Calendar of Events

Calendar of Events

2003-2004 Calendar

Women on Water: A Celebration of Women's Relationships to the Maine Coast

An event cosponsored by the Women's Studies Program and the Coastal Studies Center.

Funded by the Rusack Symposium Fund

Bowdoin College's unique location on the Maine coast provides us with a range of opportunities to examine, experience, and celebrate. This series will engage in something both academic and celebratory, as we explore some of the ways in which women, as workers and as artists/activists, relate to the Maine coast.

Spring events:

Women Artists Explore and Transform the Maine Coast. April 7, 2004 in Lancaster Lounge, Moulton Union

Speakers will include:

Connie Hayes, a landscape artist who teaches at the Maine College of Art. You can see her work at the Greenhut Gallery web page, www.greenhutgalleries.com

Architect, Carol Wilson. You can view some of her work at www.carolwilsonarchitect.com

Artist, Aviva Rahmani from Vinalhaven


The Sea(side) and its Genealogies, a CSC Seminar Series

An event cosponsored by Professor Pamela Ballinger, Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Coastal Studies Center.

Funded by the Rusack Symposium Fund

The sea and its shores are often envisioned as existing outside of culture and history, as the limit case of "wild nature". This symposium challenges this common-sense notion by bringing together scholars who offer "histories" of the sea by discussing different ways in which the oceans and its margins have been imagined and conceptualized.

Speakers will include:

Lena Lencek, Associate Professor of Russian Studies, Reed College, Thursday, April 1 at 7pm in Druckenmiller Room 20

"The Imaginary Beach: The Shifting Space of Utopia"

Christine Walley, Associate Professor of Anthropology, MIT, Wednesday, April 7 at 7:00 pm in Druckenmiller Room 20

"Rethinking the Global: The Politics of Marine Conservation within Tanzania's Mafia Island Marine Park"

James Acheson, Professor of Anthropology and Marine Sciences Program, University of Maine, Orono, Wednesday, April 14 at 7:00 pm in the ES Common Room of Adams Hall

"Games, Fights and the Development of Lobster Conservation Law"

Stefan Helmreich, Associate Professor of Anthropology, MIT, Monday, April 19 at 7pm in Druckenmiller Room 20.

"Alien Algae: Colonialism, Culture and Classification in Hawaii"


Environmental Studies Public Lecture

Joseph E. Taylor III, Canada Research Chair in History and Geography at Simon Fraser University will be speaking on Thursday, April 29, 2004, in Searles 315 at 4:00pm. The title of his talk is: Having Our Salmon: Advocacy, Academia, and Consumption. It will use salmon as a way to illustrate the historical pressures of consumption through time, and the tensions that arise between consumption, environmental advocacy, and environmental scholarship.

His first book, Making Salmon: An Environmental History of the Northwest Fisheries Crisis (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999), won the George Perkins Marsh Prize for best book in environmental history. Mr. Taylor has ten years experience as a commercial fisherman in Oregon and Alaska. He is currently writing a history of the sport of rock climbing and conducting research on the environmental history of the northeast Pacific fisheries.


Coastal Studies Public Lecture

CSC Scholar-in-Residence, Marney Pratt, will be giving a talk on May 3, 2004 in Searles 315 at 7:00pm entitled: "Are Invasive Species 'Biologically Superior'? A Case Study in the Gulf of Maine."

There is some suggestion that invasive species 'biologically superior' in that on average they are superior competitors, have better defensive mechanisms, and have higher reproductive output than native species. Marney will discuss this idea in the context of her research exploring an invasive colonial marine invertebrate, Membranipora membranacea, in the Gulf of Maine.


Fall 2003 event: Women's Work and the Maine Coast. held on September 30, 2003 featured a slide presentation by Britta Lena Lasko ('99) and panel discusion including Connie Chiang (moderator), Jennifer Elderkin-Wickline (Lobstermen from Southport Island), Lee Hudson (Owner Frenchmen's Bay Fisheries) and Allyson Jordan (Manager of Jordan Marine and fishing vessel repair).