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February 2023
F2M
It is parents’ weekend of Parker’s freshman year, but Parker’s very famous parents aren’t coming—which, trust him, is just as well. Confrontations both painfully funny and deeply poignant are sparked when Althea and Clarence show up uninvited, as Parker’s new sexual identity is put to the test, and as the family must grapple with the difficult choices of the child they love. From February 16 through 19, MHC Undergraduate Fellow Bell Gellis will present a production of Patricia Wettig's play F2M live in…
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It is parents’ weekend of Parker’s freshman year, but Parker’s very famous parents aren’t coming—which, trust him, is just as well. Confrontations both painfully funny and deeply poignant are sparked when Althea and Clarence show up uninvited, as Parker’s new sexual identity is put to the test, and as the family must grapple with the difficult choices of the child they love. From February 16 through 19, MHC Undergraduate Fellow Bell Gellis will present a production of Patricia Wettig's play F2M live in…
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It is parents’ weekend of Parker’s freshman year, but Parker’s very famous parents aren’t coming—which, trust him, is just as well. Confrontations both painfully funny and deeply poignant are sparked when Althea and Clarence show up uninvited, as Parker’s new sexual identity is put to the test, and as the family must grapple with the difficult choices of the child they love. From February 16 through 19, MHC Undergraduate Fellow Bell Gellis will present a production of Patricia Wettig's play F2M live in…
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It is parents’ weekend of Parker’s freshman year, but Parker’s very famous parents aren’t coming—which, trust him, is just as well. Confrontations both painfully funny and deeply poignant are sparked when Althea and Clarence show up uninvited, as Parker’s new sexual identity is put to the test, and as the family must grapple with the difficult choices of the child they love. From February 16 through 19, MHC Undergraduate Fellow Bell Gellis will present a production of Patricia Wettig's play F2M live in…
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It is parents’ weekend of Parker’s freshman year, but Parker’s very famous parents aren’t coming—which, trust him, is just as well. Confrontations both painfully funny and deeply poignant are sparked when Althea and Clarence show up uninvited, as Parker’s new sexual identity is put to the test, and as the family must grapple with the difficult choices of the child they love. From February 16 through 19, MHC Undergraduate Fellow Bell Gellis will present a production of Patricia Wettig's play F2M live in…
Find out more »Pre-Performance Lecture: Marisa Solomon on the Dreamers’ Circus
On Sunday, February 26 at 2:00 pm, the MHC continues its 2022-23 pre-performance lecture series at the Collins Center for the Arts, with a talk by School of Performing Arts faculty member Marisa Solomon in the Bodwell Lounge, before the Dreamers' Circus take the stage of Minsky Recital Hall. Solomon received performance degrees from the Oberlin College and San Francisco Conservatories of Music. She is an avid chamber musician, teacher and performer, and was a founding member of the Hancock St.…
Find out more »Goodbye, Lord: How We Changed God’s Pronouns in the Hebrew Bible and Why It Matters
Rabbi Beth Lieberman will take us on a journey through the history of Jewish translations of the Hebrew Bible, offer a glimpse into the translation process for the forthcoming JPS TANAKH: Gender-Sensitive Edition, and explore its game-changing potential for the next generation. Rabbi Beth Lieberman served as literary editor and a revising translator of the JPS TANAKH: Gender-Sensitive Edition. She is the founder of Textish, an organization whose focus is producing innovative literary works of Jewish scholarship, culture, and practice,…
Find out more »March 2023
“This Land Is Your Land and This Land Is My Land”: The Role of the Roman Catholic Church in the Political and Cultural Lives of the Penobscot and Passamaquoddy Nations in the Twentieth Century
On Wednesday, March 1 at 12:00 pm in Class of 1944 Hall, Room 102, outgoing MHC Undergraduate Fellow Tom Pinette will present the results of his MHC project, titled "'This Land is Your Land and This Land Is My Land’: The Role of the Roman Catholic Church in the Political and Cultural Lives of the Penobscot and Passamaquoddy nations in the Twentieth Century." Over the course of his Fellowship, Tom has worked with faculty mentors John Bear Mitchell and Paige…
Find out more »POSTPONED: Tics and Tourette Syndrome in the Academic Environment
NOTE: This event has been postponed and will be rescheduled. Stay tuned for an officially rescheduled date. On Monday, March 6 at 2:00 pm in the UMaine Writing Center (Neville Hall 402), outgoing MHC Fellow Benjamin Allen will present the results of his MHC project on disability and performance in higher education. Allen's work, which forms part of his Honors thesis, draws on his own lived experience, as well as contemporary scholarly research in disability studies, communication theory, performance theory,…
Find out more »The Meaty Mind: Eating and Thinking in Early Christian Monasticism
The University of Maine History Department's 2022-2023 symposium series will hold its next meeting on Monday, March 20th at 3:15pm in Soderberg Auditorium (Jenness Hall). Dr. Jamie Kreiner (University of Georgia) will be speaking about "The Meaty Mind: Eating and Thinking in Early Christian Monasticism." The History Department Symposium Series, “History through Food & Drink," is supported in part by a grant from the Cultural Affairs/Distinguished Lecture Series Fund. Dr. Jamie Kreiner is Professor of History at the University of Georgia, and her…
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