When Code Meets Combat: AI Ethics and Just War Theory a research presentation by McGillicuddy Humanities Center Fellow Neil Rockey Friday, April 18, 2025, at 3:30 PM, Hill Auditorium, 165 […]
Dogpile: So, what does it mean? a choreographic work-in-progress by McGillicuddy Humanities Center Fellow Rehannah Baksh Saturday, April 26, 2025, 3:00-4:30 PM, Dance Studio, 226 Class of 1944 Hall Rehannah Baksh is […]
Thinking about a major or a minor in the arts or humanities? The McGillicuddy Humanities Center welcomes prospective arts and humanities students (as well as those who’ve already declared a […]
A Patient Eye: Expanded Perspectives on Place a panel discussion with John Bailly, An Nguyen, Joshua Walton, and Gregory Zaro + Student Pizza Night at the ZAM Friday, October 17, […]
Emptiness and Epitaph: The Phenomenology of Grief Objects a presentation by MHC Undergraduate Fellow Kyra PedersonMonday, October 27, 2025 5 PM Hill Auditorium, 165 Barrows Hall University of Maine, Orono, ME Kyra Pederson is a Philosophy major and McGillicuddy Humanities Center Undergraduate Fellow whose presentation Emptiness and Epitaph: The Phenomenology of Grief Objects asks what fills the space that loss […]
“An Experiment in Publishing”: McGraw-Hill and the Sale of Technical Books in Latin America a presentation by Nora Benedict Monday, November 3, 2025 4 PM IMRC Center, room 104 University of Maine, Orono, ME In this talk, Nora Benedict examines McGraw-Hill’s strategic expansion into the Latin American publishing market during the mid-twentieth century, focusing on its […]
Autonomous Autopsy: Re-presenting Medical Trauma in Documentary Poetics a presentation by MHC Undergraduate Fellow Chantelle Flores Wednesday, November 19, 2025 5:00 PM IMRC Center 104 Fernald Adaptive Presentation and Performance Environment University of Maine, Orono, ME Chantelle Flores is a student in the Honors College, dual English and Art History major, and McGillicuddy Humanities Center Undergraduate Fellow […]
Musicologist and concert programmer Leah Batstone leads a guided listening session through Ukrainian musical history. From “white voiced” folk singing to choral polyphony, experimental composition, and electronic music, discover the wide variety of genres and styles that define Ukraine musically. Prof. Batstone will introduce and explain several examplars of Ukrainian music by way of a short overview of Ukrainian music history. […]
Leah Batstone (Assistant Professor of Music History at Montclair State University and founder and Creative Director of the Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival in New York City) and Alex Tyutyunnyk (Instructor of Russian at UMaine) will engage in a pre-event discussion prior to DhakaBrakha’s performance at the Collins Center for the Arts. The pre-event discussion is free […]
Athletes of the Rake: A Tribute to the People Who Do the Work of a Shrinking Harvest in the Wild Blueberry Fields of Maine a presentation by MHC Undergraduate Fellow Jordan Ramos Monday, November 24, 2025 5:00 PM IMRC Center 104 Fernald Adaptive Presentation and Performance Environment University of Maine, Orono, ME Jordan Ramos is a student […]
