On Wednesday night, the Bowdoin Labor Alliance (BLA) hosted Scott Adams, the president of the Maine American Postal Workers Union, who discussed his role in the organization and the importance of unionization. BLA brought Adams to campus in hopes of …
Bowdoin Hillel and the Department of Government and Legal Studies collaborated to bring lecturer in Jewish Studies and director of Jewish Student Life at Colby College Lauren Cohen Fisher to Kresge Auditorium on Tuesday evening. Fisher illuminated historical events occurring …
On Thursday, Professor of Digital and Computational Studies Eric Chown and Assistant Professor of Digital and Computational Studies Fernando Nascimento discussed their new book, “Meaningful Technologies: How Digital Metaphors Change the Way We Think and Live.” They were joined by …
On Thursday, Associate Professor of Sociology Oyman Basaran spoke to colleagues, community members and students about his new book “Circumcision and Medicine in Modern Turkey,” which delves into the process of male circumcision. The book launch was moderated by Associate …
On Wednesday evening, Professor of History at California State University Mustafah Dhada delivered the Alfred E. Golz Memorial Lecture on the Wiriyamu Massacre and his work to upend Portuguese denial narratives. Dhada opened his talk with words on the practice …
As students, faculty and community members entered the doors of Sills Hall on Monday night, they were asked: “sit-in or talk?” While a lecture from Dr. Michael Rubin discussing the violence occuring in Israel and Palestine took place in Smith …
American historian and author Ronald C. White visited Bowdoin on Wednesday evening to lecture on his recent book, “On Great Fields: Joshua Chamberlain: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain.” White’s book is the first major comprehensive biography …
Rabbi Andy Bachman spoke on Israel and Palestine through the lens of his personal and educational experiences to a crowd of faculty, staff and students on Tuesday evening.
Bachman founded Water Over Rocks and the Center for Midwestern Jewish Communities. …
Last Friday, the College hosted author and associate professor of english and women and gender studies at the University of Delaware Peter X. Feng, who delivered a talk about challenges facing Asian American representation in media. This lecture was part …