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Digital Humanities Week*

University of Maine Wells Conference Center, Stevens Hall, North Stevens Hall, The Union, Folger Library, and The Page Farm Museum, Orono, ME, United States

This year's themes: STE(A)M: Adding art/design/humanities to STEM disciplines. Filter bubbles and Internet censorship. Audio/hearing. The week will include presentations and workshops featuring such diverse topics as mapping the Holocaust, indigenous archives, copyright and digital humanities, digital documentation, and digital art production. The week will also include THATCamps (ad hoc learning sessions), "Discovering the 'Long' […]

Downtown Bangor ARTober Kick-Off Event*

Bangor Arts Exchange 193 Exchange Street, Bangor, MD, United States

ARTober Kick-Off Event *coincides with the Bangor ArtWalk Bangor Arts Exchange 193 Exchange Street, Bangor 5-8 pm, Friday, October 6 The kick-off event will be held in the new Bangor Arts Exchange (BAE) building and will be the public debut of this exciting new space. A great deal of foot traffic is expected because of […]

“Henry David Thoreau – Surveyor of Soul” A Film by Huey*

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

Documentary screening of “Henry David Thoreau - Surveyor of Soul.” Featured in the film is our very own faculty advisory board member Darren Ranco! Huey, the producer, directer, and editor, will be present at all screenings. Location: IMRC 104. The film is 114 minutes long. Check out the trailer! https://vimeo.com/225622506

Pre-performance lecture of Hamlet with Caroline Bicks*

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

Stephen E. King Chair in Literature Caroline Bicks will bring her Shakespeare expertise to this pre-performance discussion of Hamlet. Learn more about Caroline Bicks. Preceding Professor Bicks' lecture, MHC and CLAS will host a pre-Homecoming reception, also in Bodwell, from 4:30-6PM. Free and open to the public.   Following the pre-performance lecture is Aquila Theatre Presents: Hamlet […]

Hispanic Heritage Month Lecture Series 2017

SISTERING with Carasque- A Journey in Solidarity

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

Lecture by Katie Greenman, PICA Volunteer. Part of the Hispanic Heritage Month Lecture Series Sponsored By: UMaine Deptartment of Modern Languages and Classics and CHISPO Centro Hispana Contact: Maria Sandweiss

Socialist and Marxist Series

Electoral Reform and National Security in Japan: From Pork to Foreign Policy

Bangor Room, Memorial Union Orono, ME, United States

Part of the Marxist-Socialist Studies Controversies Series. Presented by Amy Catalinac, assistant professor in the department of Politics at New York University and author of Electoral Reform and National Security in Japan: From Pork to Foreign Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2016). The lecture and brown-bag lunch will be followed by a discussion. Free and open to the public. Click here for a […]

Socialist and Marxist Series

Unpacking the Caste System: India and the United States

Bangor Room, Memorial Union Orono, ME, United States

Part of the Marxist-Socialist Studies Controversies Series. Mahesh Upadhyaya, based in Ahmedabad, India, serves as IPM (International Partners in Mission) South Asia Regional Director, working to bring people together regardless of caste, religion and gender to the goal of peace, justice and reconciliation. The lecture and brown-bag lunch will be followed by a discussion. Free and open […]

UMaine History Department

The Reformation at 500

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

Comments by: Joel Anderson, Assistant Professor of History Caroline Bicks, Stephen E. King Chair in Literature Michael Lang, Associate Professor of History Part of the UMaine History Department's Fall symposia and part of the 2017-2018 year-long Humanities symposium: Juvenescence / Obsolescence: Humanities Approaches to Aging across the Ages.  

Socialist and Marxist Series

Student Activism in 2017

Bangor Room, Memorial Union Orono, ME, United States

Part of the Marxist-Socialist Studies Controversies Series. Organized by Olivia Ruhlin of the Maine Peace Action Committee (MPAC) and the Student Women’s Association (SWA), with students involved with such issues as violence, war, sexism, racism and environmental destruction. The lecture and brown-bag lunch will be followed by a discussion. Free and open to the public. Click here for a […]

Pre-performance lecture of King’s Singers with Francis John Vogt*

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

Francis John Vogt (SPA Director of Choral Activities) will bring his expertise to this pre-performance lecture. Learn more about Vogt here. Free and open to the public.   Following the pre-performance lecture is King's Singers at the Collins Center for the Arts. You can find out more about that performance and purchase tickets on the CCA […]

Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center
110 South Stevens Hall Orono, ME 04469
Tel: 207.581.1848 Fax: mhc@maine.edu
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