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SUMMARY:"The Danish Jews in Theresienstadt: The Topography of Memory"
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, Nov. 16 \n1:00-2:30 p.m. / Digital & Spatial History Lab\, Center Stevens Hall 305 \n“The Danish Jews in Theresienstadt: The Topography of Memory” \nIn this informal presentation\, Prof. Therkel Stræde (University of Southern Denmark) will explain the genesis and development of a class project to visualize the experiences of Danish Jews at Theresienstadt\, the largest ghetto in Czechoslovakia during World War II. \nThis event is free and open to all UMaine students\, faculty\, and staff. As space is limited in the Digital and Spatial History Lab\, please RSVP anne.knowles@maine.edu to ensure a seat.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/the-danish-jews-in-theresienstadt-the-topography-of-memory/
LOCATION:305 Center Stevens
CATEGORIES:History,Symposium
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SUMMARY:Pre-Performance Lecture: Scott Cleveland on the Blind Boys of Alabama
DESCRIPTION:Join the Collins Center for the Arts for a pre-performance lecture given by UMaine jazz professor Scott Cleveland\, presented with the support of the Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center. This event will take place in the Bodwell Lounge of the Collins Center for the Arts. \nThe Blind Boys of Alabama are recognized worldwide as living legends of gospel music. Celebrated by The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) with Lifetime Achievement Awards\, inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame\, and winners of five Grammy® Awards\, they have attained the highest levels of achievement in a career that spans over 70 years. \nScott Cleveland is a lifelong composer/singer/pianist/music educator/church musician. He holds a B.M. in Music Education from Berklee College of Music\, an M.M. in Music Theory/Composition from UMassLowell and a M.Div. (magna cum laude) from Boston University School of Theology. He has written and produced six independent solo albums and performs original and reinterpreted Jazz/R&B/Blues/Fusion/Rock as a solo pianist and singer and in numerous duos/trios/quartets. \nThis pre-performance lecture is free and open to the public. Tickets for the Blind Boys of Alabama begin at $35 and are available from the Collins Center for the Arts box office.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/pre-performance-lecture-scott-cleveland-on-the-blind-boys-of-alabama/
LOCATION:Bodwell Lounge\, Collins Center for the Arts\, 2 Flagstaff Rd.\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
CATEGORIES:Pre-Performance Lectures
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SUMMARY:"With So Much Violence in the United States and the Contemporary World\, How Can Nonviolence Be Relevant and Effective?
DESCRIPTION:Join us on November 3 at 12:30 p.m. for a Zoom panel\, as part of the UMaine Socialist and Marxist Studies Speaker Series\, that asks “With So Much Violence in the United States and the Contemporary World\, How Can Nonviolence Be Relevant and Effective?” \nPanelists include Tamara Benson \, student Core Organizer of UMaine Climate Action; Ilaria Bardini\, student President of the Maine Peace Action Committee; Sonja K. Birthsiel\, Director of the Wilson Center at the University of Maine; and Doug Allen\, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Maine. \nThe Fall 2022 Socialist and Marxist Studies Series is coordinated by Doug Allen\, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy. The series is sponsored by the Marxist and Socialist Studies Minor\, coordinated by Don Beith\, Associate Professor of Philosophy. It is co-sponsored by the Maine Peace Action Committee (MPAC) and the Division of Student Affairs\, and with support of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Department of Philosophy. Speakers do not necessarily present socialist or Marxist viewpoints.  \nVisit umaine.edu/SocialistandMarxistStudiesSeries for Zoom links and more information.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/with-so-much-violence-in-the-united-states-and-the-contemporary-world-how-can-nonviolence-be-relevant-and-effective/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Marxist-Socialist Studies Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221031T160000
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SUMMARY:The Contradictions of ‘Civilizing’ Consumption: Colonial Wine in Britain’s Imperial Project
DESCRIPTION:On Monday\, October 31st at 4:00pm EDT via Zoom\, Dr. Chelsea Davis (Missouri State University) will give a talk entitled\, “The Contradictions of ‘Civilizing’ Consumption: Colonial Wine in Britain’s Imperial Project.” \nDr. Chelsea Davis is an Assistant Professor of British History with a focus on Empire at Missouri State University. She received her PhD from The George Washington University in 2021\, where her doctoral dissertation\, “Cultivating Imperial Networks: British Colonial Wine Production at the Cape of Good Hope and South Australia\, 1834-1910\,” examined the process of founding and integrating Britain’s colonial wine industries in Australia and South Africa into the global market. The archival research that grounds her work spanning four continents was generously supported by the American Historical Association\, the COSMOS Club\, both the History Department and Columbian College of Arts and Sciences at George Washington University\, and the College of Humanities and Public Affairs at Missouri State University. Prior to joining Missouri State’s History Department\, Davis was a Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Colby College. She is currently developing her monograph entitled\, The Empire and the Aphid: Phylloxera\, Science\, and Race in the Age of Migration\, 1860-1910\, which uses the grape vine disease phylloxera as an entry point to study global migrations of insect ‘invaders’\, colonial producers\, scientists\, laborers\, and viticultural knowledge. \nPlease register for the talk here at https://maine.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMvdOGsqjgiHdZ3uXxDYFjm5_Y8jiMwL6Xz
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/the-contradictions-of-civilizing-consumption-colonial-wine-in-britains-imperial-project/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:History Department symposia,History Event
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SUMMARY:Thinking through Feeling: Reflections from a (sort of) Romanticist about the Intersection Between Black Studies and Romanticism
DESCRIPTION:On Monday\, October 31 at 12:00 p.m. in 401 Dunn Hall\, Dr. Elizabeth Nieman\, associate professor in the Department of English and Director of Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies at UMaine\, will deliver a talk titled “Thinking Through Feeling: Reflections from a (sort of) Romanticist about the Intersection Between Black Studies and Romanticism” as part of the CMJ Fall 2022 Colloquium Series. \nFor more information\, contact CMJ Colloquium Organizer Laura Rickard at laura.rickard@maine.edu.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/thinking-through-feeling-reflections-from-a-sort-of-romanticist-about-the-intersection-between-black-studies-and-romanticism/
LOCATION:401 Dunn Hall
CATEGORIES:Communication and Journalism,Communication and Journalism Event,English Department
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221027T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221027T180000
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SUMMARY:New Writing Series: Victoria Hood and Lily Rain
