- Mon 23All dayWatch PartyAcademics | 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 - Mon 2310:30 AMAllan Hacklin - Then to Now: 30 Years of RoamingAcademics | Little Hall, Clifford Gallery (101 Little Hall)
Then to Now: Thirty Years of Roaming provides an in-depth look at a life in art and the continuing evolution of one artist’s methods, forms, and styles over the course of 30 years. Their common threads are a rigorous, ongoing exploration of line, shape, color, and space, and faith in the materials and process of painting.Gallery talk and opening reception will take place at 4:30 p.m. on Sept. 11.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. - Tue 24All dayWatch PartyAcademics | 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 - Tue 249:30 AMEntangled Intimacies: Tradition, Motion and MemoryAcademics | 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. - Tue 2410:00 AMWar, Revolution, and the Heart of China, 1937-1948Academics | 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. - Tue 2410:30 AMAllan Hacklin - Then to Now: 30 Years of RoamingAcademics | Little Hall, Clifford Gallery (101 Little Hall)
Then to Now: Thirty Years of Roaming provides an in-depth look at a life in art and the continuing evolution of one artist’s methods, forms, and styles over the course of 30 years. Their common threads are a rigorous, ongoing exploration of line, shape, color, and space, and faith in the materials and process of painting.Gallery talk and opening reception will take place at 4:30 p.m. on Sept. 11.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. - Tue 2411:30 AMPresidential Election: Why It MattersAcademics | Center for Women's Studies, The Lounge in East Hall
Join us for a discussion with Selina R. Gallo-Cruz, associate professor and graduate director of the sociology department at Syracuse University, as she speaks to "Presidential Election: How and Why it Matters?" in anticipation of the upcoming election.Lunch will be provided during this brown bag discussion. - Tue 244:15 PMDivision of Arts and Humanities: Student Summer Research ’24 PresentationsAcademics | Lawrence Hall, The Robert Ho Lecture Room,105
Join us to learn more about summer research projects completed by students in the Division of Arts and Humanities.Student-Initiated Research Jordan Shapiro ’26 (EALL Advisor: Professor Yukari Hirata); Gesture and emotional affect: Do they play a role in L2 Japanese pitch accent acquisition?Faculty-Initiated Research Ellen Weinstock ’26 and Natalie Yale ’26 (RELG Advisor: Professor Megan Abbas); Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy in Indonesia.Wa (Evelyn) Gao ’26 (EALL Advisor: Professor John Crespi); Can You Measure Satire? A Quantitative Study of Online Cartoons from China.All Co-Sponsored by J. Curtiss Taylor ’54 Endowed Student Research FundThomas Nemec ’26 (CLAS Advisor: Professor Daniel Tober); Gibbon and His Suetonius: The Influence of Suetonius' De Vita Caesarum on Gibbon's Decline and Fall.Co-Sponsored as a James Madison Fellow by the Center for Freedom and Western Civilization (CFWC)Refreshments provided. All are welcome. - Wed 25All dayFirst-Half-of-Term Courses: Withdrawal and S/U Grade Option DeadlinesAcademics
Last day to withdraw from first-half-of-term course (with a W) and last day to declare the S/U grade mode for first-half-of-term courses.Please see the registrar's website for forms. - Wed 25All dayForum Theatre Workshops with Julian BoalAcademics | Ryan Studio, 212
Forum Theatre is, without a doubt, the most famous technique of Theatre of the Oppressed.In these workshops, participants will learn, acquire, and engage techniques of Theatre of the Oppressed, which are - as that wording suggests – designed precisely for people to explore oppressions that directly affect their own lives. These workshops also seek to create a safe and artistic space for all participants to thread and interconnect their personal stories and experiences.Facilitator: Julian BoalWorkshops dates and times:Sunday, Nov. 3: 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Monday, Nov. 4: 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 5: 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 7: 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday, Nov. 8: 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Free and open to all.For more information and registration, click here.These workshops are cosponsored by The Colgate Arts Council, The Office of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Department of History, The Office of Equity and Diversity, Department of Educational Studies, Arts and Humanities Division, CORE Communities, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Department of Theater, The W.M. Keck Center for Language Study, and the ALANA Cultural Center. - Wed 25All dayWatch PartyAcademics | 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 - Wed 259:30 AMEntangled Intimacies: Tradition, Motion and MemoryAcademics | 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. - Wed 2510:00 AMWar, Revolution, and the Heart of China, 1937-1948Academics | 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. - Wed 2510:30 AMAllan Hacklin - Then to Now: 30 Years of RoamingAcademics | Little Hall, Clifford Gallery (101 Little Hall)
