{"id":1074,"date":"2014-09-02T14:49:45","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T18:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/umaine.edu\/mhc\/?page_id=1074"},"modified":"2019-06-02T09:34:39","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T13:34:39","slug":"archives","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mhc\/archives\/","title":{"rendered":"Archives"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve done, supported, and engaged with\u00a0a lot of great humanities related programming since our inception. \u00a0You can find information on some of those past activities by scrolling through our calendar of prior events below.<\/p>\n

Note: The the most recent events are shown first.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Calendar of Prior\u00a0Events<\/h2>\n

Spring 2019<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

May 30-June 1
\nMaine Statehood and Bicentennial Conference<\/a><\/em>
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April 26
\n<\/span>Franco Americans, Acadians, and the Great War: The Legacies of WWI<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

April 24
\nHandel\u2019s Messiah in America<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

April 16
\n<\/span>They Shall Not Grow Old<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

April 9
\n<\/span>Memorializing WWI in Maine and Beyond<\/a><\/p>\n

April 3
\n<\/span>The Personal is Poetic: A Panel Event<\/a><\/p>\n

March 1 & 2
\n<\/span>Bangor Humanities Day<\/a><\/p>\n

February 22
\n<\/span>Cosmopolitan Sympathies: Poetry of the First Global War, A panel moderated by Dr. Jahan Ramazani<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

February 20
\n<\/span>Spamalot Pre-Performance Lecture<\/a><\/p>\n

February 12<\/span>
\nProfessor Don Zillman, \u201cFrom Woodrow Wilson to Donald Trump: The Lessons of the First World War.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Fall 2018<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

November 16
\nModernism in Wartime: Avant-Gardes, Revolutions, Poetries<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

November 15
\nModernisms: Past and Future<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

November 9
\n<\/span>We are the Dead: the Legacy of Loss<\/a><\/p>\n

November 2
\n<\/span>Social Media and the #MeToo Movement<\/a><\/p>\n

October 30
\n“The Nature of Forgetting” Pre-Show Panel Discussion<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

October 26
\n<\/span>Maine Heritage Lecture<\/a><\/p>\n

October 25
\n<\/span>“Portland Cello Project” Pre-Performance Lecture<\/a><\/p>\n

October 23
\n<\/span>World War I: The Most Jewish War in History?<\/a><\/p>\n

October 17
\n<\/span>Wealth–Reader’s Theatre<\/a><\/p>\n

October 11
\n<\/span>The Evolution of Tejano Music: Chicano Movement<\/a><\/p>\n

Spring 2018<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

April 24
\n<\/span>Creativity in Art, Change and Survival<\/a><\/p>\n

April 21
\n<\/span>How Did You Think of That?<\/a><\/p>\n

April 6-7\u00a0<\/span>
\nNew Native Tribal Plays with Madeline Sayet<\/a><\/p>\n

April 4
\n<\/span>Living a Full, Ethical and Sustainable Life in the 21st Century<\/a><\/p>\n

March 29
\n<\/span>Life of Ideas, Notions, and Concepts with Guest Enzo Traverso<\/a><\/p>\n

March 6
\n<\/span>Humanities Collaboration: Magdalene Laundries<\/a><\/p>\n

March 6
\n<\/span>Life of Ideas, Notions, and Concepts with Guest \u00c9ric M\u00e9choulan<\/a><\/p>\n

February 23
\n<\/span>\u201cSix Centuries, Six Years\u201d Documentary Screening<\/a><\/p>\n

February 22
\n<\/span>Life of Ideas, Notions, and Concepts: Michael Lang, Anne Knowles, and Michael Howard<\/a><\/p>\n

February 3
\n<\/span>Bangor Humanities Day<\/a><\/p>\n

January 18
\n<\/span>Pre-performance lecture of Yamato Drummers with Stuart Marrs & Sake and Sushi reception<\/a><\/p>\n

Fall 2017<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

November 16
\n<\/span>Life of Ideas, Notions, and Concepts: Steve Evans, Justin Wolff<\/a><\/p>\n

November 9
\n<\/span>\u201cFraming Maine\u201d featuring Bill Green<\/a><\/p>\n

November 5
\n<\/span>Pre-performance lecture of King\u2019s Singers with Francis John Vogt<\/a><\/p>\n

October 12
\n<\/span>Pre-performance lecture of Hamlet with Caroline Bicks<\/a><\/p>\n

October 11
\n<\/span>\u201cHenry David Thoreau \u2013 Surveyor of Soul\u201d A Film by Huey<\/a><\/p>\n

October 6
\n<\/span>Downtown Bangor ARTober kick-off event<\/a><\/p>\n

October 5
\n<\/span>New Writing Series: Claire Donato<\/a>
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October 2-6<\/span>
\nDigital Humanities Week<\/a><\/p>\n

September 28
\n<\/span>Truth, Healing and Change in the Land of the Dawn<\/a><\/p>\n

September 28
\n<\/span>The Analog Age<\/a><\/p>\n

September 14<\/span>
\nCanadians Teaching in the United States<\/a><\/p>\n

Spring 2017<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

June 24
\n<\/span>FLOW Fort Knox<\/a><\/p>\n

May 3
\n<\/span>Exploring Maine History with Maine-Wabanaki REACH and UMaine Art Education Students<\/a><\/p>\n

April 28\u00a0<\/span>
\nPre-performance talk: Richard Brucher on Hedda Gabler<\/a><\/p>\n

April 27<\/span>
\n1)\u00a015th Annual POETS\/SPEAK!<\/a><\/p>\n

2) SPA & CCA Pre-performance lecture: Philip Edelman on the Combined Band Concert<\/a><\/p>\n

April 25\u00a0<\/span>
\nThe Lipstick Project<\/a><\/p>\n

April 10\u00a0<\/span>
\nSean Mills, \u201cTransnationalism, Race, and Quebec\u201d (CanAm Lecture Series)<\/a><\/p>\n

April 8<\/span>
\nNational History Day<\/a><\/p>\n

April 7<\/span>
\nThe Epic and the Novel: Saga and Story Symposium Final Event<\/a><\/p>\n

March 30<\/span>
\n1)\u00a0Clickbait, Fake News and the Fourth Estate: Why Journalism is More Vital Than Ever<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2)\u00a0Lecture by Svanhildur \u00d3skarsd\u00f3ttir: The Never-ending Popularity of Nj\u00e1ls Saga<\/a>.<\/p>\n

February 27<\/span>
\nShakespeare and Contemporary Cancer Narratives<\/a>.<\/p>\n

February 25<\/span>
\nEdna St. Vincent Millay Birthday Celebration Reading<\/a>.<\/p>\n

January 29\u00a0<\/span>
\nCCA Pre-performance lecture: Anatole Wieck with Marisa Soloman on The Danish String Quartet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

January 27-28<\/span>
\nBangor Humanities Day events:\u00a0Humanities 20\u00d720 PechaKucha: Bangor Humanities Day kick-off<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Bangor Humanities Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n

January 15<\/span>
\nCCA Pre-performance lecture: Dan Barrett on Pat Metheny<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fall 2016<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

December 1
\n<\/u>UMaine New Writing Series\u00a0<\/em>Fiction reading by\u00a0Azareen van der Vliet Oloomi<\/a>.<\/p>\n

November 17
\n<\/u>UMaine New Writing Series\u00a0<\/em>Student-curated reading celebrating The Open Field.<\/p>\n

November 15
\n<\/u>Climate Change & Humanity<\/a>\u00a0(.docx)\u00a0An interdisciplinary discussion with Cindy Isenhauer (Anthropology and Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions); Michael Lang\u00a0(History and Director of International Affairs); Paul Mayewski (Climate Change Institute).\u00a0 The discussants will be focusing on a key work in the field, Dipesh Chakrabarty\u2019s \u201cThe Climate of History: Four Theses.\u201d The session will be followed by a reception. For questions contact Michael Lang, lang@maine.edu<\/a>. Presented by the International Affairs Program.<\/p>\n

November 10
\n<\/u>UMaine New Writing Series\u00a0<\/em>Poetry & fiction reading by\u00a0Kristen Case<\/a>\u00a0&\u00a0Tessa Mellas<\/a><\/p>\n

