Join the McGillicuddy Humanities Center for "Fan Frenzy: A Century of Stardom and Fandom in Hispanic Film and TV," a panel presentation by three visiting scholars. Tuesday, March 11, at 4pm in Hill Auditorium (165 Barrows Hall). The presenters and the titles of their talks are: Joanne Britland, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Digital Humanities […]
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 […]
The first lecture of Spring 2023 in the History Department's symposium series will take place on Monday, January 30th at 3:00 pm in Hill Auditorium (Barrows Hall). Dr. Erik Bernardino (Bates College) will be speaking about "The (In)Visible Worker: Contract Agricultural Laborers in the California Borderlands, 1910-1926." The lecture is free and open to 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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
The McGillicuddy Humanities Center is holding a year-long film series examining "The Cinema of Colonization and Decolonization" as part of our annual symposium. The films selected engage with the theme in a variety of ways, from incorporating the legacies of colonization into the storyline to disrupting traditional Western systems and methods of production and distribution. […]
CANCELED due to unforeseen travel issues. Follow our calendar to stay informed about other upcoming events. The Rising Tide Center in collaboration with the Department of Communication & Journalism and the McGillicuddy Humanities Center presents, "Hunter Without Hunting Ground: The Dispossessed Wanderer in 21st Century Film " Visiting professor Dr. Ernest Mathijs, Professor of Film and Media Studies […]
The March 9 showing of the film Coffy is CANCELED due to unforeseen travel delays with the speaker. Tomorrow's talk with Professor Mathijs is also canceled. Future "Cinema of Colonization […]
Visiting professor Erin J. Kappeler (Tulane University) will be speaking in Hill Auditorium in Barrows Hall on Wednesday, March 4, at 3PM. Kappeler will explore key texts by the modernist poet and activist Mary Austin, who helped to invent Native American poetry as a field, to show that the concept of free verse was a […]
