Enzo Traverso, the Susan and Barton Winokur Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University, will be giving a talk titled "Burdens of the Past. The Age of Left-Wing Melancholia." The talk is part of a yearlong talk series “Life of Ideas, Notions, and Concepts” curated by MHC faculty board member Frédéric Rondeau which included fall and spring panels of UMaine faculty, as […]

The featured film is a documentary that follows a retirement community as they prepare a production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Part of the 2017-2018 Symposium: Juvenescence/Obsolescence: Humanities Approaches to Aging Across the Ages.  Brought to you by the Stephen King Chair in Literature.