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2014 spring

artsandculture 

at Bowdoin 

This spring at Bowdoin 

Join us for an inspiring and diverse offering of arts programming, 

including a performance by the celebrated Ying Quartet; French and 

world cinema film festivals; readings and talks by authors Jennifer 

Finney Boylan, Elizabeth Strout, Susan Faludi, and Under Secretary of 

the Smithsonian Richard Kurin; a theater production of Oscar Wilde’s 

The Importance of Being Earnest; and new exhibitions such as American 

Paintings and Sculpture, 1820–1950, which features significant loans 

from private collections by masters such as Childe Hassam, Winslow 

Homer, Rockwell Kent, and others; Under the Surface: Surrealist 

Photography; and, opening this summer, Cool! The Jazz Photography 

of William P. Gottlieb. 

For more information: 207-725-3375 

All events are open to the public. Admission to most events is free and no tickets are required. 

Any ticket or admission requirements are listed within the event description. 

For information on acquiring tickets, see the inside back cover. 

All events are subject to change. 


Follow @BowdoinArts on Twitter for up-to-the-minute event information.

Pickard Theater and Wish Theater, Memorial Hall Bowdoin College Chapel Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, Hubbard Hall 

Bowdoin’s vibrant quadrangle houses world-class museums 

and performance venues all within a five-minute walk. 

Memorial Hall, home to Pickard Theater and 

the smaller Wish Theater, is the main hub of 

theater and dance performances on campus. 

Studzinski Recital Hall, an architectural 

and acoustical gem, is a state-of-the-art 

performance and practice facility. The Bowdoin 

College Museum of Art offers access to one 

of the country’s oldest and most prestigious 

collegiate art collections. 

The Bowdoin College Library, which boasts 

a collection exceeding one million volumes, 

is housed in the main Hawthorne-Longfellow 

building as well as at several branches 

devoted to art, music, and other disciplines. 

Hubbard Hall houses the Peary-MacMillan 

Arctic Museum, home to art, natural history 

specimens, and equipment relating to the 

history of Arctic exploration. 

Bowdoin College Museum of Art Studzinski Recital Hall Hawthorne-Longfellow Library

Bowdoin College 

Brunswick, Maine 

2014 

Exhibitions 

NEW EXHIBITIONS 

Peary- 

MacMillan 

Arctic 

Museum 

and Arctic 

Studies 

Center 

Museum Hours 

Tuesday–Saturday 

10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.; 

Sunday 2:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m. 

Closed on Mondays and 

national holidays. 

Opens March 5, 2014 

Northwest of the Known Arctic Lands: 

MacMillan’s Search for Crocker Land, 1914 

In the spring of 1914 Donald MacMillan and three companions set off over the sea ice to find 

Crocker Land, an undiscovered island thought to be northwest of the known Arctic Islands, and 

possibly sighted by Robert E. Peary in 1906. It was a long and difficult journey, marred by tragedy 

and ultimately unsuccessful. Sponsored by the Russell and Janet Doubleday Foundation. 

Hubbard Hall Foyer 

Opens April 17, 2014 

Cape Dorset and Beyond: 

Inuit Art from the Marcia and Robert Ellis Collection 

This exhibit features sculptures and prints from Cape Dorset (Kinngait), home to many of 

Canada’s best-known Inuit artists. The pieces, recently donated to the museum by Marcia and 

Robert Ellis, capture the range of styles embraced by these artists, from strikingly realistic 

and dynamic figures to whimsical and mystical creatures. Sponsored by the Russell and Janet 

Doubleday Foundation. 

Hubbard Hall 

Opens May 6, 2014 

Faces of Greenland: Ivory Carvings from the Baregard Collection 

In the early twentieth century in the Greenlandic community of Kangaamiut, a group of talented 

artists began carving delightfully evocative human figures in sperm whale tooth and ivory. In 1940, 

Ankar Baregard purchased a collection of these remarkable sculptures, which was recently donated 

to the museum. Highlights of the collection include bas-relief carved walrus mandibles, teeth, and 

tusks, as well as carvings of men and women going about their everyday activities. Sponsored by 

the Russell and Janet Doubleday Foundation and the May P. Fogg Fund. 


MacMillan following Crocker Land trip, 

spring, 1914, Etah, Greenland. Photo by 

Crocker Land Expedition member. 

Ooviloo (self-portrait), Ooviloo Tunnille, 

Cape Dorset, stone, 2001. 

Dancing Goose, Pudalik Shaa, 

Cape Dorset, stone, 1994. 

Walrus mandible or lower jaw, with 

teeth carved as faces, unknown artist, 

Greenland, ca. 1935–1945. Gift of Allen 

Baregard, in memory of Ankar Baregard. 

ONGOING EXHIBITIONS 

Through February 23, 2014 

Spirits of Land, Air, and Water: Antler Carvings from the Robert and 

Judith Toll Collection 

Caribou antlers are a source of inspiration for Inuit artists across the Canadian Arctic. Working 

within the constraints of antlers’ forms, they create a variety of fanciful creatures, exuberant 

dancers, and ethereal figures. This exhibition highlights the ingenuity and vision of artists such 

as Luke Anowtalik, Luke Iksiktaaryuk, and Thomas Suvaaraq. Sponsored by the Russell and Janet 

Doubleday Endowment. 

Hubbard Hall 

Caribou, Sanak Etook, 2007, 

Kangiqsualujjuaq (George River), 

antler. Courtesy of Robert and Judith 

Toll. Photo by Dean Abramson. 

Through March 4, 2014 

Off to a Rocky Start: The Crocker Land Expedition, 1913 

In the summer of 1913, Donald B. MacMillan set sail for the far north, leading a major expedition 

to conduct scientific research and find “Crocker Land,” a distant landmass that Robert E. Peary 

had sighted to the northwest of the known Arctic islands. All did not go smoothly, however. Find 

out what went wrong and what went right for MacMillan and his companions through the first 

months of what was supposed to be a two-year expedition. Sponsored by the Russell and 

Janet Doubleday Foundation. 


Woman Sea Monster, Silas Qayaqjuaq, 

2001, Ottawa, antler. Courtesy of Robert 

and Judith Toll. Photo by Dean Abramson. 

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All events are open to the public. 

Admission to most events is free 

and no tickets are required. Any 

ticket or admission requirements 

are listed within the event 

description. For information on 

acquiring tickets, see the inside 

back cover. 


Erik, at Provision Point with crates unloaded, ca. 1913, Northwest Greenland, glass lantern slide. 

Elmer Ekblaw Collection. 

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Through April 27, 2014 

Scrimshaw: Selections from the Peter C. Barnard Collection 

Many nineteenth- and early twentieth-century whalers carved intricate designs on whales’ teeth, 

walrus tusks, and whale bone in their spare time, creating a variety of practical and amusing 

objects using the tools and materials at hand. This impressive collection of scrimshaw is a gift of 

the late Peter C. Barnard ’50 and Danuta M. Barnard. 


Muskox/Hunter, Judas Ullulaq, Goja 

Haven, 1991, soapstone. Photo by 

Dean Abramson. 

Through August 31, 2014 

Animal Allies Inuit Views of the Natural World 

This exhibition explores the Inuit worldview, in which humans and animals are interdependent 

and connected in profound ways. Contemporary Canadian and Alaskan Inuit carvings and prints, 

ethnographic objects, film clips, and natural history specimens—including an Alaskan polar 

bear and a Labrador caribou—are on display. Sponsored by the Russell and Janet Doubleday 

Endowment. 

Hubbard Hall 

LONG-TERM INSTALLATION 

Robert E. Peary and his Northern World 

As a pioneering Arctic explorer, Peary relied on many extraordinary people, including his family, 

financial backers, loyal expedition members, and the Inughuit men and women of Northwest 

Greenland. He also worked ceaselessly to improve his methods of travel and his equipment, 

always keeping in mind efficiency on the trail and the comfort and safety of his men. Through 

objects, photographs, and motion pictures, this exhibit provides new perspectives on Peary and 

his long career in the north. Sponsored by the Russell and Janet Doubleday Endowment. 

