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 […]
In 2020, the MHC presented its first "Visions" event, highlight current work in the arts and humanities. In 2024, we're pleased to present the sequel: VIsions 2024. A showcase of […]
“Eroding History” Screening and Panel Discussion When: Tuesday, February 6 5:00 p.m. Where: 140 Williams Hall, University of Maine Description: “Eroding History” tells the story of two Black communities on Deal Island, […]
On Saturday, September 23, the Collins Center for the Arts welcomes GRAMMY, Pulitzer Prize, and MacArthur "Genius" Grant winning performer Rhiannon Giddens to its stage--and that same day, at 1:00 […]
On Tuesday, September 27 at 6:00 pm in the atrium of the Bangor Public Library, the Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center will co-present an event with Phuc Tran, author of the memior Sigh, Gone (Flatiron Books, 2020). The discussion will be led by longtime UMaine lecturer of English Margery Irvine. As part of his visit, Tran will also drop […]
The McGillicuddy Humanities Center is sponsoring a Fall Poetry Pop Up on Saturday, October 23, 2021, at 1:30 p.m. The open-mic poetry reading will be held outdoors at the Orono […]
Figuring out new and creative ways to communicate the reality of climate change remains one of the great challenges facing policy-makers, scientists, and advocates. This event brings together two artists […]
Atlantic Black Box is a public history project that empowers communities throughout New England to take up the critical work of researching and reckoning with our region’s complicity in the slave trade […]
McGillicuddy Humanities Center Fellow Bria Lamonica will be presenting an original collection of poems, "The Art of Breathing," on December 8 at 5:30 p.m. ET. Free and open to the […]
Karen Sieber, Humanities Specialist at the McGillicuddy Humanities Center, will speak at 7 p.m. ET on Tuesday, December 1, 2020, about her research, "Tarred and Feathered: UMaine's Hidden Connection to […]
On Thursday, November 12, the McGillicuddy Humanities Center will be sponsoring a panel on "The Humanities as Activism in Chicago." This session of the Socialist and Marxist Studies Series will […]
Kate Axelson Foster from the Career Center will lead a virtual workshop on "Careers in Public History" on September 25, 2020 at 3 p.m. Foster will provide students with tips for navigating the public history job market. Attendees will learn about how to search and apply for internships and careers in public history, including work with museums, archives, historic […]
Building off of the success of the Black Digital History event this spring, the McGillicuddy Humanities Center will be continuing their DH Pop In series throughout the year to show […]
The McGillicuddy Humanities Center is holding a year-long film series examining "The Cinema of Colonization and Decolonization" as part of our annual symposium. The films selected engage with the theme in a variety of ways, from incorporating the legacies of colonization into the storyline to disrupting traditional Western systems and methods of production and distribution. […]
The March 9 showing of the film Coffy is CANCELED due to unforeseen travel delays with the speaker. Tomorrow's talk with Professor Mathijs is also canceled. Future "Cinema of Colonization and Decolonization" events listed below will continue as scheduled. The McGillicuddy Humanities Center is holding a year-long film series examining "The Cinema of Colonization […]
Visiting professor Erin J. Kappeler (Tulane University) will be speaking in Hill Auditorium in Barrows Hall on Wednesday, March 4, at 3PM. Kappeler will explore key texts by the modernist […]
The McGillicuddy Humanities Center and the Multicultural Student Center are holding a Black Digital History lunch and learn on Wednesday, February 26, 2020 at 12 p.m. in the Multicultural Student […]
The Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center invites community members, faculty and students to attend a showcase of current research and creative projects in the humanities. The event, “2020 Visions: […]
Starr Kelly (Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg), Curator of Education at the Abbe Museum, will be speaking on "Decolonizing Museum Practices: Implications for Universities and Schools" from 4:00 to 5:30 pm on […]
The Rising Tide Center, in collaboration with the Honors College, the Bailey Fund, the Communication and Journalism Department, and the McGillicuddy Humanities Center, presents stand-up comedienne Aydrea Walden performing "a […]
Wabanaki Artist Showcases at the Hudson Museum provide an opportunity to see artists in action. Join a free demonstration and talk by James Francis, Penobscot Multimedia Artist. See the Hudson […]
The McGillicuddy Humanities Center and the Bangor Public Library present “Mary and Molly: In the Spirit of the Ancestors, a Birthday to Remember” A One Act play by Donna M. […]
Wabanaki Artist Showcases at the Hudson Museum provide an opportunity to see artists in action. Join a free demonstration and talk by Butch Phillips, Penobscot Birchbark Artist on November 6, […]
“De-colonization is not a reality show” a one-person performance/first draft written by William S. Yellow Robe, Jr. directed by visiting Libra Professor Madeline Sayet Wednesday, October 16, 6:00 p.m. Lord Hall, Room 100 Free […]
Wabanaki Artist Showcases at the Hudson Museum provide an opportunity to see artists in action. Join us for a free demonstration and talk by Frances Soctomah, Passamaquoddy Basketmaker. Click here […]
A free bus will depart the Collins Center for the Arts parking lot at 4:15 PM on Friday, October 4, 2019. Seats are available on a first come first serve […]
