CLT Wicked Smart Fridays: Basic Statistics in Excel: From Z-Scores to P-Values! with Eric Gaze, Director of Quantitative Reasoning and Chair, Center for Learning and Teaching.
Each semester, the Common Hour program asks members of the student body to nominate a faculty member to present the Karofksy Faculty Encore Lecture, honoring that member as a teacher and role model. This semester’s presenter is Michael Danahy, Senior Lecturer in Chemistry.
Carolyn Finney
Black Faces, White Spaces
Re imagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors
Thursday, January 31
7:30 in the Roux Center Lantern
Anna Bastidas is running a bookgroup to discuss Carolyn Finney’s book ‘Black Faces, White Spaces‘, contact Anna to join the group:[email protected]
Please come by the Roux Center Lantern between 3:00 -5:00 to enjoy some refreshments and conversation with friends, faculty and staff, on Friday, December 7 in the Roux Center Lantern.
You are very welcome to join the Bowdoin Marine Science Semester 2018 for our annual student research presentations and Schiller Coastal Studies Center holiday reception.
When: Friday, December 14, 2018
student presentations 2:00pm – 5:30pm
holiday reception to follow (~6:00pm)
Where: The Schiller Coastal Studies Center Farmhouse, 240 Bayview Rd, Orrs Island
Interested in catching a ride? Email Rosie: [email protected]
For most of the 20th century, government agents systematically forced Native American children from their homes and placed them with white families. As recently as the 1970’s, one in four Native children nationwide were living in non-Native foster care, adoptive homes, or boarding schools. Many children experienced devasting emotional and physical harm by adults who tried to erase their cultural identity.
The Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth & Reconciliation Commission, the first government-sanctioned truth and reconciliation commission (TRC) in the United States, was established in 2012 to investigate what happened to Wabanaki families in Maine’s child welfare system. Dawnland follows the work of the five Native and non-Native commissioners as they travel across the state to gather testimony and bear witness to the devastating stories of Maliseet, Micmac, Passamaquoddy and Penobscot children whose cultural identities were nearly erased.
With exclusive access to the groundbreaking process and never-before-seen footage, the film reveals how state power continues to be used to break up Wabanaki families, and how the TRC seeks to plot a new direction.
In 2015, Bowdoin College became the official repository of the archival records of the Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth & Reconciliation Commission. Following the screening, Adam Mazo, one of the filmmakers, and Esther Anne, a participant in the film, will be on hand to discuss the making of the film, the work of the TRC, and the ongoing importance of documenting the commission’s process and telling and retelling the stories of the Wabanaki people.
Join Dawnland director Adam Mazo and film participant Esther Anne in a discussion about the Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth & Reconciliation Commission (TRC), its historic work to uncover the devasting impact of Maine’s child welfare practices on families in Maliseet, Micmac, Passamaquoddy and Penobscot tribal communities, and ongoing efforts by Maine-Wabanaki REACH to heal and strengthen those communities and to resist the cultural erasure exposed by the TRC. First Light, a short documentary that introduces the TRC and its work, will be shown, and a selection of archival materials from the TRC Archives, which are housed at Bowdoin College, will be on view.
