On Thursday, March 30 at 4:30 pm, the UMaine Department of English New Writing Series presents a reading and Q&A by award-winning novelist Suzette Mayr in the Allen 54′ and […]
On Sunday, April 2 at 6:00 p.m., join the Collins Center for the Arts for a pre-performance lecture delivered by UMaine jazz professor Dan Barrett, presented with the support of the Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center. Dr. Dan Barrett teaches low brass instruments, music theory, and jazz courses at the University of Maine, and […]
In recent years, claims of “fake news,” bias and misinformation have become rampant, with many of us wanting to stay informed but feeling overwhelmed, and even saturated, by the 24-hour news cycle. How do we move beyond charges of “fake news” to determine the reliability of news content? How do we ethically consume and share […]
NOTE: The location of this talk has been changed to D.P. Corbett room 107 to accommodate audience needs. On Wednesday, April 12 at 4:35 pm in D.P. Corbett Room 107, outgoing MHC Undergraduate Fellow and Honors College student Brenna Jones will present the results of her MHC project, titled "'Like we are not the same […]
On Thursday, April 13 at 12:30 pm, the University of Maine Socialist and Marxist Studies Speaker Series presents a talk by Guy Standing (Professor, Economist, SOAS University of London of […]
Join MHC Undergraduate Fellow Willow Wind on Wednesday, April 19 at noon in Memorial Union room 312 for a lunch and learn session on gender identity. Our society needs to talk about gender, but we aren’t very good at it. Avoiding these discussions has harmful impacts on body image and various health disparities. What if […]
On Wednesday, April 19 at 4:30 pm in the IMRC, outgoing MHC Undergraduate Fellow Paige McHatten will present the results of her Fellowship project with a talk and creative writing titled "The Rule." McHatten's project has spent two semesters researching and composing creative works that ask how media both contributes to and dismantles ideas of heteronormativity, with particular […]
The Maine Jewish Film Festival presents FOUR WINTERS: A Story of Jewish Resistance during World War II, a film by Julia Mintz "A stunning, heartfelt narrative of heroism and resilience" (Lincoln Center, NYJFF). See a trailer here: https://youtu.be/hmDR3j5vUsM In this moving documentary, the last surviving Jewish partisans tell the little-known story of their four years […]
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 […]
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 […]
