History

Todd Presner, a Professor of Germanic Languages, Comparative Literature, and Jewish Studies at the University of California, Los Angles will deliver a lecture titled  "Experimental Knowledge in the Age of Digital Humanities." The event is part of the History Department's 2017-18 Symposium Series and the 2017 Digital Humanities Week. It will be held at 3:10 […]

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 […]