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The last time Lauren Groff was on Bowdoin’s campus was in the 1990s, playing soccer as an undergraduate for Amherst College. Now, five novels, two short story collections and three times as a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist later, …
Writer, director and actor John Cameron Mitchell visited campus Monday and Tuesday for a series of events, including a “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” screening and playwriting workshop. Mitchell first came to the College 15 years ago, and the Cinema …
The beginning of Aeschylus’ “Eumenides” is frustratingly parochial. The entire trilogy, really—“The Oresteia”—is infamous among classicists for its difficulty in the original Greek: rare words, archaic grammar, tangled syntax that makes translation a task of genuine suffering. Translator Emily Wilson, …
Ever been dress-coded? Not, like, been suggested to dress formally for a black-tie event but ostracized for your clothing choices? Were you wearing a spaghetti-strap tank top or a pair of shorts a couple inches too many above the knee? …
“Why do you rise?”
The question rings out at the end of every RISE production, the annual show organized by student-group fEMPOWER. The question is the ending to the stories and performances from and about Bowdoin women. The stories center …
This past week, the Bowdoin German Department welcomed Dr. Natasha A. Kelly to campus. A curator, artist, filmmaker, theater director, professor and bestselling author of 13 books, Kelly is the premier Afro-German scholar in Germany and currently a professor of …
Yesterday afternoon, Professor of Art History Pamela Fletcher was joined in celebration of her newly published book “The Victorian Painting of Modern Life.”
Speaking on her scholarship, Fletcher stood in front of a screen displaying renditions of various Victorian paintings. …
Melodies old and new danced through Studzinski Recital Hall during the Bowdoin Symphony Orchestra’s spring concerts on March 2 and 5. The concerts showcased a new piece: the debut of “Improvisation for Orchestra,” composed by applied music instructor Scott Martin.…
Wish Theater gushed with laughter and excitement as the cast of “Men on Boats” took the audience on an intimate journey down the raging Colorado River.
From February 27 to March 1, the Department of Theater and Dance presented “Men …
On March 4, the exhibition “Field (Art) Work” opened at the Roux Center, displaying the work of student summer fellows on Kent Island between 1997 and 2024. The island, located off the mainland in the Bay of Fundy, is home …
