Stories about "Humanities and history"
Students return to discuss New Orleans service trip
Monday, March 6, 2006 12:00 am
Two Bates College students who traveled to New Orleans during February break to work on construction projects with Habitat for Humanity will discuss their experience at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 9, in the Keck Classroom (G52), Pettengill Hall, Bates College.
Harward Center presents extensive program for grand opening
Thursday, January 19, 2006 3:50 pm
Marking a new chapter in Bates College's commitment to the Lewiston-Auburn community and to community-based education, the Donald W. and Ann. M. Harward Center for Community Partnerships presents a grand opening and welcome for its first director, David M. Scobey. The Jan. 25-27 celebration features three days of academic and cultural events, all of which are open free of charge to the Bates and Lewiston-Auburn communities. For more information call 207-786-6202.
Faculty from Columbia, Yale law schools to speak on economics, civil rights
Thursday, January 19, 2006 12:42 pm
On successive evenings in February, Bates College presents two lectures by noted scholars from the law schools at Columbia and Yale universities. Alan Schwartz '61, Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School, offers a talk titled "The Economic Rationality Assumption and Its Challengers" at 7:30 p.m Wednesday, Feb. 1, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Ave. Patricia Williams, columnist for The Nation and James L. Dohr Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, gives a lecture titled "Reconstructing Civil Rights for an Uncertain Future" at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 2, in the Bates Chapel, College Street.
Stratton receives Fulbright award for Sri Lanka research
Wednesday, January 4, 2006 1:38 pm
Rory Stratton, a 2005 graduate of Bates College, is researching Islamic art and architectural history in Sri Lanka with the support of a Fulbright grant.
2006 Martin Luther King Day Workshops
Friday, December 23, 2005 2:28 pm
The following workshops will be held in Pettengill Hall, Monday, Jan. 16:
Expert on Islam and women to speak at Bates
Thursday, December 1, 2005 3:01 pm
An internationally known scholar on the subjects of women and Islam and on the influences of Islam in America, Amina Wadud gives a talk titled "The States of Muslim Women's Struggles for Gender Justice" at 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 2, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Ave., Bates College.
Bates greets 'Ellis Island Snow Globe'
Friday, November 18, 2005 3:19 pm
With a reception on Nov. 16, the Bates community extended a warm "well done" to Erica Rand for the publication of her second book, The Ellis Island Snow Globe (Duke University Press).
Historian William Cronon to give Otis Lecture
Monday, November 7, 2005 3:29 pm
William Cronon, a leading scholar on the human relationship with land and nature, visits Bates College to give the ninth annual Otis Lecture at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 10, in Chase Hall Lounge, 56 Campus Ave.
Multicultural Affairs hosts Samoan American artist
Monday, October 10, 2005 3:59 pm
The Bates College Office of Multicultural Affairs hosts Dan Taulapapa McMullin, a Samoan American writer, painter and filmmaker, as a weeklong artist in residence. Beginning Monday, Oct. 8, McMullin will make several presentations in commemoration of Coming Out Day and Anti-Columbus Day to which the public is invited to attend at no charge.
20-year Bates College study of optional SATs finds no differences
Saturday, October 1, 2005 10:34 am
In a milestone 20-year study of its well-known policy for optional SATs for admission, Bates College has found no differences in academic performance or graduation rates between submitters and non-submitters.