DESCRIPTION:The UMaine New Writing Series will feature Victoria Hood and Lily Rain\, alumnae of the University of Maine’s English Department. The event will be held live in the Fernald APPE Space (Stewart Commons 104) starting at 4:30pm on October 27\, 2022. Gregory Howard will introduce Victoria Hood and Hollie Adams will introduce Lily Rain. \nVictoria Hood strives to create work that can meld together the punk roots her parents raised her in with the disillusionment of losing her mother at a young age. Through her writing she hopes to discomfort\, humor\, and charm. She holds an MA in English from the University of Maine and is the author of the chapbooks Death and Darlings and I am My Mother’s Disappointments. Her collection of short stories\, My Haunted Home\, the winner of FC2’s Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize\, was recently published by FC2. \nLily Rain graduated from the University of Maine in 2022 with a double major in English and Psychology\, having been named the English Department’s Outstanding Graduating Senior. She also served as the poetry editor of The Open Field undergraduate literary journal. Her poetry chapbook\, not a cry for help\, just a crying out was published by Bottlecap Press in 2022. You can read more of her poetry on instagram: @lilyrainpoetry.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/new-writing-series-victoria-hood-and-lily-rain/
LOCATION:Stewart Commons IMRC\, Stewart Commons\, University of Maine\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
CATEGORIES:English Department,New Writing Series
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SUMMARY:2022 RIVAS Conference
DESCRIPTION:The McGillicuddy Humanities Center is proud to be a supporter of the 2022 RIVAS (Raising Indigenous Voices in Academia and Society) Conference. RIVAS 2022 supports the scholarship of Indigenous academics and speakers whose cultures help shape archeology\, cultural anthropology\, linguistics\, and more. \nThe RIVAS 2022 conference also aims at being innovative and inclusive of different Indigenous realities not only in its content\, but also in its format. In order to achieve this goal\, RIVAS 2022 will be a hybrid format with both in person (F2F) and online papers\, at five-partnered physical conference sites around the world. \nThe University of Maine is an in-person host of this hybrid event\, with panels and talks taking place in the Wells Conference Center over the course of the day on Monday\, October 24\, 2022. \nFor a complete schedule of Monday’s events\, click here. \n 
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/2022-rivas-conference/
LOCATION:Wells Conference Center\, University of Maine\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
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SUMMARY:The End of Policing: A Webinar with Sociologist Alex Vitale
DESCRIPTION:The University of Maine and the Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine are hosting sociologist Alex Vitale for a free webinar on Thursday\, Oct. 20 at 6:30 p.m. Vitale\, who has spent the last 30 years writing about policing\, will be joined in conversation with a number of policy stakeholders from around the State of Maine. The event\, which is co-sponsored by the McGillicuddy Humanities Center\, will be facilitated by Brian Pitman\, assistant professor of sociology at UMaine. \nThe event is available via Zoom at https://maine.zoom.us/j/84987737890?pwd=RFBOdWZFdUFpdFd6KzR1aktFRXQwZz09 (password 748297)
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/the-end-of-policing-a-webinar-with-sociologist-alex-vitale/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221020T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221020T190000
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SUMMARY:Pre-Performance Lecture: Sarah Harlan-Haughey\, "As You Like It"
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a lecture given by UMaine English professor and MHC Faculty Advisory Group member Sarah Harlan-Haughey on Shakespeare’s “As You Like It\,” presented with the support of the Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center\, before the Collins Center for the Arts’s presentation of As You Like It from Theater at Monmouth on Tour. \nWelcome to Arden. This is the story of Rosalind. Oppressed and exiled from Court under threat of death\, she escapes with her cousin\, cross-dressed and gartered\, into the wild and unpredictable Forest of Arden. Disguised as a boy\, she creates a world of her choosing\, reveling in her newfound agency and self-discovery. But chance encounters with the love-struck Orlando complicate her new adventure. All the world’s a stage in As You Like It\, Shakespeare’s gender-bending comedy\, where poetry\, mistaken identities\, and true loves lost and found abound. \nDr. Harlan-Haughey’s pre-performance lecture is free and open to the public. Tickets for As You Like It begin at $25 and are available from the Collins Center for the Arts box office.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/pre-performance-lecture-sarah-harlan-haughey-as-you-like-it/
LOCATION:Bodwell Lounge\, Collins Center for the Arts\, 2 Flagstaff Rd.\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
CATEGORIES:English Department,Performing Arts,Pre-Performance Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221014T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221014T163000
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SUMMARY:‘The Future of the Humanities’: A Discussion with Dr. Heather Cox Richardson and Brian Naylor in Celebration of the McGillicuddy Humanities Center’s First Decade
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, October 14 | 3:00 p.m.\nCollins Center for the Arts \n“The Future of the Humanities”: A Discussion with Dr. Heather Cox Richardson and Brian Naylor in Celebration of the McGillicuddy Humanities Center’s First Decade \nA 2022 Homecoming Event\, produced in collaboration with the University of Maine Alumni Association\, the University of Maine College of Liberal Arts & Sciences\, and the Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center. The event is free and open to the public. \nJoin us for a discussion about the role of the humanities in our current social\, cultural and political moment. Literature\, art\, music\, history\, and the other disciplines within the humanities offer students of all ages valuable tools for understanding\, connection\, and empathy. Whether it’s discussing a movie\, reading a novel\, or listening to a favorite tune\, our appreciation for the humanities occurs daily yet too often passes unnoticed. \nBrian Naylor\, the veteran National Public Radio correspondent\, will interview and discuss the future of the humanities with Dr. Heather Cox Richardson. As part of Homecoming\, 2022\, this celebration of the culmination of the McGillicuddy Humanities Center’s first decade will offer some ideas for the next decade – and beyond – for the future of the humanities.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/future-of-the-humanities/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221013T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221013T170000
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SUMMARY:Maine Heritage Lecture: “Gluskabe in the 21st Century: Newell Lyon’s Stories Still Carry the Penobscot Language”
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, October 13 | 3:00 p.m.\nBodwell Lounge of the Collins Center for the Arts\nReception to follow in the Hudson Museum \nMaine Heritage Lecture: “Gluskabe in the 21st Century: Newell Lyon’s Stories Still Carry the Penobscot Language” \nWith Penobscot language carrier Carol Dana\, UMaine Professor of English and former McGillicuddy Humanities Center Margo Lukens will tell the story of their theatrical collaboration that resulted in publishing the first bilingual volume of Penobscot stories\, “Still They Remember Me.” The book’s purpose is to invite Penobscot language learning through traditional stories about the culture hero\, Gluskabe. The stories teach readers/listeners about how Gluskabe transformed the land and balanced its forces to create sustainable life for humans; we learn what it means to live well in this place\, which is the foundation of Penobscot morality. Lukens hopes to inspire listeners to work in ways that improve the conditions for justice in Maine’s relationships with Wabanaki people and communities.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/maine-heritage-lecture-gluskabe-in-the-21st-century-newell-lyons-stories-still-carry-the-penobscot-language/
