Events

Embed creativity in the DNA of Hamilton College to fuel extraordinary ideas. Each charrette is an intensive, collaborative workshop that brings together a diverse group of participants to generate ideas, address challenges, and design potential solutions. Day 2 is dedicated to prototyping and testing the ideas and strategies that were generated on Day 1.

Join us for an introductory workshop on Gemini and NotebookLM, Google's artificial intelligence (AI) platforms. In this session, we’ll show you how to access and navigate the tool, explore its core features and models, and discuss practical applications for research and administrative work. We’ll also highlight key considerations around privacy, security, and responsible use. No prior AI experience is required—just bring your curiosity!

The lunch series, “Celebrating Faculty and Staff Achievements,” features new scholarship from 2020 to present by faculty and staff authors, and is sponsored by Ngoni Munemo, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty, and Joe Shelley, Vice President for Library and Information Technology Services. Please join us for a presentation by Emily Harrison, Assistant Professor of Theatre, on their play, Eyes Up, Mouth Agape (2024). Lunch will be provided.   

Join us for an introductory workshop on Gemini and NotebookLM, Google's artificial intelligence (AI) platforms. In this session, we’ll show you how to access and navigate the tool, explore its core features and models, and discuss practical applications for research and administrative work. We’ll also highlight key considerations around privacy, security, and responsible use. No prior AI experience is required—just bring your curiosity!

Explore the new Blackboard Ultra Course View in our upcoming session! 'Blackboard Ultra' is the updated version of Blackboard Original - the interface we currently use. The new interface offers a modern and streamlined experience for both instructors and students. This session will provide an overview of the new interface, along with key features and tools designed to enhance teaching and learning. Please bring along your laptops, as you’ll have the chance to explore the features together with me and get comfortable navigating Blackboard Ultra....

Join Fillius Jazz Archive Director Monk Rowe for a retrospective on thirty years of Hamilton’s jazz oral history project. Monk will offer a brief history of the archive with video excerpts, anecdotes and a review of current projects. A visit to the Jazz Archive exhibit in Burke will follow.

Join us for an introductory workshop on Firefly, Adobe's generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform. In this session, we’ll show you how to access and navigate the tool, explore its core features and models, and discuss practical applications for research and administrative work. We’ll also highlight key considerations around privacy, security, and responsible use. No prior AI experience is required—just bring your curiosity!

Join us for an introductory workshop on Firefly, Adobe's generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform. In this session, we’ll show you how to access and navigate the tool, explore its core features and models, and discuss practical applications for research and administrative work. We’ll also highlight key considerations around privacy, security, and responsible use. No prior AI experience is required—just bring your curiosity!

For anyone who wants to experience the design thinking process before jumping into their first charrette, the R&ID team is here to help. We welcome the opportunity to introduce you and your colleagues to design abilities, methods, and mindsets using Stanford's d.school Starter Kit. 

For anyone who wants to experience the design thinking process before jumping into their first charrette, the R&ID team is here to help. We welcome the opportunity to introduce you and your colleagues to design abilities, methods, and mindsets using Stanford's d.school Starter Kit. 

Please join us for a presentation by Professor of History John Eldevik and Senior Research and Community Engagement Librarian Kristin Strohmeyer on their collaboration on the Subject Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Studies.  This lunchtime series highlights the creative partnerships between Hamilton College faculty and LITS Instructional Designers and Research Librarians. We’ll explore innovative approaches to pedagogy and course design by spotlighting one assignment, course, or project from the past academic year—presented in collaboration w...

Alyce Englund, Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts, American Wing, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, will give a lecture entitled: "The American Wing at 100"    In 2024, the iconic American Wing at The Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrated its 100th anniversary with a series of gallery reinstallations, interpretive realignment, and strategic collection development. The new arrangement of painting, sculpture, and decorative art in the American Wing shines alongside commentary from community partners, contemporary interventions, and vigne...

This Synthesis Charrette will be bringing together ideas from the Open Curriculum 2.0, Democracy & Imagination, and Creative Campus & "What If" Thematic Charrettes.

