Ostrove Auditorium, Diamond Building, Colby College

Originally scheduled for Friday, February,7, PechaKucha Night Waterville Vol. 34 has been postponed due to the inclement weather until Saturday, February 8 at Colby College. The reception will begin at 6:20 p.m. and presentations will follow promptly at 7:20 p.m. Presenters: Steve Crate – Objective Reality Kathryn Davis, Laura Dunn, + Julia Einstein - Maine […]

Who will add their name to Colby’s Worldvision Song Contest trophy this year? Come find out. Sing along. See what gimmicks Colby’s language assistants have come up with for 2019. Drums? Trumpets? Violins? Balloons? Dancing mules? Most of all, come celebrate foreign languages at Colby along with the College’s talented language assistants and their great […]

Michael E. Mann is the distinguished professor of atmospheric science at Penn State and the director of the Earth System Science Center, also at Penn State. His research involves the use of theoretical models and observational data to better understand Earth’s climate system. Human-caused climate change represents arguably the greatest threat we face as a civilization. […]

Former two-term Maine Governor Paul LePage will speak to Colby students and the broader community about his political experience and the future of Maine politics.

Monica Lewis-Patrick, one of the leaders of the water rights struggle in Detroit, is a tireless and fearless strategist working to ensure that clean water is available and affordable for all.  She is an active member of the People’s Water Board Coalition, U.S. Human Rights Network, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and D-REM.org, and was […]

Elizabeth Rush is the author of Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction. Her work explores how humans adapt to changes enacted upon them by forces seemingly beyond their control, from ecological transformation to political revolution.  Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in the New […]

Tara Houska (Couchiching First Nation) is a tribal attorney based in Washington, D.C., the national campaigns director of Honor the Earth, and a former advisor on Native American affairs to Bernie Sanders. She advocates on behalf of tribal nations at the local and federal levels on a range of issues impacting indigenous peoples. She recently […]

Please join 2019 Lunder Institute Fellow and Occupy Colby curator Phong Bui for a wide-ranging conversation building on the themes of Occupy Colby: Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale That Society Has the Capacity to Destroy, Year 2. Bui will be joined by artist Alexis Rockman and Colby professors Denise Bruesewitz and Keith Peterson. Join us […]

The Oak Institute Welcome Lecture is a formal introduction the 2019 Oak Fellow, Jamila Bargach. Her transformational work has significantly improved the lives of Berber communities in Morocco that had long suffered from limited access to water. Bargach is an activist and scholar who has dedicated her life to serving under-resourced communities in southwest Morocco, […]

A one-on-one conversation led by journalist Travis Barrett. George A. Smith is a full-time writer, focusing on hunting, fishing and other outdoor activities, current events and legislative issues, book reviews, and travel. George, who was the executive director of the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine for 18 years, writes monthly columns for The Maine Sportsman magazine […]

Waterville, Maine — PechaKucha Night Waterville (PK WTVL) Volume 31 will take place at Colby College on Friday, May 3. The evening will begin with a reception at 6:20pm and lead into presentations at 7:20pm. This event is free and open to the public. Complimentary refreshments will be provided. The outstanding emcee for the evening […]

A two-day symposium presented in partnership between Colby College and the University of Maine School of Law Maine is over 60% rural, and its rural communities are facing a well-documented lawyer shortage. While some work is underway to address this vexing problem, the absence of legal representation remains a constant challenge to the quality of […]

Elle Hearns is an organizer, speaker, strategist, and writer. Elle is a cofounding member of the Black Lives Matter network, an organization formed with multiple local chapters as a political project in the wake of the murder of Trayvon Martin in order to explicitly combat implicit bias and anti-black racism and to protect and affirm […]

This year’s Grossman Lecturer is Professor Ethan Lewis of Dartmouth College. Dr. Lewis’s research focuses on how U.S. labor markets adjust to immigration and technological change, including how firms adapt their production technology to employ less-skilled immigrants. His recent research includes investigating the role historical immigration waves played in advancing the second Industrial Revolution and […]

We humans are a force of nature. At the same time, human activities alter the basic elements of life — earth, air, water, and fire—those elements change human life. In an arresting new documentary from the producers of Racing Extinction, The Cove, and Chasing Ice, environmental photographer James Balog captures the lives of everyday Americans on […]

The Waterville thinker, writer, and humorist shares tales, wisdom and answers questions. Also, J.P. Devine will be there. He’ll entertain with many years of stories, and She will correct all of them. Admission is free, but advance tickets are required. Register here. Community Voices is a live event series featuring conversations with notable community members […]

Mark Dion, this year’s Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Fellow in Environmental Humanities, is an American conceptual artist whose work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. By locating the roots of environmental politics and public policy in the construction of knowledge about […]

PechaKucha Night Waterville is a creative networking event centered on storytelling in 20x20 (20 slides with 20 seconds per slide). Every event is well attended and provides its own distinctive journey.     Waterville | Vol. 30 January 25, 2019 Snow Date: January 26, 2019 Colby College |Diamond Building |Ostrove Auditorium Reception: 6:20pm | Presentations: […]

Sammy Baloji was born in 1978 in Lubumbashi, in the mineral-rich Katanga Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. He studied computer and information sciences and communication at the University of Lubumbashi. With a borrowed camera, he began photographing scenes as sources for his cartoons. He soon enrolled in photography courses in DRC and continued […]

Join us for a screening of the award-winning documentary Die Arier/The Aryans (2014) followed by a conversation and Q&A with acclaimed Afro-German filmmaker Mo Asumang. Following a death threat, Asumang sets out to confront racists face to face. In her documentary about right-wing movements worldwide, Asumang embarks on a journey into the madness of racism and meets German […]

Presented by the F. Russell Cole Distinguished Lecturer in Environmental Studies, Jon Foley of the California Academy of Science. The news on the global environmental front is grim. But what if there was a practical plan, based on the latest science, that could turn it around, and help us build a better future? That’s what PlanetVision […]

Masha Gessen is a journalist and the author of many books, including Perfect Rigor, Blood Matters, Ester and Ruzya, Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot, The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy. Her most recent book, Where the Jews Aren’t, tells the story of an area once declared a Jewish homeland. […]

We are now in a full-blown trade war. Unilateral actions by the Trump Administration targeting steel and aluminum imports even hit political allies; ever-escalating tariffs on imports from China were quickly followed by retaliatory actions targeting politically sensitive sectors and goods. What will be the economic and political fallout of these actions? Will they help […]

In the era of ISIS,  a group young people started Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS), a non-partisan, independent organization that exposes and fights the atrocities committed by the Bashar Al-Assad regime and ISIS in Syria in a peaceful way. Abdalaziz Alhamza, an award-winning Syrian journalist, human rights defender, activist, IT trainer, and founder of […]