What’s So Funny ‘Bout Commemoration?
Soderberg Lecture Hall Jenness Hall, UMaine, Orono, ME, United StatesPast and Present Perspectives on Maine's Bicentennial
Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center
Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center
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History Department symposia
History Symposium: Dr. Margaret Pearce
Arthur St. John Hill Auditorium Barrows Hall, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United StatesDr. Margaret Pearce will give a lecture titled "Imagination, Identity, and the Cartography of History: Three Maps of Canada." Dr. Margaret W. Pearce is a former Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Kansas. Pearce was part of the team that recently published a Native place name map “Coming Home to Indigenous Place Names in Canada.” Abstract: […]
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Examining the Life of Maine Missionary and Suffragist Elizabeth Upham Yates
Soderberg Lecture Hall Jenness Hall, UMaine, Orono, ME, United StatesShannon M. Risk, ’96, ’09, Associate Professor of History at Niagara University, will deliver a lecture entitled: “Examining the Life of Maine Missionary and Suffragist Elizabeth Upham Yates — The Importance of Biography.” “Elizabeth Upham Yates (1857-1942) was a missionary and suffragist, born and raised in Coastal Maine, who rose to national prominence as a […]
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History Graduate Student Conference
Arthur St. John Hill Auditorium Barrows Hall, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United StatesSeptember 21 - 23, 2018 Program of Events Friday, 21 September 2018, Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall 6:00 pm: Light refreshments and registration 7:00 pm: Keynote presentation: Dr. Lisa Todd “Studying Sexual and Racial ‘Mixture’ in the Shadow of War and Genocide: German Southwest Africa, 1904-1913” Saturday, 22 September 2018, Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall 8:00-8:30 […]
History Graduate Student Conference
Arthur St. John Hill Auditorium Barrows Hall, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United StatesSeptember 21 - 23, 2018 Program of Events Friday, 21 September 2018, Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall 6:00 pm: Light refreshments and registration 7:00 pm: Keynote presentation: Dr. Lisa Todd “Studying Sexual and Racial ‘Mixture’ in the Shadow of War and Genocide: German Southwest Africa, 1904-1913” Saturday, 22 September 2018, Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall 8:00-8:30 […]
History Graduate Student Conference
Arthur St. John Hill Auditorium Barrows Hall, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United StatesSeptember 21 - 23, 2018 Program of Events Friday, 21 September 2018, Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall 6:00 pm: Light refreshments and registration 7:00 pm: Keynote presentation: Dr. Lisa Todd “Studying Sexual and Racial ‘Mixture’ in the Shadow of War and Genocide: German Southwest Africa, 1904-1913” Saturday, 22 September 2018, Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall 8:00-8:30 […]
The Contradictions of ‘Civilizing’ Consumption: Colonial Wine in Britain’s Imperial Project
ZoomOn Monday, October 31st at 4:00pm EDT via Zoom, Dr. Chelsea Davis (Missouri State University) will give a talk entitled, “The Contradictions of ‘Civilizing’ Consumption: Colonial Wine in Britain’s Imperial Project.” Dr. Chelsea Davis is an Assistant Professor of British History with a focus on Empire at Missouri State University. She received her PhD from The George […]
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“The (In)Visible Worker: Contract Agricultural Laborers in the California Borderlands, 1910-1926”
Arthur St. John Hill Auditorium Barrows Hall, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United StatesThe first lecture of Spring 2023 in the History Department's symposium series will take place on Monday, January 30th at 3:00 pm in Hill Auditorium (Barrows Hall). Dr. Erik Bernardino (Bates College) will be speaking about "The (In)Visible Worker: Contract Agricultural Laborers in the California Borderlands, 1910-1926." The lecture is free and open to the […]
The Meaty Mind: Eating and Thinking in Early Christian Monasticism
Soderberg Lecture Hall Jenness Hall, UMaine, Orono, ME, United StatesThe University of Maine History Department's 2022-2023 symposium series will hold its next meeting on Monday, March 20th at 3:15pm in Soderberg Auditorium (Jenness Hall). Dr. Jamie Kreiner (University of Georgia) will be speaking about "The Meaty Mind: Eating and Thinking in Early Christian Monasticism." The History Department Symposium Series, “History through Food & Drink," is supported […]
History Symposium Series: Paul A. Kramer
ZoomThe first lecture of the UMaine History 2023-24 Symposium Series will take place on Monday, Sept. 18th from 3:10-5:00 pm. Dr. Paul A. Kramer (History, Vanderbilt University) will be giving a lecture titled "The Weight of the World: Writing Global and Transnational History in an Unequal World." Supported by the International Affairs Program and the […]