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Number of articles: 45
First Article: April 5, 2024
Latest Article: November 8, 2024
Talia Traskos-Hart
Professor of Philosophy Scott Sehon was asked a challenging question by his grandmother upon returning home to Kansas after his first semester of college: “What is philosophy?” He was asked the same question this year by incoming students at the …
“Many years ago, something extraordinary happened on Martha’s Vineyard, something that had never happened before and would never happen again.”
So begins Christie Lowrance’s children’s book, “The Last Heath Hen: An Extinction Story,” which she spoke about last Friday afternoon …
Last October, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) hosted a teach-in on the immediate escalation of violence against Palestinians following Hamas’s October 7 attack. In the year since, the Israeli military has killed at least 40,000 Palestinians—20 times the number …
In the summer of 1970, with social upheaval brewing over the Vietnam War, Brunswick residents gathered on Maine Street to express political discontent writ large by protesting an ordinance which barred public gatherings, including the throwing of footballs and frisbees …
Portland Symphony Orchestra: Sunday, September 22 through spring 2025
With a $30 PSO College Card, students can attend any concerts in the 2024-2025 season. On Sunday, September 22 at 2:30 p.m., music directors past and present of Portland Symphony Orchestra …
Audience members who gathered in Kresge Auditorium yesterday evening heard retellings of life in Germany’s Weimar Republic as depicted in the TV show “Babylon Berlin.”
Hank Handloegten, one of the show’s three creators, writers and directors, came to campus after …
“Looking at the mother, you might hope that the daughter would become like her, which is a prospective advantage equal to a dowry—the mother too often standing behind the daughter like a malignant prophecy—‘Such as I am, she will shortly …
“This is the cow.” – Gabriel García Márquez, “One Hundred Years of Solitude”
When a plague of insomnia sweeps the fictional town of Macondo in “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” its residents find themselves tossing and turning together.…
Footage from over 100 years ago and over 1,000 miles north captivated visitors at the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum’s “Reframing Historic Arctic Films” festival last weekend. From Thursday to Sunday, films featuring floating icebergs, dogs racing in the snow and frost-covered …
“(I realize that I am forever combing reality for signs of literature.)” – Annie Ernaux, “Exteriors.”
From 1985 to 1992, French writer Annie Ernaux kept a diary of a new town (more to the point: of the people—strangers—in it.) In …
