Academics

Academics | Olin Hall, Love Auditorium
University Museums and Visual AIDS are presenting a program of seven videos reflecting the emotional spectrum of living with HIV today. Through the red ribbon and other visuals, HIV and AIDS has been long associated with the color red and its connotations—blood, pain, tragedy, and anger. Red Reminds Me… invites viewers to consider a complex range of images and feelings surrounding HIV, from eroticism and intimacy, mothering and kinship, luck and chance, memory and haunting. The commissioned artists deploy parody, melodrama, theater, irony, and horror to build a new vocabulary for representing HIV today.

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 | Lathrop Hall, 207
Uncovering The Role of the Human Intestinal Microbiome in Health and Disease, presented by Scott Amon, Assistant Professor, Le Moyne College.From Professor Amon: My lab works with a small nematode, C. elegans, model organism to study how environment impacts health and development. The environmental factors we focus on are diet and gut microbiota. We ask several fundamental questions, such as what makes a gut microbiome ‘healthy’? What are good or bad microbes? Can microbiomes harm the intestine and the nervous system? We address these questions using interdisciplinary approaches at the intersection of molecular biology, biochemistry, and genetics. Furthermore, my lab is also interested in using the human microbiome to identify factor(s) that reduce virulence of P. aeruginosa. P. aeruginosa including the lung, ventilator-associated pneumonia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and cystic fibrosis. Together, my research is purposefully designed to shed some light on the function of the human microbiota on health.

Academics | Center for Women's Studies, The Lounge at East Hall
Join us for a discussion on "Title IX: Understanding the Latest Changes" with Amy Gordon, Title IX coordinator. She will explain updated regulations and how they will impact our Colgate community.Lunch will be provided.

Academics | Lawrence Hall, The Robert Ho Lecture Room,105
The persistent and pernicious problem of mass incarceration in America has been taken up by numerous religious scholars. This lecture by Christophe Ringer, associate professor of theological ethics and society at the Chicago Theological Seminary, will explore the significance of how ‘religion’ and ‘the religious’ is theorized for understanding what kind of phenomenon mass incarceration is and the possibilities for creating a world beyond it.This event is co-sponsored by M. Holmes Hartshorne Annual Memorial Lecture Fund.Refreshments provided. All are welcome.

Academics | Hamilton Public Library
Please join the Upstate Institute and ENST 450: Community Based Research students for a presentation on tick-borne diseases and prevention strategies in Madison County.

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

Academics | East Hall, Center for Women's Studies, Lounge
Join us for a Lalla Traoré lecture on "Youth Participation in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Programs in Mali."Dr. Lalla Fatoumata Traoré holds a MD from the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry (Mali), a MPH from the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp (Belgium), and a PhD in public health from the Superior Institute in Training and Applied Research, University of Juridical Sciences and Politics (Mali). Early in her career, she worked as a primary care physician, before working for Mali’s National Health Department designing programs on reproductive health, tuberculosis treatment and prevention, and improving hospital performance. Dr. Traoré is currently a professor of public health at the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry (Mali). She is a specialist on reproductive health, adolescent sexuality, public health responses to sexual violence, and improving health facility quality. She has conducted public health research projects using quantitative and qualitative methods, including implementation research, in Mali, Senegal, Burkina Faso, and Benin. She is originally from the town of Segou, Mali.Co-Sponsored by Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, Global Public and Environmental Health Program

Academics | Lawrence Hall, 105
"The AIDS Crisis is Not Over": AIDS Activism and the Politics of Memory Lecture and Book Signing by Dr. Dan RoyelsThe last decade and a half have seen an outpouring of commemoration of HIV/AIDS history. What's at stake when we remember an epidemic that is still ongoing? Whose stories get told, and whose get left out? And what do the answers to these questions tell us about the future of public health, of pandemics, and of social movements?Sponsored by University Museums, the Office of LGBTQ+ Initiatives, the Department of History, the Shaw Wellness Institute, Haven, Student Health Services, the Counseling Center, and the Colgate Bookstore. Thank you to our community partners: Lambda, Trans* Advocacy Group, and Colgate Historical Society.

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 | Lawrence Hall, 17
Join us to learn how to apply for funding to study any non-English language during the summer of 2025.

Academics | Little Hall, 105 (Golden Auditorium)
dir. Jonathan Glazer, 2023, 105 minBased loosely on the novel of the same name by the British author Martin Amis, The Zone of Interest represents the everyday lives of the Auschwitz concentration camp commandant Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel), his wife Hedwig (Sandra Hüller), and their five young children as they live a seemingly idyllic life in their meticulously maintained villa and grounds located directly alongside the walls of the camp’s gas chambers and crematoria where Jews, Roma, and other victims of the Nazis were brutally sent to their deaths. Directed by Jonathan Glazer (Sexy Beast, Under the Skin), The Zone of Interest has been met with widespread praise, having not only won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Feature Film in 2024, but also receiving multiple accolades and attention regarding its use of sound design to help evoke the spaces of Auschwitz. It has also sparked intense public and scholarly debates concerning the connections between the Holocaust and our contemporary moment.Screening will be followed by a roundtable discussion with Colgate faculty Daniella Doron (Jewish Studies), Rachel Moss (Theater), and Noah Shenker (Jewish Studies & Film and Media Studies).Co-sponsored by Jewish Studies and University 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 | Lathrop Hall, 207
Student research groups will present on topics from their community-based research, regarding Colgate's campus and the Central New York region. (More information of the presenting groups to come.)Vegetarian hot wraps from Hamilton Whole Foods will be served, including vegan, gluten-free, and nut-free options. Please bring your own reusable water bottle.This event will count as 1 credit for the employee Sustainability Passport program. Please submit your attendance after the event in order to earn credit.

Academics | Persson Hall, 209
Wendong Zhang of Cornell University will lecture as part of the Colgate University-Hamilton College Economics Seminar Series

Academics | Hamilton Theater
The Peace and Conflict Studies program invites you to a fim screening of Dr. Strangelove (1954), directed by Stanley Kubrick, at the Hamilton Theater.A comedic satirization of Cold War era nuclear conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. The film follows an unhinged American Air Force general who orders a preemptive nuclear strike on the Soviets.Duration: 1h34m

Academics | Ho Science Center, 101
Presented by Michael Loranty, director of environmental studies; professor of geography. Reception to follow.

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 | Dana Arts Center, Brehmer Theater
Created and performed by the THEA 257 Theater for Young Audiences class, the play - I Wish, I Wish, My Mind Were A Fish! The Fairies' Route to Creativity - invites young and old to think about authenticity and wonder. Hazel wants to write a "perfect" story, only to discover that truth can be sometimes, if not always, more than perfection and that an original creative act rests equally on both imagination and inner truth. An origami world, fairies, spirits, a fish, and four brave little girls help Hazel see what it takes to tell a story.Free admission. Registration through Eventbrite is encouraged.

Academics | Colgate Memorial Chapel
Telemann to Tania Leon: The Eras Tour. Experience a rich tapestry of musical styles, from the refined elegance of the Baroque to the bold voices of the modern era. This program celebrates diverse expressions of humanity over three centuries.