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- All dayEclipse ArtToday's Events | Ho Science Center
In 2017, Kristen T. Woodward was able to witness a total solar eclipse in Knoxville, Tennessee, and was moved by the dramatic planetary display. She is looking forward to viewing another eclipse in her hometown of Webster, New York in April, as we will be in that exquisite path of totality. Woodward marvels at how science has allowed us to countdown the minutes while other events in our lives appear random and chaotic. The experience leaves one to ponder what is pre-ordained. By including images inspired by solar eclipse, her encaustic paintings intend to capture this conflict and visual tension between chaos and natural order.Woodward received her BFA in Printmaking from Syracuse University, and her MFA in Studio Art from Clemson University. Her zoomorphic paintings combine encaustic and print processes, and often utilize found collage materials. Woodward is a professor in the department of art and art history at Albright College, teaching drawing, painting, printmaking, and gender and the visual arts. Currently, she is collaborating with an environmental biologist to explore tropical ecosystems in Costa Rica. Woodward serves as is Resident Curator for the online site Artists2Artists. - All dayEclipse ArtCampus Life | Ho Science Center
In 2017, Kristen T. Woodward was able to witness a total solar eclipse in Knoxville, Tennessee, and was moved by the dramatic planetary display. She is looking forward to viewing another eclipse in her hometown of Webster, New York in April, as we will be in that exquisite path of totality. Woodward marvels at how science has allowed us to countdown the minutes while other events in our lives appear random and chaotic. The experience leaves one to ponder what is pre-ordained. By including images inspired by solar eclipse, her encaustic paintings intend to capture this conflict and visual tension between chaos and natural order.Woodward received her BFA in Printmaking from Syracuse University, and her MFA in Studio Art from Clemson University. Her zoomorphic paintings combine encaustic and print processes, and often utilize found collage materials. Woodward is a professor in the department of art and art history at Albright College, teaching drawing, painting, printmaking, and gender and the visual arts. Currently, she is collaborating with an environmental biologist to explore tropical ecosystems in Costa Rica. Woodward serves as is Resident Curator for the online site Artists2Artists. - All dayEclipse ArtAcademics | Ho Science Center
In 2017, Kristen T. Woodward was able to witness a total solar eclipse in Knoxville, Tennessee, and was moved by the dramatic planetary display. She is looking forward to viewing another eclipse in her hometown of Webster, New York in April, as we will be in that exquisite path of totality. Woodward marvels at how science has allowed us to countdown the minutes while other events in our lives appear random and chaotic. The experience leaves one to ponder what is pre-ordained. By including images inspired by solar eclipse, her encaustic paintings intend to capture this conflict and visual tension between chaos and natural order.Woodward received her BFA in Printmaking from Syracuse University, and her MFA in Studio Art from Clemson University. Her zoomorphic paintings combine encaustic and print processes, and often utilize found collage materials. Woodward is a professor in the department of art and art history at Albright College, teaching drawing, painting, printmaking, and gender and the visual arts. Currently, she is collaborating with an environmental biologist to explore tropical ecosystems in Costa Rica. Woodward serves as is Resident Curator for the online site Artists2Artists. - All daySAAM Library DisplayToday's Events | Case-Geyer Library, 3rd Floor
In honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM), check out Haven, Help Restore Hope, and Shaw's library display on the 3rd floor of Case-Geyer throughout April. The display includes featured books that speak to survivorship, resiliency, healing, and action. You're invited to engage with and borrow these books and additional ones on display, make a bookmark, grab a teal awareness pin, and more. - 8:30 AM1hOpen Zazen MeditationToday's Events | Chapel House, Chapel
Designed to help you to accept and become aware of the present moment, zazen meditation is focused on being aware of every sensation simultaneously, including thoughts. This helps in finding peace in the present moment.This meditation is led by visiting Zen Buddhist teacher and scholar Jeff Shore with guidance for beginners. - 8:30 AM1hOpen Zazen MeditationCampus Life | Chapel House, Chapel
Designed to help you to accept and become aware of the present moment, zazen meditation is focused on being aware of every sensation simultaneously, including thoughts. This helps in finding peace in the present moment.This meditation is led by visiting Zen Buddhist teacher and scholar Jeff Shore with guidance for beginners. - 9:30 AM7hCreative Resolve: Poisons and Passions at Longyear Museum of AnthropologyThe Arts | Alumni Hall, 2nd Floor
