Calendar of Events 2007-2008
Sound Sculpture: A Retrospective of My Work
CSC Artist in Residence, Trimpin
Monday, April 14 7:30 pm
Sills Hall, Smith Auditorium
Wabanaki Festival of the Arts
Saturday, April 12 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Smith Union
Wabanaki artists and craftspeople will be selling baskets, beadwork, music, crafts, with educational resource materials from all over Maine. Hand-carved Native flutes, dolls, jewelry, and other crafts from Micmac, Maliseet, Penobscot and Passamaquoddy artists, writers and musicians will also be featured. Two native drum groups will be performing traditional Wabanaki songs featuring the Sukulis and the Burnurwurbskek singers. John Bear Mitchell will delight kids of all ages with native storytelling in Lamarche Gallery on the second floor of the Union. This event is free and open to the public.
For more information, please click here.
Local Histories, Public Art, and the Creative Process
CSC Artist-in-Residence, Anna Schuleit
Wednesday, February 27 7:30 pm
Beam Classroom
A Stranger in a Strange Land
Wednesday, Nov. 14 7:00 pm
Schwartz Outdoor Leadership Center
39 Harpswell Rd, Brunswick
Peter Mackelworth is the Coastal Studies Center Scholar for the fall semester. He has a background in biology, but has been undertaking research into the social aspects of marine conservation in Croatia over the last decade. He recently finished his PhD in the Department of Geography at University College London and has been working in a Croatian NGO 'Blue World' (www.blue-world.org) as conservation director since 2001.
This talk will explore the boundaries of activism and academia using Peter's personal experiences to look at the development of the politics of biological conversation. Having worked as an activist in the development of the first marine protected area in the Adriatic Sea, the offer to come to the Coastal Studies Program provided the opportunity of a respite from the continuing politicization of conservation in Croatia. While at Bowdoin, however, it has become evident to Peter that the politicization of conservation is a global phenomenon. Where does that leave the activist and the academic? Is it time that environmentalists, both activists and academics, become politicians? It is important that environmentalists embrace the fact that conservation is political, and that politics is not a ‘dirty’ word. We should recognize that we all have a role to play in the development of the ultimate ‘common good’, the environment. The aim of this talk is to stimulate debate in varied disciplines recognizing that biological conservation is not just the responsibility of biologists.
Marine Lab Open House
Saturday, November 17 2-4 pm
240 Bayview Rd
Orr's Island
The community is invited to tour the lab, meet faculty and students, and enjoy an afternoon at the Coastal Studies Center.
For more information, call 725-3396.
CSC Poster Symposium
September 12, 2-5 pm
Morrell Lounge
Come see students present their research from the CSC this past summer!
Featuring Student Projects in…
- Visual Arts
- History
- Environmental Studies, Biology, Neuroscience, and Chemistry