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Assistant Professor of Art, Digital Media Takahiro Suzuki has had two of his films screened at festival across the country. His film electric moonlight & the language within the leaves was shown at the Wisconsin Film Festival in Madison April 6 - 11 and at the Wide Open Experimental Film Festival in Oklahoma City April 26-28. The Odds & Ends Experimental Film Festival in Charlottesville, Va., showed his film The Hungry Ghost & The Earthshaker April 6. Suzuki's creative research practice utilizes forms in both still and moving imagery, primarily making experimental film and video artworks.
Central Maine is expected to dodge the brunt of browntail moth troubles this year after successful mitigation efforts that included Colby's Davis Institute for AI, the Portland Press Herald reported.
For an article on the impact of falling crime rates on the 2024 election, The Economist turned to the expertise of Neil Gross, the Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology, who said it was a bit of a “danger zone” for President Biden.
Tanya Sheehan, the Ellerton M. and Edith K. Jetté Professor of Art, and art historian Suzanne Hudson of the University of Southern California co-edited a Critics Page for the independent monthly magazine the Brooklyn Rail. The contributions they assembled for publication in the March 2024 issue—by 21 artists, curators, and academics—examine visual art’s relationship to the discourses and spaces of healing since the emergence of Covid-19. The Critics Page builds upon conversations that Sheehan and Hudson co-curated for the Brooklyn Rail’s New Social Environment series in 2022. It also stems from their shared research interest in the history of modern art and art therapy.
Sarah Braunstein, associate professor of English, was featured on the NPR podcast Marginalia, where she discussed her new novel, Bad Animals. In the episode, she talked about how, while writing the book, she developed courses at Colby that touched on her writing process.
Matt Proto, vice president and chief institutional advancement officer, was quoted in Insider Higher Ed regarding the College's recently expanded financial aid package aimed to attract a broader range of students.
The New York Times ran a feature story on Colby students helping harvest ice from a pond for a new mikvah, or ritual bath, at Waterville's synagogue.
Lydia L. Moland, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Philosophy, was featured as a panelist on Maine Calling to trace the roots of the social contract and examine how people today view their obligations toward their fellow human beings.
Professor of Art Véronique Plesch participated in the First International Conference of the European Research Council project Graff-IT, Writing on the Margins: Graffiti in Italy and Beyond (7th–16th c.) with a paper titled “Graffiti on Frescoes: Typology, Models, Metaphors, and Critical Frameworks.” The conference took place April 10-12 at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR). Prior to the conference, Plesch taught in a graduate course of the same title, also at the KNIR. The course, coordinated by Prof. Marco Mostert from Utrecht University, gathered nine selected research M.A./Ph.D. students in classics, (art) history, general and comparative literature, heritage studies, cultural studies, or related disciplines from the KNIR partner universities (Universiteit van Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit, Universiteit Leiden, Universiteit Utrecht, Radboud Universiteit, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen). Plesch was one of five lecturers (other faculty members came from Dutch and Italian universities) and lectured on “Graffiti and the History of Art.” The course took place April 5-13 (“enveloping” the international conference), and Plesch taught her course on April 9 and also participated in a visit to Jewish catacombs with the students.
Research led by Gail Carlson, assistant professor of environmental studies, continues to be referenced as ski resorts find more forever chemicals in their parks.