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ARTSANDCULTURECALENDAR OF EVENTS FALL 2018

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Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies CenterMuseum HoursTuesday–Saturday: 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Sunday: 2:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m. Closed on Mondays and national holidays.

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NEW EXHIBITIONS

OCTOBER 2, 2018, THROUGH JANUARY 20, 2019Caught in the Middle: The Tragic Life of Minik WallaceOn the 100th anniversary of his death, we look at the life of Minik, a young Inughuit boy who in 1897 traveled to New York with his father and other relatives to spend a year working with an anthropologist. What began as an adventure ended in tragedy when Minik’s father, and most of the others, died of respiratory diseases. Minik was adopted and raised by an American family and did not return to Greenland until 1909. He lived there until 1916 when he returned to the US, only to die in the 1918 influenza epidemic.

ONGOING EXHIBITIONS

THROUGH OCTOBER 1Blossoming Tundra: The Photography of Rutherford PlattIn 1947 and 1954, botanist and photographer Rutherford Platt sailed north on the schooner Bowdoin to study Arctic plants. He took a series of remarkable close-up photographs to highlight the wonders of the Arctic’s incredible tiny flowers and illustrate their specialized adaptations.

THROUGH DECEMBER 22Enduring Connections: Contemporary Alaskan Yup’ik and Iñupiat ArtOver the last 150 years, Alaskan Yup’ik and Iñupiat artists have drawn on ancient traditions to create works reflecting their rich history of innovation and resilience in the face of many challenges. This exhibit features the ways artists create carvings, baskets, masks, and dolls to explore both their ancient traditions and the contemporary world. It includes many recently acquired works. Funded by the Russell and Janet Doubleday Endowment.

THROUGH DECEMBER 31, 2019 Threads of Change: Clothing and Identity in the NorthAcross the Arctic, generations of seamstresses have fashioned animal furs and skins into beautiful, warm, and waterproof clothing. This exhibit explores how they express their creativity and identity through clothing and how their attire reflects the changing nature of northern life. Funded by the Russell and Janet Doubleday Endowment.

LONG-TERM INSTALLATIONSRobert E. Peary and His Northern WorldAs a pioneering Arctic explorer, Peary relied on many extraordinary people. He 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. This exhibit provides new perspectives on Peary’s long career. Funded by the Russell and Janet Doubleday Endowment.

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

EXHIBITIONS

Hawthorne-Longfellow LibraryFALL 2018Parker Cleaveland: A Life in ScienceBowdoin’s first professor of mathematics and natural philosophy, Parker Cleaveland (1780–1858), was a polymath who studied mineralogy, geology, astronomy, biology, conchology, and meteorology. His An Elementary Treatise on Mineralogy and Geology (1816) was the first American textbook on the subject, and he was instrumental in building the College’s early teaching collections. This exhibition draws upon these rich holdings to explore Cleaveland’s pedagogical and scientific legacy.

ONGOINGHighlights from the Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain PapersTreasures on display related to Civil War hero Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Bowdoin Class of 1852, include his Congressional Medal of Honor and the Tiffany & Co. bracelet he designed for his wife on their tenth anniversary.

Highlights from the George J. Mitchell PapersExplore the life and legacy of Senator George J. Mitchell, Bowdoin Class of 1954, in this rotating exhibit of materials from his personal and political papers.

Rutherford Platt, Arctic Rose, Dryas integrifolia, Seed Head, August 14, 1947, Thule, Greenland. 35mm Kodachrome transparency. Gift of Alexander D. Platt ’66, Rutherford Platt Jr., and Susan Platt.

Peter Smith, Puffin Mask, 1990. Wood and pigment. Purchased in memory of Meredith B. Jones.

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Bowdoin College Museum of Art NEW EXHIBITIONS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018, THROUGH SEPTEMBER 29, 2019Let’s Get Lost and Listening GlassLet’s Get Lost, a site-specific drawing by linn meyers, will be complemented by the interactive sound installation Listening Glass, created by Rebecca Bray, James Bigbee Garver, and Josh Knowles in partnership with meyers. The joint projects include visual and acoustic components that can be activated through audience participation.

OCTOBER 4, 2018, THROUGH FEBRUARY 10, 2019Kate Furbish and Edwin Hale Lincoln: New England Botanical Studies Highlighting two exceptional artist-botanists, watercolorist Kate Furbish (1834–1931) and photographer Edwin Hale Lincoln (1848–1938), this exhibition addresses important questions about the relationship between the arts and sciences and the interest in botany at the dawn of the American industrial age.

OCTOBER 11, 2018, THROUGH APRIL 7, 2019Among Women: Portraits from the Permanent CollectionFeaturing outstanding portraits in all media from the Museum’s permanent collection and several important loans, the exhibition explores the artistic portrayal of women in the US over the last three centuries and examines the myriad ways artists have represented women in American art.

NOVEMBER 15, 2018, THROUGH JANUARY 20, 20191968–Spring of Discontent: The Photography of Michael RuetzIn a visual diary of iconic photographs, Ruetz captured the events and circumstances of 1968 and the ideas and sociopolitical changes associated with the ’68 Movement in Germany and beyond. The exhibition is made possible with the generous support of the Goethe-Institut Boston.