Hubbard Hall 

Scrimshaw tooth with literary scene, man, 

woman, and infant. Sperm whale tooth, 

nineteenth or early twentieth century. 

Gift of Danuta M. Barnard and Peter C. 

Barnard ’50. 

George Borup, Kai-o-tah, and Donald 

MacMillan, photo by Koodlookto, ca. 

1908–1909, Northwest Greenland, 

glass lantern slide. 

FILM SERIES 

Northern Exposure: the Arctic on Screen 

The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum presents a year-long film series, offering both new releases 

and newly preserved classics. Look for the full schedule and details about each film on the 

Museum’s website at bowdoin.edu/arctic-museum. 

Seal Dancer, Gilbert Hay, Nain, 1998, 

serpentine. Photo by Dean Abramson. 

Hawthorne- 

Longfellow 

Library 

January 27 through May 30, 2014 

Visualizing Uncle Tom 

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, written while Stowe was a faculty spouse at Bowdoin, 

became an instant international bestseller. The exhibition, featuring the private holdings of 

Professor Richard Ellis (University of Birmingham, U.K.), explores the differences between the 

American and British illustrations that have appeared in the novel’s many editions. Funded in part 

by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. 

Hawthorne-Longfellow Library, 2nd floor 

Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Chicago, 1905), 

illustrator unkown. 

Uncle Tom’s Cabin (London, 1852), illustration by G. Cruikshank. 


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Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Boston, 1852), 

illustration by H. Billings.



Bowdoin 

College 

Museum of 

Art 

Museum Hours 

Tuesday–Saturday 

10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.; 

Thursday until 8:30 p.m. 

Sunday 2:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m. 

Closed on Mondays and 

national holidays. 

NEW EXHIBITIONS 

January 23, 2014 

Art of the Renaissance 

Focusing on the artistic innovations of the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries, this exhibition makes 

apparent why contemporaries could celebrate a rebirth or renaissance of the art of classical 

antiquity. On view will be selections from the Kress Collection, as well as more recent additions 

to the collections. The works illustrate canonical themes of the Christian tradition, as well as 

topics from ancient mythology. 

Markell Gallery 

January 30, 2014 

American Paintings and Sculpture, 1830-1950 

This introduction to art of the modern period includes masterpieces by Thomas Cole, William 

Merritt Chase, Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, Maurice Prendergast, Rockwell Kent, Andrew Wyeth, 

and others. It features many of Bowdoin’s most beloved works of art, as well as significant loans 

from private collections on view for the first time. 

Shaw-Ruddock Gallery 

February 6, 2014 

Contemporary Masters, 1950 to the Present 

Deconstructing pictorial conventions of the past, artists of the second half of the twentieth 

and early twenty-first centuries reinvented the picture plane. This installation presents extreme 

positions, including flat silkscreens and thickly built-up oils, each circumventing more traditional, 

expressive forms of paint application. The installation presents a confluence of high-profile loans 

from private collections and significant recent acquisitions. 

Boyd Gallery 

Jacopo da Carrucci (called Pontormo), 

Apollo and Daphne, 1513, oil on canvas. 

Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. 

William Merritt Chase, Portrait of the Art 

Dealer, Otto Fleischman, ca. 1870–1879, 

oil on canvas. Gift of Dr. Max Hirshler. 

Jack Tworkov, Untitled, 1951, oil on 

canvas. Gift of Walter K. Gutman, 

Bowdoin Class of 1924. 

February 27 through June 1, 2014 

Surrealism in Motion 

Surrealist filmmakers used techniques similar to those used in other media—illogical 

juxtapositions, enigmatic situations, chance processes, and abstraction—but added time and 

motion to their unsettling experiments. The Bowdoin College Museum of Art will present a selection 

of short films in conjunction with the exhibition Under the Surface: Surrealist Photography. 

Media Gallery 

February 27 through June 1, 2014 

Under the Surface: Surrealist Photography 

To demonstrate how psychological impulses could be explored, depicted, and fused with everyday 

reality, surrealist photographers experimented with unprecedented technical manipulations, turning 

the “realist” medium of photography into a vehicle for depicting the fantastical. This exhibition 

features highlights from the Bowdoin College Museum of Art’s collection, supplemented with 

prestigious loans. 

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Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Dos Pares 

de Piernas (Two Pairs of Legs), 

1928–1929, gelatin silver print. 

Gift of Michael G. Frieze ’60. 


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CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS 

© Yayoi Kusama or Alma Woodsey 

Thomas, Double Cherry Blossoms, 

1973, acrylic on canvas. Gift of 

halley k harrisburg ’90 and 

Michael Rosenfeld. 


Regarding the Forces of Nature 

This stellar selection of works by distinguished women artists includes paintings by Yayoi Kusama 

and Alma Thomas, a drawing by Christine Hiebert, prints by Polly Apfelbaum, and a sculpture by 

Alyson Shotz. They combine basic research of the natural world with a keen understanding of 

human perception. Supported by the Louisa Vaughan Conrad Fund. 

Center and Focus Galleries 


Alfred Cheney Johnston: Portrait of a Lost Photographer 

This exhibition features the commercial and personal work of the forgotten artist Alfred Cheney 

Johnston (1884–1971), best known for his portraits of performers from the Ziegfeld Follies in 

the 1920s and 1930s. This exhibition was organized by Mikala Cooper ’14 and Dana Byrd, 

postdoctoral fellow in art history. 

Becker Gallery 


Sequencing Objects: Two Films 

Two short films by contemporary artists present things that seem to have minds of their own. In 

The Way Things Go (1987), by the celebrated Swiss duo Peter Fischli and David Weiss, a chain 

reaction between everyday objects is amazingly inventive. In Telephones (1995), Christian Marclay 

masterfully stitches together excerpts from well-known Hollywood movies, sequencing clips along 

the narrative arc of a telephone call. 

Media Gallery 

Through June 1, 2014 

The Object Show: Discoveries in Bowdoin Collections 

In this exhibition, significant objects from Bowdoin’s diverse collections take 

center stage. Whether exquisite or quotidian, they tell expansive stories 

about the lives of people from around the world and throughout history. The 

selections range from an ancient Roman flute to one of the first x-rays created 

in Maine, from jade belt buckles from ancient China to James Bowdoin’s set of 

dueling pistols and Winslow Homer’s watercolor box. Bowdoin faculty, students, 

curators, and librarians present rarely seen material objects that enable us to 

interpret the world, communicate with each other, and learn about ourselves. 

Supported by the Sylvia E. Ross Fund. 

Osher and Halford Galleries 

Alfred Cheney Johnston, Julie Newmar, 

1950, gelatin silver print. Gift of Francis 

A. DiMauro. 

Film still from Telephones, 1995, by 

Christian Marclay, Museum Purchase, 

Lloyd O. and Marjorie Strong Coulter 

Fund. © Christian Marclay. Courtesy Paula 

Cooper Gallery, New York, New York. 

Gallery view of The Object Show. 

ONGOING EXHIBITIONS 

James Bowdoin’s America: Paintings and Decorative Arts, 

1660–1830 

Bowdoin College has been collecting American paintings and decorative arts for more 

than two centuries. The holdings in early American furniture and Colonial and Federal 

portraiture are regarded as among the most distinguished in the country. This display 

focuses on artistic highlights from the 1660s to the 1830s. Supported by the 

Elizabeth B. G. Hamlin Fund and the Sylvia E. Ross Fund. 

Bowdoin Gallery 

Imago and Persona: Portraits from Antiquity 

This exhibition explores the traditions, styles, and techniques that inform the portrayals 

of individuals in the ancient world. From profiles carved in relief and painted on vases to 

figures molded in terracotta and portraits sculpted in the round, this installation draws 

from a range of art representing Egyptian, Assyrian, Cypriot, Greek, and Roman cultures. 

Supported by the Sylvia E. Ross Fund. 

Walker Gallery 

Nathaniel Smibert, Portrait of Reverend Samson 

Occum, ca. 1751–1756, oil on canvas. Bequest of 

the Honorable James Bowdoin III. 


