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SUMMARY:From Renaissance Stage to Silver Screen: A Table-Reading of a Film Adaptation of Dekker's "The Shoemaker's Holiday"
DESCRIPTION:From Renaissance Stage to Silver Screen: A Table-Reading of a Film Adaptation of Dekker’s “The Shoemaker’s Holiday” by Peter Lowe. \nLocation: Black Bear Taproom\, Orono\nDate: Monday\, May 7\nTime: 6pm\n \n 
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/renaissance-stage-silver-screen-table-reading-film-adaptation-dekkers-shoemakers-holiday/
LOCATION:Black Bear Taproom\, 19 Mill St\, Orono\, ME\, 04473\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Humanities
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SUMMARY:Euphony: Orono's Chamber Choir concert
DESCRIPTION:EUPHONY is Orono’s chamber choir\, conducted by Francis John Vogt  (of UMaine SPA).  Many UMaine voice majors and some faculty sing in the group. Come see them either Saturday at The Church of Universal Fellowship or Tuesday at Dirigo Pines Retirement Community.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/euphony-oronos-chamber-choir-concert/2018-05-05/
LOCATION:Orono\, Orono\, ME\, 04473\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performing Arts
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SUMMARY:Kitchen Party with Frantically Atlantic
DESCRIPTION:Potluck lunch\, interactive kitchen party\, and dancing!
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/kitchen-party-frantically-atlantic/
LOCATION:Franco-American Centre\, 110 Crossland Hall\, UMaine\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performing Arts,Public Humanities
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SUMMARY:Dr. Sylvia Earle: Exploring the Ocean in the 21st Century*
DESCRIPTION:Renowned oceanographer and National Geographic Society Explorer-in-Residence Sylvia Earle will give a lecture\, “Exploring the Ocean in the 21st Century\,” 4:30–5:30 p.m. Monday\, April 30 in the Collins Center for the Arts. \nTickets will be available in March and a second announcement will be posted when they become available. Tickets are free\, but will require reservation through the CCA box office. \nSchedule:  \n\n3:30 p.m. – doors open\n3:50 p.m. – 4:20 p.m. – “Frantically Atlantic\,” a New Brunswick folk duo\, will perform songs of the sea as the audience is being seated.\n4:30pm – 5:30pm Dr. Earle Lecture\n\nAdmission: Free upon reservation\nFor tickets\, click the CCA link\, call 207.581.1755 or stop at the box office. Limit 4 tickets per person. Please call for group tickets. \nDr. Earle’s lecture will include underwater film of her research and conservation efforts in many coastal and deep areas of the global ocean. Earle is a National Geographic Society Explorer-in-Residence\, and Founder and Chair of the non-profit Mission Blue (mission-blue.org/).  She has been called a “Living Legend” by the Library of Congress. \nEarle’s career achievements include leading more than 100 expeditions and logging more than 7\,000 hours underwater. She led the first team of women aquanauts during the Tektite Project in 1970. \nHer research focuses on marine ecosystem conservation\, and the development and use of new technologies for access and effective operations in the deep sea and other remote environments\, according to her biography. \nEarle’s lecture and related events on campus are co-sponsored by the School of Marine Sciences\, Cultural Affairs/Distinguished Lecture Series\, College of Engineering\, Department of Communication and Journalism\, Folklife Center\, Graduate Student Government\, Honors College\, McGillicuddy Humanities Center\, Maine EPSCoR\, Maine Sea Grant\, Maine Science Festival\, Phi Beta Kappa\, School of Earth and Climate Sciences\, Sigma Xi\, and Women in Science\, Technology\, Engineering\, Mathematics and Medicine.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/dr-sylvia-earle-exploring-ocean-21st-century/
LOCATION:Collins Center for the Arts\, 2 Flagstaff Road\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture,Public Humanities
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SUMMARY:Creativity in Art\, Change and Survival*
DESCRIPTION:With Don Foresta and Edwige Armand \nTuesday 24 April 3:30PM Soderberg Lecture Hall\, 116 Jenness Hall \nAbstract: Why art is linked to the survival of humans in general. We start from an ancestral point of view and end with a look at the world today. The roots of art are to be found very far in the past of our species\, hundreds of thousands of years\, long before homo sapiens. We develop the idea that art is a product of instinct in the sense proposed by Bergson\, that it is linked to the creation of perceptions essential for the evolution of our representations. Art in its earliest expression is linked to the premise of symbolic thought and the found object. Creativity comes from a crisis in perception\, in the sudden incomprehension of the outside world and is a temporary solution to resolve these crises. Instinct is then mobilized to find an explanation\, bringing in new information and thereby causing a shift in perception. In the beginning of life\, cognition\, perception\, imagination\, sensations are of the order of the unlimited incomplete. However\, culture shapes intuition before actualization is arrived at.  Creativity thereafter serves as a safeguard against the perceptual\, cognitive normalization of the human being\, creating disorder in the secure perceptual certainty that science and technology contribute to by inserting tools between us and the outside world to understand it. Technology\, itself an expression of creativity\, is our invented interface with the exterior\, allowing us to better control it which\, in turn\, influences our perception of this exterior. By giving that technology a symbolic meaning\, we make it an integral part of our culture and close the circle\, only to start again. Much experimentation and artistic production of the 20th century was an exploration of interactivity. The notion of connection was and is a leitmotiv in current artistic creation that brings us to a kind of neo-animism\, making it a new paradigm for the 21st century. The rhizomic idea – the network paradigm – better defines the relationship between human beings than the separate and replaceable parts of the mechanical era of the first renaissance. \nAbout the Presenters: \nDon Foresta is a research artist and theoretician in art using new technologies as creative tools and a retired professor of art and technology and art and science in France and the UK. He is a specialist in art and science. He is currently the international coordinator of the MARCEL network <www.mmmarcel.org>\, a permanent\, high bandwidth network for artistic\, educational and cultural experimentation. Foresta began building the MARCEL network while artist/professor at the National Studio of Contemporary Art\, Le Fresnoy\, Lille France and inaugurated MARCEL during a fellowship at the Wimbledon College of Art in London in 2001. Foresta is a graduate of the University of Buffalo\, the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and the Sorbonne. Having both US and French nationalities\, Foresta was named “Chevalier” of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture for having created the first department of video art in Europe. \nEdwige Armand is Attaché Temporaire d’Enseignement et de Recherche in the department of Plastic Arts and Design at the Université Toulouse\, after recently completing her doctorate in plastic arts at Toulouse. Her research focuses on how both body and world serve as cultural and artistic scenes of writing and as sites of interactivity\, especially in relation to the transversality of artificial life\, genetics and digital arts. Since 2009\, Armand’s artwork has been exhibited throughout France and in NYC. \nFree and Open to the Public. For more information\, contact mscott@maine.edu. \nSupport by the McGillicuddy Humanities Center\, UM Franco-American Program\, the UMaine Honors College\, and ASAP Media Service. 