Then to Now: Thirty Years of Roaming provides an in-depth look at a life in art and the continuing evolution of one artist’s methods, forms, and styles over the course of 30 years. Their common threads are a rigorous, ongoing exploration of line, shape, color, and space, and faith in the materials and process of painting.Gallery talk and opening reception will take place at 4:30 p.m. on Sept. 11.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. - Wed 254:00 PMKaffeestundeAcademics | Lawrence Hall, 115
Kaffee und Kuchen, Conversation and Community, sponsored by the Dept. of German - Wed 254:30 PMArabs, Arab-Americans, and the U.S. ElectionsAcademics | Persson Hall, Auditorium
Hafez Al Mirazi’s broadcast experience spans over 40 years, starting as a radio broadcaster at Sawt Al Arab (Voice of the Arabs) in Cairo. He taught television journalism for 11 years as a professor of practice at the American University in Cairo, and also served as Washington Bureau Chief of Al Jazeera Arabic TV news channel. He was a frequent guest on many U.S. TV shows, including Larry King Live, The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, Nightline, and the Charlie Rose Show on PBS.Co-sponsored by Asian Studies Program, Film and Media Studies Program and Core Communities - Wed 254:30 PMArt Department Lecture: Maggie Cardelús: DriftpointsAcademics | Little Hall, 105 (Golden Auditorium)
Maggie Cardelús is an interdisciplinary artist whose work weaves together memory, materiality, and cultural narratives through experimental approaches to traditional media. Her practice transforms familiar forms like family snapshots, needlepoint, and landscapes into multi-dimensional works that reconfigure our understanding of them.In her early work, Cardelús seamlessly merged her roles as artist and mother, using the materiality of photography to explore photographic form and the intricate connections between images and the family psyche. Her work exhibits a deep respect for craft, and her fascination with traditional craft led her to residencies in Malaysia, India, South Africa, and Paris.These experiences laid the foundation for Driftpoints, where she continues to engage with personal and cultural narratives by critically reimagining needlepoint and landscape. Both bodies of work reflect her enduring interest in how daily life and personal history intertwine with broader cultural and material frameworks, elevating the familiar into something deeply resonant. This work continues at Bucknell University this fall, where she is the Ekard Artist in Residence.Cardelús, who has lived in Paris since 2013, has exhibited internationally, with her work held in numerous collections. She earned a BA in Art History and Studio Art from Wellesley College, an MA from Columbia University, and an MFA in Combined Media from Hunter College. - Wed 255:30 PMPassion Projects Dinner: Prof. Song - Economics of EducationAcademics | Jane Pinchin Hall, 101
Join Dart Colegrove Commons and Professor Yang Song for dinner as Professor Song discusses how she became passionate about the economics of education. Dinner will be provided.The Passion Projects Series aims to create space for esteemed members of the Colgate community to share the things in life they are passionate about, from free expression to birdsong, in a less formal setting.Yang Song is an associate professor of economics and the director of the Asian studies program at Colgate. Some of her current research interests include behavioral economics, poverty and inequality, and the Chinese economy.This event is open to all students, faculty, and staff. Dart Colegrove students will be eligible for Commons Cup points. - Thu 26All dayWatch PartyAcademics | 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 - Thu 269:30 AMEntangled Intimacies: Tradition, Motion and MemoryAcademics | 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. - Thu 2610:00 AMWar, Revolution, and the Heart of China, 1937-1948Academics | 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. - Thu 2610:30 AMAllan Hacklin - Then to Now: 30 Years of RoamingAcademics | Little Hall, Clifford Gallery (101 Little Hall)
Then to Now: Thirty Years of Roaming provides an in-depth look at a life in art and the continuing evolution of one artist’s methods, forms, and styles over the course of 30 years. Their common threads are a rigorous, ongoing exploration of line, shape, color, and space, and faith in the materials and process of painting.Gallery talk and opening reception will take place at 4:30 p.m. on Sept. 11.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. - Thu 2612:00 PMWhy to Be a Civic ConstitutionalistAcademics | Persson Hall, 27 Auditorium- Ground Floor
