Life A Cosmic Story: Commencement Weekend Shows
Friday, May 17, 2024 2:30–3:30 PM
Description
Life: A Cosmic Story tells the 14-billion-year saga of how we came to be. It's a journey from the microscopic view inside a plant cell to the vastness of our universe populated by billions of galaxies swirling in space. Narrated by Jodie Foster.
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- May 189:00 AMOISS Coffee HourToday's Events | Merrill House
The Office of International Student Services (OISS) invites all international students and their families to attend the upcoming OISS Family and Friends Coffee Hour!Join the OISS Staff and have one more chat before commencement.We hope to see you there! - May 18–19Academic ReceptionToday's Events | Merrill House, Tent
Graduating students and their families are invited to celebrate with Colgate’s faculty and other academic community members. Refreshments will be served. - May 181:00 PMThe 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/ - May 181:30 PMCommencement Seminar: “Becoming and Being a Writer: A Personal Journey Through 30 Years of Novel Writing”Today's Events | Persson Hall, 27, Persson Auditorium
Attend a commencement seminar with author Mohsin Hamid, distinguished 2024 honorary degree recipient. - May 181:30 PMCommencement Seminar: “Colgate’s Commitment to Freedom of Expression”Today's Events | Benton Hall, 213, Clifford Commons
Attend a session with Michael J. Herling ’79, P’08,’09,’12, distinguished 2024 honorary degree recipient; chair of Colgate University’s Board of Trustees, and founding partner, Finn Dixon & Herling LLP, and Brian W. Casey, President of Colgate University. - May 181:30 PMCommencement Seminar: “Gasweñdah: The Two Row Wampum Belt and the Significance to Agriculture and Relationships”Today's Events | Lawrence Hall, 105, Ho Lecture Room
Join us for a commencement seminar with Angela Ferguson, distinguished 2024 honorary degree recipient, supervisor of the Onondaga Nation Farm, and coordinating committee member of Braiding the Sacred.