Calendar of Events
Fall 2009
Tuesday September 15th, 2009
"Hurricane Season"
A theatrical performance incorporating spoken word, video, shadow art, and a sound collage that touches on a wide range of issues related to Hurricane Katrina.
Attendees are encouraged to donate money at the door, all of which will go to community-based rebuilding efforts in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.
Kresge Theater, 7:00 pm sharp (doors open at 6:00)
Sponsored by the Africana Studies Program, the Environmental Studies Program, the Department of Theater and Dance, the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and the McKeen Center for the Common Good
Friday September, 18th
Majors and Minors "Meet and Greet"
The Program has much to share with you this year:
- New faculty members - Associate Professor Judith Casselberry, Pre-Dissertation Fellow Jessica Johnson, and Research Associate Lacey Gale.
- New developments and enhancements designed to enrich your educational experience
Russwurm House, 2nd Floor. 3:30 - 5:00 pm
Thursday, October 1st
Michael Drout
The Prentice Professor of English at Wheaton College (Mass.) will speak on Fantastic Language: Tolkien and Philology
VAC - Kresge Auditorium, 7:30 pm
Sponsored by the Annie Talbot Cole Lectureship Fund, Africana Studies and the Departments of English and Romance Languages
Monday, October 5th
A public performance by Regie Gibson
Poet, songwriter, author, workshop facilitator, and educator, Regie Gibson has performed, taught, and lectured at schools, universities, theaters and various other venues on two continents and in seven countries; most recently in Havana, Cuba. Regie and his work appear in the New Line Cinema film Love Jones, based largely on events in his life. The poem entitled "Brother to the Night (A Blues for Nina)" appears on the movie soundtrack and is performed by the film's star, Larenz Tate. Regie performed "Hey Nappyhead" in the film with world-renowned percussionist and composer Kahil El Zabar, composer of the score for the musical The Lion King.
He will perform with his Group - the Neon JuJu.
Studzinski Hall, 8 pm
Sponsored by the Classics Department and Africana Studies
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
Herman Lebovics
SUNY Stonybrook Trustees Distinguished Professor of History, lectures on Two Paths Toward Postcoloniality: The American Indian Museum in Washington and the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris.
Adams Hall 312, 1:30 - 3:00 pm
Sponsored by Africana Studies and Romance Languages (French)
Wednesday, October 28th
Glenn Hendler
The Associate Professor of English at Fordham University is the author of Public Sentiments: Structures of Feeling in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (North Carolina, 2001), and is co-editor of Sentimental Men: Masculinity and the Politics of Affect in American Culture (California, 1999), Walt Whitman's temperance novel Franklin Evans; or, The Inebriate (Duke University Press) and Keywords for American Cultural Studies (NYU Press). He is currently working on a book exploring the representation of emotion and collective public violence to be called Riot Acts: Writing Public Violence in Nineteenth-Century America. His talk is titled Writing Public Violence: The 1863 New York City Draft Riots.
Russwurm House, 4:30 pm
Sponsored by Africana Studies, English and History
Thursday, October 29th
Dr. Eleanor King
The Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Howard University visits Bowdoin to give a lecture titled The Archaeology of Conflict: Apaches, Buffalo Soldiers, and the Battle over the Southwestern Frontier. Her research has focused on both the Maya in Belize and the interactions between Buffalo Soldiers and Apaches in the American Southwest. A University of Pennsylvania Ph.D., she now teaches anthropology at Howard University. In Belize she works with Dr. Leslie Shaw, and together they have run numerous field schools pairing Howard with Bowdoin students. In the Southwest, she works with archaeologists from the National Park Service, the National Forest Service, and Indiana University of Pennsylvania to train students in archaeology. Her interests lie in documenting the undocumented—the people not well represented in the history books, whether these be Maya commoners, Apache warriors, or African-American soldiers. She is also interested in public outreach and archaeology education and serves as a member of the Public Education Committee of the Society for American Archaeology.
Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center, 7:00 pm
Wednesday, November 4th
Africana Studies and Environmental Studies Programs' Seminar with Professor James McCann
The Professor of History and Director, ad interim, of the African Studies Center at Boston University, is the author of Maize and Grace: Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop (2005); Green Land, Brown Land, Black Land: An Environmental History of Africa (1999); People of the Plow: An Agricultural History of Ethiopia (1995); From Poverty to Famine in Northeast Ethiopia: A Rural History (1987). His book Maize and Grace won the 2006 George Perkins Marsh Prize as the best book in environmental history for 2005 from the American Society for Environmental History. His current book project is Stirring the Pot: A History of African Cuisine.
The title of his seminar is Taytu's Feast: Cuisine and National Identity in Ethiopia, 1887.
