Fenno’s Paradox: Our Love-Hate Relationship with Congress — And How the Whole...
Founding Principles Chapter Three: Congress from Bowdoin College on Vimeo. Two weeks from tomorrow Americans will go to the polls to elect not just a new president but also members of the U.S. Senate...
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Video: Students Honored on Sarah and James Bowdoin Day
Sarah and James Bowdoin Day 2016 in Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall. Bowdoin celebrated its highest ranking students at the College’s annual Sarah and James Bowdoin Day. The ceremony was held in Pickard...
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Refugees, Xenophobia, and Modern Germany Are Focus of Bowdoin Embassy Grant
Bowdoin College has been awarded a grant sponsored by the German embassy and funded by that country’s foreign ministry. It supports a program that examines aspects of German politics and culture; this...
View ArticleDo You Know the Three Ways Media Can Matter in American Government?
In the eleven days until the election you will continue to be bombarded with countless images, stories, and advertisements that serve to help us understand, if overwhelmingly, just who the candidates...
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Visiting Artist, Filmmaker Lyès Salem Inspired by French-Algerian Roots
Lyes Salem. Photo: Savannah Simmons-Grover Algerian-born filmmaker and visiting artist in Francophone studies, Lyès Salem, is teaching a seminar class on creative writing and filmmaking in which he...
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Intermediality: A New Approach to Art History
Dana Byrd What happens when an artist, a painter for example, acquires a photograph, then totally reconfigures that photograph in his or her own oil painting? Is it a new object? Is it appropriation?...
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Bowdoin’s Selinger Discusses Race for the White House (Maine Public Radio)
Jeff Selinger What impact might early voting have on the presidential election? What influence are third-party candidates likely to have? How reliable are the opinion polls? One week out from the...
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Author Junot Diaz to Launch Symposium on Plight of Haitians in the Dominican...
Haitian refugees near the Dominican border. Photo: Robin Derby Faculty members are hoping an appearance by celebrated author Junot Díaz will draw attention to a crisis of human suffering in the...
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For Suffrage Week, Prof. Martin Talks to Students About Women in Politics
Janet M. Martin Last week was Women’s Suffrage Week, and tomorrow voters will decide whether to elect the country’s first female president. In light of this, students organized a few events to note the...
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Professor Henry Offers Insight into Russia Today (Maine Public Radio)
Laura Henry Political scientist Laura Henry, an expert on Russia, yesterday spoke on Maine Public Radio about Russia. Henry, who is Bowdoin’s John F. and Dorothy H. Magee Associate Professor of...
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Intermediality: A New Approach to Art History
Dana Byrd What happens when an artist, a painter for example, acquires a photograph, then totally reconfigures that photograph in his or her own oil painting? Is it a new object? Is it appropriation?...
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Bowdoin’s Kitch on William Shakespeare’s Racial Imagination
William Shakespeare The enduring attraction of William Shakespeare, say scholars, is his ability to touch on so many subjects and themes which resonate today: jealousy, ambition, betrayal, revenge, and...
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Bowdoin Historian Questions the ‘Wolves’ the Pilgrims Met
Assistant Professor of History Strother Roberts In the fall of 1620, a pilgrim named John Goodman walked a short ways from Plymouth Colony with his dog, a little Spaniel. On his walk, he encountered...
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Bowdoin’s Klingle on Turning Black Friday Green (Portland Press Herald)
Matthew Klingle While most retail businesses prepare for an avalanche of shoppers on Black Friday, at least one of them is bucking that trend: For the second year running, Seattle-based outdoor...
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Bowdoin’s Cueto Asin Offers Reflections from Fidel Castro’s Ancestral Homeland
Elena Cueto Asin One on Elena Cueto Asin’s areas of interest is the relationship between Spain and Latin America. She’s associate professor of Romance languages and literatures in Bowdoin’s Latin...
View ArticleBowdoin’s Wolfenzon Niego Recalls Living in Castro’s Cuba
[I]n Fidel Castro’s Cuba, the only dream was to escape. Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Carolyn Wolfenzon Niego recalls time spent in Cuba during the reign of Fidel Castro....
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Rudalevige on Trump’s ‘Day One’ Executive Plans (Monkey Cage)
Andrew Rudalevige Andrew Rudalevige, Bowdoin’s Thomas Brackett Reed Professor of Government and regular contributor to the Washington Post political science blog Monkey Cage, discusses inconsistencies...
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Remembering Composer and Robert K. Beckwith Professor of Music Emeritus...
Elliott Schwartz in 2006 Renowned composer Elliott S. Schwartz, Bowdoin’s Robert K. Beckwith Professor of Music Emeritus, died December 7, 2016, after a long battle with cancer and an even longer,...
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Bowdoin’s Selinger on Changing Public Opinion on Social Issues (207)
Click image to view segment (Image: WCSH) Associate Professor Government Jeff Selinger weighs-in on the subject of the changing attitudes of Americans with regard to social issues such as same-sex...
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Elizabeth F. McCormack Named Dean for Academic Affairs
Elizabeth F. McCormack Elizabeth F. McCormack has been named dean for academic affairs at Bowdoin College, effective July 1, 2017. McCormack is currently professor of physics at Bryn Mawr College in...
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