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/creativity-art-change-survival/
LOCATION:Soderberg Lecture Hall\, Jenness Hall\, UMaine\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,History,Public Humanities
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SUMMARY:How Did You Think of That?*
DESCRIPTION:Come join this one-day workshop for undergrads with guest panelists talking about how they came up with their research questions.  Created by Stephen E. King Chair of Literature\, Caroline Bicks.  \nThis is a one-day conference for humanities undergrads looking for inspiration and guidance on how to come up with a research topic. The day will include panels comprised of: 1) Humanities faculty and graduate students talking about what sparked their research/creative work and what their research/creative process looks like; 2) Seniors who have recently completed their theses/capstone projects talking about their projects. \nThe day will include break-out discussions/info sessions on topics like: 1) How to find and apply for humanities funding; 2) Taking advantage of all that the library and its staff have to offer; 3) Finding an adviser. \nAlthough Honors students are one target group of participants for this event\, it is open to any humanities undergraduates.  Please email Caroline Bicks (caroline.bicks@maine.edu) if you are interested in attending this event to RSVP. As of April 13\, there are a few slots let\, so any students interested in participating should contact Caroline Bicks. \nSchedule:\n“How Did You Think of That?”: Turning Your Passion into a Humanities Project\nCo-sponsored by the Stephen E. King Chair in Literature and the Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center\nDate: Saturday\, April 21st\, 2018\nPlace: Estabrooke Hall\, UMaine campus \nSchedule of Events \n8:30-9:15: Registration and light breakfast \n9:15-9:45: Opening Remarks (Caroline Bicks\, Stephen E. King Chair in Literature) and Patricia Wen (Editor of the Boston Globe Spotlight Team) \n9:45-11:00: Session I: Moving\, Learning\, Writing Across the Lifespan \nRyan Dippre (English/Director of College Composition)\nKirsten Jacobson (Philosophy)\nJennifer Moxley (English/Director\, McGillicuddy Humanities Center)\nBryan Picciotto (Doctoral student\, Communication and Journalism)\nNicholas Sanders (M.A. candidate\, Composition and Pedagogy) \n11:00-12:15: Session II: Art(s)\, Politics\, Social Change \nMark McLaughlin (History)\nFrédéric Rondeau (Modern Languages and Classics)\nJudith E. Rosenbaum (Communication and Journalism)\nCarlos Villacorta Gonzales (Modern Languages and Classics) \n12:30-1:45: LUNCH \n Lunchtime Speakers: Alexandria Jesiolowski (Center for Undergraduate Research); Nives Dalbo-Wheeler (Office of Major Scholarships); Mel Johnson and Jen Bonnet (Fogler Library) \n2:00-3:15: Session III: Marginalized Voices\, Underrepresented Populations \nSusan K. Gardner (Higher Education; Director\, WGS & The Rising Tide Center)\nElizabeth Neiman (English)\nSusan Pinette (Modern Languages and Classics; Director\, Franco American Studies)\nAlex Terrell (M.A. candidate\, English) \n3:15-4:45: Session IV: Undergraduate Panel: Capstones\, Theses and Portfolios \nJulia Fasano (Modern Languages major)\, Ryan Stovall (English major)\, and others TBD \n4:45-5:30: Small group discussions led by undergraduate panelists and others \n5:30: DINNER
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/how-did-you-think-of-that/
LOCATION:ME
CATEGORIES:Public Humanities,workshop
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SUMMARY:Getting it Right: Investigative Journalism in a "Post-Truth" Age
DESCRIPTION:Public Lecture: Patricia Wen\, “Getting it Right: Investigative Journalism in a ‘Post-Truth’ Age”\n\nPATRICIA WEN is the editor of the Boston Globe Spotlight Team. She took over this six-member investigative unit after several decades as a reporter at the Globe\, with a special emphasis on social service\, legal and medical issues. Her work focused largely on investigative and long-term projects. She also had spent several years as a reporter on the Spotlight Team. She has twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize\, once in 2004 for feature writing and also in 2013 as part of a team for national reporting. Wen has also twice individually won the Casey Medal for coverage of children and family issues\, in 2004 and 2011\, each in the category of a major project/series in large publications. Before joining the Globe\, she worked as a reporter at The Star-Ledger in Newark\, NJ and The Advocate in Stamford\, CT. A Harvard College graduate with a degree in East Asian Studies\, she is married with three children and lives in Brookline\, Mass. \n\n\n\nParking for the April 20 lecture by Patricia Wen\, Wells Conference Center\, is available via three UMaine entrances off College Avenue: Branch Road near Alfond Arena to the athletics parking lots; and Sebec and Munson roads to the Wells and Dunn lots. Note: Long Road will be closed for the Healthy High races that begins at 5 p.m. that day. A campus map is online.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/getting-right-investigative-journalism-post-truth-age/
LOCATION:Wells Conference Center\, University of Maine\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture,Public Humanities
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SUMMARY:New Writing Series: poetry reading by Allison Cobb
DESCRIPTION:Poetry reading by Allison Cobb. Introduced by Benjamin Friedlander. \n \nAbout Cobb from her website: “Allison Cobb is the author of After We All Died (Ahsahta Press); Plastic: an autobiography (Essay Press EP series); Born2 (Chax Press); and Green-Wood\, originally published by Factory School with a new edition forthcoming in 2018 from Nightboat Books. After We All Died is a finalist for the National Poetry Series and the Oregon Book Award. The poet Carolyn Forché calls After We All Died ‘inventive\, visionary\, hard-thought\, and impossible to put down.'”
