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2 months ago | 
bowdoinorient.com | Rin Pastor |Marc Rosenthal |Carolina Weatherall
James Joyce famously loved to celebrate his birthday—and some Bowdoin community members do too. University of Geneva Professor Emeritus David Spurr introduced and led a reading of James Joyce’s “Finnegans Wake” in Hubbard Hall on Sunday, February 2 in celebration of Joyce’s 143rd birthday.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
bowdoinorient.com | Marc Rosenthal
When Netflix announced a television adaptation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s famous work “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” many fans of the book were excited to see characters they had read about brought to life in a modern rendition. Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies Nadia Celis had a very different reaction. “I felt like something really personal was about to be taken away from me.
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Dec 18, 2024 | 
progressive.org | Marc Rosenthal
I grew up post-World War II in Madison, Wisconsin, in the shadow of the Holocaust. Our rabbi was a survivor of Auschwitz. As one of my most influential teachers, he instilled in me the understanding that silence in the face of injustice is not only unacceptable, it makes you complicit.
I took very seriously his philosophy that we have no choice but to engage in the work of healing a broken world.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
bowdoinorient.com | Marc Rosenthal
When former Olympic marathoner Joan Benoit Samuelson ’79 reflects on her achievements, she is acutely aware of how different things could have been. “Had soccer been available to me in high school, I wouldn’t be here talking to you,” Samuelson said. “But it wasn’t an opportunity for me.”A lifetime competitor, Samuelson never shied away from athletic opportunities.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
bowdoinorient.com | Marc Rosenthal
Noisy New York rock group Been Stellar made its campus debut last Friday, playing music from its short but impressive catalog for a packed crowd in the amphitheater outside of Studzinski Recital Hall and David Saul Smith Union.
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
ritcyberselfdefense.wordpress.com | Marc Rosenthal
By: Marc Rosenthal Artificial Intelligence has been around for a while. However, it wasn’t until November 30th of 2022 that it had really taken off, all starting with the release of ChatGPT. By now, everyone has heard of it: OpenAI’s text conversation robot. It took the world by storm, becoming the fastest growing user base for an app (before losing to Threads mere months later).
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Nov 8, 2023 | 
zdf.de | Marc Rosenthal
Dunkelheit, schlechte Sicht, Nässe - die Unfallgefahren für Radfahrer nehmen ab Herbst deutlich zu. Welche Accessoires helfen, solche Risikofaktoren zu verringern? Wie effektiv schützen Warnweste, Warnstreifen, Aufkleber und Spray? Die Zahl der Fahrradunfälle ist im vergangenen Jahr gestiegen: Fast 98.000 Menschen wurden dabei verletzt, 474 kamen ums Leben. Ein wesentliche Ursache für solche Fahrradunfälle: die späte Sichtbarkeit der Radler im Straßenverkehr.
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Oct 27, 2023 | 
bowdoinorient.com | Marc Rosenthal |Alex Spear
On Tuesday night, Bowdoin welcomed Deborah Dash Moore, a professor of history and Judaic studies at the University of Michigan, to a crowded Kresge Auditorium as this fall’s Harry Spindel Memorial Lecture. Since 1977, the Spindel lectureship has brought Jewish artists, writers and academics who study Jewish topics to Bowdoin.
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Oct 23, 2023 | 
portside.org | Marc Rosenthal
Biden’s Nomination of Elliott Abrams Ignores a Violent Past Published October 23, 2023 In the 1980s, I witnessed the devastating impact of U.S.-sponsored violence on innocent civilians during humanitarian and solidarity trips to El Salvador. The scars of that dark period, which the United States have never formally taken responsibility for, still haunt the people of El Salvador today.
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Oct 19, 2023 | 
bowdoinorient.com | Marc Rosenthal
Growing up, while other children were watching Sesame Street, Ben Model was watching Charlie Chaplin features. By the time he arrived at film school, he had already watched most of Chaplin’s films, as well as most Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd films. Model’s love for silent films continued well after school, remaining a constant in his life and the focus of his career, as he currently works full-time as an archivist, historian, professor and touring silent film accompanist.
