Week of November 11
- Mon 11All dayCourse Registration for Spring 2025 TermAcademics
November 11-15. Please see the Current Student Registration web page for the registration schedule. - Mon 11All dayWatch PartyAcademics | Bernstein Hall, Experimental Exhibition and Performance Studio
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 - Tue 12All dayCourse Registration for Spring 2025 TermAcademics
November 11-15. Please see the Current Student Registration web page for the registration schedule. - Tue 12All dayWatch PartyAcademics | Bernstein Hall, Experimental Exhibition and Performance Studio
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 - Tue 129:30 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. - Tue 1210:00 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. - Tue 1211:30 AMCenter for Women's Studies: Brown Bag with Syracuse Worker's CenterAcademics | Center for Women's Studies, The Lounge at East Hall
This discussion features members of the Syracuse Worker's Center who will join us for a conversation on "Women's Leadership Among Workers in Central NY."Come to learn about their grassroots organizing for economic and labor justice.Lunch will be provided. - Tue 1212:00 PMAlternative Cinema: Movie-Drome 2.0 ExhibitionAcademics | Bernstein Hall, 102 (Experimental Exhibition and Performance Studio)
Opening performance and reception will take place at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 12.Movie-Drome 2.0 is a collaborative project reimagining Stan VanDerBeek’s iconic Movie-Drome (1965), a spherical domed multi-projection environment or "experience machine." VanDerBeek designed this alternative cinema to create an "international picture-language" through a series of events he described as "movie-murals," "newsreels of dreams," and "image libraries."Students in fall 2024 courses Art and Technology (CORE400) and Expanded Cinema (FMST390A) have joined forces to remake this work for the contemporary moment using the immersive media environment of the Experimental Exhibition and Performance Studio (aka The Vault) as their canvas. Movie-Drome 2.0 features an array of audio-visual media—from archival images to live surveillance, pop culture to politics, psychedelia to environmental processes, local sites to world events.Co-sponsored by Core Distinction - Tue 1212:00 PMClifford Gallery: Yang Hongwei: The Code of ArtAcademics | Little Hall, Clifford Gallery (101 Little Hall)
Work by visiting woodcut artist Yang Hongwei (Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing) will be on view during a special pop-up exhibition in conjunction with his visit to Colgate. Other events include a lecture on Nov. 13, and a printmaking workshop on Nov. 16.In collaboration with the Asian Studies Program, the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, and Picker Art GalleryAdditional support has been generously provided by the Colgate Arts Council.*Please note: Gallery 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. - Tue 1212:00 PMResearching Race and Ethnicity in ChinaAcademics | Lawrence Hall, 305
The Religion Department is featuring a Fall Faculty Works-in-Progress series. This series is designed primarily as an informal space for faculty members to share our on-going research with one another and interested students. Lunch is provided and RSVPs to Religion@colgate.edu is requested.Professor Brenton Sullivan will discuss what inspires him to begin his newest research on China's Race and Ethnicity. - Tue 124:15 PMNational Fellowships for Arts and Humanities Students: Expanding Your FutureAcademics | Lawrence Hall, The Robert Ho Lecture Room,105
Join us for an interactive session to highlight many key opportunities for arts and humanities (AHUM) students and alumni, including all years at Colgate. Testimonials will be shared from AHUM alums currently on fellowships. In general, fellowships can be transformational and stepping stones to the next step in a wonderful career.This event will be led by Stephen (Steve) Wright, associate dean of fellowship advising and national fellowships, and Meghan Niedt, assistant director for fellowship advising.Refreshments provided. All are welcome. - Wed 13All dayCourse Registration for Spring 2025 TermAcademics
November 11-15. Please see the Current Student Registration web page for the registration schedule. - Wed 13All dayWatch PartyAcademics | Bernstein Hall, Experimental Exhibition and Performance Studio
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 - Wed 139:30 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. - Wed 1310:00 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. - Wed 1310:30 AMClifford Gallery: Yang Hongwei: The Code of ArtAcademics | Little Hall, Clifford Gallery (101 Little Hall)
