Academics | Dana Arts Center, Picker Art Gallery, 2nd Floor
Hundreds of bills targeting trans* individuals are currently making their way through state legislative bodies. These range from bathroom bans to expulsion from sports teams to the denial of healthcare. Amid the increasingly hostile rhetoric and attempts to erase trans* and queer lives, the artists in this exhibition use a variety of media to tell powerful counternarratives about perseverance, vulnerability, and kinship among trans* and queer communities.The exhibition opens with a new live performance connecting art and athletics by Nicki Duval (they/them) and Robbie Trocchia (he/they), featuring figure skater Milk. Films exploring themes of transgender identity, visibility, bodies, and politics by multidisciplinary artist Cassils (he/they) are joined by an installation of exquisite cut-paper portraits by Antonius-Tín Bui (they/them). The works by these leading contemporary artists are complemented by a selection from the Picker collection that underlines the past, present, and future existence and vitality of trans* and queer artists.

Academics | Little Hall, Clifford Gallery (101 Little Hall)
This exhibition expands on the forthcoming issue of the artist-run journal Effects, organized around the motif of the hole. Holes draw our attention to the periphery, the edges of the visible, bringing to the fore what typically disappears into the margin. Through rips and shadows, enclosures and erasures, the included artworks address transience, destructive violence, and lost histories, while also evoking the nascent formation of as-yet-unknown patterns for meeting the problems of living — with ourselves, with one another, and with absence.Featuring work by Noel Anderson, Milano Chow, Mary Helena Clark, Clementine Keith-Roach, Lakshmi Luthra, Eric N. Mack, Nour Mobarak & Jeffrey Stuker, Christopher Page, Paul Pfeiffer, Adam Putnam, Larissa Sansour & Søren Lind, Paul Sietsema, and Patricia TreibOpening reception Wednesday, Sept. 24, following the 4:30pm Art LectureCurated by Lakshmi Luthra, Associate Professor of Art and Film & Media StudiesLearn more about the exhibition*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 | Alumni Hall, 212
The Longyear Museum of Anthropology cordially invites Colgate students, staff, and faculty to our staff-led Tag-Filling Workshops, as part our Fall 2025 exhibition, Hostile Terrain 94. University Museum staff will be hosting a series of workshops, where participants are invited to participate in filling out tags for the participatory exhibition, with context and instructions offered by Longyear curators and University Museum staff. Lunches will be provided by Hamilton Whole Foods, followed by instructions on how to fill out the tags for the duration of the workshop. Our hope is that through sharing information about this powerful and timely exhibition, you as members of our learning community can share in the ultimate completion of this exhibition, as well as raising awareness about the themes raised in Hostile Terrain 94. Hostile Terrain 94 Official Promo Video This event is part of the Fall 2025 event series "Undocumented Migration into a Hostile America." Presented by the Peace & Conflict Studies Program and Longyear Museum of Anthropology. This event is generously supported by a Colgate Arts Council grant and co-sponsored by: ALANA Cultural Center; Africana and Latin American Studies Program; Department of Economics; Department of Educational Studies; Environmental Studies Program; Department of Geography; Department of History; Lampert Institute for Civic and Global Affairs (Schaehrer lecture only); Museum Studies Program; Department of Political Science; Department of Romance Languages and Literatures; Department of Sociology and Anthropology; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

Academics | Alumni Hall, 212
The Longyear Museum of Anthropology cordially invites Colgate students, staff, and faculty to our staff-led Tag-Filling Workshops, as part our Fall 2025 exhibition, Hostile Terrain 94. University Museum staff will be hosting a series of workshops, where participants are invited to participate in filling out tags for the participatory exhibition, with context and instructions offered by Longyear curators and University Museum staff. Lunches will be provided by Hamilton Whole Foods, followed by instructions on how to fill out the tags for the duration of the workshop. Our hope is that through sharing information about this powerful and timely exhibition, you as members of our learning community can share in the ultimate completion of this exhibition, as well as raising awareness about the themes raised in Hostile Terrain 94. Hostile Terrain 94 Official Promo Video This event is part of the Fall 2025 event series "Undocumented Migration into a Hostile America." Presented by the Peace & Conflict Studies Program and Longyear Museum of Anthropology. This event is generously supported by a Colgate Arts Council grant and co-sponsored by: ALANA Cultural Center; Africana and Latin American Studies Program; Department of Economics; Department of Educational Studies; Environmental Studies Program; Department of Geography; Department of History; Lampert Institute for Civic and Global Affairs (Schaehrer lecture only); Museum Studies Program; Department of Political Science; Department of Romance Languages and Literatures; Department of Sociology and Anthropology; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

