Students, faculty and community members came together on Wednesday night in Kresge Auditorium to celebrate the unapologetic fearlessness of Jewish women in the Holocaust through a discussion of Judy Batalion’s newest book, “The Light of Days: The Untold Story of …
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 …
On Wednesday, Leland Harper, professor of philosophy at Siena Heights University, and Jennifer Kling, professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, discussed the impact of word choice in discourse on race, which they write about in their …
On Tuesday night, Hani Almadhoun, director of philanthropy at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) USA, spoke at Kresge Auditorium about the logistics of sending humanitarian aid to Gaza as Israel’s offensive on the Gaza strip continues. Almadhoun …
On Monday night, economist Frederic S. Mishkin delivered this spring’s Kenneth V. Santagata Memorial Lecture in Kresge Auditorium, titled, “A Day At the Fed.” Mishkin, a professor at Columbia University, discussed his experience as a governor on the Federal Reserve …
Last night, the Asian Studies Program hosted Tristan Brown, professor of history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to present on his new book, “Laws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China.”
Last Saturday, in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s visit to Bowdoin, Tennessee state Representative Justin J. Pearson ’17 took the stage in a sold-out Kresge auditorium to speak to King’s legacy, U.S. politics …
Physician, scholar and activist Dr. Vanessa Northington Gamble visited Bowdoin on Tuesday to discuss health inequality for Black Americans, her work as a pioneer in the medical field, health inequality for Black Americans and the life of one of her …
On Wednesday night, the Bowdoin Labor Alliance (BLA) hosted Scott Adams, the president of the Maine American Postal Workers Union, who discussed his role in the organization and the importance of unionization. BLA brought Adams to campus in hopes of …
Bowdoin Hillel and the Department of Government and Legal Studies collaborated to bring lecturer in Jewish Studies and director of Jewish Student Life at Colby College Lauren Cohen Fisher to Kresge Auditorium on Tuesday evening. Fisher illuminated historical events occurring …