Latest Past Events

Maine Humanities Council’s Think & Drink: What’s the harm?

What's the harm? Emotional challenges of policing and being policed The 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. This year's topic focuses on policing, protection, community, and trust in the 21st century: "policing in Maine, its […]

Celebrating the Poetry of John Ashbery

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

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 […]

Life of Ideas, Notions, and Concepts: Steve Evans, Justin Wolff*

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

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. Participants: Steve Evans (English): “Late Style: A Feminist Future for a Category of Patriarchal Aesthetics?” Justin Wolff (Art History): “Passé: Notes on Connoisseurship & Art History” […]