November 7
\n<\/span>\u201cSound Preservation: The Library of Congress Radio Preservation Task Force” with Michael J. Socolow. Part of the fall 2016 CMJ Colloquium.\u00a0Established in 2014, the Radio Preservation Task Force (RPTF) of the National Recording Preservation Board of the Library of Congress is tasked with preserving the nation\u2019s radio history.\u00a0Co-Sponsored by the Department of Communication and Journalism and the CMJ Graduate Student Association.<\/p>\n

November 3
\n<\/u>1) Discussion by Drew Leder and Vincent Greco Prisoners: \u201cThey\u2019re Animals\u201d and Their Animals<\/a><\/p>\n

2) UMaine New Writing Series\u00a0<\/em>Poetry reading by\u00a0Joshua Edwards<\/a>\u00a0&\u00a0Lynn Xu<\/a><\/p>\n

November 2
\n<\/span>Discussion by Drew Leder and Vincent Greco Can a Prison Be a College? A Home?<\/a><\/p>\n

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October 27
\n<\/u>UMaine New Writing Series\u00a0<\/em>Poetry reading by\u00a0Pattie McCarthy<\/a>\u00a0&\u00a0Jenn McCreary<\/a><\/p>\n

October 20
\n<\/span><\/span><\/u>1) *Saga and Story: An Interdisciplinary Exploration from the Vikings to Our Time\u00a0<\/em>Joseph Harris, Francis Lee Higginson Research Professor of English and Research Professor of Folklore at Harvard University, will speak on \u201cEddic Poetry as World Literature.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

<\/u>2) *The Humanities Collaboration
\nA seminar-style discussion led by Michael Lang (Associate Professor of History and\u00a0Director of International Affairs, UMaine) about Ivan Illich\u2019s Deschooling Society.\u00a0The discussion will include around 18 people (a mixture of students and faculty from\u00a0both Orono High School and UMaine as well community members); participants will\u00a0be given a copy of the book through a grant received by the \u00a0Humanities Collaboration\u00a0from the University of Maine Humanities Center. RSVP kirsten.jacobson@maine.edu<\/p>\n

October 17
\n<\/span><\/span><\/u>*Saga and Story: An Interdisciplinary Exploration from the Vikings to Our Time\u00a0<\/em>Stephen Mitchell, Professor of Scandinavian and Folklore at Harvard University, will speak on \u201cPlace and Past in the Sagas: Relique or Blank Slate?<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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October 14
\n<\/span>1) UMaine hosts the Maine Archives and Museums conference.\u00a0Keynote speaker, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Ph.D. Ulrich is a\u00a0Pulitzer Prize Winner and 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard.<\/p>\n

2) *Panel: “Acadia as Eden”:\u00a0Naomi Jacobs (Professor of English)\u00a0“Myths of Arcadia”;\u00a0Justin Wolff (Associate Professor of Art History)\u00a0“Painting Acadia”;\u00a0Richard Judd (McBride Professor of History)\u00a0“Inventing Acadia: Bar Harbor and the Creation of a Tourist Landscape.”<\/p>\n

October 14
\n<\/span>The CLAS\u00a0Homecoming Reception. Students, faculty, and staff are all invited. If your research or projects have been supported by UMHC monies (or even if not), come brag about them!<\/p>\n

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October 13
\n<\/u>1) UMaine New Writing Series
\n<\/em>Fiction reading by\u00a0Rion Amilcar Scott<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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2) Pre-opera talk
\n<\/em>Pre-opera discussion on Tristan and Isolde with Beth Brand at the Orono Public Library. The opera itself is Sunday the 16th at the Collins Center for the Arts at noon.<\/p>\n

October 6
\n<\/span>Hispanic\u00a0Heritage Month Lecture Series 2016
\n<\/em>Juan Carlos Hernandez, State Conservationist, Misha Vargas, Soil Conservationist, and Luis Aponte, Soil Conservationist, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, “Hispanics Helping People Help the Land Throughout Maine.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

September 30-November 11
\n<\/u>The Lord Hall Gallery at the University of Maine presents an exhibition of humorous and politically charged ceramic sculpture by internationally known artist Gary Greenberg. Greenberg\u2019s exhibition “THINGS RE: Stuff” will be the University of Maine\u2019s Lord Hall Gallery from Sept. 30\u2013Nov. 11. This event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n

September 29
\n<\/u>1) Hispanic\u00a0Heritage Month Lecture Series 2016
\n<\/em>Dr. Stuart Marrs, Professor of Music, UMaine, “The Pluralism of Latin American Music.”<\/p>\n

2) UMaine New Writing Series
\n<\/em>Poetry reading by\u00a0Trevor Joyce<\/a>.<\/p>\n

3) Internationally known artist Gary Greenberg will give a public presentation on his work and creative process in Lord Hall, Room 100. This event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n

September 22
\n<\/span>1) Hispanic\u00a0Heritage Month Lecture Series 2016
\n<\/em>Silvestre\u00a0Guzm\u00e1n, Director of Multicultural Program, UMaine, “My experience in Maine as a Non-English Speaking Immigrant.”<\/p>\n

<\/u>2) UMaine New Writing Series
\n<\/em>Fiction reading by\u00a0Amber Sparks<\/a><\/p>\n

September 19
\n<\/span>“Truth, Healing and Change in the Land of the Dawn” led by Barbara Kates of Maine-Wabanaki REACH. The discussion will focus on the shared history of Maine and Wabanaki people, and particularly on two key events of 2015: the findings and recommendations of the Maine Wabanaki State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Penobscot Nation v. Mills case.<\/p>\n

September 15
\n<\/span>Hispanic\u00a0Heritage Month Lecture Series 2016
\n<\/em>“Status of Latinos in Higher Education”.\u00a0Presented by: \u00c1ngel Mart\u00ednez Loredo, Higher Education Specialist, Maine Department of Education. Sponsors: College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of Modern Languages and Classics, The University of Maine Humanities Center, and CHISPA Centro Hispano. \u00c1ngel Mart\u00ednez Loredo Website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Summer 2016<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

August 11-14
\n<\/u>World premiere performances of \u201cTransformer Tales: Stories of the Dawnland,\u201d a collaboration among Wabanaki artists, the Penobscot Theatre Company, and the University of Maine.\u00a0 Multimedia performances held on Indian Island, at the Penobscot Theatre, and at the Blackwoods Amphitheater in Acadia National Park.\u00a0 For more information, visit http:\/\/www.penobscottheatre.org\/show\/transformer-tales-stories-dawnland\/<\/a> or contact English Professor Margo Lukens at margaret_lukens@umit.maine.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

August 4
\n<\/u>\u201cThe Promise and the Need: Humanities in the 21st Century,\u201d lecture, video presentation, and facilitated discussion by Liam Riordan (Professor of History and Director, UMHC), annual Pulliam Lecture at the Castine Historical Society.<\/p>\n

July 12
\n<\/u>\u201cWhat did we Celebrate on July 4?: Understanding the Declaration of Independence,\u201d lecture by Liam Riordan (Professor of History), Bangor Historical Society, noon.<\/p>\n

June 16
\n<\/u>Panel and public discussion (with dinner) about how best to celebrate the bicentennial of Maine statehood in 2019-20. Hosted by the UMaine Humanities Center at the Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport from 5-7.\u00a0For more information, please visit the program page<\/a>. For more information, please email Liam Riordan at riordan@maine.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Spring 2016<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

April 13
\n<\/u>Lecture by Bob Patrick (Director, Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress), \u201cVeterans History Project \u2013 Collecting the Story of the Veteran in Your Life.\u201d Reception at 1:00 p.m., lecture at 1:15 p.m., and audience discussion to follow all in the McIntire Room, Buchanan Alumni House, UMaine. Co-hosted with the History Department, Veterans Education and Transition Services (VETS), Maine Folklife Center, and the Cole Land Transportation Museum.<\/p>\n

