Digital Humanities Week
University of MaineA wide range of events will be announced soon for the Digital Humanities Week. Look for the link on the Humanity Department's website.
A wide range of events will be announced soon for the Digital Humanities Week. Look for the link on the Humanity Department's website.
The Downtown Bangor Art Walk features a free reception and performances at the Bangor Arts Exchange (located at 193 Exchange Street). It also offers a free reception and tour at the UMaine Museum of Art. The first-come, first-served bus will leave from the Collins Center for the Arts parking lost at 4:30 pm and will […]
On Thursday, October 26th, at 5:00 pm, Anne Knowles will give a lecture on the now decade-long interdisciplinary collaboration between geographers and historians studying the geographic dimensions of the Holocaust. It will particularly focus on the difficulties of translating ambiguous, partial, and inconsistent historical information into database form, and the representational challenges of mapping complex […]
In the midst of the five hundredth anniversary of Martin Luther's posting of the 95 theses, the University of Maine faculty (Joel Anderson, Caroline Bicks, and Michael Lang) will offer reflections on the Reformation, its reverberations across early modern Europe, and its complex contemporary legacies. The event will be held from 12:00-1:30 pm in the […]
Donald Wright, a Professor of Political Science at the University of New Brunswick, will deliver a lecture titled "National Symbols, Airport Kitsch, and Canadian History." The event will take place from 12:00-1:30 pm in the Coe Room in the Memorial Union. A limited number of boxed lunches will be provided.
Anders Winroth, a Forst Family Professor of History at Yale University, will deliver a lecture on the Vikings. The event is part of the History Department's 2017-18 Symposium Series and will be held at 12:30 pm in the Hill Auditorium in Barrows Hall. View the poster for the lecture here.
The tour of "Model Citizens: Art and Identity in the US, 1770-1830" will begin at 2:00 pm and will include a meeting with Diana Greenwold, the Associate Curator of American Art. We will use a university van to make a day-trip to Portland with plenty of time to explore this great city on our own. […]
Dr. Liam Riordan, Professor of History at the University of Maine will deliver a lecture on Maine’s statehood and the upcoming bicentennial in 2019-2020. "What's So Funny 'Bout Commemoration? Past […]
Dr. Margaret W. Pearce, a former Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Kansas, will give a lecture. "Imagination, identity, and the cartography of history: 3 maps of Canada" […]
Dr. Nancy MacLean, a William H. Chafe Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University, will give a lecture titled "'Freedom of Disintegration’: Milton Friedman, Free Market Activists, and […]