Academics | Little Hall, Clifford Gallery (101 Little Hall)
This exhibition expands on the forthcoming issue of the artist-run journal Effects, organized around the motif of the hole. Holes draw our attention to the periphery, the edges of the visible, bringing to the fore what typically disappears into the margin. Through rips and shadows, enclosures and erasures, the included artworks address transience, destructive violence, and lost histories, while also evoking the nascent formation of as-yet-unknown patterns for meeting the problems of living — with ourselves, with one another, and with absence.Featuring work by Noel Anderson, Milano Chow, Mary Helena Clark, Clementine Keith-Roach, Lakshmi Luthra, Eric N. Mack, Nour Mobarak & Jeffrey Stuker, Christopher Page, Paul Pfeiffer, Adam Putnam, Larissa Sansour & Søren Lind, Paul Sietsema, and Patricia TreibOpening reception Wednesday, Sept. 24, following the 4:30pm Art LectureCurated by Lakshmi Luthra, Associate Professor of Art and Film & Media StudiesLearn more about the exhibition*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.

Academics | Dana Arts Center, Picker Art Gallery, 2nd Floor
Hundreds of bills targeting trans* individuals are currently making their way through state legislative bodies. These range from bathroom bans to expulsion from sports teams to the denial of healthcare. Amid the increasingly hostile rhetoric and attempts to erase trans* and queer lives, the artists in this exhibition use a variety of media to tell powerful counternarratives about perseverance, vulnerability, and kinship among trans* and queer communities.The exhibition opens with a new live performance connecting art and athletics by Nicki Duval (they/them) and Robbie Trocchia (he/they), featuring figure skater Milk. Films exploring themes of transgender identity, visibility, bodies, and politics by multidisciplinary artist Cassils (he/they) are joined by an installation of exquisite cut-paper portraits by Antonius-Tín Bui (they/them). The works by these leading contemporary artists are complemented by a selection from the Picker collection that underlines the past, present, and future existence and vitality of trans* and queer artists.

Academics | Little Hall, Clifford Gallery (101 Little Hall)
This exhibition expands on the forthcoming issue of the artist-run journal Effects, organized around the motif of the hole. Holes draw our attention to the periphery, the edges of the visible, bringing to the fore what typically disappears into the margin. Through rips and shadows, enclosures and erasures, the included artworks address transience, destructive violence, and lost histories, while also evoking the nascent formation of as-yet-unknown patterns for meeting the problems of living — with ourselves, with one another, and with absence.Featuring work by Noel Anderson, Milano Chow, Mary Helena Clark, Clementine Keith-Roach, Lakshmi Luthra, Eric N. Mack, Nour Mobarak & Jeffrey Stuker, Christopher Page, Paul Pfeiffer, Adam Putnam, Larissa Sansour & Søren Lind, Paul Sietsema, and Patricia TreibOpening reception Wednesday, Sept. 24, following the 4:30pm Art LectureCurated by Lakshmi Luthra, Associate Professor of Art and Film & Media StudiesLearn more about the exhibition*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.

