News and Updates

HAMILTON ‘ Fulbright scholar and writer/translator Marguerite Feitlowitz will discuss her recent book ‘A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture’ at Colgate University’s Humanities Colloquium on Tuesday, November 16 at 4:00 p.m. in the Ho Lecture Room, Lawrence Hall. Feitlowitz’s book focuses on the last dictatorship (1976-83) in Argentina, in which some […]

HAMILTON ‘ Jim Crace, whom John Updike has called ‘a writer of hallucinatory skill and considerable cruelty,’ will participate in the 1999 Living Writers series at Colgate University on Thursday, November 11. After an early afternoon conversation in class with students, he will give a free public reading from his book Quarantine at 4:30 p.m. […]

HAMILTON – The Colgate Chamber Players, under the direction of Professor Laura Klugherz, will present a concert titled Fall Musings on Sunday, November 7, at 3:30 p.m. in the Colgate Memorial Chapel. Highlighted on this fall program are Danzas de Panama by African American composer William Grant Still, Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 by J. S. […]

HAMILTON – Virtuoso organist Joan Lippincott will bring a delightful treat to the Colgate University Concert Series when she will play an All-Bach program in the Colgate Memorial Chapel, on Sunday, October 31 at 3:30 p.m. The New York Times has called Ms. Lippincott ‘a dynamic interpreter of high standard,’ and she is renowned as […]

HAMILTON ‘ Douglas Massey, co-author of Worlds in Motion: Understanding International Migration at Century’s End, and one of the country’s leading voices in contemporary social science, will speak on ‘Reasonable Immigration Policies for a Globalizing Economy’ at Colgate University on Wednesday, November 17 at 7:30 p.m. in the Persson Hall Auditorium. The Dorothy Swaine Thomas […]

HAMILTON ‘ Author John A. Jackson will deliver a lecture titled ‘Rock Makers: Alan Freed, Dick Clark, and the Rise of Rock and Roll,’ on Thursday, November 4 at 8:00 p.m. Sponsored by the Colgate University Department of Interdisciplinary Writing and the Colgate University Writing Center, Jackson’s talk will take place in the Ho Lecture […]

HAMILTON ‘ A new arrangement between the Village of Hamilton and Colgate University will authorize the college’s campus safety officers to enforce village regulations on campus. Under terms of the arrangement, which the village and college have been discussing for more than a year, Colgate campus safety officers will be sworn in as part-time officers […]

HAMILTON ‘ Colgate University’s Center for Ethics and World Societies has begun its second year of operation under the topic ‘Homeless in the World: Refugees, Immigrants and the State.’ Established last year through an anonymous gift to the college, the Center for Ethics and World Societies facilitates discussion of issues arising from the interactions of […]

HAMILTON ‘ Family Weekend at Colgate University, a highlight of the fall semester, will bring more than 2,500 family members to campus September 24-26 for receptions, athletic events, theater, concerts, exhibitions, and other presentations. Large numbers of parents, mostly of first-year students, will begin arriving Friday afternoon, September 24. That evening, Colgate students in University […]

HAMILTON ‘ Writer Kelly Cherry will participate in the 1999 Living Writers series at Colgate University on Thursday, October 7. After an early afternoon conversation in class with students, she will give a free public reading from her book of stories, The Society of Friends, at 4:30 p.m. in the Ho Lecture Room, Lawrence Hall. […]