Already this year, students on campus are applying the summer reading’s concepts to our own community. Without inclusive and accessible spaces, Skidmore is incapable of either calling itself or working towards being an antiracist institution. Skidmore students have cultivated serious and plausible ideas for how to do this. This semester, as we get settled into new classes and a fresh routine, it is imperative that we take Kendi’s lessons and use them to improve our community for all.
Read moreThe Steep Cost of Fashion: A Dialogue on Dilara Begum Jolly's Activist Art
The Payne Room of the Tang Teaching Museum was filled with students, faculty, and Saratoga residents sat in slanted rows of multicolored chairs as yellow leaves grazed across the windows of the room behind the audience.
Read more“Bitten by Witch Fever:” Arsenic in the 19th Century
Right in time for Halloween, writer and Skidmore professor Lucinda Hawksley delivered a fascinating lecture on the mysterious, arsenic-related deaths that plagued England throughout the 1800s. An accomplished British author in her own right, she also happens to be the great-great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens.
Read moreWilliam Grill's Unlikely Road to Book Making
A young and successful author and artist, William Grill has been recognized not only in England, but worldwide for his achievements.
Read moreAli Stroker Is Breaking Down Broadway Boundaries
Ali Stroker, Broadway performer and social activist, visited Skidmore on Nov. 29 to give an inspiring talk about how she overcame her disability and became the first wheelchair-using actress to appear on Broadway. Her career has taken her everywhere, from appearing on hit television shows like Glee, The Glee Project and Faking It to performing in Oklahoma and Spring Awakening. She has also worked with Be More Heroic, an anti-bullying campaign, United Cerebral Palsy of New York City, and ARTS InsideOut in South Africa, trying to help as many as she can feel empowered the way she does.
Read moreDavid Huron's Science of the Sublime: Are We Afraid of Music?
Why do people respond to music the way we do? This is the topic that Dr. David Huron, a Professor at the School of Music and the Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences at Ohio State University, spoke about during his lecture the evening of Sept. 26. His talk focused on the similar ways people tend to react to music, and what he believes to be the root of these reactions: fear.
Read moreAutism Awareness Month
Skidmore College will again offer a variety of events to raise awareness and acceptance for Autism Spectrum Disorder during the month of April.
Read moreReproductive Rights: Past, Present & No Future?
On April 6th at 7pm, Skidmore students gathered in Gannet Auditorium to hear about what activists Bill Baird and Lois Shapiro Carter, J.D., had to say about reproductive rights in the United States, and around the world.
Read moreAlicia Garza Keeps it Real at Skidmore College
On February 27 at 5:00pm, hundreds of Skidmore students filled the seats of Gannet Auditorium to hear what the co-creator of #BlackLivesMatter, Alicia Garza, had to say.
Read moreThe Movement of the Moment: Alicia Garza’s Talk on Black Lives Matter
At 5 PM on Saturday, February 27, in Gannett Auditorium, Alicia Garza will be at Skidmore College discussing her pivotal role in the Black Lives Matter movement.
Read moreTheorist to Speak in Gannett on Race and Justice
Skidmore will be hosting Professor Charles Ogletree, Jr. this Thursday at 8:00PM in Gannett Auditorium for a lecture and book signing. The event, titled “Do Black Lives Matter? Race and Justice in America Now,” will explore hotly contested racial issues in modern society. Ogletree is a professor of law at Harvard University, where he received his Juris Doctor degree.
Read more"As*holes" Lecture Fails to Provoke
An event that was supposed to broaden student’s minds and facilitate dialogue both during and after the event ended, turned into a disjointed two-person lecture.
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