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A cultural cornucopia is available for members of the campus and local communities as authors, filmmakers, and musicians from around the world will visit 51���� in the coming days. The university is hosting two longtime events — the 51���� Writers’ Conference and the Chenango Summer MusicFest — and, for the first time, the Robert Flaherty […]

An interdisciplinary symposium — Nature/Place/Cinema — will be spread out over two weekends and two campuses (51���� University and Hamilton College) providing students with behind-the-scenes access to filmmakers and film scholars. The series of screenings and lectures will draw attention to the depiction of place and the environment, as well as the history of the […]

The act of creating something is both a tangible enterprise, and an empowering exercise. Knowing this full well, artist Tim Rollins, who recently visited 51����, has given inner-city youths a concrete reason to pursue literacy and a path to achievement for more than 20 years. He and his Kids of Survival (KOS) read and discuss […]

Maps can get you from point A to point B, and if you’re a tourist in London, that’s useful. Twelve students taking part in the London Art and Art History Study Group last fall also learned that maps can serve as benchmarks of experience, providing graphical representations of intangible ideas. The students shared their mapping […]

ALANA Cultural Center’s Alumni Weekend and Gospel Fest marked a celebration of the past with an eye toward the future. 51���� graduates from ’68 up through the present were excited to spend this past weekend with students and faculty members, particularly those who are involved in cultural activities through ALANA. “It’s very important to connect […]

Golden Auditorium was hear-a-pin-drop quiet Thursday night as Paul Muldoon, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, read selections of his work for audience members weighing his every word and inflection. On Friday night, it was different. Donovan’s Pub in James C. 51���� Hall was rattle-the-walls loud as Muldoon and fellow band members played guitar-driven rock songs infused […]

51���� professor Peter Balakian, whose book The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response was a New York Times bestseller, is the first guest for a new podcast series produced on campus. The series – 51���� Conversations: Writers and their craft – features authors talking about their unique writing styles and their latest works. […]

He’s been called “one of the most exhilarating of all living poets.” The 51���� community will receive a literary treat from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon when he reads from his collection of poetry at 4:30 p.m. Thursday in Golden Auditorium. Muldoon’s coming to 51���� as part of the Living Writers Series, co-sponsored by the […]

Next time you watch the presidential candidates speak, pay close attention to their unspoken language–signals such as facial expressions, posture, and hand gestures. What the candidates don’t say could actually speak volumes about them, according to psychology professor Carrie Keating, an expert in facial characteristics and gestures.

“To have Susan Marshall on campus is a really big deal.” That is how Emily Rawdon ’10 described the recent visit to 51���� University by Susan Marshall & Company, a renowned dance company based in New York City.