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Last Wednesday, Clinton Castro, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Information School and Department of Philosophy, discussed the technological present and used Kantian philosophy to argue that there is a need to protect others, primarily children, from the threat …
On Wednesday night, Professor of Biology and Neuroscience Hadley Horch took the stage in Kresge Auditorium to deliver her inaugural lecture as the endowed Norma L. and Roland G. Ware Jr. Professor. In the lecture, “Branching Out: The Molecular Gardeners …
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 …
