2009-2010
8/28 “Fresh Friday” Dance Party
10 pm-1 am @ Hall of Presidents
Dance party featuring the best in Hip-Hop, Reggae, Reggaeton, Salsa, Merengue,
Caribbean vibes. Pina colada & strawberry margarita mocktails will be served all night.
There will be free food, giveaways, and prize-winning dance contests. It is a great scene
for relaxing and meeting other incoming first-year students. Brought to you by the
ALANA Cultural Center.
9/4 ALANA Palooza
Live Music by Same Blood Folk and DJ Chino Loco. Free food from Mister Ed's BBQ.
4 pm @ ALANA Cultural Center
9/4 ENST Brown Bag Luncheon
Ecological Endeavors in the Amazon
Charles A. Mango, MD is an optometrist with a passion for conservation efforts in the
Amazon. Nearly 20 years ago he visited the Peruvian Amazon and decided he wanted
more than the typical tourist experience. He founded and is the president of the Amazon
Yarapa River Lodge and is responsible for the protection of half a million acres of land,
40 miles of river, and three villages in the Amazon.
12:15 pm - 1:30pm @ ALANA Multipurpose Room
9/10 ALST Conversation Series:
Obama: Where are we going?
Featuring- Pete Banner-Haley, John Palmer and Louis Prisock
11:30 am @ ALANA Multipurpose Room
9/15-19 Diversity Week: Click to see all the great events!
9/15-18 LASO Bake Sale for Latino Heritage Month @ the COOP
There will be flan, arroz con leche, morir soñando, dominican cake, and cupcakes to
name a few.The money raised from the bake sale will be donated to the Cove's
Dominican Republic alternative winter break.
9/17 Speaker: Tsega Etefa
The Origin and Expansion of Orthodox Christianity in Ethiopia
4:30 pm @ Lawrence 105, Ho Lecture Room
9/18 Concert: SAVAE- San Antonio Vocal Arts Ensemble
Music from the Aztec and Inca Territories
7:30 pm @ Colgate Memorial Chapel
9/22- Alternative Cinema: The Birth of a Nation
“History written on lightning,” President Wilson said of this film when it premiered.
“History written on lightning” President Wilson said of this film when it premiered. The
first popular feature length narrative constructed with the shot/reverse shot, parallel
editing that continues to be the myopic form of all commercial cinema. A racist, rewriting of history from the viewpoint of a son of the Confederacy, B.O.A.N. raises issues
of dominant cinema construction and the social and political responsibilities of mass
media. (D.W. Griffith, 1915, 120 min., U.S.A.)
7 pm @ Golden Auditorium, Little Hall
9/24 Speaker: Raymond Silverman
Icons of Devotion/Icons of Trade: Contemporary Religious Art of the Ethiopian
Orthodox Church
4:30 pm @ Golden Auditorium
**OPENING RECEPTION 5:30 pm @ Clifford Art Gallery**
9/24 Speaker: Junot Diaz
Pulitzer Prize winner coming to speak for Hispanic Heritage Month
4:30 pm @ Love Auditorium
9/25- Loisaidas Playing Bachata
Dominican Republic Dance Music
Free Dance Lessons, Food and Pina Coladas
8pm @ Hall of Presidents
September
9/29 ALST Conversation Series
Surveys and Colgate: Problems and Benefits
Featuring- Landon Reid and Carolyn Hsu
Professors Carolyn Hsu and Landon Reid, two of the main faculty members focused on
the most recent campus climate survey, will explain the results and their analysis. Lunch
provided, all are welcome.
11:30 am @ Women's Studies Lounge, East Hall
9/30 Beehive Design Collective- The Cost of Coal: Mountaintop Removal and the Fight
for our Future
http://beehivecollective.blogspot.com/
5 to 7 pm @ 27 Persson
October
10/3 Party by the Pool: Official Pool Party of Homecoming
Come splash away with Sisters of the Round Table at the Official Pool Party of the
Homecoming Weekend. There will be free food, snow cones, and plenty of
entertainment. Hope to see you there!!
4-6 pm @ Lineberry Pool, Huntington Gym
10/6 Hispanic Heritage Month Dinner
A chef will prepare traditional Hispanic food, while talking about his cultural
background.
5 pm @ ALANA Multipurpose Room
RSVP by emailing alana@colgate.edu
10/7 Rosie Perez- Yo Soy Boricua, Pa' Que Tu Lo Sepas!
Directed her first film, a documentary titled, I'm Boricua, Just So You Know! It's a
history of Puerto Rico's people, from the first native inhabitants to more recent
immigration waves to the United States.