DECEMBER 6, 2018, THROUGH JUNE 2, 2019Material Resources: Intersections of Art and the Environment With works drawn from the Museum’s permanent collection, this exhibition explores the intersections of art and the environment. Featuring objects from antiquity to today, Material Resources: Intersections of Art and the Environment examines artists’ dependence on Earth’s material resources, while presenting art as an integral “material” resource in the study of the environment.

ONGOING EXHIBITIONS

THROUGH SEPTEMBER 16, 2018Richard Pousette-Dart: Painting/Light/SpaceRichard Pousette-Dart (1916–1992) was the youngest artist among the founders of the New York School. This exhibition focuses on paintings from the 1960s and early 1970s, a fruitful period in Pousette-Dart’s career in which his work was widely exhibited, championed by critics, and left a mark on a younger generation of artists.

THROUGH OCTOBER 28Winslow Homer and the Camera: Photography and the Art of PaintingThis exhibition explores the question of Homer’s relationship with the medium of photography and its impact on his artistic practice. Homer understood that photography, as a new technology of sight, had much to reveal. This exhibition adds an important new dimension to our appreciation of this pioneering American painter.

THROUGH JANUARY 6, 2019A Handheld History: Medals from the Molinari Collection at Bowdoin CollegeA Handheld History allows viewers to experience the intimacy and poignancy of portrait medals spanning nearly five centuries and consider the lessons they have to impart to contemporary audiences.

THROUGH OCTOBER 13, 2019In the Round: Ancient Art from All SidesThis exhibition examines the geometry and design of ancient art and the efforts by artists to represent depth and movement by influencing the vantage point of the viewer. By simply flipping a coin, rotating a vase, or walking around a sculpture, new perspectives emerge.

To Instruct and Delight: European and American Art, 1500–1800The Museum’s collection of historic European and American art was shaped by James Bowdoin III, the founder of the College, who bequeathed family collections of European art in 1811. This exhibition brings together works from Bowdoin’s permanent collection with important recent acquisitions.

Tell Me What You’re Thinking, 2016, chromogenic print by Mickalene Thomas. Bowdoin College Museum of Art.


CALENDARSEPTEMBERSATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1Outdoor Film Screening: Call Me by Your Name (Luca Guadagnino, 2017)

8:00 p.m. Main Quad, near Museum of Art steps (see website for rain location)

Celebrate the start of the academic year with an outdoor screening of the Oscar-winning film Call Me by Your Name (Luca Guadagnino), with gelato from Brunswick’s own Gelato Fiasco.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3“The Universal Tale and the Haunting Specters of Call Me By Your Name”

4:30 p.m. Shannon Room, Hubbard Hall

Sergio Rigoletto, associate professor of Italian and cinema studies at the University of Oregon, writes on European (especially Italian) cinema, queer cinema, stars studies, film comedy, and television. He is the author of Masculinity and Italian Cinema: Sexual Politics, Social Conflict and Male Crisis in the 1970s (Edinburgh University Press, 2017) and the coeditor of Popular Italian Cinema (Palgrave: Basingstoke, 2013).

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6“Symbolic Form and Materiality: Richard Pousette-Dart’s Connections to Cambridge University”

4:30 p.m. Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center

Jennifer Powell, senior curator at Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge, England, and lecturer at the University of Cambridge, presents new research into the artistic practice and philosophical inclinations of the painter Richard Pousette-Dart. Cosponsored by the Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7Walk with Harriet

10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Harriet’s Writing Room, Stowe House

A guided walking history tour of sites related to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s time in Brunswick. Learn about Stowe, her family and friends, and the writing of her most famous novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Rain or shine.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 Audubon Page-Turning with Special Guest Colin Windhorst

12:30 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. Special Collections & Archives Reading Room, Hawthorne-Longfellow Library

Join Special Collections & Archives staff for the monthly page-turning of Audubon’s beautiful and majestic double-elephant folio Birds of America. This month’s guest is Colin Windhorst of the Dennys River Historical Society.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7“Winslow Homer and Fishing”

4:00 p.m. Bowdoin College Museum of Art and Bowdoin Quad

Macauley Lord ’77, author, chaplain, and renowned fly-casting instructor at the L.L. Bean Outdoor Discovery School, discusses nineteenth-century fishing techniques and Homer’s passion for fishing.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12Film Screening and Commentary: “Rediscovering Historic Films by Alfred Otto Gross, Pioneering Bowdoin Ornithologist”

7:00 p.m. Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center

This is the first public screening in nearly ninety years of recently preserved short films taken by A. O. Gross. They feature the last known footage of the now extinct heath hen and rare scenes of North Atlantic bird colonies.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 Walk with Harriet




FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14Alexander Pushkin in the Music of Russian Romanticism, Concert by Sarah Pelletier (soprano) and Francine Kay (piano)