LOCATION:Bodwell Lounge\, Collins Center for the Arts\, 2 Flagstaff Rd.\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
CATEGORIES:CLAS event,English Department,Folklife and Oral History,Wabanaki
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220927T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220927T193000
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SUMMARY:Meet the Author: Phuc Tran
DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday\, September 27 at 6:00 pm in the atrium of the Bangor Public Library\, the Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center will co-present an event with Phuc Tran\, author of the memior Sigh\, Gone (Flatiron Books\, 2020). The discussion will be led by longtime UMaine lecturer of English Margery Irvine. As part of his visit\, Tran will also drop in on a creative writing class on the University of Maine campus to discuss creative non-fiction and the writing process. \nThis evening is supported by the Maine Humanities Council’s Read ME program\, the Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center at the University of Maine\, and Birds&Bones Tattoo Studio and Art Gallery. \nPhuc Tran has been a high school Latin teacher for more than twenty years while also simultaneously establishing himself as a highly sought-after tattooer in the Northeast. Tran graduated Bard College in 1995 with a BA in Classics and received the Callanan Classics Prize. He taught Latin\, Greek\, and Sanskrit in New York at the Collegiate School and was an instructor at Brooklyn College’s Summer Latin Institute. Most recently\, he taught Latin\, Greek\, and German at the Waynflete School in Portland\, Maine. \nTran has been an occasional guest on Maine Public Radio\, discussing grammar; the Classics; and Strunk and White’s legacy. He currently tattoos at and owns Tsunami Tattoo in Portland\, Maine\, where he lives with his family. Phuc is the author of the memoir\, Sigh\, Gone. \nFor anyone who has ever felt like they don’t belong\, Sigh\, Gone shares an irreverent\, funny\, and moving tale of displacement and assimilation woven together with poignant themes from beloved works of classic literature.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/meet-the-author-phuc-tran/
CATEGORIES:English Department,Public Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220915T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220915T210000
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SUMMARY:David Barnouw: Who Betrayed Anne Frank and Who Owns her Legacy?
DESCRIPTION:A presentation on Anne Frank\, betrayal\, and the legacy of both by David Barnouw. \nBarnouw is an independent scholar and emeritus researcher at the Dutch Institute for War\, Holocaust and Genocide Studies. His areas of interest are the Second World War in Europe\, memory\, representation\, monuments and museums. He has written over fifteen books and dozens of articles on World War II subjects. He has given lectures at Berkeley\, Columbia\, Cornell\, Harvard\, Princeton\, Rutgers\, UCLA\, WestPoint etc. He has been visiting professor at the University of Vermont in Burlington (2008 and 2012). Barnouw is a renowned expert on Anne Frank and follows her emergence as a global phenomenon and what this means for her historical person and her legacy as a symbol of the Holocaust. He is updating his book Who betrayed Anne Frank? (2003). His latest book The Phenomenon of Anne Frank (originally in Dutch) was published in 2018 by Indiana University Press with a translation in German(2015) and Italian (2021). \nCo-sponsored by the University of Maine History Department\, the McGillicuddy Humanities Center\, the Honors College and the Jewish Community Endowment Association. \nLive streamed at https://youtu.be/qrO3yrHLae0.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/david-barnouw-anne-frank/
LOCATION:Buchanan Alumni House
CATEGORIES:History,Honors College,Judaic Studies,Lecture,Religious Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211202T150000
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SUMMARY:Reaching Readers
DESCRIPTION:Understanding how best to make a topic\, subject or theme relevant to non-specialized audiences is a skill that takes years to master. This roundtable event brings three nationally recognized University of Maine scholars together to discuss the process of planning\, researching\, and composing their new books\, and how they were able to gain the interest of the publishers who eventually supported and published their projects. The event will take place on December 2\, 2021\, at 3 p.m. ET in Arthur St. John Hill Auditorium in Barrows Hall\, and virtually via Zoom.  \nProfessor of Political Science Amy Fried’s new (co-authored) book\, titled At War with Government: How Conservatives Weaponized Distrust from Goldwater to Trump\, was published by Columbia University Press\, Professor of English Margo Lukens’s new (co-authored) book\, titled “Still They Remember Me” Penobscot Transformer Tales\, Volume 1\, was published by University of Massachusetts Press\, and Professor Emeritus of Sociology Kyriacos Markides’s new book\, titled The Accidental Immigrant: A Quest for Spirit in a Skeptical Age\, was published by Hamilton Books. All three books appeared this year (2021)\, and all three authors employed tools drawn from the humanities – historical inquiry\, thoughtful reflection\, and understandings of perspective and connection – to develop their ideas and complete their projects. \nThe event is part of the McGillicuddy Humanities Center’s 2021-2022 Annual Symposium: “Humanities: Impact in Real Life.”  \n  \nPARTICIPANT BIOGRAPHIES: \nAmy Fried is John Mitchell Nickerson Professor of Political Science at the University of Maine. She is the author of Muffled Echoes: Oliver North and the Politics of Public Opinion (Columbia\, 1997) and Pathways to Polling: Crisis\, Cooperation\, and the Making of Public Opinion Professions (2012). \nMargo Lukens is a scholar of Native American literature who has long collaborated with the Penobscot nation.  She is a Professor of English at the University of Maine\, and the former Director of the McGillicuddy Humanities Center. \nKyriacos Markides\, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Maine\, has written several books on Christian mysticism for academic publishers including Yale University Press\, and trade publishers like Doubleday. \n 
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/reaching-readers/
LOCATION:Arthur St. John Hill Auditorium\, Barrows Hall\, University of Maine\, Orono\, ME\, 04468\, United States
CATEGORIES:Symposium
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SUMMARY:Speaking to Citizens\, Connecting with Audiences
