Learn about the collective history and relationship of Maine and Wabanaki people through an understanding of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). What is the history and future of TRC? Barbara Kates, Maine communities organizer for Maine Wabanaki REACH, will address this and other questions. Refreshments served. Free and open to the public.
Location: Library Classroom, 1st floor Fogler Library (near the "Union" entrance) This workshop will provide an overview of critical primary sources available to scholars at the University of Maine seeking to enhance their digital humanities research. Representatives from Gale will review their Primary Sources platform, including core primary source databases available through Fogler Library. We will also learn […]
With Don Foresta and Edwige Armand Tuesday 24 April 3:30PM Soderberg Lecture Hall, 116 Jenness Hall Abstract: Why art is linked to the survival of humans in general. We start from an ancestral point of view and end with a look at the world today. The roots of art are to be found very far in the […]
Richard Rubin is the author of four books, two of which are about America and World War I: The Last of the Doughboys, and Back Over There. He has written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, and Smithsonian, among others, and is a frequent contributor to the New York Times’ Travel section. […]
Join us for refreshments and reunion in the Hudson Museum in the CCA at 4pm October 26. This event, sponsored by the Executive Committee of the McGillicuddy Humanities Center, is free and open to alumni, family and friends, students, faculty and staff. Immediately following this reception, please join us for the Maine Heritage Lecture with […]
Qualities of rural culture that helped build our nation are vanishing, but are still evident in places like northern Maine. There is value in remembering our roots as a source of permanence and direction in the midst of change. Kathryn Olmstead served 25 years on the journalism faculty of the University of Maine in Orono, […]
An evening of vocal music and poetry with EUPHONY, Orono’s chamber choir, conducted by Francis John Vogt, UMaine Director of Choral Activities. The program features choral settings of poetry from World War I and readings by UMaine faculty, students and friends. Reception to follow in Minsky Lobby.
Part of the McGillicuddy Humanities Center Symposium "War without End: World War I and its Legacies" Modernisms: Past and Future Colloquium for Faculty and Students A lecture by Vincent Sherry, Visiting Scholar for the McGillicuddy Humanities Center Thursday, November 15 402 Neville Hall 12:30 pm This event is sponsored in part by UMaine's Center for […]
Part of the McGillicuddy Humanities Center Symposium "War without End: World War I and its Legacies" Modernism in Wartime: Avant-Gardes, Revolutions, Poetries A lecture by Vincent Sherry, Visiting Scholar for the McGillicuddy Humanities Center Friday, November 16 Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall 3:00 pm This event is sponsored in part by UMaine's Center for Poetry and […]
