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  • Lecture by Professor Ann M. Little of Colorado State University on “The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright: Communities of Women in the Northeast Borderlands”

    Bumps Room, Memorial Student Union

    Ann M. Little, Professor of History at Colorado State University, will offer a lecture and discussion on, “The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright: Communities of Women in the Northeast Borderlands.” The event, part of  the Alice Stewart Lecture Series, will be held from 12:00pm-1:30pm in the Bumpus Room of Memorial Student Union. The lecture emphasizes the methodology in […]

    Free

  • “De-colonization is not a reality show” a one-person performance by William S. Yellow Robe, Jr.

    Lord Hall, room 100

    “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 and open to the public Co-sponsored by the McGillicuddy Humanities Center, the UMaine Department of Art, and the UMaine Department of English

  • Madeline Sayet, “Indigenous Shakespeares”

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

    Award winning Mohegan director and Visiting Libra Professor Madeline Sayet will discuss the historical relationship between Native peoples and Shakespearean performance, and how Native artists have used Shakespearean productions as a tool to reclaim their voices and empower theNative Theater movement. The event will take place on October 17, 2019, at 4:30pm in the Fernald […]

    Free

  • McGillicuddy Humanities Center Film Series : Zama

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

    The McGillicuddy Humanities Center Film Series will feature a collection of six films throughout the academic year related to "The Cinema of Colonization and Decolonization." The global films in the series, from France, Africa, Canada, Argentina and the United States, examine colonialism, racism and post-colonial identity, as well as decolonization of the film industry itself. All […]

  • Human Beans: A Bean Supper Series

    Recurring
    Church of Universal Fellowship 82 Main Street, Orono, ME, United States

    Throughout the Fall, the McGillicuddy Humanities Center will be holding a series of bean suppers as part of our annual symposium theme of "Society, Colonization and Decolonization." Each of the suppers will feature a different cultural identity and bean recipe, including Franco-American bean-hole beans with brown bread, US southwestern-style beans with red & green chiles, Cuban bean […]

    Free

  • McGillicuddy Humanities Center Film Series : Carol

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

    The McGillicuddy Humanities Center Film Series will feature a collection of six films throughout the academic year related to "The Cinema of Colonization and Decolonization." The global films in the […]

  • Human Beans: A Bean Supper Series

    Church of Universal Fellowship 82 Main Street, Orono, ME, United States

    Throughout the Fall, the McGillicuddy Humanities Center will be holding a series of bean suppers as part of our annual symposium theme of "Society, Colonization and Decolonization." Each of the suppers […]

    Free

  • McGillicuddy Humanities Center Film Series : Before Tomorrow

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

    Greg Quill's review of Before Tomorrow from The Star: "A disturbing and powerful metaphor for the doom visited on the Inuit after their insulated world was penetrated by Europeans in […]

  • Aydrea Walden, “The Oreo Experience”

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

    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 […]

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