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/new-writing-series-poetry-reading-allison-cobb/
LOCATION:Allen and Sally Fernald AP/PE Space\, Stewart Commons IMRC\, UMaine\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
CATEGORIES:New Writing Series,Performing Arts,Poetry,Public Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180409T151000
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SUMMARY:Examining the Life of Maine Missionary and Suffragist Elizabeth Upham Yates
DESCRIPTION:Shannon M. Risk\, ’96\, ’09\, Associate Professor of History at Niagara University\, will deliver a lecture entitled: “Examining the Life of Maine Missionary and Suffragist Elizabeth Upham Yates — The Importance of Biography.” \n\n\n“Elizabeth Upham Yates (1857-1942) was a missionary and suffragist\, born and raised in Coastal Maine\, who rose to national prominence as a reformer in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The study of her life poses a number of issues for the historian biographer. Yates left no collection of papers\, and it is common for whatever papers remained from a female reformer’s life to not be saved by archives\, a reflection that women’s history was not “real history.” Is it possible to write a comprehensive biography with few personal documents saved\, and if so\, how? Is it important to memorialize a reformer who comprised the “second tier” — those whose most important work influenced state and local regions\, and whose names were long ago forgotten? A study of Yates’ life allows the biographer to place her ideas and actions within the greater construct of the progressive era and the paradoxes for reformers. It situates her missionary work as part of American empire building\, negotiates what an intense female friendship meant for Yates’ in terms of companionship and support\, and discusses her complicated interactions with immigrants and people of color.” \nPart of the History Symposium and organized by the History Department.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/examining-life-maine-missionary-suffragist-elizabeth-upham-yates/
LOCATION:Soderberg Lecture Hall\, Jenness Hall\, UMaine\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
CATEGORIES:History Department symposia,Lecture,Public Humanities
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SUMMARY:New Native Tribal Plays with Madeline Sayet*
DESCRIPTION:Tan Katotsanin “how strong are you?” presents New Native Tribal Plays directed by Madeline Sayet at the Penobscot Theatre Company’s Rehearsal Hall\, 51 Maine St. Bangor.  Madeline Sayet is a Mohegan playwright\, director\, and Shakespeare scholar. She is visiting and conducting workshops with students and local playwrights in the Penobscot community as well as directing the Friday and Saturday evening plays.  Brought to you in part by one of our Fall 2017 Faculty Grant Awardees\, Margaret Lukens. \n  \nCheck out Madeline Sayet’s TED Talk below: \n\nTan Katotsanin—a Penobscot word being applied to the development and support of Native American Tribal Theatre Drama in Maine and the University of Maine communities. In order to facilitate this ongoing process\, Yellow Robe and Lukens invited working professional Native Tribal theatre artists to the region to share their expertise and experience.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/new-native-tribal-plays/2018-04-06/
LOCATION:Penobscot Theatre\, 51 Main St.\, Bangor\, ME\, 04401\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performing Arts,Public Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180404T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180404T173000
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SUMMARY:Living a Full\, Ethical and Sustainable Life in the 21st Century*
DESCRIPTION:2018 John M. Rezendes Visiting Scholar in Ethics\nLiving a Full\, Ethical and Sustainable Life in the 21st Century:\nLessons from Psychology\, Ethics and Human-Centered Design \nThe 2018 John M. Rezendes Visiting Scholar in Ethics is Professor Mick Smyer. Smyer\, a national expert on aging\, is a professor of psychology and the former provost at Bucknell University. He also is a senior fellow in social innovation at Babson College. Smyer will be here on April 4th for a busy afternoon of events. \n2pm: Workshop on Aging and Climate Change with Mick Smyer\, location TBD \n4: Reception\, Nutting Hall\, Room 100 \n4:30: Lecture\, Nutting Hall\, Room 100 \nBrief Abstract: \nConsider these key ethical dilemmas that each of us face as we age in the 21st century: \n\nWhat are our ethical duties to successive generations?\nWhat is a “good life”?  What is a sustainable life?  And are they compatible?\nWhat is the “proportional responsibility” of different age groups for climate action? How is the action to be shared among such groups?\nDo older age groups have a larger responsibility to take action since they have benefited more from the actions that have produced climate change?\n\nDrawing on work from psychology\, ethics\, and human-centered design\, Professor Smyer will outline key psychological barriers to fully answering these questions and key strategies to move each of us from anxiety to action to habit in crafting a full\, ethical and sustainable life across generations. \n  \nCo-sponsored by the McGillicuddy Humanities Center.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/living-full-ethical-sustainable-life-21st-century/
LOCATION:Nutting Hall\, University of Maine\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture,Public Humanities
ORGANIZER;CN="UMaine Honors College":MAILTO:honors@maine.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180329T160000
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SUMMARY:Life of Ideas\, Notions\, and Concepts with Guest Enzo Traverso*
DESCRIPTION:Enzo Traverso\, the Susan and Barton Winokur Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University\, will be giving a talk titled “Burdens of the Past. The Age of Left-Wing Melancholia.” \n\nThe talk is part of a yearlong talk series “Life of Ideas\, Notions\, and Concepts” curated by MHC faculty board member Frédéric Rondeau which included fall and spring panels of UMaine faculty\, as well as upcoming guest speaker Éric Méchoulan. \nEnzo Traverso was born in Italy\, studied history at the University of Genoa and received his PhD from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) of Paris in 1989. He has taught political science in France and been visiting professor in several European and Latin American countries. In 2013 he became the Susan and Barton Winokur Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University. His publications\, translated into a dozen languages\, include The Jews and Germany (1995)\, The Origins of Nazi Violence (2003)\, Fire and Blood: The European Civil War 1914-1945 (2015)\, The End of Jewish Modernity (2016). \nTraverso will talk about his latest