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Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center

Rabbi Rachel Isaacs, on “The Center for Small Town Jewish Life”

Wells Conference Center University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States

UMaine Judaic Studies is proud to present an evening with Rabbi Rachel Isaacs, Executive Director of the Center for Small Town Jewish Life at Colby College. The spiritual leader of Beth Israel Congregation in Waterville, Maine, and Dorothy “Bibby” Levine Alfond chair in Jewish Studies at Colby, Rabbi Isaacs, was named one of “America’s Most […]

Opening Reception: Past Trauma in Modernity: Impressions of COVID-19

MiNOR Gallery 282 Main Street, Old Town, ME, United States

The Fall 2022–Spring 2023 Maine Humanities Center (MHC) Undergraduate Fellow Donald Patten, a senior in the University of Maine Department of Art, will be exhibiting his MHC art project “Past Trauma in Modernity: Impressions of COVID-19” at the MiNOR Gallery at 282 Main Street in Old Town, Maine from June 3–30. There will be an […]

History Symposium Series: Paul A. Kramer

Zoom

The first lecture of the UMaine History 2023-24 Symposium Series will take place on Monday, Sept. 18th from 3:10-5:00 pm. Dr. Paul A. Kramer (History, Vanderbilt University) will be giving […]

Local Authors Book Reading

Orono Brewing Company 61 Margin Street, Orono, ME, United States

At 5:00 pm on Thursday, September 21, Orono Brewing Company (61 Margin Street, Orono, Maine) hosts a literary reading by local authors, including former McGillicuddy Humanities Center Undergraduate Fellow Paige McHatten and MHC Faculty Advisory Group members Hollie Adams and Gregory Howard. This even is free and open to the public.

A Conversation with Rhiannon Giddens

100 D.P. Corbett Hall

On Saturday, September 23, the Collins Center for the Arts welcomes GRAMMY, Pulitzer Prize, and MacArthur "Genius" Grant winning performer Rhiannon Giddens to its stage--and that same day, at 1:00 pm in Donald P. Corbett 100 on the University of Maine campus, the Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center is pleased to present, free and […]

Student Trip: Zillman Art Museum

Zillman Art Museum 40 Harlow Street, Bangor, ME, United States

On Friday, September 29, professor of history and former MHC director Liam Riordan will host a UMaine student trip to the Zillman Art Museum (ZAM) in Downtown Bangor (40 Harlow Street) for a special “after hours” tour from Executive Director and Curator George Kinghorn. After the tour ZAM and the McGillicuddy Humanities Center will host the […]

I Saw What You Did Podcast – Stephen King Double Feature

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

Join us on Thursday October 19 from 3:30-5:30 at IMRC 104 (The Fernald Adaptive Presentation & Performance Environment) for a public discussion of two films based on Stephen King novels—Pet Sematary (1989) and Misery (1990). Millie De Chirico and Danielle Henderson, hosts of the film podcast I Saw What You Did, will talk us through […]

Pre-Performance Lecture: “The Best of Enemies”

Bodwell Lounge, Collins Center for the Arts 2 Flagstaff Rd., Orono, ME, United States

On November 3 at 6:00 pm in the Bodwell Lounge of the Collins Center for the Arts, former MHC director and professor of communication and journalism Michael Socolow will give a pre-show lecture before the National Theatre stream of "The Best of Enemies." The talk will cover the ways in which television news evolved in […]

This River Is Our Relative

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

On Thursday, November 9 at 6:00 pm in the Collins Center for the Arts, the McGillicuddy Humanities Center will welcome members of the Sunlight Media Collective for a free screening of and discussion/Q&A about the new documentary film "This River Is Our Relative." “This River is Our Relative" is a documentary about the Penobscot Nation’s […]

Free

Otherworldly Ethics: Trouthe and the Fairy Mistress in the Lays of Lanval, Graelent, Guingamor and Sir Launfal

Coe Room, Memorial Union University of Maine, Orono, United States

"Otherworldly Ethics: Trouthe and the Fairy Mistress in the Lays of Lanval, Graelent, Guingamor and Sir Launfal" Join us on Monday, November 13 at 3:30 pm in the Coe Room, Memorial Union, as outgoing McGillicuddy Humanities Center Fellow Abigail Roberts presents on her project, "Otherworldly Ethics: Trouthe and the Fairy Mistress in the Lays of […]

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