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Pre-performance lecture of Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead with Dr. Richard Brucher – NT Live Broadcast

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

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 include Shakespeare and English Renaissance drama, modern American and British drama. Free and open to the public. Following the pre-performance lecture is the streamed broadcast […]

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Life of Ideas, Notions, and Concepts with Guest Éric Méchoulan*

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

University of Montreal Professor to Give Talk on Friendship On March 6, from 4 to 5:30PM the McGillicuddy Humanities Center, as part of the Life of Ideas series, curated by Frédéric Rondeau, will host scholar Éric Méchoulan. Méchoulan will give a talk titled “On Friendship: A Brief History of the Concept from Aristotle to Facebook.” Éric Méchoulan is […]

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Humanities Collaboration: Magdalene Laundries*

Orono High School RM 65A, 14 Goodridge Drive, Orono, ME, United States

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 were effectively imprisoned because they were perceived to be a threat to the moral fiber of society. Mandated by the Irish state beginning in the […]

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A Book’s Afterlife: Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries, Academic Advocacy, and Restorative Justice

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

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 Architecture of Containment, was praised by Colm Tóibín as essential reading “for anyone interested in the fear and cruelty surrounding women’s sexuality in the Ireland […]

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History Symposium: Dr. Margaret Pearce

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

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 […]

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Friendship as Reflective Environmental Practice

Weisz Room The Maples, room 10, UMaine, Orono, ME, United States

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 […]

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Becoming Ecological: Towards a Process Metaphysical Subjectivity

Weisz Room The Maples, room 10, UMaine, Orono, ME, United States

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 […]

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Charles C. Mann Lecture

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

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 […]

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Life of Ideas, Notions, and Concepts with Guest Enzo Traverso*

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

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 […]

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Living a Full, Ethical and Sustainable Life in the 21st Century*

Nutting Hall University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States

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 […]

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