Part of the McGillicuddy Humanities Center Symposium "War without End: World War I and its Legacies" Modernisms: Past and Future Colloquium for Faculty and Students A lecture by Vincent Sherry, Visiting Scholar for the McGillicuddy Humanities Center Thursday, November 15 402 Neville Hall 12:30 pm This event is sponsored in part by UMaine's Center for […]
The Nature of Forgetting Pre-show panel discussion on Aging Issues Tuesday, October 30 Room 100, Class of 1944 Hall 6:00 pm Len Kaye, PhD, Moderator Professor of Social Work at […]
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 free and open to alumni, family and friends, students, faculty and staff. Immediately following this reception, please join us for the Maine Heritage Lecture with […]
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 […]
Genetic Genealogy ~ How When Where and Why
From Renaissance Stage to Silver Screen: A Table-Reading of a Film Adaptation of Dekker's "The Shoemaker's Holiday" by Peter Lowe. Location: Black Bear Taproom, Orono Date: Monday, May 7 Time: 6pm
Potluck lunch, interactive kitchen party, and dancing!
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 […]
With Don Foresta and Edwige Armand Tuesday 24 April 3:30PM Soderberg Lecture Hall, 116 Jenness Hall Abstract: Why art is linked to the survival of humans in general. We start from an ancestral point of view and end with a look at the world today. The roots of art are to be found very far in the […]
Come join this one-day workshop for undergrads with guest panelists talking about how they came up with their research questions. Created by Stephen E. King Chair of Literature, Caroline Bicks. This is […]
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 […]
Poetry reading by Allison Cobb. Introduced by Benjamin Friedlander. About Cobb from her website: "Allison Cobb is the author of After We All Died (Ahsahta Press); Plastic: an autobiography (Essay Press EP series); Born2 (Chax Press); and Green-Wood, originally […]
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 […]
Tan Katotsanin "how strong are you?" presents New Native Tribal Plays directed by Madeline Sayet at the Penobscot Theatre Company's Rehearsal Hall, 51 Maine St. Bangor. Madeline Sayet is a Mohegan […]
Tan Katotsanin "how strong are you?" presents New Native Tribal Plays directed by Madeline Sayet at the Penobscot Theatre Company's Rehearsal Hall, 51 Maine St. Bangor. Madeline Sayet is a Mohegan […]
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 […]
Enzo Traverso, the Susan and Barton Winokur Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University, will be giving a talk titled "Burdens of the Past. The Age of Left-Wing Melancholia." The talk […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Dr. Margaret Pearce will give a lecture titled "Imagination, Identity, and the Cartography of History: Three Maps of Canada." Dr. Margaret W. Pearce is a former Associate Professor of Geography […]
The lecture is free and open to the public. JAMES M. SMITH is an Associate Professor in the English Department and Irish Studies Program at Boston College. His book, Ireland’s Magdalen Laundries and the Nation’s […]
Join the Humanities Collaboration for a lively discussion of the Magdalene Laundries and snacks at Orono High School! The Magdalene Laundries were workhouses in which many Irish women and girls […]
Join us for the pre-performance lecture by Dr. Richard Brucher of the NT Live Broadcast of Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead. Dr. Brucher is a professor of English at UMaine whose specializations […]
Join UMMA in welcoming exhibiting artist Andrea Sulzer for ART@NOON. Sulzer will give an informal noon-time gallery talk on her work in Entangled Pairs, on view through May 5, 2018. […]
The documentary screening of Six Centuries, Six Years will be followed by a music history panel discussion. The panel includes UMaine School of Performing Arts music faculty Beth Wiemann, Laura Artesani, […]
The second event of the series “Life of Ideas, Notions, and Concepts” will feature three UMaine faculty members and take place on Thursday February 22 from 4-5:30PM in the Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall. […]
Showtimes are 2 pm and 7 pm. Doors open one hour before show time. The International Dance Festival (IDF) was a student-led initiative which started in 2005. IDF showcases an array of traditional […]
Past and Present Perspectives on Maine's Bicentennial
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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
Part of the Marxist-Socialist Studies Controversies Series. A discussion organized by Doug Allen, professor of Philosophy, UMaine. A discussion and brown-bag lunch. Free and open to the public. Click here for a full […]
Anders Winroth, Forst Family Professor of History at Yale University will draw on his award-winning book The Age of the Vikings to shed light on some of the secrets, myths, and mysteries […]
Donald Wright, a Professor of Political Science at the University of New Brunswick, will deliver a lecture titled “National Symbols, Airport Kitsch, and Canadian History.” The event will take place […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
How Similar is Racism and White Privilege in the North and in the South? A Personal History Lecture by Marco Aviles, Author and Journalist. Part of the Hispanic Heritage Month Lecture Series Sponsored […]
Learn about the collective history and relationship of Maine and Wabanaki people through an understanding of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). What is the history and future of TRC? Barbara Kates, Maine communities organizer for Maine Wabanaki REACH, will address this and other questions. Refreshments served. Free and open to the public.