book: Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism\, History\, and Memory (New York: Columbia UP\, 2017) \nFrom the back jacket : \nThroughout the twentieth century\, argues Left-Wing Melancholia\, from classical Marxism to psychoanalysis to the advent of critical theory\, a culture of defeat and its emotional overlay of melancholy have characterized the leftist understanding of the political in history and in theoretical critique. \nDrawing on a vast and diverse archive in theory\, testimony\, and image and on such thinkers as Karl Marx\, Walter Benjamin\, Theodor W. Adorno\, and others . . . Traverso explores the varying nature of left melancholy as it has manifested in a feeling of guilt for not sufficiently challenging authority\, in a fear of surrendering in disarray and resignation\, in mourning the human costs of the past\, and in a sense of failure for not realizing utopian aspirations. Yet hidden within this melancholic tradition are the resources for a renewed challenge to prevailing regimes of historicity\, a passion that has the power to reignite the dialectic of revolutionary thought. \nEnzo Traverso’s March 29 talk will take place at the Allen and Sally Fernald APPE space\, Stewart Commons IMRC. Refreshments will be served. \nPart of the McGillicuddy Humanities Center’s 2017-2018 symposium Juvenescence/Obsolescence: Humanities Approaches to Aging across the Ages.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/life-ideas-notions-concepts-guest-enzo-traverso/
LOCATION:Allen and Sally Fernald AP/PE Space\, Stewart Commons IMRC\, UMaine\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
CATEGORIES:Juvenescence/Obsolescence humanities symposium,Public Humanities
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SUMMARY:Charles C. Mann Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Charles C. Mann is the author of 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus\, which won the U. S. National Academy of Sciences’ Keck Award for best book of the year and 1493; Uncovering the World That Columbus Created\, a New York Times bestseller. 1491 combines science\, history\, and archaeology to radically transform our understanding of the Americas before European contact. 1493 looks at the aftermath of exchange—plants\, animals and microbes—and the impact of contact on Europe\, China and Africa. Mann’s works are thought provoking and inform not just the past\, but the future. \nMann’s books 1491; 1493 and his latest book\, The Wizard and the Prophet (2018) will be available for sale and autographing following the lecture. \nThis event is free and open to the public.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/charles-c-mann-lecture/
LOCATION:Collins Center for the Arts\, 2 Flagstaff Road\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture,Public Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180323T120000
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SUMMARY:Becoming Ecological: Towards a Process Metaphysical Subjectivity
DESCRIPTION:2017-18 Philosophy Department Colloquium Series presents guest lecturer Russell Duvernoy\, Instructor of Philosophy at Seattle University. Duvernoy will give a talk titled “Becoming Ecological: Towards a Process Metaphysical Subjectivity.” This is the first in a series of four talks on Environmental Philosophy. \nAbstract: Beginning from present ecological turbulence and dire climate change predictions\, and\nfollowing Pope Francis’s call for “ecological conversion\,” Duvernoy will explore conceptual changes\nnecessary for actualizing such conversions. He argues that viable ecological conversion requires\nfurther investigation into metaphysical questions inherent in thinking ecologically and he will outline\nthree risks that a cogent conception of conversion must avoid. Duvernoy will then draw on the work\nof Guattari\, Stengers\, Deleuze\, and Whitehead to show that a process metaphysically inflected\nconception of subjectivity is a more efficacious framework for ecological conversion\, focusing on\nhow it encourages habits of attention productive of greater awareness of ecological complexity.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/becoming-ecological-towards-process-metaphysical-subjectivity/
LOCATION:Weisz Room\, The Maples\, room 10\, UMaine\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture,Philosophy Department Colloquium Series,Public Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180320T163000
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SUMMARY:Friendship as Reflective Environmental Practice
DESCRIPTION:2017-18 Philosophy Department Colloquium Series presents guest lecturer Bryan Bannon\, Associate Professor and Director of Environmental Studies\, Merrimack College. Duvernoy will give a talk titled “Friendship as Reflective Environmental Practice.” This is the second in a series of four talks on Environmental Philosophy. \nAbstract: In this presentation\, Bannon argues for a specific hermeneutic framework for understanding the human relationship to nature\, friendship. Many current discussions of the human-nature relationship focus on the question of anthropocentrism\, taking for granted that nature is a “moral patient.” Following an argument by Val Plumwood\, Bannon\, however\, contends that if nature is understood as an active agency\, we are able to begin conceptualizing what the contours of a friendship with nature would be like. After describing such contours\, Bannon also considers how modeling our relationship on friendship could help to extricate environmentalism from its position as a discourse of sacrifice and situate it as an alternative conception of the good life.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/friendship-reflective-environmental-practice/
LOCATION:Weisz Room\, The Maples\, room 10\, UMaine\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture,Philosophy Department Colloquium Series,Public Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180319T151000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180319T163000
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SUMMARY:History Symposium: Dr. Margaret Pearce
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Margaret Pearce will give a lecture titled “Imagination\, Identity\, and the Cartography of History: Three Maps of Canada.” \n \nDr. Margaret W. Pearce is a former Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Kansas. Pearce was part of the team that recently published a Native place name map “Coming Home to Indigenous Place Names in Canada.” \nAbstract: \n“In this talk\, I introduce cartography as a form of language and demonstrate how I’ve worked with that language to explore and express Canadian history. I present three maps: the route of a North West Company clerk in 1797\, the travels of Samuel de Champlain between 1603 and 1616\, and a map of Indigenous place names. Working with a focus on the relationship between cartographer and reader\, each map engages with the themes of imagination and identity in the search for a design solution. Each map arrives at a different answer to the question\, what is history?” \nPart of the History Symposium and organized by the History Department.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/history-symposium-dr-margaret-pearce/
