Arts and Humanities

This spring, 10 Colgate students and Elizabeth Marlowe, assistant professor of art and art history, will be part of a discovery process that professional art historians would envy. “They will practice exactly the kind of original research, and engage with the same thorny ethical and theoretical issues, that curators, dealers, collectors and scholars do when […]

On a rainy October night in 1961, Soviet and American tanks sat muzzle to muzzle at Checkpoint Charlie, the infamous boundary between East and West Berlin. Fifty years later, Frederick Kempe, chief executive officer of the Atlantic Council and author of Berlin: 1961, stood before an audience in Persson Auditorium to discuss the issues that […]

Eboo Patel, founder of the Interfaith Youth Core, packed Memorial Chapel with people eager to hear his inspiring message: that young people are the key to building religious cooperation and interfaith leadership.

Ten Colgate students studying French accompanied Mahadevi Ramakrishnan, of the Department of Romance Languages, on an educational trip to the French island of Martinique during spring break 2011.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo will speak at Colgate at 4:30 p.m. Thursday in Love Auditorium, Olin Hall. For those who can’t attend the free session, his talk will be webcast live, allowing online viewers to pose questions and interact with other viewers.

Art students from Colgate University and from Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts will be showcasing their work at galleries on each other’s campuses.

Author Colson Whitehead, who visited campus Thursday as part of the Living Writers course, shared thoughtful insights and lots of laughs with audience members who filled Persson Auditorium and with about 60 others who watched him through a live webcast.

A new component of the university’s signature Living Writers course has created amazing opportunities for alumni and parents to connect with Colgate and with each other.

As a haunting soundtrack from one of his films played in the background, Professor John Knecht gave what might be his last gallery talk at Colgate in Clifford Gallery on Wednesday night. The Russell Colgate Distinguished University Professor of art & art history and film & media studies will retire at the end of this […]

Attending the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar means being open to a different kind of film festival.  Don’t, for example, ask for a list of films to be screened, because you won’t get one. Do, however, be open to in-depth discussion, and lots of it.