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• The event is free and open to the public but tickets are required, and seating is limited.  A book-signing will follow the interview.
• Tickets may be obtained in person at the Frances Perkins Center, 170A Main St., Damariscotta ME 04543, by calling 207-563-3374, or e-mailing Chris Cash at ccash@francesperkinscenter.org 
• Tickets may also be obtained in person at Bowdoin College at the Smith Union Information Desk, beginning September 18, 2017.  Note: Tickets marked for Kresge will be honored at the door.
  

Kristina Toland, guest curator of Constructing Revolution: Soviet Propaganda Posters from between the World Wars leads a tour of the new exhibition, which will be followed by a reception at the Museum of Art.

Free and open to the public.

Image:  Did You Volunteer?, 1920 Lithograph by Dmitry Moor. Collection of Svetlana and Eric Silverman.

Since 2014, the collective Grdina-Houle-Loewen has forged a new stream of complex compositions that meld together density, ferocious energy and technical virtuosity. The group's versatility and wide dynamic range has become finely honed, creating an ensemble that can change course dramatically. 

Page Herrlinger, associate professor of history, Bowdoin College, delivers the opening lecture for Constructing Revolution: Soviet Propaganda Posters from between the World Wars.

Presented by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Free and open to the public.

Image: Let's Repay Our Country's Coal Debt, 1930, litrhograph, by Gustav Kllustis. Collection of Svetlana and Eric Silverman.

"Politics Below the Asphalt: Black Women and the Struggle for Land in Brazil"

Keisha-Khan Y. Perry is Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University and specializes in the critical study of race, gender, and politics in the Americas with a particular focus on black women's activism, urban geography and questions of citizenship, feminist theories, intellectual history and disciplinary formations, and the interrelationship between scholarship, pedagogy, and political engagement. She has conducted extensive research in Mexico, Jamaica, Belize, Brazil, Argentina, and the United States. Perry's book Black Women against the Land Grab: The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil is an ethnographic study of black women's activism in Brazilian cities. It examines their participation and leadership in neighborhood associations and how and in what ways their interpretations of racial and gender identities intersect with urban spaces.

Sponsored by: Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, Latin American Studies, Sociology and Anthropology, Africana Studies, and the Mellon-Mays Program.

Playwright/media-artist Deke Weaver's life-long project, The Unreliable Bestiary, is presents an enormous site-specific performance for every letter of the alphabet, each letter represented by an endangered animal or habitat. 

A reception in the Museum of Art honoring Professor Thomas Laqueur and the exhibition The Ivory Mirror: The Art of Mortality in Renaissance Europe . Thomas Laqueur delivers the lecture "What is the Work of the Dead" at 4:30 in Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center.

Free and open to the public.

Image:  Visitors enjoy The Ivory Mirror in the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.

Paula Schlax is a Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Bates College. Ongoing work in her laboratory is aimed at understanding the role of RNA turnover in gene regulation in the bacteria that causes Lyme disease. There are an estimated 300,000 cases of Lyme disease in the United States each year. Lyme disease, which causes flu-like symptoms, rashes, headaches and fatigue during early infection and neurological, arthritic and even cardiac complications in late infection, is a significant public health threat in Maine. 

The bacteria that cause this disease can live in ticks and in mammals. The bacteria require different proteins to be expressed in mammals (mice and humans) and in ticks, and the process of shifting from between cold-blooded ticks and warm-blooded mammals results in dramatic changes in the expression of genes in the bacteria. Dr. Schlax will discuss her work that indicates that RNA turnover of of many transcripts is slow and regulated by environmental conditions that mimic difference in ticks and mammalian hosts. 

George Keyes, former chief curator at the Detroit Institute of Arts, leads a workshop about the strategies and pleasures of collecting works of art on paper.

Free and open to the public. Due to limited seating, free tickets are required. Phone 207-725-3276 or e-mail cbaljon@bowdoin.edu.

Richard Dowling's Great Scott! piano concert features the beloved Scott Joplin ragtime piano works used in the 1973 Academy-Award-winning movie The Sting, (including The Entertainer) plus many other dazzling, delightful, and rarely-heard Joplin compositions.