April 12
\n<\/u>1) National History Day Student Recognition Ceremony.\u00a0Celebrate NHD students with a reception and student work on display in the atrium of the Cultural Building at the Capital Complex. Co-hosted with the Maine State Museum, Library, and Archives. Free Museum admission all day to NHD students, parents, and teachers.<\/p>\n

2) Maine Humanities Summit.\u00a0The fourth annual statewide summit will focus on the relationship between veterans and the humanities. This event is open to the public and aims to put state legislators in dialogue with humanities professionals from across the state. Co-hosted with the Cole Land Transportation Museum with additional financial support from UMaine-Augusta, the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center at UMaine, and the Maine Folklife Center, UMaine.<\/p>\n

April 11
\n<\/u>History Department Public Lecture
\nAbby Chandler (UMass-Lowell), \u201cThe Interconnected Atlantic World.\u201d 3:15 p.m., Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall, UMaine. Annual Babcock Lecture by a UMaine graduate.<\/p>\n

April 9
\n<\/u>Statewide Maine National History Day contest for grade 6-12 students at UMaine.\u00a0For more info, please visit umaine.edu\/history\/national-history-day<\/a>.<\/p>\n

April 7-8<\/span>
\nMuslim programs
\n<\/u><\/em>1) Lecture: Feminism in contemporary Iran by Reza Jalali (Coordinator, Multicultural Student Affairs, USM), playwright of \u201cThe Poets and the Assassin,\u201d 12:30-1:45 p.m., Bangor Room Memorial Union, UMaine, part of the Socialist and Marxist Studies Lecture Series.<\/p>\n

2) Free Performance:\u00a0\u201cThe Poets and the Assassin<\/em>,\u201d 7:30 p.m., Minsky Recital Hall.\u00a0Although women in Iran have historically been in the forefront of national struggles for liberation and democracy, their stories of courage, resistance, and survival are unknown to most in the West. This play\u00a0offers insight about the plight of women in Iran and portrays their struggle against religious and cultural tyranny while countering stereotypes about Muslim women. The performance will conclude with the cast, director, and playwright taking questions from the audience. Co-hosted with the School of Policy and International Affairs; College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Honors College; Women\u2019s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; History Department; Wilson Center; International Affairs; and others.\u00a0Click here to download a poster for the play (pdf).<\/a><\/p>\n

3) Panel and audience discussion over breakfast of \u201cThe Poets and the Assassin\u201d and related issues, 8:30 a.m., Colvin Hall, Fourth Floor. The Honors College hosts this event. Panelists include:\u00a0Reza Jalali (playwright and Coordinator, Multicultural Student Affairs, USM),\u00a0Maryam Kashkooli,\u00a0Simin Khosravani,\u00a0Niloofar YousefI,\u00a0Emily Haddad (Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, UMaine).<\/p>\n

April 2
\n<\/u>One day bus trip to Portland.\u00a08:45 a.m. Bus departs from Collins Center for the Arts (CCA) parking lot at UMaine.\u00a011:00 a.m. Arrive Osher Map Library, Portland, for two guided tours: Tour the \u201cGolden Age of American Pictorial Maps\u201d exhibit that he curated in the Gallery and Osher staff will show us Shakespeare-era maps in the Reading Room. 1:00 p.m. Bus takes us downtown to the Portland Public Library (PPL) for a late-lunch and exploring on our own.\u00a03:00 p.m. Reassemble at PPL for a public lecture by Dick Brucher (UMaine Professor), \u201cLearning from the First Folio<\/em>\u201d in the Rines Auditorium. Tour the Shakespeare First Folio<\/em> exhibit before or after the lecture.\u00a05:00 p.m. Bus departs from PPL.\u00a07:00 p.m. Approximate return to CCA at UMaine.\u00a0For more information click here.<\/a><\/p>\n

March 24-31
\n<\/u>Pulitzer Week.\u00a0Three Pulitzer Prize winners will give public lectures at UMaine and at Bangor Public Library: Amy Ellis Nutt (feature writing,\u00a0Star-Ledger<\/em>), March 24; Kathleen Kingsbury (editorial writing,\u00a0Boston Globe<\/em>), March 29; Jim Sheeler (feature writing, Rocky Mountain News<\/em>), March 30.\u00a0Complete schedule details here<\/a>.\u00a0These events are organized by the Department of Communication and Journalism at UMaine with financial support from the Maine Humanities Council, the Alan Miller Fund for Excellence in Communication and Journalism, and the UMaine Humanities Center. Community partners are Bangor Daily News<\/em> and Bangor Public Library.<\/p>\n

March 21
\n<\/u>History Department Public Lecture
\nClaire Campbell (Bucknell University), \u201c\u2018Because it\u2019s 2016\u2019: Rethinking the Frontier Myth and \u2018Canada\u2019s National Interest\u2019.\u201d 3:15 p.m., Wells Conference Center, Room 3, UMaine. Co-hosted by the Canadian American Center with UMHC co-sponsorship.<\/p>\n

March 19
\n<\/u>Humanities Panel at the Maine Science Festival, Bangor Public Library. Maine\u2019s River Fisheries: Sustenance, Science and Conservation
\nPanelists will include Denise Buckley (Fishery Biologist, Craig Brook National Fish Hatchery), Catherine Schmitt (Communications Director, Maine Sea Grant), and Erik Reardon (Ph.D. candidate, History, UMaine).<\/p>\n

March 8
\n<\/u>Workshop for grade 6-12 Maine National History Day participants.
\nOne-on-one coaching about your NHD project from UMaine faculty, grad students, staff, and NHD judges.<\/p>\n

February 29
\n<\/u>Pre-performance lecture and reception co-hosted with the Collins Center for the Arts.\u00a05:30 p.m. Presentation by Laura Artesani (Associate Prof. of Music, UMaine), location Bodwell Lounge.\u00a07:00 p.m. Concert by B\u00e9la Fleck & Abigail Washburn with the Del McCoury Band<\/a>.<\/p>\n

February 20-22 and 26-28
\n<\/u>School of Performing Arts production of the satirical comedy Urinetown: The Musical.<\/em><\/p>\n

February 25
\n<\/u>Panel discussion \u201cUrinetown: The Musical as Political Satire\u201d.\u00a0Presentations by Carla Billiteri (dramaturge and English Dept., UMaine), Tom Mikotowicz (director and Theatre Dept., UMaine), and an undergraduate performer about their collaboration on the major spring campus production, which runs Feb. 19-21 and Feb. 25-28. \u00a0Co-organized with the UMaine Humanities Center as part of the Socialist and Marxist Studies Series\u00a0michael.howard@umit.maine.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

February 12
\n<\/u>History Department Public Lecture.\u00a0Chris Bilodeau (Dickinson College), \u201cExecuting an Indian in Seventeenth Century Maine.\u201d 3:15 p.m., Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall, UMaine. Co-hosted by Native American Programs with UMHC co-sponsorship.<\/p>\n

February 11<\/u>
\nDiscussion of pre-circulated paper.\u00a0Joseph Hall (Bates College), \u201cDeclarations of Sale but not Departure: Wabanaki Claims to Place in Four Land Sales, 1660-1672.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Co-hosted with Native American Programs and the History Department, please contact Liam Riordan for more information (riordan@umit.maine.edu)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

February 6
\n<\/u>Cadenzato\u2014UMaine Faculty Chamber Music, free reception to follow.<\/p>\n

January 30
\n<\/u>Downtown Bangor Public Humanities Day\u00a0For more information about the Downtown Bangor Public Humanities events click here.<\/a>\u00a012:15 p.m. Gallery talks and film screenings at the UMaine Museum of Art through mid-afternoon. The museum is at 40 Harlow St. or enter on the bridge over the Kenduskeag Canal. 2:30 p.m. Screening of film Hugo<\/em> (inspired by M\u00e9li\u00e9s and set in Paris) with River City Cinema at the Maine Discovery Museum (74 Main St.) 3:30 p.m. Readings by Norumbega Collective authors Chris Becker, Joe Linscott, and Tyler Nute at Bangor Public Library (145 Harlow St.)<\/p>\n