Work by visiting woodcut artist Yang Hongwei (Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing) will be on view during a special pop-up exhibition in conjunction with his visit to Colgate. Other events include a lecture on Nov. 13, and a printmaking workshop on Nov. 16.In collaboration with the Asian Studies Program, the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, and Picker Art GalleryAdditional support has been generously provided by the Colgate Arts Council.*Please note: Gallery 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. - Wed 1312:00 PMAlternative Cinema: Movie-Drome 2.0 ExhibitionAcademics | Bernstein Hall, 102 (Experimental Exhibition and Performance Studio)
Opening performance and reception will take place at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 12.Movie-Drome 2.0 is a collaborative project reimagining Stan VanDerBeek’s iconic Movie-Drome (1965), a spherical domed multi-projection environment or "experience machine." VanDerBeek designed this alternative cinema to create an "international picture-language" through a series of events he described as "movie-murals," "newsreels of dreams," and "image libraries."Students in fall 2024 courses Art and Technology (CORE400) and Expanded Cinema (FMST390A) have joined forces to remake this work for the contemporary moment using the immersive media environment of the Experimental Exhibition and Performance Studio (aka The Vault) as their canvas. Movie-Drome 2.0 features an array of audio-visual media—from archival images to live surveillance, pop culture to politics, psychedelia to environmental processes, local sites to world events.Co-sponsored by Core Distinction - Wed 13 –
Thu 14Boren Awards Info SessionAcademics | Benton Hall, 200
A respresentative from Boren Awards will be on campus to discuss this opportunity.Boren Awards fund study of languages in overseas locations that are critical to U.S. national security. Scholars and Fellows study a wide range of critical languages, including Arabic, Hindi, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian, and Swahili. Boren Awards are available to students of all proficiency levels who are committed to enhancing their skills.Students from diverse fields of study immerse themselves in the cultures in world regions critical to U.S. interests and underrepresented in study abroad, including Africa, Asia, Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle East.Opportunities are available for all students interested in critical language study to apply to, including graduating seniors.Stop by for lunch and to learn more! - Wed 134:00 PMKaffeestundeAcademics | Lawrence Hall, 115
Kaffee und Kuchen, Conversation and Community, sponsored by the Dept. of German - Wed 134:30 PMArt Department Lecture: Yang Hongwei: The Code of ArtAcademics | Little Hall, 105 (Golden Auditorium)
Yang Hongwei lives and works in Beijing based at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. He earned his PhD at CAFA in 2015, studying under the mentorship of renowned artist Xu Bing. Over the past 10 years, Yang has been extending and expanding the vocabulary of woodcut and wood engraving printmaking through his Pixel Analysis Project, which combines Chinese and Western traditional wood engraving techniques with the principles of analog movable type and digital dot-matrix display technology. For the Pixel Analysis Project, Yang has hand carved over 100,000 pearwood “pixel modules” of various sizes, colors, and shading – a finite set of elements able to generate infinite sets of images. Yang has exhibited at galleries and museums all over China.In collaboration with the Asian Studies Program, the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, and Picker Art GalleryAdditional support has been generously provided by the Colgate Arts Council. - Thu 14All dayCourse Registration for Spring 2025 TermAcademics
November 11-15. Please see the Current Student Registration web page for the registration schedule. - Thu 14All dayWatch PartyAcademics | Bernstein Hall, Experimental Exhibition and Performance Studio
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 - Thu 149:30 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. - Thu 1410:00 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. - Thu 1410:30 AMClifford Gallery: Yang Hongwei: The Code of ArtAcademics | Little Hall, Clifford Gallery (101 Little Hall)