4:30 p.m. Studzinski Recital Hall, Kanbar Auditorium

This concert will present a variety of Russian musical works in the Romantic style that are tied to the great “Father of Russian literature,” Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837). In addition to song settings of Pushkin’s poems by composers including Mikhail Glinka, Sergei Rachmaninov, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Nikolai Medtner, and others, the program will include solo instrumental and chamber works by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Mily Balakirev, and Glinka. Pelletier and Kay are acclaimed musicians who have performed as soloists and in ensembles in many elite venues throughout the world; they are both on the music faculty at Princeton University. Sponsored with the generous support of a loyal Bowdoin family.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14“Color TV, Psychedelic Culture, and Visual Art of the 1960s: Richard Pousette-Dart in Context”

5:00 p.m. Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Sarah Montross, curator, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, discusses parallels between color television’s entrancing qualities, 1960s psychedelic culture, and simultaneous artistic experiments with vivid colors and patterns where artists embraced televisual perception, explored intersections with psychedelia and spirituality, and probed freedom and control in a media-saturated society.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18Curator’s Tour of Winslow Homer and the Camera

Noon Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Dana E. Byrd, assistant professor of art history and cocurator of Winslow Homer and the Camera, leads a tour of the exhibition.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20Tea with Harriet

1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. $ Free/RSVP bowdo.in/tea Harriet’s Writing Room, Stowe House

Harriet’s Writing Room staff explore the “Beecher Preachers,” Stowe’s father, brothers, and husband. These men, all preachers, not only influenced her religious thought and writings, but also helped her navigate through personal tragedies and spiritual crises. Light refreshments will be served.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20A Reading with Author Heather Abel

4:45 p.m. Faculty Room, Massachusetts Hall

Heather Abel’s debut novel, The Optimistic Decade, was published by Algonquin Books in May 2018. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Slate, the Los Angeles Times, and the Paris Review online, among other places. She worked as a reporter and editor for the San Francisco Bay Guardian and High Country News. She earned an MFA in fiction writing from the New School University and has taught writing at the New School, University of Massachusetts–Amherst, and Smith College.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20“The Great LOL of China! An American Comedian in China”

7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center

Jesse Appell is a performer of Chinese standup, Xiangsheng, and bilingual improv comedy who has appeared widely in both China and the US. A Fulbright Scholar alumnus who researches Chinese humor and performance, he is the founder of the US–China Comedy Center and of Laugh Beijing, projects aiming to use comedy to bridge cultural gaps.





SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22

Family Saturday at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art

10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Museum of Art student education assistants lead a weekend program for all ages, including a discussion of works on view and a related hands-on activity. Come enjoy interactive learning and fun!

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24George Lopez Piano Performance

7:30 p.m. Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall

Beckwith Artist in Residence George Lopez will perform the last series of concerts celebrating the three Bs of classical music with a year’s long look at Brahms. This will be an evening of solo piano by one of the greatest Romantic composers of the nineteenth century.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26“The Russian Environment and Social Critique: Ivan Turgenev’s Nature Writing”


Ivan Turgenev, revered for his skill at depicting ideological strife and unhappy love, was also one of Russia’s finest nature writers. In his cycle of short stories, Notes of a Hunter (1847–1852), he deploys his expert knowledge of the natural world to denounce serfdom as a crime against humanity as well as nature. Thomas Hodge, professor of Russian at Wellesley College, explores Turgenev’s writings in the first talk in the “Russian Environment: Nature and Culture” fall lecture series. Hodge is a specialist on nineteenth-century Russian literature and the author of a forthcoming book on Turgenev and the organic world. He has also cofounded a humanities and science course about Lake Baikal that features fieldwork in Siberia. Sponsored with the generous support of a loyal Bowdoin family.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26“Gospel Thrillers: Conspiracy and the Bible in Popular Culture”


“Gospel thrillers” describes a genre of novel that began appearing during the Cold War era, in which a new gospel from the time of Jesus has come to light that would radically alter everything we think we know about Christ, and could even topple Christianity. The novel’s hero travels to exotic locales to discover the hidden truth, shadowed by conspiratorial forces and (often) Vatican assassins. In this talk, Andrew Jacobs of Scripps College dissects this unstudied genre and explores its larger significance for popular attitudes to the Bible as a source for conspiratorial thinking and US culture-making.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26“Let’s Get Lost: Finding One’s Path as an Artist”


linn meyers, the halley k harrisburg ’90 and Michael Rosenfeld Artist-in-Residence, is an internationally recognized artist celebrated for her large-scale wall drawings. Sponsored by the halley k harrisburg ’90 and Michael Rosenfeld Artist-in-Residency Program. Made possible by a gift from David and Barbara Roux P’14.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27English Department Visiting Writers Series: A Reading with Peter Coviello


Peter Coviello will read from his recent book, Long Players: A Love Story in Eighteen Songs (June, 2018), a memoir of his marriage and divorce. Coviello is professor of English at the University of Illinois–Chicago. He has written about Walt Whitman, the history of sexuality, queer children, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American literature, Mormon polygamy, and Steely Dan.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27Faculty Book Launch and Discussion: Unwhite: Appalachia, Race, and Film

4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Nixon Lounge, Third Floor, Hawthorne-Longfellow Library

Meredith McCarroll, director of writing and rhetoric, will speak about her new book, Unwhite: Appalachia, Race, and Film (University of Georgia Press), which focuses on the “othering” of whiteness through Appalachian stereotypes in cinema.

