The UMaine/Orono High School Humanities Collaboration invites you to a discussion of Social Media and the #MeToo Movement Moderated by Judith Rosenbaum, Assistant Professor of Communication and Journalism Friday, November 2 Orono High School Library 5:30-7:00 pm This event is FREE and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. This event is co-sponsored by […]
An evening of vocal music and poetry with EUPHONY, Orono’s chamber choir, conducted by Francis John Vogt, UMaine Director of Choral Activities. The program features choral settings of poetry from World War I and readings by UMaine faculty, students and friends. Reception to follow in Minsky Lobby.
Part of the McGillicuddy Humanities Center Symposium "War without End: World War I and its Legacies" Modernisms: Past and Future Colloquium for Faculty and Students A lecture by Vincent Sherry, Visiting Scholar for the McGillicuddy Humanities Center Thursday, November 15 402 Neville Hall 12:30 pm This event is sponsored in part by UMaine's Center for […]
Part of the McGillicuddy Humanities Center Symposium "War without End: World War I and its Legacies" Modernism in Wartime: Avant-Gardes, Revolutions, Poetries A lecture by Vincent Sherry, Visiting Scholar for the McGillicuddy Humanities Center Friday, November 16 Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall 3:00 pm This event is sponsored in part by UMaine's Center for Poetry and […]
NOTE: This event has been canceled. King Lear Pre-Performance Lecture By Caroline Bicks, Prof. of English and Stephen E. King Chair of Literature Friday November 16 Collins Center for the Arts 6:00 pm KING LEAR on NT Live, 7:00pm
Join us for a talk by Professor Donald Zillman as part of our ongoing Symposium series, February 12, 12:30 pm, Nutting Hall, room 100. Professor Zillman has taught and written about energy law, military law, tort law, and legal writing for over 50 years. His writing includes over 50 articles and 15 books in these […]
The spring 2019 New Writing Series kicks off with a special Wednesday afternoon event featuring Pina Piccolo, a poet, translator, and independent, scholar born in California and educated at Berkeley (Ph.D. Italian Literature). She moved to Italy in 2003, where she participated in the creation of La Macchina Sognante: Contenitore delle Scritture del Mondo, an online […]
The Stephen E. King Chair in Literature, in partnership with the Women’s Resource Center, sponsors “Dine in Discourse: White Like Me” on February 19, 2019, at 5:30pm in the Bumps Room, Memorial Union. The event features free Chinese food, a film screening, and an opportunity to discuss “white privilege and the importance of anti-racist work”.
Join us at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, February 20 for a pre-show lecture, presented in conjunction with the Collins Center for the Arts. Sarah Harlan-Haughey, Associate Professor of English, will […]
As part of its Symposium Series, War Without End: The Legacies of World War I, the McGillicuddy Humanities Center welcomes Dr. Jahan Ramazani, who will lead a panel discussion centered on his article, "'Cosmopolitan Sympathies': Poetry of the First Global War." Modernism/modernity 23.4 (2016). Panelists will include Zach Ludington, Carla Billitteri, Carlos Villacorta, and Michael Lang. Jahan Ramazani […]