Work by visiting woodcut artist Yang Hongwei (Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing) will be on view during a special pop-up exhibition in conjunction with his visit to Colgate. Other events include a lecture on Nov. 13, and a printmaking workshop on Nov. 16.In collaboration with the Asian Studies Program, the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, and Picker Art GalleryAdditional support has been generously provided by the Colgate Arts Council.*Please note: Gallery 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. - Thu 1411:30 AMVirtual Conference Watch Party- Association of Academic Museums and GalleriesAcademics | Case-Geyer 535
Join the University Museums staff as we watch the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries' Virtual Convening. Drop in as schedules permit to learn what is new in the museum field. Lunch and snacks will be available.Schedule: 11:30am-1:00pm- Plenary Discussion on Academic Museum Finances and Sponsor Demo (Bloomberg Connects)1:15-2:00pm- The Indigenous Collections Care Guide as a Resource for Collections Stewardship Practices2:15-3:00pm- Family Day at the Harvard Art Museums: Leveraging Curricular Partnerships to Support Multigenerational Learning3:15-4:00pm- They Did WHATTTTT!?: Responses and Best Practices Regarding Challenges to Artistic Freedom4:15-5:00pm- Climate Action Planning for Academic Museums and Galleries5:15-6:00pm- Building the Next Generation of Museum Professionals - Thu 1412:00 PMAlternative Cinema: Movie-Drome 2.0 ExhibitionAcademics | Bernstein Hall, 102 (Experimental Exhibition and Performance Studio)
Opening performance and reception will take place at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 12.Movie-Drome 2.0 is a collaborative project reimagining Stan VanDerBeek’s iconic Movie-Drome (1965), a spherical domed multi-projection environment or "experience machine." VanDerBeek designed this alternative cinema to create an "international picture-language" through a series of events he described as "movie-murals," "newsreels of dreams," and "image libraries."Students in fall 2024 courses Art and Technology (CORE400) and Expanded Cinema (FMST390A) have joined forces to remake this work for the contemporary moment using the immersive media environment of the Experimental Exhibition and Performance Studio (aka The Vault) as their canvas. Movie-Drome 2.0 features an array of audio-visual media—from archival images to live surveillance, pop culture to politics, psychedelia to environmental processes, local sites to world events.Co-sponsored by Core Distinction - Thu 1412:00 PMCommunity Conversation: Bias and Belonging in AIAcademics | Little Hall, 207
Join the Department of Art’s 2024-25 Christian A. Johnson Artist-in-Residence* Suchi Reddy for lunch and conversation about the Bias and Belonging project she is creating at Colgate University.Reddy joins us this year to host a series of community conversations centered on the ways bias impacts our lived experience. As the dualities of bias and belonging, reflection and misreflection are amplified by the exponentially increasing presence of artificial intelligence in every aspect of our daily lives, we invite you to join in the conversation to share your lived experience of advanced technology and AI. The results of these conversations will take many forms, including woven artifacts created on the new TC2 digital loom in Colgate's recently opened Fabulation Lab (103 Bernstein Hall).For up-to-date information, visit https://www.cliffordgallery.org/events/. Pizza lunch will be provided.Suchi Reddy is an architect, designer, and artist based in NYC. In 2002, she founded Reddymade, which focuses on public art installations, large-scale commercial spaces, and residential projects ranging from single-family homes to interiors and prefab architecture. Guided by her mantra “form follows feeling,” Reddy’s architectural and artistic practice is informed by her research on neuroaesthetics, which examines the impact our environments have on the brain and body.Reddymade’s most celebrated projects include the first flagship Google retail space in New York, rated LEED Platinum; “me+you,” an interactive AI and light sculpture currently on display at Michigan Central Station in Detroit, and first unveiled in 2021 at the Smithsonian in DC for the FUTURES exhibit; a minimalist home in Salt Point, New York, with artist Ai Weiwei; “Look Here,” a solo exhibition at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., and many more exciting projects. Learn more about her work at https://reddymade.design/*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. - Thu 143:30 PMHamilton, A Village or a Small City?Academics | Palace Theater
Most people are unaware of the complexities of our village structure. This session will review the scope and intricacies of village life, the many things we take for granted, as well as the opportunities and challenges before us.Presenter: RuthAnn Speer Loveless is the mayor of the Village of Hamilton. - Thu 144:15 PMLockean LiteralismAcademics | Lawrence Hall, The Robert Ho Lecture Room, Lawrence 105
