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” […]
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 […]
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 […]
Stuart Marrs (Professor of Music) will bring his musical expertise to this pre-performance discussion of the Yamato Drummers: The Drummers of Japan. In 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. Free and open to the public. Following […]
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. For the big day (Saturday Feb. 3rd) there are three […]
Past and Present Perspectives on Maine's Bicentennial
Showtimes are 2 pm and 7 pm. Doors open one hour before show time. The 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 […]
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. Participants: Michael Lang (History): "Innumerable times, all at one time: A History of Ages and Epochs." Anne Knowles (History): "The Age of the Map: Finished? Or Just […]
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. About the film Six Centuries, Six Years: "Film portrays the endeavors of a group of Iranian master musicians who are trying to […]
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. This event is FREE and open to the public. SNOW DATE: MARCH 6th @ NOON.
