Bowdoin Presents
Bowdoin Presents is a podcast produced by Bowdoin College that addresses current topics being considered in our classrooms, around our campus, and across culture and society. Guests include subject matter experts who are Bowdoin alumni, faculty, students, staff, or other members of the Bowdoin community in conversation with journalist Lisa Bartfai.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 12 minutes
- Episodes
- 24
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2023
Tracy McMullen on Jazz and Justice
Tracy McMullen is a self-proclaimed maker-thinker. She’s a saxophonist, composer, and an academic. In this episode, Tracy discusses jazz as a moral practice and how she uses music—jazz in particular—…
00:25:26 |
Wed 03 May 2023
PROMO: Tracy McMullen
Tracy McMullen is a self-proclaimed maker-thinker. She’s a saxophonist, composer, and an academic. In this episode, Tracy discusses jazz as a moral practice and how she uses music—jazz in particular—…
00:00:24 |
Wed 03 May 2023
Zorina Khan on Another American Century
Professor Zorina Khan is trying to answer the question of how the US overtook England and France as an economic powerhouse in the nineteenth century. In this episode, she talks about the unique US at…
00:27:08 |
Tue 13 Dec 2022
Birgit Tautz Ponders the Global Through the Local
Professor Birgit Tautz is on a treasure hunt. She’s mining the local literary scene of Germany in the 1800s to tell a much larger story of global literature, then and now. In this episode, Professor …
00:26:50 |
Tue 29 Nov 2022
Robert Morrison on How Knowledge Travels
As a historian of science and scholar of Islam, Professor Robert Morrison wants to know how information spread around the Mediterranean in medieval times. In this conversation, we talk about horoscop…
00:27:18 |
Tue 15 Nov 2022
Anne Collins Goodyear and Frank Goodyear Rethink the Museum
Anne Collins Goodyear and Frank Goodyear codirect the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. In this episode, they discuss how the pandemic challenged them to reinvent the museum as a lively virtual space, a…
00:25:42 |
Tue 01 Nov 2022
David Gordon on the Art of the Archive
Roger Howell Jr. Professor of History David Gordon discusses his interpretation of the African legend “the Lunda love story” as a peace treaty of sorts, along with his research using art and oral tra…
00:24:34 |
Tue 18 Oct 2022
Zahir Janmohamed on the Stories We Tell—about Ourselves, Each Other, and America
Bowdoin Visiting Professor of English Zahir Janmohamed explores, as a writer and from the standpoint of his experience in Congress and in humanitarian work, how storytelling and understanding the com…
00:28:59 |
Tue 01 Feb 2022
Denise Gitsham ’99 Channels Mr. Rogers
Denise Gitsham ’99 has worked in the Department of Justice, the White House, the Senate, and ran for Congress in 2016. She’s a conservative who believes we all need to talk to and strive to understan…
00:27:33 |
Tue 14 Dec 2021
Emily Hubbard ’07 Questions If Work Is Working?
Emily Hubbard ’07, assistant director with the US Department of Justice in Washington, DC, talks about how we’ve traditionally defined work and employment in the context of citizenship and why many o…
00:25:35 |
Tue 30 Nov 2021
Kate Dempsey ’88 Believes Trees Can Unite
Kate Dempsey ’88, Maine's state director for The Nature Conservancy, will talk about the climate crisis in the context of certain challenges it poses for our democracy. Is our liberal democratic proc…
00:20:26 |
Tue 16 Nov 2021
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