January 29
\n<\/u>Downtown Bangor Public Humanities Kickoff Event\u00a0PechaKucha.\u00a0Presentations on music, art, history, travel and literature by four UMaine faculty and four local non-academic practitioners. Entry is free, food and drink provided. Come early it will be a packed house!<\/p>\n

Note: all of the following events are chronological order within their semester.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Fall 2015 Events<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Tuesday, September 15<\/u>
\n<\/u>Humanities Academy discussion about the Digital Humanities.\u00a0The UMHC is initiating a small-group program for the general public (especially for high school students and teachers) to meet to discuss a short reading in advance of a campus lecture. Please read the captivating 6-page essay by Richard White, \u201cWhat is Spatial History?\u201d before participating in this discussion. Bumps Room, Memorial Union, 4:00 PM. Related lecture to follow on Sept. 21. The document can be downloaded below.\u00a0Click here to download the essay (pdf).<\/a><\/p>\n

Wednesday, September 16
\n<\/u>Public lecture by John Burns (Rockford University), \u201cBehind The Savage Detectives<\/em>: The Infrarrealist Movement\u201d at 4:00 p.m. in Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall. Join the discussion of neo-avant-garde Latin American writers of the 1970s. Co-hosted by the Department of Modern Languages and others.<\/p>\n

Thursday, September 17<\/u>
\n<\/u>Public lecture and discussion by John Burns (Rockford University), \u201cAesthetic of the Rain\u201d on the translation into English of the contemporary Chilean poet Ra\u00fal Hern\u00e1ndez, 6:30 p.m., Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall. Co-hosted by the Department of Modern Languages, The Centro Hispanico of the Bangor Area, and others.<\/p>\n

Friday, September 18
\n<\/u>Open mic readings of William Butler Yeats\u2019 poetry to celebrate his 150th birthday. Bear\u2019s Den and Pub, Memorial Union, 6:30 p.m. Emcee John Burns (Rockford University).<\/p>\n

Saturday, September 19
\n<\/u>Student bus trip to Portland.\u00a0Guided tour of the Portland Museum of Art\u2019s exhibit the Directors’ Cut<\/em>. For more exhibit info online, please visit: http:\/\/www.portlandmuseum.org\/exhibitions\/directors%E2%80%99-cut-selections-maine-art-museum-trail<\/a>. This trip is co-sponsored by the UMaine Museum of Art, the departments of Art, English, and History as well as the Honors College.<\/p>\n

Monday-Friday, September 15-25
\n<\/u>Digital Humanities Week at the University of Maine. For complete details of events each day, plus our kickoff event on September 17, please visit the UMHC online at\u00a0http:\/\/umaine.edu\/mhc\/dhweek<\/a><\/p>\n

Thursday, September 24
\n<\/span>Professor Nathan Stormer: “On the Origins of Violence and Language.” Free and open to the public.\u00a0Did language develop after violence as a means of exerting power?\u00a0 Under what conditions can it be said that violence and language have origins at all?\u00a0 The belief that the origin of language was a transcendent moment when humans really became human is strongly held in the study of rhetoric and communication.\u00a0 In this lecture, Prof. Stormer re-reads a little known essay of Friedrich Nietzsche, “On the Origins of Language,” to argue that language and violence share an original condition, negation, and that an origin of language is impossible to pin down.\u00a0 He then poses the question, if negation is the “mother of language” as Nietzsche argues, where does negation does come from?<\/p>\n

Thursday, October 1
\n<\/u>Liam Riordan, \u201cDoes the American Revolution Look Different from the Penobscot Valley?” This event initiates the month-long arts and humanities ARTober celebration in Bangor.<\/p>\n

Thursday, October 1
\n<\/u>Jim Hightower, \u201cTwenty-First Century Populist Movements are Flourishing at America\u2019s Grassroots,\u201d annual Howard Schonberger Peace and Social Justice Lecture.Reception to follow.<\/p>\n

Saturday, October 10
\n<\/u>Pre-Performance lecture by Elizabeth Neiman (English and Women\u2019s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies), \u201cLiterary Monsters: Bram Stocker’s Dracula<\/u> and the Fiction of the 1890s,\u201d 6:30 p.m. Bodwell Area of the Collins Center for the Arts (CCA) with reception. L.A. Theater Works production of Dracula follows in the CCA at 8:00 p.m.<\/p>\n

Wednesday, October 14
\n<\/u>Humanities Academy Discussion: “What is a Land Grant University?”
\nA small-group discussion for the general public to share their thoughts about a very short set of related readings.\u00a0Click here to download the readings for discussion (pdf).<\/a><\/p>\n

Friday, October 16
\n<\/u>Public lecture by Edward Baptist (Cornell University), \u201cHow to Save American Higher Education from its Saviors: The Morrill Act and What it Can Teach Us Today.”\u00a0This lecture is part of UMaine\u2019s Open University programs for the 150th anniversary homecoming.\u00a0 It has received funds from the Office of the President, Cultural Affiars\/Distinguished Lecture Series on behalf of the Northeastern Americas: Humanities Research and Educaion, and the History Department.<\/p>\n

\"DrunkenSaturday, October 17
\n<\/u>Maine humorist Tim Sample will be on campus for UMaine’s 150th anniversary homecoming.\u00a0Tim Sample Free public lecture.
\nA discussion of his career as a Maine humorist, and his recent collaboration with Stephen King on the audiobook Drunken Fireworks. Sales and signing to follow.<\/p>\n

Wednesday, October 21
\n<\/span>Carlo Villacorta: “Is translation a bridge?: The fisction of Daniel Alacron reimaging Peru.”\u00a0Free and open to the public<\/p>\n

Thursday-Saturday, October 22-24
\n<\/u>Black Mountain College Symposium.\u00a0This major public conference brings together UMaine and national scholars to discuss the impact of Black Mountain College (BMC) upon the visual arts, poetry, educational reform, and democratic theory. It will be followed by a bus trip to a BMC exhibit at the ICA in Boston on Nov. 7 (see below) and coincides with related undergraduate courses taught in Fall 2015 by Steve Evans (English and National Poetry Foundation) and Justin Wolff (Art History). For additional information, please contact: \u00a0Steve Evans at steven.evans@umit.maine.edu<\/a> or at 581.3818.<\/p>\n

Saturday, November 7
\n<\/u>UMHC student trip to the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.\u00a0We will enjoy a pre-arranged tour of the \u201cLeap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957\u201d exhibit at the ICA.<\/p>\n

Thursday, November 12
\n<\/span>Jennifer Moxley: “Different Languages, Hidden Transcripts, and the Distrust of the Translator.”\u00a0\u00a0Free and open to the public.<\/p>\n

Thursday, November 12
\n<\/u>NYC-based group Theater of War provides dramatic readings of ancient Greek drama with panel comments and audience discussion about war\u2019s trauma and its consequences. Penobscot Theatre, Downtown Bangor, 7:00 p.m. The UMHC joins co-hosts the Maine Infantry Foundation, Acadia Hospital, the Maine Masonic College, and the Penobscot Theatre in making this event free to the public. Ticket details TBA.<\/p>\n

Friday, November 13
\n<\/u>Free UMHC student bus trip to attend the ArtWalk in downtown Bangor.\u00a0The bus will depart campus at 4:30 p.m. from the CCA parking lot and return by 8:00 p.m. Featuring an art installation by UMaine faculty member Gene Felice. An annual partnership with the Maine Discovery Museum, the University of Maine Museum of Art, and the Division of Student Life at the University of Maine.<\/p>\n

Thursday, December 3
\n<\/u>Enjoy and learn about jazz in three related events.
\n5:00 pm: Reception in Miller’s Caf\u00e9 of the Collins Center for the Arts.\u00a05:30-6:30 pm: Demonstration and discussion by UMaine students led by\u00a0Jack Burt (Director, UMaine Jazz Ensemble) in Minsky Recital Hall. FREE.\u00a07:00 pm: Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis in the CCA.\u00a0 Tickets required.
\n<\/u><\/p>\n

