On Wednesday, December 7 at 3:00 PM in the UMaine Writing Center (Neville 403), outgoing McGillicuddy Humanities Center Fellow Sherralyn Robbins will present the culmination of her Fellowship in the form of a talk and open discussion titled "Confronting Gender Binaries: Women’s Agency in Academia and Beyond." Robbins will lead a conversation based on the […]
On Thursday, November 17 at 5:00 p.m. in the Arthur St. John Hill Auditorium, Professor Therkel Straede, Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Southern Denmark, will deliver a talk titled “The October 1943 Rescue of Jews from Denmark: Networks and Motives of the Rescuers.” Over the course of three weeks, thousands of Jews […]
Wednesday, Nov. 16 1:00-2:30 p.m. / Digital & Spatial History Lab, Center Stevens Hall 305 “The Danish Jews in Theresienstadt: The Topography of Memory” In 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 […]
