On Tuesday night, civil rights activist, educator and organizer DeRay Mckesson ’07 H’21 spoke to a packed Kresge Auditorium at a panel entitled “One Act at a Time: Leading at Bowdoin and Beyond.” Mckesson, sitting in conversation with two students, …
Last Tuesday, Dr. Kristie Soares visited Bowdoin to deliver a talk on the power of utilizing joy in activist efforts. The talk, titled, “Joy in Times of Crisis: Latina/x Activism and Art in the Face of the Apocalypse,” revealed how …
A democracy functions because it is built upon a foundation of trust regardless of political party—this is the message Maine State Representative Samuel Zager emphasized to Bowdoin students gathered in the Hubbard Pickering Room for his Tuesday evening discussion.
Last Wednesday, Clinton Castro, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Information School and Department of Philosophy, discussed the technological present and used Kantian philosophy to argue that there is a need to protect others, primarily children, from the threat …
On Wednesday night, Professor of Biology and Neuroscience Hadley Horch took the stage in Kresge Auditorium to deliver her inaugural lecture as the endowed Norma L. and Roland G. Ware Jr. Professor. In the lecture, “Branching Out: The Molecular Gardeners …
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 …
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 …
Last Monday, students and community members gathered in Massachusetts Hall to enjoy a reading and conversation with author Lewis Robinson. Robinson currently teaches creative writing at the University of Maine at Farmington and lives in Portland with his family.
Tuesday afternoon, Professor Michael Thornton, an assistant teaching history professor at Northeastern University, discussed the urbanization and colonization of the northernmost major island of Japan, Hokkaidō, with a focus on the city of Sapporo and the Ainu Indigenous population.