Environmental Studies Common Room, Adams Hall, 4:00 pm
Sponsored by the Africana Studies and Environmental Studies Programs
Thursday, November 5th
Faculty Seminar - Professor Scott MacEachern
The professor of Anthropology leads a seminar on Genetics and African Archeology
Adams Hall 312, 4:00 - 6:00 pm
40th Anniversary of the Africana Studies Program and the African-American Society
Friday, November 6th
Welcome Reception
Russwurm House, 7:00 pm
African-American Society House Party
Russwurm House, 10:00 pm
Saturday, November 7th
"The Bowdoin Experience" Alumni Panel
Hubbard Hall 2 West, 10:00 - 12:00 pm
Ben Vinson, III
The Professor of Latin American History, and Director of the Center for Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University will deliver the keynote address titled Blackness Beyond Borders: Reflections on the Shared History of Race in Mexico and the United States.
Searles 315, 1:30 pm
Exhibition Tour of
"From Process to Print: Graphic Works by Romare Bearden"
Focusing on the later period of his career, From Process to Print explores Romare Bearden's graphic oeuvre from the 1960s though the early 1980s. This nationally traveling exhibition focuses on the artist's innovative printmaking techniques and sheds new light on his sources of inspiration and process.
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 2:30 pm
Monday, November 16th
Dr. Rachel Beauvoir-Dominique
The anthropologist and professor at Université d'Etat d'Haiti will give a lecture on Haitian vaudou titled Haitian Vodou World View and the New Global Order.
Lancaster Lounge, 6:00 pm
Sponsored by Africana Studies and Romance Languages (French)
Monday, November 16, 2009
4:30 pm, VAC-Beam Classroom
Reception to follow
Open to the public
"Beautiful Boys, Sodomy, Hammams, and other Tropes"
Joseph A. Boone is Professor of English, Gender Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California and is currently a research fellow at the National Humanities Center in Durham, NC. He is the author of four books, including Queer Frontiers: Millennial Geographies, Genders, Go West and Generations, Libidinal Currents: Sexuality and the Shaping of Modernism, and Engendering Men: The Question of Male Feminist Criticism. Professor Boone is currently researching representations of Homosexuality in the Middle East.
Tuesday November 17th at 4 pm Professor Boone is conducting a seminar, but this is not open to the public.
Sponsored by Lectures and Concerts, Art Museum/Art History, the English Department, Gay and Lesbian Studies, and Africana Studies
Friday, November 20th
Reverend Irene Monroe
Rev. Irene Monroe is the Coordinator of the African American Roundtable of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry (CLGS) at the Pacific School of Religion, a Huffington Post blogger, and a syndicated religion columnist. A native of Brooklyn, Rev. Monroe graduated from Wellesley College and Union Theological Seminary at Columbia University, and served as pastor at an African-American church before coming to Harvard Divinity School for her doctorate as a Ford Fellow. As a syndicated queer religion columinist, Monroe's columns appear across the country and in the U.K. She will be on campus to present a lecture titled Proud of My Whole Self: The Intersection of Race and Sexuality for LGBQT.
Cram Alumni House, 5:30 pm
Sponsored by Africana Studies, Bowdoin Queer Straight Alliance, Gay & Lesbian Studies, Latin American Studies, Office of Special Academic Programs, Psychology Department, Gender and Women's Studies, Religion Department, and The Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity
Friday, December 4th
Monica Miller
Monica Miller is an Assistant Professor of English at Barnard College. She specializes in African-American and American literature and cultural studies. Her research interests include twentieth- and -twenty-first-century African-American literature, film, and contemporary art; contemporary literature and cultural studies of the black diaspora (especially black Britain); performance studies; and intersectional studies of race, gender, and sexuality. She will present her talk titled Dorian Gray in Black and White: Yinka Shonibare's Wildean Wit.
Searles 315, 4:30 pm
Sponsored by Africana Studies, English, and Gay and Lesbian Studies
Friday, December 4th
Jennifer Crosby
Jennifer Crosby is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Williams College. She will give a talk titled “Stumbling Over Good Intentions: Unexpected Consequences in Interracial Interactions".
Druckenmiller 016, 4:15 pm
Sponsored by the Psychology Department and Africana Studies
Friday April 9, 2010
Establishing the Past: Problems in 19th Century African American Literary Studies
A One-Day Symposium at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine
Nixon Lounge - 3rd floor of Hawthorne-Longfellow Library
Speakers include:
John Ernest, the Eberly Family Distinguished Professor of American Literature at West Virginia University, M. Giulia Fabi, associate professor of American literature at the University of Ferrara, Italy, John Gruesser, Professor of English at Kean University, Hanna Wallinger is an associate professor of American Studies at the University of Salzburg, Austria and Ken Warren is Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Department of English at the University of Chicago.
Sponsored by Africana Studies, Academic Affairs, and the Hawthorne-Longfellow Library
This event is free and open to the public