Academics | Picker Art Gallery, Dana Arts Center, 2nd floor
A Thought Is A Thread: Contemporary Artists Reworking Textile TraditionsMetaphors using the language of textiles are part of everyday idiomatic English: we follow threads on social media; storytellers weave tales or spin fantastic yarns; friend groups might be close-knit and and we might tie ourselves in knots trying to navigate complex situations. The history of textiles is intimately tied to the development of human societies. Weaving is at the same time one of the earliest human technological advancements, the foundation upon which modern industrial nations were built, and the basis for the computing revolution.A Thought Is A Thread brings together works by leading artists who investigate what textiles can still reveal about people and their relationships to each other, to themselves, and to language, land, and the future. Artworks by Faig Ahmed, Sanford Biggers, Diedrick Brackens, Melissa Cody, Suzanne Husky, Joy Ray, and Jordan Nassar present intertwining narratives that both cherish and complicate the web of meanings that emerge when traditional textile arts are given contemporary expression.Debuting at our opening, Picker Art Gallery welcomes members of the Colgate community to partake in Yarnival, a collaborative art experience. Yarnival will be on view and available for participation during the exhibition run of A Thought is a Thread, through May 18, 2025, in the upper atrium of the Dana Arts Center. Please stay tuned to our social media channels and website for more details on how to participate.A Thought Is A Thread is partially supported by funding from The Friends of Picker Art Gallery.

Academics | Little Hall, Clifford Gallery (101 Little Hall)
For alliances with the beaver people features an 11 meter-long embroidered tapestry that illustrates key moments in the history of beaver-human relationships, tracing how rivers evolve through collaborations between these two species. An explicit reference to the 11th-century Bayeux Tapestry that depicted 58 unique scenes of battle, Husky’s work uses this tapestry form to visualize cross-species mutuality and regeneration rather than battle. The exhibition also features a documentary film about the Vermont naturalist Patti Smith, who takes us into her world of beaver friends and teachers. For the exhibition reception on February 12, Husky will be joined by a panel of researchers, writers, and naturalists (including Patti Smith) to discuss beaver ecologies and the future of their watersheds.In collaboration with Picker Art Gallery. Co-sponsored by Colgate Arts Council, University Studies, Environmental Studies, Film and Media Studies, Biology, Romance Languages and Literatures, Geography, and HistoryPlease note: Husky will also be exhibiting a textile work entitled La Noble Pastoral in Picker Gallery's A Thought Is A Thread: Contemporary Artists Reworking Textile Traditions, on exhibit February 21 through May 18.*Please note: Weekend hours are dependent on the availability of student monitors. If driving a distance, please contact the department (315-228-7633), during regular working hours, to ensure the gallery will be open. The gallery is not open during university breaks and holidays.

Academics | Lawrence Hall, 105
Panel Discussion of recent state laws requiring the 10 commandments in school classrooms.

Academics | Center for Women's Studies, The Lounge at East Hall
Kezia Page, Associate Professor of English and ALST, will share from her recently published book, Inside Tenement Time: Suss, Spirit, and Surveillance. The book looks at surveillance in Jamaica as it emerges through literary representations and cultural and political movements over a long historical arc from post-emancipation to independence and the postcolonial moment. It focuses on surveillance and the responses to surveillance, particularly in the stories of people who inhabit yards and tenements. In this talk, she will look at the famed Tivoli Gardens incursion (2010) both as catalyst and aftermath of surveillance and how denizens of Tivoli, specifically women, complicate top-down notions of surveillance.This event is part of the Center's brown bag series.Lunch will be provided.

Academics | Alumni Hall, 212
This extended study opportunity builds on the work done over the course of the Fall '25 semester in PCON 340 ('Terror/Counterterror: Histories and Logics of Asymmetric Warfare') by going to one of the most important sites of irregular warfare in the late twentieth century: Northern Ireland.This extended study engages with participants on various sides of this conflict, including former “terrorists, ” ex-members of loyalist “death squads, ” civilian victims, and witnesses to atrocities, as well as academics and peacebuilding practitioners who can help students make sense of this protracted internecine war. Locations visited include Dublin, Belfast, Derry, and a tour of the Irish border.With the emergence of The Troubles in the wake of the violent repression of Northern Ireland’s republican-nationalist civil rights movement in the late 1960s by Loyalist and British forces, this disputed territory descended into a spiral of terror and counterterror that lasted well into the 1990s. During this generation-spanning conflict, Northern Ireland became another key nexus of two entwined phenomena witnessed across the world during the Cold War: the use of irregular warfare (guerrilla tactics and terrorism) by revolutionary nonstate actors and the use of counterinsurgency and state terrorism by those forces seeking to repress such resistance. Though a peace agreement has been in place for over a quarter of a century now, the legacies of this conflict continue to reverberate within this polity.Pizza and drinks will be served.

Academics | Chapel House
Join the Residential Commons for an interactive poetry and storytelling performance! Colombian American poet Carlos Andrés Gómez, star of HBO’s Def Poetry Jam and the Spike Lee movie Inside Man with Denzel Washington, will perform his original work, showing us “what hard-earned joy looks like.” Carlos’ most recent book, Fractures, was selected by Pulitzer Prize winner and 19th U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey as the winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry.The first 24 attendees will receive a free signed copy of Fractures. Quesadillas and cookies will be served for lunch. This event is eligible for Commons Cup points.