Monday, December 7
\n<\/u>Nathan Godfried (Professor of History, UMaine),\u00a0\u201cWilliam S. Gailmor: Rabbi, Thief, Propagandist, Fellow Traveler, Social Justice Activist?
\nThe Popular Front, Journalism, and the Red Scare, 1941-1952,\u201d\u00a03:15 p.m. Bangor Room, Memorial Union.\u00a0 FREE.<\/p>\n

Thursday, December 10<\/span>
\nSalon discussion of Traer Scott’s natural history photography at the
\nUMaine Museum of Art in Bangor.\u00a0 6:00-8:00 pm, FREE but RSVP required.<\/p>\n

Summer 2015 Events<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Thursday, August 13<\/span>
\nCelebrating the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Humanities in Maine.\u00a0Point Lookout, Northport, Maine.\u00a0Chairman William \u201cBro\u201d Adams of the National Endowment for the Humanities will be the keynote speaker at a public program that will also include a panel discussion about the Historical Atlas of Maine<\/em> (University of Maine Press, 2015). A free reception and book signing will follow with the Atlas<\/em> sold at a discounted price. For more information, please contact UMHC Director Liam Riordan at riordan@maine.edu<\/a> or 207-581-1913.<\/p>\n

Sunday-Wednesday, July 12-15<\/span>
\nCelebrating the Voyage of the Hermione<\/em> a Replica French Frigate from the Revolutionary Era.\u00a0UMHC Director Liam Riordan will speak on \u201cWhy the French were Essential for the American Revolution, and Why We Should Care,\u201d July 12, 4:00-5:00 p.m. at the Delano Auditorium of the Maine Maritime Academy in Castine.\u00a0For online information about multiple events in Castine, please visit the Castine Historical Society\u00a0website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thursday-Saturday, July 23-25
\n<\/strong>16th Annual Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium
\nWunderkino 5: Moving Images of War and Peace
\nLocation: Alamo Theatre, 85 Main Street, Bucksport, ME 04416
\nFor more information and to register please visit NEHF<\/a>‘s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Spring 2015 Events<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Tuesday-Thursday, May 12-14<\/span>
\nDr. Jonathan Shay on Combat Trauma and the Trials of Coming Home.\u00a0The role of the humanities to better support veterans will be featured in a series of programs that builds to events at the University of Maine on May 13 and 14.\u00a0For more information online about the Veterans and the Humanities at UMaine, click here<\/a>. \u00a0For additional information, please contact UMHC Director Liam Riordan at riordan@maine.edu<\/a> or 207-581-1913.<\/p>\n

Tuesday, April 7
\n<\/span>1) Please join us to honor the statewide winners of the National History Day in Maine on April 7, from 3:30-4:30 in the Central Building Atrium of the State House Complex, 230 State Street, Augusta. All NHD students, teachers, and parents (not just prizewinners) are also invited to tour the Maine State Museum free of charge before or after the reception.\u00a0Click here to download the flyer (pdf)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2) Third Annual Maine Humanities Summit, 5:00-7:30 PM, State Room, Senator Inn, 284 Western Avenue, Augusta.\u00a0 Co-hosted with the Maine Humanities Council and the Colby College Center for the Arts and Humanities, and the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center.\u00a0 For more info, please contact Liam Riordan on FirstClass (riordan@umit.maine.edu) or at 581-1913.\u00a0Click here for more information (pdf)<\/a><\/p>\n

Sunday, March 29 through Thursday, April 16<\/span>
\nEight terrific events on the theme of “Beyond Auschwitz: New Perspectives on the Holocaust” have been organized by UMaine’s Judaic Studies Program.\u00a0 For full details click here or download the schedule of events.\u00a0 For more inforamtion, please contact Melissa Ladenheim at melissa.ladenheim@umit.maine.edu or 207.581.3308.\u00a0Click here to download the full schedule (pdf)<\/a><\/p>\n

Friday-Saturday, April 24-25
\n<\/span>Language Revitalization, Treaties, and the Future of Tribal Sovereignty, public conference. The conference will integrate the work and concerns of scholars, native groups, and state agencies to facilitate an unprecedented exchange among regional indigenous language specialists.\u00a0The Afternoon of the 24th will be on Indian Island and the evening of the 24 and day of the 25th will be at the University of Maine in the Bodwell area. For more info, please contact Darren Ranco, Chair, Native American Studies, on FirstClass (darren.ranco@umit.maine.edu<\/a>) or at 581-9485.<\/p>\n

Saturday, March 28
\n<\/span>Maine National History Day statewide contest for grade 6-12 students on the UMaine, Orono campus.\u00a0 For more info visit http:\/\/umaine.edu\/history\/national-history-day\/<\/a> or contact State Coordinator John Taylor by email at john.m.taylor@maine.edu<\/a>) or by phone at 474-7133.<\/p>\n

Sunday, March 29
\n<\/span>Pre-performance lect
\nre and discussion by Phillip Silver, Professor of Music.\u00a0 1:30 PM in the Cafe of the Collins Center for the Arts (CCA) prior to the performance by the Amernet String Quartet<\/em> with Professor Silver at 3:00 PM in Minsky Recital Hall.\u00a0 The performance focuses on music by Jewish composers forced into exile or murdered in concentration camps. A free reception follows the discussion co-hosted with the CCA.\u00a0 For more info, contact Liam Riordan on FirstClass (riordan@umit.maine.edu<\/a>) or at 581-1913.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Sunday, February 8
\n<\/span>Pre-performance lecture and discussion by Laura Artesani, Associate Professor of Music.\u00a0 2:00 PM in the Cafe of the Collins Center for the Arts (CCA) prior to the performance by the British ensemble Voice<\/em> at 3:00 PM in Minsky Recital Hall. A free reception will follow the concert co-hosted with the CCA.\u00a0 For more info, contact Liam Riordan on FirstClass (riordan@umit.maine.edu<\/a>) or at 581-1913.<\/p>\n

Saturday, January 31
\n<\/span>Can movies help us understand the past?: Selma<\/em> as movie and history, Bangor Mall Cinemas, 6:20 pm.\u00a0Please join us for a one-time public screening of the film Selma<\/em> with a brief discussion by historians with expertise about this period: Nathan Godfried (Univ. of Maine) & Dave Haus (Husson Univ.). Regular admission will be charged to the theater.<\/em><\/p>\n

Friday, January 23
\n<\/span>Public Humanities Day Kick-Off Event: A humanities-themed powered by PechaKucha.\u00a0Coe Space (48 Columbia Street in downtown Bangor).\u00a0Doors open at 6:00 p.m., Show starts 6:30 p.m., suggested donation $6.\u00a0Refreshments provided by Izzy’s Catering and State Street Wine Cellar.\u00a0Anticipated speakers and tentative topics include:\u00a0Chuck Donnelly (Acadia School of Music), Building Bridges and Community with Traditional Music;\u00a0Michael Grillo (Art, UMaine), Inside Viewers: Paintings of Place for Local Inhabitants;\u00a0Greg Howard (English, UMaine), Fiction and Image;\u00a0Pauleena MacDougall (Folklife, UMaine), The Airline Road;\u00a0Erin Rhoda (Bangor Daily News<\/em>), Digital Postcards from Maine;\u00a0Josh Roiland (Communications & Journalism and Honors, UMaine), Understanding David Foster Wallace;\u00a0Jane Smith (Modern Languages and Classics, UMaine), Languages and the Humanities;\u00a0Kate Webber (Maine Humanities Council), LOL Humanities: Finding Meaning in Social Media<\/p>\n

Saturday, January 24
\n<\/span>Downtown Bangor Public Humanities Day. Event Schedule<\/a> Co\u2013hosted with the Maine Folklife Center and the UMaine Museum of Art.\u00a0 For more info, please contact Pauleena MacDougall on FirstClass (pauleena.macdougall@umit.maine.edu<\/a>) or at 581-1848.\u00a0 Free bus transportation will be provided from Orono to Bangor to support student participation.<\/p>\n

Fall 2014 Events<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Friday, Sept. 12
\n<\/span>UMaine Student Bus Trip to Bangor Artwalk, 4:30-8:00PM.\u00a0Co-hosted with the Office of Student Life, Maine Discovery Museum and UMaine Museum of Art.\u00a0 For more info, please contact John Mascetta on FirstClass (john.mascetta@umit.maine.edu<\/a>) or at 581-1957<\/p>\n

