Today's Events | 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.

Today's Events | The Coop – O'Connor Campus Center
Meet IFSA representative Eric Tarbell. Colgate uses IFSA study abroad approved programs in the following locations - Cambridge, China, Sri Lanka, Argentina, Chile, Peru and Cuba. Learn more about the academics available on these semester long programs, which offer a wide variety of academic disciplines..

Today's Events | Little Hall, Clifford Gallery (101 Little Hall)
Through an ongoing series of community conversations, artist and architect Suchi Reddy has been in dialog with students, faculty, staff, and townspeople throughout the 2024-2025 academic year to learn about the ways in which our encounters with reflection and misreflection in physical and digital spaces contribute to our experience of bias and belonging. A culmination of the year's conversations, Bias and Belonging poetically reframes the Colgate community's embodied experience of belonging in woven, textual and digital forms. Bias and Belonging is the latest iteration of Reddy's ongoing exploration into embodied states of being that reflect our individual and collective experience as we code switch and transform in evolving environments both digital and physical.Presented by the Art Department and the Christian A. Johnson Foundation**The Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation Artist-in-Residence was established in 1986 as a challenge grant in support of the arts at Colgate. The residency program permits one or more artists to become part of the Colgate community every academic year.*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.

Today's Events | 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.

Today's Events | Willow Path, Entry - Near Case-Geyer Library
The Colgate Walking Club invites faculty and staff every Thursday for a 30-minute walk. For our April 17 route (from 12:15–12:45 p.m.), we will be joined by Associate Provost for Sustainability John Pumilio who will highlight any sustainability features and birdlife we see along the stroll. This walk also falls during Sustainability’s 13 Days of Green! Have questions? Email Hello@Colgate.edu.The Colgate Walking Club is supported by the Colgate Hello and RISE Employee Resource Groups.This event is part of the Office of Sustainability’s 13 Days of Green series leading up to Earth Day.

Today's Events | 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