On Tuesday, Russian journalist and LGBTQ+ activist Elena Kostyuchenko visited campus to read a segment of her book, “I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country,” and talked about finding the balance between journalism and activism and her experience with …
On Wednesday, Stanley Druckenmiller ’75 made an appearance in Druckenmiller Hall over Zoom. He was the chief donor to the hall named after his grandfather, Stanley F. Druckenmiller. After his time at Bowdoin, Druckenmiller served as a hedge fund manager …
On Tuesday, Professor of Social Studies Charles Dorn spoke about the purposes and outcomes of public education in the U.S. as the inaugural lecture for the Barry N. Wish endowed chair, which Dorn received in 2022. President Safa Zaki introduced …
Last Wednesday in the Roux Lantern, Pilar Pérez, a professor of history at the National University of Río Negro in Argentina, spoke on the recent reexamination of the 19th-century Argentine genocide of the Indigenous Mapuche people.
On Wednesday, Kim Brandt, a research scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, spoke about her research as she writes a book focused on post-World War II U.S.-Japanese relations. Brandt is also the academic director for the Master of Arts …
The Asian Studies program hosted a panel titled “Asian Americans and Affirmative Action” in Kresge Auditorium on Wednesday. The panel welcomed OiYan Poon, the co-director of the College Admissions Futures Co-Laborative, and Natasha Warikoo, professor in the humanities and social …
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 …