In his Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke labels all use of figurative language (along with any elements of style other than clarity) as abuses of language. In this talk, Lewis Powell, associate professor of philosophy at the University at Buffalo, presents the basics of Locke’s theory of language and argues for a particular interpretation of Locke’s literalist thesis and his motivation for endorsing it. That motive concerns ease of communication, understanding and interpretation, particularly in the transmission of knowledge. Powell investigates whether the putative advantages of his approach can be defended within his or other frameworks.Sponsored by The Jerome Balmuth Fund and Marion Hoeflich Endowment - Thu 144:30 PMLiving Writers: Samrat UpadhyayAcademics | Persson Hall, Persson Auditorium
Samrat Upadhyay is the first Nepali-born fiction writer to be published in the United States. His debut story collection, Arresting God in Kathmandu, won a Whiting Writers’ Award, and his second, The Royal Ghosts, won the Asian American Literary Award. He is also the author of three novels, The Guru of Love, Buddha’s Orphans, and The City Son, and a third story collection, Mad Country, which The New York Times called “brilliant, daring, and memorable.” He is the Martha C. Kraft Professor of Humanities at Indiana University, where he teaches creative writing.Co-sponsored by Asian Studies - Fri 15All dayCourse Registration for Spring 2025 TermAcademics
November 11-15. Please see the Current Student Registration web page for the registration schedule. - Fri 15All daySecond-Half-of-Term Courses: Withdrawal and S/U Grade Option DeadlinesAcademics
Last day to withdraw from a second-half-of-term course (with a W) and last day to declare the S/U grade mode for second-half-of-term courses.Please see the Course Withdrawal webpage and the S/U Grading Option webpage. - Fri 15All dayWatch PartyAcademics | Bernstein Hall, Experimental Exhibition and Performance Studio
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 - Fri 158:00 AMClifford Gallery: Yang Hongwei: The Code of ArtAcademics | Little Hall, Clifford Gallery (101 Little Hall)
Work by visiting woodcut artist Yang Hongwei (Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing) will be on view during a special pop-up exhibition in conjunction with his visit to Colgate. Other events include a lecture on Nov. 13, and a printmaking workshop on Nov. 16.In collaboration with the Asian Studies Program, the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, and Picker Art GalleryAdditional support has been generously provided by the Colgate Arts Council.*Please note: Gallery 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. - Fri 158:00 AMSymposium: Something Revolutionary: print and visual culture in modern ChinaAcademics | Little Hall, 105 (Golden Auditorium)
This symposium aims to bring greater attention to the Herman Collection and to modern Chinese visual culture more broadly. Scholars and students of modern China are invited to listen to papers contextualizing the prints in the Herman Collection historically and culturally, and to engage in discussions with colleagues about new directions in the field. The day will also include lunch and a tour of the exhibition led by the curator, Leslie Ann Eliet. - Fri 159:30 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. - Fri 1510:00 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. - Fri 1512:00 PMAlternative Cinema: Movie-Drome 2.0 ExhibitionAcademics | Bernstein Hall, 102 (Experimental Exhibition and Performance Studio)
Opening performance and reception will take place at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 12.Movie-Drome 2.0 is a collaborative project reimagining Stan VanDerBeek’s iconic Movie-Drome (1965), a spherical domed multi-projection environment or "experience machine." VanDerBeek designed this alternative cinema to create an "international picture-language" through a series of events he described as "movie-murals," "newsreels of dreams," and "image libraries."Students in fall 2024 courses Art and Technology (CORE400) and Expanded Cinema (FMST390A) have joined forces to remake this work for the contemporary moment using the immersive media environment of the Experimental Exhibition and Performance Studio (aka The Vault) as their canvas. Movie-Drome 2.0 features an array of audio-visual media—from archival images to live surveillance, pop culture to politics, psychedelia to environmental processes, local sites to world events.Co-sponsored by Core Distinction - Fri 1512:15 PMENST Brown Bag: Becoming an Adventure ScientistAcademics | Lathrop Hall, 207
