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Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center

A Day in the Life: A Beatles Experience

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

A Day in the Life: A Beatles Experience is the ultimate multimedia tribute to the most recognized band of all time!Experience The Beatles like never before as A Day in the Life recreates more than thirty Beatles songs, many of which were never performed live, right before your eyes!Saturday, 19 October, 7 pm at the Collins […]

Doing Digital Film History, Experimental Humanities Workshop

305 Center Stevens
Hybrid Hybrid Event

The Experimental Humanities Workshop welcomes Josephine Diecke (University of Zurich) and Isadora Campregher Paiva (University of Amsterdam) to campus. The title of their talk is "Doing Digital Film History: Combining Sentiment Analysis and Large Language Models." They will be discussing their recent work on using large language models to rethink the history of Weimar-era German […]

Farewell Disco, film screening and talk with Mariana Ivanova

Stewart Commons IMRC Stewart Commons, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States

The McGillicuddy Humanities Center presents a screening of Rolf Losansky’s 1989 film, Farewell Disco, as part of its 2024-2025 Symposium, “From Talkies to TikTok: 100 Years of Audiovisual Storytelling.” Farewell Disco tells the story of a grieving young man who takes up a solitary practice of climate activism and amateur forestry just before German reunification. […]

Experimental Humanities Workshop: “Machine Learning for Humanities,” William Mattingly

Radical changes in data accessibility and AI are transforming humanities research. When should researchers use machine learning and when should they not? Join the Experimental Humanities Workshop on Wednesday, November 20 for a presentation by William Mattingly (Smithsonian Institution Data Science Lab) on "Machine Learning for Humanities." In person @ DiSH LAB (Stevens 305). 20 […]

MHC Fellow Presentation: “Between the Static: Inside WMEB and College Radio’s Cultural Influence,” Jess Cleary-Reuning

Bangor Room, Memorial Union Orono, ME, United States

Jess Cleary-Reuning, Sandra Merrill Peters and John G. Peters Humanities Fellow at the McGillicuddy Humanities Center, will present her personal, critical, and archival history of UMaine's campus radio station, WMEB, on November 21 at 3:00 pm in the Bangor Room of the Memorial Union. Her talk, "Between the Static: Inside WMEB and College Radio's Cultural Influence - A Historical Analysis and […]

“Penobscot Sense of Place,” a lecture by James Francis

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

James Eric Francis Sr. is the Penobscot Nation’s Director of Cultural and Historic Preservation and Tribal Historian. He is also a photographer, filmmaker, painter, and graphics artist. James studies the relationship between Maine Native Americans and the landscape. He co-produced the film Invisible and is the Co-Chair of the Abbe Museum’s Board of Trustees, and Co-Director of […]

Symposium Event: “Visualizing the Holocaust: Seeing anew with Digital Methods,” Anne Knowles

120 Williams Hall 5742 Williams Hall, Orono, ME, United States

In this richly visual presentation, Anne Knowles, McBride Professor of History, will share highlights from years of developing geohistorical datasets and data visualizations that reveal the scale and dynamics, spaces and places of the Holocaust in stunning new ways. Her work demonstrates geography as a visual way of knowing — and exploring — the past. […]

MHC Fellow Presentation: “Roots and Resilience,” Alex Morgan

Bangor Room, Memorial Union Orono, ME, United States

Join the McGillicuddy Humanities Center in the Bangor Room of the Memorial Union on Thursday, December 5 at 5:00 pm as Alexandria Morgan, the Echoes of Maine Fellow at the […]

Symposium Event: A New Peace of Münster, Simon Richter (UPenn)

Stewart Commons IMRC Stewart Commons, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States

On December 11, join us for a screening of A New Peace of Münster, a documentary by Maria Kolossa that tells the story of how a Dutch comedian and a […]

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