Chechen surgeon and human rights activist to speak
Dr. Khassan Baiev, a Chechen physician, author and human rights activist, will speak at Bates College on International Human Rights Day at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 11, in Room 204 of Carnegie Science...
View ArticleCrisis in the Caucasus: Cold War 2.0?
The German-Russian Studies Department invites you to this year’s first “Samovar Series for Cultural Inquiry”. The topic will be recent events in the Caucasus and the impact those events are having and...
View ArticleWake Up Call
In a Bates classroom, author Denis Sweet, professor of German, is lost in "unthought." It was Short Term 2008, the debut of my course, “Wake Up!” The rain was pouring down in the woods of southwestern...
View ArticleVecsey reads Holocaust memoir sequel by Isaacson '65
Last winter, Judith Isaacson ’65, LL.D. ’94 got to hear her own words during a reading at the Lewiston Public Library by Katalin Vecsey, who read selections from Isaacson’s Seed of Sarah, a memoir...
View ArticleBates Matters: Traditions and Facilities
How a tradition of learning inside, outside, and around the classroom influences Bates facilities growth By President Elaine Tuttle Hansen The unstaged photograph below shows history professor Hilmar...
View Article$150,000 grant from Alden Trust supports Hedge-Bill renovations
As Bates continues to transform two 19th-century residence halls into state-of-the-art academic buildings, the college has received a $150,000 grant from the George I. Alden Trust to support the...
View ArticleSights, sounds and sense of Russian poetry at Mount David Summit
The two students of Russian began their Mount David Summit panel presentation with a black-and-white photograph showing the open casket of Russian poet Anna Akhmatova surrounded by mourners, including...
View ArticleCampus Construction Update: June 7, 2011
Like sands through the hourglass, so are the final days of the renovation of Hedge and Roger Williams halls. On Monday, June 27, faculty in philosophy, religious studies and environmental studies will...
View ArticleU.S. Sen. George Mitchell among speakers for weeklong ‘Unbounded Learning’
George Mitchell, the former U.S. senator who served as President Obama’s special envoy for Middle East peace until last spring, delivers the keynote address during a weeklong celebration of...
View ArticleGerman and Russian Studies, Fall 2013
Assistant Professor of German Jakub Kazecki. Photograph by Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College. The Department of German and Russian Studies looks forward to welcoming back its many students returning...
View ArticleGerman and Russian Studies, Fall 2013
Assistant Professor of German Jakub Kazecki. Photograph by Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College. The Department of German and Russian Studies looks forward to welcoming back its many students returning...
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