Save the Date for Spectrum 2025!

October 7, 2024

We are pleased to announce the return of the popular NY6 Spectrum Conference, which will be held at Colgate University on February 21-23, 2025, led by the Office of LGBTQ+ Initiatives and the Department of LGBTQ Studies. The Spectrum Conference brings together students, faculty, and staff from Colgate, Hamilton, Hobart and William Smith, St. Lawrence,Skidmore, Union, and beyond for a weekend of community building, networking, and knowledge production. This free event celebrates a diverse range of sexualities, gender identities and expressions, backgrounds and experiences, cultures, and the insights we bring to social justice and advocacy.

The theme of the 2025 conference is QUEER* SPACES AND PLACES. We invite students, faculty, and staff to explore this theme in a variety of forms: workshops, roundtables, information sessions, and interactive engagements (games, performances, etc.). We also encourage you to express your vision of QUEER* SPACES AND PLACES in the form of visual, written, or multimedia art that would be displayed during the conference.

Submit your proposal here:
https://forms.gle/nv1GWJou6GG517BC6 

If you have any questions, please email Dr. Lyosha Gorshkov at agorshkov@colgate.edu.

* By using queer*, we are including all identities that fall under the LGBTQ+ umbrella.