DESCRIPTION:How might politicians\, pundits\, journalists\, scholars\, and other social and cultural leaders best connect with the audiences they need to address?  As part of its 2021-2022 Annual Symposium\, the McGillicuddy Humanities Center is pleased to sponsor a panel exploring this question and the issues it raises.  Bringing together a professional political communicator\, a Maine-based journalist\, and a professor of political philosophy\, the panel will describe how skills learned from the humanities – such as how to conduct interviews and answer questions\, how to speak and write clearly\, and how to engage audiences in democratic processes – play a vital role in their work. \nModerator: Robert A. Ballingall\,  Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Maine. Professor Ballingall’s research interests lie in classical political philosophy and its fraught relationship to modern – especially liberal democratic – political thought.  Before coming to UMaine\, Professor Ballingall was Postdoctoral Fellow in the Program on Constitutional Government at Harvard and Allan Bloom Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow for Research in Classical Political Thought at the University of Toronto\, where he also took his PhD.  Professor Ballingall’s new book\, The Reverent City: Plato’s Laws and the Politics of Ethical Authority\, is under contract to the University of Pennsylvania Press. \n\nPanelist: Victoria Bonney\, Director of Communications for Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine).  In 2017\, Victoria Bonney was named Director of Communications for Maine Congresswoman Chellie Pingree.  Before that\, Bonney spent more than a decade of service as a senior spokeswoman and communications strategist for government agencies\, advocacy organizations\, and political campaigns. She served as Communications Manager for Planned Parenthood’s New Hampshire Action Fund\, and previously oversaw the United States Department of Health and Human Services’ outreach and public education strategy throughout New England during implementation of the Affordable Care Act. \nPanelist: Colin Woodard is a New York Times bestselling historian\, a Polk-Award winning journalist\, and the author of six books.  He is a contributing editor at Politico and the State and National Affairs Writer at the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram\, where he received a 2012 George Polk Award and was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting. A longtime foreign correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor\, The San Francisco Chronicle\, and The Chronicle of Higher Education\, he has reported from more than fifty foreign countries and seven continents. Born in Waterville\, he’s a graduate of Mt. Abram High School\, Tufts University\, and the University of Chicago\, and a past Pew Fellow in International Journalism at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.His books are interdisciplinary in nature\, informed by his liberal arts education\, and include: Ocean’s End (on the environmental crisis in the world’s oceans)\, The Republic of Pirates (on Blackbeard’s notorious pirate gang); The Lobster Coast (a cultural history of coastal Maine); and three books on the nature of the United States and the deep background to the existential crises it faces: American Nations\, American Character\, and\, most recently\, Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood. \n\n\nThis panel is part of the McGillicuddy Humanities Center’s 2021-2022 Annual Symposium: “Humanities: Impact in Real Life”
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/speaking-to-citizens/
LOCATION:Arthur St. John Hill Auditorium\, Barrows Hall\, University of Maine\, Orono\, ME\, 04468\, United States
CATEGORIES:Symposium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211023T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211023T150000
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SUMMARY:Fall Poetry Pop Up
DESCRIPTION:The McGillicuddy Humanities Center is sponsoring a Fall Poetry Pop Up on Saturday\, October 23\, 2021\, at 1:30 p.m. \nThe open-mic poetry reading will be held outdoors at the Orono Village Green amphitheater\, located behind the Orono Public Library at 39 Pine Street. The event\, which is free and open to the public\, welcomes poets of all ages to share their work. Hot apple cider and other fall refreshments will be served. \nPoets are asked to keep their readings to five minutes in length maximum to make sure that everyone interested in reading has time to do so. If additional time is available at the end\, poets will be allowed to read additional material. \nWhile poets can sign up to read on the spot\, advance confirmation is always appreciated at mhc@maine.edu.  We ask that poets consider a public library audience when selecting which poems to read.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/fall-poetry-pop-up-2/
LOCATION:Orono Village Green\, Behind Orono Public Library\, Orono\, ME\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Public Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210421T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210421T203000
DTSTAMP:20260603T002246
CREATED:20210316T152426Z
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SUMMARY:The Stories We Tell: McGillicuddy Humanities Center Fellows Showcase
DESCRIPTION:The McGillicuddy Humanities Center is sponsoring a two-night research showcase event\, “The Stories We Tell\,” featuring the research and creative work of our four graduating undergraduate student fellows. While each student has been working independently\, their collective research this past year all happened to center around stories that people tell from generation to generation. The showcase will take place on Wednesday\, April 21\, and Thursday\, April 22\, from 7-8:30 p.m. on both nights. Join the events via Zoom here. Passcode  899432 if prompted. Email questions to mhc@maine.edu. \n  \nPRESENTATION SCHEDULE\nWednesday\, April 21\, 7-8:30 PM\, FELLOWS KATHERINE REARDON AND NOLA PREVOST \nKatherine Reardon\, “What It Was and What I Know: Attempts at Family History” \nSenior English major Katherine Reardon will be reading her creative work discussing family histories and storytelling through the lens of her own Irish family. Reardon was inspired to do this work while studying abroad in her family’s native Ireland. Combining the oral histories and family lore she grew up with sometimes contradictory archival records\, Reardon examines where the truth fits in with these stories\, and whether or not it is important if a family story is true. She will also discuss her personal reflective process\, and locating herself within these stories. \nNola Prevost\, “All The Girls In The Woods: Feminist Fairy Tales for the Modern World” \nNola Prevost will present selections from her original collection of feminist fairy tales\, All The Girls In The Woods. Prevost\, a senior English major and a Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies minor\, will explore the ability of the fairy tale genre to create and disseminate knowledge and values\, and how this can be useful for social justice activism. She will also discuss the impact of inclusive and diverse representation in stories on women\, people of color\, and the LGBTQ+ community. \nThursday\, April 22\, 7-8:30 PM\, FELLOWS HAILEY CEDOR AND NOLAN ALTVATER \nHailey Cedor\, “Local Involvement\, Memory and Denial: the Complexities of the Holocaust in Lithuania” \nSenior History major Hailey Cedor will present part of her Honors thesis research about local involvement and memory of Lithuanians in relation to the Holocaust. The complex relationship of current Lithuanians with past atrocities shows the difficulties of acknowledging and reconciling difficult history\, and the dangers of that ignorance. In Lithuania\, the country’s complicated past has left ample room for self-victimization and denial that favors the public memory of non-Jewish Lithuanians\, leaving the small Jewish community that survived the Holocaust to be continually marginalized. Cedor has worked with Holocaust material since the fall of 2018\, and this past experience sparked an interest in Lithuania’s relationship to the Holocaust. \nNolan Altvater\, “Wabanaki Tools of Diplomacy: Storying Protocols as Political Will” \nUsing Indigenous research methodologies\, senior fellow Nolan Altvater’s project aims to center the needs and voices of Wabanaki communities to inform education policy in the State of Maine. Altvater\, a Passamaquoddy citizen and future Tribal educator\, addresses the current barriers of implementation of the Wabanaki Studies Law (LD 291) and presents how Wabanaki diplomacy can lead the way to address these issues and serve as political will toward decolonization and antiracist conviction in Maine education. In addition\, it explores the concepts and protocols of wampum and its later form of Indigenous writing and how Wabanaki people have used traditional intellect to use these tools for empowerment to resist colonialism. Altvater is also a board member of Wabanaki Reach. \nClick here for more information on the McGillicuddy Humanities Center fellowship program\, or email mhc@maine.edu with questions.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/stories-we-tell/2021-04-21/
