All featured events are open to the public and are free unless otherwise noted.
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Sunday, April 7, noon - 3 p.m.
Workshop in Diamond 123, 1-3pm, Lecture in Ostrove, 7pm
Lunch and workshop with feminist activist Shelby Knox, nationally known as the subject of the Sundance award-winning film The Education of Shelby Knox, a 2005 documentary chronicling her teenage activism for comprehensive sex education and gay rights in her southern Baptist community. She has appeared on Today, the Daily Show, Hardball, and sat down with both Dr. Phil and Al Franken to discuss sex education and youth activism. Knox travels across the country as an itinerant feminist organizer, doing trainings, workshops, and civil disobedience in the name of reproductive justice and sexual health. She is currently the director of Women’s Rights Organizing at change.org. Knox lives in New York City, where she is working on a book about the next generation of feminist activism and plotting the revolution via Twitter, handle @ShelbyKnox.
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Sunday, April 7, 7 p.m.
Ostrove Auditorium, Diamond Building
Activist Shelby Knox will contextualize gender justice by examining how our culture enacts and responds to domestic and sexual violence and how it manifests in colleges. Knox is nationally known as the subject of the Sundance award-winning film The Education of Shelby Knox, a 2005 documentary chronicling her teenage activism for comprehensive sex education and gay rights in her southern Baptist community. She has appeared on Today, the Daily Show, Hardball, and sat down with both Dr. Phil and Al Franken to discuss sex education and youth activism. Knox travels across the country as an itinerant feminist organizer, doing trainings, workshops, and civil disobedience in the name of reproductive justice and sexual health. She is currently the director of Women’s Rights Organizing at change.org. Knox lives in New York City, where she is working on a book about the next generation of feminist activism and plotting the revolution via Twitter, handle @ShelbyKnox.
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Monday, April 8, 7 p.m.
Ostrove Auditorium, Diamond Building
David Oxtoby, president of Pomona College, will address how we can best educate students to enhance their creativity. A liberal education—challenging students to take risks and move well beyond their comfort zones—is, he maintains, the best preparation for success in a world that is constantly changing. Insights from modern neuroscience will be brought to bear on the relationship between the arts and sciences, and implications for how we teach and learn will be explored. Oxtoby is an internationally renowned physical chemist. He was a distinguished professor and dean of the division of physical sciences at the University of Chicago before becoming Pomona's president in 2003, where he continues teaching a course in environmental chemistry. He is author or coauthor of numerous scientific articles, recipient of prestigious fellowships, a fellow of academic and scientific organizations, and an overseer at Harvard and the Claremont University Consortium.
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Tuesday, April 9, 7 p.m.
Room 1, Olin Science Center
The Gulf of Maine has long been considered to be among the most productive fishing areas on the planet. The historical fishery for Atlantic cod was so profitable and landings so great that it quickly became New England’s most important colonial industry. Though heavily fished, the Gulf continued to produce impressively until cod stocks collapsed along the eastern 400 km of New England’s coastal shelf in the 1990s.Twenty years later, cod stocks have still not recovered and show few signs of recovery.Cod were not the only depleted species along that coast. So many species of groundfish disappeared from the area that the entire eastern coastal shelf has reverted to a crustacean-dominated ecosystem. What factors contributed to this paradigm shift and is it possible that the fish-dominated ecosystem can be restored?Historical fishermen’s knowledge and period scientific data provided sufficient information about cod and other gadids to determine their distribution, population structure and movements. Evaluation of predator-prey dynamics and the processes associated with depletion give clues about what factors had triggered the collapse of cod and discovery of opportunities that could enhance their recovery.
Ted Ames is a founding board member and senior advisor of Penobscot East Resource Center, an external Graduate Faculty Member at University of Maine, Orono, and visiting research scientist at Bowdoin. He fished commercially for 28 years. He was formerly vice-chair of Maine Department of Marine Resources Hatchery Technology Committee, executive director of the Maine Gillnetters Association and director of Alden-Ames Lab, an environmental and analytical laboratory.Ames is the recipient of a 2005 MacArthur Award, 2007 Geddes W. Simpson Distinguished Lecturer at the University of Maine and Bowdoin’s visiting Coastal Studies Scholar in 2010-11. His current research explores the ecological connection between marine and riverine ecosystems.
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Tuesday, April 9, 7 p.m.
Robinson Room, Miller Library
Poet Amy Gerstler's book Dearest Creature (Penguin 2009) was named a New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year, and was short listed for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry. Her previous twelve books include Ghost Girl, Medicine, Crown of Weeds, which won a California Book Award, Nerve Storm, and Bitter Angel, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry. She was the 2010 guest editor of the yearly anthology Best American Poetry. In 2011, she was on the panel of judges for the National Book Award in poetry.
Her work has appeared in a variety of magazines and anthologies, including The New Yorker, Paris Review, American Poetry Review, several volumes of Best American Poetry, and The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry. She is a faculty member at the Bennington Writing Seminars, Bennington College, Vermont, and teaches in the MPW program at the University of Southern California. She has taught writing and/or art at the California Institute of the Arts, Cal Tech, Art Center College of Design, the University of California at Irvine, the University of Utah, Pitzer College, and elsewhere.
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Tuesday, April 9, 4:30 p.m.
Room 154, Bixler Art and Music Building
A painter for more than 50 years, Ed Douglas has traveled throughout his professional life to sources in the landscape that, in his words, resonate as "a natural and symbolic place, a refuge for solitude, work, and play, where nature and nurture combine and incubate slowly into paintings that compress my history yet breathe freely."
These investigations have brought him to Eastern and Western Europe, Scandinavia, Egypt, North Africa and the Near East. The paintings that result from his journeys are evocative of both the place and the reverie of being in its presence. Douglas received a BFA in painting from Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute. His work is represented in the collections of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Portland Museum of Art, San Francisco Art Institute Art Bank, Cincinnati Art Museum, and others. This talk is sponsored by the Humanities Art Lecture Fund.
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Wednesday, April 10, 7 p.m.
Diamond Building, Ostrove Auditorium
Former U.S. Senator Alan K. Simpson will deliver the 2013 George J. Mitchell Distinguished International Lecture. Simpson served at the U.S. Senator of Wyoming from 1979 to 1997. In 2010, he was appointed to co-chair President Barack Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform with co-chair Erskine Bowles of North Carolina. Former U.S. Senator George J. Mitchell will introduce Simpson.
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Thursday, April 11, 7 p.m.
Parker-Reed Room, Schair-Swenson-Watson Alumni Center
Professor Allen Lynch from the Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics at the University of Virginia will deliver the 2013 Hunt Lecture. His books and monographs include: Vladimir Putin & Russian Statecraft (Potomac Books, 2011); How Russia is—Not—Ruled: Reflections on Russian Political Development (Cambridge University Press, 2005); Does Russia Have a Democratic Future? (Foreign Policy Association, 1997); Europe from the Balkans to the Urals (Oxford University Press/Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, 1996), with Reneo Lukic; The Cold War Is Over—Again (Westview Press, 1992); Political & Military Implications of the “Nuclear Winter” Theory (Institute for East-West Security Studies, 1988); and The Soviet Study of International Relations (Cambridge University Press, 1987), which received the Marshall D. Shulman Award of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.
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