Today's Events | 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.

Today's Events | 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.

Today's Events | Coop or 110 Broad Street
Fresh vegetables, herbs, fruits and flowers from the Colgate Community Garden will be available every Thursday during September and October!New this year: every other week, the farm stand will be located down the hill at 110 Broad Street.Cash or Gate card accepted.Dates: 9/4, 9/18, 10/2, 10/16, 10/30 Location: Coop Time: 11:15 a.m. -.1 p.m.Dates: 9/11, 9/25, 10/9, 10/23 Location: 110 Broad Street Time: 4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m.

Today's Events | Colgate Memorial Chapel
Perhaps no technology has shaped modern life in the way that smartphones have. Do they bring us closer together or are they damaging our social lives? Are they a valuable tool for engaging the world, or are they destroying our psyches and our planet?Join us for a Heretics Club conversation with Joel Summers, professor of computer science, about the promises and perils of this technology.

Today's Events | 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!

Today's Events | 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.

Today's Events | Willow Path, Near Case-Geyer Library
Colgate Hello and the Resources for Improving Staff Experiences (RISE) BIPOC employee resource groups are co-leading a Walking Club at Colgate.We meet at the following times:First Thursdays of the month: 8 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.Second, third (or other middle) Thursdays: 12:15 p.m. - 12:45 p.m.Last Thursdays: 4:30 p.m. - 5 p.m.For September, we will be walking the following loop:Beginning at Willow Path closest to the library, head toward Little Hall, turn left past Ryan Studio to head up to Peter’s Glen staircase. Continue to the path in front of Stillman Hall heading in the direction of Gate House. Continue downhill toward the Campus Safety Office. Make a slight left onto Hamilton Street; turn left onto the Oak Drive Extension heading toward the Admission Office. Finally, turn right onto College Street and return to Willow Path. [1.2 miles; anticipated walking time 28 minutes]Please note: If you have already registered, please click the registration link below and click the "Edit your response" link to add our additional dates to your availability.Amari Simpson and Christian Vischi serve as your walking guides, and we look forward to you being able to join us!A Word About Walking Stepping away from your desk and joining others in Colgate's Walking Club is an important practice because it provides a much-needed mental break, boosts productivity and creativity, and offers a wonderful opportunity to socialize and connect with colleagues.Why Walk Breaks?Recharge your energy: a short walk can provide an instant energy boost, helping you stay productive and focused throughout the day.Mental clarity: stepping away from your desk and enjoying fresh air can clear your mind and reduce stress.Social connection: walking with others is a great opportunity to connect with colleagues, make new friends, and build a sense of community.Improved health: regular walks can contribute to better physical fitness and overall health.

Today's Events | 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.

Today's Events | 101, Ho Science Center
Benjamin Nathans, University of Pennsylvania

Today's Events | 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.

Today's Events | 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.