Colby Center for the Arts and Humanities

We are beyond excited to announce that the applications for the 2026 Colby Summer Institute in Environmental Humanities are open! Join us in Waterville from July 27 - August 1. We can't wait to see you! Learn more: cah.colby.edu/initiatives/en… Apply here: forms.gle/yvoWvpkrv8KFuM…

Join us this weekend for our final John Green themed events at the Waterville Public Library and the Maine Film Center! All events are free and open to the public. See you there!

Tickets are now available for "Play: A Conversation with John Green"! This free, public event will take place at Colby College’s Lorimer Chapel from 6:30–8:30 PM, with doors opening at 5:30 PM. Get your ticket here: Purplepass.com/johngreencolby, or scan the QR code.

Fauna, Colby’s only environmental literary and art magazine, is now accepting submissions for its seventh edition! We welcome contributions from students, faculty, and staff! Deadline April 4th, 2025.

Where’s Alaska? We need your help! Join our campus-wide "Looking for Alaska" scavenger hunt and track down hidden cards. Found one? Flip it over, scan the code, and you’ll be entered to win a signed John Green book! Head to the Waterville Public Library for another hunt! 📚

Coming soon next week on March 4th! Please join us for another Faculty Book Celebration in Brewster Reading Room from 4-5pm featuring Jen Yoder, and her book "World War II Memory and Contested Commemorations in Europe and Russia". See you there!

In anticipation of John Green's visit, we’ve collaborated with our community partners to create a series of themed events for all to enjoy! All events are free and open to the public. Please visit this page for more information about each upcoming event: cah.colby.edu/2025/01/27/joh…

Just a friendly reminder that applications for the 2025 Summer Institute are currently open!

We are so excited to share the 2025 SIEH application is now live!! To learn more and apply please visit the link here: cah.colby.edu/initiatives/en….

Calling all John Green fans! If you're going to be on campus during JanPlan this bookclub is for you! Meets once a week with yummy snacks and fun conversation. Link to join here: forms.gle/8Ep9AYT6C6Gmb1…

Final Play seminar of the fall semester! We are so excited to have Colby's own Ben Baker close out this fantastic series with "Dance-machines". Join us on Nov. 18 at 7pm in Diamond 122!

Coming up next in the Play seminar series "Playing to Transgress: Black Girls’ Playdate as a Praxis of Liberation" with Colby Professor, Sonya Donaldson! You won't want to miss this, join us on Monday Nov. 11 at 7pm in Diamond 122.

Up next in the Play seminar series "Language, Spectacle and Chaos! A workshop on embracing word play and fun to enter the page" with Noor Hindi, Palestinian-American poet. Please join us for this exciting seminar on Monday, Nov. 4th at 7pm in Diamond 122!

The Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence Film Series presents: 2001: A Space Odyssey on October 27th in the Gordon Center with pre-movie snacks! The screening will feature a pre-discussion with CAH Faculty Associate Director, Chris Walker as part of the Play theme!

Announcing the next Play seminar! "Designing Blackness in Digital Gaming" with Dr. Kishonna L. Gray from University of Michigan! Please join us on Oct. 28th at 7pm in Diamond 122 to hear her talk. We'll see you there!

We're excited to share that Colby's own Sanval Nasim (Assistant Professor of Economics) will be giving a talk this Friday, Oct. 25 in Diamond 341 titled "Beliefs, Signal Quality, and Information Sources: Experimental Evidence on Air Quality in Pakistan". See you soon!

Please join the CAH Student Advisory board as they kick off a FAUNA reading party! There will be coffee, goodies & catering from Holy Cannoli! We're so excited to be able to feature those who submitted their work. See you on Oct. 22 from 5-6:30pm at Mary Low Coffeehouse!

We're so excited to have Colby Professor, Tim Hubbard giving the next Play seminar in the series! Don't miss "Models and Insights from Game Theory" on Monday, Oct. 21 at 7pm in Diamond 122.

Did you miss last semester's edition of FAUNA? FAUNA is dedicated to celebrating environmentally themed poetry, essays, and artworks by Colby students, and edited by our Student Advisory Board! Read the full issue here: issuu.com/colbycah/docs/…

It's movie night again! Join us tonight to view, Okja (2017), the next showing in the EH film series. See you at 7pm in the film screening room in the Gordon Center!