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Bowdoin College Brunswick, Maine 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, February 13 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 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. Sponsored and presented by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Underwritten by the Louisa Vaughan Conrad Fund. Thomas Cole, Lake Mohonk, ca. 1846, oil on canvas. 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. 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 Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall “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. For more information on these and many other events go to: bowdoin.edu/arts Krista River
Bowdoin College Brunswick, Maine 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. Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center 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 Jennifer Finney Boylan 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. Thursday, February 20 Gallery Talk: Multiple Perspectives in The Object Show: Discoveries in Bowdoin Collections Tess Chakkalakal and John Cross Noon Bowdoin College Museum of Art 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. Thursday, February 27 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. Bowdoin College Museum of Art 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. For more information on these and many other events go to: bowdoin.edu/arts Gallery view of The Object Show. 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.
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