The Division of Social Sciences Fall 2024 Luncheon Seminar Series (Brown Bags) Presents:September 26th- 12-1pm in 27 Persson Hall AuditoriumJeremy Fortier (POSC)Visiting Assistant Professor of Political ScienceTitle: Why to Be a Civic ConstitutionalistDescription: This paper argues that "civic constitutionalism" constitutes a cohesive and challenging new body of scholarship that can contribute to a range of debates in public policy, political theory, and civic education. In particular, the paper argues that the civic constitutionalist framework can show scholars how to balance competing approaches to civic engagement. The first approach prioritizes working to improve policy outcomes (showing that democratic politics can produce concrete solutions to public policy problems, with benefits that are recognized by everyone impacted by those policies, irrespective of partisan affiliation). The second approach is focused on addressing cultural background conditions (cultivating a common world of shared habits and sensibilities, where unavoidable disagreements can be managed – but not definitely resolved – through meditating institutions, especially political parties). The paper contends that civic constitutionalism balances these imperatives in a way that draws on strengths of research from the social sciences (where disciplines such as Economics tend to focus on policy outcomes) with virtues of scholarship in the humanities (where disciplines such as Philosophy tend to focus on cultural background conditions). The paper also uses civic constitutionalism to assess recent proposals for civic education in post-secondary institutions, ranging from the Stanford Civics Initiative (a general education course requirement on citizenship, with a common syllabus for all first-year students at Stanford) to the new civics centers at public universities in several red states (e.g., the School of Civic Life and Leadership at UNC Chapel Hill).Lunch provided, while supplies last.The next talk in this series is on October 10th with Graham Hodges, George Dorland Langdon Jr. Professor of History. - Thu 263:00 PMHow Mathematics is Making Movies BetterAcademics | Palace Theater
Why is math needed to create better movies? What type of mathematical tools are used? We will explore the mathematics that enhance the magic of filmmaking, where precision and creativity converge to shape unforgettable cinematic experiences like Pixar's Frozen or Disney's Moana.Presenter: Silvia Jiménez Bolaños is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Colgate University. She teaches courses in Differential Equations and Computational Mathematics. Her current research focuses on the Mathematics of Materials Science. - Thu 264:30 PMGlobal Attack on Government Endangers Our FutureAcademics | Golden Auditorium, Little Hall
Jeffrey Kopstein is Dean’s Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. In his research, Professor Kopstein focuses on interethnic violence, voting patterns of minority groups, antisemitism, and anti-liberal tendencies in civil society. These interests are central topics in his books, The Politics of Economic Decline in East Germany, 1945-1989 (UNC Press 1997); Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust (Cornell University Press, 2018); and Politics, Memory, Violence: The New Social Science of the Holocaust (Cornell University Press, 2023). His most recent book is The Assault on the State: How the Global Attack on Modern Government Endangers our Future (Polity, 2024).This lecture is sponsored by the Political Science Department's Kulla Lecture Fund, The Center for Freedom & Western Civilization, and Russian & Eurasian Studies. - Thu 264:30 PMLiving Writers: Peggy ShumakerAcademics | Persson Hall, Persson Auditorium
Peggy Shumaker is the daughter of two deserts—the Sonoran desert where she grew up and the subarctic desert of interior Alaska where she lives now. A former Alaska Writer Laureate, she is the author of eight volumes of poetry, most recently Cairn—composed, says one critic, in language “both nuanced and sensual”—as well as a lyrical memoir, Just Breathe Normally. Since retiring from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Ms. Shumaker teaches in the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University.This event is co-sponsored by The Poetry Series. - Thu 267:00 PMSchaehrer Lecture: Trevor PaglenAcademics | Little Hall, Golden Auditorium
With AI-generated content, social media influence operations, micro-targeted advertising, and ubiquitous surveillance becoming the norm, we have entered an era of PSYOP capitalism. This era is characterized by fabricated hallucinations and manipulations intended to influence our senses, perceptions, and beliefs. This talk delves into the history of secret military, intelligence, and technology programs that have paved the way for our increasingly strange present.The 2024 Peter C. Schaehrer Memorial Lecture in Peace and Conflict Studies will be given by artist, geographer, and MacArthur Award recipient Trevor Paglen. The lecture -- YOU’VE JUST BEEN F*CKED BY PSYOPS: How Mind Control, UFOs, Magic, and Electronic Warfare Explain the Future of AI and Media -- is open to the public.Paglen's work has been featured in galleries and museums across the world. Trevor's mid-career retrospective, Sites Unseen, was published in collaboration with the Smithsonian Museum. - Fri 27All dayWatch PartyAcademics | 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 - Fri 279:00 AMSociety of the PSYOPAcademics | Bernstein Hall, Experimental & Exhibition Performance Studio
