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 Hastings Initiative of AI Panel
"Practical uses of AI at Bowdoin""
Tues., March 3 Muhammad Omar Afzaal (Government and Legal Studies)
"Dangerous Borders: Civil-Military Decision-Making and the India-Pakistan Frontier"
Wed., March 25 TBD
"tbd"
Tues., March 31 Mohammad Irfan (Digital and Computational Studies and Computer Science)
"On the Feedback Loop Between Human Behavior and Infectious Disease Propogation on Networks"
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 TBD
"tbd"