Things We Remember By: Images, Objects, Landscapes, and the Work of Memory
Panel discussion and reception
Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2026
Time: 3:30-4:30pm, with reception to follow in the Hudson Museum
Location: Bodwell Area, Third Floor Collins Center for the Arts
How do images, objects, and landscapes help us remember – and what might they retain or remember in their own right? How do material remains shape our understanding of people, places, and past experiences, even as they carry traces and transformations that exceed what is recalled or recorded? Join us as we consider the many ways memory is retained, created, transformed, and contested through the material world. Panelists will utilize images drawn from their archaeological works, museum objects, landscape studies, and other experiences as starting points for brief reflections on memory—whether personal, social, cultural, political, environmental, or material. Together, these contributions will explore how objects and images can carry, evoke, sustain, or complicate relationships with the past.
Panel Participants:
Dr. Christopher Witmore, Department of Classical & Modern Languages & Literatures, Texas Tech University
Dr. Natalia Magnani, Department of Anthropology and Climate Change Institute, University of Maine
Dr. Joshua Walton, Department of History and Honors College, University of Maine
Dr. Gregory Zaro, McGillicuddy Humanities Center & Department of Anthropology and Climate Change Institute, University of Maine
This event is part of the 2026-2027 McGillicuddy Humanities Center Symposium: MEMORY.