This seminar will build on the Peter C Schaehrer Memorial Lecture with Trevor Paglen from the previous evening. That lecture, "How Mind Control, UFOS, Magic, and Electronic Warfare Explain the Future of AI and Media," examined the following: "With AI-generated content, social media influence operations, micro-targeted advertising, and ubiquitous surveillance becoming the norm, we have entered an era of PSYOP capitalism. This era is characterized by fabricated hallucinations and manipulations intended to influence our senses, perceptions, and beliefs. This talk delves into the history of secret military, intelligence, and technology programs that have paved the way for our increasingly strange present."Read Tevor's latest article on this topic. - Fri 279:30 AMEntangled Intimacies: Tradition, Motion and MemoryAcademics | 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. - Fri 2710:00 AMWar, Revolution, and the Heart of China, 1937-1948Academics | 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. - Fri 2710:30 AMAllan Hacklin - Then to Now: 30 Years of RoamingAcademics | Little Hall, Clifford Gallery (101 Little Hall)
Then to Now: Thirty Years of Roaming provides an in-depth look at a life in art and the continuing evolution of one artist’s methods, forms, and styles over the course of 30 years. Their common threads are a rigorous, ongoing exploration of line, shape, color, and space, and faith in the materials and process of painting.Gallery talk and opening reception will take place at 4:30 p.m. on Sept. 11.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. - Fri 272:00 PMEconomics Seminar Series - Nathan BlascakAcademics | Persson Hall, 209
Nathan Blascak of the Philadelphia Fed will lecture as part of the Colgate University-Hamilton College Economics Seminar Series - Fri 273:30 PM15 Years of Research in Burgess ShaleAcademics | Ho Science Center, 101
Join us for "The Cambrian Explosion: An Update From the Last 15 Years of Research in the Burgess Shale" presented by Robert Gaines, Edwin F. and Martha Hahn Professor of Geology at Pomona College.The origin of animal life did not occur slowly and gradually as Darwin envisioned, but rather in an unprecedented burst of evolution known as the “Cambrian Explosion”, which fundamentally transformed Earth’s biosphere. The Burgess Shale, located in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, represents a watershed in our understanding of this event and of the Cambrian world. Because the labile “soft” tissues of Cambrian animals are fossilized in addition to the shells, teeth and bones that comprise the typical fossil record, the Burgess Shale preserves organisms that stand no chance of fossilization in normal settings and thus offers a remarkably complete view of ancient ecosystems at a critical juncture in the history of life. Renewed fieldwork and exploration in the Burgess Shale since 2008 has revealed not only a diversity of new species that inform our understanding of early animal evolution, but an entirely new field area ~40 km southeast of the original locality that is much more extensive and includes several different fossil ecosystems that thrived under environmental conditions different from the original locality. This talk will review recent advances in our understanding of the Burgess Shale, the “Cambrian Explosion”, and early animal evolution. - Fri 276:30 PMOne Sky ProjectAcademics | Ho Tung Visualization Lab, 401 Ho Science Center
One Sky Project is a series of fulldome short films. Each short film represents the perspective of a different culture or Indigenous society from around the globe. Each film stands alone as a short story or in combination as a longer narrative – organized around themes of "Finding Patterns" and developing tools, or as we say, "To Seek Far."Admission is free and open to all. - Sat 28All dayWatch PartyAcademics | 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 - Sat 281:00 PMAllan Hacklin - Then to Now: 30 Years of RoamingAcademics | Little Hall, Clifford Gallery (101 Little Hall)
Then to Now: Thirty Years of Roaming provides an in-depth look at a life in art and the continuing evolution of one artist’s methods, forms, and styles over the course of 30 years. Their common threads are a rigorous, ongoing exploration of line, shape, color, and space, and faith in the materials and process of painting.Gallery talk and opening reception will take place at 4:30 p.m. on Sept. 11.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. - Sun 29All dayWatch PartyAcademics | 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 - Sun 2911:30 AMEntangled Intimacies: Tradition, Motion and MemoryAcademics | 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. - Sun 2912:00 PMWar, Revolution, and the Heart of China, 1937-1948Academics | 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. - Sun 291:00 PMAllan Hacklin - Then to Now: 30 Years of RoamingAcademics | Little Hall, Clifford Gallery (101 Little Hall)
Then to Now: Thirty Years of Roaming provides an in-depth look at a life in art and the continuing evolution of one artist’s methods, forms, and styles over the course of 30 years. Their common threads are a rigorous, ongoing exploration of line, shape, color, and space, and faith in the materials and process of painting.Gallery talk and opening reception will take place at 4:30 p.m. on Sept. 11.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. - Sun 293:00 PMContemporaneous PerformanceAcademics | Colgate Memorial Chapel
Renowned for their fearless commitment to artistic exploration, excellence, and education, Colgate’s ensemble in residence presents an afternoon of music by Colgate students and works by Pauline Oliveros, John Luther Adams, David Lang, and Frederic Rzewski.