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Selected Paintings by Barbara Cooney June 5-28, June 30-Sept. 13
The Bowdoin College Museum of Art is celebrating influential author and artist Barbara Cooney with a sweeping two-part exhibition, Selected Paintings by Barbara Cooney. It opens with an intimate show of the complete illustrations of Cooney's Miss Rumphius, on view from June 5 to June 28, 2009. This will be followed by a comprehensive survey of paintings from four of her most distinguished books, on display June 30–September 13, 2009.
Symposium Celebrates Campus-Community Partnerships for the Common Good May 7
Each semester hundreds of Bowdoin students enhance their learning through community engagement that connects them to the issues important to members of the greater Brunswick community. A symposium to highlight that involvement will be held Thursday, May 7, 2009, from 1:30 to 3 p.m. in the Morrell Room of Curtis Memorial Library in Brunswick.
RoboCup U.S. Open Championship May 2-3
Bowdoin is set to host the 2009 RoboCup U.S. Open for the Standard Platform League May 2-3. Events will be held in the new Sidney J. Watson Arena. This year the International RoboCup Committee has switched from robot dogs to a humanoind model.
Redefining the Common Good After Communism May 1
How does a society define the "common good"? This question resonates powerfully for citizens of post-communist states who have experienced social, economic and political upheaval since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
Chamber Choir to Present 'Dido and Aeneas' Apr. 25-26
The opera, originally scored for a small group of women in at a boarding school, will be performed by a small ensemble cast of 20 voices and chamber orchestra in a concertized fashion.
Iraqi Poet Dunya Mikhail Conveys War Stories in Verse Apr. 30
War is a recurring theme for poet Dunya Mikhail, an Iraqi exile who fled her country after being placed on Saddam Hussein's enemies list.
Spring Dance Show 'Openings' Apr. 23-25
Openings is an exploration and disruption of the traditional proscenium theater space—a meditation on the visual frame—and an invitation for audience to experience both the space and the dance in new ways.
Japanese Lute Master Yoko Hiraoka Apr. 22
The Biwa is an ancient lute-like string instrument from Japan that has been used for centuries to recount stories from medieval times with themes of love, hardship, epic battles and the evanescence of life.
Music Historian Michael Lasser Looks at Love Songs from the Depression and WWII Apr. 21
In a lecture titled "All The Old Familiar Places"-Love Songs of Depression and War, Lasser will explain how America met the emotional challenges of these two crises with music and lyrics that can be stoic, humorous, or wistfully romantic.
Major Exhibition 'New York Cool' Revisits NYC's Downtown Art Scene in the '50s and '60s
Drawn entirely from the New York University Art Collection, the show features more than 80 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints, including significant works by artists such as Willem de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Alex Katz, and Robert Rauschenberg.
Former Poet Laureate Mark Strand to Read, Lecture Apr. 15-16
Strand is the author of the recent New Selected Poems (2007) and Man and Camel (2006). His collection Blizzard of One won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1999.
Classicist Mary Lefkowitz to Give Lectures Apr. 14-15
Lefkkowitz will give the lectures "Greek Mythology and Theology" and "The Female Body in Ancient Greece."
Math Lectures Look at Raindrops and Liquid Layers Apr. 13-14
Bernoff will give the talks "An Introduction to Surface Tension (Or Why Raindrops are Spherical)" and "Langmuir Layers: Exploring a (Nearly) Two-dimensional Fluid Experiment."
Majora Carter to Speak at April 10 Common Hour
Carter's talk, "Green Jobs and the Green Economy," is sponsored by the President's Climate Commitment Advisory Committee and is part of Climate Days 2009.
America's First Arctic Celebrity Explored in Apr. 13 Lecture
In his talk, titled "Elisha Kent Kane: America's First Arctic Explorer and Celebrity," Michael Robinson will examine how Kane's expeditions, despite their lack of success, fired up the American imagination and fueled the enterprise of Arctic exploration for decades to come.
African American Literature Scholar Daylanne English Apr. 13
English's lecture is titled "Ticking, Not Talking: Timekeeping in Early African American Literature."
Student-Led Relay for Life Apr. 17-18 to Raise Funds for ACS
Relay for Life raises money for the American Cancer Society and honors those who have battled cancer. Annually more than 400 Bowdoin students participate.
Wabanaki Arts Festival April 11
The festival will bring to campus 25 Wabanaki crafters and artisans, a drum group, a traditional Penobscot singer, and a storyteller.
Prof. William Barker to Deliver Wing Inaugural Lecture Apr. 7
Barker's talk, titled "Twist, Flip, Glide Movement, Symmetry, and the Meaning of Geometry," will will describe the transformational approach to geometry that is the heart of his book Continuous Symmetry.
Apr. 4 Arctic Symposium Looks at Peary's North Pole Expedition
On Saturday, April 4, 2009, the public is invited to attend a special symposium at Bowdoin College that will take a close look at Robert Peary's North Pole expedition of 1908-1909. "Peary's Quest for the Pole: A Symposium in Celebration...
"Coastal Spectrum" Exhibition by Maine Artist Hati Modr
Modr's paintings are inspired, she says, by "the slant of later afternoon sun over a marsh in Freeport...the roof shapes of Bibber's wharf like a Chinese screen...a sudden shadow falling over the land near Monhegan Light
Exhibition "Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals" on View through Apr. 26
An opening reception will be held April 3. A book signing with Ernie Weiss, author of Out of Vienna, will be held April 16.
Perusing the History of Reading from Ancient Greece to the Digital Age Apr. 6
James O'Donnell is a pioneer in the application of new technologies to humanities research, and co-founded the Bryn Mawr Classical Review and helped develop the Perseus Project.
Amb. Christopher Hill to Speak to Students, Faculty, Staff Apr. 2
On February 27 at Camp LeJeune, North Carolina, President Barack Obama announced that he was nominating Christopher R. Hill to be the next U.S. ambassador to Iraq.
Eastman House Curator to Lecture on Bowdoin Exhibition Mar. 31
Alison Nordström will give a talk titled "Ideas in Things: The Changing Vocabularies of Photographic Process" in conjunction with the exhibition The Image Wrought: Historical Photographic Approaches in the Digital Age.