Diane Walsh was associate professor at New York City's Mannes College of Music for 32 years and, in the Fall of 2015, served as Visiting Artist at Colby College.  A Steinway Artist now living in Portland, she will perform works by Bach, Mozart, Bartok and Schumann.

Alyssa Gillespie, associate professor of Russian, discusses a selection of Soviet posters from between the World Wars.

Presented by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in conjunction with the exhibition Constructing Revolution: Soviet Propaganda Posters from between the World Wars.

Free and open to the public.

Photo: 1905 Road to October, 1929, by Valentina Kulagina.  Collection of Svetlana and Eric Silverman.

Panelists:
David Teegarden, Associate Professor of Classics at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Rob Sobak, Associate Professor of Classics at Bowdoin College

How do politically active and powerful individuals and groups come to support a regime of one-man-rule, which is established and run contrary to their own interests and ideological commitments? Why do political communities seem to fall prey so easily to lies and misdirection, and thus allow the seizure of political power by strongmen? This panel will discuss the tactical and strategic use of deception by the Athenian tyrant Peisistratos, and the accompanying self-deception among Athenian political elites, to explore how both manifest and tacit political support for his tyranny developed amidst a community seemingly ill-disposed to tyrannical rule.

Sponsored by the Classics Department, with support from the History and Government Departments, the Mellon Initiative in Mediterranean Studies, and the Jasper Jacob Stahl Lectureship.

Artist and educator, Sharon Louden will discuss her new edited volume, The Artist as Culture Producer: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life. A compilation of essays by forty visual artists, the book describes how artists extend their practices outside of their studios, becoming change agents in their communities. Their first-hand stories reveal how contemporary artists of the twenty-first century can add to creative economies through innovative activities, making intellectual and aesthetic contributions that benefit education, the non-profit sector, and corporate environments.

Presented by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.  Free and open to the public.

A talk by Andrew Rudalevige, Thomas Brackett Reed Professor of Government.

Watergate has been frequently in the news this year, as contemporary events seem to mirror those of forty-five years ago. From the "smoking gun" to the "Saturday Night Massacre" and perhaps to presidential pardons and beyond, this talk will remind people what Watergate itself entailed and track its relevance for today's political scene.

Lectures take place from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m., and include time for questions from the audience. Arrive at noon with a bag lunch. Beverages and cookies provided. 

Panelists:
Mirko Canevaro, Reader in Greek History at the University of Edinburgh
David Lewis,  Assistant Professor of Ancient History at the University of Nottingham
 
Classical Athens was not only the world's first democracy, but it was one of the world's first slave societies. Was Athenian democracy made possible only through the labor of human beings bought and sold as chattel? Was the very notion of democratic citizenship in Athens bound inextricably to the unfree status of people owned by individuals, corporations, and even the state itself? This panel will explore the connections among democratic institutions, democratic ideology and the brute facts of a society that depended on the enslaved lives of thousands of men, women, and children.

Sponsored by the Classics Department, with support from the History Departments, the Mellon Initiative in Mediterranean Studies, and the Jasper Jacob Stahl Lectureship.

Sponsored by the Association of Bowdoin Friends. Pierre Choderlos de Laclos's classic novel Dangerous Liaisons is well known for depicting the scandalous lives of those who are skilled at seducing (and abandoning) others. But at its core, this novel considers more difficult questions: Can one who defies love remain immune to it?  Can a seducer be seduced precisely by what he or she refuses? What is ultimately more courageous: to stick with one's decision to become a seducer, or to abandon that intention and embrace love?

David Collings, professor of English, will explore those questions in his lecture "Between Seduction and Love: On Laclos's Dangerous Liaisons".

"Take Me to the River: Photographs of Atlantic Rivers, The Book and Beyond," a talk by Michael Kolster, associate professor of art and the director of the visual arts division in the department of art.

Kolster will talk about the evolution of his recently-published book project Take Me the River, which depicts four Atlantic rivers.  He will explain some of the reasons he used a photographic process from the 1850s, the wet-plate collodion, to make the photographs.  He will also discuss how Take Me to the River inspired a subsequent project photographing plastic on the beaches of the big island of Hawaii.

Lectures take place from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m., and include time for questions from the audience. Arrive at noon with a bag lunch. Beverages and cookies provided.