Professor of Philosophy Scott Sehon was asked a challenging question by his grandmother upon returning home to Kansas after his first semester of college: “What is philosophy?” He was asked the same question this year by incoming students at the …
On a rainy Wednesday night, students, staff and faculty joined Brunswick community members in Kresge Auditorium for a political conversation between two men of opposing opinions. David French, a columnist at the New York Times and former senior writer at …
On Monday afternoon in Kresge Auditorium, Daniel Ziblatt, professor of the science of government at Harvard University, delivered a lecture as part of the Office of Inclusion and Diversity’s fall speaker series titled, “Tyranny of the Minority? How American Democracy …
On Wednesday afternoon, students, faculty and community members gathered in Kresge Auditorium to hear Rachel Wahl, associate professor at the University of Virginia’s School of Education and Human Development, give a talk on political dialogue and its benefits.
On Thursday, professor of education at the University of Alberta, Wabanaki scholar and activist Rebecca Sockbeson gave a talk to Kresge about the importance of Indigenous knowledge mobilization and anti-racist education. The lecture centered around her research on the erasure …
Last Tuesday, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA) brought Dr. Karen M. Fraser, professor of art history at the University of San Francisco, to discuss the photography of Ogawa Kazumasa. His photos are currently viewable as part of the …
Last Monday, September 30, in the Shannon Room of Hubbard Hall, the Eisenhower Forum hosted Dr. Ryan Berg, director of the Americas Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, who delivered a lecture entitled “Nicolas Maduro and the …
On Thursday, Melissa Febos, author and professor in the nonfiction creative writing program at the University of Iowa, joined a packed room of students, faculty and community members to read two excerpts, including one from her new book, “The Dry …
On Wednesday night, Ruth Behar, professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan, spoke in Kresge Auditorium of her experience navigating her exilic Jewish Latina identity.
Behar began by chronicling the history of her lineage as she described the cultural …
Politically-minded members of the Bowdoin and greater Brunswick community braved dark skies and pouring rain on Thursday afternoon to hear Adam Berinsky, a professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, give a talk in Kresge Auditorium on …