LOCATION:Arthur St. John Hill Auditorium\, Barrows Hall\, University of Maine\, Orono\, ME\, 04468\, United States
CATEGORIES:History Department symposia,History Event,Lecture,Public Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180307T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180307T203000
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SUMMARY:A Book’s Afterlife: Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries\, Academic Advocacy\, and Restorative Justice
DESCRIPTION:The lecture is free and open to the public. \nJAMES M. SMITH is an Associate Professor in the English Department and Irish Studies Program at Boston College. His book\, Ireland’s Magdalen Laundries and the Nation’s Architecture of Containment\, was praised by Colm Tóibín as essential reading “for anyone interested in the fear and cruelty surrounding women’s sexuality in the Ireland of the recent past.” The Magdalen laundries were workhouses in which many Irish women and girls were effectively imprisoned because they were perceived to be a threat to the moral fiber of society. Mandated by the Irish state beginning in the eighteenth century\, they were operated by various orders of the Catholic Church until the last laundry closed in 1996. In 1993\, a public scandal was triggered when the remains of 155 inmates\, buried in unmarked graves on the property\, were exhumed\, cremated\, and buried elsewhere in a mass grave. Smith’s work with archival materials and survivors is\, in Colum McCann’s words\, a “brilliant\, art-driven examination of a story\, or history\, that needs to be told over and over and over again\, lest it be forgotten or allowed to seep into the ambient noise.” \nCreated by Stephen E. King Chair of Literature\, Caroline Bicks.  \n  \nAlso check out a discussion on Magdalene Laundries the previous day (March 6th) at Orono High School:
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/books-afterlife-irelands-magdalene-laundries-academic-advocacy-restorative-justice/
LOCATION:Minsky Recital Hall\, Collins Center for the Arts\, University of Maine\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture,Public Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180306T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180306T193000
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SUMMARY:Humanities Collaboration: Magdalene Laundries*
DESCRIPTION:Join the Humanities Collaboration for a lively discussion of the Magdalene Laundries and snacks at Orono High School! \nThe Magdalene Laundries were workhouses in which many Irish women and girls were effectively imprisoned because they were perceived to be a threat to the moral fiber of society. Mandated by the Irish state beginning in the eighteenth century\, they were operated by various orders of the Catholic Church until the last laundry closed in 1996. In 1993\, a public scandal was triggered when the remains of 155 inmates\, buried in unmarked graves on the property\, were exhumed\, cremated\, and buried elsewhere in a mass grave. \nTo learn more about the Magdalene Laundries check out the lecture by expert James Smith\, who will give a talk March 7th at UMaine. Organized by the Stephen E. King Chair of Literature.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/humanities-collaboration-magdalene-laundries/
LOCATION:Orono High School\, RM 65A\, 14 Goodridge Drive\, Orono\, ME\, 04473\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180306T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180306T173000
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SUMMARY:Life of Ideas\, Notions\, and Concepts with Guest Éric Méchoulan*
DESCRIPTION:University of Montreal Professor to Give Talk on Friendship \nOn March 6\, from 4 to 5:30PM the McGillicuddy Humanities Center\, as part of the Life of Ideas series\, curated by Frédéric Rondeau\, will host scholar Éric Méchoulan. Méchoulan will give a talk titled “On Friendship: A Brief History of the Concept from Aristotle to Facebook.” \nÉric Méchoulan is an early modernist and cultural historian with significant interests in critical theory and digital humanities. His early interest in the history of the book (first as a librarian and then as a cultural historian)\, as well as in collective memories have led him to work intermedially: from the very institutions that authorize communication to the materialities of communication (images as well as texts)\, Méchoulan argues that attending to the transmission of texts and images allows for a sharper understanding of aesthetic works. \nHis most recent book\, Lire avec soin (Careful Reading) focuses on the idea that reading is not a simple decoding of signs. Rather\, it must be integrated into a history of media and a theory of justice. Méchoulan uses the concept of an “ethics of care” to make visible relations which previously went unnoticed\, or the importance of which have been undervalued. Méchoulan focuses on the relationships in which individuals find themselves\, considering that subjects are the temporary products of intertwined flows stabilized by media\, cultural habits\, institutions\, in short\, by life. His work is attentive to the “politics of transmission” in the sense that before thinking about what we say\, we should think about how we say it: \n “Learning to read carefully is not simply a matter of learning to see the latent content of discourses and situations\, it consists\, rather\, of building a relationship of trust with events\, things\, and living beings in order to better understand and comprehend their multiple temporalities. Intelligence in this case is not vexed by questions of domination or mastery: as language suggests\, it is\, in fact\, a question of being intelligent in the company of others—both past and present—that is to say\, of creating a microsociety of readers. One is never intelligent alone. ” (Lire avec soin 146). \nÉric Méchoulan is a professor of French Literature at the Université de Montréal\, and also director of the Research Centre Virtuoso on digital uses\, cultures\, and documents. He is also the head of the committee of the Fondation Paul-Zumthor. From 2004 to 2010\, he served as a directeur de programme at the Collège international de philosophie in Paris. \nMéchoulan’s March 6 talk “On Friendship. A Brief History of the Concept from Aristotle to Facebook” will take place at the Allen and Sally Fernald APPE space\, Stewart Commons IMRC.Refreshments will be served.  \n  \nThe talk is part of the yearlong talk series “Life of Ideas\, Notions\, and Concepts” curated by MHC faculty board member Frédéric Rondeau which included fall and spring panels of UMaine faculty\, as well as upcoming guest speaker Enzo Traverso. \n \nPart of the McGillicuddy Humanities Center’s 2017-2018 symposium is Juvenescence/Obsolescence: Humanities Approaches to Aging across the Ages.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/life-ideas-notions-concepts-guest-eric-mechoulan/
