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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' […]

UMaine History Department

Presner Lecture: Experimental Knowledge in the Age of Digital Humanities

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

Todd Presner, a digital historian and Professor of Germanic Languages, Comparative Literature, and Jewish Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles will deliver a lecture titled "Experimental Knowledge in the Age of Digital Humanities." Presner is also the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Director of the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies and the Chair of […]

Discovering the “Long” 18th Century: Making Connections within Gale Primary Sources

Library Classroom, Fogler UMaine, Orono, ME, United States

Location: Library Classroom, 1st floor Fogler Library (near the "Union" entrance) This workshop will provide an overview of critical primary sources available to scholars at the University of Maine seeking to enhance their digital humanities research.  Representatives from Gale will review their Primary Sources platform, including core primary source databases available through Fogler Library.  We will also learn […]

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New Writing Series: Claire Donato*

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

As part of Digital Humanities Week, the New Writing Series is bringing digital poet Claire Donato to campus. Donato has an MFA from Brown University and describes herself as "a writer, artist, and curator thinking about animals, architecture, desire, exceptionalism, nothingness, pedagogy, personal taste, suffering, and synaesthesia." The event is free and open to the public.     […]

Hispanic Heritage Month Lecture Series 2017

Puntos suspensivos: A Personal Geography for Hispanic Heritage Month

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

Lecture by Zachary Ludington, Assistant Professor of Spanish, UMaine. Part of the Hispanic Heritage Month Lecture Series Sponsored By: UMaine Deptartment of Modern Languages and Classics and CHISPO Centro Hispana Contact: Maria Sandweiss

Destruction of Memory

Destruction of Memory: a documentary film

The Hudson Museum presents the filming of "Destruction of Memory: The War Against Culture, and the Battle to Save It." A description of the film from its website: "Over the past century, cultural destruction has wrought catastrophic results across the globe. This war against culture is not over - it's been steadily increasing. In Syria and Iraq, […]

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

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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