This exhibition, co-curated by Longyear Curatorial Assistant Summer Frazier and Curatorial Intern Raquel Marquez-Guerrero ‘24, explores the different ways that art leverages the creative process to metabolize conflict or aggression. This healing manifests in various forms, ranging from redefining narratives to empathizing with personal or communal losses. These artists, working in media from 2D to 3D to street and graffiti art, intentionally confront discontent, fostering creative growth and finding solutions. In this context, their art becomes a means to process pain and to construct bridges amidst conflict. In addition to art, this exhibition also explores various ways that plants can be used in healing processes. - 9:30 AM7hCreative Resolve: Poisons and Passions at Longyear Museum of AnthropologyCampus Life | Alumni Hall, 2nd Floor
This exhibition, co-curated by Longyear Curatorial Assistant Summer Frazier and Curatorial Intern Raquel Marquez-Guerrero ‘24, explores the different ways that art leverages the creative process to metabolize conflict or aggression. This healing manifests in various forms, ranging from redefining narratives to empathizing with personal or communal losses. These artists, working in media from 2D to 3D to street and graffiti art, intentionally confront discontent, fostering creative growth and finding solutions. In this context, their art becomes a means to process pain and to construct bridges amidst conflict. In addition to art, this exhibition also explores various ways that plants can be used in healing processes. - 9:30 AM7hCreative Resolve: Poisons and Passions at Longyear Museum of AnthropologyAcademics | Alumni Hall, 2nd Floor
This exhibition, co-curated by Longyear Curatorial Assistant Summer Frazier and Curatorial Intern Raquel Marquez-Guerrero ‘24, explores the different ways that art leverages the creative process to metabolize conflict or aggression. This healing manifests in various forms, ranging from redefining narratives to empathizing with personal or communal losses. These artists, working in media from 2D to 3D to street and graffiti art, intentionally confront discontent, fostering creative growth and finding solutions. In this context, their art becomes a means to process pain and to construct bridges amidst conflict. In addition to art, this exhibition also explores various ways that plants can be used in healing processes. - 9:30 AM7hCreative Resolve: Poisons and Passions at Longyear Museum of AnthropologyToday's Events | Alumni Hall, 2nd Floor
This exhibition, co-curated by Longyear Curatorial Assistant Summer Frazier and Curatorial Intern Raquel Marquez-Guerrero ‘24, explores the different ways that art leverages the creative process to metabolize conflict or aggression. This healing manifests in various forms, ranging from redefining narratives to empathizing with personal or communal losses. These artists, working in media from 2D to 3D to street and graffiti art, intentionally confront discontent, fostering creative growth and finding solutions. In this context, their art becomes a means to process pain and to construct bridges amidst conflict. In addition to art, this exhibition also explores various ways that plants can be used in healing processes. - 10:00 AM1hBlind Date with a BookToday's Events | Case-Geyer Library, Heiber Cafe
A student favorite from last semester is back!A blind date with a book is an event where books are wrapped up and participants choose a book based on clues written on the wrapping. The clues can include the genre, theme, plot, setting, and reviews. The event is designed to help readers find new books they might enjoy without judging a book by its cover. - 10:00 AM7hExhibition: Core/Collections: Let's Talk About ItToday's Events | Dana Arts Center, Second Floor
The Collections: What is the role of an art museum on a liberal arts college campus? Since 2013, the collections at Picker Art Gallery have been shifting. Moving away from traditional models of collecting, the museum today holds a larger proportion of artworks by women, BIPOC, LGBTQ+ artists and others whose creativity and stories have historically been left out of museum collections.The Core: The revision of Colgate’s Core Curriculum represents the essence of the university’s liberal arts commitments to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Introduced in 2022, the revised Core curriculum has a stronger focus on exposing students to diverse forms of knowledge. Most notably, a new course called Core Conversations was created. Based on five globally significant “texts,” it lays out the common ground for intellectual discussions within the Colgate community. Core Conversations focus on productive discourse and communal learning among students, encouraging them to engage in perspectives and dialogues beyond the limits of personal experience.Core Collections: This is not a typical museum experience. The gallery has been transformed into a space for open-ended dialogue. Visitors will not find a lot of text interpreting the artworks; rather, we pose a series of questions, designed to elicit individual reflection and initiate discussions across communities, identities, and materials.. The exhibition is organized into four broad areas of inquiry: Appearances, Epistemologies, Urbanism and Labor, and People and Land. We encourage you to engage with the questions provided while viewing the works, and to contribute your insights or your own questions to our interactive space.What will you add to the conversation?Core/Collections is curated by Emma Barrison ’24, Cindy Chen ’24, and Wendy Wu ’25 - 10:00 AM7hExhibition: Core/Collections: Let's Talk About ItThe Arts | Dana Arts Center, Second Floor