Academics | Center for Women's Studies
Conservative fears about queerness and transness are intimately bound up with anxieties about the erosion of the traditional patriarchal family. These fears are not unfounded. In the United States, kinship is becoming increasingly queer. More and more people are departing from cis-heteronormative plots for monogamy, reproduction, and long-term commitment—including those who do not identify as LGBTQIA+. To trace this cultural shift, this talk examines "throuple plots" in contemporary LGBTQ+ literature and popular culture, which narrate relationships among three people working together to coordinate sex, intimacy, and care. Throuple plots challenge foundational cis- and heteronormative narrative structures, particularly the marriage plot, the love triangle and the cheating plot, and they innovate queerer forms for sustaining non-monogamous bonds across differences in race, sexuality, gender, class, and ability. Moving across three distinct genres (sitcom, memoir, and novel), I trace how throuple plots reckon with the ways that queer and trans kinships are both threatened and idealized by cis-heteronormative culture. And I conclude that queer kinship narratives can help us to confront the gaps between abstract political ideals, like “queer community,” and the messy, often-imperfect ways we actually live and practice queer kinship in the world.Teagan Bradway is a professor of English at SUNY Cortland and a fellow at the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University for 2025-2026. She is a queer theorist and scholar of LGBTQ+ and experimental literatures. Her work examines how queer kinship takes shape and endures through aesthetic and affective labor. She is particularly fascinated by the ways LGBTQ+ people sustain social worlds through storytelling and other narrative practices. She is the author of Queer Experimental Literature: The Affective Politics of Bad Reading (Palgrave 2017) and co-editor of Queer Kinship: Race, Sex, Belonging, Form (Duke 2022) and After Queer Studies: Literature, Theory, and Sexuality in the 21st Century (Cambridge 2019). Bradway is also the guest editor of Unaccountably Queer (2024), a special issue of differences, and Lively Words: The Politics and Poetics of Experimental Writing (2019), a special issue of College Literature. Bradway’s articles have appeared in venues such as PMLA, GLQ, MLQ, Textual Practice, ASAP/J, The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature, the Routledge Companion to Literature and Politics, and The Nation. In 2024, Bradway was a Hunt-Simes Visiting Junior Chair of Sexuality Studies at the University of Sydney. Currently, Bradway is completing a book on queer kinship narratives and co-writing “Endless Love” with the late Elizabeth Freeman.

Academics | Palace Theater
A discussion of the microbiome—the sum of all of the good and bad microorganisms in an environment --recent research on microbiome composition, function, and activity around, on, and inside of us and how that microbiome can be altered for better or worse.Presenter: Ken Belanger is a cell and molecular biologist at Colgate University whose recent research focuses on factors affecting microbiome composition in humans and the broader environment.

Academics | Persson Hall, Auditorium
Sefa Secen is an assistant professor of political science at Nazareth University in Rochester, NY. Prior to joining Nazareth, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at Ohio State University. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University.Dr. Secen’s research focuses on international relations theory, international security, migration, and political behavior, with a regional emphasis on the Middle East and Western Europe. He is the co-author of two forthcoming books: The Muslim World in International Relations Theory (under contract with Cambridge University Press) and Migration, Nationalism, and Demographic Anxiety in Modern Turkey (under contract with Edinburgh University Press). Secen has appeared in leading academic journals and public outlets, including the Journal of Global Security Studies, Politics, Groups, and Identities, European Politics and Society, Turkish Studies, Forced Migration Review, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies, Migration and Development, TIME Magazine, The Washington Post, and The Conversation. His work has been supported by grants from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Andrew Berlin Family National Security Research Fund, the Institute for Humane Studies, the Moynihan Institute at Syracuse University, the Office of International Affairs at Ohio State University, and the Office of Research, Scholarship, and Innovation at Nazareth University.

Academics | Little Hall, 105 (Golden Auditorium)
Discussion with filmmaker in personChris Kennedy is an independent filmmaker based in Toronto. His work explores the way images are constructed and framed by both our social preconceptions and formal expectations. This evening will present seven 16mm films and one 35mm film that draw from his 20 years of filmmaking. The films look at how infrastructure designs a city in portraits of Wuppertal (Phantoms), Toronto (4x8x3), and Brisbane (Go Between), and the way traditional media and social media create “truth” (Memo to Pic Desk and the award-winning Watching the Detectives). Along the way, we see a performance in brief (One Roll in the Blackness), explore an inverted meditation tower (The Initiation Well), and spend time in a river, watching time go by (Brimstone Line).