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January 

Monday, January 20 

Children’s Celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. 

10:30 a.m. to Noon 

Daggett Lounge, Thorne Hall 

Join children’s book author Rohan Henry and songwriter Josephine Cameron for a wonderful 

program of storytelling, music, and crafts in remembrance of Dr. King. For ages 5 and up. 

Refreshments will be served. Copies of selected titles by each presenter will be available 

for purchase. FREE. 

Sponsored by Bowdoin College Library. 

Martin Luther King Jr. 

Monday, January 20 

Martin Luther King Jr. Campus Celebration 

Climbing PoeTree 

7:30 p.m. 

Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center 

Our first day of classes is marked by the annual national recognition of the life and legacy of 

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Bowdoin will honor King’s legacy with a dynamic performance by Climbing 

PoeTree, a performance group that explores the intersection of arts and activism by interweaving 

spoken word, hip hop, and award-winning multi-media theater. Over the past ten years, Climbing 

PoeTree has toured fifteen times, performing with artists and visionary leaders such as Alicia Keys, 

Erykah Badu, Amiri Baraka, Angela Davis, Sonia Sanchez, Alice Walker, Vandan Shiva, Danny Glover, 

The Last Poets, and Dead Prez. FREE. 

Sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Student Programs. 

Climbing PoeTree 

Thursday, January 30 

“Stone, Wood, Printing Press: Remembering (Almost) Forgotten Crafts” 

Peter Follansbee, Martha Becker Finney, and Simon Verity 

4:30 p.m. 


To celebrate the exhibition The Object Show: Discoveries in Bowdoin Collections, three makers who 

practice rare crafts speak about their relationships to objects. Peter Follansbee is a woodcarver 

who reproduces seventeenth-century wood carvings, such as Bowdoin’s Great Joined Chair. 

Stonecarver Simon Verity, who has worked on Gothic churches such as St. John The Divine in New 

York City, attempts to unravel early technique in a sculpture from the Bowdoin collection. Martha 

Finney is an artist who hand-writes with type, experimenting with printmaking techniques, words and 

numbers, and ancient secret codes. Her work Weathering is included in The Object Show. FREE. 

Sponsored and presented by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. 

Underwritten by the Sylvia E. Ross Fund. 

Thursday, January 30 

Open House at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art 

5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. 

Bowdoin College Museum of Art 

Open House to celebrate the beginning of the spring semester and the exhibition The Object Show: 

Discoveries in Bowdoin Collections. FREE. 

French, Head of a King, 1220–1230, 

limestone. Gift of Edward Perry Warren, 

Esq., H ’26. 


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February 

Saturday, February 1 

Family Saturday at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art 

10:00 a.m. 


Bowdoin College students lead a program of activities and fun for children, working with the 

exhibitions on view. FREE. 

Wednesday, February 5 

Ying Quartet 

7:30 p.m. 

Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall 

The Ying Quartet occupies a position of unique prominence in the classical music world, combining 

brilliantly communicative performances with a fearlessly imaginative view of contemporary 

chamber music. The Ying Quartet’s performance is part of a multi-day residency at the College. 

Tickets: $15 public/FREE Friends and Bowdoin. 

Sponsored by the Donald M. Zuckert Visiting Professorship Fund. 

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Wednesday through Saturday, February 5–8 

The Bowdoin French Film Festival 

See times below. 


The Bowdoin French Film Festival brings to campus five poignant and thought-provoking movies 

from around the Francophone world. Some details of the festival are still being finalized. Updates 

will be available on the online Bowdoin arts calendar. FREE. 

Wednesday, February 5 at 7:00 p.m.—Après Mai (Something in the Air) 

Set in the early 1970s, this bracing semi-autobiographical film by Olivier Assayas resists easy 

nostalgia, focusing instead on the turbulence of late adolescence and young adulthood. While 

delving deeply into the private dramas of Gilles, a high-school student consumed with belated 

revolutionary zeal, this coming-of-age tale never lets us forget that this richly drawn adolescent 

protagonist is also a player in a much broader historical moment: the era when revolutionary hopes 

of May ’68 began to splinter and fade. 

Thursday, February 6 at 7:00 p.m.—La Pirogue 

Moussa Touré’s trenchant chronicle of a sea trek from West Africa to Europe lays bare the incalculable 

perils of immigration, as veteran fisherman Baye Laye reluctantly agrees to be the captain of the 

long, narrow canoe of the title. Illegally transporting a group of people from Dakar, Senegal, to Spain, 

the pirogue’s passengers hope to start anew in the West and escape the grim economic realities at 

home. Unlike most films about immigration, The Pirogue refuses to speak in hazy ideologies: 

it presents the brutal realities that millions worldwide face in the effort to leave one land for another. 

Friday, February 7 at 4:30 p.m.—Couleur de Peau: Miel (Approved for Adoption) 

This adaptation of co-director Jung’s autobiographical graphic novel recounts his childhood and 

adolescence after a Belgian couple adopts him from a South Korean orphanage in the early 1970s. 

Though raised by loving parents and supported by his four older siblings, he often feels like an 

outsider and endures many painful episodes, some self-inflicted, in his struggle to understand his 

identity. Approved for Adoption poignantly traces one man’s interrogation of the definitions of ethnicity, 

culture, and the concept of “home.” 

Friday, February 7 at 7:30 p.m.—L’Enfant d’en Haut 

An examination of class differences and tenuous family ties, cinematographer Ursula Meier’s 

second film focuses on 12-year-old Simon and his desperate attempts to survive a bleak housing 

project in the valley of a posh Swiss ski resort. The money Simon earns from stealing skis and 

other expensive equipment supports not just himself but his young mother, Louise, a wayward, 

unemployed young woman in her twenties who tries to pass him off as her brother. 

Saturday, February 8 at 7:00 p.m.—Monsieur Lazhar 

Writer-director Philippe Falardeau’s unforgettable movie, based on a one-person play by Evelyne de 

la Chenelière, explores the intricate process by which M. Lazhar earns the respect and trust of his 

pupils, some the children of immigrants or, like this devoted instructor, recent arrivals to Quebec. 

As the reasons for M. Lazhar’s immigration to Canada from Algeria are made clear, so too is his 

rather unconventional method for applying for the teaching position. Monsieur Lazhar is that rarest 

of movies about education, one that avoids clichés and sentimentality, favoring instead honesty and 

clear-eyed compassion. 



Après Mai 

La Pirogue 

Couleur de Peau: Miel 

L’Enfant d’en Haut 

Monsieur Lazhar



Saturday, February 8 

Environmental Justice Symposium 

9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. 

Schwartz Outdoor Leadership Center 

Angela Park, executive director of Diversity Matters and author of Everybody’s Movement, will 

be the keynote speaker to kick off a day-long symposium on social justice and diversity in the 

environmental movement. The event brings together practitioners and experts in the environmental 

justice movement who will focus on the interconnected issues of environmental health, conservation 

politics, and climate change. To register call 207-725-3396. Register: $10 public and Friends/ 

FREE Bowdoin ID. 

Co-sponsored by the Department of Government and Legal Studies, Environmental Studies Program, and 

the Joseph McKeen Center for the Common Good. 

Wednesday, February 12 

“Crimes of the Dream World: French Trials of Diola Witches” 

Robert Baum 

4:30 p.m. 

Room 315, Searles Science Building 

Robert Baum is a professor in religion and the African and African American Studies program 

at Dartmouth College. His first book, Shrines of the Slave Trade: Diola Religion and Society in 

Pre-Colonial Senegambia, won an American Academy of Religion award for the best first book 

in the history of religions (2000). He was recently chair of the religious studies department at 

the University of Missouri–Columbia and has previously taught at various institutions. He has 

also played an extensive role in the Ford Foundation-funded program “Difficult Dialogues,” which 

trained faculty in how to deal with controversial issues that have a religious dimension in the 

university classroom. FREE. 

Sponsored by the programs in Africana Studies and Gender and Women’s Studies, and the Department of Religion. 

Angela Park 

Thursday, February 13 

The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum Film Series 

Film #1: For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska 

7:00 p.m. 

Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall 

This documentary reveals the true-life story of an extraordinary Alaskan woman who became an 

unlikely hero in the fight for civil rights. Kelly Fayard, assistant professor of anthropology, Bowdoin 

College, and member of the Poarch Band of Creek tribe, will introduce the film. FREE. 

Sponsored by the Russell and Janet Doubleday Endowment. 

Movie poster. Courtesy of Blueberry 

Productions. 


Thursday Night Salon at the Museum of Art 

“Thomas Cole at Work: Landscape Painting in the Catskills” 

Frank Goodyear 

7:00 p.m. 


Bowdoin College Museum of Art Co-director Frank Goodyear speaks about the working process of 

Thomas Cole, one of America’s most celebrated landscape painters. FREE. 


Underwritten by the Louisa Vaughan Conrad Fund. 

Thomas Cole, Lake 

Mohonk, ca. 1846, 

oil on canvas. 


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Friday and Saturday, February 14 and 15 

“On the Wing, A Celebration of Birds” 

Krista River, mezzo-soprano, and George Lopez, piano 

4:00 p.m., Friday Teatime 

7:30 p.m., Saturday 


“On the Wing, A Celebration of Birds” is a song cycle for soprano and piano, that celebrates nature, 

creativity, and its connection to the human spirit. The cycle includes twelve songs composed by 

Berklee College of Music composer Andrew List, set to original poetry about birds written by Babson 

College’s poet Mary Pinard. FREE. 

Sponsored by the Department of Music. 



Krista River



Map of the Sounds of Tokyo 

Monday though Sunday, February 17–23 

World Cinema Film Festival 

7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. 


Bowdoin’s World Cinema Film Festival offers a varied program of important contemporary narrative 

and documentary films from around the world with post-screening discussions moderated by faculty 

and students. FREE. 

Monday, February 17—Memories of Overdevelopment (Miguel Coyula, Cuba, 2010) 

Join us opening night for a film screening and discussion with director Miguel Coyula. An intellectual 

leaves the Cuban Revolution and ‘underdevelopment’ behind only to find himself at odds with the 

ambiguities of his new life in the ‘developed’ world. This portrait of an alienated man wonders if 

an individual can truly belong in any society. Presented by Miguel Coyula, Nadia Celis (Romance 

Languages), and the Latin American Student Organization. 

Tuesday, February 18—The Return (Andrey Zvyagintsev, Russia, 2003) 

In this award-winning thriller, a man returns to his wife and two adolescent sons after a long 

and unexplained absence. Father and sons embark on a fishing trip, but their quest for reunion 

becomes a struggle for survival. Presented by Kristina Toland (Russian). 

Wednesday February 19—The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino, Italy, 2013) 

A love letter to Roman decadence, this tragicomedy of Italy’s leisured classes is a sensual overload 

and a scathing commentary on Italian politics and society. Presented by Allison Cooper (Italian) and 

Gretchen Williams ’14. 

Thursday, February 20—The Ambassador (Mads Brügger, Denmark, 2011) 

Armed with hidden cameras, black-market credentials, and his wit, a journalist transforms himself 

into the caricature of a European-African consul to expose Africa’s blood diamond trade. A postscreening 

reception will be provided by the students of Reed House. Presented by Ericka Albaugh 

(Government) and Evan Bulman ’16. 

Friday, February 21—Map of the Sounds of Tokyo (Isabel Coixet, Spain, 2009) 

A Japanese assassin makes the mistake of falling for her Spanish quarry in this stylish and beautiful 

thriller set in Tokyo. Presented by David George (Bates College, Spanish/European Studies). 

Saturday, February 22—Please Vote for Me (Weijun Chen, China, 2007) 

A democratic experiment is happening in central China’s most populous city: third-grade students 

are electing a class monitor. Their experience reveals the sacrifices and benefits required by 

democracy’s implementation. Presented by Shu-chin Tsui (Asian Studies). 

Sunday, February 23—Blancanieves (Pablo Berger, Spain, 2012) 

This wonderfully eerie silent film treat—and Oscar nominee—recasts Snow White as a talented 

bullfighter in 1920s southern Spain. A post-screening reception will be provided by the students 

of MacMillan House. Presented by Elena Cueto-Asín (Romance Languages), Tricia Welsch (Film 

Studies), Birgit Tautz (German), and MacMillan House. 

Support for the World Cinema Film Festival has been generously provided by the Blythe Bickel Edwards Fund, the 

Kurtz Fund, the Film Studies Program, the Department of Romance Languages, the Latin American Student Organization, 

the Bowdoin Film Society, the Asian Studies Program, and the Department of English. 

The Great Beauty 

The Ambassador 

Please Vote for Me 

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Gallery Talk: Multiple Perspectives in The Object Show: 

Discoveries in Bowdoin Collections 

Tess Chakkalakal and John Cross 

Noon 


Tess Chakkalakal, associate professor of Africana studies and English, and John Cross, secretary 

of development and college relations, lead an interdisciplinary discussion of select works in 

The Object Show: Discoveries in Bowdoin Collections. First in a series of three gallery talks during 

the Spring 2014 semester. FREE. 

Sponsored and Presented by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. 

Monday, February 24 

A Reading by Author Jennifer Finney Boylan 

4:30 p.m. 

Faculty Room, Massachusetts Hall 

Writer and activist Jennifer Finney Boylan has published twelve books, including a collection of 

short stories, three novels, a number of books for young adults, and her autobiography She’s Not 

There: A Life in Two Genders, the first book by a transgendered American to become a bestseller. 

Her most recent book is a memoir about “parenthood in two genders,” Stuck in the Middle With 

You, scheduled for publication by Random House in 2013. She has worked with the original cast 

of Saturday Night Live as managing editor of American Bystander magazine and also served on the 

editorial staffs at Penguin Books, Viking Press, and E.P. Dutton Inc., and is currently a professor of 

English at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. FREE. 

Sponsored by the Department of English. 


Exhibition Preview and Reception for Museum and Maine Alumni Club 

Members: Under the Surface: Surrealist Photography 

5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. 


A special preview of the exhibition Under the Surface: Surrealist Photography, including tours and 

presentations by Andrea Rosen, curatorial assistant at the Museum of Art and curator of the 

exhibition, along with students from “Modernism/Modernity” a course taught in the fall of 2013 by 

Harrison King McCann Professor of English Marilyn Reizbaum. FREE. 

Underwritten by the Louisa Vaughan Conrad Fund, Becker Fund for the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Stevens L. 

Frost Endowment Fund, and Elizabeth B. G. Hamlin Fund. 




Brassai, Untitled (Graffiti number 80 

from the series “Magic”), printed, ca. 

1933–1956, gelatin silver print. 

Museum Purchase, Gridley W. Tarbell II 

Fund and the Lloyd O. and Marjorie 

Strong Coulter Fund.




Tallman Lecture 

”Feminism, Interrupted: Why Can’t the Women’s Movement Pass 

Down Power?” 

Susan Faludi 

7:00 p.m. 


Susan Faludi, Tallman Scholar in Gender and Women’s Studies, is a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist 

and the author of the bestselling Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, which 

won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, and Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American 

Man. In her most recent book, The Terror Dream: Myth and Misogyny in an Insecure America, she 

examines the post-9/11 outpouring in the media, popular culture, and political life. Faludi’s work 

has appeared in The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, 

and The Nation, among other publications. FREE. 

Sponsored by the Tallman Lecture Fund. 

Susan Faludi 

Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, February 27, 28, and March 1 

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde 

8:00 p.m. 

Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall 

Masque and Gown presents The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde. Wilde uses this show, 

subtitled “A Trivial Comedy for Serious People,” to showcase the Victorian views of marriage and 

self-image in an entirely humorous way. A group of people, young and old, stumble around innocent 

love and the little lies we tell when we need our privacy. Sometimes, however, those little lies get 

entirely out of control! Earnest is both a satire of Victorian culture and a farcical smorgasbord of 

quips, misunderstandings, and whimsical charm. Tickets: $3 public/$1 Bowdoin ID. 

