The McGillicuddy Humanities Center presents a pre-performance lecture by D Granke, assistant professor in the UMaine School of Performing Arts Division of Theatre, a director, fight director, intimacy director, and […]
Saturday, March 23rd | 1:45pm-2:45pm Meeting Rooms 1&2, Cross Insurance Center, 515 Main Street, Bangor The interactive and immersive quality of video games has helped make them wildly popular and profitable entertainment media. This session will explore how the ability of gamers to relive, alter, and explore a game world has implications on how we […]
On Friday, April 19 at 11:00 am in the Weisz Room of the Maples (110), outgoing MHC Undergraduate Fellow Iris Loehr, an English major in the Honors College, will present on her project “The Bridge […]
On Wednesday, April 24 at 4:00 pm in the IMRC, the Sandra Merrill and John G. Peters MHC Fellow Katie Ritchie, a history and secondary education double major, will give a talk on her project, “Mapping the Holocaust.” Ritchie, the Sandra Merrill Peters and John G. Peters Fellow, has used GIS to design and construct a map of sites important to the Holocaust that aims to make education more accessible and dynamic […]
A Day in the Life: A Beatles Experience is the ultimate multimedia tribute to the most recognized band of all time!Experience The Beatles like never before as A Day in the Life recreates more than thirty Beatles songs, many of which were never performed live, right before your eyes!Saturday, 19 October, 7 pm at the Collins […]
The Experimental Humanities Workshop welcomes Josephine Diecke (University of Zurich) and Isadora Campregher Paiva (University of Amsterdam) to campus. The title of their talk is "Doing Digital Film History: Combining Sentiment Analysis and Large Language Models." They will be discussing their recent work on using large language models to rethink the history of Weimar-era German […]
The McGillicuddy Humanities Center presents a screening of Rolf Losansky’s 1989 film, Farewell Disco, as part of its 2024-2025 Symposium, “From Talkies to TikTok: 100 Years of Audiovisual Storytelling.” Farewell Disco tells the story of a grieving young man who takes up a solitary practice of climate activism and amateur forestry just before German reunification. […]
Radical changes in data accessibility and AI are transforming humanities research. When should researchers use machine learning and when should they not? Join the Experimental Humanities Workshop on Wednesday, November 20 for a presentation by William Mattingly (Smithsonian Institution Data Science Lab) on "Machine Learning for Humanities." In person @ DiSH LAB (Stevens 305). 20 […]
Jess Cleary-Reuning, Sandra Merrill Peters and John G. Peters Humanities Fellow at the McGillicuddy Humanities Center, will present her personal, critical, and archival history of UMaine's campus radio station, WMEB, on November 21 at 3:00 pm in the Bangor Room of the Memorial Union. Her talk, "Between the Static: Inside WMEB and College Radio's Cultural Influence - A Historical Analysis and […]
James Eric Francis Sr. is the Penobscot Nation’s Director of Cultural and Historic Preservation and Tribal Historian. He is also a photographer, filmmaker, painter, and graphics artist. James studies the relationship between Maine Native Americans and the landscape. He co-produced the film Invisible and is the Co-Chair of the Abbe Museum’s Board of Trustees, and Co-Director of […]