LOCATION:Allen and Sally Fernald AP/PE Space\, Stewart Commons IMRC\, UMaine\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
CATEGORIES:Juvenescence/Obsolescence humanities symposium
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180302T190000
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SUMMARY:Pre-performance lecture of Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead with Dr. Richard Brucher – NT Live Broadcast
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the pre-performance lecture by Dr. Richard Brucher of the NT Live Broadcast of Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead.  Dr. Brucher is a professor of English at UMaine whose specializations include Shakespeare and English Renaissance drama\, modern American and British drama. \nFree and open to the public. \nFollowing the pre-performance lecture is the streamed broadcast of Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead at the Collins Center for the Arts. You can find out more about that show and purchase tickets on the CCA website.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/pre-performance-lecture-rosencrantz-guildenstern-dead-with-dr-richard-brucher/
LOCATION:Collins Center for the Arts\, 2 Flagstaff Road\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
CATEGORIES:Pre-Performance Lectures,Public Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180227T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180227T123000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20180216T163734Z
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SUMMARY:UMMA ART@NOON – Andrea Sulzer
DESCRIPTION:Join UMMA in welcoming exhibiting artist Andrea Sulzer for ART@NOON. Sulzer will give an informal noon-time gallery talk on her work in Entangled Pairs\, on view through May 5\, 2018. \n \nThis event is FREE and open to the public. \nSNOW DATE: MARCH 6th @ NOON.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/umma-artnoon-andrea-sulzer/
LOCATION:University of Maine Museum of Art\, 40 Harlow St.\, Bangor\, ME\, 04401\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Art Event,Public Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180223T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180223T213000
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SUMMARY:“Six Centuries\, Six Years” Documentary Screening*
DESCRIPTION:The documentary screening of Six Centuries\, Six Years will be followed by a music history panel discussion. The panel includes UMaine School of Performing Arts music faculty Beth Wiemann\, Laura Artesani\, and Stuart Marrs. \nAbout the film Six Centuries\, Six Years: \n“Film portrays the endeavors of a group of Iranian master musicians who are trying to locate\, restore and record a repertoire of compositions attributed to Abd al-Qadir Maraghi\, a prominent composer who lived six centuries ago and greatly influenced the Middle Eastern classical music. During their six-year journey\, the group is finally able to reassemble a major portion of these ballads by sifting through manuscripts and other documents deeply buried in the annals of Iranian and Turkish art history. Film follows these musicians as they rediscover forgotten music that deepens the roots of our music as far as six centuries.” You can find more information about the film here. \n\n\nThis event is also supported by the School of Performing Arts and the Center for Undergraduate Research and organized by Amir Hosain Haddad Kolour\, an Iranian PhD candidate at Civil Engineering Department.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/six-centuries-six-years-documentary-screening/
LOCATION:Minsky Recital Hall\, Collins Center for the Arts\, University of Maine\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180222T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180222T173000
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SUMMARY:Life of Ideas\, Notions\, and Concepts: Michael Lang\, Anne Knowles\, and Michael Howard*
DESCRIPTION:The second event of the series “Life of Ideas\, Notions\, and Concepts” will feature three UMaine faculty members and take place on Thursday February 22 from 4-5:30PM in the Hill Auditorium\, Barrows Hall. \nParticipants:\nMichael Lang (History): “Innumerable times\, all at one time: A History of Ages and Epochs.”\nAnne Knowles (History): “The Age of the Map: Finished? Or Just Getting Started?”\nMichael Howard (Philosophy): “Basic Income: Periodic Companion of the Luddite Fallacy\, or an Idea Whose Time Has (Finally) Come?” \nModerator: Frédéric Rondeau \n\nAbout: The Life of Ideas\, Notions\, and Concepts \nA series consisting of two panels by UMaine Humanities professors and two lectures by visiting scholars curated by Fréderic Rondeau. \n\n\nSome ideas get old. Some revive after decades of turmoil. Some seem gone forever\, and then come back. The decline and the renaissance of an idea\, a word\, tells us a lot about our society and values. Participants in The Life of Ideas will think about this phenomenon critically by addressing the lifespan of an array of theoretical concepts from humanities disciplines. \nThe first panel took place in November 2017 with participants Steve Evans (English): “Late Style: A Feminist Future for a Category of Patriarchal Aesthetics?” and Justin Wolff (Art History): “Passé: Notes on Connoisseurship & Art History.”  In March\, there will be two lectures by prominent scholars Eric Méchoulan (Université de Montréal) and Enzo Traverso (Cornell University). \nAll events are free and open to the public. \n“Lifespan of Ideas” was created by Frédéric Rondeau and is part of the 2017-2018 year-long symposium Juvenescence / Obsolescence: Humanities Approaches to Aging across the Ages.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/life-ideas-notions-concepts-michael-lang-anne-knowles-michael-howard/
LOCATION:Arthur St. John Hill Auditorium\, Barrows Hall\, University of Maine\, Orono\, ME\, 04468\, United States
CATEGORIES:Juvenescence/Obsolescence humanities symposium,Public Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180216T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180216T150000
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SUMMARY:2018 International Dance Festival
