The German Department used the grant to organize a two-event program at Bowdoin called Shades of Green. The funding came from the German Federal Foreign Office’s “Wunderbar Together,” a yearlong celebration of German-American friendship.
“We would like to renew the dialogue with our American friends about the importance of our relationship and how we can shape it for the future,” according to the German Federal Foreign Office. “As we face shared challenges and societies become more divided, we must build more—and stronger—bridges between our peoples.”
Bowdoin’s two Wunderbar Together events—a film screening and a townhall-style conversation—took place in the new Roux Center for the Environment. The venue was selected to “emphasize the centraility of the humanities in the study of the environment,” said Jill Smith, who is Bowdoin’s Osterweis Associate Professor of German.