Sponsored by the Student Activities Fund. 

Friday, February 28 

“Strange Passion: Frederick Sommer’s Wartime Surrealism” 

Robin Kelsey 

4:30 p.m. 


Robin Kelsey is Burden Professor of Photography and Chair of the Department of History of Art and 

Architecture at Harvard University. Kelsey has written extensively on photography, landscape, and 

American art and will speak about the American surrealist photographer Frederick Sommer. FREE. 

Sponsored and Presented by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. 

Underwritten by the Louisa Vaughan Conrad Fund, Becker Fund for the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 

Stevens L. Frost Endowment Fund, and Elizabeth B. G. Hamlin Fund. 

Frederick Sommer, Portrait of Max Ernst, 

1946, gelatin silver print. Museum 

Purchase, Gridley W. Tarbell II Fund. 

© Frederick & Frances Sommer Foundation. 


Open House at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art 

5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. 


A festive reception to anticipate spring and celebrate the current exhibitions, 

including Under the Surface: Surrealist Photography. FREE. 



Steve Grover Quintet 

7:30 p.m. 


The Steve Grover New Quintet (featuring Steve Grover, drums/composer; 

Christine Correa, voice; Andrew Rathbun, sax; Chris Van Voorst Van Beest, bass; 

and Frank Carlberg, piano) is dedicated to performing the original songs of its 

leader, Steve Grover. Using texts by poets both well-known and contemporary, 

the songs follow forms suggested by the verse, resulting in unpredictable, yet 

accessible music from a contemporary jazz perspective. The personality of each 

musician imbues the quintet’s music with a uniqueness central to its expression. 

FREE. 


Man Ray, Space Writing (Self-Portrait), 1935, gelatin silver 

print. Museum Purchase, Lloyd O. and Marjorie Strong 

Coulter Fund. 


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March 

Saturday, March 1 


10:00 a.m. 


Bowdoin College students lead a program of activity and fun for children, working with the 


Monday, March 3 

“Science is Fiction”: A Selection of Films by Jean Painlevé 

Sarah Childress, Damon Gannon, Andrea Rosen, and students 

6:00 p.m. 

Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center 

This screening and discussion will explore Jean Painlevé’s “scientific-poetic” films. These dreamlike 

short films reveal the wonder of sea creatures, presenting their social lives as a challenge to 

human conventions. Sarah Childress, visiting assistant professor of film studies; Damon Gannon, 

director of Bowdoin Scientific Station at Kent Island; Andrea Rosen, curatorial assistant, Bowdoin 

College Museum of Art; and students. Organized in conjunction with Sarah Childress’s course “The 

Reality Effect: Documentary Film” and the Bowdoin College Museum of Art’s exhibition Under the 

Surface: Surrealist Photography. FREE. 




Wednesday, March 5 

Elizabeth Weigle, soprano, and Daniel Lippel, guitar 

7:30 p.m. 


Soprano Elizabeth Weigle and guitarist Daniel Lippel will present a program featuring works by 

Bowdoin faculty composer Vineet Shende, including the world premiere of his recently completed 

solo guitar work, Suite in Raag Marva, and his sensitive settings of Pablo Neruda sonnets, Sonetos 

de Amor. Complementing the Shende works will be other works for guitar and soprano which set 

Spanish texts, including music by Peter Gilbert and Manuel De Falla. FREE. 


Elizabeth Weigle 

Daniel Lippel 

Tuesday, March 25 

Gallery Talk: Multiple Perspectives in The Object Show: 

Discoveries in Bowdoin Collections 

Noon 


Susan Kaplan, professor of anthropology and director of Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic 

Studies Center, leads a discussion of select works in the exhibition, The Object Show: Discoveries in 

Bowdoin Collections. Second in a series of three gallery talks during the Spring 2014 semester. FREE. 


Film still from Hunting Musk Ox, 

by Donald B. MacMillan. 

Ivory carving of bowhead whale, Eldon 

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Tuesday, March 25 

Kates Lecture 

“The 21st Century’s Technology Story: Biology, Physics and 

Engineering Converge” 

Susan Hockfield 

7:30 p.m. 


Susan Hockfield, William Edward Gilbert Professor of Neurobiology and President Emerita, 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As the first life scientist to lead MIT, she championed the 

breakthroughs emerging from the historic convergence of the life sciences with the engineering and 

physical sciences, in fields from clean energy to cancer. FREE. 

Sponsored by the Arnold D. Kates Lecture Fund. 

Thursday, March 27 


Film #2: The Eskimo and the Whale 

7:00 p.m. 


Explore the strength and courage of Inupiat people struggling to preserve their subsistence whaling 

culture in the Arctic regions of Alaska. Challenged by hostile weather, intricate international politics, 

the potential opening of ANWR, and off-shore oil exploration, Inupiat whalers remain as determined 

as their icebound ocean. FREE. 




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Thursday March 27 

Santagata Lecture 

“Still Life: An Anthropology of Stone” 

Hugh Raffles 

7:30 p.m. 


Hugh Raffles is professor of anthropology at the New School for Social 

Research. Raffles’ current work uses a cultural and historical anthropology 

of “nature” to explore the relationships between humans and other animals, 

specifically how we identify and make sense of the complex connections 

among people, other beings, and “inanimate” phenomena. He is the author 

of Insectopedia. FREE. 

Sponsored by the Kenneth V. Santagata Memorial Fund. 

Stonewall 


April 

Tuesday, April 1 

Harry Spindel Memorial Lectureship 

Recovering Nazi Art Loot—Unfinished Business 

David D’Arcy 

7:30 p.m. 


David D’Arcy is a film producer, journalist, and critic who is a correspondent for The Art 

Newspaper of London. He is a frequent commentator on the BBC. He has been writing about 

cultural property disputes for more than 25 years for many publications (The Economist, Vanity 

Fair, Art + Auction, Art & Antiques) and is the co-producer and co-writer of Portrait of Wally, a 

documentary film about a Nazi-looted painting that turned up on loan at the Museum of Modern 

Art. FREE. 

Sponsored by the Harry Spindel Memorial Lectureship Fund. 

David D’Arcy 

Thursday, April 3 

“The Portrait in Antiquity” 

Fred Albertson 

4:30 p.m. 


Fred Albertson, associate professor of art history, the University of Memphis, Tennessee. 

Various aspects of portraiture in the ancient world will be explored in this lecture. Presented in 

conjunction with the exhibition Imago to Persona: Portraits from Antiquity. FREE. 




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Roman, Portrait Head of Emperor 

Antoninus Pius, ca. 138-150, marble. Gift 

of Edward Perry Warren, Esq., H ’26.




Russwurm Lecture Series 

“Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Civil War” 

Robert Levine 

7:00 p.m. 

Lancaster Lounge, Moulton Union 

Robert S. Levine is professor of English and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the University of 

Maryland, College Park. His recent books include Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics 

of Representative Identity (1997), and Dislocating Race and Nation: Episodes in Nineteenth-Century 

American Literary Nationalism (2008). He serves on the editorial boards of American Literary 

History; Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies; ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance; 

Authorship; The Frederick Douglass Papers; and The Nathaniel Hawthorne Review. He was recently 

named general editor of the five-volume The Norton Anthology of American Literature. His lecture will 

be drawn from his current book project, “The Lives of Frederick Douglass,” for which he received a 

John Simon Guggenheim fellowship in 2012. FREE. 

Sponsored by the Africana Studies Program. 

Robert Levine 

Saturday, April 5 


10:00 a.m. 




Sunday, April 6 

The Zamir Chorale of Boston 

Joshua Jacobson, artistic director 

2:00 p.m. 


Since its formation in 1969, this fifty-member adult chorale, dubbed a “virtuoso outfit” by the 

Boston Globe and recognized by American Record Guide as “America’s foremost Jewish choral 

ensemble,” has remained committed to the highest quality performance of music spanning 

thousands of years, four continents, and a variety of styles, both popular and classical. FREE. 


The Zamir Chorale of Boston 

Wednesday, April 9 

Amernet String Quartet 

7:30 p.m. 


