Mountaineering Film at Bowdoin Addresses Race and the Outdoors
With a team of nine climbers, Briscoe and Moore were part of the first African American team to summit North America’s highest peak, Denali, in Alaska. Not only does their documentary depict an exciting adventure, it also addresses an important issue: the lack of diversity in the outdoors.
The Heart Hath Its Own Memory: Longfellow Days 2018 to Include Bowdoin’s Welsch
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s interest in nostalgia is the focus of the upcoming Longfellow Days in Brunswick—a series of events held annually to honor the life and work of the celebrated poet, a Bowdoin graduate of 1825,
Beyond the Postcard: Sights from the “Peripheral” Caribbean
Featuring guest speakers from Mexico, Colombia and the US, this series of presentations will address topics relevant to faculty and students interested in Latin American and US-Latin@s (from Mayan and Afro Mexican communities to Chican@s), Africana Studies (from Equatoguinean to AfroLatinx authors), Postcolonial Studies, Music and Popular Culture, as well as global literature.
Arctic Museum Celebrates Black History Month with Matthew Henson Button
In honor of Black History Month, the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum is featuring Matthew A. Henson, the famous African American Arctic explorer, on its February button of the month.
Sakura Christmas Wins NEH Fellowship to Research on Role of Imperial Japan in 1930s China
Assistant Professor of History and Asian Studies Sakura Christmas has won a $50,000 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities to work on a book project about the role Japanese administrators played in shaping modern day China.
One of a Kind: What May Be Unique about President Trump’s SOTU Address
President Trump’s State of the Union address may be unique “in hastening the obsolescence of the State of the Union itself,” writes government professor Andrew Rudalevige in the political science blog Monkey Cage.
Black History Month Features Mountaineers, Poets, Scholars, Artists
Every year, Bowdoin offers a full slate of programming to celebrate Black History Month. The month kicks off this Thursday, Feb. 1, with a film screening and discussion about the first African American expedition, in 2014, to climb North America’s highest peak.
An Art-, Music-, and Student-filled ‘Night at the Museum’
To kick of the start of the new semester, the Student Activities office on Friday evening invited the entire student body to its Student Night at the Museum event.