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Spring 2007

Common Hour is now accepting Nominations for the 2007-2008 year.
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Below is the Spring 2007 Common Hour Schedule. Speakers will be announced later in the semester so check back for updates! Common Hour begins at 12:30 p.m. and concludes at 1:30 p.m.

  • Friday, January 26
  • Friday, February 9
  • Friday, February 23
  • Friday, March 30
  • Friday, April 13
  • Friday, April 27

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.

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