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Today's Events | Various Locations
Join partners across campus to celebrate sustainability and the environment in the 13 days leading up to Earth Day on April 22.After getting started with the Kick-Off event in the Academic Quad, explore issues of sustainability through the arts, social justice, academics, career development, and more.Stay up to date through the Office of Sustainability Instagram page and newsletter. This celebration honors the remarkable and diverse contributions of Colgate students, highlighting the many ways they enhance our campus community across all subdivisions of the Dean of the College division. View all events here.

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April 7-11. Please see the course registration web page for schedule.

Today's Events | Case-Geyer Library
National Poetry Month, launched by the Academy of American Poets in 1996, is an annual celebration in April that aims to highlight the importance of poetry and poets in American culture, encouraging people to read, write, and share poetry.The University Libraries, in collaboration with The Upstate Institute and the Adirondack Center for Writing, will be circulating a poetry machine throughout the Village of Hamilton in April.Pay attention the next time you’re at Case-Geyer, Flour & Salt, MOMs, or the Hamilton Public Library. You might encounter the ACW’s Poetry Machine.The Poetry Machine is an old capsule machine, the kind you might spend two quarters to get a bouncy ball, sticky hand, or small plastic alien from in the vestibule of a convenience store. With our machine, you can get your very own poem (for free—no quarters necessary).Inside the Poetry Machine are 10 different poems. Each one features a unique style of poetry, including haiku, cento, epistolary, list, ode, ekphrasis, prose poem, how-to, erasure, and cut-up.If you want to "check out" more poetry, visit the poetry display on the third floor of Case-Geyer.

Today's Events | Lawrence Hall, 305
Join Morning Meditation with Jeff McArn, Chapel House program coordinator.

Today's Events | Alumni Hall, 2nd floor
This exhibition, curated by 10 students in the fall 2024 semester of MUSE 300: Museum Curating, features the themes of textiles and weaving. Showcasing works from the Longyear Museum of Anthropology’s basket and world textile collections, this exhibition explores the incredible amount of labor and skill that goes into creating woven art. The exhibition takes a comparative view of textiles from around the world, introducing the community significance of different designs and individual stylistic choices. The exhibition discusses how fiber art forms have changed as local and global markets develop, as well as the role that clothing can play in displays of nationalism and politics. Ultimately, Unraveled aims to inspire viewers to consider the benefits of hand-crafted works and foster an appreciation for the people behind the woven things we use and love each and every day.The exhibition features several new acquisitions, including three new works acquired from the Jalabil Maya women’s weaving collective during their artist residency last fall. It also features pieces on loan from our student curators, highlighting the significance of weaving and textile arts in their lives.Student Curators:Leila Bekaert ’25 Oscar Brown ‘26 Kegan Foley ‘26 Emma Herwig ‘25 Bri Liddell ‘25 Gloria Liu ‘26 Meg McClenahan ‘25 Anna Miksis ‘25 Blanca Rivas ‘25 Aleksia Taci ‘25 Professor/Curator: Rebecca Mendelsohn

Today's Events | 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.

Today's Events | Little Hall, Clifford Gallery (101 Little Hall)
Through an ongoing series of community conversations, artist and architect Suchi Reddy has been in dialog with students, faculty, staff, and townspeople throughout the 2024-2025 academic year to learn about the ways in which our encounters with reflection and misreflection in physical and digital spaces contribute to our experience of bias and belonging. A culmination of the year's conversations, Bias and Belonging poetically reframes the Colgate community's embodied experience of belonging in woven, textual and digital forms. Bias and Belonging is the latest iteration of Reddy's ongoing exploration into embodied states of being that reflect our individual and collective experience as we code switch and transform in evolving environments both digital and physical.Presented by the Art Department and the Christian A. Johnson Foundation**The Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation Artist-in-Residence was established in 1986 as a challenge grant in support of the arts at Colgate. The residency program permits one or more artists to become part of the Colgate community every academic year.*Please note: Weekend hours are dependent on the availability of student monitors. If driving a distance, please contact the department (315-228-7633), during regular working hours, to ensure the gallery will be open. The gallery is not open during university breaks and holidays.

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Are you taking advantage of LinkedIn Learning? All Colgate faculty, staff, and students have access to LinkedIn Learning, an online library of thousands of courses and videos covering business, creative, and technical skills for learners at all levels. (LinkedIn Learning was formerly known as Lynda.com.) New content is added weekly! You can learn what you want when you want it from your laptop, tablet, or phone. This workshop will show you how to navigate LinkedIn Learning, search for topics, create a collection, and more. This session will take place as a Zoom meeting. Participants will receive the link to join the meeting via their confirmation email.

Today's Events | Shaw Wellness Institute, Lounge
Come and take a break with therapy dogs at Shaw Wellness!

