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December 2019
Queering the Fin de Siecle: Recognizing Queer Identities in the Modernist Era of Literature
Senior English major and McGillicuddy Humanities Center fellow Connor Ferguson will present his project, “Queering the Fin de Siècle,” on December 6th, 2019, from 2-4pm in the Writing Center. This project focuses on the importance of recognizing queer identities in the modernist era of literature, the way industrialization and globalization affected queer individuals, and how the metaphorical “closet” is constructed both by society and by personal anxieties, particularly related to Virginia Woolf’s novels and Wilfred Owen’s poetry.
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Pre-performance lecture by William Yellow Robe on The Color Purple
THE COLOR PURPLE is the 2016 Tony Award® winner for Best Musical Revival! Hailed as “a direct hit to the heart” (The Hollywood Reporter), this joyous American classic conquered Broadway in an all-new “ravishingly re-conceived production that is a glory to behold” (TheNew York Times). Don’t miss this stunning re-imagining of an epic story about a young woman’s journey to love and triumph in the American South. Experience the exhilarating power of this Tony-winning triumph that New York Magazine calls…
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Pre-performance Lecture: Birdie Sawyer on “Flex Ave” by FLEXN
“This dance form, these artists won’t be boxed in.” – New York Times Following breakthrough performances at New York’s Park Avenue Armory, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Manchester International Festival, and an upcoming residency for the inaugural season of The Shed in New York City, FLEX AVE., the brand new creation of Flexn dance pioneer Reggie “Regg Roc” Gray, will be coming to the University of Maine's Collins Center for the Arts. Join the McGillicuddy Humanities Center in Bodwell Lounge (3rd floor of…
Find out more »Visiting Professor Erin J. Kappeler’s lecture on “Mary Austin’s Time Machine: Modernist Poetics and Settler Time”
Visiting professor Erin J. Kappeler (Tulane University) will be speaking in Hill Auditorium in Barrows Hall on Wednesday, March 4, at 3PM. Kappeler will explore key texts by the modernist poet and activist Mary Austin, who helped to invent Native American poetry as a field, to show that the concept of free verse was a tool of settler cultural domination as much as it was a democratization of poetic language or a formal innovation. This history of free verse translations…
Find out more »(CANCELED) Coffy: The Cinema of Colonization and Decolonization
The March 9 showing of the film Coffy is CANCELED due to unforeseen travel delays with the speaker. Tomorrow's talk with Professor Mathijs is also canceled. Future "Cinema of Colonization and Decolonization" events listed below will continue as scheduled. 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 in a variety of ways, from incorporating the legacies of…
Find out more »Innocence Unprotected: The Cinema of Colonization and Decolonization
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 in a variety of ways, from incorporating the legacies of colonization into the storyline to disrupting traditional Western systems and methods of production and distribution. Films are shown in Hill Auditorium in Barrows Hall (ESRB) on select Monday evenings at 6 p.m. All movies are free, open to the public,…
Find out more »September 2022
David Barnouw: Who Betrayed Anne Frank and Who Owns her Legacy?
A presentation on Anne Frank, betrayal, and the legacy of both by David Barnouw. Barnouw is an independent scholar and emeritus researcher at the Dutch Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies. His areas of interest are the Second World War in Europe, memory, representation, monuments and museums. He has written over fifteen books and dozens of articles on World War II subjects. He has given lectures at Berkeley, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Princeton, Rutgers, UCLA, WestPoint etc. He has been…
Find out more »March 2023
From Smarter Planet to Wiser Earth: Re-Envisioning Relationships between AI Technologies, Human Society, and Natural World
On Thursday, March 23 at 12:30 pm, the Socialist and Marxist Studies Speaker Series presents a talk by Gray Cox (Professor, College of the Atlantic) titled "From Smarter Planet to Wiser Earth: Re-Envisioning Relationships between AI Technologies, Human Society, and Natural World." (Zoom link: https://maine.zoom.us/j/3657262020) Gray Cox, Professor, College of the Atlantic How will Artificial Intelligence programs like ChatGPT transform the ways knowledge and belief are created and used to structure the economic, political, and technological systems that dominate our…
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The Blue Commons: Combating Rentier Capitalism in the Sea
On Thursday, April 13 at 12:30 pm, the University of Maine Socialist and Marxist Studies Speaker Series presents a talk by Guy Standing (Professor, Economist, SOAS University of London of Philosophy) titled "The Blue Commons: Combating Rentier Capitalism in the Sea." (Zoom link https://maine.zoom.us/j/3657262020) Guy Standing, Professor, Economist, SOAS University of London of Philosophy Guy Standing is one of the world’s leading progressive economists. In his new book, The Blue Commons, he submits that in the past 50 years, the sea has…
Find out more »January 2020
2020 Visions: The Humanities at UMaine
The Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center invites community members, faculty and students to attend a showcase of current research and creative projects in the humanities. The event, “2020 Visions: The Humanities at UMaine,” will be held on Friday, January 31, 2020 at the Buchanan Alumni House from 2-5 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. The afternoon will begin at 2:00 p.m. with a poster session and digital project display in the Andrews Leadership Hall of…
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