Through new books, papers published in journals, media appearances, and more, Bowdoin faculty members complemented their time in the classroom during the fall semester with a variety of scholarly and artistic contributions.
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Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Margaret Boyle has tapped into her heritage to coauthor a book about Jewish Mexican food and culture.
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The three-year, $250,000 award is funding a variety of efforts to equip faculty and staff with the knowledge and skills to more fully understand the applications, implications, and potential of AI in the classroom.
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The value and benefits of a liberal arts education steeped in the humanities has worthy champions in Kristin Brennan, executive director of Bowdoin’s Office of Career Exploration and Development (CXD), and Stephen Perkinson, professor of art history.
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This spring, Nadia Celis, a professor of Romance languages and literatures, taught a new class about a burgeoning field of young Latin American women writers. The Bowdoin Library supported her by purchasing more than 300 new novels and nonfiction books, many of them in Spanish.
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The Bowdoin community recently held three days of events––including music, drama, lectures, discussions, and an art show––to honor a significant milestone: twenty-five years of the Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies (LACLaS) Program.
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Many of the significant health disparities and inequities faced by Hispanic communities in the US are tied to what Margaret Boyle calls a long history of health injustice in the Hispanic world.
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Since publishing her groundbreaking book about Gabriel García Márquez's novel Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Professor Nadia Celis has been in demand.
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Bowdoin will be staging its first bilingual main season production next year, a reimaginingof the seventeenth-century Spanish comedia classic, Valor, Outrage, and Woman, by Ana Caro de Mallén. Auditions are coming up, and you don’t have to be bilingual to take part.
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A movie based on the research of Bowdoin faculty member Paula Cuellar Cuellar is among the highlights of a Latin American film festival that kicks off this week, which she is also helping to organize.
Read moreThe Americas are home to almost a billion people, speaking over 450 indigenous and European languages. The history and diversity of Latin American, Caribbean and U.S. Latinx environments, cultures, and people continues impacting studies and policies on race, class, gender and human rights today.
The Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies (LACLaS) at Bowdoin fosters a deeper understanding of the diverse cultures and complex historical and contemporary relationships of Mexico, Central and South America, the Caribbean, and Latinas and Latinos in the United States.
The Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies (LACLaS) Program supports concerts, theme dinners, film screenings, symposia, service-learning projects, debates, and teach-ins organized by various student organizations, faculty, campus divisions, and neighborhood associations. Every semester speakers who are experts in a field related to the courses being offered—or who are directly involved with social, political, academic, or cultural activities in Latin America—are invited to campus.
Nadia Celis hosts Cien años de Soledad en compañía. Listen below or on Spotify!
Dr. Michele Reid-Vazquez hosts Dialogues in Afrolatinidad. Listen below or on Spotify!