The Analog Age A day and a half of events considering the shift from analog to digital in advance of Digital Humanities Week with special guest Damon Krukowski Author and podcast host Damon Krukowski will be on campus for a series of events sponsored by the McGillicuddy Humanities Center in collaboration with The Department of English. On Thursday at 4:30 he’ll […]
Part of the Marxist-Socialist Studies Controversies Series. Presented by Dr. Joseph Cistone, CEO of IPM (International Partners in Mission), working across borders of faith, culture, and economic circumstance to create partnerships that […]
What is a criminal? Definitions of Criminal Behavior and Who is Defined as a Ciminal The first of the Bangor Think and Drink events! MC'd by our Faculty Advisory Board […]
Lecture by Rachelle Tome, a former Chief Academic Office for the Maine Department of Education. Part of the Hispanic Heritage Month Lecture Series Sponsored By: UMaine Deptartment of Modern Languages and Classics and […]
Mark Tardi has a MFA from Brown University. Tardi is a poet and a Polish translator. His interest in his Polish heritage led him to become a 2008–2009 Fulbright Senior Lecturer […]
Eliga Gould, Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire, will deliver a lecture titled: "Crucible of Peace: The Turbulent History of the Treaty that Created the American Republic.” […]
This summer, the Lord Hall Gallery on the University of Maine campus will host exhibitions by two of Maine’s leading artists, both of whom live in Port Clyde. The Susan […]
The New Writing Series welcomes fiction writer Joanna Ruocco to the University of Maine campus for a reading on Thursday, September 14, 2017 at 4:30pm in the Allen and Sally Fernald APPE space […]
Dr. Sharrona Pearl joins us from the Annenberg School for Communication of the University of Pennsylvania visit for a series of events (she will also be participating in the Canadians Teaching in the US panel and participate in a series of events with the Honors College and Canadian American Center). Dr. Pearl is an historian […]
Featuring Dan Barrett, Mark Tipton & David Wells Free and open to the public Sponsored By: School of Performing Arts Contact: Alan Berry, richard.berry@maine.edu
Part of the Marxist-Socialist Studies Controversies Series, co-sponsored by Judaic Studies and the Jewish Community Endowment Associates. Roger Brooks, Professor of Religious Studies, Emeritus, Connecticut College, and President of Facing History and Ourselves, working to explore complexities of history and make connections to current events. The illustrated lecture and brown-bag lunch will be followed by a discussion. There is also a related evening […]
The National Poetry Foundation (NPF) is hosting the last in their sequence of “decade” conferences, this one focused on the 1990s, American and international. The conference, The Poetry & Poetics of the 1990s, will be held June 28 – July 1, 2017 here at UMaine. The conference will focus on poetic practice in the decade of the […]
FLOW Fort Knox – Art • Water • Energy • History • Ecology Mind-blowingly innovative New Media artist Gene Felice will join with a transdisciplinary array of artists, scientists, historians and local cultural groups to create a site-specific experience that will delight the senses and stimulate reflection. Another in his series of FLOW events (we […]
The 15th Annual POETS/SPEAK! event on Thursday, April 27 at the Bangor Public Library in celebration of National Poetry Month. Our 15th anniversary event celebrates “Origins: Roots & Sources” in conjunction with the library’s month-long Smithsonian exhibit on “Human Origins.” Festivities open with a performance from Dear Darwin followed by readings by LEONORE HILDEBRANDT, SIMIN KHOSRAVANI, CARL LITTLE, STEFANIA IRENE […]
Leigh Boyle, whom Mimi Killinger has worked to bring to UMaine and local high schools, is founder of an organization that goes to the heart of the humanistic endeavor. The Lipstick Project (named for the story of a crate of lipstick that mysteriously appeared during the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp) provides free, professional […]
From its roots in Old Norse, the word “saga” has been adopted into English as well as a number of other modern languages. In a medieval context, sagas were long prose narratives that told tales of fierce Vikings, legendary heroes, and long-running feuds. These stories feature unforgettable characters like Egil Skallagrímsson, a figure capable of […]
