Academics | Palace Theater
A discussion of the microbiome—the sum of all of the good and bad microorganisms in an environment --recent research on microbiome composition, function, and activity around, on, and inside of us and how that microbiome can be altered for better or worse.Presenter: Ken Belanger, Professor of Biology, Colgate University

Academics | Persson Hall, Auditorium
Sefa Secen is an assistant professor of political science at Nazareth University in Rochester, NY. Prior to joining Nazareth, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at Ohio State University. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University.Dr. Secen’s research focuses on international relations theory, international security, migration, and political behavior, with a regional emphasis on the Middle East and Western Europe. He is the co-author of two forthcoming books: The Muslim World in International Relations Theory (under contract with Cambridge University Press) and Migration, Nationalism, and Demographic Anxiety in Modern Turkey (under contract with Edinburgh University Press). Secen has appeared in leading academic journals and public outlets, including the Journal of Global Security Studies, Politics, Groups, and Identities, European Politics and Society, Turkish Studies, Forced Migration Review, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies, Migration and Development, TIME Magazine, The Washington Post, and The Conversation. His work has been supported by grants from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Andrew Berlin Family National Security Research Fund, the Institute for Humane Studies, the Moynihan Institute at Syracuse University, the Office of International Affairs at Ohio State University, and the Office of Research, Scholarship, and Innovation at Nazareth University.

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Academics | Olin Hall, 350 Olin Hall
Jasmine V. Bailey is the author of Alexandria, winner of the Central New York Book Award, Disappeared, and That Salt on the Tongue to Say Mangrove, a translation of Silvina López Medin’s Esa sal en la lengua para decir manglar. She is the winner of Michigan Quarterly Review’s Lawrence Goldstein Prize, New Ohio Review’s NORward Prize, Ruminate Magazine’s VanderMey Nonfiction Prize, and the Longleaf Press Chapbook Prize. She has been a Fulbright fellow in Argentina, an Olive B. O’Connor fellow at Colgate University, and a fellow at the Vermont Studio Center.Matthew Cooperman is a poet, educator, editor and ecocritic, Matthew Cooperman is the author of, most recently, the atmosphere is not a perfume it is odorless (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, 2024) and Wonder About The, winner of the Halcyon Prize (Middle Creek, 2023) as well as NOS (disorder, not otherwise specified), w/Aby Kaupang, (Futurepoem, 2018), Spool, winner of the New Measure Prize (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, 2016), and other books. His ninth book, Time, & Its Monument, is forthcoming from Station Hill Press. A Founding Editor of the exploratory prose journal Quarter After Eight, Cooperman received his PhD in English from Ohio University. He is Co-Poetry Editor for Colorado Review, and Professor of English at Colorado State University. He lives in Fort Collins with his wife, the poet Aby Kaupang, and their children.Vivek Narayanan is the author of the poetry collection: After (New York Review Books/HarperCollins India, 2022) and The Kuruntokai and its Mirror (Hanuman Editions, 2024). His work has appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem and The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poetry. He has held fellowships at the Radcliffe Institute and at the New York Public Library and teaches in the MFA Poetry program at George Mason University.Support for this event, which will be hosted by Peter Balakian, is provided by the Parshley Christ Endowment for Living Writers. The course and program are led by faculty in the Department of English and Creative Writing with generous support from the Olive B. O'Connor Fund as well as the President and the Provost/Dean of the Faculty. A signature program of Colgate University since 1980, Living Writers is a master class in how works of literature come to be.

Academics | ALANA Cultural Center, Multipurpose Room
The Environmental Studies Program and the Earth and Environmental Geosciences Department welcome University of Nevada - Reno Associate Professor of Political Science Elizabeth Koebele to the ENST Brown Bag Series. Her work focuses on environmental policy, specifically environmental governance, water policy and management in the western United States, disaster policy, public policy theory, and qualitative/mixed methods.At this event, Dr. Koebele will explore the following topic:Governing Scarcity: Navigating the Rapids of Policy Change on the Colorado River The Colorado River is a vital resource for western North America, providing water for 40 million people and supporting billions of dollars in economic output. It is also a river in crisis: drought, climate change, and sustained overuse have led to water shortages, negative ecological impacts, and growing competition among users over the last quarter century. Drawing on insights from a recent 7,500 mile-research trip around the Colorado River Basin, Dr. Koebele will provide an on-the-ground look at how this crisis affects different parts of the basin, how decision makers have attempted to “govern scarcity” through various policy decisions, and what potential transformations in basin governance are needed to sustain this critical resource into the future.Hot wraps from Hamilton Whole Foods will be provided and will include vegan, gluten-free, and nut-free options. Please bring your own reusable water bottle.