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On Tuesday evening, Barbara Drake Boehm, curator emerita at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, spoke to students and faculty about one of the tiniest treasures Northern European art has to offer: carved boxwood prayer beads. The talk, entitled “In a …
Last Saturday, Asian Students Alliance (ASA) transformed Smith Union’s Morrell Lounge into a runway for Bowdoin’s third annual Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Fashion Show. Members of the Vietnamese Students Association (VSA), Chinese Students Association (CHSA), Philippine Society of …
One of the odd parts of writing this column has been watching it unfold in real time alongside my own life. Reading these authors each week has tracked the rises and collapses of my senior year with an almost embarrassing …
On Wednesday night in Kresge Auditorium, Professor of Africana Studies and History Brian Purnell joined writer Ayelet Tsabari in conversation about her debut novel, “Songs for the Brokenhearted,” and the power of communicating through fiction. Tsabari is an author of …
On Saturday, scholars from across New England gathered at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA) for the annual conference of the New England Medieval Consortium, “Re-envisioning the Medieval World(s) in the 21st Century.” The daylong event brought together researchers …
One recent afternoon, I met with the lovely Nisi Tuitupou ’26 to talk about singing, particularly as it is done in collaboration with others. I was drawn to interviewing her on this topic since we frequently sing together, whether through …
Last Friday and Saturday, Masque & Gown welcomed audiences to “Doing David,” a collection of eight short plays by playwright and novelist David Ives. Directed by Julia Starck ’26, the three performances took place in Pickard Theater before students, faculty, …
What happens when a writer loses the world that made him legible? That is the question that keeps bringing me back to Ovid’s exile poetry, the “Tristia” and “Ex Ponto,” written after Augustus banished him in A.D. 8 to Tomis, …
On Thursday night in Mills Hall, George Ellzey Jr. ’13 screened his award-winning 2023 short film “Cottage Grove” and offered filmmaking advice to current students. A project that stemmed from his Master of Fine Arts film program at DePaul University, …
Last weekend, students, faculty and community members filled Memorial Hall’s Wish Theater to see “Bunk Beds,” a dance performance brought to campus by the Department of Theater and Dance.
With performances Friday and Saturday nights, “Bunk Beds” explored themes of …