The Collections: What is the role of an art museum on a liberal arts college campus? Since 2013, the collections at Picker Art Gallery have been shifting. Moving away from traditional models of collecting, the museum today holds a larger proportion of artworks by women, BIPOC, LGBTQ+ artists and others whose creativity and stories have historically been left out of museum collections.The Core: The revision of Colgate’s Core Curriculum represents the essence of the university’s liberal arts commitments to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Introduced in 2022, the revised Core curriculum has a stronger focus on exposing students to diverse forms of knowledge. Most notably, a new course called Core Conversations was created. Based on five globally significant “texts,” it lays out the common ground for intellectual discussions within the Colgate community. Core Conversations focus on productive discourse and communal learning among students, encouraging them to engage in perspectives and dialogues beyond the limits of personal experience.Core Collections: This is not a typical museum experience. The gallery has been transformed into a space for open-ended dialogue. Visitors will not find a lot of text interpreting the artworks; rather, we pose a series of questions, designed to elicit individual reflection and initiate discussions across communities, identities, and materials.. The exhibition is organized into four broad areas of inquiry: Appearances, Epistemologies, Urbanism and Labor, and People and Land. We encourage you to engage with the questions provided while viewing the works, and to contribute your insights or your own questions to our interactive space.What will you add to the conversation?Core/Collections is curated by Emma Barrison ’24, Cindy Chen ’24, and Wendy Wu ’25 - 10:00 AM7hExhibition: Core/Collections: Let's Talk About ItAcademics | Dana Arts Center, Second Floor
The Collections: What is the role of an art museum on a liberal arts college campus? Since 2013, the collections at Picker Art Gallery have been shifting. Moving away from traditional models of collecting, the museum today holds a larger proportion of artworks by women, BIPOC, LGBTQ+ artists and others whose creativity and stories have historically been left out of museum collections.The Core: The revision of Colgate’s Core Curriculum represents the essence of the university’s liberal arts commitments to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Introduced in 2022, the revised Core curriculum has a stronger focus on exposing students to diverse forms of knowledge. Most notably, a new course called Core Conversations was created. Based on five globally significant “texts,” it lays out the common ground for intellectual discussions within the Colgate community. Core Conversations focus on productive discourse and communal learning among students, encouraging them to engage in perspectives and dialogues beyond the limits of personal experience.Core Collections: This is not a typical museum experience. The gallery has been transformed into a space for open-ended dialogue. Visitors will not find a lot of text interpreting the artworks; rather, we pose a series of questions, designed to elicit individual reflection and initiate discussions across communities, identities, and materials.. The exhibition is organized into four broad areas of inquiry: Appearances, Epistemologies, Urbanism and Labor, and People and Land. We encourage you to engage with the questions provided while viewing the works, and to contribute your insights or your own questions to our interactive space.What will you add to the conversation?Core/Collections is curated by Emma Barrison ’24, Cindy Chen ’24, and Wendy Wu ’25 - 10:00 AM7hExhibition: Core/Collections: Let's Talk About ItCampus Life | Dana Arts Center, Second Floor
The Collections: What is the role of an art museum on a liberal arts college campus? Since 2013, the collections at Picker Art Gallery have been shifting. Moving away from traditional models of collecting, the museum today holds a larger proportion of artworks by women, BIPOC, LGBTQ+ artists and others whose creativity and stories have historically been left out of museum collections.The Core: The revision of Colgate’s Core Curriculum represents the essence of the university’s liberal arts commitments to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Introduced in 2022, the revised Core curriculum has a stronger focus on exposing students to diverse forms of knowledge. Most notably, a new course called Core Conversations was created. Based on five globally significant “texts,” it lays out the common ground for intellectual discussions within the Colgate community. Core Conversations focus on productive discourse and communal learning among students, encouraging them to engage