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 […]
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Curious Incident takes the audience on an adventure alongside the plays unlikely hero, fifteen-year-old Christopher Boone. When Christopher falls under suspicion […]
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Curious Incident takes the audience on an adventure alongside the plays unlikely hero, fifteen-year-old Christopher Boone. When Christopher falls under suspicion for killing his neighbors dog, he uses his love of Sherlock Holmes and his own astute deductive abilities to solve the mystery in this journey […]
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Curious Incident takes the audience on an adventure alongside the plays unlikely hero, fifteen-year-old Christopher Boone. When Christopher falls under suspicion […]
Rape culture is the term for the environment in which sexual assault, harassment, coercion, and misconduct are ignored, diminished, and allowed to flourish without repercussion. Rape culture is rampant in the United States and around the world, and it very often originates from the very language we use to describe and define events and actions. […]
Maine Peace Action Committee Presents: It’s Black History Month! Come join MPAC on February 27th at 5pm in the Lown Room of the Union for a showing of this powerful […]
This event is part of the Stephen E. King Chair Spring Lecture Series Public Lecture Thursday, February 28th at the Orono High School library. Adam Barr, "Made for TV: Writing […]
