Arts and Humanities

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.

The 16th annual Colgate Writers’ Conference, featuring a week of intensive workshops in the writing of fiction, non-fiction prose, and poetry, will take place June 19-25. A number of well-known writers will serve as faculty for the event, which draws both published and aspiring writers to discuss their writing, work on pieces, and attend readings.

Seniors Michael Barry and Valerie Boyd have been named this year’s recipients of the Schupf/Lorey Art Prize.

Two groups of students studying foreign languages were able to immerse themselves in different cultures recently through the Beyond Colgate program. Twelve students spent a day at La Maison amérindienne, a museum and interpretive center east of Montreal, Quebec.

Interested in learning a new language? If so, you may want to choose a teacher who talks with their hands. A study conducted by Colgate University Associate Professor of Psychology Spencer Kelly and two Colgate undergraduate researchers, Tara McDevitt ’06 and Megan Esch ’07, reveals that people understand and remember foreign words better when a […]

Growing up in the South, George Hudson often visited the Smoky Mountains, where he developed a passion for hiking. The English professor’s passion has not ebbed. In fact, it has dovetailed with his keen interest in the effect of landscape on literature and has been of great service as he incorporates walking and hiking excursions […]