Sponsored by LASO
7:30 pm @ Love Auditorium
10/8 ALST Conversation Series
Music: Mexico, the USA and Mestizo
Featuring- Glenn Cashman and Laura Klugherz
11:30am @ Women's Studies Lounge, East Hall
10/8 Annual Race and Education Lecture
Ericka Fisher, Holy Cross
7 pm @ Love Auditorium
10/9 ENST Brown Bag Luncheon: John Pamilio
Sustainability coordinator at Colgate will discuss the human-nature dualism as exhibited
by the Galapagos Islands.
12:15pm @ Multipurpose Room, Alana Cultural Center
10/9 Food Fest 09
Come and enjoy foods cooked by an array of cultural groups!
5-7 pm @ Hall of Presidents
10/13- ALST DAY
ALST Open House on Academic Quad.
Free Food, ALST music by WRCU and more!
11:30 am-1 pm @ Academic Quad (Rain Location: The COOP)
W.E DuBois Lecture
Rex Nettleford: The African Presence in the Diaspora and the Post-Racial Myth
Caribbean scholar, trade union educator, social and cultural historian, and political
analyst. 4:30 pm @ Persson Hall Auditorium
Trivia Night
Come win prizes for answering ALST Trivia questions!
6:00 pm- 7:30 pm @ Frank Dining Hall
10/14 ALST DAY (Part 2)
Melissa Harris-Lacewell: Race and the age of Obama
Associate Professor of Politics and African American Studies at Princeton University.
She is the author of the award-winning book, Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday
Talk and Black Political Thought. Reception to follow.
7 pm @ Love Auditorium, Olin Hall 300
October
10/27 ALST/WMST Brown Bag: Domestic Violence and Race/Gender
Featuring- KC Stewart, Sue Marks & Lana Paul with Liberty Resources
11:30 am @ Women's Studies Lounge
10/29 ALST Conversation Series:
Searching Literature in Latin America, the Caribbean and the USA
Featuring- Lourdes Rojas~Paiewonsky and Michelle Stephens/ Free La Iguana Lunch!
11:30 am @ Women's Studies Lounge, East Hall
10/29 ALST Films- Trouble Behind
A look at a small Kentucky town that forced out its Black population in the 1920s and
has remained exclusively Caucasian ever since.
1:20pm @ Love Auditorium, Olin Hall 300
10/30 Friday Night 35MM Film Series: Meeting David Wilson
A feature-length decumentary about the enduring legacy of slavery in young black
society today. David Wilson, a 28-year-old African-American jounalist, journeys into his
family's past to find answers to America's racial divide. Along the way he meets another
David Wilson, the descendant of his family's slave master. This discovery leads to a
momentous encounter between these two men of the same name, but whose ancestors
were on the opposite sides of freedom. Pete Mensies, Colgate '93, in person!
7 pm @ Golden Auditorium, Little Hall
November
11/2 P-CON Film Series: The Rekoning: The Battle for the International Criminal
Court
This film follows ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo and his team for three years
across four continents as he issues arrest warrants to leaders in Uganda, the Congo,
Colombia, and Darfur.
7 pm @ Golden Auditorium, Little Hall
11/3 Off-Campus Study: Information Session for West Indies Study Group to Jamaica
(Fall 2010)
11:30-1:00 @ 331 Alumni Hall
Applications are available from the Africana and Latin American Studies Program office
in 327 Alumni Hall or the Off-Campus Study Office in 201 McGregory Hall.
The deadline for applications is November 20, 2009. Applications should be turned in to
the ALST Office in 327 Alumni Hall.
11/5 ALST Films: Adam Clayton Powell
This is dramatic portrait of the flamboyant Harlem minister and Congressman. Through
archival footage, still photographs, and onscreen interviews, Adam Clayton Powell
provides a colorful and candid portrait of a man known for both his love of the "good
life" and his dedication to civil rights. Narrated by Julian Bond, this documentary
includes illuminating interviews with Shirley Chisholm, Julius Lester, and Powell's son -Adam Clayton Powell III. Powell himself emerges as an important and tragic figure in
the early stages of modern black politics in America.
1:20 pm @ Love Auditorium, Olin Hall 300
11/9 Careers and Paths in ALST
Career Services to host a session on Careers in ALST
11:30 @ 331 Alumni Hall (History Lounge)
11/11 Off-Campus Study: Information Session for West Indies Study Group to Jamaica
(Fall 2010)
11:30-1:00 @ 432 Alumni Hall
Applications are available from the Africana and Latin American Studies Program office
in 327 Alumni Hall or the Off-Campus Study Office in 201 McGregory Hall.
