Arts and Humanities

Reverberations, the 2025 Senior Art Exhibition at Colgate’s Clifford Art Gallery, showcases the work of Colgate’s graduating studio art and art history majors, developed as part of their senior capstone courses in the fall.

Netflix co-founder and former CEO Marc Randolph will deliver the keynote address during Colgate University’s Arts, Creativity, and Innovation Weekend on April 4.

Colgate will host Francesca Zambello ’78 as the inaugural Clifford Innovator in Residence in February 2025. Zambello is the artistic director of the Washington National Opera.

On Oct. 28, Colgate University’s Keck Center for Language Study was standing room only as students and faculty gathered for the “Double Your World” and “Cake Night” mixer, an event designed to encourage students to explore the connections between language studies and other academic fields.

Suchi Reddy, Colgate University’s 2024–25 Christian A. Johnson Artist in Residence, is hosting a series of community conversations on bias and belonging in artificial intelligence, centered on ways bias impacts our lived experience.

Percival Everett proved to be a highlight of the 2024 Living Writers series when he gave the first-ever public reading of his new novel, James, in Love Auditorium on Thursday, Sept. 21.

Two academic freedom experts, Keith Whittington of Yale Law School and Ulrich Baer of New York University, made their cases for the role and scope of free speech in higher education during Colgate’s 2024 Constitution Day Debate.

The Department of Theater will stage 'Toliver & Wakeman,' an original play by Assistant Professor of Theater Kyle Bass, at Brehmer Theater during Family Weekend, Oct. 18–21.

Kaitlin Maratea ’25 and Amelia Rastley ’25 recently became the first undergraduates to present at the Conference for the American Association of Teachers of French.

New York Times Op-ed columnist David Brooks recently joined Lampert Institute Director Illan Nam for a conversation about his book How to Know a Person.