Academics
April 7-11. Please see the course registration web page for schedule.

Academics | Digital Learning and Media Center (DLMC), Case-Geyer 548
Bring your designs to life with Adobe Aero! In this session, we’ll introduce the basics of augmented reality (AR) design, showing you how to create immersive experiences that blend digital elements into the real world. Learn how to craft AR projects for storytelling, presentations, or creative experimentation.

Academics | Lawrence Hall, 105
Dr. Nell Shapiro Hawley, Postdoctoral Fellow in Religion at VassarStrange languages, superpowers, and otherworldly quests are beloved tropes in coming-of-age fantasy literature. The Aru Shah novels (Disney Hyperion, 2018-22), a bestselling fantasy series written by Roshani Chokshi, repurpose these genre expectations in order to allegorize second-generation American Hindu adolescence today.Here the heroine’s discovery of her superpowers is explicitly tied to a Hindu mythological world that is both strange and familiar to her. Through Aru’s complex relationship with language—her muted ability to understand Indian languages, but her deep intimacy with the stories of Hindu myth—the novels seek to frame meaningful Hindu knowledge as subjective, emotional, and interpersonal.Nell Shapiro Hawley is a scholar of South Asian religions, primarily Hinduism. Her work addresses popular religious movements, gender and performance studies, and interactions between the classical and the contemporary. A longstanding area of focus has been the text and performance traditions of the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata.

Academics | Alumni Hall, 111
Like most contemporary wars, Israel’s bombardment of Gaza is enabled by the algorithmic innovations of the day. In armored bases in southern Israel, intelligence soldiers cull through user-friendly interfaces displaying automatically generated recommendations of where and when the bombs should fall. Military heads, emulating Silicon Valley founders, brag innovations in AI have allowed them to build their killing capacities to scale. How did we get here? My talk lays bare a vast algorithmic supply chain undergirding war today. I thread together ethnographic research with Israeli intelligence veterans and Silicon Valley workers to provide an anthropological portrait of the pedestrian labor driving automated warfare: from Google technicians tinkering with facial recognition algorithms determining who is detained at makeshift checkpoints in Gaza City to reservists in Tel Aviv developing the speech to text software informing targeted strikes. In meditating on those bound up in warfare’s catastrophic effects, I emphasize how many more might play a role in demanding otherwise.Sophia Goodfriend is a post-doctoral fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Middle East Initiative. She received her doctorate in Cultural Anthropology from Duke University in June 2024. With years of experience reporting and writing from Israel/Palestine, Sophia’s academic research and journalistic writing have been published across a range of publications, including Foreign Policy, the London Review of Books, the Baffler, the International Journal of Middle East Studies, and the Journal of Palestine Studies. Sophia is a regular contributor to 972 Magazine and is finishing two separate book projects on automated warfare in Israel and Palestine.This lecture is co-sponsored by the Department of Computer Science and is part of the 24-25 Digital War speaker series organized by the Peace and Conflict Studies Program.

Academics
April 7-11. Please see the course registration web page for schedule.

Academics | Alumni Hall, 2nd floor
This exhibition, curated by 10 students in the Fall 2024 semester of MUSE 300: Museum Curating, features the themes of textiles and weaving. Showcasing works from the Longyear Museum of Anthropology’s basket and world textile collections, this exhibition explores the incredible amount of labor and skill that goes into creating woven art. The exhibition takes a comparative view of textiles from around the world, introducing the community significance of different designs and individual stylistic choices. The exhibition discusses how fiber art forms have changed as local and global markets develop, as well as the role that clothing can play in displays of nationalism and politics. Ultimately, Unraveled aims to inspire viewers to consider the benefits of hand-crafted works and foster an appreciation for the people behind the woven things we use and love each and every day.The exhibition features several new acquisitions, including three new works acquired from the Jalabil Maya women’s weaving collective during their artist residency last fall. It also features pieces on loan from our student curators, highlighting the significance of weaving and textile arts in their lives.Student Curators:Leila Bekaert ‘25 Oscar Brown ‘26 Kegan Foley ‘26 Emma Herwig ‘25 Bri Liddell ‘25 Gloria Liu ‘26 Meg McClenahan ‘25 Anna Miksis ‘25 Blanca Rivas ‘25 Aleksia Taci ‘25 Professor/Curator: Rebecca Mendelsohn

Academics | Center for Women's Studies, The Lounge at East Hall
Dr. Colt, a licensed psychologist and board-certified family medicine physician, will share his experience as an openly transgender doctor as he attempts to take care of the transgender community. This includes having to move out of his home state of Texas due to political oppression. He will answer questions about the care that this community so desperately needs.This event is part of the Center's brown bag series and is co-sponsored by biology, Core Communities, OED, Core Sciences, LGBTQ studies, and chemistry.Lunch will be provided.

