Today's Events | Center for Women's Studies, East Hall WMST Lobby
Join us for the 2024 WGSS Senior Captstone Projects - Beloved Community: Belonging, Grief, Accessibility and Safety.Come support our graduating seniors:Camryn Yeager: Senior Reflections: Community,Belonging, and Loneliness at ColgateIsrael Zarate: Feminist Book Club: Reading as CommunityShenice Mobley: Equity and Equality in the ClassroomTaylor Cigna: Death Library: A Personal andPolitical Grief ProjectJason Qian:(Counter-)Mapping Safety on Colgate’s CampusLunch will be provided.

Today's Events | Lawrence Hall, The Robert Ho Lecture Room, 105
Presentation by Daniel Tober, assistant professor of The Classics.By the time of his death in 323 BCE, the young king of Macedon, Alexander III “the Great,” had expanded his rule from northern Greece to northern India, transforming the Mediterranean world and the Middle East and earning himself unparalleled fame. His conquests quickly became the stuff of legend. The so-called Alexander Romance, a highly fictionalized account of Alexander’s life and conquests composed not long after his death, became the best-selling book of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages; by the 13th century CE, it had been translated from Greek into Coptic, Ge’ez, Syriac, Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Armenian, not to mention every language of Europe. Stories about Alexander, meanwhile, worked their way into many other texts and traditions. We find Alexander at the gates of Eden in the Talmud, vanquishing the monstrous “Unclean Nations” of the North in the Qur’an, and talking to a magical tree en route to China in the Persian epic Shahnameh. Yet, while many Alexander legends, including much of the Romance, concern his marvelous adventures in India, we have very little evidence for the reception of Alexander among the inhabitants of that region themselves. This talk addresses this lacuna by exploring echoes of the Alexander Romance in the Rajatarangini (River of Kings), a local history of Kashmir written in Sanskrit by the poet Kalhana in the 12th-century CE.Refreshments provided. All are welcome.Reception begins at 4:00 PM. Lecture begins at 4:15 PM.

Today's Events | ALANA Cultural Center
In highlighting Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM), join the ALANA social justice peer educators and Haven ambassadors for a conversation on the impacts of creating awareness about sexual assault amongst marginalized communities and the implications and vulnerabilities on intersectional identities.

Today's Events | Chapel House, Chapel
Designed to help you to accept and become aware of the present moment, zazen meditation is focused on being aware of every sensation simultaneously, including thoughts. This helps in finding peace in the present moment.This meditation is led by visiting Zen Buddhist teacher and scholar Jeff Shore with guidance for beginners.

Today's Events | Jane Pinchin Hall, Kitchen
Come and cook traditional Palestinian foods while learning about the food sovereignty issue in Palestine through a screening of Jumana Manna's Foragers (2022).This event is inspired by Conflict Kitchen, a restaurant in Pennsylvania that utilizes the social dynamics of food and economic exchange to foster discussions about countries, cultures, and people often overlooked in mainstream political discourse and media coverage.We will be preparing dishes like mutabal, mussakhan, and maqluba.Co-sponsored by Peace and Conflict Studies and the Colgate University Greenhouse, and supported by the Residential Commons Program, Dart Colegrove Commons, and Brown Commons.

Today's Events | James C. Colgate Hall, Hall of Presidents
Please join the Colgate Jewish Union in the celebration of the festival of freedom. All are welcome!