Academics | Little Hall, 105 (Golden Auditorium)
In Vitro (dir. Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind, 2019, 28 min) and The Dream (dir. Mohammad Malas, 1987, 45 min)Followed by discussion with Colgate professors Daniella Doron (Jewish Studies) and Noor-Aiman Khan (Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies)In Vitro is set in the aftermath of an eco-disaster. A vast bunker under the biblical town of Bethlehem has been converted into an enormous orchard. Using heirloom seeds collected in the final days before the disaster, a group of scientists are preparing to replant the soil above. In the hospital wing of the underground compound, the orchard’s ailing founder, 70-year-old Dunia, is lying on her deathbed, as 30-year-old Alia, Dunia’s successor, comes to visit her. The talk between the two scientists soon evolves into an intimate dialogue about memory, exile and nostalgia.Shot in 1980-1981, The Dream is composed of interviews with different Palestinian refugees, including children, women, old people, and militants from refugee camps of Sabra, Shatila, Bourj el-Barajneh, Ain al-Hilweh, and Rashidieh in Lebanon. In the interviews, Mohamad Malas questions them about their dreams at night. The dreams always converge on Palestine: a woman recounts her dreams about winning the war; a fedai of bombardment and martyrdom; and one man tells of a dream where he meets and is ignored by Gulf emirs. During filming, Malas lived in the camps and conducted interviews with more than 400 people. In 1982, the Sabra and Shatila massacres occurred, taking the lives of several people he interviewed, and he stopped working on the project. He returned to it in 1986 and edited together the many hours of footage, releasing the film in 1987.This event is co-sponsored by Peace and Conflict Studies and the Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Program.

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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 | Ho Science Center, 101
Presented by Kelly Isham, assistant professor of mathematics, Colgate University. Reception to follow.