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Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center

Recurring

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It is parents’ weekend of Parker’s freshman year, but Parker’s very famous parents aren’t coming—which, trust him, is just as well. Confrontations both painfully funny and deeply poignant are sparked when Althea and Clarence show up uninvited, as Parker’s new sexual identity is put to the test, and as the family must grapple with the […]

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“This Land Is Your Land and This Land Is My Land”: The Role of the Roman Catholic Church in the Political and Cultural Lives of the Penobscot and Passamaquoddy Nations in the Twentieth Century

Class of 1944 Hall

On Wednesday, March 1 at 12:00 pm in Class of 1944 Hall, Room 102, outgoing MHC Undergraduate Fellow Tom Pinette will present the results of his MHC project, titled "'This Land is Your Land and This Land Is My Land’: The Role of the Roman Catholic Church in the Political and Cultural Lives of the […]

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POSTPONED: Tics and Tourette Syndrome in the Academic Environment

Writing Center Neville Hall, #404, Orono, ME, United States

NOTE: This event has been postponed and will be rescheduled. Stay tuned for an officially rescheduled date. On Monday, March 6 at 2:00 pm in the UMaine Writing Center (Neville Hall 402), outgoing MHC Fellow Benjamin Allen will present the results of his MHC project on disability and performance in higher education. Allen's work, which […]

“Like we are not the same level of human they are”: The Experiences of Precariously Housed and Unhoused Individuals

107 D.P. Corbett Hall

NOTE: The location of this talk has been changed to D.P. Corbett room 107 to accommodate audience needs. On Wednesday, April 12 at 4:35 pm in D.P. Corbett Room 107, outgoing MHC Undergraduate Fellow and Honors College student Brenna Jones will present the results of her MHC project, titled "'Like we are not the same […]

Lunch & Learn: Let’s Talk About Gender

312 Memorial Union

Join MHC Undergraduate Fellow Willow Wind on Wednesday, April 19 at noon in Memorial Union room 312 for a lunch and learn session on gender identity. Our society needs to talk about gender, but we aren’t very good at it. Avoiding these discussions has harmful impacts on body image and various health disparities. What if […]

The Rule: A Critical and Creative Presentation

Stewart Commons IMRC Stewart Commons, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States

On Wednesday, April 19 at 4:30 pm in the IMRC, outgoing MHC Undergraduate Fellow Paige McHatten will present the results of her Fellowship project with a talk and creative writing titled "The Rule." McHatten's project has spent two semesters researching and composing creative works that ask how media both contributes to and dismantles ideas of heteronormativity, with particular […]

Opening Reception: Past Trauma in Modernity: Impressions of COVID-19

MiNOR Gallery 282 Main Street, Old Town, ME, United States

The Fall 2022–Spring 2023 Maine Humanities Center (MHC) Undergraduate Fellow Donald Patten, a senior in the University of Maine Department of Art, will be exhibiting his MHC art project “Past Trauma in Modernity: Impressions of COVID-19” at the MiNOR Gallery at 282 Main Street in Old Town, Maine from June 3–30. There will be an […]

Otherworldly Ethics: Trouthe and the Fairy Mistress in the Lays of Lanval, Graelent, Guingamor and Sir Launfal

Coe Room, Memorial Union University of Maine, Orono, United States

"Otherworldly Ethics: Trouthe and the Fairy Mistress in the Lays of Lanval, Graelent, Guingamor and Sir Launfal" Join us on Monday, November 13 at 3:30 pm in the Coe Room, Memorial Union, as outgoing McGillicuddy Humanities Center Fellow Abigail Roberts presents on her project, "Otherworldly Ethics: Trouthe and the Fairy Mistress in the Lays of […]

The Intersections of Career-Motivated Women and Parenting

Stewart Commons IMRC Stewart Commons, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States

Join us at 4:00 pm on Friday, December 1, 2023 in the IMRC as outgoing McGillicuddy Humanities Center Undergraduate Fellow Paige Allen will lead a participant panel presentation on her MHC project, which explores how intrinsically career-driven mothers experience motherhood and their decisions to raise children in the context of their careers. This event is […]

Video Games Teach History

Cross Insurance Center 515 Main St, Bangor, ME, United States

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 profitable entertainment media. This session will explore how the ability of gamers to relive, alter, and explore a game world has implications on how we […]

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