Academics | 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.

Academics | Olin Hall, 350
Kristen Dams-O'Connor is the director of the Brain Injury Research Center (BIRC) of Mount Sinai.Dr. Dams-O'Connor will be speaking on: State of the Science: Using Multimodal Data to Advance Traumatic Brain Injury Diagnosis, Outcomes, and Care.Event is co-sponsored by Mind, Brain, and Behavior Initiative

Academics | Center for Women's Studies, The Lounge at East Hall
Dr. Colt, a licensed psychologist and board-certified family medicine physician, will share his experience as an openly transgender doctor as he attempts to take care of the transgender community. This includes having to move out of his home state of Texas due to political oppression. He will answer questions about the care that this community so desperately needs.This event is part of the Center's brown bag series and is co-sponsored by biology, Core Communities, OED, Core Sciences, LGBTQ studies, and chemistry.Lunch will be provided.

Academics | Colgate Memorial Chapel, Garden Level
Join us for a brown bag discussion with Nell Shapiro Hawley and the Colgate Hindu Student Association.Yoga: Is it physical or mental? Is it religious, secular, spiritual? Is it ancient or modern?We all know what yoga looks like—or at least we think we do—but while yoga has become an indelible part of transnational physical culture, many of us would struggle to explain what it is or where it comes from.Lunch will be provided.

Academics | Lawrence Hall, The Robert Ho Lecture Room,105
Jamie Kreiner, Professor and Robert and Dorothy Wellman Chair in Medieval History, University of California, Los Angeles.Minds on Fire: Thinking with Lamps in the Early Middle AgesIf electricity powers our thinking today — as a metaphor for discovery, the energy behind our devices and databases, and the source of our literal illumination — how did people think before the bulb? This talk explores one period in the very long history of artificial lighting, the early Middle Ages, to think about the relationship between lamps and minds and the entanglement of everyday objects and habits of thinking.Co-sponsored by Fund for the Study of World Religions; Department of Religion; Department of History; and Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program.Refreshments provided.All are welcome.

Academics | Persson Hall, 27
Join us in person, or on-line for a discussion with Michael O'Hanlon, Lampert Institute Non-resident Fellow, and Director of Research and Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution. Along with, Vanda Felbab-Brown, Senior Fellow in the Strobe Talbot Center for Security, Strategy and Technology in the Foreign Policy Program at the Brookings Institutution.