The deadline for applications is November 20, 2009. Applications should be turned in to
the ALST Office in 327 Alumni Hall.
11/11 Art & Art History Lecture: Eduardo Kac (Photographer)
Eduardo Kac is an internationally recognized artist that gained prominence at the
beginning of the twenty-first century with his transgenic work GFP Bunny, centered on
the green-glowing bunny named Alba that he created through genetic engineering. This
presentation will give an overview of his trajectory, with emphasis on his most recent
works.
http://merz.colgate.edu
4:30 pm @ Love Auditorium, Olin Hall 300
11/12 ALST Conversation Series:
Conceptions of Race in the Americas
Featuring- Brian Moore and Nina Moore/ Free La Iguana Lunch!
11:30 am @ ALANA Multipurpose Room
11/12 ALST Films- Place of Rage
Within the context of the civil rights, Black power and feminist movements, Angela
Davis, June Jordan and Alice Walker reassess how women such as Rosa Parks and
Fannie Lou Hamer revolutionized American society.
1:20pm @ Love Auditorium, Olin Hall 300
11/14 SORT: Finesse of Tress
Monologues about hair and its meaning to society and tradition. All proceeds from go to
Locks of Love. There will be prizes and lots of fun!
5-7 pm @ The Edge Cafe
11/16 Film: Still Black
This award-winning documentary film follows the lives of six black transgender men in
the United States. Through the intimate stories of their lives as artists, students,
husbands, fathers, lawyers, and teachers, the film offers viewers a complex and multifaceted image of race, sexuality and trans identity.
(http://www.stillblackfilm.org/)
Dinner Provided!
6 pm @ ALANA
11/17 Poetry by Tehut Nine
CSA brings this world renound poet from Jamaica! Refreshment provided.
4:30 pm @ 27 Persson Aud.
11/18 Keller Winslow Sr.
Former Professional Football Player comes to talk to Colgate.
7 pm @ Love Auditorium
11/18 & 19 Screening of the Chris Rock Documentary: Good Hair
In light of Hair Appreciation Week. Entrance fee is two cans or $2.
7:30 pm @ Hamilton Theater
11/19 Brownbag with Student Panel: What is Good Hair?
In light of Hair Appreciation Week.
11:30 am @ ALANA Catered By: Indian Cafe (Clinton, NY)
11/19 ALST Films: Boondocks
The Boondocks is the American animated television series created by Aaron McGruder
for the Adult Swim programming block of Turner Broadcasting's Cartoon Network,
based upon McGruder's comic strip of the same name.The Boondocks is a social satire of
American culture and race relations, revolving around the lives of the Freeman family –
ten-year-old Huey, his younger brother, eight-year-old Riley, and their grandfather,
Robert.
2:45 pm @ Love Auditorium, Olin Hall 300
11/19 Student-to-Student Dance-athon
Raising funds for Babaana Dreams, a school for special needs children in Uganda, the
only one of its kind. Get sponsored per hour of danceing! Games, performances and food
will be provided.
8-2 am @ Palace Theater
11/21 SORT brings Finesse of Tress
Monologues about hair and its meaning to society and tradition. All proceeds from go to
Locks of Love. There will be prizes and lots of fun!
Proceeds will go to Hope House, a Soup Kitchen in Utica, NY.
5-7 pm @ The Edge Cafe
December
12/1 ALST/WMST Brown Bag: LASO- Machismo in Latin America
11:30 am @ Women's Studies Center
12/1 Alternative Cinema: Within Our Gates
"... I think that the past is all that makes the present coherent and further, that the past will
remain horrible for exactly as long as we refuse to assess it honestly." James Baldwin.
“Within Our Gates is the title of Oscar Micheaux's rediscovered 1919 feature film.
Restored in 1993 from a single known surviving print from Spain, the film adds new
insight into the workings of Oscar Micheaux, an incredibly prolific African American
filmmaker, writer, producer, novelist, and businessman. Since so few of Micheaux's
estimated forty-eight feature films survive, it is difficult to generalize about the entire
oeuvre. However, Within Our Gates is a stunning film, the first surviving feature by an
African American director, and an example of his silent-era work.” Dina Ciraulo, Wide
Angle.
7 pm @ Golden Auditorium, Little Hall
12/4 ENST Brown Bag: Environmental Justice and Aluminum Smelters in Trinidad
and Tobago
12:15 pm @ ALANA
12/5 Dance Fest
12/9 Join Sisters of the Round Table for a Study Break!!!
