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- Apr 2310:00 AMBlind Date with a BookToday's Events | Case-Geyer Library, Heiber Cafe
A student favorite from last semester is back!A blind date with a book is an event where books are wrapped up and participants choose a book based on clues written on the wrapping. The clues can include the genre, theme, plot, setting, and reviews. The event is designed to help readers find new books they might enjoy without judging a book by its cover. - Apr 2310:00 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 2310:30 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 2311:30 AMWGGS Senior Capstone ProjectsToday's Events | Center for Women's Studies, East Hall WMST Lobby
Join us for the 2024 WGSS Senior Captstone Projects - Beloved Community: Belonging, Grief, Accessibility and Safety.Come support our graduating seniors:Camryn Yeager: Senior Reflections: Community,Belonging, and Loneliness at ColgateIsrael Zarate: Feminist Book Club: Reading as CommunityShenice Mobley: Equity and Equality in the ClassroomTaylor Cigna: Death Library: A Personal andPolitical Grief ProjectJason Qian:(Counter-)Mapping Safety on Colgate’s CampusLunch will be provided. - Apr 234:15 PMAlexander the Great in Kashmir: The Alexander Romance and the RajataranginiToday's Events | Lawrence Hall, The Robert Ho Lecture Room, 105
Presentation by Daniel Tober, assistant professor of The Classics.By the time of his death in 323 BCE, the young king of Macedon, Alexander III “the Great,” had expanded his rule from northern Greece to northern India, transforming the Mediterranean world and the Middle East and earning himself unparalleled fame. His conquests quickly became the stuff of legend. The so-called Alexander Romance, a highly fictionalized account of Alexander’s life and conquests composed not long after his death, became the best-selling book of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages; by the 13th century CE, it had been translated from Greek into Coptic, Ge’ez, Syriac, Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Armenian, not to mention every language of Europe. Stories about Alexander, meanwhile, worked their way into many other texts and traditions. We find Alexander at the gates of Eden in the Talmud, vanquishing the monstrous “Unclean Nations” of the North in the Qur’an, and talking to a magical tree en route to China in the Persian epic Shahnameh. Yet, while many Alexander legends, including much of the Romance, concern his marvelous adventures in India, we have very little evidence for the reception of Alexander among the inhabitants of that region themselves. This talk addresses this lacuna by exploring echoes of the Alexander Romance in the Rajatarangini (River of Kings), a local history of Kashmir written in Sanskrit by the poet Kalhana in the 12th-century CE.Refreshments provided. All are welcome.Reception begins at 4:00 PM. Lecture begins at 4:15 PM. - Apr 234:30 PMVulnerabilities of Intersectional IdentitiesToday's Events | ALANA Cultural Center
In highlighting Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM), join the ALANA social justice peer educators and Haven ambassadors for a conversation on the impacts of creating awareness about sexual assault amongst marginalized communities and the implications and vulnerabilities on intersectional identities.