Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center
Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center
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Week of Events
Digital Humanities Week*
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' […]
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Presner Lecture: Experimental Knowledge in the Age of Digital Humanities
Presner Lecture: Experimental Knowledge in the Age of Digital Humanities
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 […]
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Discovering the “Long” 18th Century: Making Connections within Gale Primary Sources
Discovering the “Long” 18th Century: Making Connections within Gale Primary Sources
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*
New Writing Series: Claire Donato*
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. […]
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Puntos suspensivos: A Personal Geography for Hispanic Heritage Month
Puntos suspensivos: A Personal Geography for Hispanic Heritage Month
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
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Destruction of Memory: a documentary film
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, […]
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Downtown Bangor ARTober Kick-Off Event*
Downtown Bangor ARTober Kick-Off Event*
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 […]