Academics | Lawrence Hall, The Robert Ho Lecture Room,105
Jamie Kreiner, Professor and Robert and Dorothy Wellman Chair in Medieval History, University of California, Los Angeles. Refreshments provided. All are welcome.

Academics
April 7-11. Please see the course registration web page for schedule.

Academics | Alumni Hall, 2nd floor
This exhibition, curated by 10 students in the Fall 2024 semester of MUSE 300: Museum Curating, features the themes of textiles and weaving. Showcasing works from the Longyear Museum of Anthropology’s basket and world textile collections, this exhibition explores the incredible amount of labor and skill that goes into creating woven art. The exhibition takes a comparative view of textiles from around the world, introducing the community significance of different designs and individual stylistic choices. The exhibition discusses how fiber art forms have changed as local and global markets develop, as well as the role that clothing can play in displays of nationalism and politics. Ultimately, Unraveled aims to inspire viewers to consider the benefits of hand-crafted works and foster an appreciation for the people behind the woven things we use and love each and every day.The exhibition features several new acquisitions, including three new works acquired from the Jalabil Maya women’s weaving collective during their artist residency last fall. It also features pieces on loan from our student curators, highlighting the significance of weaving and textile arts in their lives.Student Curators:Leila Bekaert ‘25 Oscar Brown ‘26 Kegan Foley ‘26 Emma Herwig ‘25 Bri Liddell ‘25 Gloria Liu ‘26 Meg McClenahan ‘25 Anna Miksis ‘25 Blanca Rivas ‘25 Aleksia Taci ‘25 Professor/Curator: Rebecca Mendelsohn

Academics | Lawrence Hall, 115
The Department of German invites students, staff, and faculty to Kaffee und Kuchen, Conversation and Community.

Academics
April 7-11. Please see the course registration web page for schedule.

Academics | Alumni Hall, 2nd floor
This exhibition, curated by 10 students in the Fall 2024 semester of MUSE 300: Museum Curating, features the themes of textiles and weaving. Showcasing works from the Longyear Museum of Anthropology’s basket and world textile collections, this exhibition explores the incredible amount of labor and skill that goes into creating woven art. The exhibition takes a comparative view of textiles from around the world, introducing the community significance of different designs and individual stylistic choices. The exhibition discusses how fiber art forms have changed as local and global markets develop, as well as the role that clothing can play in displays of nationalism and politics. Ultimately, Unraveled aims to inspire viewers to consider the benefits of hand-crafted works and foster an appreciation for the people behind the woven things we use and love each and every day.The exhibition features several new acquisitions, including three new works acquired from the Jalabil Maya women’s weaving collective during their artist residency last fall. It also features pieces on loan from our student curators, highlighting the significance of weaving and textile arts in their lives.Student Curators:Leila Bekaert ‘25 Oscar Brown ‘26 Kegan Foley ‘26 Emma Herwig ‘25 Bri Liddell ‘25 Gloria Liu ‘26 Meg McClenahan ‘25 Anna Miksis ‘25 Blanca Rivas ‘25 Aleksia Taci ‘25 Professor/Curator: Rebecca Mendelsohn

Academics | Lawrence Hall, 105, The Robert Ho Lecture Room
Join us for a lecture from Kieran Setiya, Peter de Florez Professor and Philsophy Department Head at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Despite its conventional association with philosophy, the question of life’s meaning is often dismissed as nonsense by contemporary philosophers—or replaced with questions about meaningful lives—and for most earlier philosophers, the question doesn’t arise. In this talk, I’ll use the surprisingly recent origins of “the meaning of life” to explain what it could be. Drawing on a Romantic tradition in which the human future stands in for eschatology, I’ll argue that life could have a secular meaning, one that depends on progress towards justice, and thus depends on us.Sponsored by The Elias J. and Rosa Lee Nemir Audi Lecture Fund.

