REDEFINE

WHAT'S POSSIBLE

Our mission. Your big ideas.

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Whether you're dreaming up a research project abroad, exploring ways to collaborate with friends and partners on campus, or coming up with the next world-changing idea, the Center is here to support and celebrate your vision.

OUR UPCOMING EVENTS

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PLAY! Seminar: Dance-machines Ben Baker, Colby College

November 18 | Diamond 122 | 7:00 p.m.

Ben Baker, Assistant Professor Department of Philosophy, Colby College, is a philosopher who works mainly on questions about human minds, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence.

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Faculty Book Celebration: Gary Green, Almost Home

November 19 | Brewster Reading Room| 4:00 p.m.

Please join us as we celebrate Gary Green’s new publication, Almost Home. 

What If We Get It Right? Reimagining Climate Change Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

November 20 | Page Commons | 6:00 p.m.

What if we could not only solve the climate crisis but thrive while doing it? Join Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson as she paints a picture of a transformed, revitalized world.

ANNUAL THEME

PLAY

‘Play’ is a term that spans a gamut of endeavors in the liberal arts without resolving the tensions. Bounding and bouncing across diverse histories and geographies, play connects action and rest, pleasure and exhaustion, young and old, human and nonhuman, and intellect and whimsy. This two-year theme (23-24 and 24-25) invites the campus and its community partners to explore, embody, and enact the complications of the theme. Engaging playful paradoxes as well as the inequalities that surround the theme, we ask: Is it work to intellectualize play? How and when is playing around seen as a subversive and even dangerous act? Who gets to play, and who doesn’t? Play, as practice and concept, challenges the demands of intellectual rigor, offering possibilities for haptic engagement, queer curiosities, happenings and actions, and fun.

The Center By The Numbers

Since 2012, the Center has supported:

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See how Colby Students and making an impact in Maine and across the globe

ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES

The Colby Summer Institute in Environmental Humanities

Mark your calendars for the 2024 Colby Summer Institute in Environmental Humanities! If you are an academic, artist, activist, or independent scholar with a passion for the Environmental Humanities, we invite you to join us in beautiful Maine from July 28-August 4, 2024, for a week of seminars, lectures, workshops, field trips, and other events.