This year's themes: STE(A)M: Adding art/design/humanities to STEM disciplines. Filter bubbles and Internet censorship. Audio/hearing. The week will include presentations and workshops featuring such diverse topics as mapping the Holocaust, indigenous archives, copyright and digital humanities, digital documentation, and digital art production. The week will also include THATCamps (ad hoc learning sessions), "Discovering the 'Long' […]
Todd Presner, a digital historian and Professor of Germanic Languages, Comparative Literature, and Jewish Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles will deliver a lecture titled "Experimental Knowledge in the Age of Digital Humanities." Presner is also the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Director of the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies and the Chair of […]
As part of Digital Humanities Week, the New Writing Series is bringing digital poet Claire Donato to campus. Donato has an MFA from Brown University and describes herself as "a writer, artist, and curator thinking about animals, architecture, desire, exceptionalism, nothingness, pedagogy, personal taste, suffering, and synaesthesia." The event is free and open to the public. […]
Lecture by Zachary Ludington, Assistant Professor of Spanish, UMaine. Part of the Hispanic Heritage Month Lecture Series Sponsored By: UMaine Deptartment of Modern Languages and Classics and CHISPO Centro Hispana Contact: Maria Sandweiss
The Hudson Museum presents the filming of "Destruction of Memory: The War Against Culture, and the Battle to Save It." A description of the film from its website: "Over the past century, cultural destruction has wrought catastrophic results across the globe. This war against culture is not over - it's been steadily increasing. In Syria and Iraq, […]
Stephen E. King Chair in Literature Caroline Bicks will bring her Shakespeare expertise to this pre-performance discussion of Hamlet. Learn more about Caroline Bicks. Preceding Professor Bicks' lecture, MHC and CLAS will host a pre-Homecoming reception, also in Bodwell, from 4:30-6PM. Free and open to the public. Following the pre-performance lecture is Aquila Theatre Presents: Hamlet […]
Lecture by Katie Greenman, PICA Volunteer. Part of the Hispanic Heritage Month Lecture Series Sponsored By: UMaine Deptartment of Modern Languages and Classics and CHISPO Centro Hispana Contact: Maria Sandweiss
Part of the Marxist-Socialist Studies Controversies Series. Presented by Amy Catalinac, assistant professor in the department of Politics at New York University and author of Electoral Reform and National Security in Japan: From Pork to Foreign Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2016). The lecture and brown-bag lunch will be followed by a discussion. Free and open to the public. Click here for a […]
Who's watching whom? Physical surveillance by and of the police The second of the Bangor Think and Drink events. MC'd by our Faculty Advisory Board member Darren Ranco and sponsored by our friends at the Maine Humanities Council. Check out the December event as well. This year's topic focuses on policing, protection, community, and trust in the 21st century: "policing in Maine, […]
Part of the Marxist-Socialist Studies Controversies Series. Mahesh Upadhyaya, based in Ahmedabad, India, serves as IPM (International Partners in Mission) South Asia Regional Director, working to bring people together regardless of caste, religion and gender to the goal of peace, justice and reconciliation. The lecture and brown-bag lunch will be followed by a discussion. Free and open […]
Comments by: Joel Anderson, Assistant Professor of History Caroline Bicks, Stephen E. King Chair in Literature Michael Lang, Associate Professor of History Part of the UMaine History Department's Fall symposia and part of the 2017-2018 year-long Humanities symposium: Juvenescence / Obsolescence: Humanities Approaches to Aging across the Ages.
Part of the Marxist-Socialist Studies Controversies Series. Organized by Olivia Ruhlin of the Maine Peace Action Committee (MPAC) and the Student Women’s Association (SWA), with students involved with such issues as violence, war, sexism, racism and environmental destruction. The lecture and brown-bag lunch will be followed by a discussion. Free and open to the public. Click here for a […]