Academics
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Academics | Dana Arts Center, Picker Art Gallery, 2nd Floor
Hundreds of bills targeting trans* individuals are currently making their way through state legislative bodies. These range from bathroom bans to expulsion from sports teams to the denial of healthcare. Amid the increasingly hostile rhetoric and attempts to erase trans* and queer lives, the artists in this exhibition use a variety of media to tell powerful counternarratives about perseverance, vulnerability, and kinship among trans* and queer communities.The exhibition opens with a new live performance connecting art and athletics by Nicki Duval (they/them) and Robbie Trocchia (he/they), featuring figure skater Milk. Films exploring themes of transgender identity, visibility, bodies, and politics by multidisciplinary artist Cassils (he/they) are joined by an installation of exquisite cut-paper portraits by Antonius-Tín Bui (they/them). The works by these leading contemporary artists are complemented by a selection from the Picker collection that underlines the past, present, and future existence and vitality of trans* and queer artists.

Academics | Little Hall, Clifford Gallery (101 Little Hall)
This exhibition expands on the forthcoming issue of the artist-run journal Effects, organized around the motif of the hole. Holes draw our attention to the periphery, the edges of the visible, bringing to the fore what typically disappears into the margin. Through rips and shadows, enclosures and erasures, the included artworks address transience, destructive violence, and lost histories, while also evoking the nascent formation of as-yet-unknown patterns for meeting the problems of living — with ourselves, with one another, and with absence.Featuring work by Noel Anderson, Milano Chow, Mary Helena Clark, Clementine Keith-Roach, Lakshmi Luthra, Eric N. Mack, Nour Mobarak & Jeffrey Stuker, Christopher Page, Paul Pfeiffer, Adam Putnam, Larissa Sansour & Søren Lind, Paul Sietsema, and Patricia TreibOpening reception Wednesday, Sept. 24, following the 4:30pm Art LectureCurated by Lakshmi Luthra, Associate Professor of Art and Film & Media StudiesLearn more about the exhibition*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.

Academics | Hall of Presidents
Learn about study abroad options at Colgate - Extended Studies and Study Groups. Meet the faculty directors for next year's programs who will be available to answer questions. Representatives from the Registrar's Office, Scholarships Programs and Financial Aid Office will also be available. The upcoming Colgate application deadline for next year’s Study Groups is October 29, 2025. Learn how off campus study can be a part of your Colgate experience!

Academics | Little Hall, 105 (Golden Auditorium)
Join exhibiting artists Noel Anderson and Christopher Page in conversation around the themes in the current Clifford Gallery exhibition HOLES.About the artists:Noel W Anderson (b. Louisville, Ky.) received an MFA from Indiana University in Printmaking, and an MFA from Yale University in Sculpture. He is an assistant professor at The New School. Anderson utilizes print-media and arts-based-research to explore the mediation of socially constructed images, with particular focus on black masculinity and celebrity. He incorporates images from archival and contemporary sources, using both bureaucratic and commercial references. More than a surface, his works are sites where body politics and myth combine as networks of manipulation. Through the investigation of process, the viewer may anticipate police looming behind black male bodies standing in a line, and public artifacts looming in the social consciousness.In 2018, Noel was awarded the NYFA artist fellowship grant and the prestigious Jerome Prize. His solo exhibition Blak Origin Moment debuted at the Contemporary Arts Center (Cincinnati) in February 2017 and traveled to the Hunter Museum of American Art in October 2019. His first monograph, Blak Origin Moment, was also recently published by‎ Black Dog Publishing. His first NY museum exhibition, Black Excellence, opens this fall at the University Art Museum at the University of Albany (SUNY).Christopher Page is a painter of light, shadow and reflection. He makes  trompe l’oeil  paintings on canvas, and directly on walls and ceilings, that confuse the boundaries between real and virtual space. Paintings of framed paintings with shadows cast across their surfaces call into question where the work begins and ends; mirrors that don't reflect us back confront us with our own absence; glowing skies distort architectural space. And yet, the  paintings are not trompe l’oeil in the traditional sense. Whilst drawing from Baroque illusion, they hover on the edge of abstraction, thinking as they do about our flattened world of screens.Page’s work has been exhibited internationally. His work was recently included in ‘Wonder and Wakefulness: The Nature of Pliny the Elder,’ Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, New York NY (2023). He has previously exhibited at Villa Lontana, Rome, Italy and Museum of Contemporary Art Storefront, Los Angeles Calif.To be followed by the opening reception for HOLES in the lobby of Little Hall

