Academics | Ho Science Center, 101
Tom Balonek presents Four Decades of Fun (and Science) at Colgate's Foggy Bottom Observatory.

Academics | Palace Theater
A discussion of the microbiome—the sum of all of the good and bad microorganisms in an environment --recent research on microbiome composition, function, and activity around, on, and inside of us and how that microbiome can be altered for better or worse.Presenter: Ken Belanger is a cell and molecular biologist at Colgate University whose recent research focuses on factors affecting microbiome composition in humans and the broader environment.

Academics | Persson Hall, Auditorium
Sefa Secen is an assistant professor of political science at Nazareth University in Rochester, NY. Prior to joining Nazareth, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at Ohio State University. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University.Dr. Secen’s research focuses on international relations theory, international security, migration, and political behavior, with a regional emphasis on the Middle East and Western Europe. He is the co-author of two forthcoming books: The Muslim World in International Relations Theory (under contract with Cambridge University Press) and Migration, Nationalism, and Demographic Anxiety in Modern Turkey (under contract with Edinburgh University Press). Secen has appeared in leading academic journals and public outlets, including the Journal of Global Security Studies, Politics, Groups, and Identities, European Politics and Society, Turkish Studies, Forced Migration Review, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies, Migration and Development, TIME Magazine, The Washington Post, and The Conversation. His work has been supported by grants from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Andrew Berlin Family National Security Research Fund, the Institute for Humane Studies, the Moynihan Institute at Syracuse University, the Office of International Affairs at Ohio State University, and the Office of Research, Scholarship, and Innovation at Nazareth University.

Academics | Case-Geyer Library, 560 Batza Room
All students and Colgate community members are welcome to join Colgate's Open Discussion Club in discussing ground rules and community guidelines for constructive and meaningful discussions about sensitive topics. This is our first major meeting of the semester. Newcomers are encouraged.Colgate Open Discussion Club is an organization dedicated to upholding the principles of mutual respect, free speech, and collaborative dialogue.

Academics | Little Hall, 105 (Golden Auditorium)
Discussion with filmmaker in personChris Kennedy is an independent filmmaker based in Toronto. His work explores the way images are constructed and framed by both our social preconceptions and formal expectations. This evening will present seven 16mm films and one 35mm film that draw from his 20 years of filmmaking. The films look at how infrastructure designs a city in portraits of Wuppertal (Phantoms), Toronto (4x8x3), and Brisbane (Go Between), and the way traditional media and social media create “truth” (Memo to Pic Desk and the award-winning Watching the Detectives). Along the way, we see a performance in brief (One Roll in the Blackness), explore an inverted meditation tower (The Initiation Well), and spend time in a river, watching time go by (Brimstone Line).

Academics
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