in perspectives and dialogues beyond the limits of personal experience.Core Collections: This is not a typical museum experience. The gallery has been transformed into a space for open-ended dialogue. Visitors will not find a lot of text interpreting the artworks; rather, we pose a series of questions, designed to elicit individual reflection and initiate discussions across communities, identities, and materials.. The exhibition is organized into four broad areas of inquiry: Appearances, Epistemologies, Urbanism and Labor, and People and Land. We encourage you to engage with the questions provided while viewing the works, and to contribute your insights or your own questions to our interactive space.What will you add to the conversation?Core/Collections is curated by Emma Barrison ’24, Cindy Chen ’24, and Wendy Wu ’25 - 10:30 AM6hThe 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/ - 10:30 AM6hThe Locker RoomThe Arts | 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/ - 10:30 AM6hThe Locker RoomAcademics | 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/ - 10:30 AM6hThe Locker RoomCampus Life | 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/ - 11:30 AM1h 30mWGGS Senior Capstone ProjectsToday's Events | Center for Women's Studies, East Hall WMST Lobby
Join us for the 2024 WGSS Senior Captstone Projects - Beloved Community: Belonging, Grief, Accessibility and Safety.Come support our graduating seniors:Camryn Yeager: Senior Reflections: Community,Belonging, and Loneliness at ColgateIsrael Zarate: Feminist Book Club: Reading as CommunityShenice Mobley: Equity and Equality in the ClassroomTaylor Cigna: Death Library: A Personal andPolitical Grief ProjectJason Qian:(Counter-)Mapping Safety on Colgate’s CampusLunch will be provided. - 11:30 AM1h 30mWGGS Senior Capstone ProjectsAcademics | Center for Women's Studies, East Hall WMST Lobby
Join us for the 2024 WGSS Senior Captstone Projects - Beloved Community: Belonging, Grief, Accessibility and Safety.Come support our graduating seniors:Camryn Yeager: Senior Reflections: Community,Belonging, and Loneliness at ColgateIsrael Zarate: Feminist Book Club: Reading as CommunityShenice Mobley: Equity and Equality in the ClassroomTaylor Cigna: Death Library: A Personal andPolitical Grief ProjectJason Qian:(Counter-)Mapping Safety on Colgate’s CampusLunch will be provided. - 3:30 PM1hFree Store Open HoursToday's Events | Drake Hall, Tunnel
Located under the Drake Hall Tunnel, the Free Store is an initiative by Colgate's Office of Sustainability that aims to reduce landfill waste of usable goods while increasing equitable access to items students need. All Colgate students are invited to shop for free.Important Shopping Notes:All Colgate students are invited to shop and donate.Only 5 people are permitted in the Free Store at a time.Only take 5 items per person per day. Only 1 of the 5 can be a red-tagged (high-value)All items are completely free.Check out with Free Store staff before leaving. We only take the item number to track our inventory and do not collect any personal information.Be excited that you are preventing landfill waste on campus!The final open date for the semester will be May 3. After this date, all donatable goods should be brought to COVE Salvage donation locations.Donating Now accepting donations! To donate, please see our accepted items below and bring your clean, usable items during open store hours only. Please do not leave donations outside of the Free Store during closed hours.Accepted Items:ClothingShoesHangersBeddingTowelsSchool SuppliesKitchen SuppliesSmall Functional ElectronicsLamps & FansMirrorsClean Waste BinsLaundry HampersShower CaddiesDorm DecorationsSmall FurnitureMini-fridges & MicrowavesNot Accepted Items:Damaged or Stained ClothingBroken or Overused ItemsLarge Furniture Food (take it to the food pantries instead) Mattress ToppersUsed Makeup and medicationsUndergarments and socksPlease email sustainability@colgate.edu with any questions. - 4:15 PM1h 45mAlexander the Great in Kashmir: The Alexander Romance and the RajataranginiToday's Events | Lawrence Hall, The Robert Ho Lecture Room, 105
Presentation by Daniel Tober, assistant professor of The Classics.By the time of his death in 323 BCE, the young king of Macedon, Alexander III “the Great,” had expanded his rule from northern Greece to northern India, transforming the Mediterranean world and the Middle East and earning himself unparalleled fame. His conquests quickly became the stuff of legend. The so-called Alexander Romance, a highly fictionalized account of Alexander’s life and conquests composed not long after his death, became the best-selling book of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages; by the 13th century CE, it had been translated from Greek into Coptic, Ge’ez, Syriac, Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Armenian, not to mention every language of Europe. Stories about Alexander, meanwhile, worked their way into many other texts and traditions. We find Alexander at the gates of Eden in the Talmud, vanquishing the monstrous “Unclean Nations” of the North in the Qur’an, and talking to a magical tree en route to China in the Persian epic Shahnameh. Yet, while many Alexander legends, including much of the Romance, concern his marvelous adventures in India, we have very little evidence for the reception of Alexander among the inhabitants of that region themselves. This talk addresses this lacuna by exploring echoes of the Alexander Romance in the Rajatarangini (River of Kings), a local history of Kashmir written in Sanskrit by the poet Kalhana in the 12th-century CE.Refreshments provided. All are welcome.Reception begins at 4:00 PM. Lecture begins at 4:15 PM. - 4:15 PM1h 45mAlexander the Great in Kashmir: The Alexander Romance and the RajataranginiAcademics | Lawrence Hall, The Robert Ho Lecture Room, 105
