Description
On April 8, 2024, a solar eclipse transited across central New York - its path of totality falling only a few miles from Colgate's campus. Spectating this astronomical phenomenon became a mass social event: nearly a million people flocked to the region.Watch Party, an immersive multi-channel video installation, recreates this event, capturing the scene on the ground rather than the skies.Co-sponsored by Alternative Cinema and Film and Media Studies
More from Academics
- Dec 27:00 PMDay With(out) Art Film Screening: Red Reminds Me...Academics | Olin Hall, Love Auditorium
Visual AIDS and University Museums present 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. - Dec 39:30 AMEntangled Intimacies: Tradition, Motion and MemoryAcademics | 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. - Dec 310:00 AMWar, Revolution, and the Heart of China, 1937-1948Academics | 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. - Dec 311:30 AMCenter for Women's Studies: Brown Bag with Amy GordonAcademics | 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. - Dec 311:30 AMRole of Human Intestinal Microbiome in Health and DiseaseAcademics | Lathrop Hall, 207
Uncovering The Role of the Human Intestinal Microbiome in Health and Disease, presented by Scott Amon, Assistant Professor, Le Moyne College.My lab works with a small nematode, C. elegans, model organism to study how environmentimpacts health and development. The environmental factors we focus on are diet and gut microbiota. We askseveral 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 interdisciplinaryapproaches at the intersection of molecular biology, biochemistry, and genetics. Furthermore, my lab is alsointerested 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, andcystic fibrosis. Together, my research is purposefully designed to shed some light on the function of the humanmicrobiota on health. - Dec 34:15 PMInterpretations of Religion in Confronting Carceral DemocracyAcademics | 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.