Common Hour is now accepting Nominations for the 2006-2007 year.
Nominate a speaker!
Common Hour begins at 12:30 p.m. and end at 1:30 p.m.
Aviva Briefel, Assistant Professor English
Professor Briefel to present the Karofsky Faculty Encore Lecture "What Some Ghosts Don't Know: The Horror Film and Its Secrets." Briefel received her B.A. from Brown University, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. She specializes in Victorian literature and culture, as well as in film—specifically, in the cinematic genres of horror and melodrama.
Location: Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center
Dr. Charles Johnson, Short story writer and Cartoonist
National Book Award winner Charles Johnson is a storyteller who ingeniously braids history, philosophy, and imagination in making post-modern fiction. A philosopher, literary critic, cartoonist, essayist, novelist, short story writer and screenwriter, his books include Middle Passage, Dreamer and Dr. King’s Refrigerator: And Other Bedtime Stories.
Co-sponsored by the African American Society
Location: Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center
Salman Rushdie, Author
Salman Rushdie is one of the most successful, controversial novelists of his generation. Rushdie’s most famous work includes Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses. His most recent novel, Shalimar the Clown, has just been published offering the world another literary masterpiece.
Location: Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall
Tickets required. Tickets will be available at the Smith Union Information Desk beginning February 10th at 3:30 p.m. Limit one ticket per person; Bowdoin ID required.
Dick Pound, The Man Behind the Olympics.
Dick Pound has been one of the most influential members of the powerful International Olympic Committee, and is currently the Chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency. Under Pound's leadership, the IOC has grown into one of the richest sports organizations in the world.
Location: Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center
Jason DeParle, Reporter for The New York Times and Author
Jason DeParle is a senior writer at The New York Times and the author of American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare. A graduate of Duke University, DeParle won a George Polk Award in 1999 for his reporting on the welfare system and was a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
Location: Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center
Student Jazz and Chamber Ensemble Concert
Performed by students in Bowdoin’s Music Department.
Location: Tillotson Room, Gibson Hall
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.
Common Hour will be held approximately every other Friday while classes are in session. Each semester Common Hour will include one Karofsky Faculty Encore Lecture featuring a Bowdoin faculty member chosen by the senior class, and one Common Hour where students from Bowdoin's Music Department will perform chamber music. Common Hour is open to all students, faculty and staff.