Academics | Dana Arts Center, Picker Art Gallery, 2nd Floor
Hundreds of bills targeting trans* individuals are currently making their way through state legislative bodies. These range from bathroom bans to expulsion from sports teams to the denial of healthcare. Amid the increasingly hostile rhetoric and attempts to erase trans* and queer lives, the artists in this exhibition use a variety of media to tell powerful counternarratives about perseverance, vulnerability, and kinship among trans* and queer communities.The exhibition opens with a new live performance connecting art and athletics by Nicki Duval (they/them) and Robbie Trocchia (he/they), featuring figure skater Milk. Films exploring themes of transgender identity, visibility, bodies, and politics by multidisciplinary artist Cassils (he/they) are joined by an installation of exquisite cut-paper portraits by Antonius-Tín Bui (they/them). The works by these leading contemporary artists are complemented by a selection from the Picker collection that underlines the past, present, and future existence and vitality of trans* and queer artists.

Academics | Little Hall, Clifford Gallery (101 Little Hall)
This exhibition expands on the forthcoming issue of the artist-run journal Effects, organized around the motif of the hole. Holes draw our attention to the periphery, the edges of the visible, bringing to the fore what typically disappears into the margin. Through rips and shadows, enclosures and erasures, the included artworks address transience, destructive violence, and lost histories, while also evoking the nascent formation of as-yet-unknown patterns for meeting the problems of living — with ourselves, with one another, and with absence.Featuring work by Noel Anderson, Milano Chow, Mary Helena Clark, Clementine Keith-Roach, Lakshmi Luthra, Eric N. Mack, Nour Mobarak & Jeffrey Stuker, Christopher Page, Paul Pfeiffer, Adam Putnam, Larissa Sansour & Søren Lind, Paul Sietsema, and Patricia TreibOpening reception Wednesday, Sept. 24, following the 4:30pm Art LectureCurated by Lakshmi Luthra, Associate Professor of Art and Film & Media StudiesLearn more about the exhibition*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.

Academics | McGregory Hall
Meet American Councils representative Vladka Shikova to learn about the various study abroad options available through American Councils, most with a language focus. Examples include - Eurasian Regional Language Program (Russian), Korean Summer Language program, and the Critical Language Scholarships. Learn more about these and other exciting programs!

Academics | Lawrence Hall, The Robert Ho Lecture Room, Lawrence 105
This talk concerns the role of faith in what you do and what you believe.Lara Buchak, a philosophy professor at Princeton University, argues that having faith in a claim means acting on that claim without further evidence, and remaining committed to acting on that claim even in the face of evidence against it. Buchak shows that having faith can be rational in certain circumstances, and that those who lack faith stand to miss out on important goods. Buchak then applies this view of faith to two puzzles about belief. The first is how to explain the phenomenon of traditions or paradigms in scientific, religious, and moral life, and the phenomenon of conversion from one tradition to another. The second is whether it can ever be rational to defer to an authority rather than our own reason.Buchak's research interests include decision theory, social choice theory, epistemology, ethics, and the philosophy of religion. Her book Risk and Rationality (2013) concerns how an individual ought to take risk into account when making decisions. It vindicates the ordinary decision-maker from the point of view of even ideal rationality. A significant upshot of her view is that individuals with different attitudes towards risk—considered as different ways to weight worse scenarios against better ones—can all be rational.Her research following the book has focused on applications of her view to ethics, arguing that we ought to defer to individuals’ risk-attitudes in biomedical research; that we ought to weigh worse scenarios very heavily in setting climate policy; and that we ought to care a great deal about the interests of the worse-off when acting ethically.Another ongoing project is on the nature and rationality of faith, both in the religious and mundane sense. She argues that faith requires stopping one's search for evidence and making a commitment -- and maintaining one's commitment in the face of counterevidence. She details when such faith is rational, and how it is beneficial to human life.Other topics Buchak has written on include group decision-making; the relationship between assigning probability to a hypothesis and believing that hypothesis outright; and the nature of free will.Buchak received her Ph.D. from Princeton in 2009. She spent 12 years in the philosophy department at UC Berkeley (Go Bears!) before returning to Princeton.This lecture is sponsored by The M. Holmes Hartshorne Memorial Lecture Fund.

