Stories about "humanities"
Writer-in-residence Farnsworth receives 2008 Kroepsch Award

Thursday, January 31, 2008 1:29 pm

In winning the 2008 Kroepsch Award for Excellence in Teaching, writer-in-residence Robert Farnsworth won praise from current and former students, including two alums who are prizewinning poets themselves. Farnsworth will deliver the Kroepsch address, "Psst!: Poems Teach Themselves," on Feb. 13.

Balm in Gilead: On Love, Justice and the Word

Friday, November 30, 2007 4:00 pm

Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, a sociologist and professor of education at Harvard University, recently gave the Bertha May Bell Andrews Lecture at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine.

Whiting Foundation to support humanities faculty at Bates College

Friday, November 30, 2007 12:37 pm

The Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation of New York City has invited Bates to join a select group of institutions participating in a program that provides a year-long sabbatical for research and scholarly development to pretenure faculty in the humanities. The $100,000 Whiting Teaching Fellowship will be awarded to one Bates faculty member a year for the next four years.

Leading Tolkien scholar discusses director's 'Lord of the Rings' treatment

Sunday, October 21, 2007 11:33 am

As the culmination of a three-day Tolkien Film Festival at Bates College from Monday, Oct. 22, through Wednesday, Oct. 24, leading Tolkien scholar Thomas Shippey delivers a lecture titled "Filming the Lord of the Rings: How Peter Jackson Coped with J.R.R. Tolkien," at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 25, in the Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St.

Video-performance artist Gilmore ’97 shows, discusses work

Wednesday, March 8, 2006 12:00 am

Kate Gilmore, a New York-based video and performance artist, visits Bates College to present a video lecture about her work at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 9, in Room 104 of the Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St.

New lecture series explores links between natural sciences, humanities

Thursday, December 12, 2002 2:56 pm

"Science, Power, and Difference," a new lecture series at Bates College, will present innovative research into the social, cultural and political dimensions of the natural sciences.

Annual faculty symposium celebrates humanities

Wednesday, September 26, 2001 8:29 am

A Roman's defense in a seduction suit, ethnic identities in Australian soccer and the search for sex at Ellis Island are some of the topics at hand in the third annual Faculty Symposium at Bates College on Saturday, Sept. 29.

English professor to discuss biculturalism and the creative process

Thursday, September 14, 2000 3:15 pm

Judith Ortiz Cofer, professor of English and creative writing at the University of Georgia, will discuss "A Casa of My Own" at 4 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 21, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives at Bates College as part of the college's celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month. The public is invited to attend free of charge.

Lewiston native makes generous gift to Bates

Wednesday, January 13, 1999 9:23 am

Lewiston native Margaret Tardiff Crumley has made a $100,000 gift to Bates in memory of her husband Thomas D. Crumley '52, President Donald W. Harward announced.

Author Baxter to Read From His Works

Tuesday, February 27, 1996 10:05 am

Award-winning author Charles Baxter will read selections from his short stories and poetry (Thursday) March 7 at 8 p.m. in Chase Hall Lounge at Bates College. The public is invited to attend at no charge.

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