DESCRIPTION:Showtimes are 2 pm and 7 pm. Doors open one hour before show time. \n \nThe International Dance Festival (IDF) was a student-led initiative which started in 2005. IDF showcases an array of traditional music\, dance and costumes of our diverse student body at UMaine. It is held annually on the third Saturday of February at the Collins Center for the Arts. \nTwo free performances featuring dances from around the world are scheduled. Showtimes are 2 pm and 7 pm. Doors open one hour before show time. \nMore information is available at umaine.edu/international/idf/. \nThe IDF is organized by the Office of International Programs and the International Student Association.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/2018-international-dance-festival/
LOCATION:Collins Center for the Arts\, 2 Flagstaff Road\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performing Arts,Public Humanities
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SUMMARY:What's So Funny 'Bout Commemoration?
DESCRIPTION:Past and Present Perspectives on Maine’s Bicentennial
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/whats-funny-bout-commemoration/
LOCATION:Soderberg Lecture Hall\, Jenness Hall\, UMaine\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
CATEGORIES:History Department symposia,Public Humanities
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SUMMARY:2018 Bangor Humanities Day*
DESCRIPTION:Bangor Humanities Day kicks-off on Friday evening (Feb. 2nd) at 6pm with a Humanities Powered by PechaKucha event at COESPACE. Presentations topics will include making a living as an author\, medical ethics\, the Maine Multi-Cultural Center\, Peter Archambault (an artist from Madawaska)\, wedding perfection hysteria\, and bacteriophage. \nFor the big day (Saturday Feb. 3rd) there are three all day events: \n\nA student art show (6-8pm Friday and 10am-2pm Saturday) at COESPACE.\nA downtown cultural scavenger hunt with prizes given out at 6pm at UMaine Museum of Art. Locations include all of our host partners as well as the Rock and Art Shop. (See map below.)\nA StoryWalk®* of Kunu’s Basket: a story from Indian Island\, a children’s book by local author Lee DeCora Francis that can be found in the windows of 15 downtown businesses. The title page is at the UMMA\, and the first pages are at Bagel Central\, wraps up to Fork and Spoon\, and ends at Epic Sports. (See map below.)\n\nScheduled programming for the 2018 Bangor Humanities Day kicks starts at 11am at the Maine Discovery Museum where the Bangor Symphony Youth Orchestra will be performing a concert and then holding a petting zoo\, where young ones interested in checking out the instruments can do so with the help of BSYO members. \n \nOur co-sponsor Bangor Public Library is hosting the following three programmed activities in the early afternoon: \n\nAt 12:15pm\, come enjoy the music of a local Celtic Quartet performing Irish and Scottish tunes and songs. Pauleena MacDougall on fiddle\, Nancy Neff on accordion\, Cathy Segee on flute and whistle\, and Daryne Rockett on harp. Performance in the Atrium.\nAt 1:15\, check out the Grant Workshop: an informal panel designed to help cultural workers in the arts and humanities to learn about the broad range of grants that are available to provide financial support for public cultural programs. Representatives from the Maine Humanities Council and the Bangor Commission on Cultural Development will discuss their grant programs\, will provide tips on what makes a winning application\, and will answer audience questions. Located in Crofutt Room.\nFinally at 2:15\, head over to the Oral History Workshop. Ever wanted to record family or community stories but not sure how to go about it? Join folklore archivist Katrina Wynn and learn the basics of doing oral history recordings. Then starting at 3pm Katrina will be demonstrating by collecting stories from anyone in the community who’d like to contribute from the prompt: “What habit\, acquisition\, or event made you feel like you had become an adult?“. Located in Business Center.\n\n3:15 sees programming heading over to Nocturnem Draft Haus\, where the focus shifts back to performance with The Happening Series Poetry & Prose Reading. The Happening Series “are multi-disciplinary\, genre-fluid\, and collaborative creative events\, curated and facilitated by students at UMaine and (typically) hosted by the Franco-American Centre. We look to provide a space for dynamic creative performances: writers\, dancers\, visual artists\, musicians\, actors\, workshop leaders\, community engagers\, scholars and everything outside and in-between. Our events are as dynamic as the content presented – one night might consist of a poetry reading in tandem with a print installation piece\, another might look like an integrated music/drama performance\, and yet another might explore a social engagement workshop.” \nAt 5:30\, the day wraps up at UMaine Museum of Art with art & hors d’oeuvres (by Basil Creek catering) and a cash bar. UMMA director George Kinghorn will be giving tours of the gallery’s new collections. In addition\, the cultural scavenger hunt prize drawing (including two tickets to a Penobscot Theatre show\, a gift certificate for The Rock and Art Shop\, and copies of the children’s book Kunu’s Basket: a story from Indian Island by Lee DeCora Francis) will be held at 6pm. \n[googlemaps https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=1m9eXeNLu3IhqkwDCigzKF1BfoW7VG-yM&w=640&h=480] \n*The StoryWalk® Project was created by Anne Ferguson of Montpelier\, VT and developed in collaboration with the Kellogg-Hubbard Library. Storywalk® is a registered service mark owned by Ms. Ferguson.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/2018-bangor-humanities-day/
LOCATION:Downtown Bangor\, Bangor\, ME\, 04401\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art Event,Folklife and Oral History,Lecture,Performing Arts,Poetry,Public Humanities
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SUMMARY:Pre-performance lecture of Yamato Drummers with Stuart Marrs* & Sake and Sushi reception
DESCRIPTION:Stuart Marrs (Professor of Music) will bring his musical expertise to this pre-performance discussion of the Yamato Drummers: The Drummers of Japan. \nIn addition to the lecture\, the Hudson Museum will display some Japanese art pieces and there will be a Sake and Sushi reception\, sponsored by Oriental Jade. \nFree and open to the public. \nFollowing the pre-performance lecture is the performance of Yamato Drummers: The Drummers of Japan at the Collins Center for the Arts. You can find out more about that performance and purchase tickets on the CCA website.  Check out the promotional video they made for their UK appearance below. \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAH299MIvpE
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/pre-performance-lecture-yamato-drummers-stuart-marrs/
LOCATION:Collins Center for the Arts\, 2 Flagstaff Road\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture,Performing Arts,Pre-Performance Lectures,Public Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171206T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171206T200000
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SUMMARY:Maine Humanities Council's Think & Drink: What's the harm?
