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The 13 Days of Green series is a collection of educational and fun events organized by the Office of Sustainability to celebrate and advance sustainability across campus.View the 2024 13 Days of Green schedule.
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- Apr 1810:00 AMExhibition: Core/Collections: Let's Talk About ItToday's Events | Dana Arts Center, Second Floor
The Collections: What is the role of an art museum on a liberal arts college campus? Since 2013, the collections at Picker Art Gallery have been shifting. Moving away from traditional models of collecting, the museum today holds a larger proportion of artworks by women, BIPOC, LGBTQ+ artists and others whose creativity and stories have historically been left out of museum collections.The Core: The revision of Colgate’s Core Curriculum represents the essence of the university’s liberal arts commitments to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Introduced in 2022, the revised Core curriculum has a stronger focus on exposing students to diverse forms of knowledge. Most notably, a new course called Core Conversations was created. Based on five globally significant “texts,” it lays out the common ground for intellectual discussions within the Colgate community. Core Conversations focus on productive discourse and communal learning among students, encouraging them to engage in perspectives and dialogues beyond the limits of personal experience.Core Collections: This is not a typical museum experience. The gallery has been transformed into a space for open-ended dialogue. Visitors will not find a lot of text interpreting the artworks; rather, we pose a series of questions, designed to elicit individual reflection and initiate discussions across communities, identities, and materials.. The exhibition is organized into four broad areas of inquiry: Appearances, Epistemologies, Urbanism and Labor, and People and Land. We encourage you to engage with the questions provided while viewing the works, and to contribute your insights or your own questions to our interactive space.What will you add to the conversation?Core/Collections is curated by Emma Barrison ’24, Cindy Chen ’24, and Wendy Wu ’25 - Apr 1810:30 AMThe Locker RoomToday's Events | Clifford Gallery, Clifford Gallery (101 Little Hall)
2023/2024 Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation Artist-in-Residence jackie sumell and Studio CAJAIR present “The Locker Room.”Artist jackie sumell works at the intersection of social sculpture, abolition and healing. With the principle of abolition always in mind, sumell inhabits the physical materials and architectures of oppression and transforms these physical structures into lived spaces of radical hope.For The Locker Room, a work created especially for Colgate University, sumell worked with a team of students who go by Studio CAJAIR (an anagrammatic nod to the Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation Artist-In-Residence program, which underwrites this work). Together, sumell and Studio CAJAIR spent the academic year considering the relationship between athletics and activism, ultimately recreating the architecture of a locker room to envisage how sports and locker rooms can be horizons of liberation. They ask, “What happens if the locker room becomes public, seeded with the best of its potential? Can we make the lockers themselves altars to the future[s] we wish to see?”sumell and Studio CAJAIR, along with students they invited from Art & Activism (ARTS 132A), transformed 12 lockers into altars to future worlds. They imagine everything from ecological justice, racial equity, and classless societies to happiness after retirement, as wins.The Locker Room is 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.Opening reception and gallery talk with jackie sumell and Studio CAJAIR will take place at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 27.Please note that weekend gallery hours are dependent on the availability of student monitors. If driving a distance, please contact the department at 315-228-7633 during regular working hours to ensure the gallery will be open.Learn more at https://www.cliffordgallery.org/ - Apr 184:00 PMHypothesis: Annotation starter assignments (Zoom)Today's Events
This workshop is ideal for instructors who are interested in using social annotation in their courses but aren’t exactly sure how to provide guidance to students. The Hypothesis team will review ideas for annotation starter assignments and provide you with ready-to-use instructions for a variety of disciplines and modalities. It doesn’t matter if you’re teaching humanities, business, STEM, or the health professions, or if you’re teaching face-to-face or online — you’ll get strategies from this workshop that you can add immediately to an assignment in your course. This session will take place as a Zoom meeting. Participants will receive the link to join the meeting directly from Hypothes.is. - Apr 184:00 PMDIY SmoresToday's Events | Frank Dining Hall
Get a taste of summer while we wait for it to get here! Come into Frank Dining Hall during dinner on April 18th to make smores indoors. - Apr 184:15 PMDepartment of Romance Languages & Literatures Honors PresentationsToday's Events | Lawrence Hall, 105
Honors and High Honors PresentationsJadan Hand (Spanish) – Monstrous Mothers: Subversions and Subtle Critiques of the Maternal Archetype in Mariana Percovich's Greek TrilogyAbby Knight (Spanish) – An Analysis of the Maternity of Peruvian Indigenous Women in the Films Milk of Sorrow, Magallanes and Song Without a NameBrenna McConnell (French) – Hearth and Home: Spaces of Domesticity in the Works of Mariama BâStuart Sopko (Spanish) – The Spanish Imposition: How the Conquistadors Condemned and Concealed Pre-Columbian HomoeroticismSarah Jane Stenovec (French) – The Suffocated Woman of Genius: Sexism and Censorship in 19th-century Arts through the Work of Camille ClaudelAll presentations will be in EnglishThursday, April 18, 4:15-5:45pm Lawrence 105 - Apr 184:30 PMUniversity Studies Voices Lecture SeriesToday's Events | Persson Hall, 27
University Studies has invited Jennifer Lin LeMesurier, associate professor of writing and rhetoric, to talk on The Dark Side of "You Are What You Eat": Discourses on Asian Food and Asian People.Even as many believe we have entered a "postracial" era, historical biases against "rat eaters" or "bat eaters" still manifest today in discrimination and violence against Asian bodies. In this talk, Jennifer Lin LeMesurier considers how contemporary stereotypes of Asian food are rooted in long-standing assumptions about racial difference, embodiment, and hygiene. She traces interconnections between rhetorics of food and rhetorics of Asianness, demonstrating where beliefs about race are encoded in common discourse around food and eating. Anti-racist work needs to account for gut feelings about how we eat and what we put on our plates.