Schedule of Events / Fall 2006

21 September / Love Auditorium, Olin Hall/ 8:00 p.m.
Playing the Game of Democracy: An NBA Player Speaks Out
Adonal Foyle, Colgate class of 1998, Founder of Democracy Matters and Professional Basketball Player, Golden State Warriors
Co-sponsored by Democracy Matters, Office of the Presidents College Democrats, African Students Association et.al.
Read more about it - books and articles of interest

10 October / Ho Lecture Room, Lawrence Hall / 4:30 p.m.
The Values of Cities: The Creative Tension between Economy and Culture
Arjo Klamer, Professor of the Economics of Art and Culture, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Co-sponsored by the Humanities Colloquium and Core 151 Western Traditions
Read more about it - books and articles of interest

20-21 October / various locations & times
Forum: Art and Culture of the Yoruba Diaspora
This arts forum will bring together artists, writers, and academics to discuss Yoruba cultural expressions, which have been particularly important in the areas of art and religion throughout the Americas.
Organized by the Longyear Museum of Anthropology and Institute for the Creative & Performing Arts. Co-sponsored by Africana & Latin American Studies, Core Cultures, and the Departments of Art & Art History, English, and Sociology & Anthropology
20 October / 209 Lathrop Hall / 8:00 p.m.
The edge of the road is listening: Transatlantic Eshu Art
Robert Farris Thompson, Col. John Trumbull Professor of the History of Art, Master of Timothy Dwight College, Yale University
21 October / all day
Day-long forum discussing the African diaspora and the Yoruba aesthetic followed by a banquet and public performance of African-Cuban music.
Read more about it - books and articles of interest

26 October / Persson Hall Auditorium/ 4:30 p.m.
Democratic Debates and Claims to Citizenship in Urban South Africa
Sean Jacobs, Assistant Professor of Communications, University of Michigan
Read more about it - books and articles of interest

2 November/ Golden Auditorium, Little Hall / 7:30 p.m.
Extreme New Orleans: Growing Beyond the City’s Limits
Craig E. Colten, Carl O. Sauer Professor of Geography, Louisiana State University
Co-sponsored by the Department of Geography and the Environmental Studies Program
Read more about it - books, articles, and videos of interest

3-11 November / various locations & times (see Colgate campus calendar)
Symposium: Transcinema,  Film and its Discontent(s)
     Literary and cultural theorist Mikhail Bakhtin once noted that limits and borderlines are the areas where the most intense and productive life of culture takes place. This symposium will focus on films which explore these borderlines and their crossings–both conceptually–between different media (film and digital; moving and still image), between genres (popular and avant-garde) and types of narratives (documentary and fiction), as well as thematically -- between geo-political entities (“First World” and “Third World”), gender, cultural and religious identities. This cinema explores the disjunctures and trans-articulations necessary for the production of cultural and artistic discourse.
     The symposium will bring together important artists and scholars whose work reflects this conception of film-making. The format will consist of film screenings, followed by individual talks and moderated discussions among all symposium participants, including Dudley Andrew, R. Selden Rose Professor of Film and Comparative Literature at Yale University, Jonathan Caouette, the director of Tarnation; Italian art and film critic Emanuela De Cecco, celebrated filmmaker Atom Egoyan presenting his new film The Citadel, Tom Gunning, Professor in the Art Department and the Cinema at the University of Chicago and Scott MacDonald, Professor of Art History at Hamilton College. The symposium respondents include Luca Caminati, John Knecht, Anita Johnson, Masha Salazkina, and Alan Swensen from Colgate University, and Laura Heins from the University of Virginia. Preceding the symposium there will be a series of lectures and screenings related to the theme of the symposium.
Co-sponsored by Film and Media Studies, Russian Studies, et.al.

30 November/ Golden Auditorium, Little Hall / 7:30 p.m.
Visualizing Citizens and the City:  A Roundtable by Colgate faculty who attended the Conference of the International Visual Sociology Association
Co-sponsored by the Department of Geography and the Environmental Studies Program
Read more about it - books, articles, and videos of interest

Schedule of Events / Spring 2007

7 February / Golden Auditorium, Little Hall / 4:30 p.m.
Steve Kurtz, Artist
Co-sponsored by the Department of Art & Art History, and many other departments and programs

8 February / Love Auditorium, Olin Hall / 4:30 p.m.
Du Bois and Cosmopolitanism, the W.E.B. and Shirely DuBois Lecture
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University
Co-sponsored by the President of the College, Dean of the Faculty, Africana and Latin American Studies, and many other departments and programs

22 February / Ho Lecture Room, 105 Lawrence Hall / 4:30 p.m.
The Serious Matter of True Joy: Building a Concert Hall in Nineteenth-century Leipzig
Margaret Menninger, Assistant Professor of History, Texas State University
Co-sponsored by the Department of History

27 March / Golden Auditorium, Little Hall / 4:10 p.m.
"Tous Moun Se Moun" - We're all Human Beings
Tracy Kidder, Author, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award
Co-sponsored by the Humanities colloquium and many other departments and programs

5 April / Golden Auditorium, Little Hall / 4:15 p.m
Phil Rosen, Professor, Department of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University
Co-sponsored by Film and Media Studies

11 April / Ho Lecture Room, 105 Lawrence Hall / 7:30 p.m.
The Dark Side of Civil Society: Associational Life in Pre-Nazi Germany, the United States in the Fifties, and Contemporary Argentina
Ariel Armony, Associate Professor of Government, Colby College

26 -27 April / various locations and times
Energy, Economy, and Community in Upstate New York
     A public conference on the place of new and renewable energy production in economic and community development in the Upstate Region.
Co-sponsored with the Upstate Institute and the Harvey Picker Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies in the Sciences and Mathematics