Academics | Persson Hall, Auditorium
Jasmine V. Bailey is the author of Alexandria, winner of the Central New York Book Award, Disappeared, and That Salt on the Tongue to Say Mangrove, a translation of Silvina López Medin’s Esa sal en la lengua para decir manglar. She is the winner of Michigan Quarterly Review’s Lawrence Goldstein Prize, New Ohio Review’s NORward Prize, Ruminate Magazine’s VanderMey Nonfiction Prize, and the Longleaf Press Chapbook Prize. She has been a Fulbright fellow in Argentina, an Olive B. O’Connor fellow at Colgate University, and a fellow at the Vermont Studio Center.Matthew Cooperman is a poet, educator, editor and ecocritic, Matthew Cooperman is the author of, most recently, the atmosphere is not a perfume it is odorless (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, 2024) and Wonder About The, winner of the Halcyon Prize (Middle Creek, 2023) as well as NOS (disorder, not otherwise specified), w/Aby Kaupang, (Futurepoem, 2018), Spool, winner of the New Measure Prize (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, 2016), and other books. His ninth book, Time, & Its Monument, is forthcoming from Station Hill Press. A Founding Editor of the exploratory prose journal Quarter After Eight, Cooperman received his PhD in English from Ohio University. He is Co-Poetry Editor for Colorado Review, and Professor of English at Colorado State University. He lives in Fort Collins with his wife, the poet Aby Kaupang, and their children.Vivek Narayanan is the author of the poetry collection: After (New York Review Books/HarperCollins India, 2022) and The Kuruntokai and its Mirror (Hanuman Editions, 2024). His work has appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem and The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poetry. He has held fellowships at the Radcliffe Institute and at the New York Public Library and teaches in the MFA Poetry program at George Mason University.Support for this event, which will be hosted by Peter Balakian, is provided by the Parshley Christ Endowment for Living Writers. The course and program are led by faculty in the Department of English and Creative Writing with generous support from the Olive B. O'Connor Fund as well as the President and the Provost/Dean of the Faculty. A signature program of Colgate University since 1980, Living Writers is a master class in how works of literature come to be.

Academics | 101, Ho Science Center
Benjamin Nathans, University of Pennsylvania

Academics | Olin Hall, Love Auditorium
Soldiers and Kings: Survival, Hope, and Empathy in the World of Human Smuggling Over the last decade, many places in the Global South that people once called home have grown inhospitable because of poverty, violence, corruption, and climate change. In response to the out-migration of millions of desperate people seeking refuge, countries like the United States and Mexico have attempted to harden their borders through various security measures. In response, migrants have turned to transnational gangs such as MS-13 who have become involved in the human smuggling industry. In 2015, Jason De Leon began a long-term ethnographic project focused on understanding the daily lives of Honduran smugglers who profit from transporting migrants across the length of Mexico. In this talk, De Leon presents stories from his recent book and examines the complicated relationship among transnational gangs, the human smuggling industry, and migrant desires for safety and well-being.This event is part of the Fall 2025 event series "Undocumented Migration into a Hostile America."Presented by the Peace & Conflict Studies Program and Longyear Museum of Anthropology. This event is generously supported by a Colgate Arts Council grant and co-sponsored by: ALANA Cultural Center, Africana and Latin American Studies Program, Department of Economics, Department of Educational Studies, Environmental Studies Program, Department of Geography, Department of History, Lampert Institute for Civic and Global Affairs (Schaehrer lecture), Museum Studies Program, Department of Political Science, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

