Stories about "Society and culture"
Help Wanted
Sunday, March 1, 2009 12:10 pm
Anthropology students identify obstacles to Somali employment in the Lewiston-Auburn area — as well as potential solutions.
Trying on for size
Sunday, March 1, 2009 11:23 am
Two Bates professors muse about 'Mao Jacket': Grafflin - It's easier to perceive ambiguity in art that comes out of one's own cultural background; Hirai - On what side of fame does Bates stand?
What boys want: perspectives on gender differences
Sunday, March 1, 2009 11:23 am
If you’ve been paying attention to education news, you know that boys are falling behind academically. You’ve heard they are lagging in reading and writing, graduating from high school at lower rates than girls, and filling fewer seats in college classrooms.
Dennis Grafflin tries on 'Mao Jacket'
Sunday, March 1, 2009 10:53 am
It's easier to perceive ambiguity in art that comes out of one's own cultural background.
Vecsey reads Holocaust memoir sequel by Isaacson '65
Sunday, March 1, 2009 10:23 am
Last winter, Judith Isaacson '65, LL.D. '94 got to hear her own words during a reading at the Lewiston Public Library by Katalin Vecsey, who read selections from Isaacson's Seed of Sarah, a memoir published in 1990 that recounted her Holocaust experiences at the Auschwitz-Birkenau and Hessisch Lichtenau concentration camps.
Bates to stage Ted Hughes adaptation of Euripides' 'Alcestis'
Friday, February 27, 2009 3:50 pm
Martin Andrucki, Charles A. Dana Professor of Theater, directs the Bates College theater department production of Alcestis, Euripides' tragedy about a king, doomed to die, who offers up his wife in his place. Performances take place at 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, March 6, 7, 13 and 14, and at 2 p.m. Sundays, March 8 and 15, in Gannett Theater, Pettigrew Hall, 305 College St.
Debate tourney canceled; Yale debate postponed
Friday, February 27, 2009 2:58 pm
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the following tournament has been canceled, and the Bates-Yale debate has been postponed with a new date and time to be announced.
Creator of PostSecret Web site to speak in Bates College event
Friday, February 27, 2009 2:17 pm
Frank Warren, creator of an award-winning Web site that has allowed hundreds of thousands of people to anonymously share their secrets through handmade postcards, gives Bates College\'s annual Bertha May Bell Andrews Lecture
Darwin correspondence discussed in next 'Darwin at 200' event
Friday, February 27, 2009 9:43 am
Science historian Sheila Ann Dean, who has studied the correspondence of Charles Darwin extensively, presents the lecture "Charles Darwin: After the Origin and Before the Descent" at Bates College at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 11, in Chase Hall Lounge, 56 Campus Ave.