Today's Events | Case-Geyer Library, 3rd Floor
In honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM), check out Haven, Help Restore Hope, and Shaw's library display on the 3rd floor of Case-Geyer throughout April. The display includes featured books that speak to survivorship, resiliency, healing, and action. You're invited to engage with and borrow these books and additional ones on display, make a bookmark, grab a teal awareness pin, and more.

Today's Events
Last day to withdraw from second-half-of-term courses (with a W) and last day to declare the S/U grade mode for second-half-of-term courses.

Today's Events | Persson Hall, Auditorium
The historical geographies of the Caribbean situate the region at the center of the modern world. The region entered the European spatial imaginary as the Antilles, a geographical description for the island archipelago that was tied to the mythologized Antillia. The visualizing practices and religio-cultural vocabulary behind the naming of the region, reflects the broader logics of coloniality that would come to fundamentally remaking the Caribbean. What Europeans did in and to the Caribbean, its Indigenous people, and the people forced into new residence there, provides compelling reason to take racial imaginaries seriously.In this talk, the presenter will use the concept of racial ecologies to read the political ecologies of European world-building in the Caribbean. For all the social, environmental, and cultural violence invested in the creation and preservation of colonial racial ecologies, Caribbean peoples have sprouted rich ecologies that escape these plantationist landscaping. The talk considers some of these insurgent Caribbean ecologies and the alternative vision of Antillia that they grow toward. This discussion will suggest how an Antillean perspective places epistemological and methodological demands on Africana, Latin American Studies, and Environmental Studies.Guest Speaker Information Alex A. Moulton is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at Hunter College and faculty in the Ph.D. Program in Earth and Environmental Science at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. His research focuses on Black geographies and ecologies, socio-ecological justice, and political ecology of climate change.

Today's Events | Colgate Memorial Chapel, Judd Chapel (Garden Level)
Honoring the spirit of past Colgate traditions, we invite you to a new rhythm of gathering together for sacred pause and brief encounters with the diverse religions, spiritual, and secular practices represented in our collective community. Join us for 15 minutes of music, a reading or prayer, and brief reflection. Light refreshments will be served.

Today's Events | Alumni Hall, 2nd Floor
This exhibition, co-curated by Longyear Curatorial Assistant Summer Frazier and Curatorial Intern Raquel Marquez-Guerrero ‘24, explores the different ways that art leverages the creative process to metabolize conflict or aggression. This healing manifests in various forms, ranging from redefining narratives to empathizing with personal or communal losses. These artists, working in media from 2D to 3D to street and graffiti art, intentionally confront discontent, fostering creative growth and finding solutions. In this context, their art becomes a means to process pain and to construct bridges amidst conflict. In addition to art, this exhibition also explores various ways that plants can be used in healing processes.

Today's Events | Dana Arts Center, Second Floor
The Collections: What is the role of an art museum on a liberal arts college campus? Since 2013, the collections at Picker Art Gallery have been shifting. Moving away from traditional models of collecting, the museum today holds a larger proportion of artworks by women, BIPOC, LGBTQ+ artists and others whose creativity and stories have historically been left out of museum collections.The Core: The revision of Colgate’s Core Curriculum represents the essence of the university’s liberal arts commitments to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Introduced in 2022, the revised Core curriculum has a stronger focus on exposing students to diverse forms of knowledge. Most notably, a new course called Core Conversations was created. Based on five globally significant “texts,” it lays out the common ground for intellectual discussions within the Colgate community. Core Conversations focus on productive discourse and communal learning among students, encouraging them to engage in perspectives and dialogues beyond the limits of personal experience.Core Collections: This is not a typical museum experience. The gallery has been transformed into a space for open-ended dialogue. Visitors will not find a lot of text interpreting the artworks; rather, we pose a series of questions, designed to elicit individual reflection and initiate discussions across communities, identities, and materials.. The exhibition is organized into four broad areas of inquiry: Appearances, Epistemologies, Urbanism and Labor, and People and Land. We encourage you to engage with the questions provided while viewing the works, and to contribute your insights or your own questions to our interactive space.What will you add to the conversation?Core/Collections is curated by Emma Barrison ’24, Cindy Chen ’24, and Wendy Wu ’25