On Tuesday and Wednesday, Democratic primary candidates for the U.S. Senate in Maine Janet Mills and Graham Platner respectively spoke at town halls organized by the Bowdoin Democrats. To audiences of students, faculty, staff and community members, Mills, the current …
On Wednesday evening, professor of physics and astronomy at West Virginia University Maura McLaughlin delivered a talk titled, “Timing the Cosmos: Pulsars, Gravitational Waves and Monster Black Holes,” in Kresge Auditorium as part of the Kibbe Science Lecture series. McLaughlin …
On Thursday afternoon, students, faculty and community members gathered in Kresge Auditorium to hear a conversation between Jonah Goldberg and Tyler Austin Harper. The talk, titled “The End of Conservatism?”, is the latest event in the Viewpoint Exchange speaker series. …
On Tuesday, Associate Professor of History Salar Mohandesi delivered a lecture entitled “The Israeli-U.S. War on Iran: A Longer History.” Before a packed room in Searles Hall, Mohandesi offered a historical perspective on the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, …
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 …