On Monday evening, students, faculty and community members convened in Pickard Theater for this semester’s Kenneth V. Santagata Lecture, a conversation between journalist, author and television producer David Simon and film producer Franklin Leonard, Bowdoin’s inaugural Herman S. Dreer Leadership …
On Thursday evening, Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider spoke on their research and teaching on the intersection of policy and public school in the annual Brodie Family Lecture. Both writers and professors, the two host the “Have You Heard” podcast, …
On Thursday afternoon, a dozen participants gathered in Lancaster Lounge for the workshop “How Futures Literate Are You? Rethinking the Present with Loes Damhof” led by UNESCO Chair on Futures Literacy in Higher Education Loes Damhof.
On Wednesday evening, students, faculty and community members gathered in Kresge Auditorium to celebrate the inauguration of Professor of Art History Pamela Fletcher as the third Edith Cleaves Barry Professor of the History and Criticism of Art. This recognition was …
Thursday evening marked the first faculty book launch of the year, with faculty, community members and students celebrating the release of Assistant Professor of Digital and Computational Studies Fernando Nascimento’s book “Digital Poetics: A Ricoeurian Approach to Digital Technologies” in …
Last Friday, author and historian Jeffrey Boutwell delivered a talk in the Visual Art Center’s Beam Classroom on one of the hidden figures in American history: George Boutwell. In his talk, titled “George Boutwell: Redeeming America’s Promise,” Jeffrey Boutwell explained …
On Tuesday evening, attendees assembled in Kresge Auditorium to hear behavioral scientist Julia Minson speak in the latest iteration of Bowdoin’s Viewpoint Exchange speaker series. Over the course of an hour and a half, Minson unpacked the psychology of disagreement …
On Thursday evening, author and speaker Tricia Hersey shared her practice of destigmatizing self care and sleep to a crowd of students and community members in Moulton Union’s Main Lounge. Sponsored by the Sexuality, Women, and Gender Center (SWAG), the …
On Wednesday evening, students were joined by Professors of Government Paul Franco and Andy Rudalevige in Moulton Union’s Main Lounge to talk about the lasting significance of the Declaration of Independence.
On Monday evening, students, faculty and community members gathered in Kresge Auditorium to hear Mélanie Lamotte, assistant professor of history at Duke University, deliver a talk titled “By Flesh and Toil: How Sex, Race, and Labor Shaped the Early French …