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Editor’s Note, Saturday, March 28 at 8:02 a.m.: A previous version of this article incorrectly stated that the Mitchell Institute announced a name change. The Mitchell Institute instead wrote that they planned to initiate a process to consider a potential …
“While Bowdoin enjoys national recognition as a top liberal arts college, the workers who sustain its day-to-day operations struggle to make their voices heard,” an anonymous library employee wrote in the Winter 2024 issue of The Bowdoin Orient Magazine.
It’s …
When visitors walk into Bowdoin’s Hawthorne-Longfellow library, they are greeted by a shelf housing the Student Voices Collection, an annual opportunity for a student to curate an exhibition on identity.
This year’s show, curated by Kanene Nwokeji ’26, marks the …
An exhibit party took place on October 7 to celebrate the work of the spring 2025 cohort of the Black Biography course. The class, taught by Professor of Africana Studies and English Tess Chakkalakal, introduced students to the genre of …
Last Friday, community members gathered on the second floor of the Hawthorne-Longfellow Library to celebrate the opening of the fall 2025 exhibit, “From Club to Cause: Student Groups and the Politics of Voice at Bowdoin.”
The exhibit, a compilation of …
After closing its spring 2025 exhibition “Before They Were Famous: The Student Days of the Class of 1825,” Hawthorne-Longfellow Library has transformed the show in digital form through a collaboration with Information Technology.
Through the Omeka-S publishing platform, online visitors …
Last Friday afternoon, over 50 bird enthusiasts flocked to the monthly Audubon Page-Turning. Hosted by the George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections and Archives since January 2016, the event draws a wide array of individuals across the Bowdoin and …
Yesterday afternoon, Associate Professor of Economics Daniel Stone presented his new book titled “Undue Hate: A Behavioral Economic Analysis of Hostile Polarization in US Politics and Beyond.”
Stone identifies affective polarization as a specific type of polarization plaguing the United …
Yesterday afternoon in Moulton Union, The Association of Bowdoin Friends organized its first talk of the new year as part of its ongoing lecture series connecting Bowdoin to the Brunswick community:“What’s So Special About Special Collections?” The talk was led …
Hawthorne-Longfellow Library (H-L) presented its 2023 BIPOC Book Collection display last Friday, October 13. Display curator Hannah Kim ’24 presented the collection while Humanities and Media Librarian Carmen Greenlee moderated a Q&A session following the presentation.
This year’s collection, entitled …
