Today's Events | 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.

Today's Events | 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 Treib.Opening reception will begin at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 24, following the art lecture.Curated 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.

Today's Events | Center for Women's Studies
This talk suggests that an insurgent feminist lens requires understanding that racialized gender is key to mapping borders, histories and movements, and asking the question: how and why do women, queer and gender non-conforming people matter in understanding and responding to this moment of global pandemic and protest. Chandra Talpade Mohanty will ask what an anti-racist, decolonial, anti-capitalist feminist praxis consist of at this time when colonial legacies and global inequities are no longer invisible and building solidarities and movements across borders is more urgent than ever before? What do anti-imperialist feminist scholars, activists, and cultural workers need to know, analyze, and learn about so we can forge ethical solidarities across material and virtual borders, and build the landscapes of racial and gender justice that we dream about and struggle for? What does it mean to craft insurgent knowledges through our writing, our art, our cultural productions, our activism, and our pedagogies?Chandra Talpade Mohanty is Distinguished Professor and Chair of Women’s and Gender Studies and Dean’s Professor of the Humanities at Syracuse University. She was a member of the Indigenous and Women of Color Feminist Solidarity delegation to Palestine in 2011. She is author of Insurgent Visions: Feminism, Justice, Solidarity, (Duke University Press, 2025), Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity (Duke University Press, 2003), and co-editor of Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism (Indiana University Press, 1991), Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures (Routledge, 1997), Feminism and War: Confronting U.S. Imperialism, (Zed Press, 2008), The Sage Handbook on Identities (Sage Publications, 2010), and Feminist Freedom Warriors (Haymarket Books, 2018). Mohanty is co-creator with Linda Carty of the feminist freedom warriors digital video archive http://feministfreedomwarriors.org and a member of the advisory boards of fourteen journals including Signs, A Journal Of Women in Culture and Society, Feminist Africa (South Africa), Asian Women (Korea), Feminist Economics, and The Caribbean Review of Gender Studies. She is a founding member of the Democratizing Knowledge Collective(democratizingknowledge.syr.edu) and coordinating team member of the Future of Minority Studies Research Project(fmsproject.cornell.edu).

Today's Events | Palace Theater
Alcohol abuse and addiction is common across rural areas of Sub-Saharan Africa and poses impediments for economic development. A Colgate-sponsored initiative in Kenya provides information, lessons, and possible solutions.Presenter: David Murphy is an assistant professor of Economics at Colgate University focusing on economic development. His research uses economic experiments, randomized control trials, and lab-in-the-field experiments to understand the role of information provision for improving livelihoods of those in less-developed countries, especially in a rural or agricultural context.

Today's Events | Bernstein Hall, 214
Ideation to Implementation: How to Launch a Startup and Build a Customer BaseSix-week workshop series with PE credit Tuesdays, September 16–October 21, 4:30–6:30 p.m., Bernstein Hall 214Whether you’re full of ideas or just starting to explore entrepreneurship, this class will guide you through the essential steps of turning a concept into a viable venture.You'll learn how to identify problems that matter, develop innovative solutions, and validate your ideas through customer discovery.By focusing on real-world applications, you'll gain the skills necessary to launch your ventures and begin cultivating a customer base.By the end of the series, you will understand how to effectively conduct customer discovery interviews to validate a business problem and solution, build a pitch deck, and present your venture to a crowd.From here, you can take this into the TIA Incubator to grow your businesses with the support of experienced mentors and a robust entrepreneurial community.To receive PE credit, sign up through Physical Education registration.To participate without PE credit, email TIA@colgate.edu.

Today's Events | Palace Theater
Creative EndeavorsSix-week workshop series with optional PE credit Tuesdays, October 21–December 9, 6–8 p.m., Palace Theater (downtown)Calling all artists and creatives! Join us for an interactive workshop series to explore your craft and its possibilities side-by-side with other students and local artists. Take the next step in your creative work, develop your creative process, and launch a project that will help you move forward. Along the way, we’ll think about creative wellness and how your creative practice influences all aspects of your life.This workshop series runs weekly from October 21 through December 2 (no workshop during Thanksgiving break), with a culminating final celebration on December 9.This series is offered collaboratively by Colgate Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Arts at the Palace.To receive PE credit, sign up through Physical Education registration.To participate without PE credit, email eandi@colgate.edu.

Today's Events | Little Hall, 105 (Golden Auditorium)
Discussion with filmmakers in personJoin us for a curated screening of short films created by Colgate students, showcasing the breadth and vitality of their artistic voices. The program brings together a wide range of forms—fiction, documentary, experimental, installation, and music video, etc. These works emerged from courses across the curriculum, including Video Art, Art and Technology, Expanded Cinema, Advanced Filmmaking, and the Film and Media Studies Senior Capstone, offering a glimpse into the creative explorations taking place within Colgate’s classrooms and studios.