Common Hour is held on select Fridays from 12:30-1:30 p.m., during which time no classes or committee meetings are scheduled. Open to Bowdoin students, faculty, and staff. Common Hour statement of purpose.
Friday, January 31
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center
Ingrid Nelson, Assistant Professor of Sociology, came to Bowdoin in 2010. She teaches courses on educational inequality, race and ethnicity, and research methods. Her current research focuses on the ways that families, schools and community-based organizations influence disadvantaged young people as they transition from high school to college. A graduate of Wellesley College, Professor Nelson earned her M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University.
Friday, February 21
Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall
"That One Big Thing"
Benjamin Jealous stepped down from his post as CEO and president of the NAACP in December. The youngest president in the organization’s history, he has been a leader of successful state and local movements to ban the death penalty, outlaw racial profiling, defend voting rights, secure marriage equality, and free multiple wrongfully incarcerated people. A Rhodes Scholar, Jealous is a graduate of Columbia and Oxford universities. He has been named to the “40 under 40” lists of both Forbes and Time magazines, and labeled a Young Global Economic Leader by the World Economic Forum.
Tickets are free but required. Tickets available beginning Monday, February 3, at the David Saul Smith Union Info Desk.
Friday, April 4
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center
Dan Kahan is the Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology at Yale Law School. In addition to risk perception, his areas of research include science communication and the application of decision science to law and policymaking. He is a member of the Cultural Cognition Project, an interdisciplinary team of scholars who use empirical methods to examine the impact of group values on perceptions of risk and related facts. In studies funded by the National Science Foundation, his research has investigated public disagreement over climate change, public reactions to emerging technologies, and conflicting public impressions of scientific consensus.
Friday, April 11
Studzinski Recital Hall
Please join us for a relaxing afternoon of wonderful music performed by students in the Bowdoin Department of Music.
Friday, May 9
Museum of Art Terrace
Museum Pieces, a Bowdoin tradition for more than twenty years, will conclude the 2013-2014 Common Hour series. The annual event celebrates the arrival of spring through dance and music provided by the Department of Theater and Dance, class projects, and independent student work.
Do you have a great idea you'd like to see realized? Did you know that Bowdoin students, faculty, and staff can nominate someone at any time of the year? It's extremely easy and only takes a minute. Nominate a Common Hour speaker now! Your feedback is much appreciated and any nominations you submit help drive the content of the program.
Common Hour
Common Hour aims to provide an occasion for faculty, students, and staff to absent themselves from daily concerns, gather in common spaces, and engage in the ideas of speakers and the presentations of artists, and with each other in discussion of shared interests and concerns. The hour will seek to bring into the public Bowdoin forum the best of what happens in our academic departments, student groups, and the wider world: political commentary; discussion of scientific and technological issues; the work of writers, poets and journalists; philosophical ideas; the visual and performing arts; sports; business; and international affairs.
· All speakers' books available at the Bowdoin Bookstore
· Browse the Common Hour Archives
· Listen to Podcasts of past speakers' talks
Contact Common Hour at CHour@bowdoin.edu
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