Academics | Lawrence Hall, 020
The era of refugees and migrants, encompassing most of the 20th and 21st centuries, is characterized by displaced and transient human masses. They come crowded in boats, trains, trucks, cars, on foot, or even swimming through bodies of water. Some travel alone, while others travel with their families, or in groups. This is an experience few would have chosen, but due to forces beyond their control—poverty, repression, war—they have become migrants, refugees, or exiles. Through the lens of contemporary Mexican theater, the journeys these migrants engage as they search for a better life are presented in plays written by Mexican dramatists such as Hugo Salcedo, Victor Hugo Rascón Banda, Angel Norzagaray, or Manuel Talavera Trejo. Their plays depict thousands of anonymous actors in heroic, treacherous, and tragic Journeys across some of the most unwelcoming topography between Mexico and the United States.Presentation open to all.Speaker: Iani del Rosario Moreno (Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies, Suffolk University) Co-sponsored by: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Division of Arts and Humanities, Department of Theater, the W. M. Keck Center for Language Study, and Africana and Latin American Studies

Academics
April 7-11. Please see the course registration web page for schedule.

Academics | Alumni Hall, 2nd floor
This exhibition, curated by 10 students in the Fall 2024 semester of MUSE 300: Museum Curating, features the themes of textiles and weaving. Showcasing works from the Longyear Museum of Anthropology’s basket and world textile collections, this exhibition explores the incredible amount of labor and skill that goes into creating woven art. The exhibition takes a comparative view of textiles from around the world, introducing the community significance of different designs and individual stylistic choices. The exhibition discusses how fiber art forms have changed as local and global markets develop, as well as the role that clothing can play in displays of nationalism and politics. Ultimately, Unraveled aims to inspire viewers to consider the benefits of hand-crafted works and foster an appreciation for the people behind the woven things we use and love each and every day.The exhibition features several new acquisitions, including three new works acquired from the Jalabil Maya women’s weaving collective during their artist residency last fall. It also features pieces on loan from our student curators, highlighting the significance of weaving and textile arts in their lives.Student Curators:Leila Bekaert ‘25 Oscar Brown ‘26 Kegan Foley ‘26 Emma Herwig ‘25 Bri Liddell ‘25 Gloria Liu ‘26 Meg McClenahan ‘25 Anna Miksis ‘25 Blanca Rivas ‘25 Aleksia Taci ‘25 Professor/Curator: Rebecca Mendelsohn

Academics | Persson Hall, 209
Ernest Lai of Lehigh University will lecture as part of the Colgate University-Hamilton College Economics Seminar Series

Academics | Ho Science Center, 101
WOLK Lecture - "A New Epigenetic Fix for Brain Cancer", presented by Alea Mills, Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Co-sponsored by the Michael J. Wolk Heart Foundation. Reception to follow in Cunniff Commons Atrium.

Academics | Ho Tung Visualization Lab, 401 Ho Science Center
Pink Floyd's legendary album returns, using all the capacities of the Museum's high-definition, full-dome video system. Fantastic sound and incredible images create an unforgettable experience. It's not just a laser show, it's a totally new digital revolution in sight and sound surrounding you, immersing you and losing you in the Dark Side of the Moon.This unique video experience is provided by Starlight Productions.

Academics | Alumni Hall, 2nd floor
This exhibition, curated by 10 students in the Fall 2024 semester of MUSE 300: Museum Curating, features the themes of textiles and weaving. Showcasing works from the Longyear Museum of Anthropology’s basket and world textile collections, this exhibition explores the incredible amount of labor and skill that goes into creating woven art. The exhibition takes a comparative view of textiles from around the world, introducing the community significance of different designs and individual stylistic choices. The exhibition discusses how fiber art forms have changed as local and global markets develop, as well as the role that clothing can play in displays of nationalism and politics. Ultimately, Unraveled aims to inspire viewers to consider the benefits of hand-crafted works and foster an appreciation for the people behind the woven things we use and love each and every day.The exhibition features several new acquisitions, including three new works acquired from the Jalabil Maya women’s weaving collective during their artist residency last fall. It also features pieces on loan from our student curators, highlighting the significance of weaving and textile arts in their lives.Student Curators:Leila Bekaert ‘25 Oscar Brown ‘26 Kegan Foley ‘26 Emma Herwig ‘25 Bri Liddell ‘25 Gloria Liu ‘26 Meg McClenahan ‘25 Anna Miksis ‘25 Blanca Rivas ‘25 Aleksia Taci ‘25 Professor/Curator: Rebecca Mendelsohn

Academics | Colgate Memorial Chapel
Bravo Brahms!Marietta Cheng, ConductorBrahms Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73; Winners of the Concerto Competition: Weber Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in E Flat Major, Op. 74, First Movement, Jeremy Stoll ’27, clarinet; Elgar Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85, First Movement, Jonah Kim ’28, cello; Wieniawski Violin Concerto No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 22, Third Movement, Daniyar Ali ’28, violin; Verdi Overture to Nabucco