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Life of Ideas, Notions, and Concepts with Guest Enzo Traverso*

Allen and Sally Fernald AP/PE Space Stewart Commons IMRC, UMaine, Orono

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 […]

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Life of Ideas, Notions, and Concepts with Guest Éric Méchoulan*

Allen and Sally Fernald AP/PE Space Stewart Commons IMRC, UMaine, Orono

University of Montreal Professor to Give Talk on Friendship On March 6, from 4 to 5:30PM the McGillicuddy Humanities Center, as part of the Life of Ideas series, curated by Frédéric Rondeau, will host scholar Éric Méchoulan. Méchoulan will give a talk titled “On Friendship: A Brief History of the Concept from Aristotle to Facebook.” Éric Méchoulan is […]

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Life of Ideas, Notions, and Concepts: Michael Lang, Anne Knowles, and Michael Howard*

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

The second event of the series “Life of Ideas, Notions, and Concepts” will feature three UMaine faculty members and take place on Thursday February 22 from 4-5:30PM in the Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall. Participants: Michael Lang (History): "Innumerable times, all at one time: A History of Ages and Epochs." Anne Knowles (History): "The Age of the Map: Finished? Or Just […]

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