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November 2017
The Secrets of the Vikings
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.
Find out more »February 2018
What’s So Funny ‘Bout Commemoration?
Past and Present Perspectives on Maine's Bicentennial
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History Symposium: Dr. Margaret Pearce
Dr. 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: "In this talk, I introduce cartography as a form of language and demonstrate how I’ve worked with that language to explore and express Canadian history.…
Find out more »April 2018
Examining the Life of Maine Missionary and Suffragist Elizabeth Upham Yates
Shannon 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 reformer in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The study of her life poses a number of issues for the historian biographer. Yates left no…
Find out more »September 2018
History Graduate Student Conference
September 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 am: Registration and Breakfast 8:30-9:30 am: Religion and Race in Colonial North America Chair: Eric Toups Kevin March, McGill University, “Languages Barbarous and Regular:” Native…
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September 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 am: Registration and Breakfast 8:30-9:30 am: Religion and Race in Colonial North America Chair: Eric Toups Kevin March, McGill University, “Languages Barbarous and Regular:” Native…
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September 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 am: Registration and Breakfast 8:30-9:30 am: Religion and Race in Colonial North America Chair: Eric Toups Kevin March, McGill University, “Languages Barbarous and Regular:” Native…
Find out more »October 2022
The Contradictions of ‘Civilizing’ Consumption: Colonial Wine in Britain’s Imperial Project
On 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 Washington University in 2021, where her doctoral dissertation, “Cultivating Imperial Networks: British Colonial Wine Production at the Cape of Good Hope and South Australia, 1834-1910,”…
Find out more »January 2023
“The (In)Visible Worker: Contract Agricultural Laborers in the California Borderlands, 1910-1926”
The 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 public. The History Department Symposium Series, “History through Food & Drink," is supported in part by a grant from the Cultural Affairs/Distinguished Lecture Series Fund…
Find out more »March 2023
The Meaty Mind: Eating and Thinking in Early Christian Monasticism
The 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 in part by a grant from the Cultural Affairs/Distinguished Lecture Series Fund. Dr. Jamie Kreiner is Professor of History at the University of Georgia, and her…
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