Wednesday, Sept. 16
\n<\/span>Where are\u00a0women in\u00a0violent\u00a0conflicts?\u00a0Finding out will\u00a0make us smarter.\u00a0Cynthia Enloe, Research Professor in the International Development, Community, and\u00a0Environment Department at Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts.Student meet and greet:\u00a0FFA Room, Memorial Union\u00a0Sept. 16, 2\u20133:30 p.m.\u00a0Lecture:\u00a0Minsky Hall\u00a0Sept. 16, 6\u20138 p.m.<\/p>\n

Thursday, Sept. 18
\n<\/span>Latino Heritage Month lecture by Luis Millones (Colby College).\u00a0 For more info, please contact Maria Sandweiss on FirstClass (maria.sandweiss@umit.maine.edu<\/a>) or at 581-2072.<\/p>\n

Wednesday, Sept. 24
\n<\/span>New Media and the Humanities lecture \u201cThe Ecology of Games\u201d by Alenda Chang (University of Connecticut), 4:00PM Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall.\u00a0 Co-hosted with Music, New Media, and more.\u00a0 For more info, please contact Nancy Ogle on FirstClass (nancy.ogle@umit.maine.edu<\/a>) or 581-4703.<\/p>\n

Tuesday, September 30
\n<\/span>Pre-performance lecture and discussion by Naomi Jacobs, Professor of English.\u00a0 5:30 PM in the Bodwell Lounge of the CCA prior to the Aquila Theatre Company\u2019s performance of Emily Bronte\u2019s Wuthering Heights.\u00a0 A free reception follows the discussion co-hosted with the Collins Center for the Arts (CCA).\u00a0 For more info, contact Liam Riordan on FirstClass (riordan@umit.maine.edu<\/a>) or at 581-1913.<\/p>\n

Friday, Oct. 3-Sunday, Oct. 5
\n<\/span>UMaine-University of New Brunswick Graduate Student Conference.\u00a0 Co-hosted by the History Graduate Students Association and the Canadian-American Center.\u00a0 For more info, please contact Ian Jesse on FirstClass (ian.jesse@umit.maine.edu<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Tuesday, Oct. 7<\/span>
\nLecture by Bill McKibbon, 3:30PM.\u00a0 Organized by the Honors College.\u00a0 For more info, please contact Mimi Killinger on FirstClass (mimi.killinger@umit.maine.edu<\/a>) or at 581-3263.<\/p>\n

Saturday, Oct. 25<\/span>
\nArts & Humanities Bus Trip to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.\u00a0 Co-hosted with the departments of Art, English, History, and the Honors College.\u00a0 For more info, please contact Liam Riordan on FirstClass (riordan@umit.maine.edu<\/a>) or at 581-1913.<\/p>\n

Tuesday, December 9
\n<\/span>Author lecture and book signing to celebrate the publication of The Historical Atlas of Maine. \u00a0\u00a0Richard Judd (McBride Professor of History, University of Maine), \u201cReflections on Editing the\u00a0Historical Atlas of Maine<\/em>: A Scholarly Epic,\u201d Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress Street, Portland.\u00a0 Noon-130PM.\u00a0 For more info, please contact Larissa Vigue Picard at 774-1822 ext. 215 or\u00a0lvpicard@mainehistory.org<\/a><\/p>\n

Thursday, December 11
\n<\/span>3:30-5:00 p.m. at the Buchanan Alumni House, University of Maine, Orono.\u00a0A public celebration of the newly published Historical Atlas of Maine, with UMaine President Susan J. Hunter, editors Stephen J. Hornsby and Richard W. Judd, and cartographer Michael J. Hermann.<\/p>\n

Friday, December 12
\n<\/span>“Saving Endangered Native Languages”\u00a0Buchanan Alumni House, \u00a07 p.m.\u00a0This evening panel will\u00a0address the state of the several endangered Algonquian languages in the Northeast, and the efforts communities are engaged in to preserve them. In addition, the panelists, representing a number of Native communities from across the Northeast, will talk about the various methods they are using for language pedagogy in what are primarily oral languages.\u00a0Saving Native Languages<\/a><\/p>\n

2013-2014 EVENTS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Title:<\/td>\nDowntown Bangor Public Humanities Day<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date:<\/td>\nMay 17, 2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Time:<\/td>\n9:00AM-5:00PM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Location:<\/td>\nDowntown Bangor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The University of Maine Humanities Initiative is pleased to cosponsor the second annual Downtown Bangor Public Humanities Day. Various events will feature conversations and demonstrations involving UMaine faculty and staff of Bangor cultural organizations. For more information, please contact Associate Professor of History Liam Riordan (liam.riordan@umit.maine.edu).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Title:<\/td>\nMaine Humanities Summit: The Humanities and Public Policy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date:<\/td>\nMay 16, 2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Time:<\/td>\n9:00AM-5:00PM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Location:<\/td>\nGovernor Hill Mansion, Augusta, Maine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The University of Maine Humanities Initiative and the Maine Humanities Council will host the second annual Maine Humanities Summit at the Governor Hill Mansion in Augusta on Friday, May 16, 2014. The topic of this year\u2019s Summit is \u201cThe Humanities and Public Policy.\u201d\u00a0More information and details forthcoming. Please contact Justin Wolff, Director UMaine Humanities Initiative, with questions (justin.wolff@maine.edu).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Title:<\/td>\nHow to Shrink the World: Using Virtual Technologies to Bring the World Together<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date:<\/td>\nMay 1, 2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Time:<\/td>\n6:00PM-8:00PM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Location:<\/td>\nCoeSpace, 48 Columbia Street, Bangor, Maine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Please join UMHI graduate assistant Amy Cross for a presentation about using Virtual Technologies to bring the world together. Free and open to the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Title:<\/td>\nIn and Out of Place: Finding Home in Franco America<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date:<\/td>\nApril 25-26, 2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Time:<\/td>\nTBA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Location:<\/td>\nUniversity of Maine, Orono<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

In and Out of Place: Finding Home in Franco America<\/em>\u00a0is a symposium sponsored by the University of Maine Humanities Initiative and organized by the Franco-American Centre and Franco American Studies program at UMaine. Keynote speaker Clark Blaise will read from a work-in-progress, \u201cThe Kerouac Who Never Was.\u201d The symposium will feature readings from acclaimed New England writers; panels on \u201cFranco Elections, Activism, and Public Opinion,\u201d \u201cHistorical Reflections on Place and Identity,\u201d and \u201cFranco American Archives and Collections in New England\u201d; and a screening of the film\u00a0Le grand Jack (Jack Kerouac\u2019s Road: A Franco-American Odyssey)<\/em>, directed by Herm\u00e9n\u00e9gilde Chiasson.\u00a0
\n<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Title:<\/td>\nBridging the Gap: Knowledge Production in the Humanities and the Sciences<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date:<\/td>\nApril 22, 2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Time:<\/td>\n2:00-4:00PM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Location:<\/td>\nWells Conference Center<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

