Stories about "Annual events"
Martin Luther King Jr. Schedule
Thursday, January 3, 2002 3:32 pm
Bates College observes Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2002 by participating in a variety of activities scheduled from Sunday, Jan. 20, through Thursday, Jan. 24. The Bates faculty has suspended classes on Monday, Jan. 21, to enable the entire community (students, faculty, staff and guests) to join in the following:
Trio Parole to perform at Bates
Wednesday, September 5, 2001 4:22 pm
The 2001-02 Bates College Concert Series continues with a pair of performances by Trio Parole of the complete Mozart piano trios in two separate programs Saturday, Sept. 15, and Sunday, Sept. 16, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall.
Richard Goode to open concert series
Thursday, August 23, 2001 3:06 pm
Internationally acclaimed pianist and Nonesuch recording artist Richard Goode will open the 2001-02 Bates College Concert Series with an interpretation of classical masterpieces at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 5, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall.
2000 Bates Dance Festival Calendar of Events July 22-Aug. 19
Monday, May 1, 2000 2:15 pm
Bates Dance Festival Calendar of Events July 22-Aug. 19
Noted liberation theologist to speak on Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Monday, January 10, 2000 3:06 pm
Philosopher, educator and minister William R. Jones will deliver the keynote address, "Beyond Hate Language: The Oppressor's Ploy or Pathology of the Oppressed?," for the 2000 Bates College Martin Luther King Day Jr. celebration.
Award winning biographer of mathematicians to speak
Thursday, September 30, 1999 12:00 am
Constance Reid, author of "A Long Way from Euclid" and "From Zero to Infinity," will discuss "Captured by Mathematics" at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 14, in Room 204 of Carnegie Science, Bates College. The public is invited to attend the annual Richard W. Sampson Lecture, and admission is free.
Area students to graduate from Bates
Wednesday, June 2, 1999 12:00 am
Two area residents received bachelor's degrees during Bates College's 133rd commencement exercises Monday, May 31 in an outdoor ceremony on the main campus quadrangle. Richard C. Holbrooke, career diplomat and chief negotiator for the 1995 Dayton peace accord that served to suspend ethnic cleansing and warfare in Bosnia, received an honorary doctorate of laws and delivered the commencement address to an audience of some 2,500 at the ceremonies in front of historic Coram Library. Beneath sunny skies, Bates President Donald W. Harward conferred bachelor's degrees on 417 graduates.
MLK Day 1999: John Edgar Wideman and ‘Looking for Emmett Till’
Monday, January 18, 1999 3:17 pm
Author John Edgar Wideman's talk was about an image and a name — literal and metaphorical — that stays in Wideman's mind. That of Emmett Till.
AACU president to speak at convocation
Thursday, August 27, 1998 3:31 pm
Carol Geary Schneider, president of the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AACU), will discuss "Liberal Learning and the Engaged Academy" during convocation celebrating the 144th academic year at Bates College Wednesday, Sept. 9, at 4 p.m. on Coram Library quadrangle.
Bates celebrates homecoming weekend September 19-21
Friday, September 5, 1997 2:23 pm
Bates College will celebrate "Back to Bates" homecoming Sept. 19 - Sunday, Sept. 21 with many on-campus events for students, alumni and Bates employees.