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SUMMARY:Life of Ideas\, Notions\, and Concepts with Guest Éric Méchoulan*
DESCRIPTION:University of Montreal Professor to Give Talk on Friendship \nOn March 6\, from 4 to 5:30PM the McGillicuddy Humanities Center\, as part of the Life of Ideas series\, curated by Frédéric Rondeau\, will host scholar Éric Méchoulan. Méchoulan will give a talk titled “On Friendship: A Brief History of the Concept from Aristotle to Facebook.” \nÉric Méchoulan is an early modernist and cultural historian with significant interests in critical theory and digital humanities. His early interest in the history of the book (first as a librarian and then as a cultural historian)\, as well as in collective memories have led him to work intermedially: from the very institutions that authorize communication to the materialities of communication (images as well as texts)\, Méchoulan argues that attending to the transmission of texts and images allows for a sharper understanding of aesthetic works. \nHis most recent book\, Lire avec soin (Careful Reading) focuses on the idea that reading is not a simple decoding of signs. Rather\, it must be integrated into a history of media and a theory of justice. Méchoulan uses the concept of an “ethics of care” to make visible relations which previously went unnoticed\, or the importance of which have been undervalued. Méchoulan focuses on the relationships in which individuals find themselves\, considering that subjects are the temporary products of intertwined flows stabilized by media\, cultural habits\, institutions\, in short\, by life. His work is attentive to the “politics of transmission” in the sense that before thinking about what we say\, we should think about how we say it: \n “Learning to read carefully is not simply a matter of learning to see the latent content of discourses and situations\, it consists\, rather\, of building a relationship of trust with events\, things\, and living beings in order to better understand and comprehend their multiple temporalities. Intelligence in this case is not vexed by questions of domination or mastery: as language suggests\, it is\, in fact\, a question of being intelligent in the company of others—both past and present—that is to say\, of creating a microsociety of readers. One is never intelligent alone. ” (Lire avec soin 146). \nÉric Méchoulan is a professor of French Literature at the Université de Montréal\, and also director of the Research Centre Virtuoso on digital uses\, cultures\, and documents. He is also the head of the committee of the Fondation Paul-Zumthor. From 2004 to 2010\, he served as a directeur de programme at the Collège international de philosophie in Paris. \nMéchoulan’s March 6 talk “On Friendship. A Brief History of the Concept from Aristotle to Facebook” will take place at the Allen and Sally Fernald APPE space\, Stewart Commons IMRC.Refreshments will be served.  \n  \nThe talk is part of the yearlong talk series “Life of Ideas\, Notions\, and Concepts” curated by MHC faculty board member Frédéric Rondeau which included fall and spring panels of UMaine faculty\, as well as upcoming guest speaker Enzo Traverso. \n \nPart of the McGillicuddy Humanities Center’s 2017-2018 symposium is Juvenescence/Obsolescence: Humanities Approaches to Aging across the Ages.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/life-ideas-notions-concepts-guest-eric-mechoulan/
LOCATION:Allen and Sally Fernald AP/PE Space\, Stewart Commons IMRC\, UMaine\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
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SUMMARY:Humanities Collaboration: Magdalene Laundries*
DESCRIPTION:Join the Humanities Collaboration for a lively discussion of the Magdalene Laundries and snacks at Orono High School! \nThe Magdalene Laundries were workhouses in which many Irish women and girls were effectively imprisoned because they were perceived to be a threat to the moral fiber of society. Mandated by the Irish state beginning in the eighteenth century\, they were operated by various orders of the Catholic Church until the last laundry closed in 1996. In 1993\, a public scandal was triggered when the remains of 155 inmates\, buried in unmarked graves on the property\, were exhumed\, cremated\, and buried elsewhere in a mass grave. \nTo learn more about the Magdalene Laundries check out the lecture by expert James Smith\, who will give a talk March 7th at UMaine. Organized by the Stephen E. King Chair of Literature.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/humanities-collaboration-magdalene-laundries/
LOCATION:Orono High School\, RM 65A\, 14 Goodridge Drive\, Orono\, ME\, 04473\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Book’s Afterlife: Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries\, Academic Advocacy\, and Restorative Justice
DESCRIPTION:The lecture is free and open to the public. \nJAMES M. SMITH is an Associate Professor in the English Department and Irish Studies Program at Boston College. His book\, Ireland’s Magdalen Laundries and the Nation’s Architecture of Containment\, was praised by Colm Tóibín as essential reading “for anyone interested in the fear and cruelty surrounding women’s sexuality in the Ireland of the recent past.” The Magdalen laundries were workhouses in which many Irish women and girls were effectively imprisoned because they were perceived to be a threat to the moral fiber of society. Mandated by the Irish state beginning in the eighteenth century\, they were operated by various orders of the Catholic Church until the last laundry closed in 1996. In 1993\, a public scandal was triggered when the remains of 155 inmates\, buried in unmarked graves on the property\, were exhumed\, cremated\, and buried elsewhere in a mass grave. Smith’s work with archival materials and survivors is\, in Colum McCann’s words\, a “brilliant\, art-driven examination of a story\, or history\, that needs to be told over and over and over again\, lest it be forgotten or allowed to seep into the ambient noise.” \nCreated by Stephen E. King Chair of Literature\, Caroline Bicks.  \n  \nAlso check out a discussion on Magdalene Laundries the previous day (March 6th) at Orono High School:
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/books-afterlife-irelands-magdalene-laundries-academic-advocacy-restorative-justice/
LOCATION:Minsky Recital Hall\, Collins Center for the Arts\, University of Maine\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
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