“Bridging the Gap: Knowledge Production in the Humanities and the Sciences” is the Spring UMHI Faculty Seminar. The seminar co-leaders are Elizabeth Neiman, Assistant Professor of English, and Jacquelyn Gill, Assistant Professor of Paleoecology and Plant Ecology. Seminar readings include excerpts from Ann Fausto-Sterling\u2019s\u00a0Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality<\/em>. For more information contact Elizabeth Neiman (elizabeth.neiman@umit.maine.edu).\u00a0To register for the seminar, please email UMHI Graduate Assistant Amy Cross (Amy.Cross@umit.maine.edu).\u00a0More information.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Title:<\/td>\nFrancophone Film Series<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date:<\/td>\nJanuary 23-April 17, 2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Time:<\/td>\nThursdays 7:00PM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Location:<\/td>\nBlack Box Performance Space, IMRC Center, UMaine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The University of Maine Humanities Initiative is a cosponsor of the Francophone Film Series. Films include\u00a0January 23,\u00a0Les 400 coups de Fran\u00e7ois Truffaut<\/em>\u00a0(France, 1959); February 13,\u00a0Les amours imaginaires de Xavier Dolan<\/em>\u00a0(Qu\u00e9bec, 2010); February 20,\u00a0Entre les murs de Laurent Cantet<\/em>\u00a0(France, 2008); February 27,\u00a0Incendies de Denis Villeneuve<\/em>\u00a0(Qu\u00e9bec, 2010); March 20,\u00a0Milou en mai de Louis Malle<\/em>\u00a0(France, 1990); April 10,\u00a0Monsieur Lazhar de Philippe Falardeau<\/em>\u00a0(Qu\u00e9bec, 2011); and April 17,\u00a0Apr\u00e8s Mai, d\u2019Olivier Assayas<\/em>\u00a0(France, 2012). For more information, please contact\u00a0Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Rondeau,\u00a0Assistant Professor of French (frederic.rondeau@maine.edu).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Title:<\/td>\nThe Age of Discovery from Spain to Space<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Name:<\/td>\nMary Doria Russell<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date:<\/td>\nWednesday, April 16, 2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Time:<\/td>\n4:00-6:00PM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Location:<\/td>\nHauck Auditorium<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The University of Maine Humanities Initiative is pleased to cosponsor the 2014 John M. Rezendes Visiting Scholar in Ethics.\u00a0Critically acclaimed author Mary Doria Russell will give a lecture entitled “The Age of Discovery from Spain to Space.” Her talk will focus on the ethics of discovery and other ethical issues brought up in her novel and this year\u2019s Honors College Read\u00a0The Sparrow<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Title:<\/td>\nWorking and Belonging in Indian Country<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Name:<\/td>\nBrian C. Hosmer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date:<\/td>\nMonday, April 14, 2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Time:<\/td>\n3:15PM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Location:<\/td>\nHill Auditorium, Barrows Hall<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The University of Maine Humanities Initiative is pleased to cosponsor a lecture by\u00a0Professor Brian C. Hosmer, H.G. Barnard Associate Professor of Western American History, University of Tulsa.\u00a0As a leading scholar on American Indians in the marketplace, Professor Brian C. Hosmer will visit three Native communities in Maine where he will meet key tribal officials. On Monday, April 14, he will have a discussion with history graduate students about conducting research in Native American communities. In the afternoon, Professor Hosmer will deliver his talk entitled, \u201cWorking and Belonging in Indian Country.\u201d The term \u201cwork\u201d has a complex history in Indian Country. If Americans are familiar with anything about Native communities it is the (genuine and supposed) high rate of unemployment in Indian country. At the same time, federal Indian policies, from mission work to boarding schools and allotment, reorganization, termination and self-determination, all revolve around assumptions about Indian laboring. Policies are enacted to instruct Indians in how to work (as if they didn\u2019t know already), and in some cases governments design and implement work programs. The lecture is part of the Department of History’s symposium series. For more information contact\u00a0Micah A. Pawling, Ph.D.,\u00a0Assistant Professor of History and Native American Studies at\u00a0(207) 581-1424.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Title:<\/td>\nMaine National History Day Competition<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date:<\/td>\nSaturday, April 12, 2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Time:<\/td>\n10:00AM-4:00PM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Location:<\/td>\nTBA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The University of Maine Humanities Initiative is pleased to be a cosponsor of the Maine National History Day Competition.\u00a0For more information about\u00a0Maine National History Day<\/a>, please visit\u00a0the UMHI’s Maine National Day History\u00a0site<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Title:<\/td>\nThe Juvenile Work of World-Class Artists: Can We Tell from their Work that these Children are Bound for Glory?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Name:<\/td>\nDr. David Pariser<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date:<\/td>\nThursday, February 27, 2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Time:<\/td>\n6:00PM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Location:<\/td>\nLord Hall 100<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Dr. David Pariser,\u00a0Professor of Art Education, Concordia University, Montreal, will\u00a0present his current research on children\u2019s graphic development, specifically using artifacts and interviews gathered from Jaime Wyeth, with respect to juvenilia from Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, and Toulouse-Lautrec. Dr. Pariser is one of the few scholars publishing in English on aspects of giftedness in the visual arts and in children\u2019s graphic development. Additional details are forthcoming. For more information, please contact Associate Professor of Art Education Connie Albertson (constant.albertson@umit.maine.edu).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Title:<\/td>\nOn Being Cute, On Being Prey: Exploring the Two Poles of Animal\/Human Interaction<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date:<\/td>\nWednesday, December 4, 2013<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Time:<\/td>\n4:00PM-6:00PM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Location:<\/td>\nWells Conference Room 3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

“On Being Cute, On Being Prey: Exploring the Two Poles of Animal\/Human Interaction” is the Fall UMHI Faculty Seminar.\u00a0The seminar co-leaders are Gregory Howard, Assistant Professor of English, and Sarah Harlan-Haughey, CLAS-Honors Preceptor in English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Title:<\/td>\nNational History Day Teacher Institute<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date:<\/td>\nThursday, October 24, 2013<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Time:<\/td>\n9:00AM-2:00PM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Location:<\/td>\nWells Conference Room 3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

For more information about\u00a0Maine National History Day<\/a>\u00a0and the Teacher Institute, please visit\u00a0the UMHI’s Maine National Day History\u00a0site<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
Title:<\/td>\nSurfacing: Digital Humanities Week<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date:<\/td>\nOctober 7-10, 2013<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Location:<\/td>\nUniversity of Maine campus<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The UMHI is pleased to co-sponsor Surfacing:\u00a0Digital Humanities Wee<\/em>k<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>and THATCamp Maine 2013. A THATCamp (The Humanities and Technology Camp) is an unconference: an open, inexpensive meeting where humanists and technologists of all skill levels learn and build together in sessions proposed on the spot. See below for featured events. For up-to-date information, complete schedule, and registration guidelines, see THATCamp Maine 2013<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Title:<\/td>\nNineteenth-Century Books and the Challenges to a Global Digital Library<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Name:<\/td>\nAndrew Stauffer (University of Virginia)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date:<\/td>\nThursday, October 10, 2013<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Time:<\/td>\n11:00AM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Location:<\/td>\nHill Auditorium, Barrows Hall<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

For more information about this lecture and Digital Humanities Week, see\u00a0THATCamp Maine 2013<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Title:<\/td>\nAffordances of the Digital:\u00a0Mapping, Geotagging Texts, and Early Modern Digital Methodologies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Name:<\/td>\nMary Erica Zimmer (Boston University)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date:<\/td>\nWednesday, October 9, 2013<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Time:<\/td>\n4:00PM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Location:<\/td>\nIMRC 112<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

For more information about this workshop and Digital Humanities Week, see\u00a0THATCamp Maine 2013<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Title:<\/td>\nPutting the Public Back in Publication<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Name:<\/td>\nAnne Goodyear (Bowdoin College Museum of Art)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date:<\/td>\nWednesday, October 9, 2013<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Time:<\/td>\n10:00AM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Location:<\/td>\nIMRC 104<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

For more information about this lecture and Digital Humanities Week, see\u00a0THATCamp Maine 2013<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Title:<\/td>\nThe Assignable Nothingness of All Swerve and the Work of Adjacency<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Name:<\/td>\nEileen Joy (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date:<\/td>\nTuesday, October 8, 2013<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Time:<\/td>\n4:00PM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Location:<\/td>\nHill Auditorium, Barrows Hall<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

For more information about this lecture and Digital Humanities Week, see\u00a0THATCamp Maine 2013<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Title:<\/td>\nSurface and Infrastructure:\u00a0Mapping the Hidden Worlds\u00a0of Undersea Cables<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Name:<\/td>\nNicole Starosielski (New York University)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date:<\/td>\nTuesday, October 8, 2013<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Time:<\/td>\n11:00AM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Location:<\/td>\nBangor Room, Memorial Union<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

For more information about this talk and Digital Humanities Week, see THATCamp Maine 2013<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Title:<\/td>\nNational History Day Information Session<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date:<\/td>\nThursday, September 26, 2013<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Time:<\/td>\n5:00PM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Location:<\/td>\nBangor Public Library<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