Vasily Perov, Hunters at Rest, 1871


THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27Open House and Tour: Let’s Get Lost and Listening Glass

5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Enjoy an open house and tours celebrating the site-specific installations Let’s Get Lost and Listening Glass. The complementary visual and acoustic components actively invite audience engagement. Made possible by a gift from David and Barbara Roux P’14.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27Backpack Full of Cash: Documentary Screening and Discussion with Filmmakers


Narrated by Matt Damon, Backpack Full of Cash is a feature-length documentary that explores the growing privatization of public schools and the resulting impact on America’s most vulnerable children. Filmed in Philadelphia, New Orleans, Nashville, and other cities, the film takes viewers through the tumultuous 2013–2014 school year, exposing the world of corporate-driven public education “reform.” Filmmakers Sarah Patton and Sarah Mondale are the founders of the nonprofit documentary production company Stone Lantern Films. Their previous work includes School: The Story of American Public Education, an award-winning PBS documentary, and Asylum: A History of Mental Institutions in America.




FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28Noon Hour: “Creative Collaboration in Line, Sound, and Gesture”


Artists linn meyers, Rebecca Bray, Josh Knowles, and James Bigbee Garver discuss the creation of Let’s Get Lost and Listening Glass. Made possible by a gift from David and Barbara Roux P’14.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29The Gibson Players


This concert, featuring Mark Battle, clarinet; Mary Hunter, violin; Karen Jung, cello; and James Parakilas, piano, features two early twentieth-century masterpieces: the Soldier’s Tale suite by Igor Stravinsky, arranged by the composer for piano, clarinet, and violin, and the Quartet for the End of Time by Olivier Messiaen, written for piano, clarinet, violin, and cello. Both works were written in the shadows of world wars, but the composers’ responses to these global catastrophes are strikingly different.


OCTOBERMONDAY, OCTOBER 1Devin Gray’s Dirigo Rataplan


Brooklyn-based jazz drummer/composer Devin Gray reconvenes his Dirigo Rataplan band of master musicians—Dave Ballou, trumpet; Ellery Eskelin, saxophone; and Michael Formanek, bass—to present works from their second album together.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2Gallery Conversation: “Crafting a Handheld History: Bowdoin’s Molinari Medals in Context”

4:30 p.m. Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Amber Orosco ’19, Stephen Pastoriza ’19, and Benjamin Wu ’18 speak about their research on Renaissance medals and the resulting exhibition, A Handheld History: Five Centuries of Medals from the Molinari Collection at Bowdoin College.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3“Mingqaaq: The Life and Times of a Yup’ik Eskimo Coiled Basket”


Complementing the Arctic Museum’s exhibition of Alaskan Yup’ik and Iñupiat art, Molly Lee, curator and professor emerita at University of Alaska Museum of the North, describes her pioneering collaborative fieldwork with Yup’ik basket makers.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4“‘We Endured’: The Civil War and the Visual Culture of Eyewitness”


Makeda Best, Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography, Harvard University Art Museums, speaks about artists’ engagement with the American Civil War.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5 Walk with Harriet



FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5 Audubon Page-Turning


Join Special Collections & Archives staff for the monthly page-turning of Audubon’s beautiful and majestic double-elephant folio Birds of America. Come engage with this incredible book and take home a keepsake bird-of-the-month button!

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6Joyce Moulton and Guests


Enjoy a Saturday afternoon of piano music, chamber music, and visual art in celebration of Claude Debussy and impressionism. Joyce Moulton, pianist, will be joined by guests Mary Hunter, violin; Karen Jung, cello; Krysia Tripp, flute; and Thomas Parchman, clarinet.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10Artist’s Tour of Winslow Homer and the Camera


James Mullen, associate professor of art, discusses Homer’s painting practice.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12

“Gendering AI and Robots: Robo-Sexism in Japan”

3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center

Does advanced technology reproduce conservative models of sex/gender roles and family structures or promote social progress? In this lecture, cultural anthropologist Jennifer Robertson explores this and other issues through a focus on the sex/gender dynamics informing the design and embodiment of artificial intelligence (AI) and robots, especially humanoids, in Japan. Part of the “Reproducing Gender” series.

Amber Orosco ’19, Ben Wu ’18, and Stephen Pastoriza ’19 studying Bowdoin’s Molinari Medals.





SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13Shirley Mathews Memorial Concert


Members of the Boston Handel and Haydn Society and soprano Sarah Yanovitch perform works by Haydn, Beethoven, and Mozart in celebration of the life and music of pianist and harpsichordist Shirley Mathews, who taught at Bowdoin for many years.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 15Labors of Love (Gowri Vijayakumar, Brandeis)

4:30 p.m. Lancaster Lounge, Moulton Union

This talk draws on over 100 in-depth interviews with sex workers and LGBTIQ activists across India and Kenya to consider the ways they move across realms of labor— such as domestic work, sex work, construction work, street vending, and factory work—and love—romantic and sexual relationships, family, and parenthood. These narratives complicate circulating categorizations, used by transnational NGOs, donors, and activists, that isolate sexual practice from everyday life in the context of poverty and inequality.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 15“1968–2018: The Legacy of a Revolution,” An Evening with Bernhard Schlink


Join us for a conversation with author Bernhard Schlink, who will read from and discuss his acclaimed novels The Reader (1995) and The Woman on the Stairs (2005).

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16Film Screening: The Reader and Discussion with Bernhard Schlink

6:30 p.m. Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall

Join us for a film screening of The Reader (2008, Stephen Daldry), followed by a discussion with author Bernhard Schlink.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17“Taking a Photograph: Camera Technology of the Nineteenth Century”


Todd Gustavson, curator of the technology collection at the George Eastman Museum, explores the evolution of camera technology in the nineteenth century and the three cameras that Winslow Homer utilized as part of his artistic practice.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17NPR’s From the Top


The preeminent showcase for young musicians will record a radio broadcast in front of a live campus audience. Sponsored by the Donald M. Zuckert Visiting Professorship Fund.


THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18Tea with Harriet


Explore the culinary world of Harriet Beecher Stowe through recipes in Miss Beecher’s Domestic Receipt Book, written by her sister Catharine, and American Woman’s Home, co-written by Catharine and Harriet. Harriet’s Writing Room staff will talk about food preparation in the nineteenth century, and light refreshments, based on Stowe’s own recipes, will be served.

THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18 AND 19Music at the Museum

5:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m., Thursday Noon, Friday

$ Free/Tickets/Limited Seating 207-725-3276 Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Beckwith Artist in Residence George Lopez performs a program of music associated with exhibitions on view.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18Brodie Family Lecture “Hip Hop/Hip Hope: The (R)Evolution of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy”


Since the initial introduction of culturally relevant pedagogy, our schools and classrooms have grown even more complex. The combination of rapid technologies and the enthusiasm of youth culture make it necessary for teachers (at all levels) to rethink their practice. Even culturally relevant pedagogy must evolve. In this talk, Gloria Ladson-Billings, president of the National Academy of Education and professor emerita, University of Wisconsin, speaks to the way the evolution of culturally relevant pedagogy may insure that more students may experience success both in and out of the classroom.




FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19World Music Ensembles


The Middle Eastern Ensemble, directed by Eric LaPerna and Amos Libby, and the West African Music Ensemble, with guest director Jordan Benissan, present a joint concert.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20Bowdoin Chorus


To celebrate Family Weekend, Anthony Antolini ’63 will conduct the Bowdoin Chorus in a preview of their winter concert and favorite songs of Bowdoin.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21Bowdoin College Concert Band: “Friends I”John P. Morneau, Director


This program will be the first of a trilogy of “Friends” concerts for 2018–2019. Horn soloist Loren Fields will be featured on “Wingspan,” by American composer Gary Kuo. The program also includes: “Grand Canyon Fanfare,” by James Newton Howard, “La Reine de la Mer Waltzes,” by John Philip Sousa, “Three Folk Song Settings,” by Andrew Boysen Jr., and “Serenity,” by Norwegian composer Ola Gjeilo.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 22“Russian Artists in the Arctic: Contemporary Literary and Visual Perspectives”

4:30 p.m. Visual Arts Center, Beam

ClassroomJane T. Costlow, Clark A. Griffith Professor of Environmental Studies at Bates College, presents the second talk in the “Russian Environment: Nature and Culture” fall lecture series. How are contemporary Russian artists and writers representing the country’s far north? This lecture examines the work of photographers, artists, and nonfiction writers addressing Arctic landscapes and climate change within the distinctive context of Russia’s cultural and political history. Costlow is a scholar of Russian literature who has published widely on Russian representations of the natural world, focusing on topics from the northern forest to drought and famine. She is currently working on an anthology of translated texts about Russian nature.


TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23Curator’s Tour of Winslow Homer and the Camera


Frank Goodyear, Museum of Art codirector and cocurator of Winslow Homer and the Camera, leads a final tour of the exhibition before it closes on October 28.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 22“Where Did Trump Come From? Reproductive Politics, Whiteness, and Neoliberalism”


Laura Briggs is a feminist critic and historian of reproductive politics and empire. She is currently professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24“My Time With the 6th Soviet Antarctic Expedition, 1960–1962”


C. Stewart Gillmor, professor of history and science emeritus at Wesleyan University, marks the donation of his Soviet polar clothing to the Arctic Museum with an engaging talk about the fourteen months he spent as the only American at the Soviet Mirny Station in Antarctica, studying ionospheric physics.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25 Opening Celebration Kate Furbish and Edwin Hale Lincoln: New England Botanical Studies

