Crossroads Events

The Christian A. Johnson Teaching Table at the Employee Lunch Service today will be dedicated to conversations about how to handle teaching during election week (and beyond). The first 8 people to sign up for the teaching table will have their lunch paid for by the Dean of Faculty.  Participants should register on the regular employee lunch tool and denote teaching table in comments section.  There will be a reserved table in the...

"Visualizing Democracy: Objects from Special Collections and Archives."

Exhibit opening with curators Lena Klink '25 and Nhora Serrano

Photography turned American presidents into celebrities. In this talk, historian Matthew Fox-Amato examines the place of photography within the Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) presidential administration (1963-1969).  By focusing on the work of White House photographer Yoichi Okamoto, Amato reveals how Okamoto’s fly-on-the-wall style made visual performance central to the daily workings of the presidency.

Co-sponsored by Art History, History, and Cinema & Media Studies

Join us along Martin's Way every Tuesday starting October 15 for an interactive tabling event aimed at engaging the entire campus community in discussions about the upcoming elections. Members of staff, faculty, and students will be at the tables to facilitate conversations, including appearances by President Tepper and VP Munemo. Tables will be distributed along Martin's Way, creating multiple opportunities to stop by, share your thoughts, and learn more about the election process. As a thank-you for participating, enjoy free coffee giveaways ...

Join us for a lunch and a talk by Henry Platt Bristol Chair of International Affairs and Professor of Government Alan Cafruny entitled "The November Election and the War in Ukraine: What are the Prospects for Peace?"  RSVP here for lunch.

After more than 32 months and the sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of civilians and soldiers, the war in Ukraine has reached a critical juncture. Further military and economic escalation by NATO seems destined to only cause more death and destruction whil...

Confused about what's on your ballot? Want to learn about what you're voting for? Want some ice cream? Join HamVotes and CIF at the Events Barn for some Cremeria and some great information about your ballot. Be sure to stop by. We hope to see you there!

Data Science Tutors will show how to build interactive election visualization in R.

Workshop with Nhora Serrano and DJ Schuldt.

The Christian A. Johnson Teaching Table at the Employee Lunch Service today will be dedicated to conversations about how to handle teaching during election week (and beyond). The first 8 people to sign up for the teaching table will have their lunch paid for by the Dean of Faculty.  Participants should register on the regular employee lunch tool and denote teaching table in comments section.  There will be a reserved table in the...

Celebrate the creative output of our community around the elections. Join us for food trucks, performances, swag, and opportunities for conversation and artistic collaboration.

Professor Celeste Day Moore presents Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power (2022)

And hosts a video meeting with director and master editor, Sam Pollard.

Spike Lee, whose films Pollard has edited and produced, has described him as “a master filmmaker.”

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: “When I think about his documentaries, they add up to a corpus—a way of telling African-American history in its various dimensions.”

F.I.L.M. events are free and open to the public.

Support for F.I.L.M. events is provided by the Dean of Faculty Off...

The Christian A. Johnson Teaching Table at the Employee Lunch Service today will be dedicated to conversations about how to handle teaching during election week (and beyond). The first 8 people to sign up for the teaching table will have their lunch paid for by the Dean of Faculty.  Participants should register on the regular employee lunch tool and denote teaching table in comments section.  There will be a reserved table in the...

How do civil servants respond to a presidential turn toward authoritarianism?  In what ways-if any-can they restrain or counter leaders who defy the norms of liberal democratic governance?  Our own Jaime Kucinskas, Associate Professor of Sociology, will be giving this talk virtually with scholars in Israel who are using her book, The Loyalty Trap, to unpack what is happening in their government.

Scholars include:

Prof. Yaniv Roznai,...

The day is here! It's Election Day, the day we have all been waiting for! Come celebrate with HamVotes by have some delicious food and learning more about why your vote matters.

Join folks from across the Hamilton community as we watch the results come in from across the country. There will be a special presentation of the results of a survey of Hamilton students by Prof. Hutchinson's class. Refreshments served.

Robert Doar, President of the American Enterprise Institute, and Michael Capuano, former U.S. Representative and Senior Policy Advisor at Venable LLC will discuss the results of the U.S. Presidential election and potential policy implications.

More details forthcoming.

Join Common Ground and Community Conversations for a lunch discussion about last night's Common Ground event. Open dialogue space to talk about your thoughts, reactions, and ideas related to last night's event.

Join us for a Levitt lunch talk entitled "What Just Happened? The 2024 Election and the Crisis of Party Politics" with Associate Professor of Political Science and the Director of the Public Affairs and Policy Research Initiative at Colgate University. RSVP for lunch here.

Though we live in an undoubtedly hyperpartisan era, the roles that our political parties actually perform as organizations, and their efficacy in ...