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    Friendship as Reflective Environmental Practice

    Weisz Room The Maples, room 10, UMaine, Orono, ME, United States

    2017-18 Philosophy Department Colloquium Series presents guest lecturer Bryan Bannon, Associate Professor and Director of Environmental Studies, Merrimack College. Duvernoy will give a talk titled “Friendship as Reflective Environmental Practice.” This is the second in a series of four talks on Environmental Philosophy. Abstract: In this presentation, Bannon argues for a specific hermeneutic framework for understanding the human relationship to nature, […]

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    Becoming Ecological: Towards a Process Metaphysical Subjectivity

    Weisz Room The Maples, room 10, UMaine, Orono, ME, United States

    2017-18 Philosophy Department Colloquium Series presents guest lecturer Russell Duvernoy, Instructor of Philosophy at Seattle University. Duvernoy will give a talk titled “Becoming Ecological: Towards a Process Metaphysical Subjectivity.” This is the first in a series of four talks on Environmental Philosophy. Abstract: Beginning from present ecological turbulence and dire climate change predictions, and following Pope Francis’s call for “ecological conversion,” […]

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    Charles C. Mann Lecture

    Collins Center for the Arts 2 Flagstaff Road, Orono, ME, United States

    Charles C. Mann is the author of 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, which won the U. S. National Academy of Sciences’ Keck Award for best book of the year and 1493; Uncovering the World That Columbus Created, a New York Times bestseller. 1491 combines science, history, and archaeology to radically transform our understanding of the Americas […]

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  • Living a Full, Ethical and Sustainable Life in the 21st Century*

    Nutting Hall University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States

    2018 John M. Rezendes Visiting Scholar in Ethics Living a Full, Ethical and Sustainable Life in the 21st Century: Lessons from Psychology, Ethics and Human-Centered Design The 2018 John M. Rezendes Visiting Scholar in Ethics is Professor Mick Smyer. Smyer, a national expert on aging, is a professor of psychology and the former provost at Bucknell University. He […]

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  • UMaine History Department

    Examining the Life of Maine Missionary and Suffragist Elizabeth Upham Yates

    Soderberg Lecture Hall Jenness Hall, UMaine, Orono, ME, United States

    Shannon M. Risk, ’96, ’09, Associate Professor of History at Niagara University, will deliver a lecture entitled: “Examining the Life of Maine Missionary and Suffragist Elizabeth Upham Yates — The Importance of Biography.” “Elizabeth Upham Yates (1857-1942) was a missionary and suffragist, born and raised in Coastal Maine, who rose to national prominence as a […]

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  • Stephen King chair in literature

    Getting it Right: Investigative Journalism in a “Post-Truth” Age

    Wells Conference Center University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States

    Public Lecture: Patricia Wen, “Getting it Right: Investigative Journalism in a ‘Post-Truth’ Age” PATRICIA WEN is the editor of the Boston Globe Spotlight Team. She took over this six-member investigative unit after several decades as a reporter at the Globe, with a special emphasis on social service, legal and medical issues. Her work focused largely on investigative […]

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  • Sylvia Earl

    Dr. Sylvia Earle: Exploring the Ocean in the 21st Century*

    Collins Center for the Arts 2 Flagstaff Road, Orono, ME, United States

    Renowned oceanographer and National Geographic Society Explorer-in-Residence Sylvia Earle will give a lecture, “Exploring the Ocean in the 21st Century,” 4:30–5:30 p.m. Monday, April 30 in the Collins Center for the Arts. Tickets will be available in March and a second announcement will be posted when they become available. Tickets are free, but will require […]

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  • Sociocultural Bias in Professional Identity Formation Research in Medicine, Nursing, and Couseling Psychology

    Bangor Room, Memorial Union Orono, ME, United States

    This year is the 6th annual EMMC Ethics Day and the guest speaker is Rebecca Volpe, PhD. There will be two morning talks held in Bangor at EMMC in addition to the afternoon reception and talk at UMaine. Sponsors of this event include Eastern Maine Medical Center and the UMaine McGillicuddy Humanities Center and Department of […]

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  • UM-UNB Conference

    History Graduate Student Conference

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

    September 21 - 23, 2018 Program of Events Friday, 21 September 2018, Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall 6:00 pm: Light refreshments and registration 7:00 pm: Keynote presentation:  Dr. Lisa Todd “Studying Sexual and Racial ‘Mixture’ in the Shadow of War and Genocide: German Southwest Africa, 1904-1913”   Saturday, 22 September 2018, Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall 8:00-8:30 […]

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    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 […]