The Amernet String Quartet with Rachel Calloway, mezzo 

soprano, will present two recent works for voice and quartet, 

including a premiere by Bowdoin faculty member Vineet 

Shende and the Incan-inspired work “Baalkah” by Mexican 

composer Gabriela Ortiz. The program is counterbalanced by 

two wonderful Czech works from the 1920s, the “Five Pieces” 

by Erwin Schulhoff and Leos Janacek’s “Intimate Letters.” 

FREE. 




“Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, and the Surrealist Movement” 

Anne Collins Goodyear 

7:00 p.m. 


An evening of conversation and enjoyment based on the exhibitions currently on view at 

the Museum of Art. Anne Collins Goodyear, co-director of the Bowdoin College Museum of 

Art, will speak about the role of Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp in the Surrealist Movement, 

focusing on works in the Under the Surface: Surrealist Photography. FREE. 


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Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, April 10, 11, and 12 

Spring Theater Performance 

Harrison Bergeron Escapes from the Zoo by Kurt Vonnegut 

8:00 p.m. 

Wish Theater, Memorial Hall 

The year is 2081, and agents of the of U.S. Handicapper General have finally seen to it that 

everyone is equal. Based on Kurt Vonnegut’s dystopic nightmare, Harrison Bergeron, this 

circus-theatre-cabaret is a collective creation by students of the Departments of Theater and 

Dance, Music, and Visual Arts, under the direction of Kathryn Syssoyeva. Tickets FREE. 

Sponsored by the Alice Cooper Morse Fund for the Performing Arts. 

Presented by the Department of Theater and Dance. 



Man Ray, Untitled, 1921, gelatin silver 

print. Museum Purchase, Lloyd O. and 

Marjorie Strong Coulter Fund.



Friday, April 11 

Common Hour: Student Chamber Ensembles 

12:30 p.m. 


Common Hour will feature a recital by the Department of Music’s chamber ensembles. FREE. 



Bowdoin Orchestra 

George Lopez, director 

3:00 p.m. 


FREE. 


Sunday, April 13 

Bowdoin College Concert Band 

John P. Morneau, director 

2:00 p.m. 


FREE. 


George Lopez 

John P. Morneau 


A Reading by Poet Dan Albergotti 

4:30 p.m. 

Faculty Lounge, Massachusetts Hall 

Poet and Coastal Carolina University professor Dan Albergotti, author of The Boatloads (BOA 

Editions, 2008) and the forthcoming Millennial Teeth (Southern Illinois University Press, 2014), 

will read from his work. To sample Albergotti’s poetry, go to: fishousepoems.org. FREE. 

SPONSORED BY From the Fishouse. 

Dan Albergotti 


Gallery Talk: Multiple Perspectives in The Object Show: Discoveries in 

Bowdoin Collections 

Susan Wegner and Nathaniel Wheelwright 

Noon 


Susan Wegner, associate professor of art history, and Nathaniel Wheelwright, professor of natural 

sciences, lead an interdisciplinary discussion of select works in The Object Show: Discoveries in 

Bowdoin Collections. Third in a series of three gallery talks during the Spring 2014 semester. FREE. 





A Reading by Author Elizabeth Strout 

7:30 p.m. 


Elizabeth Strout is the author of numerous short stories and three novels, including Amy and Isabelle, 

which was shortlisted for the 2000 Orange Prize and nominated for the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award for 

fiction, and Olive Kitteridge, a collection of connected short stories about a woman and her immediate 

family and friends on the coast of Maine, for which Strout won the Pulitzer Prize in 2009. Her most 

recent novel, The Burgess Boys, was published in March of 2013. Strout has been a professor at 

Colgate University and on the faculty of the MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte. FREE. 

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Thursday and Friday, April 17 and 18 

Symposium: “Visions of Reality: Science and Other Means of Seeking Knowledge” 

7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., Thursday, keynote address by Don J. Wyatt 

Main Lounge, Moulton Union 

9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Friday, panels, “The Peripatetic,” “The Encyclopedic,” 

“The Reflexive,” “The Pious,” and “The Mathematical” 


Modern science enjoys a prominent place and enormous authority in our age. Such prestige is the 

outcome of a long historical process, during which scientific knowledge and method have been 

gradually promoted over other forms of knowledge and methods of inquiry. This symposium will bring 

together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to examine the diverse means of creating technical 

knowledge before and after the birth of modern science. The keynote address and the panels will 

highlight the latest scholarship on a range of issues from scientific transference between traditional 

China and the West to nuclear power during the Cold War period. For more information and the 

complete schedule of events, go to: bowdoin.edu/history/calendar/kemp-symposium/. FREE. 

Sponsored by Robert J. Kemp Lectureship Fund and the Departments of History, Asian Studies, Religion, Chemistry, 

and Earth and Oceanographic Science. 



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Navarana Sorensen 

Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, April 17, 18, and 19 

Spring Dance Performance 

8:00 p.m. 

Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall 

Bowdoin’s Spring Dance concert features faculty-directed modern and Afro-modern dance pieces, 

and independent work by students. The evening emphasizes the collective strength of the 

ensemble with students of every level filling the stage. Tickets FREE. 

Sponsored by the Alice Cooper Fund for the Performing Arts and the June Vail Fund for Dance. 

Presented by the Department of Theater and Dance. 


George Lopez, piano 

4:00 p.m. 


Bowdoin’s Beckwith Artist in Residence, George Lopez, will give a performance of unique 

contemporary works by Vin Shende and Carter Pann among others, inspired by forms and composers 

of the distant past and present. Come and hear the living sounds of living composers. FREE. 




Film #3: Vanishing Point (2012) 

7:00 p.m. 


Navarana is an Inughuit elder from the most northern district of Greenland. In the 1860s, her 

ancestor led a legendary Inuit migration to Greenland. More than 150 years later, Navarana 

connects with distant cousins and explores these two isolated groups. FREE. 




“Spring Flowers: Andy Warhol and James Rosenquist” 

Joachim Homann and Sarah Montross 

7:00 p.m. 


Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Curatorial Fellow Sarah Montross and Curator Joachim Homann 

moderate a conversation about flowers in Pop Art, exemplified by a silkscreen by Andy Warhol, 

recently donated to Bowdoin by the Andy Warhol Foundation, and a monumental painting by James 

Rosenquist on loan to the Museum. FREE. 


Spring dance. Photo by Alex Cornell 

du Houx. 

George Lopez 

Andy Warhol, Flowers, 1970, screenprint. 

Gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the 

Visual Arts. 

Monday, April 28 

Middle Eastern Ensemble 

7:30 p.m. 


The Bowdoin Middle Eastern Ensemble, directed by Eric LaPerna 

and Amos Libby, will present classical and contemporary music 

from the Arabic and Ottoman Turkish traditions. The ensemble 

performs on traditional Middle Eastern musical instruments like the oud (Middle Eastern lute) 

and qanun (72-stringed Middle Eastern zither) as well vocals and Western instruments along with 

Middle Eastern percussion. FREE. 



“The Smithsonian’s History of America in 101 Objects” 

Richard Kurin 

4:30 p.m. 


Richard Kurin, under secretary for history, art, and culture at the Smithsonian 

Institution, will discuss objects in the Smithsonian’s collections, such as the 

Star-Spangled Banner, Lincoln’s hat, Bell’s telephone, Armstrong’s trumpet, 

Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe, and even the National Zoo’s pandas to weave an 

engaging history of our nation. FREE. 



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Afro-Latin Music Ensemble 

7:30 p.m. 


Under the direction of Michael Wingfield, Bowdoin’s Afro-Latin Music Ensemble 

will present a concert highlighting the scintillating rhythms and cultural richness 

of the descendants of Africans in the Carribbean. FREE. 


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May 



Thursday, May 1 

Gallery Talk on the exhibition, Under the Surface: Surrealist Photography 

Jessica May 

4:30 p.m. 


Jessica May, curator of modern and contemporary art at the Portland Museum of Art and curator 

of the 2013 Portland Museum of Art Biennial, will join Andrea Rosen, curatorial assistant and 

curator of Under the Surface: Surrealist Photography, for an informal gallery talk. FREE. 





