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Video Games Teach History

Cross Insurance Center 515 Main St, Bangor

Saturday, March 23rd | 1:45pm-2:45pm  Meeting Rooms 1&2, Cross Insurance Center, 515 Main Street, Bangor The interactive and immersive quality of video games has helped make them wildly popular and […]

“Bméndan: In search of a cartography of responsibility”

Stewart Commons IMRC Stewart Commons, University of Maine, Orono

On Wednesday, February 7 at 3:00 pm in the IMRC, award-winning cartographer Margaret Pearce will conclude her mini-residency at the University of Maine with a talk about her own research on […]

History Symposium Series: Paul A. Kramer

Zoom

The 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 […]

The Meaty Mind: Eating and Thinking in Early Christian Monasticism

Soderberg Lecture Hall Jenness Hall, UMaine, Orono

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 […]

Virtual Hidden History Tour of Campus – RESCHEDULED

The McGillicuddy Humanities Center’s new “Hidden UMaine” tour aims to highlight key people, moments and places in campus history that often go overlooked, including the experiences of the first students […]

Careers in Public History workshop

Online

Kate Axelson Foster from the Career Center will lead a virtual workshop on "Careers in Public History" on September 25, 2020 at 3 p.m. Foster will provide students with tips for navigating the […]

Free

Virtual NEH Grant Writing Workshop

Online

On Friday, September 25, 2020, the University of Maine’s McGillicuddy Humanities Center will offer a virtual workshop on applying for NEH grants. It will be conducted by Mark Silver, Senior […]

Free

DH Pop In: Building Digital Timelines

Online

Building off of the success of the Black Digital History event this spring, the McGillicuddy Humanities Center will be continuing their DH Pop In series throughout the year to show […]

Free

Innocence Unprotected: The Cinema of Colonization and Decolonization

Arthur St. John Hill Auditorium Barrows Hall, University of Maine, Orono

The McGillicuddy Humanities Center is holding a year-long film series examining "The Cinema of Colonization and Decolonization" as part of our annual symposium. The films selected engage with the theme […]

Free

Decolonizing Museum Practices: Implications for Universities and Schools

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

Starr Kelly (Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg), Curator of Education at the Abbe Museum, will be speaking on "Decolonizing Museum Practices: Implications for Universities and Schools" from 4:00 to 5:30 pm on […]

Free

Wabanaki Artist Showcase – Frances Soctomah

Hudson Museum

Wabanaki Artist Showcases at the Hudson Museum provide an opportunity to see artists in action.  Join us for a free demonstration and talk by Frances Soctomah, Passamaquoddy Basketmaker. Click here […]

Maine Statehood and Bicentennial Conference

he Maine Statehood and Bicentennial Conference will be held at the beautiful University of Maine campus in Orono, ME, from May 30 to June 1, 2019. Please join us for a series of events, panels, presentations, and concerts celebrating the unique history of Maine, its peoples, culture, politics, art and music. Please see our program for a complete […]

Memorializing WWI in Maine and Beyond

Nutting Hall University of Maine, Orono

As part of our Symposium series, Libby Bischof, Executive Director, Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education; Zach Beals, Graduate Assistant for Veterans Education and Transition Services; and Tony Llerena, Coordinator of Veterans Education and Transition Services will present a lecture: Memorializing WWI in Maine and Beyond. Libby's talk will be based on […]

UMaine bus trip to Portland on Saturday, March 30

Portland Museum of Art 7 Congress Square, Portland

The departments of History and Art and the McGillicuddy Humanities Center, with support from the UMS Program and Innovation Fund, are co-sponsoring a FREE full-day trip to Portland for all UMaine students. Special programs are planned at the Portland Museum of Art (PMA) and the Maine Historical Society (MHS). Images: Left, Nadia Huggins (Trinidad and […]

Modernism in Wartime: Avant-Gardes, Revolutions, Poetries

Arthur St. John Hill Auditorium Barrows Hall, University of Maine, Orono

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 […]

Free

Modernisms: Past and Future

402 Neville Hall

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 […]

Free

We are the Dead: the Legacy of Loss

Minsky Recital Hall Collins Center for the Arts, University of Maine, 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.

Maine Heritage Lecture

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

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, […]

Dean’s Homecoming Reception

Hudson Museum

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 […]

World War I: The Most Jewish War in History?

Buchanan Alumni House

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 […]

Creativity in Art, Change and Survival*

Soderberg Lecture Hall Jenness Hall, UMaine, Orono

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 […]

free

Discovering the “Long” 18th Century: Making Connections within Gale Primary Sources

Library Classroom, Fogler UMaine, Orono

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 […]

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