http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/events/ en-us dcook@bowdoin.edu 2009-06-01T14:52:24-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/events/archives/006306.shtml 6306@http://staging.bowdoin.edu/news/events/ 1-Event 2009-06-01T14:52:24-05:00 http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/events/archives/006140.shtml 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. 6140@http://staging.bowdoin.edu/news/events/ 1-Event 2009-04-27T15:24:28-05:00 http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/events/archives/006137.shtml 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. 6137@http://staging.bowdoin.edu/news/events/ 1-Event 2009-04-27T12:46:11-05:00 http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/events/archives/006130.shtml 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. 6130@http://staging.bowdoin.edu/news/events/ 1-Event 2009-04-24T11:51:11-05:00 http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/events/archives/006126.shtml 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. 6126@http://staging.bowdoin.edu/news/events/ 1-Event 2009-04-22T14:17:35-05:00 http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/events/archives/006116.shtml 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. 6116@http://staging.bowdoin.edu/news/events/ 1-Event 2009-04-20T11:52:44-05:00 http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/events/archives/006114.shtml 6114@http://staging.bowdoin.edu/news/events/ 1-Event 2009-04-20T09:47:16-05:00 http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/events/archives/006110.shtml 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. 6110@http://staging.bowdoin.edu/news/events/ 1-Event 2009-04-17T16:46:30-05:00 http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/events/archives/006118.shtml 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. 6118@http://staging.bowdoin.edu/news/events/ 1-Event 2009-04-17T15:17:46-05:00 http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/events/archives/006103.shtml 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. 6103@http://staging.bowdoin.edu/news/events/ 1-Event 2009-04-14T15:19:19-05:00 http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/events/archives/006080.shtml 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. 6080@http://staging.bowdoin.edu/news/events/ 1-Event 2009-04-09T17:58:01-05:00 http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/events/archives/006082.shtml Lefkkowitz will give the lectures "Greek Mythology and Theology" and "The Female Body in Ancient Greece." 6082@http://staging.bowdoin.edu/news/events/ 1-Event 2009-04-09T14:41:14-05:00