Sarah McMahon presents: Thorn the Murderer
February 6,
201312:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Moulton Union, Main Lounge
Durba Mitra presents: Testing Chastity, Evidencing Rape: Medical Evidence, Women's Rights, and Law in India
February 12,
201312:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Moulton Union, Main Lounge
The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food
March 29,
201312:30 PM – 1:30 PM
Visual Arts Center, Kresge Auditorium
Brian Purnell presents: Economic Development in Brooklyn, New York's "Ghetto:" 1968-1985
April 2,
201312:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Moulton Union, Main Lounge
Bowdoin and the Civil War at 150
April 3,
20134:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Searles Science Building, Room 315
In commemoration of the sesquicentennial anniversary of the war, two Bowdoin history alumni whose research expertise unites College history and the Civil War will return to the College to participate in a symposium exploring the relationship between the war and Bowdoin.
Amanda Vickery: History Through the Keyhole
April 17,
20137:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Visual Arts Center, Kresge Auditorium
"Amanda Vickery is Professor of Early Modern History at Queen Mary, University of London. Her talk, History through the Key Hole, reflects on the material culture of Georgian homes as it relates to the social and cultural history of eighteenth-century England.
Lecture - O.O. Howard and African American Mutual Aid During Reconstruction
April 25,
20136:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Hawthorne Longfellow Hall, Nixon Lounge
Gretchen Long, Associate Professor of History at Williams College, will discuss exchanges between African Americans and O.O. Howard, Bowdoin class of 1850 and Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau.