Room 122, Diamond Bldg., Colby College

Kathleen Vernon, associate professor of Hispanic languages and literature at the SUNY, Stony Brook, has published widely on various aspects of Spanish-language cinema from the 1930s to the present, with special focus on melodrama, film music and sound, and women’s cinema. She is completing a book on voice, music, and sound in film, and two […]

Feeding the hungry is a world problem we all want to solve. But how? Should we leave it up to big agriculture? Big government? Big philanthropy? Gloria Otieno, a development economist and food policy expert, believes local communities play a major role in their own agricultural fates. In this talk, she argues that local communities in […]

KV Connect has teamed up with the Colby College Student Alumni Association to co-host a fun event! Join us from 7:00 to 8:00 in Diamond 122 for a panel discussion of about careers in the nonprofit sector. Presenters include: Karen Heck, former Mayor of Waterville; Jane Phillips, President of the Foundation for Maine's Community Colleges; […]

What’s it like to lead a small Ugandan village? Milly Businge will share her experiences of leadership & development in Kikuube, a village where Colby students studied abroad in January 2015. Businge will speak about the challenges for food security and sustainability posed by the arrival of multinational corporate agriculture in Kikuube, as well as her family’s […]

There's never been one America, Colin Woodard argues in this award-winning book, but rather several Americas, each with its own, centuries-old ideals, values, and religious and cultural heritage. Understanding the real map of the continent and its rival cultures is essential to grasping our history, from the divisions of the American Revolution and Civil War […]