Faculty Seminars Fall 2026
12:00 - 1:00 pm
Main Lounge, Moulton Union
Open to faculty and staff
$5 cash buffet lunch (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.
Wed., Sept. 9 Maggie Solberg & Meghan Roberts (English & History)
“Reflecting on the Humanities and Connecting to Careers”
Tues., Sept. 15 Eleanor Conover (Visual Arts)
"The Shape(s) of Painting"
Wed., Sept 23 Beth Hoppe & Linnea Minich (Research & Instruction Librarians)
"Research Ecology: A Framework for Information Literacy at Bowdoin"
CANCELLED: Tues., Sept. 29 Jeffrey Selinger (Government and Legal Studies)
"Democratization Made "Easy"? Political Change in Antebellum America"
Wed., Oct. 7 Tess Chakkalakal (Africana Studies and English)
"Where to find American Literary Culture Today"
Wed., Oct. 28 Jeova Farias (Computer Science)
"Harnessing LLM Hallucination for Literary Analysis: A Study on Textual Moral Ambiguity"
Tues., Nov. 3 Jay Sosa (Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies)
"Shifting Goalposts, Shrinking Experts: Examining Poppers Controversies in the AIDS Epidemic"
Wed., Nov. 11 TBD
"tbd"
Tues., Nov. 17 Vin Shende (Music)
"If There Be a Man Among Ye": A New Musical Based on the Life of Pirate Mary Read, by Vineet Shende (book by Gwen Kirby), with performance featuring Abbie Killeen, Aaron Kitch, George Lopez, and Hillary Shende.
Wed., Dec. 2 TBD
"tbd"