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 member Darren Ranco and sponsored by our friends at the Maine Humanities Council. Check out the October and December events as well. Guests: Chief John […]
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 build justice, peace, and hope, and a lecturer in Social Ethics at Yale Divinity School and Pastor of Seaside UCC on MDI. The lecture and […]
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 […]
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? […]
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 By: UMaine Deptartment of Modern Languages and Classics and CHISPO Centro Hispana Contact: Maria Sandweiss
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' […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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