Join us for this talk as part of the Environmental Studies Brown Bag Series. Dr. Sarah Hewitt will discuss what it takes to become a modern "adventure scientist."Dr. Sarah Hewitt received her PhD in neuroscience in Dr. Jaideep Bains' lab at the Hotchkiss Brain Institute at the University of Calgary. She is passionate about communicating science to students and the general public. She pursues her interest in science communication by traveling with researchers from a variety of disciplines and producing stories from the field. Through photography, audio, and written stories, she hopes to answer important questions: What is the research about? Why is this work important? Who are the scientists who devote their lives to this work? And what drives them? Her work has appeared in Discover Magazine, BBC Earth, Scientific American, Canadian Geographic, Explore Magazine, and others.This event is co-sponsored by the Division of Natural Science, CORE Science, and Colgate Outdoor Education.Hot wraps will be provided by Hamilton Whole Foods, and will include vegan, gluten-free, and nut-free options. Please bring your own reusable water bottle. - Fri 153:30 PMNASC Colloquium: Computing Education in the Age of Generative AIAcademics | Ho Science Center, 101
Introductory programming courses have long had a reputation for being difficult, boring, and time consuming. Some people think that only certain types of people excel in programming. However, anyone can learn to program. Dr. Ericson has been applying principles from educational psychology to improve the teaching and learning of programming. Her focus is on increasing the use of active and social learning in programming education. Specifically she has created free and interactive ebooks, inquiry-based exercises for groups, a free tool to support Peer Instruction, and new types of practice problems. In Peer Instruction an instructor displays a hard multiple-choice question and students answer individually, then discuss the question with peers, and then answer again. The instructor then leads a discussion about the question. Dr. Ericson is investigating how introductory programming should change in the age of generative AI. This includes less emphasis on writing code and more emphasis on reading code, reasoning about code, testing code, and fixing code. The goal is to make programming easy, engaging, and useful.Reception to follow. - Fri 153:30 PMPCON Fall Film Series: Battle of AlgiersAcademics | Hamilton Theater
The Peace and Conflict Studies program invites you to a film screening of Battle of Algiers (1966), directed by Gillo Pontecorvo, at the Hamilton Theater.This film covers the French-Algerian War (1954-1962), the organization of the guerrilla movement and the illegal methods of French paratroopers to stop the guerrillas, including torture. An important commentary on urban guerrilla warfare.Duration: 2h15m - Sat 16All dayWatch PartyAcademics | Bernstein Hall, Experimental Exhibition and Performance Studio
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 - Sat 169:00 AMClifford Gallery: Yang Hongwei: The Code of ArtAcademics | Little Hall, Clifford Gallery (101 Little Hall)
Work by visiting woodcut artist Yang Hongwei (Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing) will be on view during a special pop-up exhibition in conjunction with his visit to Colgate. Other events include a lecture on Nov. 13, and a printmaking workshop on Nov. 16.In collaboration with the Asian Studies Program, the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, and Picker Art GalleryAdditional support has been generously provided by the Colgate Arts Council.*Please note: Gallery 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. - Sat 169:30 AMPrintmaking demonstration and workshopAcademics | Little Hall, 205 (Print Studio)
Artist Yang Hongwei (Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing) will lead a free woodcut printing demonstration and workshop in Colgate’s printmaking studio. Designed for participants of all abilities and experience to try their hand at creative expression through art-making in a low-stakes environment. All members of the Colgate and Hamilton communities are invited to participate.This workshop is in collaboration with the Asian Studies Program, Arts Lectures Series, the department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, and Picker Art Gallery. Additional support has been generously provided by the Colgate Arts Council. - Sun 17All dayWatch PartyAcademics | Bernstein Hall, Experimental Exhibition and Performance Studio
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 - Sun 1711:30 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. - Sun 1712:00 PMWar, 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.