Join WHCL x Band Club on the steps of Burke Library for Reading Man, a music festival featuring your favorite student bands, as well as WHCL's very own reading man. 

Please join us for a lecture by Dr. Robert Spoo, Princeton University, entitled, Ezra Pound’s Cantos, Literary Piracy, and Marital Monopoly. Ezra Pound, author of the major modern poem The Cantos, had a mixed view of literary piracy. On the one hand, he condemned it; on the other, he saw it as a way of expanding readerships and disseminating writings across borders. When his own late sequence, Drafts & Fragments of Cantos CX-CXVII (1968), was pirated in a mimeograph format by Ed Sanders of New York, he was too old and frail to respond. But Draf...

Build a lifelong living and learning experience for Hamilton students that dramatically improves outcomes for thriving in lives of meaning, purpose, and active citizenship.  Each charrette is an intensive, collaborative workshop that brings together a diverse group of participants to generate ideas, address challenges, and design potential solutions. Day 1 is dedicated to exploring the topic and brainstorming ideas and strategies related to it.

Build a lifelong living and learning experience for Hamilton students that dramatically improves outcomes for thriving in lives of meaning, purpose, and active citizenship.  Each charrette is an intensive, collaborative workshop that brings together a diverse group of participants to generate ideas, address challenges, and design potential solutions. Day 2 is dedicated to prototyping and testing the ideas and strategies that were generated on Day 1.

The lunch series, “Celebrating Faculty and Staff Achievements,” features new scholarship from 2020 to present by faculty and staff authors, and is sponsored by Ngoni Munemo, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty, and Joe Shelley, Vice President for Library and Information Technology Services. Please join us for a presentation by DJ Schuldt, LITS Special Collections Education and Outreach Librarian, on his project, “Print and Probability” . Lunch will be provided. 

Reimagine experiential and community-based learning to differentiate Hamilton’s student experience and demonstrate the value and impact of liberal arts institutions for the public. Each charrette is an intensive, collaborative workshop that brings together a diverse group of participants to generate ideas, address challenges, and design potential solutions. Day 1 is dedicated to exploring the topic and brainstorming ideas and strategies related to it.

Reimagine experiential and community-based learning to differentiate Hamilton’s student experience and demonstrate the value and impact of liberal arts institutions for the public. Each charrette is an intensive, collaborative workshop that brings together a diverse group of participants to generate ideas, address challenges, and design potential solutions. Day 2 is dedicated to prototyping and testing the ideas and strategies that were generated on Day 1.

Bob Sneider, Associate Professor of Jazz and Contemporary Media at the Eastman School of Music will join Gabe Condon for a lunch time concert of original compositions and jazz standards. 

Introduction to CITRIX and STATA workshop for Economics 166 students. PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN LAPTOPS.

Create a future where Hamilton students and faculty, through innovation, draw on the mix of technology and authentic intelligence to develop, test, and advance new ideas both at Hamilton and in the world beyond.Each charrette is an intensive, collaborative workshop that brings together a diverse group of participants to generate ideas, address challenges, and design potential solutions. Day 1 is dedicated to exploring the topic and brainstorming ideas and strategies related to it.

Create a future where Hamilton students and faculty, through innovation, draw on the mix of technology and authentic intelligence to develop, test, and advance new ideas both at Hamilton and in the world beyond.Each charrette is an intensive, collaborative workshop that brings together a diverse group of participants to generate ideas, address challenges, and design potential solutions. Day 2 is dedicated to prototyping and testing the ideas and strategies that were generated on Day 1.

Please join us for a presentation by Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Kwabena Edusei. Instructional Designer, Digital Innovation Mike Revenaugh, and Senior Instructional Designer, VR/AR Technologist Ben Salzman on their work with sound mapping. This lunchtime series highlights the creative partnerships between Hamilton College faculty and LITS Instructional Designers and Research Librarians. We’ll explore innovative approaches to pedagogy and course design by spotlighting one assignment, course, or project from the past academic yea...