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 | Palace Theater
In 1848, a small group of women organized a Women’s Rights Convention that ignited a movement for civil rights, human rights, and equality that continues today.Presenter: Molly Jessup is the education specialist at Women's Rights National Historical Park, part of the National Park Service.

Academics | Lawrence Hall, 115
Kaffee und Kuchen, Conversation and Community, sponsored by the Dept. of German

Academics | Persson Hall, Perrson Auditorium
In his keynote lecture, "On Old Forms in New Times: Theatre of the Oppressed in the XXI Century," Julian Boal will engage in discussions that explore the nexus between theory and performance practice. This presentation intends to foster critical reflection, emotional engagement, and potential action as a community to address social (in)equities of race, ethnicity, and gender, as well as the crucial role of the arts in exposing these issues.Julian Boal is a Brazilian professor, theater researcher and playwright. He is a recognized practitioner of Theatre of the Oppressed (TO). He has facilitated workshops in more than 25 countries in the past 17 years. He has also curated and coordinated several international festivals of TO. He is co-founder and pedagogical coordinator of Escola de Teatro Popular (ETP, in Rio de Janeiro), a school run by social movements for social movements where political unity is practiced at the grassroots level through the practice of theatre. In Boal's latest book, Theatre of the Oppressed and Its Times (Routledge, 2023), Julian Boal argues that political theatre, like any kind of political action, can only be judged in relation to the political moment in which it tries to intervene. How do contemporary understandings of concepts like oppression, representation, participation, and emancipation shape TO today? Highlighting the pitfalls of reducing oppression to one-to-one relationships, the book proposes a version of Forum Theatre dramaturgy that portrays oppression as a defining structure of societies.