Stories about "Philip J. Otis Endowment"
By agreeing to abandon one word, Bates peer tutors gain insight into the power of language
Thursday, November 30, 2023 5:59 pm
Visiting Bates to deliver the Otis Lecture, poet Nancy Campbell invited the peer writing and language tutors to play her famed Polar Tombolo game to gain insight into language diversity and the power of words.
‘An intention to do better’: Reparative gestures and nature meet in Carolyn Finney’s Otis Lecture
Wednesday, October 26, 2022 10:44 am
Environmental history is too often written without acknowledging the presence, passion, and stories of the Black people in it, and storyteller and cultural geographer Carolyn Finney aims to change that.
Otis Lecturer Winona LaDuke: ‘You need to make a choice between two paths’
Friday, November 5, 2021 10:47 am
What do hemp, centuries old squash seeds, and a lake of carefully tended wild rice have in common? The future, according to environmentalist, economist, writer, and activist Winona LaDuke.
Video: Jesse Saffeir ’20 and lines of poetry sparked by lines through nature
Thursday, November 21, 2019 4:06 pm
An Otis Fellowship summer of hiking alongside power lines produced a new understanding of our place in the world — and a book of poems.
My Last Year: ‘Trying to get too much done in too little time’
Thursday, November 14, 2019 3:16 pm
It's trying, says Jane Costlow, trying to excel at the triad of faculty responsibilities — teaching, research, and service — sometimes all at the same time.
In telling climate stories, who’s in and who’s out? asks Otis speaker Elizabeth Rush
Friday, November 2, 2018 11:13 am
For Rush, author of the acclaimed Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, offering the 2018 Otis Lecture was a homecoming of sorts.
Q&A: Elizabeth Kolbert works in a horrifying and amazing era for environmental journalism
Friday, October 21, 2016 8:33 am
Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker writer and winner of a Pulitzer for The Sixth Extinction, gave the annual Otis Lecture on Oct. 24.
Documentary filmmaker to discuss her craft in 2015 Otis Lecture
Friday, September 18, 2015 2:43 pm
Jennifer Baichwal, a filmmaker whose award-winning documentaries have explored subjects as diverse…
Summer Student Work: Kate McNally ’17 was ‘everybody’s student’ on Grand Manan Island
Monday, July 20, 2015 1:54 pm
McNally spent the summer on a Bates-funded Otis Fellowship to record oral histories of the fishing community on Grand Manan Island.
2014 Otis Lecture to highlight role of virtue in perceptions of climate change
Monday, November 17, 2014 11:00 am
Known for his scrutiny of the cultural dimensions of climate change, Mike Hulme brings the ancient philosophical concept of virtue to bear on the climate crisis in Bates College's annual Otis Lecture on Nov. 17.