http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/events/ en-us sdanfort@bowdoin.edu 2009-11-20T10:03:37-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/events/archives/006876.shtml Choreographic devices, scores, and sources will be exposed through studies, short dances, and improvisations by a choreography class whose members embody a range of dance histories and practice, from hip-hop, to ballet, to modern dance, and beyond. 6876@http://staging.bowdoin.edu/news/events/ 1-Event 2009-11-20T10:03:37-05:00 http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/events/archives/006875.shtml Roderick will give a talk titled "Rising to Meet Obama's Challenge: What the Crisis in Educational Attainment Means for Urban High Schools." 6875@http://staging.bowdoin.edu/news/events/ 1-Event 2009-11-20T09:09:25-05:00 http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/events/archives/006873.shtml This 60-minute documentary by Ann Johnson Prum '84 explores the world of the hummingbird, one of nature's most interesting paradoxes. 6873@http://staging.bowdoin.edu/news/events/ 1-Event 2009-11-20T08:11:00-05:00 http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/events/archives/006868.shtml If someone calls you a birdbrain, you should take it as a compliment. Bird brains are more remarkable than we might think, and we can see examples of birds' abilities in our own backyards. 6868@http://staging.bowdoin.edu/news/events/ 1-Event 2009-11-16T14:58:21-05:00 http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/events/archives/006861.shtml "Pictures at a Musical Exhibition" will be a multimedia presentation featuring compositions that pertain to particular artists and art works/styles, and will include music by Robert Sheldon, Dello Joio, Moussorgsky, Leroy Anderson, and Smetana. 6861@http://staging.bowdoin.edu/news/events/ 1-Event 2009-11-16T12:20:37-05:00 http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/events/archives/006858.shtml Evans Mwangi teaches conservation biology at the University of Nairobi in Kenya, and this semester teaches a course at Bowdoin on biodiversity conservation in Africa. 6858@http://staging.bowdoin.edu/news/events/ 1-Event 2009-11-13T10:53:16-05:00 http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/events/archives/006854.shtml Haitian anthropologist and respected manbo is a specialist on issues pertaining to Haitian vaudou, and will speak on "Haitian Vaudou World View and the New Global Order." 6854@http://staging.bowdoin.edu/news/events/ 1-Event 2009-11-12T14:40:12-05:00 http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/events/archives/006853.shtml The film looks at competing social classes, sports, and ambitious kids from opposite sides of the tracks. The physical conflict takes place on the playing field, but the real story is how two Maine communities (Rumford and Cape Elizabeth) see themselves. 6853@http://staging.bowdoin.edu/news/events/ 1-Event 2009-11-12T13:59:18-05:00 http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/events/archives/006849.shtml 6849@http://staging.bowdoin.edu/news/events/ 1-Event 2009-11-09T13:53:58-05:00 http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/events/archives/006841.shtml Joseph Boone, a leading figure in the field of queer literary theory and professor at the University of Southern California, will give a talk titled "Beautiful Boys, Sodomy, Hammams, and Other Tropes." 6841@http://staging.bowdoin.edu/news/events/ 1-Event 2009-11-09T08:42:21-05:00 http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/events/archives/006839.shtml The seventh annual Maine Telemark Film Festival will feature the films Flakes by the Powderwhores, Harmless by Tough Guy Productions, and selected short telemark films, as well as a lobby bazaar, refreshments, and prizes. 6839@http://staging.bowdoin.edu/news/events/ 1-Event 2009-11-05T15:43:41-05:00 http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/events/archives/006837.shtml Sea ice covers much of the Arctic Ocean. Climate models indicate that this extensive, but thin, floating ice cover is both a harbinger and an amplifier of global climate change. 6837@http://staging.bowdoin.edu/news/events/ 1-Event 2009-11-05T11:40:18-05:00