Faculty Seminars Spring 2026
12:00 - 1:00 pm
Main Lounge, Moulton Union
Open to faculty and staff
$4 cash buffet lunch (buffet is first come, first serve)
Interested in presenting?
Contact Janice Staples.
What: Targeted to non-specialist colleagues and approximately 1/2 hour.
When: Tues. or Weds., noon to 1 PM.
Tues., Feb. 3 Daniel Stone (Economics)
“Self-censorship in the classroom at Bowdoin and Sway: a tool for facilitating dialogue across differences.”
Wed., Feb. 11 Meryem Belkaïd (Romance Languages and Literatures)
"Our Bones Shall Rise Again: Caves in the Colonial World"
Tues., Feb. 17 Kana Takematsu (Chemistry/Biochemistry)
"Moving charges with light."
Wed., Feb. 25 Martin Abel, Nadia Celis, Eric Chown, Emily Peterman, Christian Puma Ninacuri and Ezgi Yildiz (Hastings Initiative Panel)
"AI Project Showcase"
Tues., March 3 Muhammad Omar Afzaal (Government and Legal Studies)
"Dangerous Borders: Civil-Military Decision-Making and the India-Pakistan Frontier"
Tues., March 31 Mohammad Irfan (Digital and Computational Studies and Computer Science)
"On the Feedback Loop Between Human Behavior and Infectious Disease Propogation"
Wed., April 8 David Byrd (Computer Science)
"Normative Learning: discouraging inadvertent misbehavior by autonomous AI agents""
Tues., April 14 Caitlin Irene DiMartino, Richmond Embeywa, Emily Mitamura, Zihan Qin, Thaïs Scott, Brandon Tate, Shu-chin Tsui (2025-26 BCLT Faculty Fellows)
"Inclusive and Equitable Course Design"
Wed., April 22 Anne Cross (BCMA)
"Reparative Histories: A Case Study of Martha Ann Banks and Oliver Otis Howard."