Academics | Lawrence Hall, The Robert Ho Lecture Room,105
What does it mean to be "Inside" Tenement Time? This talk uses the tenement, metonymically and conceptually, to theorize the marginalized spaces of Jamaica’s capital city. It brings together literary, visual, and other cultural expressions that offer vernacular refusals of state surveillance. Drawing from her recently published book, Kezia Page argues that in its strategies of refusal, the tenement reorders common ideas of time and its relationship to being in the world. Approaching the problem of class and its relation to surveillance in this way exposes the deep fissures between ways of knowing that continue to separate the state and its citizens. Kezia Page, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Chair; Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing & Africana and Latin American Studies; Director of Africana and Latin American Studies. Refreshments provided. All are welcome.

Academics | Little Hall, 105 (Golden Auditorium)
How do transformations in technical imaging recast our experience of the corporeal? This film program gathers together short, experimental works exploring scenes of physical exhilaration and disintegration, probing the intimate interventions made by technology into the body: its appetites, its vulnerabilities, and its display. We are invited to consider the civilizational logics that organize human beings for combat, entertainment, and pleasure.Co-sponsored by Film and Media Studies

Academics | Ho Tung Visualization Lab, 401 Ho Science Center
Narrated by Patrick Stewart, viewers witness an amazing variety of stars and peer into their secret lives. Some stars are massive. Others are tiny, nearly insignificant. The specific characteristics of a star will determine what type of life it will lead, how long it might live and even the type of death it will die.

Academics | Lawrence Hall, 115
The Department of German invites students, staff, and faculty to Kaffee und Kuchen, Conversation and Community.

Academics | Colgate Memorial Chapel , Basement
Colgate’s Heretics Club lunch discussion series was created to elevate the conversation on campus about life’s “big questions.”Our spring 2025 theme: We Disagree! (But We Do It Well!)Discussions begin at noon in the Chapel Basement.Lunch is provided. All are welcome!FEB 6th: Building Trust Across Difference How do we engage across difference in productive ways? In a time of intense polarization, this can seem impossible, but it is more important than ever. Join us for a conversation with Simon Greer, social entrepreneur and founder of Bridging the Gap.FEB 20th: Disagreeing Well with Our Political “Frenemies” Do you have friends whose politics you disagree with? Join us for a student-hosted conversation about ideological bubbles, political frenemies, and the importance of cultivating relationships with people who see the world differently than you.MARCH 6th: Disagreeing Well in the University (feat. President Casey!) Colgate’s mission statement focuses on the importance of cultivating open inquiry, mutual understanding, and a broadened perspective. Join us for a conversation with our own Brian Casey, who will talk about the key role that “civil disagreement” plays in this mission.APRIL 3: What Does It Look Like to “Disagree” with Yourself? Have you ever experienced a dramatic change in your worldview? How did you make sense of it? Join us for a conversation with Sohrab Ahmari, editor of UnHerd and author of From Fire, By Water: My Journey to the Catholic Faith (2019) and Tyranny Inc.: How Private Power Crushed American Liberty—and What To Do About It (2023).APRIL 24th: Disagreeing Well Across Religious Difference Religious differences have created some of humankind’s most longstanding disagreements. Join us for a conversation with Colgate’s Chaplains, Rabbi Barry Baron and Imam Ahmet Celik, about disagreeing well across religious difference.

Academics | Persson Hall, 27 Auditorium- Ground Floor
Feb. 6th- 12-1pm in 27 Persson AuditoriumMatthew Makofske (ECON)Assistant Professor of EconomicsTitle: Pretextual Traffic Stops and Racial Disparities in Their UseDescription: Moving-violation traffic stops are pretextual when motivated by suspicion of unrelated crimes. Despite concerns that they are subject to racial bias, and recent reforms hoping to curb the practice, we lack empirical evidence to inform our understanding of pretextual stops. Using a decade's worth of traffic citation data from Louisville, KY, I provide evidence suggesting that pretextual stops predicated on a particular violation—failure to signal—were reasonably common. While arrest rates range from 0.01 to 0.09 in stops citing other common moving violations, stops citing failure-to-signal yield an arrest rate of 0.42. Importantly, pretext for a stop requires just one infraction; the arrest rate is 0.53 when failure-to-signal is the only cited traffic violation, and 0.21 otherwise. Prior to departmental deployment of body-worn cameras (BWCs), Black motorists account for a disproportionately high share of likely pretextual stops, but are arrested in them at significantly lower rates than other motorists. Both disparities are substantially larger during daylight, when driver race is more easily observed; the latter disparity dissipates following BWC deployment. A departmental prohibition of vehicle search based on a subject's nervousness was abruptly announced in May 2019, and immediately followed by a sharp 58% relative decrease in the frequency of likely pretextual stops.