CATEGORIES:MHC Fellows,MHC Undergraduate Fellowship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210405T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210405T200000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Hidden History Tour of Campus - RESCHEDULED
DESCRIPTION:The McGillicuddy Humanities Center’s new “Hidden UMaine” tour aims to highlight key people\, moments and places in campus history that often go overlooked\, including the experiences of the first students of color\, early efforts to create inclusive student groups like Wilde Stein\, or moments of unrest. \nRESCHEDULED DUE TO POWER OUTAGE: \nJoin us on Tuesday\, April 6 at 7 p.m. for a virtual tour of hidden campus history. Free and open to the public. Click here to join the virtual tour.  \nThe MHC’s humanities specialist Karen Sieber is overseeing the project\, which stems from work students started in Professor of History Liam Riordan’s fall of 2020 Public History class.  Using digital public history and mapping methods\, Sieber has been working with history students Luke Miller and Elizabeth Dalton\, in collaboration with archivists at Fogler Library\, to research and curate a tour featuring a dozen lesser-known stories within campus history. \nMiller will highlight stories behind the first Black student on campus\, as well as World War II soldiers from the Class of ‘44. Dalton\, who is also a McGillicuddy Humanities Center Fellow\, will discuss her research into student employment and financial aid during the Great Depression\, and numerous stories of remarkable women in campus history. Sieber\, too\, has added her own research on the Courtney Brothers incident\, as well as a tour stop featuring the efforts of Dr. Ted Mitchell to establish the Native American Studies program and the Wabanaki Center on campus. \nThe team is building the tour in Clio\, a website and app that will allow users to take the tour in person or virtually\, with options to add additional resources\, historic photographs and an audio tour. Dalton has also created an Instagram page to highlight some of the individual stories\, which can be found at @hidden_umaine. The tour has the potential to expand in the future through additional classroom collaborations across a number of fields. \nFollowing the event a link to the tour on the Clio app will be found at: https://umaine.edu/mhc/hiddenhistory/. \nContact karen.sieber@maine.edu with questions.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/hidden-history/
CATEGORIES:digital humanities,History,MHC Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210312T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210312T150000
DTSTAMP:20260603T002246
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SUMMARY:The Resistance  to Reason - McGillicuddy Humanities Center Ivy Flessen
DESCRIPTION:“The Resistance to Reason: An Enduring Problem” \nMarch 12\, 2 pm. \nWe are surrounded by those who refuse to accept what science tells us. Yet in many ways\, the question remains to be answered: how are we to think of these people? How do we to get them to listen? Can we? McGillicuddy Humanities Center Fellow Ivy Flessen will be presenting her research related to these questions. Her talk will center around Plato’s Myth of Er to answer these questions\, and illuminate the irrationality\, hatred\, and anger that seems to overwhelm our political society. Free and open to the public. Pre-registration is required by clicking here.   \nEmail mhc@maine.edu with any questions. \n 
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/resistance-to-reason/
CATEGORIES:MHC Undergraduate Fellowship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210310T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210310T203000
DTSTAMP:20260603T002246
CREATED:20210127T211829Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210127T213211Z
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SUMMARY:The Art of Climate Change
DESCRIPTION:Figuring out new and creative ways to communicate the reality of climate change remains one of the great challenges facing policy-makers\, scientists\, and advocates.  This event brings together two artists with expertise in creating powerful images and visuals about climate science with a veteran science writer and editor to discuss how art can communicate directly and emotionally\, and can engage the public\, in ways that move beyond the scientific findings and data. \nJoin the McGillicuddy Humanities Center on Wednesday\, March 10\, 2021\, at 7:30 p.m. to explore this topic further.  Email mhc@maine.edu to join\, or register at: https://tinyurl.com/artofclimate. \nModerator Laura Helmuth\, Ph.D. is Editor-in-Chief of Scientific American. She is a science journalist with more than 20 years of experience covering all fields of health\, science\, technology\, and the environment. Prior to joining Scientific American\, she was the Science and Health Editor for The Washington Post and has held positions at National Geographic\, Slate\, Smithsonian\, and Science. Helmuth was the President of the National Association of Science Writers from 2016 to 2018 and board member from 2012 to 2016. \nPanelist Jill Pelto is a climate scientist and artist based in Westbrook\, Maine. Her work focuses on communicating human-environment connections. By incorporating scientific research and data into watercolor paintings\, she weaves visual narratives that reveal the benefits and costs of human impacts on this planet. She’s conducted field research around the world\, including the mountain glaciers of Washington and the Transantarctic Mountains. She recently created a custom data-art painting for the cover of TIME Magazine in July 2020. Her biography and a gallery of her work can be found at http://www.jillpelto.com/. \nPanelist Deirdre Murphy decodes the interconnected patterns that exist in art and science through the lens of biological patterns and data visualization. Her research has led to artist residencies at Integral Molecular Biotech and Winterthur Museum. Her paintings\, prints and public art have exhibited at the Philadelphia International Airport\, Palm Springs Museum of Art\, Zillman Art Museum\, Biggs Museum of American Art\, New Bedford Art Museum\, and Tacoma Art Museum. Her biography and a gallery of her work can be found at http://www.deirdremurphyart.com/. \n  \n  \n \n 
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/acc/
CATEGORIES:Art,Art Event,CLAS event,Public Humanities,Symposium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210225T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210225T203000
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SUMMARY:The Atlantic Black Box: Reckoning with  New England's Complicity  in the Slave Trade