Academics | Olin Hall, Love Auditorium
The annual Peter C Schaehrer Memorial Lecture in Peace and Conflict Studies will feature Jason De León (UCLA) speaking about his book Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling, winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction.About the Lecture Over the last decade, many places in the Global South that people once called home have grown inhospitable because of poverty, violence, corruption, and climate change. In response to the out-migration of millions of desperate people seeking refuge, countries like the United States and Mexico have attempted to harden their borders through various security measures. In response, migrants have turned to transnational gangs such as MS13 who have become involved in the human smuggling industry. In 2015, De León began a long-term ethnographic project focused on understanding the daily lives of Honduran smugglers who profit from transporting migrants across the length of Mexico. In this talk, De León will present stories from my recent book and examine the complicated relationship among transnational gangs, the human smuggling industry, and migrant desires for safety and well-being.

Academics | Dana Arts Center, Picker Art Gallery, 2nd Floor
Hundreds of bills targeting trans* individuals are currently making their way through state legislative bodies. These range from bathroom bans to expulsion from sports teams to the denial of healthcare. Amid the increasingly hostile rhetoric and attempts to erase trans* and queer lives, the artists in this exhibition use a variety of media to tell powerful counternarratives about perseverance, vulnerability, and kinship among trans* and queer communities.The exhibition opens with a new live performance connecting art and athletics by Nicki Duval (they/them) and Robbie Trocchia (he/they), featuring figure skater Milk. Films exploring themes of transgender identity, visibility, bodies, and politics by multidisciplinary artist Cassils (he/they) are joined by an installation of exquisite cut-paper portraits by Antonius-Tín Bui (they/them). The works by these leading contemporary artists are complemented by a selection from the Picker collection that underlines the past, present, and future existence and vitality of trans* and queer artists.

Academics | Little Hall, Clifford Gallery (101 Little Hall)
This exhibition expands on the forthcoming issue of the artist-run journal Effects, organized around the motif of the hole. Holes draw our attention to the periphery, the edges of the visible, bringing to the fore what typically disappears into the margin. Through rips and shadows, enclosures and erasures, the included artworks address transience, destructive violence, and lost histories, while also evoking the nascent formation of as-yet-unknown patterns for meeting the problems of living — with ourselves, with one another, and with absence.Featuring work by Noel Anderson, Milano Chow, Mary Helena Clark, Clementine Keith-Roach, Lakshmi Luthra, Eric N. Mack, Nour Mobarak & Jeffrey Stuker, Christopher Page, Paul Pfeiffer, Adam Putnam, Larissa Sansour & Søren Lind, Paul Sietsema, and Patricia TreibOpening reception Wednesday, Sept. 24, following the 4:30pm Art LectureCurated by Lakshmi Luthra, Associate Professor of Art and Film & Media StudiesLearn more about the exhibition*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.

Academics | Longyear Museum of Anthropology, Alumni Hall - 2nd Floor
Hostile Terrain 94 (HT94) is a participatory exhibition created by the Undocumented Migration Project, a non-profit organization that focuses on the social process of immigration and raises awareness through research, education, and outreach.The exhibit is composed of approximately 3,400 handwritten toe tags that represent migrants who have died trying to cross the Sonoran Desert from the mid-1990s to 2020. These tags are geolocated on a large wall map of the Arizona-Mexico border, showing the exact locations where human remains were found. The physical act of writing out the names and information for the dead invites participants to reflect, witness and stand in solidarity with those who have lost their lives in search of a better one. This exhibit is taking place at over 120 institutions across 6 continents with the intention to raise awareness about the humanitarian crisis at America’s southern border and to engage with communities around the world in conversations about migration.The construction of HT94 is made possible by teams of volunteers from each hosting location, who participate in tag-filling workshops, where they write the details of the dead and then publicly place the tags on the map – in the exact location where each individual's remains were found. Some tags also contain QR codes that link to content related to migrant stories and visuals connected to immigration.

