1812 Leadership Circle Weekend

Madison Square Garden, 4 Penn Plaza (34th Street and 8th Avenue)

Gather with alumni in the lower bowl at Madison Square Garden for a rousing night of hockey!  

8-10 p.m.
Karaoke City, 22 W 32nd Street, 7th Floor

Alumni from the Classes of 2017-26, reconnect with fellow young alumni over drinks and light bites. Grab the mic or sing-along from the sofas in our private karaoke lounge.

Madison Avenue Galleries
Step into the refined world of the Upper East Side with an art tour along Madison Avenue. This elegant neighborhood is home to blue-chip galleries tucked into townhouses and former mansions, showcasing 19th- and 20th-century art through contemporary. 

Cipriani 25 Broadway
25 Broadway
New York, NY 10004  

A gala dinner celebrating the generosity of Hamilton’s most committed donors and volunteers, featuring a pivotal announcement about the College's future. 

CONVENE at 101 Park Avenue (between 40th and 41st Streets)
This year's seminars take a forward-focused look at current topics. Breakfast will be available beginning at 7:30 a.m. and snacks will be available throughout the day for participants.

8-9:15 a.m.

Back once again by popular demand, Goldman Sachs Chairman and CEO and Chair of the Hamilton Board of Trustees, David Solomon ’84, P’16, answers your questions about the global market, economic trends, and any other topics you bring to the table.

9:30 a.m.-Noon
We'll pull back the curtain on one of Hamilton's newest and most talked-about classroom innovations: the Co-Lab. In small groups, alumni will experience what current students do, moving between faculty from different disciplines as they tackle a single, timely topic (from artificial intelligence to cancer therapeutics) from multiple angles. Alongside the faculty, Hamilton alumni experts bring the view from the field, showing how the questions debated on campus are the same ones shaping headlines and boardrooms today. Moderated by Associate Provost and Professor of Anthropology Nathan Goodale, it's a firsthand look at how Hamilton teaches students to think across boundaries and a chance to see why this learning mode has become one of the most exciting developments in a Hamilton education. Participants will attend both Co-Lab 1 and Co-Lab 2 as part of this experience. 

Co-Lab 1: Permitting Reform: Should We Be Cutting the Environmental Red Tape?
Speakers:
Jeff Cross, Assistant Professor of Economics 
Bob Fryklund ’80, Vice President and Chief Strategist for the Upstream Energy Group at S&P Global Energy 
Aaron Strong, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies
In this co-lab, we examine the complex challenges around permitting reforms from environmental, economic, and political perspectives. Permitting delays and costs slow the renewable energy transition, but federal reform is stalled. Rising energy demand from data centers has led some environmental groups to reconsider streamlined reviews, while states move independently to speed up approvals. Bipartisan support exists for both stricter project oversight and faster grid modernization, making political alignments surprisingly complex.

Co-Lab 2: mRNA and the Future of Cancer Therapy: Promise, Public Trust, and the People Behind the Science
Speakers:
Mackenzie Cooley, Associate Professor of History
Rick Edelson ’66, P’97, Anthony Brady Professor of Dermatology at the Yale School of Medicine and past director of the Yale Cancer Center
Ryan Martinie, Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Nicole McDaniels, Associate Professor of Instruction in Biology 
Elena Tonc, Assistant Professor of Biology
mRNA technology, the result of decades of research and the basis of COVID-19 vaccines, is now being used to train the immune system to target cancer using personalized therapies. While early trials show transformative promise, the technology’s rapid rise has sparked public debate rooted in historical medical missteps and inconsistent science communication. How do we weigh promise against questions about safety, cost, and benefits? Answering that takes many people and expertises, including researchers, physicians, historians, writers, and policymakers, and it shows how many different roles in health and medicine have a stake in bringing a discovery from the lab to the patient. 

Hudson Theatre
139-141 West 44th Street (between 6th and 7th Avenues)

Every family has a secret. Not every family survives it. A once-in-a-generation cast, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Ed Harris, Allison Janney, Joe Keery, and Lily Rabe star in the revival of Jon Robin Baitz’s incendiary, Tony Award-winning Other Desert Cities, directed by John Benjamin Hickey.

On Christmas Eve, the sunlit Palm Springs home of a politically connected family becomes a battleground of memory, loyalty, and legacy when a daughter returns with a memoir and the power to expose the explosive truth they’ve kept hidden. With cutting insight and razor-sharp wit, they excavate old wounds and long-buried secrets. As the past comes into focus, the question isn’t just what happened, but who owns a family’s story and what the cost is to tell it.

Jack Shainman Gallery
513 West 20th Street (between 10th and 11th Avenues in Chelsea)
Join Tracy L. Adler, the Wellin Museum’s Johnson-Pote Director and Elizabeth Shannon, PhD, the Wellin Museum’s Collections Curator, for a cocktail reception at Jack Shainman Gallery in Chelsea. Mix and mingle with Hamilton College arts-interested alumni and learn more about the current exhibition on view at the Wellin entitled Storytelling: Photographers Making Meaning, Works from the Wellin Museum’s Collection. 
 

Winter Garden Theatre
1634 Broadway (between 50th and 51st Streets)
Tom Hiddleston is Benedick. Hayley Atwell is Beatrice. Two of their generation’s finest actors star in Tony® winner Jamie Lloyd’s joy-fueled reinvention of Much Ado About Nothing. This giddily funny and beautifully tender battle of wits comes to Broadway after a record-breaking run in London, where it was named the “#1 Best Show of the Year” (Time Out).