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The Secrets of the Vikings

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

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 […]

The Election of Trump: One Year Later

Bangor Room, Memorial Union Orono, ME, United States

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 […]

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 […]

Free – $50

Post-Show Discussion of A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Talenti and Bercovici

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

From Page to Stage: “Midsummer Night’s Dream” Post-Show Discussion Join theater professionals Pier Carlo Talenti and Toby Bercovici for a post-show discussion on Sunday, Nov. 12, after the  matinee of Shakespeare’s […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Celebrating the Poetry of John Ashbery

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

Andrew Epstein, Professor and Chair for Graduate Studies at Florida State University, will give a talk on “Fence-Sitting Raised to the Level of an Esthetic Ideal: John Ashbery and the Poetics of […]

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