Academics | Alumni Hall, 111
Sometimes framed as a vital inheritance, sometimes as an object of nostalgia, and still other times as a relic of backwardness, the Ottoman past has long been an object of debate and contestation in 20th century Turkey. In this talk, "Scaling Heritage: Urban Governance and Struggles Over the Ottoman Past in Istanbul," Timur Hammond looks at one especially important moment in that debate: the district of Eyüp in the 1990s and 2000s. Looking at the changing role of municipal governance, Hammond both shows how these urban debates mirrored broader cultural fault lines and offers a more nuanced reading of the motivations behind municipal actors’ conservation efforts.Timur Hammond is an associate professor in the Department of Geography and the Environment at Syracuse University. A cultural and urban geographer, he has published widely on topics including Turkey’s July 2016 coup attempt, the artist and scholar Ahmet Süheyl Ünver, and the geographies of translation. His first book, Placing Islam: Geographies of Connection in 20th Century Istanbul, was published open access in 2023 by the University of California Press.This event is part of the Middle Eastern Cities in Conflict series organized by the Peace and Conflcit Studies Program. It is cosponsored by the Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies program, the geography department, and the architecture concentration in art and art history.

Academics | Bernstein Hall, Experimental Exhibition and Performance Studio
On April 8, 2024, a solar eclipse transited across central New York - its path of totality falling only a few miles from Colgate's campus. Spectating this astronomical phenomenon became a mass social event: nearly a million people flocked to the region.Watch Party, an immersive multi-channel video installation, recreates this event, capturing the scene on the ground rather than the skies.Co-sponsored by Alternative Cinema and Film and Media Studies

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 | Bernstein Hall, 102 (Experimental Exhibition and Performance Studio)
Opening performance and reception will take place at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 12.Movie-Drome 2.0 is a collaborative project reimagining Stan VanDerBeek’s iconic Movie-Drome (1965), a spherical domed multi-projection environment or "experience machine." VanDerBeek designed this alternative cinema to create an "international picture-language" through a series of events he described as "movie-murals," "newsreels of dreams," and "image libraries."Students in fall 2024 courses Art and Technology (CORE400) and Expanded Cinema (FMST390A) have joined forces to remake this work for the contemporary moment using the immersive media environment of the Experimental Exhibition and Performance Studio (aka The Vault) as their canvas. Movie-Drome 2.0 features an array of audio-visual media—from archival images to live surveillance, pop culture to politics, psychedelia to environmental processes, local sites to world events.Co-sponsored by Core Distinction

Academics | Little Hall, 105 (Golden Auditorium)
dir. Paolo Zucca, 2023, 105 min.Based on the novel with the same title by Barbara Alberti (1979), the film aims at contrasting the traditional image of Mary as the silent and obedient mother of Christ, to create a brave new female figure of the time. Intellectually curious and energetic, Mary in this film reclaims her own voice, freedom and access to knowledge, leading to the ultimate rebellion against God’s own plan. The result is a poetic and challenging representation of Mary far from the biblical image of the Virgin.Co-sponsored by the Department of Religion and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures