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Past Live Streams
- Bates College graduates 463 in historic virtual Commencement ceremony
From the tumult of their abbreviated senior year to the triumph of a historic graduation, the Bates College Class of 2020 graduated on Sunday in a virtual Commencement livestreamed to more than 10,000 viewers. - Great Day 2020
- Video: 2019 Commencement in 14 convenient segments
From processional to recessional, watch video clips of the entire 153rd Bates Commencement, held May 26, 2019. - The Rev. Dr. Benjamin Elijah Mays, Class of 1920, Debate
This ever-popular contest between Morehouse College and Bates students honors Dr. Mays, a Bates debater, longtime president of Morehouse, pioneer of the civil rights movement, and primary mentor to Martin Luther King Jr. This year’s motion: “This House believes that social justice movements should prioritize socioeconomic class over race and gender.” - Video: 2018 Bates Commencement
The video includes awarding of honorary degrees, the Commencement address by Bryan Stevenson, and conferral of degrees to 474 graduates. - Former NATO ambassador: Global leadership more important than ever
Problems facing the United States are transnational, but the White House is pulling away from the international stage, says Nicholas Burns. - For ‘One Goal’ author Amy Bass ’92, the Lewiston soccer team tells ‘an American story’
The 2015 Lewiston boys soccer team, with many players who are Somali, were state champs. Bass spent months retracing their road to victory, getting to know the players, and understanding her college town in a new way. - Climate change is ‘not something you believe. It just is,’ says Trump whistleblower Joel Clement
Clement is the former climate policy chief who says the Trump administration retaliated against him and fellow scientists for climate-change advocacy. - Matt Dunlap: ‘Don’t call it fraud because you disagree with it’
Maine’s secretary of state talks to Bates politics professor John Baughman about why he joined the president’s commission on voter fraud — and why he sued it. - Senior lecturer of English at Bates and acclaimed poet Robert Farnsworth reads his works for a special Literary Arts Live event
Join us live from Muskie Archives as senior lecturer of English at Bates and acclaimed poet Robert Farnsworth reads his works for a special Literary Arts Live event. Farnsworth has taught poetry writing and literature across the United States and for the past twenty-six years at Bates.