Today's Events | The Coop – O'Connor Campus Center, Media Room
LOCATION CHANGE: Coop Media RoomKick off the Office of Sustainability’s 13 Days of Green series on the Academic Quad with a celebration of sustainability at Colgate. Enjoy the warmth of spring while meeting members of Colgate organizations focused on sustainability and environmental issues. Tabling organizations or topics include:Sustainability Graduation PledgeOutdoor EducationSTEM/Sustainability Career AdvisorsSustainability Representatives (S-Reps)After you visit tables from campus partners to learn how to get involved, you can listen to live music, play lawn games and grab a Maxwell’s ice cream cone for a low-waste treat! Vegan and gluten-free options available.We can’t wait to see you there!This event is part of the Office of Sustainability’s 13 Days of Green series leading up to Earth Day. View all events here.Rain Location: Coop Media Room

Today's Events | Lawrence Hall, 105, The Robert Ho Lecture Room
Join us for a lecture from Kieran Setiya, Peter de Florez Professor and Philosophy Department Head at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Despite its conventional association with philosophy, the question of life’s meaning is often dismissed as nonsense by contemporary philosophers — or replaced with questions about meaningful lives — and for most earlier philosophers, the question doesn’t arise. In this talk, Setiya will use the surprisingly recent origins of “the meaning of life” to explain what it could be. Drawing on a Romantic tradition in which the human future stands in for eschatology, Setiya will argue that life could have a secular meaning, one that depends on progress towards justice, and thus depends on us.Sponsored by The Elias J. and Rosa Lee Nemir Audi Lecture Fund

Today's Events | Ho Science Center, 101
Geographer Anne Bonds will deliver the Geography Department's annual Gould lecture, discussing her work with the Mapping Racism and Resistance Project in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. Drawing from this work, she considers housing as racialized property and the ways in which property and race are mutually articulated through the dialectics of (dis)possession.Bonds lecture topic is Infrastructures of Exclusion: Real Estate, Resistance, and Racial Regimes of Property in the Urban North.

Today's Events | Persson Hall, 27 Persson Auditorium
Colgate University Department of Classics presents the John Rexine Memorial Fund Lecture. Josiah Osgood - Professor, College - Department of Classics, Georgetown University. Women as Witnesses in Criminal Trials of the Late Roman Republic. Refreshments provided in Class of 1934 Lobby (outside Persson auditorium).

Today's Events | Chapel House, Entrance
Meet at the Chapel House entrance, and we will breathe in the natural world in a silent meditative walk through the trails and up the hill.

Today's Events | Benton Hall, 213
Each Knight-Hennessy Scholar receives up to three years of financial support to pursue graduate studies at Stanford. Join a conversation with an admissions officer from Knight Hennessy Scholars, a multidisciplinary, multicultural graudate scholarship program.

Today's Events | Lawrence Hall, 020
The era of refugees and migrants, encompassing most of the 20th and 21st centuries, is characterized by displaced and transient human masses. They come crowded in boats, trains, trucks, cars, on foot, or even swimming through bodies of water. Some travel alone, while others travel with their families, or in groups. This is an experience few would have chosen, but due to forces beyond their control—poverty, repression, war—they have become migrants, refugees, or exiles. Through the lens of contemporary Mexican theater, the journeys these migrants engage as they search for a better life are presented in plays written by Mexican dramatists such as Hugo Salcedo, Victor Hugo Rascón Banda, Angel Norzagaray, or Manuel Talavera Trejo. Their plays depict thousands of anonymous actors in heroic, treacherous, and tragic Journeys across some of the most unwelcoming topography between Mexico and the United States.Presentation open to all.Speaker: Iani del Rosario Moreno (Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies, Suffolk University) Co-sponsored by: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Division of Arts and Humanities, Department of Theater, the W. M. Keck Center for Language Study, and Africana and Latin American Studies

Today's Events | Center for Women's Studies
Join us for Men’s Perspectives on Masculinity and Empowerment, a panel aimed at seeking the male perspective on masculinity, male survivorship, gender roles, and power and control.

Today's Events | Base Camp
Do you want to become a Colgate Outdoor Education Trip Leader? Discover how you can develop leadership skills and outdoor expertise throughout this nine-month training program. No prior outdoor experience necessary (attendance is required to apply).

Today's Events | Ryan Studio, 212
Ni Una Bomba Más Written and directed by Jorge Rochet ‘25 Performed by Colgate students and community membersNi Una Bomba Más brings to life three intertwined stories based on real events from Vieques, Puerto Rico, during the U.S. Navy’s occupation. Through defiance, loss, and resilience, the play reveals the deep scars of colonialism and environmental devastation, offering an intense and raw perspective on this lost piece of Puerto Rican and American history.Limited seating. Registration through Eventbrite is strongly encouraged.

Today's Events | Donovan's Pub
Put your knowledge to the test every Thursday from 8:00 to 9:30 PM at Donovan’s Pub! Each week features a brand-new trivia theme, so there’s always something fresh to challenge your team. Compete for a chance to win prizes—the top three teams will take home rewards! Whether you're a trivia pro or just looking for a fun night out, grab your friends, enjoy the lively atmosphere, and see if you have what it takes to claim the top spot. See you there!