Academics | Picker Art Gallery, Dana Arts Center, 2nd floor
War, Revolution, and the Heart of China, 1937–1948: The Herman Collection of Modern Chinese WoodcutsThis exhibition, an in-depth examination of the modern woodcut movement in the decades leading up to the founding of the People’s Republic of China, will be the first time that one of Picker Art Gallery’s most singular and important collections will be shown in its entirety.The Herman Collection of Modern Chinese Woodcuts contains over 200 works made in China between 1937 and 1948. They were given to The Picker Art Gallery by Professor Emeritus Theodore Herman, who lived in the country during this period, and his wife, Evelyn Mary Chen Shiying Herman. Professor Herman taught at Colgate from 1954 to 1981 in the Geography Department and was the founding director of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program.Coinciding with the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, the exhibition of the Herman collection is an extraordinary resource for the study of Chinese art and of pre-Liberation history. The prints in the exhibition can be seen as direct links to the historical events taking place in China in the years leading up to Liberation. Images made between 1937 and 1945 in areas controlled by the Chinese Nationalist forces during the Second Sino-Japanese War chronicle the progress of the war and promoted good relations between the army and the people; others, produced in the areas controlled by the Communist Red Army, encourage resistance against the Japanese but also illustrate how Chinese society could be transformed through socialism; those prints produced during the Civil War expose many injustices amid the post-war social and political upheavals. Finally, many of the images in the exhibition explore wide-ranging subjects and a variety of techniques that offer glimpses into quotidian Chinese life during this period.This exhibition is curated by Leslie Ann Eliet.

Academics | Lawrence Hall, 115
Kaffee und Kuchen, Conversation and Community, sponsored by the Dept. of German

Academics | Alumni Hall, 2nd floor
Entangled Intimacies: Tradition, Motion, and Memory is an exhibition inspired by the introductory course of the revised Africana and Latin American Studies curriculum (ALST 199), this exhibition highlights connections among coastal communities of the Atlantic and Pacific. Works from the Caribbean, West Africa, Latin America, and the Pacific Islands feature shared themes of trans-oceanic communication, diasporas, transnationalism, colonialism, and resistance. This exhibition aims to provide space for multiple perspectives through public label submissions (ask a staff member!). Keep coming back, as new labels will be added throughout the semester.This exhibition is curated by Summer Frazier and Rebecca Mendelsohn.

Academics | Picker Art Gallery, Dana Arts Center, 2nd floor
War, Revolution, and the Heart of China, 1937–1948: The Herman Collection of Modern Chinese WoodcutsThis exhibition, an in-depth examination of the modern woodcut movement in the decades leading up to the founding of the People’s Republic of China, will be the first time that one of Picker Art Gallery’s most singular and important collections will be shown in its entirety.The Herman Collection of Modern Chinese Woodcuts contains over 200 works made in China between 1937 and 1948. They were given to The Picker Art Gallery by Professor Emeritus Theodore Herman, who lived in the country during this period, and his wife, Evelyn Mary Chen Shiying Herman. Professor Herman taught at Colgate from 1954 to 1981 in the Geography Department and was the founding director of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program.Coinciding with the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, the exhibition of the Herman collection is an extraordinary resource for the study of Chinese art and of pre-Liberation history. The prints in the exhibition can be seen as direct links to the historical events taking place in China in the years leading up to Liberation. Images made between 1937 and 1945 in areas controlled by the Chinese Nationalist forces during the Second Sino-Japanese War chronicle the progress of the war and promoted good relations between the army and the people; others, produced in the areas controlled by the Communist Red Army, encourage resistance against the Japanese but also illustrate how Chinese society could be transformed through socialism; those prints produced during the Civil War expose many injustices amid the post-war social and political upheavals. Finally, many of the images in the exhibition explore wide-ranging subjects and a variety of techniques that offer glimpses into quotidian Chinese life during this period.This exhibition is curated by Leslie Ann Eliet.

Academics | Palace Theater
This class explores music in the time of Michelangelo, TItian, and Caravaggio, focusing on genres for the church (mass and motet), courtly chamber (Italian madrigal and French chanson), and theater (early opera).Presenter: Seth Coluzzi is a scholar of the music, poetry, and culture of late-Renaissance Italy, whose research focuses on issues of interpretation, analysis, and mode in early music, particularly in the Italian madrigal. His book, "Guarini's 'Il pastor fido' and the Italian Madrigal: Voicing the Pastoral in Late Renaissance Italy," was published in 2023 by Routledge.

Academics | Little Hall, 105 (Golden Auditorium)
dir. Jonathan Glazer, 2023, 105 minBased loosely on the novel of the same name by the British author Martin Amis, The Zone of Interest represents the everyday lives of the Auschwitz concentration camp commandant Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel), his wife Hedwig (Sandra Hüller), and their five young children as they live a seemingly idyllic life in their meticulously maintained villa and grounds located directly alongside the walls of the camp’s gas chambers and crematoria where Jews, Roma, and other victims of the Nazis were brutally sent to their deaths. Directed by Jonathan Glazer (Sexy Beast, Under the Skin), The Zone of Interest has been met with widespread praise, having not only won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Feature Film in 2024, but also receiving multiple accolades and attention regarding its use of sound design to help evoke the spaces of Auschwitz. It has also sparked intense public and scholarly debates concerning the connections between the Holocaust and our contemporary moment.Screening will be followed by a roundtable discussion with Colgate faculty Daniella Doron (Jewish Studies), Rachel Moss (Theater), and Noah Shenker (Jewish Studies & Film and Media Studies).Co-sponsored by Jewish Studies and University Studies