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October 30, 2025

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Info Session: Hudson Institute Political Studies

Thu, Oct 30, 2025 4:30pm to 5:30pm

Learn about the Hudson Institute Political Studies summer fellowship -- a Washington, DC experience featuring seminars, policy workshops, and influential speakers. Housing is provided as well as a...

Benton Hall, 213 Benton Hall

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Model UN Meeting

Thu, Oct 30, 2025 4:30pm to 5:30pm

Participate in a model United Nations committee with the Colgate Model UN team. This is a good way to get involved with diplomacy, public speaking, and debate.

Lathrop Hall, 308

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Deborah Thomas Deborah A. Thomas is Chair and the R. Jean Brownlee Professor of Anthropology, and the Director of the Center for Experimental Ethnography at the University of Pennsylvania. Her most recent book, Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation: Sovereignty, Witnessing, Repair, was awarded the Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Book Award from the Caribbean Studies Association in 2021, the Senior Book Prize from the American Ethnological Society in 2020, and was the runner-up for the Gregory Bateson Prize in the same year. She is also the author of Exceptional Violence: Embodied Citizenship in Transnational Jamaica (2011), and Modern Blackness: Nationalism, Globalization, and The Politics of Culture in Jamaica (2004). She is co-editor of the volumes Sovereignty Unhinged: An Illustrated Primer for the Study of Present Intensities, Disavowals, and Temporal Derangements (2023), Citizenship on the Edge: Sex, Gender, Race (2022); Changing Continuities and the Scholar-Activist Anthropology of Constance R. Sutton (2022); and Globalization and Race: Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness (2006). Thomas co-directed and co-produced the documentary films Bad Friday, and Four Days in May, and she is the co-curator of a multi-media installation titled Bearing Witness: Four Days in West Kingston, which was on view at the Penn Museum from November 2017 to October 2020. She is the recipient of several awards, including a Guggenheim fellowship (2024), and she is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2024). From 2016-2020, Thomas was the Editor-in-Chief of American Anthropologist, the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), and she co-chaired the AAA Commission on the Ethical Treatment of Human Remains. Prior to Thomas’s life as an academic, she was a professional dancer with the New York-based Urban Bush Women. Her new book, Exorbitance: A Speculative Ethnography of Inheritance, will be released this fall by Duke University Press.

Shirley Graham and W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture Series: Deborah Thomas

Thu, Oct 30, 2025 4:30pm to 6pm

Join us for the Shirley Graham and W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture Series with Deborah Thomas, who will be discussing The Question of Bodily Sovereignty. What does the body know? What can bodies tell us...

Persson Hall, Auditorium - Room 27

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Crafting Circle

Thu, Oct 30, 2025 5:15pm to 6:15pm

Origami, fine art color books, Buddha board painting tablets, make a collage, do some journaling, or work on your drawing skills. Chapel House welcomes you to a time of mindful attention to a...

Chapel House, Library

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Workshop: Finance Series - Behavioral Interviewing

Thu, Oct 30, 2025 6:30pm to 7:30pm

Join alumni from Barclays to learn strategies and best practices for behavioral interviewing in the industry. This program is for sophomores interested in pursuing finance opportunities.

Benton Hall, 213 Benton Hall

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AI Club - Monthly Meeting

Thu, Oct 30, 2025 7pm to 8pm

In this meeting, we will be covering the basics of artificial intelligence, introducing some platforms and tools, and walking through how you can get started with a few easy projects. We will...

Ho Science Center, 105

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Ryan Family Fim Series: "The Encampments"

Thu, Oct 30, 2025 7pm to 9pm

The Encampments offers an urgent, intimate portrait of America’s student movement, ignited at Columbia University as students protested their university's ties to the war on Gaza. Their actions...

Little Hall, Golden Auditorium

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The Encampments

Thu, Oct 30, 2025 7pm

The Encampments offers an urgent, intimate portrait of America’s student movement, ignited at Columbia University as students protested their universities’ ties to the war on Gaza. Their actions...

Little Hall

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