As part of the Association of Bowdoin Friends’ community lecture series, Keisha Payson, the director of sustainability, discussed the College’s plan to decarbonize by 2042 in Moulton Main Lounge yesterday. She spoke on what the College has alreadyachieved and …
On Thursday evening, Dr. Ruha Benjamin, professor of African American studies at Princeton University, delved into the dangers behind technological innovation with the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) in Mills Hall. Benjamin explored the problems with using technology that deepens …
Psychotherapist Satya Doyle Byock discussed her book “Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood” and its framework for understanding the psychology of young adults with students on Wednesday October 4 in the Shannon Room.
Last Tuesday, the College hosted associate professor of history and environment and society at Brown University Bathsheba Demuth to give a talk entitled “The Reindeer at the End of the World: Apocalypse, Climate and Soviet Dreams.” The lecture, sponsored by …
On Monday, Emily Austin, professor of philosophy at Wake Forest University, explored in her lecture titled “How much social justice do we really need?” how happiness can exist in a world where social injustice runs rampant.
On Thursday night, the College hosted Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis Heather Berg to give a talk entitled “Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism.” The lecture, which was held on …
The Department of Economics hosted Dr. Richard Silkman, a nationally recognized expert in the regulation of public utilities, to discuss the arguments for and against the proposed creation of the Pine Tree Power Company in Hubbard Hall last night.
“First, let me thank you for warning me we’re being taped, and we know where the machine and recording is,” Former White House Counsel to President Richard Nixon John Dean said.
Dean and Nixon historian Timothy Naftali discussed the Watergate …
On Monday afternoon, Alexa McCarthy ’09 returned to Bowdoin to speak about her research on handmade blue paper in the Baroque period in a talk sponsored by the Department of Art History and the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA). …