Fall 2011

• School of Performing Arts:  Performance:  “America in the Poetic Imagination,” with John Burns, Narrator, Nancy Ellen Ogle, soprano, and Ginger Yang Hwalek, pianist (co-sponsored with the University of Maine School of Performing Arts, the departments of Foreign Languages and Classics, English, History, and the Honors College.)
• Digital Humanities Week – 2011:  Lecture:  “Many to Many Engagement in Digital Humanities,” Professor Craig Dietrich, Institute of Multimedia Literacy, University of Southern California; Lecture:  “Taking History to Cyberspace: Maine Memory Network and Public History,”  Dr. Candace Kanes, Maine Historical Society (co-sponsored with the Departments of English, History, New Media and Sociology, and the University of Maine Digital Curation Program.)
• Maine Heritage Lecture:  Lecture:  “Saving Second Nature:  The Environmental Movement in New England,”  McBride Professor of History  Richard Judd, Department of History, University of Maine (co-sponsored with College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.)

Spring 2011

• Women in Curriculum/Women’s Studies:  Lecture: “Therapeutic Amnesias: Medical Rhetoric about Abortion from the 1930s to the 1960s”; Nathan Stormer, Associate Professor, Communication and Journalism, University of Maine
• Canadian-American Center  [with Maine Folklife Center and numerous contributors]:  Public Presentation: “Everything is Connected: Environment, Economy, Foreign Policy, Sustainability, Human Rights and Leadership in the 21st Century”; Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Nobel Peace Prize Nominee and World Leader on Global Climate Change and Human Rights; Visiting Professor, Bowdoin College
• Department of English: Public talk and screening of documentary film: Hey, Boo: Harper Lee and “To Kill a Mockingbird”; Mary McDonagh Murphy, Independent film and television writer/producer
• Department of Modern Languages and Classics [also Anthropology and Project Opportunity]: Public showing and forum discussion of The Linguists; Jane Smith, Associate Professor, Modern Languages and Classics, University of Maine; Cynthia Fox, University of Albany
• Department of Philosophy: Lecture: “Paranoia and Policy: Reading Popular Fiction as Bioethics”; Catherine Belling, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medical Humanities and Bioethics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
• Department of History: Lecture: “Military History at American Universities and Colleges”; John Lynn, PhD, Professor of History, Northwestern University