DESCRIPTION:What’s the harm?\nEmotional challenges of policing and being policed\nThe final of the Bangor Think and Drink events for the fall. MC’d by our Faculty Advisory Board member Darren Ranco and sponsored by our friends at the Maine Humanities Council. \nThis year’s topic focuses on policing\, protection\, community\, and trust in the 21st century: “policing in Maine\, its intersection with race\, and how our local experience connects with what we see across the rest of the United States.”
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/maine-humanities-councils-think-drink-whats-harm/
LOCATION:ME
CATEGORIES:Public Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171130T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171130T210000
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SUMMARY:Celebrating the Poetry of John Ashbery
DESCRIPTION:Andrew Epstein\, Professor and Chair for Graduate Studies at Florida State University\, will give a talk on “Fence-Sitting Raised to the Level of an Esthetic Ideal: John Ashbery and the Poetics of Middle Age” this Thursday at 4:30pm in Stewart Commons 104. While still a graduate student in 1996\, Professor Epstein presented a paper on Frank O’Hara and film in the National Poetry Foundation (NPF) Conference on the Poetry & Poetics of the 1950s. He’s presented frequently at NPF conferences since and is the author of two studies of post-1945 poetry\, Beautiful Enemies and Attention Equals Life\, both from Oxford University Press. Candidates in the Master’s degree program are especially encouraged to attend Epstein’s presentation. His talk is co-sponsored by the English Department\, the National Poetry Foundation\, and the McGillicuddy Humanities Center. \nWe’ll be back in the same space at 8pm to hear recordings and live readings of Ashbery’s poems. If you’d like to participate in the evening event\, please write to english.chair@maine.edu with a short list of the Ashbery poems (or other texts) you’d like to read. You’ll find a copy of his Collected Poems in the Wicks Reading Room. \nPart of the MHC’s year-long exploration of humanities approaches to aging across the ages.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/celebrating-poetry-john-ashbery/
LOCATION:Allen and Sally Fernald AP/PE Space\, Stewart Commons IMRC\, UMaine\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171116T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171116T173000
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SUMMARY:Life of Ideas\, Notions\, and Concepts: Steve Evans\, Justin Wolff*
DESCRIPTION:The first event of the series “Life of Ideas\, Notions\, and Concepts” will feature three UMaine faculty members and take place on Thursday November 16 from 4-5:30PM in the Allen and Sally Fernald APPE space Stewart Commons\, IMRC. \nParticipants:\nSteve Evans (English): “Late Style: A Feminist Future for a Category of Patriarchal Aesthetics?”\nJustin Wolff (Art History): “Passé: Notes on Connoisseurship & Art History” \nModerator: Frédéric Rondeau \nThere will be coffee and light snacks. \n  \nAbout: The Life of Ideas\, Notions\, and Concepts \nA series consisting of two panels by UMaine Humanities professors and two lectures by visiting scholars curated by Fréderic Rondeau \n\n\nSome ideas get old. Some revive after decades of turmoil. Some seem gone forever\, and then come back. The decline and the renaissance of an idea\, a word\, tells us a lot about our society and values. Participants in The Life of Ideas will think about this phenomenon critically by addressing the lifespan of an array of theoretical concepts from humanities disciplines. \n  \nThe second panel (Anne Knowles\, Michael Howard\, Michael Lang) and lectures by prominent scholars Eric Méchoulan (U. of Montreal) and Enzo Traverso (Cornell) will take place in spring 2018 (dates\, times TBA). \nAll events are free and open to the public. \n“Lifespan of Ideas” was created by Frédéric Rondeau and is part of the 2017-2018 year-long symposium Juvenescence / Obsolescence: Humanities Approaches to Aging across the Ages.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/life-ideas-notions-concepts-justin-wolff-steve-evans/
LOCATION:Allen and Sally Fernald AP/PE Space\, Stewart Commons IMRC\, UMaine\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
CATEGORIES:Juvenescence/Obsolescence humanities symposium,Lecture,Public Humanities
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