Academics | Colgate Memorial Chapel
This year’s Constitution Day Debate at Colgate will feature Jonathan Turley, the J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University, and Michael Klarman, the Charles Warren Professor of Legal History at Harvard Law School, debating “Is There a Constitutional Crisis? How Would We Know?”The annual debate will take place from 4:30 to 6 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 18, in Colgate Memorial Chapel, sponsored by the Robert P. Kraynak Institute for the Study of Freedom and Western Traditions with support from the Office of the President, the Dean of the Faculty, and University Events. The debate will be moderated by Stephen P. Garvey ’87, A. Robert Noll Professor of law at Cornell Law School. Register to livestream the debate here.Jonathan Turley: Professor Jonathan Turley is a nationally recognized legal scholar who has written extensively in areas ranging from constitutional law to legal theory to tort law. He has written over three dozen academic articles that have appeared in a variety of leading law journals at Cornell, Duke, Georgetown, Harvard, Northwestern, the University of Chicago, and other schools. He is the author of the best-selling and award-winning book The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage (Simon & Schuster, 2024). After a stint at Tulane Law School, Professor Turley joined the George Washington faculty in 1990 and, in 1998, was given the prestigious Shapiro Chair for public interest law, the youngest chaired professor in the school’s history. In addition to his extensive publications, Turley has served as counsel in some of the most notable cases in the last two decades, including the representation of whistleblowers, military personnel, former cabinet members, judges, members of Congress, and a wide range of other clients. He is also one of the few attorneys to successfully challenge both a federal and a state law.Turley has worked for various networks and newspapers for over three decades. He is currently the legal analyst for Fox News. He has previously worked as a legal analyst for NBC, CBS, and the BBC. He is also a columnist for USA Today, The Hill, and other national newspapers. Turley’s columns on legal and policy issues appear regularly in national publications with hundreds of articles in such newspapers as the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, and the Wall Street Journal. Turley received his BA at the University of Chicago and his JD at Northwestern. In 2008, he was given an honorary doctorate of law from John Marshall Law School for his contributions to civil liberties and the public interest. Michael Klarman: Professor Michael J. Klarman is the Charles Warren Professor of Legal History at Harvard Law School, where he joined the faculty in 2008. He received his BA and MA (political theory) from the University of Pennsylvania in 1980, his JD from Stanford Law School in 1983, and his DPhil in legal history from the University of Oxford in 1988. At Oxford, he was a Marshall Scholar. After law school, Klarman clerked for the Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (1983–84). He joined the faculty at the University of Virginia School of Law in 1987 and served there until 2008 as the James Monroe Distinguished Professor of law and professor of history.Klarman’s first book, From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality, was published by Oxford University Press in 2004 and received the 2005 Bancroft Prize in History.He published two books in 2007, also with Oxford University Press: Brown v. Board of Education and the Civil Rights Movement and Unfinished Business: Racial Equality in American History, which is part of Oxford’s Inalienable Rights series. In 2012, he published From the Closet to the Altar: Courts, Backlash, and the Struggle for Same-Sex Marriage. In 2016, Oxford University Press published his comprehensive history of the Founding, The Framers’ Coup: The Making of the US Constitution, which was a finalist for both the George Washington Book Prize and the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award. In 2020, he authored the Harvard Law Review Foreword on “The Degradation of American Democracy — and the Court.” Klarman is currently working on a comprehensive history of race and sports in the United States, from the beginnings of organized sports around the Civil War to the present. Stephen P. Garvey ’87: Stephen Garvey, A. Robert Noll Professor of Law at Cornell Law School, has written and taught in the areas of capital punishment, criminal law, and the philosophy of criminal law. Following his graduation from Yale Law School, Professor Garvey clerked for the Hon. Wilfred Feinberg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and then he practiced in the Washington, D.C. firm of Covington & Burling. He joined the Cornell Law School Faculty in 1994. Garvey received his MPhil in politics at Oxford University (University College), Oxford, England, in 1989 and a BA in political science from Colgate University in 1987. He is also a member of the Kraynak Institute External Advisory Board.

Academics | 101A McGregory Hall
Learn about study abroad options at Colgate - Extended Studies, Study Groups, and Approved Programs.OCS will describe the various programs available, discuss the application process, and review financial information related to participating in these exciting programs.This session is designed for freshman and sophomore students intending to study off campus, most often in their junior year.The upcoming Colgate application deadline for next year’s Study Groups is October 29, 2025, and the Approved Program application deadline is February 4, 2026.Learn how off-campus study can be a part of your Colgate experience!