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View the full archive of DIGERATI UNIVERSITY Henry Laurence, Karofsky Faculty Encore Lecture, September 12, 2008 "You Can't Say That! Keeping Terrorists, War Crimes and Gay Marriage off TV." Henry Laurence is an associate professor of government with a joint appointment in Asian studies at Bowdoin. He teaches courses in Japanese and comparative politics, media and politics, and international political economy. In 2007–2008 he was a research associate at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University. He is currently writing a book on broadcasting politics that compares the BBC, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Senator George J. Mitchell '54, September 19, 2008 Senator George J. Mitchell was born and raised in Waterville, Maine, and graduated from Bowdoin College and Georgetown University Law Center. He entered the U.S. Senate in 1980 and went on to an illustrious career in the Senate that spanned fourteen years. In January 1989 he became Senate majority leader. He held that position until he left the Senate in 1995. During his tenure, Senator Mitchell earned enormous bipartisan respect. It has been said "there is not a man, woman, or child in the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tracy Kidder, Feb. 9, 2007 Tracy Kidder is well known for his powerful and inspiring book Mountains Beyond Mountains. In this book he tells the story of Dr. Paul Farmer, a single-minded physician bent on improving the health of some of the poorest people on the planet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Assistant U.S. Secretary of State Christopher R. Hill '74, Feb. 16, 2007 Assistant U.S. Secretary of State Christopher R. Hill '74 head of the U.S. delegation to the six-party talks on the North Korean nuclear issue, spoke at Common Hour Friday, February 16, 2007. Hill discussed recent developments in the talks during his presentation entitled "A Report from the Denuclearization Talks in Beijing." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Doris Kearns Goodwin, Nov. 2, 2001 Former Harvard professor and White House fellow under Lyndon Johnson, Doris Kearns Goodwin is the author of bestsellers The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys and Lyndon Johnson & the American Dream. Her articles on political issues have appeared in leading national publications, and she is a regular panelist for “The News Hour with Jim Lehrer.” In 1995, she received a Pulitzer Prize in history for No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II. Goodwin has recei ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Charles Johnson, Feb. 10, 2006 National Book Award winner Charles Johnson is a storyteller who ingeniously braids history, philosophy, and imagination in making post-modern fiction. A philosopher, literary critic, cartoonist, essayist, novelist, short story writer and screenwriter, his books include "Middle Passage", "Dreamer" and "Dr. King’s Refrigerator: And Other Bedtime Stories". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Matthew Pearl, Nov. 19, 2004 Matthew Pearl graduated from Harvard University summa cum laude in English and American Literature in 1997. In 1998, he won the prestigious Dante Prize from the Dante Society of America for his scholarly work. His first novel, The Dante Club, a New York Times bestseller, is being translated into over a dozen languages around the world. He wrote the first draft while attending Yale Law School, where he received his J.D. in 2000. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Professor Paul Franco, Sep. 8, 2006 Mr. Franco is a Professor of Government with teaching responsibilities in the history of political philosophy and contemporary political theory. Mr. Franco is the author of The Political Philosophy of Michael Oakeshott, Hegel’s Philosophy of Freedom, and most recently Michael Oakeshott: An Introduction. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Evan Wolfson, Nov. 3, 2006 Evan Wolfson is the Executive Director of Freedom to Marry, the gay and non-gay partnership working to win marriage equality nationwide. Mr. Wolfson worked for the Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund in New York City, where he represented several gay marriage cases in front of the Supreme Court. In 2000, Wolfson was honored by the National Law Journal as one of "100 most influential attorneys in America." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cuba's Favorite National Pastimes: Baseball and Politics Was a young Fidel Castro scouted by a major leage baseball team? Find out as Allen Wells, Roger Howell, Jr. Professor of History, regales an audience of Bowdoin Trustees with an animated tale of baseball's intriguing, politically charged history in Cuba. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Psychologist Probes the Origins of Temperament Assistant Professor of Psychology Samuel Putnam is in the forefront of new research on toddler temperament. He discusses Bowdoin's Toddler Temperament Laboratory and new insights his work is shedding on personality development and parenting styles Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reunion Lectures 2006: Media&Society How does the media influence our reactions to events at home and abroad? During Reunion Weekend 2006 Lawrence B. Lindsey '76, president and CEO of The Lindsey Group, and Jane R. Seagrave '76, vice president for new media at the Associated Press, examined this question. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reunion Lectures 2006: Church&State During Reunion Weekend 2006 Paul Franco, professor of government, discussed the relationship between religion and politics, and examined the implications and complications of the separation of church and state in the context of recent Supreme Court cases. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website President Barry Mills Introduces the Bowdoin Campaign Bowdoin College President Barry Mills '72 speaks about the goals of the Bowdoin Campaign. He discusses how these priorities reflect the most important aspects of the College and its mission: Financial Aid, Academic Affairs, Student Affairs, Annual Giving, and Building projects. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bowdoin College Franco American Symposium - Nov. 13 Bowdoin College honored its own French roots with the three-day symposium Celebrating the Franco-American Heritage of Maine co-sponsored by the Bowdoin College Multicultural Affairs Program and the departments of Government and Romance Languages. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bowdoin College Franco American Symposium - Nov. 14 Bowdoin College honored its own French roots with the three-day symposium Celebrating the Franco-American Heritage of Maine co-sponsored by the Bowdoin College Multicultural Affairs Program and the departments of Government and Romance Languages. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bowdoin College Franco American Symposium - Nov. 15 Bowdoin College honored its own French roots with the three-day symposium Celebrating the Franco-American Heritage of Maine co-sponsored by the Bowdoin College Multicultural Affairs Program and the departments of Government and Romance Languages. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website President's Welcome to Parents Bowdoin College President Barry Mills and Cristle Collins Judd, Bowdoin College's Dean for Academic Affairs, welcome familes and guests of first year students at Bowdoin. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bowdoin College 205th Convocation Bowdoin College's 2006 Convocation ceremony, marking the official opening of the 205th academic year. Bowdoin College's President Barry Mills welcomes Bowdoin Students and their families followed by the Convocation address delivered by Cristle Collins Judd, Bowdoin College's Dean for Academic Affairs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Japanese Gardens Project Bowdoin College's Information Technology worked with Professor of Art History Emeritus Clif Olds to develop a website dedicated to the gardens of Japan, and more specifically to the historic gardens of Kyoto and its environs. The site is designed to provide the visitor with an opportunity to visit each garden, to move through or around it, to experience it through the medium of high-quality color images, and to learn something of its history. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website