Guided Afternoon Meditation
Thursday, November 7, 2024 4:15–4:30 PM
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Please join us for guided meditation from 4:15 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. No experience required.
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- Nov 74:30 PMLiving Writers: Lydi ConklinToday's Events | Persson Hall, Persson Auditorium
Lydi Conklin’s debut story collection, Rainbow, Rainbow, has been described as “captivating and brimming with love for queer life in all its weird glory.” Conklin is the recipient of a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University, a Rona Jaffe Writers’ Award, and four Pushcart Prizes. Their fiction has appeared in Tin House, American Short Fiction, The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, and elsewhere, and their cartoons have appeared in The New Yorker and Narrative Magazine, among others. They are assistant professor of fiction at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee.Co-sponsored by LGBTQ Studies - Nov 77:00 PMRyan Family Film Series: In Vitro & The DreamToday's Events | 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. - Nov 8All dayColgate Study Groups Application Deadline for Fall 2025 and Spring 2026Today's Events
All study group applications for fall 2025 and spring 2026 are due by midnight tonight. - Nov 8All dayColgate University Women's Basketball at CSU BakersfieldToday's Events | Bakersfield, Calif.
Colgate University Women's Basketball at CSU Bakersfield - Nov 8All dayWatch PartyToday's Events | 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 - Nov 88:30 AMGuided Morning MeditationToday's Events | Chapel House, Meditation Space
Please join us for morning guided meditation from 8:30 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. Monday to Friday.No experience required.