Today's Events | Little Hall, Clifford Gallery (101 Little Hall)
Work by visiting woodcut artist Yang Hongwei (Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing) will be on view during a special pop-up exhibition in conjunction with his visit to Colgate. Other events include a lecture on Nov. 13, and a printmaking workshop on Nov. 16.In collaboration with the Asian Studies Program and Picker Art Gallery

Today's Events | Little Hall, 207
Join the Department of Art’s 2024-25 Christian A. Johnson Artist-in-Residence* Suchi Reddy for lunch and conversation about the Bias and Belonging project she is creating at Colgate University.Reddy joins us this year to host a series of community conversations centered on the ways bias impacts our lived experience. As the dualities of bias and belonging, reflection and misreflection are amplified by the exponentially increasing presence of artificial intelligence in every aspect of our daily lives, we invite you to join in the conversation to share your lived experience of advanced technology and AI. The results of these conversations will take many forms, including woven artifacts created on the new TC2 digital loom in Colgate's recently opened Fabulation Lab (103 Bernstein Hall).For up-to-date information, visit https://www.cliffordgallery.org/events/. Pizza lunch will be provided.Suchi Reddy is an architect, designer, and artist based in NYC. In 2002, she founded Reddymade, which focuses on public art installations, large-scale commercial spaces, and residential projects ranging from single-family homes to interiors and prefab architecture. Guided by her mantra “form follows feeling,” Reddy’s architectural and artistic practice is informed by her research on neuroaesthetics, which examines the impact our environments have on the brain and body.Reddymade’s most celebrated projects include the first flagship Google retail space in New York, rated LEED Platinum; “me+you,” an interactive AI and light sculpture currently on display at Michigan Central Station in Detroit, and first unveiled in 2021 at the Smithsonian in DC for the FUTURES exhibit; a minimalist home in Salt Point, New York, with artist Ai Weiwei; “Look Here,” a solo exhibition at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., and many more exciting projects. Learn more about her work at https://reddymade.design/*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.

Today's Events | Palace Theater
Most people are unaware of the complexities of our village structure. This session will review the scope and intricacies of village life, the many things we take for granted, as well as the opportunities and challenges before us.Presenter: RuthAnn Speer Loveless is the mayor of the Village of Hamilton.

Today's Events | Chapel House, Meditation Space
Please join us for guided meditation from 4:15 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. No experience required.

Today's Events | Lawrence Hall, The Robert Ho Lecture Room, Lawrence 105
In his Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke labels all use of figurative language (along with any elements of style other than clarity) as abuses of language. In this talk, Lewis Powell, associate professor of philosophy at the University at Buffalo, presents the basics of Locke’s theory of language and argues for a particular interpretation of Locke’s literalist thesis and his motivation for endorsing it. That motive concerns ease of communication, understanding and interpretation, particularly in the transmission of knowledge. Powell investigates whether the putative advantages of his approach can be defended within his or other frameworks.Sponsored by The Jerome Balmuth Fund and Marion Hoeflich Endowment

Today's Events | Persson Hall, Persson Auditorium
Samrat Upadhyay is the first Nepali-born fiction writer to be published in the United States. His debut story collection, Arresting God in Kathmandu, won a Whiting Writers’ Award, and his second, The Royal Ghosts, won the Asian American Literary Award. He is also the author of three novels, The Guru of Love, Buddha’s Orphans, and The City Son, and a third story collection, Mad Country, which The New York Times called “brilliant, daring, and memorable.” He is the Martha C. Kraft Professor of Humanities at Indiana University, where he teaches creative writing.Co-sponsored by Asian Studies