On Wednesday, 150 students and professors gathered in Smith Union to write the names of 6,700 Palestinians killed over the past forty days as part of an event organized by Bowdoin Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).
Rabbi Andy Bachman spoke on Israel and Palestine through the lens of his personal and educational experiences to a crowd of faculty, staff and students on Tuesday evening.
Bachman founded Water Over Rocks and the Center for Midwestern Jewish Communities. …
On Wednesday night, the Middle Eastern and North African Studies (MENA) program hosted a talk titled “Difficult Terms in the Israel/Palestine Conflict” in Kresge Auditorium. Students, Bowdoin faculty and community members filled the seats to hear three professors give context …
On Friday, more than 50 Bowdoin students participated in a Justice for Palestine demonstration at the Maine State House in Augusta. Bowdoin Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) organized van rides to and from Augusta, free to any Bowdoin student …
The steps of the Walker Art Building were shrouded in silence and the soft glow of candlelight on Friday as the Bowdoin community gathered to honor the Palestinian and Israeli lives lost in the recent violence in Gaza and Israel. …
Posters for the student-professor teach-in on the recent conflict in Gaza and Israel advertised Ladd Living Room as the venue, but by the time the event was set to start on Wednesday, it was clear that a much bigger space …
Last Tuesday, the College hosted associate professor of history and environment and society at Brown University Bathsheba Demuth to give a talk entitled “The Reindeer at the End of the World: Apocalypse, Climate and Soviet Dreams.” The lecture, sponsored by …
On Tuesday, the Brunswick and Bowdoin communities gathered in Pickard Theater in support of Evan Gershkovich ’14, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), who has spent six months under Russian detainment on charges of alleged espionage.
In its effort to help students understand the journalistic and political context of Evan Gershkovich’s ’14 detainment in Russia, the Department of Russian hosted Daisy Sindelar for “The Challenges of Reporting About (and in) Russia: The Case of Evan Gershkovich …