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SUMMARY:The Meaty Mind: Eating and Thinking in Early Christian Monasticism
DESCRIPTION:The University of Maine History Department’s 2022-2023 symposium series will hold its next meeting on Monday\, March 20th at 3:15pm in Soderberg Auditorium (Jenness Hall). Dr. Jamie Kreiner (University of Georgia) will be speaking about “The Meaty Mind: Eating and Thinking in Early Christian Monasticism.” \nThe History Department Symposium Series\, “History through Food & Drink\,” is supported in part by a grant from the Cultural Affairs/Distinguished Lecture Series Fund. \nDr. Jamie Kreiner is Professor of History at the University of Georgia\, and her research examines the politics\, ethics\, and scientific sensibilities of the early Middle Ages. Her work has been awarded prizes from multiple professional academic societies; and it has been covered in a range of popular press outlets\, including People\, WIRED\, The Wall Street Journal\, The New York Times\, and The New Yorker. Her most recent book\, The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction\, was published by Liveright/Norton in January 2023; it can be found at your favorite independent bookstore.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/the-meaty-mind-eating-and-thinking-in-early-christian-monasticism/
LOCATION:Soderberg Lecture Hall\, Jenness Hall\, UMaine\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
CATEGORIES:History,History Department symposia
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SUMMARY:Creativity in Art\, Change and Survival*
DESCRIPTION:With Don Foresta and Edwige Armand \nTuesday 24 April 3:30PM Soderberg Lecture Hall\, 116 Jenness Hall \nAbstract: Why art is linked to the survival of humans in general. We start from an ancestral point of view and end with a look at the world today. The roots of art are to be found very far in the past of our species\, hundreds of thousands of years\, long before homo sapiens. We develop the idea that art is a product of instinct in the sense proposed by Bergson\, that it is linked to the creation of perceptions essential for the evolution of our representations. Art in its earliest expression is linked to the premise of symbolic thought and the found object. Creativity comes from a crisis in perception\, in the sudden incomprehension of the outside world and is a temporary solution to resolve these crises. Instinct is then mobilized to find an explanation\, bringing in new information and thereby causing a shift in perception. In the beginning of life\, cognition\, perception\, imagination\, sensations are of the order of the unlimited incomplete. However\, culture shapes intuition before actualization is arrived at.  Creativity thereafter serves as a safeguard against the perceptual\, cognitive normalization of the human being\, creating disorder in the secure perceptual certainty that science and technology contribute to by inserting tools between us and the outside world to understand it. Technology\, itself an expression of creativity\, is our invented interface with the exterior\, allowing us to better control it which\, in turn\, influences our perception of this exterior. By giving that technology a symbolic meaning\, we make it an integral part of our culture and close the circle\, only to start again. Much experimentation and artistic production of the 20th century was an exploration of interactivity. The notion of connection was and is a leitmotiv in current artistic creation that brings us to a kind of neo-animism\, making it a new paradigm for the 21st century. The rhizomic idea – the network paradigm – better defines the relationship between human beings than the separate and replaceable parts of the mechanical era of the first renaissance. \nAbout the Presenters: \nDon Foresta is a research artist and theoretician in art using new technologies as creative tools and a retired professor of art and technology and art and science in France and the UK. He is a specialist in art and science. He is currently the international coordinator of the MARCEL network <www.mmmarcel.org>\, a permanent\, high bandwidth network for artistic\, educational and cultural experimentation. Foresta began building the MARCEL network while artist/professor at the National Studio of Contemporary Art\, Le Fresnoy\, Lille France and inaugurated MARCEL during a fellowship at the Wimbledon College of Art in London in 2001. Foresta is a graduate of the University of Buffalo\, the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and the Sorbonne. Having both US and French nationalities\, Foresta was named “Chevalier” of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture for having created the first department of video art in Europe. \nEdwige Armand is Attaché Temporaire d’Enseignement et de Recherche in the department of Plastic Arts and Design at the Université Toulouse\, after recently completing her doctorate in plastic arts at Toulouse. Her research focuses on how both body and world serve as cultural and artistic scenes of writing and as sites of interactivity\, especially in relation to the transversality of artificial life\, genetics and digital arts. Since 2009\, Armand’s artwork has been exhibited throughout France and in NYC. \nFree and Open to the Public. For more information\, contact mscott@maine.edu. \nSupport by the McGillicuddy Humanities Center\, UM Franco-American Program\, the UMaine Honors College\, and ASAP Media Service. 
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/creativity-art-change-survival/
LOCATION:Soderberg Lecture Hall\, Jenness Hall\, UMaine\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,History,Public Humanities
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SUMMARY:Examining the Life of Maine Missionary and Suffragist Elizabeth Upham Yates
DESCRIPTION:Shannon M. Risk\, ’96\, ’09\, Associate Professor of History at Niagara University\, will deliver a lecture entitled: “Examining the Life of Maine Missionary and Suffragist Elizabeth Upham Yates — The Importance of Biography.” \n\n\n“Elizabeth Upham Yates (1857-1942) was a missionary and suffragist\, born and raised in Coastal Maine\, who rose to national prominence as a reformer in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The study of her life poses a number of issues for the historian biographer. Yates left no collection of papers\, and it is common for whatever papers remained from a female reformer’s life to not be saved by archives\, a reflection that women’s history was not “real history.” Is it possible to write a comprehensive biography with few personal documents saved\, and if so\, how? Is it important to memorialize a reformer who comprised the “second tier” — those whose most important work influenced state and local regions\, and whose names were long ago forgotten? A study of Yates’ life allows the biographer to place her ideas and actions within the greater construct of the progressive era and the paradoxes for reformers. It situates her missionary work as part of American empire building\, negotiates what an intense female friendship meant for Yates’ in terms of companionship and support\, and discusses her complicated interactions with immigrants and people of color.” \nPart of the History Symposium and organized by the History Department.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/examining-life-maine-missionary-suffragist-elizabeth-upham-yates/
LOCATION:Soderberg Lecture Hall\, Jenness Hall\, UMaine\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
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SUMMARY:What's So Funny 'Bout Commemoration?
DESCRIPTION:Past and Present Perspectives on Maine’s Bicentennial
URL:https://umaine.edu/mhc/event/whats-funny-bout-commemoration/
LOCATION:Soderberg Lecture Hall\, Jenness Hall\, UMaine\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
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