News and Updates

Hamilton – Poet, novelist, critic and editor Nathaniel Mackey will give a reading of his work at Colgate University on Thursday, March 4 at 4:30 p.m. in the Robert Ho Lecture Room (Lawrence Hall). The reading is co-sponsored by the university’s Humanities Colloquium Series and the English Department Poetry Series. Mackey, who is also a […]

Hamilton – Soprano Lauralyn Kolb will join forces with tenor David Parks and pianist Tina Toglia to present a program of duets and art songs that spans the vocal repertoire on Sunday, February 21 at 3:30 in the afternoon in the Colgate Memorial Chapel. Works written by Haydn, Handel, Schubert, Brahms, Donizetti, Faith and Duke […]

Hamilton – Marya Hornbacher, author of the book Wasted, spoke at Colgate University about body image and eating disorders on February 8. Wasted is a ‘vivid, emotionally wrenching memoir’ of the author’s own struggle with anorexia and bulimia. It tells the gripping story of how she stepped ‘through the looking glass into a netherworld where […]

Hamilton – Poet Erin Belieu will give a reading of her work at Colgate University on Tuesday, February 16 at 4:00 p.m. in the Robert Ho Lecture Room (Lawrence Hall). The reading is co-sponsored by the university’s Humanities Colloquium Series and the English Department Poetry Series. Of her own poetry, Erin Belieu says, ‘I know […]

Kelly Joe Phelps will bring his acoustic country blues to the Barge Canal Coffee Company on Lebanon Street on Friday, April 16 at 8:00 p.m. Though Phelps has lived all his life in the state of Washington, he plays country blues as if he were born and bred on the Mississippi Delta. With a husky […]

Boston magazine’s ‘Best of Boston’ singer/songwriter Kevin Connolly will give a concert at the Barge Canal Coffee Company on Lebanon Street on Saturday, March 27 at 8:00 p.m. Connolly’s music ‘cuts a fairly wide swath through pop music culture, touching on everything from blues to folk to country to rock ‘ and often a combination […]

HAMILTON – Everyone acts unethically now and then, but few people consider themselves to be lacking in moral integrity. How is this possible’ What are people telling themselves just before committing an undesirable act that enables them to freely behave in a way that contradicts their ethical values and yet not feel guilty nor morally […]

Hamilton – This spring, nine groups of Colgate students will embark on off-campus study programs for the semester. Thirteen students on the Dijon Study Group in France, led by French professor H

Hamilton – Stress made Harvard University undergraduate students relatively oblivious to the long-term consequences of their actions, revealed a study conducted by a researcher there. Both stress and short-term/long-term tradeoffs in decision making are pervasive and important in business, politics, and everyday life. For example, managing budgets and social relationships, maintaining health, and raising children […]

Hamilton – Poet C.K. Williams will give a reading of his work on Thursday, January 28 as part of the Colgate University Poetry Reading Series. The reading will take place in the Robert Ho Lecture Room (Lawrence Hall) at 4:30 p.m. Williams, who lives in Paris, France, is author of numerous books of poems including […]