DESCRIPTION:Atlantic Black Box is a public history project that empowers communities throughout New England to take up the critical work of researching and reckoning with our region’s complicity in the slave trade and the broader slave economy. This grassroots historical recovery movement is powered by citizen historians and guided by a broad coalition of scholars\, community leaders\, archivists\, museum professionals\, antiracism activists\, and artists. \n\nOn February 25\, 2021 at 7:00 p.m.\, the project’s creator’s will discuss the origins of the project\, finding collaborators\, and why this important work is as necessary now as ever. Sponsored by the McGillicuddy Humanities Center as part of their ongoing mission to support the digital and public humanities. Free and open to the public with registration. Register here to get the Zoom link. \n\nMore about Atlantic Black Box’s creators: \n\n\nDr. Meadow Dibble: Meadow Dibble is a Visiting Scholar at Brown University’s Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. She received her PhD from Brown University’s Department of French Studies and taught at Colby College from 2005–08. Today\, she is editor of The International Educator newspaper. In 2018\, following a brutal awakening to the reality of her hometown’s deep investment in the business of slavery\, she launched Atlantic Black Box\, a public history initiative devoted to researching and reckoning with New England’s role in the slave trade.\n\nDr. Kate McMahon attended the University of Southern Maine for both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees\, and completed her Ph.D. in History at Howard University in May 2017. Her dissertation\, The Transnational Dimensions of Africans and African Americans in Northern New England\, 1776–1865\, explores the complexities of the shipbuilding economies of northern New England\, their connections to the slave trade\, and how Africans and African Americans resisted slavery and racism. Her current research agenda focuses on the connections between northern New England and the illegal slave trade to Brazil and Cuba\, ca. 1830-1850.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/atlantic-black-box/
CATEGORIES:digital humanities,History,Public Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210224T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210224T180000
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SUMMARY:The Double Standard:  Protest Coverage and Racial Bias
DESCRIPTION:Mass media has a long arm\, and a national influence over public opinion of social issues. When protests broke out across the country recently in support of the Black Lives Matter movement\, newspapers were quick to try to show the ‘true’ nature of these demonstrations. However\, in trying to show news consumers what they wanted to see\, reporters got caught up trying to create angles and portrayals of protestors that escalated racial tensions. \nMcGillicuddy Humanities Center Fellow Leela Stockley will present her research on racial bias in the media in relation to recent Black Lives Matter protests on February 24 at 5 p.m. as part of Black History Month. Stockley\, who is a journalist of color and the current editor-in-chief of the Maine Campus\, will highlight not just the problematic language and images used in the press to depict protestors\, but also how those biased reports affect marginalized communities. She will also provide advice for how journalists can report on social justice movements in the future in a more equitable manner\, and how the public can identify racial bias in the media they consume. She will also discuss plans for an upcoming podcast on the subject of the same name. Register here for the link to join.  \n 
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/double-standard/
CATEGORIES:Communication and Journalism,MHC Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210218T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210218T153000
DTSTAMP:20260603T002246
CREATED:20210128T222452Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211203T042540Z
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SUMMARY:Women and Climate Change Speaker Series
DESCRIPTION:Women often are on the front lines of climate change impacts\, yet are uniquely poised to reshape our institutions towards resilience and gender equity. Women are increasingly in leadership roles\, innovating sustainable approaches to scarcity\, and building community around local solutions.  \nJoin us on select Thursdays at 2 p.m. throughout the semester to hear perspectives from women working to reshape their discipline and community with innovative media\, decolonization strategies\, renewable energy programs\, and activism. Organized by Dr. Katie Glover from the Climate Change Institute\, and the Department of Women’s\, Gender and Sexuality Studies\, through a McGillicuddy Humanities Center faculty grant. Part of the MHC’s 2020-2021 symposium on “The Story of Climate Change.” Free and open to the public with registration.  \nRegister once and you’ll be sent a confirmation and link to join all five events in the series. Click here.\n  \nFEBRUARY 18: Ecofeminism in the Urban Landscape \nDylan O’Hara\, PhD student\, Dept. of History\, University of Maine \nO’Hara’s research focuses on urban development in the mid twentieth century United States and leftist activist movements. Her lecture on “Ecofeminism and the Urban Landscape” will focus on the social and political power dynamics of urban renewal in the 1960s. \n  \nMARCH 4: Indigenous Ways of Knowing \nDr. Bonnie Newsom\, Dept. of Anthropology\, University of Maine \nNewsom is an Indigenous archaeologist interested in the pre-contact lifeways of Maine’s Native peoples. Through her research\, she seeks to humanize people in the past by exploring concepts of identity\, style\, social boundaries\, and human agency. This talk will focus on Indigenous ways of knowing as it relates to climate change. \n  \nMARCH 18: Indigenous science is activism \nSara Tenamoeata Kahanamoku\, PhD student\, Integrative Biology\, UC Berkeley \nKahanamoku is a Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) and Maʻohi (Tahitian) scientist from Haleʻiwa\, Oʻahu\, Hawaiʻi. Like many others in their family\, Sara was raised in the ocean\, and it is this relationship that drives their scholarship and activism. Kahanamoku is currently a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley (Huichin Ohlone)\, with a research focus on the impacts of the climate crisis on California’s ocean ecosystems during the 19th and 20th centuries. Kahanamoku’s applied work focuses on the pono (equitable\, relational) co-production of climate-related research and policy.  \n  \nMARCH 25: Podcasts as Method \nDr. Kelsey Emard\, Dept. of Geography\, Oregon State University \nEmard is a human-environment geographer and member of the Instructional Faculty in Geography at Oregon State University. Her current research examines shifting agricultural land uses and livelihoods driven by amenity development in rural areas\, plant health/disease\, and climate change. She is interested in creative feminist methods involving podcasting to analyze and understand often overlooked visceral data.  \n  \nAPRIL 8: Local Solutions to Climate Crises \nYouth activists Ruby Mahoney and Ayano Ishimura\, A Climate to Thrive on Mount Desert Island \nThese two young local climate activists on Mount Desert Island will discuss their experiences working to expand solar capacity to Maine K-12 schools\, and working with the non-profit A Climate to Thrive.\nMahoney is a junior at Mount Desert Island High School and a prominent member of their ECO Team. Eager to make the world around her a better place\, she’s worked with various local and national political and environmental justice organizations\, including Sunrise Movement and A Climate To Thrive. She volunteered for the re-election campaign of junior senator and co-writer of the Green New Deal\, Ed Markey-MA) in 2020 and plans to continue working as an organizer and activist.  \nAyano Ishimura is a passionate and active environmental advocate and visual artist. She is currently a Senior at Mount Desert Island High School in Bar Harbor Maine and is the Co-President of her school’s ECO Team. She has worked on a variety of projects such as declaring a Climate Emergency in her town and expanding solar energy statewide\, to strive towards climate justice in Maine. She takes inspiration from nature and fellow youth members to find creative and collaborative solutions to the climate crisis. \n 
