Home: Housing and Belonging in Middlebury and Beyond
Thursday, September 19–Saturday, September 21, 2024

What does it mean to have a home? How do you find it? How do you keep it? And why does the idea of "home" feel inclusive to some people and exclusive to others? The 2024 Clifford Symposium will host forums, presentations, and community opportunities to explore local, national, and global practices and policies around home, housing, and homelessness.

While conflicts over who lives where divide communities, responding to "the housing crisis" requires bringing together multiple perspectives. Calls for more affordable housing intersect with issues of environmental sustainability and health inequities. Political debates about where to build new homes invoke historical research on refugee resettlement as well as contemporary scholarship on the social and cultural lives of migrants. Uniting these and many more discussions of home are foundational concerns about how we live together, the desire for belonging, and the demands of justice.

Most events open to the public, see the schedule of events here:
https://www.middlebury.edu/clifford-symposium/clifford-symposium-2024/2024-schedule

Nov 23, 2024, 9 AM to 3 PM

Nov 24, 2024, 3:30 to 4:45 PM

Nov 27, 2024, 9 to 11 AM