramicists and Carleton College graduates Mel Griffin ’01, Kip O’Krongly ’01 and Kristin Pavelka ’00 will present a joint lecture on their artistic careers post-Carleton and their recent works on Wednesday, April 15 at 3:30 p.m. in the Boliou Hall Auditorium, Room 104...