Presentation by Daniel Tober, assistant professor of The Classics.By the time of his death in 323 BCE, the young king of Macedon, Alexander III “the Great,” had expanded his rule from northern Greece to northern India, transforming the Mediterranean world and the Middle East and earning himself unparalleled fame. His conquests quickly became the stuff of legend. The so-called Alexander Romance, a highly fictionalized account of Alexander’s life and conquests composed not long after his death, became the best-selling book of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages; by the 13th century CE, it had been translated from Greek into Coptic, Ge’ez, Syriac, Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Armenian, not to mention every language of Europe. Stories about Alexander, meanwhile, worked their way into many other texts and traditions. We find Alexander at the gates of Eden in the Talmud, vanquishing the monstrous “Unclean Nations” of the North in the Qur’an, and talking to a magical tree en route to China in the Persian epic Shahnameh. Yet, while many Alexander legends, including much of the Romance, concern his marvelous adventures in India, we have very little evidence for the reception of Alexander among the inhabitants of that region themselves. This talk addresses this lacuna by exploring echoes of the Alexander Romance in the Rajatarangini (River of Kings), a local history of Kashmir written in Sanskrit by the poet Kalhana in the 12th-century CE.Refreshments provided. All are welcome.Reception begins at 4:00 PM. Lecture begins at 4:15 PM. - 4:30 PM1h 30mVulnerabilities of Intersectional IdentitiesToday's Events | ALANA Cultural Center
In highlighting Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM), join the ALANA social justice peer educators and Haven ambassadors for a conversation on the impacts of creating awareness about sexual assault amongst marginalized communities and the implications and vulnerabilities on intersectional identities. - 5:00 PM1hOpen Zazen MeditationCampus Life | Chapel House, Chapel
Designed to help you to accept and become aware of the present moment, zazen meditation is focused on being aware of every sensation simultaneously, including thoughts. This helps in finding peace in the present moment.This meditation is led by visiting Zen Buddhist teacher and scholar Jeff Shore with guidance for beginners. - 5:00 PM1hOpen Zazen MeditationToday's Events | Chapel House, Chapel
Designed to help you to accept and become aware of the present moment, zazen meditation is focused on being aware of every sensation simultaneously, including thoughts. This helps in finding peace in the present moment.This meditation is led by visiting Zen Buddhist teacher and scholar Jeff Shore with guidance for beginners. - 5:30 PM1hConflict KitchenToday's Events | Jane Pinchin Hall, Kitchen
Come and cook traditional Palestinian foods while learning about the food sovereignty issue in Palestine through a screening of Jumana Manna's Foragers (2022).This event is inspired by Conflict Kitchen, a restaurant in Pennsylvania that utilizes the social dynamics of food and economic exchange to foster discussions about countries, cultures, and people often overlooked in mainstream political discourse and media coverage.We will be preparing dishes like mutabal, mussakhan, and maqluba.Co-sponsored by Peace and Conflict Studies and the Colgate University Greenhouse, and supported by the Residential Commons Program, Dart Colegrove Commons, and Brown Commons. - 5:30 PM1hConflict KitchenAcademics | Jane Pinchin Hall, Kitchen
Come and cook traditional Palestinian foods while learning about the food sovereignty issue in Palestine through a screening of Jumana Manna's Foragers (2022).This event is inspired by Conflict Kitchen, a restaurant in Pennsylvania that utilizes the social dynamics of food and economic exchange to foster discussions about countries, cultures, and people often overlooked in mainstream political discourse and media coverage.We will be preparing dishes like mutabal, mussakhan, and maqluba.Co-sponsored by Peace and Conflict Studies and the Colgate University Greenhouse, and supported by the Residential Commons Program, Dart Colegrove Commons, and Brown Commons. - 6:30 PM2h 30mPassover SederToday's Events | James C. Colgate Hall, Hall of Presidents
Please join the Colgate Jewish Union in the celebration of the festival of freedom. All are welcome! - 6:30 PM2h 30mPassover SederCampus Life | James C. Colgate Hall, Hall of Presidents
Please join the Colgate Jewish Union in the celebration of the festival of freedom. All are welcome!