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Political Theater Workshops: “Stage Rehearsals on Disappearance”
Mon, Mar 23, 2026 6pm
This series of workshops are conceived as a space for research and creation centered on memory, with a focus on the concept of the Disappeared. The topics will be approached from a broad...
From Research to Creation: Theater and Memory
Thu, Mar 26, 2026 4:30pm to 6pm
In this presentation, Cristian Flores Rebolledo will focus on his contemporary practices in political theatre, with particular emphasis on creative processes that engage with documentary materials...
Yo maté a Pinochet (I Killed Pinochet)
Fri, Mar 27, 2026 7:30pm
Yo maté a Pinochet (I Killed Pinochet) is part of the trilogy Justicia, Utopía y Militancia (Justice, Utopia, and Militancy). Yo maté a Pinochet is a monologue that reimagines the possibility of...
Understanding Monuments, Cities, and Human History Through Water
Fri, Apr 17, 2026 8am to 12am
In honor of the retirement of Professor Padma Kaimal, Batza Family Chair in Art History, the Colgate University Department of Art will host a two day symposium exploring how understanding rivers,...
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The Ideological Origins of African American Literature
Tue, Feb 24, 2026 4:15pm
Professor Phillip Richards will discuss his recent book, The Ideological Origins of African American Literature. The book offers a compelling invitation to reconsider how this history is taught and...
Saving Our Survivors: Writing a Longer History of Holocaust Memory
Tue, Nov 11, 2025 4:30pm to 6pm
Rachel Deblinger is a historian of the Holocaust and American Jewish life, and the director of the Modern Endangered Archives Program at the UCLA Library. Also a Colgate alumna, Rachel will be...
Douglas K. Reading Lecture: Anti-Globalism Then and Now
Tue, Nov 4, 2025 4:30pm
At the turn of the 20th century, many Europeans believed that globalization and internationalism were irreversible, and that they would guarantee greater peace and prosperity for everyone. Those...
Kate Brown Lecture | "Tiny Gardens Everywhere"
Thu, Oct 23, 2025 4:15pm to 6pm
From pre-Industrial England to modern-day Washington and Amsterdam, ordinary people, working with each other, with plants and microbes, cultivated life in the unlikeliest of places. Tiny Gardens...
Reframing Monument Conflicts in Eastern Europe During War in Ukraine
Thu, Oct 23, 2025 11:30am to 1pm
For about a decade, dissonant monuments and heritage have been contested around the world. Empowered by the Black Lives Matter movement and anti-colonial activism in Europe and Africa, this process...
1978 - 2001: Colgate's Finest Architectural Era?
Tue, Oct 21, 2025 4pm to 6pm
In 1978, the Colgate Administration abandoned a longstanding plan to bulldoze Hascall Hall in the face of a faculty/student/community campaign to "Save Old Bio." The succeeding quarter-century at...
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