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The Three Turns of the Allegory of the Cave

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

The talk presents an interpretation of Plato’s famous Cave Allegory by Dr. Joseph Forte of Northeast Catholic College.  Part of the 2017-2018 Philosophy Department Colloquium Series

“Framing Maine” featuring Bill Green*

Minsky Recital Hall Collins Center for the Arts, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States

Kids, Don’t Take my Advice: 45 Years of Braggin’ About Maine The Maine Studies Program is proud to host an event on November 9th featuring noted television host and reporter Bill Green, a University of Maine alumnus. The title of Bill’s talk is “Kids, Don’t Take my Advice: 45 Years of Braggin’ About Maine”—a play on his […]

Free – $50

Films at Fogler: “Still Dreaming”

CETA Room, Fogler 5729 Fogler Library, Orono, ME, United States

The featured film is a documentary that follows a retirement community as they prepare a production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Part of the 2017-2018 Symposium: Juvenescence/Obsolescence: Humanities Approaches to Aging Across the Ages.  Brought to you by the Stephen King Chair in Literature. 

Tour of the “Model Citizens: Art and Identity in the US, 1770-1830” exhibit at the Portland Museum of Art

Portland Museum of Art 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United States

The “Model Citizens: Art and Identity in the US, 1770-1830” tour will begin at 2 pm and will include a meeting with Diana Greenwold, the Associate Curator of American Art at the Portland Museum of Art. We will use a university van to make a day-trip to Portland with plenty of time to explore this great […]

Four Foundational Theories of Labor Activism in Maine

Bangor Room, Memorial Union Orono, ME, United States

Four Foundational Theories of Labor Activism in Maine: The Knights of Labor, the AFL, the IWW, and the Socialist Part of Eugene Debs Part of the Marxist-Socialist Studies Controversies Series. A talk by Marc Cryer, Director of the Bureau of Labor Education, UMaine. The lecture and brown-bag lunch will be followed by a discussion. Free and open to […]

Life of Ideas, Notions, and Concepts: Steve Evans, Justin Wolff*

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

The first event of the series “Life of Ideas, Notions, and Concepts” will feature three UMaine faculty members and take place on Thursday November 16 from 4-5:30PM in the Allen and Sally Fernald APPE space Stewart Commons, IMRC. Participants: Steve Evans (English): “Late Style: A Feminist Future for a Category of Patriarchal Aesthetics?” Justin Wolff (Art History): “Passé: Notes on Connoisseurship & Art History” […]

Maine Humanities Council’s Think & Drink: What’s the harm?

What's the harm? Emotional challenges of policing and being policed The final of the Bangor Think and Drink events for the fall. MC'd by our Faculty Advisory Board member Darren Ranco and sponsored by our friends at the Maine Humanities Council. This year's topic focuses on policing, protection, community, and trust in the 21st century: "policing in Maine, its […]

Pre-performance lecture of Yamato Drummers with Stuart Marrs* & Sake and Sushi reception

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

Stuart Marrs (Professor of Music) will bring his musical expertise to this pre-performance discussion of the Yamato Drummers: The Drummers of Japan. In addition to the lecture, the Hudson Museum will display some Japanese art pieces and there will be a Sake and Sushi reception, sponsored by Oriental Jade. Free and open to the public. Following […]

2018 Bangor Humanities Day*

Downtown Bangor Bangor, ME, United States

Bangor Humanities Day kicks-off on Friday evening (Feb. 2nd) at 6pm with a Humanities Powered by PechaKucha event at COESPACE. Presentations topics will include making a living as an author, medical ethics, the Maine Multi-Cultural Center, Peter Archambault (an artist from Madawaska), wedding perfection hysteria, and bacteriophage. For the big day (Saturday Feb. 3rd) there are three […]

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