Pizza -- Drinks --Music -- Candy
6:00 pm @ Women's Studies Center (basement of East)
12/15 Study Break: Food, Massages and more!
11:30-2:30 pm @ WMST Lounge
January
1/18- MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DAY CELEBRATIONS
12 @ the Chapel- Music, Words, Dance
TRACK 1 WORKSHOPS
1 pm @ ALANA
Workshop A: “Fulfilling the Dream: King and Obama’s Competing Visions of America”
Facilitated by: Dr. Pete Banner-Haley,Professor of History
Workshop B: Covering: The Hidden Assault On Our Civil Rights By Kenji Yoshino
Facilitated by: Jennifer Lutman & Charles M. Sprock, Jr. Director of the Writing Center
and Attorney, Baldwin & Sutphen, LLP
TRACK 2 WORKSHOPS
4 pm @ ALANA
Workshop C: Freedom On My Mind- Film Screening
Workshop D: First Year Workshop- Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and
Inheritance By Barack Obama
Facilitated by: Megan Wyett & Dr. Ken Valente, Assistant Director for Residential
Education and Associate Professor of Mathematics
1/19 ALST Conversation Series
Senior Research: Sexuality & Fraternities, Afro-Peruvian Religious Expression, &
Gender Role Biases
Students will present on their current research though Colgate University dealing with
race, culture and gender. Lunch Provided by Curtain Call
11:30 @ WMST Lounge (co-sponsors: WMST)
1/20 Dr. Tricia Rose, Professor of Africana Studies, Brown University
Rose is known for her book, Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary
America, which chronicles the emergence of hip-hop culture, but will be speaking on the
legacy of Martin Luther King. 7 @ Love Auditorium (SPONSORED BY & IN
COLLABORATION WITH: First-Year Seminars, First Year Life Skills, ALANA, Office
of the Vice-President of Diversity, Office of the Dean of the College,Division of Social
Sciences, Division of University Studies, Asian Studies, LGBTQ Studies, Second-Year
Experience, Pre-Law Society, Africana and Latin American Studies, SORT, Sister 2
Sister, The Center for Teaching, Learning and Research, The Office of Undergraduate
Studies)
1/26 ALiSTas Lounge Open House - Stop by 327 Alumni Hall anytime for refreshments
and check out the new student lounge. *Free tea and coffee always!
1/27 Art & Art History Eric J Ryan Lecture: Carrie Mae Weems
The photographs, films, and videos of Carrie Mae Weems trace an indirect history of the
depiction of African Americans for more than a century.
Sponsored by: Art & Art History, Film & Media Studies, English Department
4:30 pm @ Golden Auditorium, Little Hall
1/30 Welcoming Diversity and Prejudice Reduction Skills Workshop
Brought by the National Coalition Building Institute (Colgate Chapter)
Sign-Up Today! Email: swelsh@colgate.edu
After talking about the Colgate Campus Life Survey, are you looking for something
specific you can do? Do you want to explore issues of diversity in a hopeful, nonblameful manner while developing some useful, concrete skills? Come to the Welcoming
Diversity and Prejudice Reduction Skills Workshop. Participants will learn how we are
socialized to think and act as members of our racial, gender, and other identity groups.
We will celebrate similarities and differences, claim pride in group identities, recognize
misinformation that people have learned about various groups, and identify and heal from
internalized oppression. Facilitators will teach hands-on tools for dealing effectively with
prejudicial comments and discrimination. The workshop will conclude with skill-building
to bridge differences and build stronger coalitions on campus.
9am - 4pm @ Coop Conference Room
1/30 BENEFIT CONCERT FOR HAITI!!!
As we watch the videos and images and read stories of the tragic events in Haiti, it is
clear to many of us that we need a way to help. Mark Shiner, the Catholic Campus
Minister and David Levy, the Jewish Chaplain, at Colgate University, have brought a
group together, drawing from the campus, local and surrounding communities, to plan &
host a benefit concert to raise funds that would be sent to the following charities and
relief organizations: Doctors Without Borders, Partners in Health and the American Red
Cross.
Where: Colgate University Chapel, Hamilton NY
When: Saturday, January 30th starting @ 6pm
Why: To raise funds for Haiti. Money to be donated to- Doctors Without Borders,
Partners in Health, American Red Cross
Who: Performances by members of local communities, local youth, & students on the
Colgate campus. If you are interested in performing, please contact Lorraine Joseph,
ljoseph@colgate.edu.
How: Tickets @ $5 and donations beyond that amount so that we can send as much funds
as possible for aid to Haitian communities.
Contacts are mshiner@colgate.edu and dlevy@colgate.edu