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Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center

Maine Heritage Lecture: “Gluskabe in the 21st Century: Newell Lyon’s Stories Still Carry the Penobscot Language”

Bodwell Lounge, Collins Center for the Arts 2 Flagstaff Rd., Orono, ME, United States

Thursday, October 13 | 3:00 p.m. Bodwell Lounge of the Collins Center for the Arts Reception to follow in the Hudson Museum Maine Heritage Lecture: “Gluskabe in the 21st Century: Newell Lyon’s Stories Still Carry the Penobscot Language” With Penobscot language carrier Carol Dana, UMaine Professor of English and former McGillicuddy Humanities Center Margo Lukens […]

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Pre-Performance Lecture: Sarah Harlan-Haughey, “As You Like It”

Bodwell Lounge, Collins Center for the Arts 2 Flagstaff Rd., Orono, ME, United States

Join us for a lecture given by UMaine English professor and MHC Faculty Advisory Group member Sarah Harlan-Haughey on Shakespeare's "As You Like It," presented with the support of the Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center, before the Collins Center for the Arts's presentation of As You Like It from Theater at Monmouth on Tour. Welcome […]

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New Writing Series: Victoria Hood and Lily Rain

Stewart Commons IMRC Stewart Commons, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States

The UMaine New Writing Series will feature Victoria Hood and Lily Rain, alumnae of the University of Maine's English Department. The event will be held live in the Fernald APPE Space (Stewart Commons 104) starting at 4:30pm on October 27, 2022. Gregory Howard will introduce Victoria Hood and Hollie Adams will introduce Lily Rain. Victoria […]

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Thinking through Feeling: Reflections from a (sort of) Romanticist about the Intersection Between Black Studies and Romanticism

401 Dunn Hall

On Monday, October 31 at 12:00 p.m. in 401 Dunn Hall, Dr. Elizabeth Nieman, associate professor in the Department of English and Director of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at UMaine, will deliver a talk titled "Thinking Through Feeling: Reflections from a (sort of) Romanticist about the Intersection Between Black Studies and Romanticism" as part […]

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Confronting Gender Binaries: Women’s Agency in Academia and Beyond

Writing Center Neville Hall, #404, Orono, ME, United States

On Wednesday, December 7 at 3:00 PM in the UMaine Writing Center (Neville 403), outgoing McGillicuddy Humanities Center Fellow Sherralyn Robbins will present the culmination of her Fellowship in the […]

New Writing Series: Suzette Mayr

Stewart Commons IMRC Stewart Commons, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States

On Thursday, March 30 at 4:30 pm, the UMaine Department of English New Writing Series presents a reading and Q&A by award-winning novelist Suzette Mayr in the Allen 54′ and Sally 55′ Fernald Adaptive Presentation & Performance Environment of the IMRC. Suzette Mayr is the author of six novels including her most recent, The Sleeping […]

The Rule: A Critical and Creative Presentation

Stewart Commons IMRC Stewart Commons, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States

On Wednesday, April 19 at 4:30 pm in the IMRC, outgoing MHC Undergraduate Fellow Paige McHatten will present the results of her Fellowship project with a talk and creative writing titled "The Rule." McHatten's project has spent two semesters researching and composing creative works that ask how media both contributes to and dismantles ideas of heteronormativity, with particular […]

Local Authors Book Reading

Orono Brewing Company 61 Margin Street, Orono, ME, United States

At 5:00 pm on Thursday, September 21, Orono Brewing Company (61 Margin Street, Orono, Maine) hosts a literary reading by local authors, including former McGillicuddy Humanities Center Undergraduate Fellow Paige McHatten and MHC Faculty Advisory Group members Hollie Adams and Gregory Howard. This even is free and open to the public.

I Saw What You Did Podcast – Stephen King Double Feature

Allen and Sally Fernald AP/PE Space Stewart Commons IMRC, UMaine, Orono, ME, United States

Join us on Thursday October 19 from 3:30-5:30 at IMRC 104 (The Fernald Adaptive Presentation & Performance Environment) for a public discussion of two films based on Stephen King novels—Pet Sematary (1989) and Misery (1990). Millie De Chirico and Danielle Henderson, hosts of the film podcast I Saw What You Did, will talk us through […]

Otherworldly Ethics: Trouthe and the Fairy Mistress in the Lays of Lanval, Graelent, Guingamor and Sir Launfal

Coe Room, Memorial Union University of Maine, Orono, United States

"Otherworldly Ethics: Trouthe and the Fairy Mistress in the Lays of Lanval, Graelent, Guingamor and Sir Launfal" Join us on Monday, November 13 at 3:30 pm in the Coe Room, Memorial Union, as outgoing McGillicuddy Humanities Center Fellow Abigail Roberts presents on her project, "Otherworldly Ethics: Trouthe and the Fairy Mistress in the Lays of […]

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