On Tuesday afternoon, students, faculty and community members assembled in Kresge Auditorium to hear writer and podcaster Coleman Hughes’s lecture as a part of the Viewpoint Exchange series. Hughes, who is currently a columnist at The Free Press, was joined …
On Tuesday, Professor of Government Michael Franz delivered his inaugural lecture in Kresge Auditorium as the DeAlva Stanwood Alexander Professor of Government. In the lecture, titled “Choices and Changes: Interest Groups and Their Continued Role in Elections,” Franz discussed the …
On Wednesday evening, students, faculty and community members gathered in Kresge Auditorium to hear from Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Elijah Anderson, professor of sociology and of Black studies at Yale University. Anderson delivered a lecture titled after his book, …
On Wednesday night, students, faculty and community members gathered in Kresge Auditorium to hear Dr. Lori Lefkovitz speak. Lefkovitz, the director of the Jewish studies program at Northeastern University and a professor of English and Jewish studies, delivered a Viewpoint …
On Thursday evening, Jennifer Hochschild, professor of African and African American studies and public policy at Harvard University, presented a lecture titled “Political Responses to New Technologies: Surveillance? Security? or Meh….” Sponsored by the John C. Donovan Lecture Fund, the …
On March 4, The New York Times’ political columnist Jamelle Bouie spoke in Kresge Auditorium as part of the Tom Cassidy Lecture Fund and Viewpoint Exchange speaker series. Bouie, previously a chief political correspondent for Slate Magazine before joining the …
On Tuesday afternoon, members of the College community gathered in Hubbard Hall for a panel and discussion to mark the four-year anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The event was sponsored by the Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies …
On Monday afternoon, Jenik Radon, an adjunct professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University, delivered a talk in Hubbard Hall titled “Sirens Singing of the ‘Riches’ of Deep Sea Mining in the Pacific.” The talk discussed the risks …
On Wednesday afternoon in Hubbard Hall, President of the Maine State Senate Mattie Daughtry (D-Cumberland) spoke to students at an event organized by the McKeen Center for the Common Good. Daughtry, whose senate district includes her hometown of Brunswick, began …
On Saturday, sociologist, professor and MacArthur Fellow Tressie McMillan Cottom delivered Bowdoin’s annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture in Kanbar Auditorium, speaking about the current political environment and events that have already defined 2026. McMillan Cottom is …