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/wcc/
CATEGORIES:Symposium,WGS
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210122T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210122T113000
DTSTAMP:20260603T002246
CREATED:20210115T205353Z
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SUMMARY:DH Pop In: Using Canva to Market Your Event or Research
DESCRIPTION:The McGillicuddy Humanities Center’s next DH Pop In event will be Friday\, January 22\, at 11AM. The MHC’s Humanities Specialist Karen Sieber will show participants how to use a free\, easy-to-use program called Canva to design event flyers\, social media posts\, brochures\, powerpoints\, resumes and more. Email mhc@maine.edu for the link to join.  No digital skills or design aesthetic needed. \nWhile not a digital humanities tool per se\, as humanities events\, outreach\, and employment move to a virtual format\, learning design skills using programs like Canva will allow participants to better promote their events and research and engage with the public. \nThis event is part of an ongoing “DH PopIn” series which introduces students and faculty to easy-to-use tools and methods in the digital realm that help explore and share the humanities in new and exciting ways. The series will also feature virtual chats with noted digital humanities practitioners from across the country to discuss the process building a variety of different projects\, from GIS mapping to textual analysis. \n 
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/dh-pop-in-canva/
CATEGORIES:digital humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201208T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201208T190000
DTSTAMP:20260603T002246
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SUMMARY:The Art of Breathing: Original Feminist Poetry by Bria Lamonica
DESCRIPTION:McGillicuddy Humanities Center Fellow Bria Lamonica will be presenting an original collection of poems\, “The Art of Breathing\,” on December 8 at 5:30 p.m. ET. Free and open to the public. Join the Zoom reading here.\n\nLamonica is a fourth-year English major with a concentration in creative writing and a minor in psychology. As part of her MHC fellowship\, she created this experimental collection of poetry\, which deals with issues of oppression and the female body. The reading will mark the completion of her fellowship\, as well as a celebration and appreciation for feminism and the ongoing work women are doing for equality. She selected four influential women from her academic and personal life to act as readers: Kathleen Ellis\, lecturer in English; UMaine students Sarah Penney and Autumn Rogers; and Linette Hice\, her mother.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/breathing/
CATEGORIES:English Department,Poetry,Public Humanities,WGS
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201201T190000
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SUMMARY:Tarred and Feathered: UMaine's Hidden Connection  to the Red Summer of 1919
DESCRIPTION:Karen Sieber\, Humanities Specialist at the McGillicuddy Humanities Center\, will speak at 7 p.m. ET on Tuesday\, December 1\, 2020\, about her research\, “Tarred and Feathered: UMaine’s Hidden Connection to the Red Summer of 1919.” Free and open to the public.  Co-sponsored by the McGillicuddy Humanities Center and the Office for Diversity and Inclusion. Join via Zoom at: https://maine.zoom.us/j/85185694577.\n\nSieber\, who comes from a background in public history and the digital humanities\, has made it her one-woman mission to increase awareness about the Red Summer of 1919\, the term given to a nationwide wave of violence against African Americans that year. Over the past five years she has built the world’s largest database and archive on the topic\, Visualizing the Red Summer\, which is now the most used classroom resource on the Red Summer in the nation. Her work has been featured or cited by the National Archives\, American Historical Association\, History Channel\, Zinn Education Project and others.\n\nSieber recently discovered a previously undocumented case of Red Summer violence at the University of Maine that year. Two African American brothers\, Samuel and Roger Courtney\, were tarred and feathered by their fellow students. The incident was kept out of the press and university records until now. She is using the incident as an opportunity to work with students in Liam Riordan’s Public History class to build an interactive map of this and other hidden histories on campus.\n\nSieber will discuss her work building what she calls a “rogue archive\,” her recent discovery of the Courtney Brothers incident and parallels it holds to current events\, and her work with students to think about campus as not just a neutral place where history is studied but as an active place where history has made\, forgotten\, and at times erased.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/red-summer/
CATEGORIES:Public Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201117T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201117T203000
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SUMMARY:Telling the Story of Climate Change
DESCRIPTION:This event\, part of the MHC’s 2020-2021 Symposium on “The Story of Climate Change” brings together people from different professional fields tasked with communicating the impact of climate change to the public. The panel (which will be remote\, via Zoom) features a veteran reporter\, scientists working with Maine’s Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (DIFW)\, and is moderated by Dr. Katherine Glover from the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute.  Panelists will discuss best practices for telling the story of climate change\, and for helping the public understand environmental transformation on both a local and global scale. \nPanelists: \nBill Trotter is a veteran Bangor Daily News reporter who writes about how the Atlantic Ocean and the state’s iconic coastline help to shape the lives of coastal Maine residents and visitors.  Based in Ellsworth\, he writes about fisheries\, marine-related topics\, and covers eastern coastal Maine communities. \nDr. Amanda Cross is a wildlife biologist with the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife and a member of the Maine Climate Council.  She studies\, teaches\, and conducts public outreach about vernal pool ecology across Maine. \nLee Kantar is a Moose Biologist for the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.  In 2019\, Kantar was awarded the Distinguished Moose Biologist Award at the 53rd North American Moose Conference held in Carrabassett Valley\, Maine. \nModerator \nDr. Katherine Glover is a Research Associate at the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute. Specializing in how interactions between hydroclimate\, vegetation\, and wildfire produce landscape change\, and the sustainable  management of public lands\, Dr. Glover will be teaching WGS 301/501: Women and Climate Change\, in the spring\, 2021 semester. \nThe panel will run 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.\, and it will be recorded.\nJoin via Zoom at: https://maine.zoom.us/j/84162028940
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/telling-the-story-of-climate-change/
CATEGORIES:Symposium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201112T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201112T133000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20201111T171455Z
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SUMMARY:The Humanities as Activism in Chicago