Harry Spindel Memorial Lectureship 

“Culture and Barbarism: Nazi Art Plundering and the Restitution Field 

Moving Forward” 

Jonathan Petropoulos 

7:30 p.m. 


Jonathan Petropoulos is the John V. Croul Professor of European History at Claremont McKenna College 

in Southern California. He is the author of Art as Politics in the Third Reich (University of North Carolina 

Press, 1996), and The Faustian Bargain: The Art World in Nazi Germany (Oxford University Press, 2000), 

Royals and the Reich: The Princes von Hessen in Nazi Germany (Oxford University Press, 2006), and the 

forthcoming Artists Under Hitler: The Power of Seduction and the Fate of Modernism in Nazi Germany (Yale 

University Press, 2014). He has also served as research director for art and cultural property on the 

Presidential Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States, where he helped draft the report, 

Restitution and Plunder: The U.S. and Holocaust Victims’ Assets (2001). Petropoulos has helped organize 

art exhibitions, such as Degenerate Art: The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany, which opened at 

the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1991, and he has served as a consultant for a number of 

Holocaust victims and heirs trying to recover lost artworks, including assisting members of the Bloch- 

Bauer family as they recovered five paintings by Gustav Klimt in 2006. He has also appeared in over a 

dozen documentary films: among them, the award-winning The Rape of Europa (2007). FREE. 

Sponsored by the Harry Spindel Memorial Lectureship Fund. 

George Platt Lynes, Portrait of Thomas 

Bacon, 1939, gelatin silver print. Museum 

Purchase, Lloyd O. and Marjorie Strong 

Coulter Fund. 

Thursday and Friday, May 1 and 2 

Symposium: “Social Politics and the Cold War” 

7:30 p.m., Thursday, keynote address by Dagmar Herzog 

9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Friday, panels 


The year 2014 marks the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the last moments of 

the Cold War that defined the second half of the 20th century. The “Social Politics and the Cold 

War” symposium brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to investigate the cultural 

impacts of superpower rivalry. Rather than focusing exclusively on the political or military aspects 

of the Cold War, the symposium examines the effects of the bi-polar world on cultural production, 

women’s issues, health and sexuality, the environment, youth movements, the production of 

science, and the reshaping of national educational paradigms. For more information and the 

complete schedule of events, go to: bowdoin.edu/gender-women. FREE. 

SPONSORED BY the Office of the Dean for Academic Affairs and the Departments of Gender and Womens Studies, 

History, and German. 

Thursday and Friday, May 1 and 2 

Bowdoin Chorus 

Anthony Antolini ’63, director 

7:30 p.m. 


Bowdoin Chorus and Mozart Mentors Orchestra, under the direction of Anthony Antolini ’63, 

will present Mendelssohn’s Psalm 114 and Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms. FREE. 


Saturday, May 3 


10:00 a.m. 


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Bowdoin Chamber Choir 

Robert K. Greenlee, director 

3:00 p.m. 

Bowdoin Chapel 

FREE. 



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Tuesday, May 6 

Jazz Night 

Frank Mauceri, director 

7:30 p.m. 


FREE. 



Chamber Music Fest 

4:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. 


FREE. 


Friday, May 9 

Museum Pieces 

12:30 p.m. 

Museum Steps on the Bowdoin Quad 

Museum Pieces, a Bowdoin tradition for more than twenty years, will conclude the 2013–2014 

Common Hour series. The annual event celebrates the arrival of spring through dancing and music 

provided by the Department of Theater and Dance, class projects, and independent student work. 

FREE. 

Sponsored by the Department of Theater and Dance and Common Hour. 

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January 

Mon, 20 ◆ 10:30 a.m.–Noon ◆ Children’s Celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. ◆ Daggett Lounge, Thorne Hall 

Mon, 20 ◆ 7:30 p.m. ◆ Martin Luther King Jr. Campus Celebration, Climbing PoeTree ◆ Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center 

Thu, 30 ◆ 4:30 p.m. ◆ “Stone, Wood, Printing Press: Remembering (Almost) Forgotten Crafts” ◆ Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center 

Thu, 30 ◆ 5:30 p.m.–7:00 p.m. ◆ Open House at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art ◆ Bowdoin College Museum of Art 

February 

Sat, 1 ◆ 10:00 a.m. ◆ Family Saturday at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art ◆ Bowdoin College Museum of Art 

Wed, 5 ◆ 7:30 p.m. ◆ Ying Quartet ◆ Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall 

Wed–Sat, 5–8 ◆ See times below ◆ The Bowdoin French Film Festival ◆ Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center 

Wed, 5 ◆ 7:00 p.m. ◆ Après Mai (Something in the Air) 

Thu, 6 ◆ 7:00 p.m. ◆ La Pirogue 

Fri, 7 ◆ 4:30 p.m. ◆ Couleur de Peau: Miel (Approved for Adoption) 

Fri, 7 ◆ 7:30 p.m. ◆ L’Enfant d’en Haut 

Sat, 8 ◆ 7:00 p.m. ◆ Monsieur Lazhar 

Sat, 8 ◆ 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. ◆ Environmental Justice Symposium ◆ Schwartz Outdoor Leadership Center 

Wed, 12 ◆ 4:30 p.m. ◆ “Crimes of the Dream World: French Trials of Diola Witches” ◆ Room 315, Searles Science Building 

Thu, 13 ◆ 7:00 p.m. ◆ The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum Film Series Film #1: For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska ◆ Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall 

Thu, 13 ◆ 7:00 p.m. ◆ Thursday Night Salon at the Museum of Art “Thomas Cole at Work: Landscape Painting in the Catskills” ◆ Bowdoin College 

Museum of Art 

Fri–Sat, 14–15 ◆ “On the Wing, A Celebration of Birds” Krista River, mezzo-soprano, and George Lopez, piano ◆ Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall 

◆ 4:00 p.m. ◆ Friday Teatime 

◆ 7:30 p.m. ◆ Saturday 

Mon–Sun, 17–23 ◆ 7:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m. ◆ World Cinema Film Festival ◆ Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center 

Mon, 17 ◆ Memories of Overdevelopment (Miguel Coyula, Cuba, 2010) 

Tue, 18 ◆ The Return (Andrey Zvyagintsev, Russia, 2003) 

Wed, 19 ◆ The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino, Italy, 2013) 

Thu, 20 ◆ The Ambassador (Mads Brügger, Denmark, 2011) 

Fri, 21 ◆ Map of the Sounds of Tokyo (Isabel Coixet, Spain, 2009) 

Sat, 22 ◆ Please Vote for Me (Weijun Chen, China, 2007) 

Sun, 23 ◆ Blancanieves (Pablo Berger, Spain, 2012) 

Thu, 20 ◆ Noon ◆ Gallery Talk: Multiple Perspectives in The Object Show: Discoveries in Bowdoin Collections ◆ Bowdoin College Museum of Art 

Mon, 24 ◆ 4:30 p.m. ◆ A Reading by Author Jennifer Finney Boylan ◆ Faculty Room, Massachusetts Hall 

Thu, 27 ◆ 5:30 p.m.–7:00 p.m. ◆ Exhibition Preview and Reception for Museum and Maine Alumni Club Members: Under the Surface: Surrealist 

Photography ◆ Bowdoin College Museum of Art 

Thu, 27 ◆ 7:00 p.m. ◆ Tallman Lecture ”Feminism, Interrupted: Why Can’t the Women’s Movement Pass Down Power?” ◆ Kresge Auditorium, 

Visual Arts Center 

Thu–Sat, 27–1 ◆ 8:00 p.m. ◆ The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde ◆ Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall 

Fri, 28 ◆ 4:30 p.m. ◆ “Strange Passion: Frederick Sommer’s Wartime Surrealism” ◆ Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center 

Fri, 28 ◆ 5:30 p.m.–7:00 p.m. ◆ Open House at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art ◆ Bowdoin College Museum of Art 

Fri, 28 ◆ 7:30 p.m. ◆ Steve Grover Quintet ◆ Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall 

