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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.
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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.
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On Tuesday, Dr. Tessa Hill spoke to a crowd of Bowdoin and Brunswick community members in Kresge Auditorium about changing oceans due to climate change. The talk focused on Hill’s recently published book, “At Every Depth: Our Growing Knowledge of …
Early Wednesday evening in Moulton Union, Kristen Block, professor of history at the University of Tennessee, gave a lecture on the convergence of sexuality, disease and healing in colonial Caribbean society. Hosted by the Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies …
Tomatoes: fruit or vegetable? While the classification of tomatoes may be debated, local farmers Christie Anderson and Pat McVeigh dove into the history and heirlooms of the plant, its different varieties and the significance of seed saving in a lecture …
On Thursday night, Senior Lecturer in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Reed Johnson spoke on the importance of the alternative history genre, discussing two novels that examine what the city of St. Petersburg might have looked like if Nazi …
As climate activists begin to navigate the Trump administration’s new federal environmental policies, Bowdoin’s Office of Sustainability hosted a panel discussion on local climate action with Director of the Schiller Coastal Studies Center Holly Parker and Visiting Lecturer in Environmental …
As the Oscars quickly approach, many in the film world are directing their attention to blockbusters like “The Substance” and “The Brutalist.” This week, members of the Bowdoin community got a taste of a very different side of what film …