4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Pavilion, Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Frank Goodyear, Museum of Art codirector, and Kat Stefko, director, George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, lead an introductory tour of the exhibition Kate Furbish and Edwin Hale Lincoln: New England Botanical Studies. Refreshments will be served.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25Faculty Book Launch and Discussion: Coherent Structures in Granular Crystals: From Experiment and Modeling to Computation and Mathematical Analysis


Christopher Chong, assistant professor of mathematics, discusses his new book, which focuses on the junction between mathematical analysis, numerical computation, and physical experiments on wave structures.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25Drawing Workshop with Artist Andrea Sulzer

7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.$ Free/Tickets/Limited Seating 207-725-3276

Bowdoin College Museum of ArtArtist Andrea Sulzer leads a hands-on workshop of drawing techniques, presented in conjunction with Winslow Homer and the Camera.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26The 2018 Kemp Symposium “Border Crossings”: A Short Symposium Celebrating the Career of Professor Allen Wells

9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Lancaster Lounge, Moulton Union

Allen Wells, Roger Howell Jr. Professor of History, is a noted scholar of modern Latin America. A New York native, he earned his BA in history and Latin American studies at the State University of New York at Binghamton and his PhD at Stony Brook University. Wells, who came to Bowdoin in 1988, has taught courses spanning the entire scope of Latin American history, from the pre-colonial era to the twenty-first century, and his scholarship has been equally expansive. This symposium features three panels by Latin American historians, as well as Bowdoin alumni who work in academia or fields connected to Latin American, Latinx, and Chicano/a issues.

Showy Lady’s Slipper, watercolor on paper, Kate Furbish. Kate Furbish Collection, George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library.





SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27Family Saturday at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art



SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27Aries Trio


Beckwith Artist in Residence George Lopez welcomes Lev Polyakin, violin, and Martha Aarons, flute.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 29In-Studio Artist’s Portfolio Presentation and Demonstration with Elizabeth Jabar

1:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. Room 105, Edwards Center for Art and Dance

The Fall 2018 Marvin Bileck Printmaking Project Visiting Artist is Elizabeth Jabar, a feminist printmaker who explores a range of personal/political issues in her work, including cultural identity, representation, equity, and maternal ethics. She cocreates and practices in the studio, the classroom, and the community. She is working with students in printmaking courses and will present some of her prints and demonstrate a photo-collagraph technique. Sponsored by the Marvin Bileck and Emily Nelligan Trust.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30“You Can Handle This: Paul Manship’s Hail to Dionysus and Medallic Art in the Modern Era”


Museum of Art codirector Anne Collins Goodyear gives a gallery talk on the exhibition, A Handheld History, featuring an opportunity to handle Paul Manship’s Hail to Dionysus in three variants.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30English Department Visiting Writers Series: A Reading with Chang-rae Lee


Chang-rae Lee, Korean-American novelist and professor of creative writing at Stanford University, reads from his work. He is the author of five novels: Native Speaker (1995); A Gesture Life (1999); Aloft (2004); The Surrendered, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; and On Such a Full Sea (2014), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the Heartland Fiction Prize.

Martha AaronsLev Polyakin

Louis XIV, ca. 1702, bronze, gilding, silver by Jean Mauger. Gift of Amanda Marchesa Molinari. Bowdoin College Museum of Art.


NOVEMBERFRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2 Audubon Page-Turning with Special Guest Michael Boardman


Join Special Collections & Archives staff for the monthly page-turning of Audubon’s beautiful and majestic double-elephant folio Birds of America. This month’s guest speaker is artist and naturalist Michael Boardman.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3Read with Harriet

3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Harriet’s Writing Room, Stowe House

Join the Harriet Beecher Stowe book group for a discussion of Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston. The book group meets twice a year to explore and discuss books on issues of civil and human rights and social justice. Light refreshments will be served.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3Maine Brass Guild


See bowdoin.edu/arts/calendar for more information.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4Bernstein Songfest


The artists of Amethyst Chamber Ensemble collaborate with pianist and Beckwith Artist in Residence George Lopez to celebrate the Bernstein 100th. Chamber works and vocal selections from Leonard Bernstein’s most beloved works and hidden gems, woven together with video clips and testimonials to one of the greatest American musicians – composer, conductor, teacher, mentor, and advocate for art and music in America. Two pianos, percussion, cello, and six vocal soloists weave together selections from the “Symphonic Dances” from West Side Story (for two pianos and percussion), with vocal selections from West Side Story, Candide, On the Town, Mass, and glorious songs and ensembles from Songfest, for vocal sextet. Also including music by those who influenced him, and were influenced by him—Barber, Copland, and Bernstein, and selections from Stephen Sondheim.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5“Denouement: Sir Gawain, Chaucer’s Squire, and the Ends of Cotton Nero A.x”


Arthur Bahr will speak on the study of medieval manuscripts. Bahr is associate professor of MIT’s literature department and author of Fragments and Assemblages: Forming Compilations of Medieval London (University of Chicago Press, 2013). His essays have appeared in ELH, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Studies in Philology, and The Chaucer Review, as well as a range of edited volumes. He is currently writing a book about the so-called Pearl or Gawain manuscript, British Library MS Cotton Nero A.x.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7Botanist’s Tour of Kate Furbish and Edwin Hale Lincoln: New England Botanical Studies