March 


Mon, 3 ◆ 6:00 p.m. ◆ “Science is Fiction”: A Selection of Films by Jean Painlevé ◆ Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center 

Wed, 5 ◆ 7:30 p.m. ◆ Elizabeth Weigle, soprano, and Daniel Lippel, guitar ◆ Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall 

Tue, 25 ◆ Noon ◆ Gallery Talk: Multiple Perspectives in The Object Show: Discoveries in Bowdoin Collections ◆ Bowdoin College Museum of Art 

Tue, 25 ◆ 7:30 p.m. ◆ Kates Lecture “The 21st Century’s Technology Story: Biology, Physics and Engineering Converge” ◆ Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center 

Thu, 27 ◆ 7:00 p.m. ◆ The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum Film Series Film #2: The Eskimo and the Whale ◆ Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall 

Thu, 27 ◆ 7:30 p.m. ◆ Santagata Lecture “Still Life: An Anthropology of Stone” ◆ Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center 

April 

Bowdoin College Arts and Culture Events Spring 2014 

Tue, 1 ◆ 7:30 p.m. ◆ Harry Spindel Memorial Lectureship, “Recovering Nazi Art Loot—Unfinished Business” ◆ Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center 

Thu, 3 ◆ 4:30 p.m. ◆ “The Portrait in Antiquity”◆ Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center 

Thu, 3 ◆ 7:00 p.m. ◆ Russwurm Lecture Series, “Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Civil War” ◆ Lancaster Lounge, Moulton Union 


Sun, 6 ◆ 2:00 p.m. ◆ The Zamir Chorale of Boston ◆ Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall 

Wed, 9 ◆ 7:30 p.m. ◆ Amernet String Quartet ◆ Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall 

Thu, 10 ◆ 7:00 p.m. ◆ Thursday Night Salon at the Museum of Art “Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, and the Surrealist Movement” ◆ Bowdoin College 

Museum of Art 

Thu–Sat, 10–12 ◆ 8:00 p.m. ◆ Spring Theater Performance, Harrison Bergeron Escapes from the Zoo by Kurt Vonnegut ◆ Wish Theater, Memorial Hall 

Fri, 11 ◆ 12:30 p.m. ◆ Common Hour: Student Chamber Ensembles ◆ Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall 

Sat, 12 ◆ 3:00 p.m. ◆ Bowdoin Orchestra ◆ Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall 

Sun, 13 ◆ 2:00 p.m. ◆ Bowdoin College Concert Band ◆ Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall 

Wed, 16 ◆ 4:30 p.m. ◆ A Reading by Poet Dan Albergotti ◆ Faculty Lounge, Massachusetts Hall 

Thu, 17 ◆ Noon ◆ Gallery Talk: Multiple Perspectives in The Object Show: Discoveries in Bowdoin Collections ◆ Bowdoin College Museum of Art 

Thu, 17 ◆ 7:30 p.m. ◆ A Reading by Author Elizabeth Strout ◆ Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center 

Thu–Fri, 17–18 ◆ Symposium: “Visions of Reality: Science and Other Means of Seeking Knowledge” 

◆ 7:30 p.m.–9:00 p.m. ◆ Thursday, keynote address by Don J. Wyatt ◆ Main Lounge, Moulton Union 

◆ 9:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. ◆ Friday, panels, “The Peripatetic,” “The Encyclopedic,” “The Reflexive,” “The Pious,” and “The Mathematical” ◆ Lancaster Lounge, 

Moulton Union 

All events are open to the public. Admission to most events is free and no tickets are required. Any ticket or admission requirements are listed 

within the full event description. For information on acquiring tickets, see the back cover. All events are subject to change. 


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Thu–Sat, 17–19 ◆ 8:00 p.m. ◆ Spring Dance Performance ◆ Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall 

Sat, 19 ◆ 4:00 p.m. ◆ George Lopez, piano ◆ Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall 

Thu, 24 ◆ 7:00 p.m. ◆ The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum Film Series Film #3: Vanishing Point (2012) ◆ Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall 

Thu, 24 ◆ 7:00 p.m. ◆ Thursday Night Salon at the Museum of Art: “Spring Flowers: Andy Warhol and James Rosenquist” ◆ Bowdoin College Museum of Art 

Mon, 28 ◆ 7:30 p.m. ◆ Middle Eastern Ensemble ◆ Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall 

Wed, 30 ◆ 4:30 p.m. ◆ “The Smithsonian’s History of America in 101 Objects” ◆ Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center 

Wed, 30 ◆ 7:30 p.m. ◆ Afro-Latin Music Ensemble ◆ Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall 

May 

Thu, 1 ◆ 4:30 p.m. ◆ Gallery Talk on the exhibition, Under the Surface: Surrealist Photography ◆ Bowdoin College Museum of Art 

Thu, 1 ◆ 7:30 p.m. ◆ Harry Spindel Memorial Lectureship, “Culture and Barbarism: Nazi Art Plundering and the Restitution Field Moving Forward” ◆ 


Thu–Fri, 1–2 ◆ Symposium: “Social Politics and the Cold War” ◆ Lancaster Lounge, Moulton Union 

◆ 7:30 p.m. ◆ Thursday, keynote address by Dagmar Herzog 

◆ 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. ◆ Friday, panels 

Thu–Fri, 1–2 ◆ 7:30 p.m. ◆ Bowdoin Chorus ◆ Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall 


Sat–Sun, 3–4 ◆ 3:00 p.m. ◆ Bowdoin Chamber Choir ◆ Bowdoin Chapel 

Tue, 6 ◆ 7:30 p.m. ◆ Jazz Night◆ Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall 

Thu, 8 ◆ 4:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. ◆ Chamber Music Fest ◆ Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall 

Fri, 9 ◆ 12:30 p.m. ◆ Museum Pieces ◆ Museum Steps on the Bowdoin Quad 

Ticket Information 

Public 

Advance tickets available at the David Saul Smith Union information desk, 207-725-3375. A limited 

number of tickets may also be available at the door immediately before the event. Patrons are advised 

to call ahead. Notes: Dates tickets become available may vary. Due to limited seating, tickets expire 

five minutes before showtime. 

Association of Bowdoin Friends Members 

Advance tickets available at the David Saul Smith Union Information desk, 207-725-3375. Patrons 

must present their Friends membership card. Tickets limited to two per card. Please call ahead to 

ensure ticket availability, 207-725-3253. A limited number of tickets may also be available at the 

door immediately before the event. Notes: Dates tickets become available may vary. Due to limited 

seating, tickets expire five minutes before showtime. 

Bowdoin Students, Faculty, and Staff 

Advance tickets available at the David Saul Smith Union information desk, 207-725-3375. Patrons 

must present their Bowdoin student, faculty, or staff ID. A limited number of tickets may also be 

available at the door immediately before the event. Notes: Dates tickets become available may vary. 

Due to limited seating, tickets expire five minutes before showtime. 

Bowdoin College is committed to making its campus accessible to persons with disabilities. 

Individuals who have special needs should contact the Office of Events and Summer Programs 

at 207-725-3433. 

The Bowdoin College Arts and Culture Calendar is produced by the Office of Communications and 

Public Affairs and the Office of the Dean for Academic Affairs. The Bowdoin College community is 

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Coming This Summer 

June 26, 2014 

Richard Tuttle: Prints—A Retrospective 

In the summer of 2014, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art will open Richard Tuttle: Prints 

—A Retrospective. The first exhibition of its kind, this exhibition will feature works from the 

1970s to the present. In sensitively exploiting the unique possibilities inherent in different 

printmaking processes, Tuttle demonstrates his deep interest in the interrelationship of the 

materials, tools, and actions that make printmaking a collaborative experience—for Tuttle a 

poetic process of transfer and exchange. 

July 10, 2014 

Cool! The Jazz Photography of William P. Gottlieb 

This exhibition features photographs of jazz musicians in performance by William P. Gottlieb 

(1917–2006). The images were created between 1938 and 1948, a period when African 

American jazz musicians first brought the concept of “cool” into the modern vernacular. 

Gottlieb’s photographic portraits celebrate jazz musicians whose rebellious self-expression, 

charisma, edge, and mystery made them American icons. 


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