On Thursday, Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department Scott Sehon launched his new book “Socialism: A Logical Introduction,” which explores the arguments for and against socialism. In his book, Sehon considers rights-based arguments for socialism, then discusses …
The world’s leading expert on generational differences held a talk in the Visual Arts Center last month, and after leaving the hour-long entertainment special, I was disheartened. Jean Twenge is a renowned psychologist specializing in generations and how they differ. …
Students and faculty piled into Roux Lantern’s long benches on Monday evening to learn about a widely unknown element of the climate crisis: energy poverty. In a talk co-sponsored by the economics department and the environmental studies program, Bowdoin alumna …
On Tuesday evening, students, professors and community members gathered in Kresge Auditorium to hear the 2024 Alfred E. Golz Memorial Lecture delivered by Professor Scott Ellsworth of the University of Michigan, titled “Hidden Histories: The Tulsa Race Massacre and the …
This past Wednesday, Professor Kristina Richardson, a Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar and faculty member at the University of Virginia, delivered a talk examining the Indian-Ocean slave trade that began in the seventh century.
From undersea internet cable to international AI policy to Russian cyberattacks, U.S. Ambassador at Large for Cyberspace and Digital Policy Nathaniel C. Fick handles it all. At the annual Everett P. Pope lecture on Tuesday in Kresge Auditorium, Fick shared …
On Monday night, Jean Twenge, professor of psychology at San Diego State University, delivered a talk in Kresge Auditorium about the changes in psychological perspectives in different generational groups today.
Twenge’s research seeks answers to the changes in social and …
On Monday night, Paul Jaskot, professor of art history and German studies at Duke University, delivered the College’s annual Holocaust Education Lecture in Kresge Auditorium. Titled “Architecture and the Holocaust,” Jaskot’s lecture explored the often unseen role architecture played in …
Professor of Philosophy Scott Sehon was asked a challenging question by his grandmother upon returning home to Kansas after his first semester of college: “What is philosophy?” He was asked the same question this year by incoming students at the …
On a rainy Wednesday night, students, staff and faculty joined Brunswick community members in Kresge Auditorium for a political conversation between two men of opposing opinions. David French, a columnist at the New York Times and former senior writer at …