Academics | Persson Hall, 27 Auditorium- Ground Floor
Apr. 17th- 12-1pm in 27 Persson AuditoriumErik Lillethun (ECON)Assistant Professor of EconomicsTitle: Designing Information to Foster Evolution Toward CooperationDescription: Concealing and obfuscating information has a bad reputation as being harmful to information recipients. However, it has been proven to be potentially beneficial in many settings. In this talk, I will demonstrate that information may be manipulated to promote evolution toward more cooperative behavior in strategic settings (i.e., games). Of particular interest are games such as the famous Stag Hunt, where there is a conflict between a personally risky but prosocial choice and a safe choice. Past research has shown that evolutionary learning dynamics tend to lead to the safe choice over time. However, I show that if a benevolent designer controls the information that players have about other people's choices, those same evolutionary learning dynamics lead to the prosocial outcome. Surprisingly, it does so by making the prosocial behavior look like the safe behavior. This makes players less certain that others are actually making the safe choice, even when it appears so. I will also discuss the implications of these results for social media platforms.

Academics | Lawrence Hall, 105
Brianna Botello (Spanish) – Sabatian Women: Literary Worlds as a Metaphor for Violence in the Argentina DictatorshipBailey Cooper (Spanish) – The Effects of Direct Articulatory Instruction on Spanish Pronunciation Across Diverse Speaker GroupsEthan Hamlin (French) – The Authenticity of the Artifice: Reflections on Sartre’s Les MotsEmma Herwig (French) – Femme: An Original Stage Play Exploring Grief, Family, and DaughterhoodKatie Maratea (French) – Finding Oneself: Alienation and Belonging in School Environments in French and Francophone Literature of the Twentieth CenturyShanely Perez (Spanish) – Sticky Rituals: Affect, Performance, and Emotional Geographies in Rita Indiana’s La mucamaAll presentations will be in English

Academics | Persson Hall, Auditorium
Join us in honoring exceptional students and community members who have made notable contributions on campus. Vice Provost for Administration and Planning Trish St. Leger will open the ceremony by speaking about how she has seen sustainability at Colgate grow in the past years.The Office of Sustainability bestows Oak Awards to students, staff, faculty, and teams whose contributions have advanced sustainability on campus. Oak Award Nominations can be made through April 11. Submit your nominations here.The Environmental Studies (ENST) Awards celebrate declared ENST students who have made contributions in the topics of research, community service, and justice.Vegetarian hors d'oeuvres will be served prior to the ceremony. Please bring your own reusable water bottle.The awards ceremony is part of the Office of Sustainability’s 13 Days of Green series leading up to Earth Day.

Academics | Lathrop Hall, 207
The Department of English and Creative Writing invites you to readings by our two Olive B. O'Connor Fellows in Creative Writing.Ciara Alfaro is a Chicana writer from Lubbock, Texas. Her work has appeared in The Best American Essays, swamp pink, Passages North, Southeast Review, Witness, and more. She received her MFA in creative writing from the University of Minnesota and her BA from Colgate University. Kanak Kapur is a writer originally from Mumbai. She received her MFA in creative writing from Vanderbilt University, where she was also a Robert Penn Warren fellow. Her work has previously appeared in The New Yorker, The Sewanee Review, and elsewhere.

Academics | Case-Geyer Library
National Poetry Month, launched by the Academy of American Poets in 1996, is an annual celebration in April that aims to highlight the importance of poetry and poets in American culture, encouraging people to read, write, and share poetry.The University Libraries, in collaboration with The Upstate Institute and the Adirondack Center for Writing, will be circulating a poetry machine throughout the Village of Hamilton in April.Pay attention the next time you’re at Case-Geyer, Flour & Salt, MOMs, or the Hamilton Public Library. You might encounter the ACW’s Poetry Machine.The Poetry Machine is an old capsule machine, the kind you might spend two quarters to get a bouncy ball, sticky hand, or small plastic alien from in the vestibule of a convenience store. With our machine, you can get your very own poem (for free—no quarters necessary).Inside the Poetry Machine are 10 different poems. Each one features a unique style of poetry, including haiku, cento, epistolary, list, ode, ekphrasis, prose poem, how-to, erasure, and cut-up.If you want to "check out" more poetry, visit the poetry display on the third floor of Case-Geyer.

Academics | Alumni Hall, 2nd floor
This exhibition, curated by 10 students in the fall 2024 semester of MUSE 300: Museum Curating, features the themes of textiles and weaving. Showcasing works from the Longyear Museum of Anthropology’s basket and world textile collections, this exhibition explores the incredible amount of labor and skill that goes into creating woven art. The exhibition takes a comparative view of textiles from around the world, introducing the community significance of different designs and individual stylistic choices. The exhibition discusses how fiber art forms have changed as local and global markets develop, as well as the role that clothing can play in displays of nationalism and politics. Ultimately, Unraveled aims to inspire viewers to consider the benefits of hand-crafted works and foster an appreciation for the people behind the woven things we use and love each and every day.The exhibition features several new acquisitions, including three new works acquired from the Jalabil Maya women’s weaving collective during their artist residency last fall. It also features pieces on loan from our student curators, highlighting the significance of weaving and textile arts in their lives.Student Curators:Leila Bekaert ’25 Oscar Brown ‘26 Kegan Foley ‘26 Emma Herwig ‘25 Bri Liddell ‘25 Gloria Liu ‘26 Meg McClenahan ‘25 Anna Miksis ‘25 Blanca Rivas ‘25 Aleksia Taci ‘25 Professor/Curator: Rebecca Mendelsohn