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At risk of sounding regretful of my background, I confess that my least favorite question when meeting someone is, “Where are you from?” My answer usually seems interesting enough to lead to many follow-ups, to the point where a side …
This Wednesday, the mayor of Lewiston announced an “increased presence” of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in the city. This comes after weeks of rumors regarding increased ICE activity in the state and the Department of Homeland Security’s …
With an ocean separating Maine and Ireland, what could a small college like Bowdoin have to do with Irish history? At Monday’s talk from Peter McLoughlin, a professor at the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen’s University …
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415 women.
415 murdered women.
415 murdered women in 2024.
415 murdered women just in 2024.
The Istanbul Convention, officially known as the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, wasn’t just …
On the evening of September 30, students, faculty and local residents joined in a vigil hosted by Bowdoin Hillel for the victims of the October 7 attack on Israel last year. Hillel planned the vigil with its rabbi, Lisa Vinikoor, …
Four hundred and ninety-one days after he was detained by the Russian government on false espionage charges, American journalist and Bowdoin alumnus Evan Gershkovich ’14 was released in a multinational prisoner swap organized by the Biden-Harris administration. The deal also …
On Tuesday, Russian journalist and LGBTQ+ activist Elena Kostyuchenko visited campus to read a segment of her book, “I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country,” and talked about finding the balance between journalism and activism and her experience with …
On Wednesday, Kim Brandt, a research scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, spoke about her research as she writes a book focused on post-World War II U.S.-Japanese relations. Brandt is also the academic director for the Master of Arts …
Last Friday, the Bowdoin community gathered to commemorate both the ten-year mark of the war in Ukraine and the two years of war since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, as well as to honor the lives lost during the …
Yesterday afternoon, linguistic anthropologist and professor at the University of Washington Laada Bilaniuk spoke about the importance of language to Ukrainian culture and identity in her talk titled “Language and Identity in the Russo-Ukrainian War.” Bilaniuk discussed her background, her …