Academics | Longyear Museum of Anthropology, Alumni Hall - 2nd Floor
The Longyear Museum of Anthropology is hosting its opening reception for the Fall 2025 exhibition of Hostile Terrain 94, a participatory exhibition created by the Undocumented Migration Project (UMP), a non-profit organization that focuses on the social process of immigration and raises awareness through research, education, and outreach.The exhibit is composed of approximately 3,400 handwritten toe tags that represent migrants who have died trying to cross the Sonoran Desert from the mid-1990s to 2020. These tags are geolocated on a large wall map of the Arizona-Mexico border, showing the exact locations where human remains were found. The physical act of writing out the names and information for the dead invites participants to reflect, witness and stand in solidarity with those who have lost their lives in search of a better one. This exhibit is taking place at over 120 institutions across 6 continents with the intention to raise awareness about the humanitarian crisis at America’s southern border and to engage with communities around the world in conversations about migration.Visitors can join UMP Director Jason De León in our first tag-filling workshop as we labor to collaboratively highlight the ongoing dangers faced at the southern border of the United States.Lunch will be provided.

Academics | ALANA Cultural Center, Multipurpose Room
The Environmental Studies Program and the Earth and Environmental Geosciences Department welcome University of Nevada - Reno Associate Professor of Political Science Elizabeth Koebele to the ENST Brown Bag Series. Her work focuses on environmental policy, specifically environmental governance, water policy and management in the western United States, disaster policy, public policy theory, and qualitative/mixed methods.At this event, Dr. Koebele will explore the following topic:Governing Scarcity: Navigating the Rapids of Policy Change on the Colorado River The Colorado River is a vital resource for western North America, providing water for 40 million people and supporting billions of dollars in economic output. It is also a river in crisis: drought, climate change, and sustained overuse have led to water shortages, negative ecological impacts, and growing competition among users over the last quarter century. Drawing on insights from a recent 7,500 mile-research trip around the Colorado River Basin, Dr. Koebele will provide an on-the-ground look at how this crisis affects different parts of the basin, how decision makers have attempted to “govern scarcity” through various policy decisions, and what potential transformations in basin governance are needed to sustain this critical resource into the future.Hot wraps from Hamilton Whole Foods will be provided and will include vegan, gluten-free, and nut-free options. Please bring your own reusable water bottle.

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

Academics | McGregory Hall
Meet American Councils representative Vladka Shikova to learn about the various study abroad options available through American Councils, most with a language focus. Examples include - Eurasian Regional Language Program (Russian), Korean Summer Language program, and the Critical Language Scholarships. Learn more about these and other exciting programs!

Academics | Ho Tung Visualization Lab, 401 Ho Science Center
Narrated by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Dark Universe brings audiences to the cutting edge of cosmic exploration to reveal the breakthroughs that have led astronomers to confront two great cosmic mysteries: dark matter and dark energy.In stunningly detailed scenes based on authentic scientific data — including a NASA probe’s breathtaking plunge into Jupiter’s atmosphere and novel visualizations of unobservable dark matter— Dark Universe celebrates the pivotal discoveries that have led us to greater knowledge of the universe and to new frontiers for exploration.