Melissa Cullina, research botanist with Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, discusses the exhibition Kate Furbish and Edwin Hale Lincoln.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8“Back on Tracks: The Recovery and Restoration of Labrador’s First Snowmobile, a Model-T Ford”


In 1927 and 1928, a Model-T Ford equipped with skis and snow-tracks was used in Labrador by Donald B. MacMillan, who left it there. In 2014, Jamie Brake, archaeologist for the Nunatsiavut Government of Labrador, recovered the vehicle and had it restored. He will discuss the project and show historic and contemporary film footage of the snowmobile in operation.

Labrador’s First Snowmobile and Martin Vorse, expedition member. Donald B. MacMillan, 1927-28.


SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10Family Saturday at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art



SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10Igor Begelman, Clarinet; Walter Gray, Cello; and George Lopez, Piano


Beckwith Artist in Residence George Lopez will continue his Brahms series with a look at the duos for clarinet and cello as well as a rousing performance of Brahms’s late Clarinet trio, opus 114.

FRIDAY, SATURDAY, AND SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 10, AND 11Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov: A New Version by Libby Appel

7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday 2:00 p.m., Sunday

$ Free/Tickets available 10/19/2018 Wish Theater, Memorial Hall

Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters highlights a small Russian town’s dreams, sorrows, and missed opportunities. Simultaneously comic and searing, Three Sisters reminds us that to be alive is to affect one another irrevocably, and every choice—including not deciding at all—has lasting consequences. Sponsored by the Alice Cooper Morse Fund.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12Poetry Reading with Adrian Blevins and Cate Marvin


Award-winning poets Adrian Blevins and Cate Marvin will read from their work.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13“Holding History in the Palm of One’s Hand: Contemporary Perspectives on Medals and Coins from Antiquity to the Recent Past”


Stephen K. Scher, collector and art historian; Peter van Alfen, chief curator, American Numismatic Society; and Susan E. Wegner, associate professor of art history, share their insights into the study, collecting, and exhibition of historic medals and coins.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13Frontiers: Of Difference and Indifference Congolese Photographer Sammy Baloji

7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center

Photographer Sammy Baloji, currently the Robert Gardner Fellow in Photography at Harvard’s Peabody Museum, was raised in Lubumbashi, DRC. Through his photography and multimedia installations, he traces social history in architecture and landscape and probes the body as a site of memory and witness to operations of power. Baloji’s work has been featured in the Tate Modern, the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Royal Museum of Central Africa in Tervuren, among other institutions.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14Curator’s Tour of In the Round


James Higginbotham, associate professor of classics on the Henry Johnson Professorship Fund and associate curator for the ancient collection, speaks about geometry and the current installation of ancient art.

Adrian Blevins Cate Marvin

Roman Portrait Head of a Boy, ca. 30 BCE– 20 CE, marble by an unidentified artist. Bowdoin College Museum of Art.


THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15Tea with Harriet


Harriet’s Writing Room staff discuss Calvin Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s husband of fifty years and a member of Bowdoin’s Class of 1824. Light refreshments will be served.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15“Protecting the Pearl of Soviet Asia: Post-War Development, Conservation, and Lake Baikal”


The third and last in the “Russian Environment: Nature and Culture” fall lecture series, this talk by Nicholas Breyfogle, associate professor of history, The Ohio State University, tells the story of Lake Baikal environmentalism, one of the most visible and successful environmental protection movements in Soviet history. While we are most familiar with the Soviet Union’s legacy of environmental degradation, Breyfogle places the Soviet experience into the larger context of the global post-war development of environmentalism, and the Lake Baikal movement is a reminder that socialism and environmentalism were not necessarily mutually exclusive. Breyfogle is a specialist in Imperial Russian history, especially the history of Russian imperialism and of the non-Russian nationalities of the tsarist empire. He is also a specialist in environmental history, and his writings have examined the history of earthquakes in Russia and the human history of water.

FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16 AND 17Bowdoin Chorus

7:30 p.m., Friday 3:00 p.m., Saturday

Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital HallBowdoin Chorus, conducted by Anthony Antolini ’63, will collaborate with violinist Sage Kosky, double bassist Alyson Ciechomski, and pianist Sean Fleming in “Christmas Jazz.” Toe-tapping rhythms from holiday music in the jubilant works of Praetorius, Schütz, Joubert, Distler, Biebl, and Scott Joplin. Vocal jazz arrangements of Christmas favorites. Featured works on the program are Heinz Werner Zimmermann¹s “Weihnacht Motetten” and a jazz choir piece by Bill Cunliffe.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18Bowdoin College Concert Band: “Friends II (Bowdoin Friends)” John P. Morneau, Director


The second performance of the “Friends” trilogy will be a very special performance spotlighting the musical talents of Bowdoin alumni, staff, and administrators. Highlighting the program will be President Clayton Rose as guest narrator on A Lincoln Portrait by Aaron Copland. Two premiere performances will also be featured on the program: Over Here, Over There! by T. Douglas Stenberg ’56 and the instrumental setting of Love One Another from the cantata As it began to dawn… by Delmar Small, music administrator. Trevor Peterson ’02 will also make an appearance as violin soloist on John William’s Theme from “Schindler’s List.” Rounding out the program will be Ola Gjeilo’s Meridian.


MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26Middle Eastern Ensemble


The Bowdoin Middle Eastern Ensemble, directed by Eric LaPerna and Amos Libby, presents 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 as incorporating vocals and Western instruments along with Middle Eastern percussion.

THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29 THROUGH DECEMBER 2The Holiday Sale in the Museum Shop

10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Bowdoin College Museum of Art

The annual holiday sale at the Museum Shop. Enjoy a 20 percent discount on all purchases. Special seasonal merchandise!

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29West African Music Ensemble


The West African Music Ensemble, directed by visiting coach Jordan Benissan, presents a program featuring music of both the Ewe and Akan people.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30Common Hour: Student Chamber Ensembles


FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30 THROUGH DECEMBER 2December Dance Concert With Choreography by Aretha Aoki, Adanna Jones, and Gwyneth Jones

7:30 p.m., Friday, Saturday 2:00 p.m., Sunday

$ Free/Tickets available 11/9/2018 Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall

The December Dance Concert features choreography by Bowdoin dance faculty Aretha Aoki, Adanna Jones, and Gwyneth Jones, with performances by Bowdoin students. Sponsored by the Alice Cooper Morse Fund and the June Vail Fund for Dance.


DECEMBERSATURDAY AND SUNDAY, DECEMBER 1 AND 2Bowdoin Chamber Choir

3:00 p.m. Bowdoin Chapel

Under the direction of Robert K. Greenlee, the Chamber Choir performs a program of “Sky Music,” celebrating all things above, including the spheres, the weather, and flight.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4Curator’s Tour of 1968—Spring of Discontent


Students in German Literature and Culture since 1945 and Assistant Professor Jens Klenner discuss the iconic photography of Michael Ruetz and the circumstances of the turbulent events of 1968 in Germany and beyond.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4Chamberfests

4:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall

Student ensembles present two different programs of classical chamber music.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6Faculty Book Launch and Discussion: Nature behind Barbed Wire: An Environmental History of the Japanese American Incarceration


Connie Chiang, professor of history and environmental sciences, discusses her new book, which explores how the landscape shaped the experiences of both Japanese Americans and federal officials who worked for the War Relocation Authority.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6Bowdoin Orchestra


See bowdoin.edu/arts/calendar for more information.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7 Audubon Page-Turning with Special Guest Seth Benz


Join Special Collections & Archives staff for the monthly page-turning of Audubon’s beautiful and majestic double-elephant folio Birds of America. This month’s guest is Seth Benz, director of the Bird Ecology Program at the Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7Fall 2018 Visual Arts Open House

5:00 p.m. Edwards Center for Art and Dance

Students from all fall 2018 visual arts courses cordially invite you to view a culminating exhibit of their work from the semester. Refreshments will be provided.

Farmers Demonstration in Hahn, photograph by Michael Ruetz

THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13 AND 14Music at the Museum

5:00 p.m. and 7:00 pm, Thursday Noon, Friday

$ Free/Tickets/Limited Seating 207-725-3276 Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Beckwith Artist in Residence George Lopez performs a program of music associated with exhibitions on view.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20Tea with Harriet

1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. $ Free/RSVP bowdo.in/tea

Harriet’s Writing Room, Stowe HouseHarriet’s Writing Room staff celebrate the holidays with an architectural gingerbread house and a conversation about how Harriet Beecher Stowe marked the holidays. Light refreshments will be served.


Front cover: Spring Dance performance, 2018. Insets top to bottom: 1st: Jumping Trout, watercolor over graphite, 1889, by Winslow Homer. Brooklyn Museum of Art, Dick S. Ramsey Fund. 2nd: Unidentified photographer: Mene in Kayak, Umanak, 1914. Gift of Margaret Tanquary Corwin 3rd: Devin Gray Quartet, photo credit: Shelley Thomas

FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7 AND 8Jazz Nights


Students coached by Frank Mauceri and Titus Abbott perform two different programs featuring various jazz ensembles.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11Members’ Evening at the Museum


Anne Collins Goodyear and Frank Goodyear, codirectors of the Museum of Art, welcome members and guests to a special presentation of recent acquisitions. Refreshments will be served. Members enjoy a double discount on all Museum Shop purchases during the event.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12St. Petersburg Men’s Ensemble

7:30 p.m. Bowdoin Chapel

The St. Petersburg Men’s Ensemble is an independent group founded in 2003. The group’s repertoire encompasses various epochs and styles—from ancient Russian chants and Western European choral works to modern music. They also perform Russian folk songs, and secular and ecclesiastic compositions, as well as modern composers and arrangements of popular melodies.

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