Comments by: Joel Anderson, Assistant Professor of History Caroline Bicks, Stephen E. King Chair in Literature Michael Lang, Associate Professor of History Part of the UMaine History Department's Fall symposia and part of the 2017-2018 year-long Humanities symposium: Juvenescence / Obsolescence: Humanities Approaches to Aging across the Ages.
Part of the Marxist-Socialist Studies Controversies Series. Organized by Olivia Ruhlin of the Maine Peace Action Committee (MPAC) and the Student Women’s Association (SWA), with students involved with such issues as violence, war, sexism, racism and environmental destruction. The lecture and brown-bag lunch will be followed by a discussion. Free and open to the public. Click here for a […]
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 12-1:30 pm in the Coe Room in the Memorial Union. A limited number of boxed lunches will be provided.
Anders Winroth, Forst Family Professor of History at Yale University will draw on his award-winning book The Age of the Vikings to shed light on some of the secrets, myths, and mysteries surrounding these legendary adventurers. The event is part of the History Department's 2017-18 Symposium Series.
Part of the Marxist-Socialist Studies Controversies Series. A discussion organized by Doug Allen, professor of Philosophy, UMaine. A discussion and brown-bag lunch. Free and open to the public. Click here for a full schedule of events in the Fall 2017 Marxist-Socialist Studies Controversies Series. Sponsored by Marxist and Socialist Studies Minor. Co-sponsored by Maine Peace Action Comm. (MPAC) and […]
The talk presents an interpretation of Plato’s famous Cave Allegory by Dr. Joseph Forte of Northeast Catholic College. Part of the 2017-2018 Philosophy Department Colloquium Series
Kids, Don’t Take my Advice: 45 Years of Braggin’ About Maine The Maine Studies Program is proud to host an event on November 9th featuring noted television host and reporter Bill Green, a University of Maine alumnus. The title of Bill’s talk is “Kids, Don’t Take my Advice: 45 Years of Braggin’ About Maine”—a play on his […]
From Page to Stage: “Midsummer Night’s Dream” Post-Show Discussion Join theater professionals Pier Carlo Talenti and Toby Bercovici for a post-show discussion on Sunday, Nov. 12, after the matinee of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in Hauck Auditorium. If you can’t make the show that day, you are welcome to come to the discussion. Food and […]
The featured film is a documentary that follows a retirement community as they prepare a production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Part of the 2017-2018 Symposium: Juvenescence/Obsolescence: Humanities Approaches to Aging Across the Ages. Brought to you by the Stephen King Chair in Literature.
The “Model Citizens: Art and Identity in the US, 1770-1830” tour will begin at 2 pm and will include a meeting with Diana Greenwold, the Associate Curator of American Art at the Portland Museum of Art. We will use a university van to make a day-trip to Portland with plenty of time to explore this great […]
Four Foundational Theories of Labor Activism in Maine: The Knights of Labor, the AFL, the IWW, and the Socialist Part of Eugene Debs Part of the Marxist-Socialist Studies Controversies Series. A talk by Marc Cryer, Director of the Bureau of Labor Education, UMaine. The lecture and brown-bag lunch will be followed by a discussion. Free and open to […]
The first event of the series “Life of Ideas, Notions, and Concepts” will feature three UMaine faculty members and take place on Thursday November 16 from 4-5:30PM in the Allen and Sally Fernald APPE space Stewart […]
Andrew Epstein, Professor and Chair for Graduate Studies at Florida State University, will give a talk on “Fence-Sitting Raised to the Level of an Esthetic Ideal: John Ashbery and the Poetics of Middle Age” this Thursday at 4:30pm in Stewart Commons 104. While still a graduate student in 1996, Professor Epstein presented a paper on Frank O’Hara and film in the […]
