College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

THAT Camp (Code and Gender) Monday, October 2 1:00-2:45pm IMRC 112 Despite a nationwide push to teach programming to a more diverse body of students in K-12 education, recent studies suggest women are most likely to drop out of computer science in college. Ruth Leopold’s Coders Collaborative(COCO) aims to increase the retention of women in […]

Whether the subject is symphonies, galaxies, or dinosaurs, immersive audio and video offer a captivating platform for educating and engrossing audiences. The 2017 Digital Humanities Week features two pioneers of such platforms, who will demo their unique systems in UMaine’s new Emera Astronomy Center and M.F. Jordan Planetarium. Dutch planetarium producer Robin Sip will demonstrate […]

Fair Use in the Age of Instagram Tuesday, October 3 9:30-10:45am Barrows Hall, 119 Social media are the latest wave of Internet-powered creativity to challenge notions of copyright and fair use. How do scholars and students know the ethical and legal constraints in social networks where sharing is the norm rather than the exception? It […]

Animating a Planetarium Dome with Maya Tuesday, October 3 10:00-11:30am IMRC 113 Visit digitalhumanities.nmdprojects.net/dhweek2017 for more information or to register for events. Click here to view a full schedule of Digital Humanities Week events.

Fair Use Workshop Tuesday, October 3 11:00-11:45am IMRC 112 Visit digitalhumanities.nmdprojects.net/dhweek2017 for more information or to register for events. Click here to view a full schedule of Digital Humanities Week events.

THAT Camp (Digital Publishing) Tuesday, October 3 1:00-2:00pm IMRC 112 In the digital age, the experience of a museum need no longer be stepping foot through a marble doorway into a brick-and-mortar edifice. Interactive online collections, mobile apps, and augmented and virtual reality offer new ways for cultural heritage organizations to tell stories. This session […]

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Tuesday, October 3 2:00-3:15pm IMRC APPE Visit digitalhumanities.nmdprojects.net/dhweek2017 for more information or to register for events. Click here to view a full schedule of Digital Humanities Week events.

Art at the Edge of Science: Joe Davis Tuesday, October 3 3:30-4:45pm IMRC APPE No one better exemplifies the promise and excitement of STEM to STEAM than MIT’s unofficial artist in residence, Joe Davis. Davis’ contagious brilliance has inspired some of the world’s leading scientists to help build his outlandish ideas, from fishing rigs designed […]

Discovering the “Long” 18th Century: Making Connections within Gale Primary Sources Tuesday, October 13 4:00-5:15pm Library Classroom, 1st floor Fogler Library (near the “Union” entrance) This workshop will provide an overview of critical primary sources available to scholars at the University of Maine seeking to enhance their digital humanities research. Representatives from Gale will review […]

STEM to STEAM: Roger Malina Tuesday, October 3 5:00-6:15pm IMRC APPE A keynote speaker at this year’s Digital Humanities Week is Roger Malina, widely regarded as a leading champion of the STEM to STEAM movement. As Executive Editor of MIT’s Leonardo publications, Malina has overseen a scholarly magazine and book series that for 50 years […]

Spatialized Sound in Public Environments Tuesday, October 3 7:00-8:30pm Emera Astronomy Center Visit digitalhumanities.nmdprojects.net/dhweek2017 for more information or to register for events. Click here to view a full schedule of Digital Humanities Week events.

Civic Engagement Wednesday, October 4 10:00-11:00am IMRC 112 At a time when policy decisions and electoral politics seem determined more by personal bias than facts, the role of public intellectuals seems more important than ever. Yet this also seems to be a moment when public respect for academics–and the impact of their research–is at an […]

Visualizing Art and Science in an Immersive Dome Wednesday, October 4 11:00am-12:45pm Emera Astronomy Center Visit digitalhumanities.nmdprojects.net/dhweek2017 for more information or to register for events. Click here to view a full schedule of Digital Humanities Week events.

The New Writing Series welcomes Claire Donato. Thursday, October 5 4:30pm Allen & Sally Fernald APPE Space (104 Stewart Commons) The UMaine New Writing Series was founded in 1999 and is sponsored by the English Department and the National Poetry Foundation with support from the Office of the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, […]

ARTober Kick-Off Event coincides with the Bangor ArtWalk Friday, October 6 5:00-8:00pm Bangor Arts Exchange 193 Exchange Street, Bangor The kick-off event will be held in the new Bangor Arts Exchange (BAE) building and will be the public debut of this exciting new space. A great deal of foot traffic is expected because of the […]