Academics | Little Hall, Clifford Gallery (101 Little Hall)
This exhibition expands on the forthcoming issue of the artist-run journal Effects, organized around the motif of the hole. Holes draw our attention to the periphery, the edges of the visible, bringing to the fore what typically disappears into the margin. Through rips and shadows, enclosures and erasures, the included artworks address transience, destructive violence, and lost histories, while also evoking the nascent formation of as-yet-unknown patterns for meeting the problems of living — with ourselves, with one another, and with absence.Featuring work by Noel Anderson, Milano Chow, Mary Helena Clark, Clementine Keith-Roach, Lakshmi Luthra, Eric N. Mack, Nour Mobarak & Jeffrey Stuker, Christopher Page, Paul Pfeiffer, Adam Putnam, Larissa Sansour & Søren Lind, Paul Sietsema, and Patricia TreibOpening reception Wednesday, Sept. 24, following the 4:30pm Art LectureCurated by Lakshmi Luthra, Associate Professor of Art and Film & Media StudiesLearn more about the exhibition*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.

Academics | Longyear Museum of Anthropology, Alumni Hall - 2nd Floor
Hostile Terrain 94 (HT94) is a participatory exhibition created by the Undocumented Migration Project, a non-profit organization that focuses on the social process of immigration and raises awareness through research, education, and outreach.The exhibit is composed of approximately 3,400 handwritten toe tags that represent migrants who have died trying to cross the Sonoran Desert from the mid-1990s to 2020. These tags are geolocated on a large wall map of the Arizona-Mexico border, showing the exact locations where human remains were found. The physical act of writing out the names and information for the dead invites participants to reflect, witness and stand in solidarity with those who have lost their lives in search of a better one. This exhibit is taking place at over 120 institutions across 6 continents with the intention to raise awareness about the humanitarian crisis at America’s southern border and to engage with communities around the world in conversations about migration.The construction of HT94 is made possible by teams of volunteers from each hosting location, who participate in tag-filling workshops, where they write the details of the dead and then publicly place the tags on the map – in the exact location where each individual's remains were found. Some tags also contain QR codes that link to content related to migrant stories and visuals connected to immigration.

Academics | Dana Arts Center, Picker Art Gallery, 2nd Floor
Hundreds of bills targeting trans* individuals are currently making their way through state legislative bodies. These range from bathroom bans to expulsion from sports teams to the denial of healthcare. Amid the increasingly hostile rhetoric and attempts to erase trans* and queer lives, the artists in this exhibition use a variety of media to tell powerful counternarratives about perseverance, vulnerability, and kinship among trans* and queer communities.The exhibition opens with a new live performance connecting art and athletics by Nicki Duval (they/them) and Robbie Trocchia (he/they), featuring figure skater Milk. Films exploring themes of transgender identity, visibility, bodies, and politics by multidisciplinary artist Cassils (he/they) are joined by an installation of exquisite cut-paper portraits by Antonius-Tín Bui (they/them). The works by these leading contemporary artists are complemented by a selection from the Picker collection that underlines the past, present, and future existence and vitality of trans* and queer artists.

Academics | Little Hall, Clifford Gallery (101 Little Hall)
This exhibition expands on the forthcoming issue of the artist-run journal Effects, organized around the motif of the hole. Holes draw our attention to the periphery, the edges of the visible, bringing to the fore what typically disappears into the margin. Through rips and shadows, enclosures and erasures, the included artworks address transience, destructive violence, and lost histories, while also evoking the nascent formation of as-yet-unknown patterns for meeting the problems of living — with ourselves, with one another, and with absence.Featuring work by Noel Anderson, Milano Chow, Mary Helena Clark, Clementine Keith-Roach, Lakshmi Luthra, Eric N. Mack, Nour Mobarak & Jeffrey Stuker, Christopher Page, Paul Pfeiffer, Adam Putnam, Larissa Sansour & Søren Lind, Paul Sietsema, and Patricia TreibOpening reception Wednesday, Sept. 24, following the 4:30pm Art LectureCurated by Lakshmi Luthra, Associate Professor of Art and Film & Media StudiesLearn more about the exhibition*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.