Students and community members gathered Thursday at the Hawthorne-Longfellow Library (H-L) to celebrate the launch of English and Cinema Studies Professor Avivia Briefel’s latest book. “Ghosts and Things: The Material Culture of Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism” deals with the spiritualist movement of …
Last Friday afternoon, the third floor of Hawthorne–Longfellow Library filled with students, librarians, faculty and community members as the Bowdoin Preservation Collective (BPC) unveiled their reimagined Joshua Chamberlain exhibition—an effort months in the making and years in the dreaming.
Though we recognize names such as W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston in conversations about Black intellectual life, the name Arturo Alfonso Schomburg remains relatively obscure.
Schomburg is the namesake of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black …
On the second floor of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA), tucked in the corner of the “Currents” gallery, hangs an eye-catching drawing of color, line, shape and symbol.
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith’s 1993 mixed media work “Jocko: Gray Whale” …
On Monday, students and local Maine residents gathered in Kresge Auditorium for a performance of “Broken Clock,” a play by non-profit Maine Inside Out (MIO).
Since 2008, MIO has worked with those affected by incarceration and systemic oppression to promote …