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, November 12\, the McGillicuddy Humanities Center will be sponsoring a panel on “The Humanities as Activism in Chicago.” This session of the Socialist and Marxist Studies Series will feature three remarkable panelists whose work at the intersection of the humanities and activism has garnered national attention: Tonika Johnson\, Kevin Coval\, and Nicole Marroquin. Free and open to the public. \nJoin on 11/12 at 12:30p.m. EST at: https://maine.zoom.us/j/94485327393?pwd=ME4rWk84dUxkRGlHbm5WR05kR2U0dz09 \n  \nAbout the panelists: \nTonika Johnson is a visual artist\, photographer\, and community activist from Chicago’s South side Englewood neighborhood. Her Folded Map project examines the long history of redlining and segregation in the city. Johnson works to address inaccurate negative perceptions about the South and West sides of Chicago\, and open a dialogue about institutional racism and segregation. She is co-founder of the Resident Association of Greater Englewood (R.A.G.E.) and lead co-founder of Englewood Arts Collective. In 2017\, Johnson was named a Chicagoan of the Year\, and in 2019\, she was named one of Field Foundation’s Leaders for a New Chicago. She was recently appointed as a member of the Cultural Advisory Council of the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events by the Chicago City Council.  \nKevin Coval is an Emmy-nominated\, award-winning poet & author of Everything Must Go: The Life & Death of an American Neighborhood\, A People’s History of Chicago & over ten other full-length collections\, anthologies & chapbooks. He is a founding editor of The BreakBeat Poets imprint on Haymarket Books. Coval is Creative Director of the MacArthur Award-winning cultural organization\, Young Chicago Authors\,  a founder of Louder Than a Bomb: The Chicago Youth Poetry Festival\, the world’s largest youth poetry festival\, now in more than 19 cities across North America. He’s shared the stage with The Migos & Nelson Mandela & his work has been feature on The Daily Show\, Poetry Magazine\, The Chicago Tribune & CNN.com & four seasons of HBO’s Def Poetry Jam. Coval was the recipient of the 2018 Studs Terkel Award. \nNicole Marroquin is an interdisciplinary artist who’s practice includes art making\, collaboration\, research and cultural production with youth and in communities. She has exhibited locally and internationally\, including the Museo Nacional de Culturas Populares in Mexico City and the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago. She is a member of the feminist collective Multiuso\, and a former Joan Mitchell Fellow at the Center for Racial Justice Innovation. Marroquin is the creator of Chicago Raza Research Consortium\, a grassroots effort to map\, gather\, and present Mexican\, Mexican American\, Chicano\, Latinx\, and Raza history in Chicago. She is Associate Professor in the Department of Art Education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. \n  \nModerator: Karen Sieber is Humanities Specialist at the McGillicuddy Humanities Center. She is a former Chicagoan\, who is a public historian doing research on what she calls “tactical humanities\,” or using the humanities in strategic outside-of-the-box ways to draw attention to urgent issues. \nFor more information on the Socialist and Marxist Studies Series click here.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/humanities-as-activism/
CATEGORIES:Marxist-Socialist Studies Series,Public Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201026T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201026T203000
DTSTAMP:20260603T002246
CREATED:20200920T192130Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201009T181542Z
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SUMMARY:Harlan County\, USA: The Story of Climate Change Film Series
DESCRIPTION:The McGillicuddy Humanities Center Symposium Film Series returns with narrative and documentary films that engage with this year’s symposium theme\, “The Story of Climate Change.” The selected films present visions of our past and future and examine our relationships with the environment\, energy\, material culture\, and the power structures that shape the many stories of climate change. All films begin at 6:30 p.m. EST virtually. Three additional films will air in the Spring as part of this series. Email mhc@maine.edu with questions.  \nRegister here to get the link for the film series: https://tinyurl.com/yy37uxdz \nOctober 12: Wall-E \nIntroduction by Brie Berry\, PhD student (ANTH) \nOctober 26: Harlan County\, USA \nIntroduction by Karen Sieber\, McGillicuddy Humanities Center \nNovember 9: Mad Max: Fury Road \nIntroduction by Professor Lisa Neuman (ANTH)
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/harlan-county-usa-the-story-of-climate-change-film-series/
CATEGORIES:Film Series,Symposium
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201019
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201020
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SUMMARY:McGillicuddy Humanities Center Funding Fall Deadline
DESCRIPTION:Applications and proposals for student and faculty funding from the McGillicuddy Humanities Center are due October 19\, 2020. More information about each opportunity is available below\, or on our website at umaine.edu/mhc/research/. Student Fellows are awarded $8\,000 over a two semester period. Faculty grants of up to $5\,000 are awarded to support classrooms initiatives\, events\, and research. \nPlease note: For academic year 2020-2021\, the McGillicuddy Humanities Center will not be awarding faculty grants for travel.  This is in accordance with the University of Maine System’s current travel guidance regarding covid-19. Proposals not involving travel will be unaffected by this temporary change. \nUndergraduate Fellowships\nThe McGillicuddy Humanities Center Undergraduate Fellows program offers junior and senior humanities students the support needed to concentrate on their coursework and develop research or creative projects\, work collaboratively with a select group of peers\, participate in interdisciplinary humanities programs\, and gain professional skills. Fellows will receive $4000 each per semester for two consecutive semesters (fall/spring or spring/fall cycles). At the culmination of their tenure\, Fellows must give one live presentation of their research. \nApplication Process \nWe have recently updated the fellowship application process. Guidelines for what information should be included in your proposal\, and how it should be formatted\, are available at umaine.edu/mhc/research/. The document also includes guidelines and instructions for your faculty advisor’s letter of support\, which is to be mailed separately from your application to mhc@maine.edu. Applications are invited annually in October and March\, and are evaluated by a team of faculty advisors based on the rubric available below. Fellowships are competitive but are based on the strength of one’s ideas and research plans\, not the strength of one’s GPA.  We fund up to eight MHC Undergraduate Fellows at a time. Applications for this cycle are due October 19\, 2020 via our online portal. \nFaculty Grants\nThe Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center Faculty Grant award applications are being accepted for maximum awards of $5000 to support faculty at all levels\, for their research\, community engagement\, or innovative teaching proposals. Funds are used for expense reimbursement and cannot be used as compensation for faculty time. \nApplication Process \nGrant applications and budget forms can be found on our website\, and emailed to Director michael.socolow@maine.edu by October 19\, 2020 for the fall deadline.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/mhcfallfunding2020/
CATEGORIES:CLAS event
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