To learn more about Maine National History Day<\/a>, please join us for a Pizza & Information Session at Bangor Public Library<\/a>. This will be an informal discussion and presentation for teachers, students, and parents. Also visit the UMHI’s Maine National History Day\u00a0site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2012-2013 Events<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Title:<\/td>\nMaine Humanities Summit<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date:<\/td>\nMay 17, 2013<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Time:<\/td>\n9:00AM – 4:30PM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Location:<\/td>\nGovernor Hill Mansion, Augusta, Maine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The University of Maine Humanities Initiative announces a daylong Maine Humanities Summit, to be held at the Governor Hill Mansion in Augusta, Maine, on Friday, May 17, 2013. For more information, please visit\u00a0http:\/\/umaine.edu\/mhc\/maine-humanities-summit\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
Title:<\/td>\nFaculty Development Seminar<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date:<\/td>\nMay 13-16, 2013<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The most recent UMHI faculty development program was a four-day seminar (May 13-16, 2013) featuring UMaine faculty, staff, and graduate students presenting their research in lectures, panels, and interdisciplinary events.\u00a0A highlight of the week is a day of programs in downtown Bangor on Wednesday, May 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Title:<\/td>\nThe Umbrellas of Cherbourg<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date:<\/td>\nApril 12, 2013<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Time:<\/td>\n7:00PM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Location:<\/td>\nBangor Room, Memorial Union<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The UMaine Humanities Initiative is pleased to co-sponsor a screening of\u00a0The Umbrellas of Cherbourg<\/em> (1964), a film directed by Jacques Demy. This event, free and open to the public, is part of the International Film Festival: \u201cMovie-ing through Cultures,” also co-sponsored by Department of Modern Languages and Classics and the German Club. For more information, please contact Nora Gortcheva, Visiting Assistant Professor of German and Film Studies (nora.gortcheva@maine.edu).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Title:<\/td>\nMaine History from the Archive to the Digital Humanities<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Name:<\/td>\nKevin Murphy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date:<\/td>\nApril 8, 2013<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Time:<\/td>\n12:00 – 1:30PM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Location:<\/td>\nBumps Room, Memorial Union<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

A free public lecture, \u201cMaine History from the Archive to the Digital Humanities,\u201d by Kevin Murphy, professor of architecture and art history at the CUNY Graduate Center, will take place from 12\u20131:30 p.m., April 8, Bumps Room, University of Maine Memorial Union. Professor Murphy is being brought to UMaine by the university\u2019s Department of History in collaboration with the Farnsworth Art Museum and the Humanities Initiative, in support of its exhibit on Jonathan Fisher\u2019s Scripture Animals.<\/em> For more information about the presentations or to request disability accommodations, please contact Liam Riordan (riordan@umit.maine.edu).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Title:<\/td>\nJonathan Fisher’s Paper:\u00a0The World of Print on the Eastern Frontier<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Name:<\/td>\nKevin Murphy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date:<\/td>\nApril 8, 2013<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Time:<\/td>\n3:15 – 4:45PM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Location:<\/td>\nHill Auditorium, Barrows Hall<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

A free public lecture, \u201cJonathan Fisher\u2019s Paper: The World of Print on the Eastern Frontier,\u201d by Kevin Murphy, professor of architecture and art history at the CUNY Graduate Center, will take place from 3:15\u20134:45 p.m., April 8, Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall, University of Maine. Professor Murphy is being brought to UMaine by the university\u2019s Department of History in collaboration with the Farnsworth Art Museum and the Humanities Initiative, in support of its exhibit on Jonathan Fisher\u2019s Scripture Animals<\/em>. For more information about the presentations or to request disability accommodations, please contact Liam Riordan (riordan@umit.maine.edu).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Title:<\/td>\nBallads in Maine Workshop
\n<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date:<\/td>\nApril 9, 2013<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Time:<\/td>\n4:00 – 6:00PM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Location:<\/td>\nUniversity Club, Fogler Library<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The Maine Folklife Center<\/a> will present a “Ballads in Maine<\/a>” workshop. The program will feature scholarly discussion and performances relating to the British Ballads tradition. The panel will include Honors Preceptor Sarah Harlan-Haughey, who will discuss ballads as a form of literature, and Maine Folklife Center director Pauleena MacDougall, who will discuss the history of ballad collecting in New England. Julia Lane, a harpist, singer of ballads, and a member of Castlebay will perform Scottish, Irish, and English ballads, and Jeff McKeen, a folk musician who performs with Old Grey Goose, will perform ballads from the Maine woods. Both Julia Lane and Jeff McKeen have collected ballads in Maine as well. We invite the audience to bring their favorite ballads and questions about ballads for an informal discussion about ballad scholarship and ballad performance.<\/p>\n

Related Events:<\/p>\n

Tuesday, April 2, 2013, 6:30-8:30PM, Belfast Community Library.<\/p>\n

Tuesday, April 16, 2013, 6:30-8:30PM, Rines Auditorium, Portland Public Library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
Title:<\/td>\nBibliopoetics: The Art and Future of the Book<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date:<\/td>\nApril 5-6, 2013<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Bibliopoetics: The Art and Future of the Book was the UMHI spring symposium. Organized by UMHI Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities, Christopher M. Ohge, Bibliopoetics featured clusters of scholars, from UMaine and beyond, in seminars and workshops on topics including \u201cThe Book as Object,\u201d \u201cEditing and Publishing in the Digital Age,\u201d \u201cDigital History and the Future of the Critical Edition,\u201d and \u201cPoets on Books: A Reading and Discussion.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Title:<\/td>\n21st-Century Libraries: A Virtual Renaissance<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date:<\/td>\nMarch 27, 2013<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Time:<\/td>\n5:30pm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Location:<\/td>\nBangor Public Library<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Please join UMHI Graduate Assistant Amy Cross for a presentation on virtual libraries and Second Life. This event, co-sponsored by the Bangor Public Library, is a satellite program of the UMHI’s spring symposium Bibliopoetics: The Art and Future of the Book, which will be held at UMaine on April 5-6, 2013. Free and open to the public, Bangor Public Library, 145 Harlow Street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Title:<\/td>\nAngie Abdou: \u201cSkating Against a Ghost\u201d: Anxiety of Influence, Women\u2019s Hockey, and Cara Hedley\u2019s Twenty Miles<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date:<\/td>\nFebruary 21, 2013<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Time:<\/td>\n4:30pm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Location:<\/td>\nSoderberg Lecture Hall<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Angie Abdou teaches English and Creative Writing at the College of the Rockies in British Columbia. She is a scholar of Canadian Literature and Middle English, and a celebrated novelist. She has published three\u00a0books: Anything Boys Can Do<\/em> (a collection of short stories); The Bone Cage<\/em> (a novel); and The Canterbury Trail<\/em> (a novel). She also researches and writes about athletics in higher education. During her visit, Ms. Abdou will visit classes at UMaine and lecture on gender and athletics in higher education. She will also read from her fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Title:<\/td>\nDigital Humanities Camp
\n<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date:<\/td>\nNovember 14, 2012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Time:<\/td>\n3:00 – 5:00PM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Location:<\/td>\nBangor Room, Memorial Union<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

An open informational session and forum intended for all faculty and students interested in the digital humanities<\/a>. No prior experience with digital humanities required. Free refreshments served.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Title:<\/td>\nUMaine Humanities Initiative Orientation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date:<\/td>\nNovember 1, 2012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Time:<\/td>\n4:30 – 6:00PM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Location:<\/td>\nUniversity Club, Fogler Library<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

An informal orientation session at which the UMHI introduced its Sponsorship Grants program, the Faculty Development seminar to be held May 13-16, 2013, and other projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Title:<\/td>\nVoltaire and Frederick: A Life in Letters<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date:<\/td>\nOctober 30, 2012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Time:<\/td>\n7:00 – 9:00PM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Location:<\/td>\nCollins Center for the Arts<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

A new play commissioned by the Geothe-Institut Boston in partnership with the Consulate General de France. The play was commissioned in honor of Frederick II’s 300th birthday and is an overview of the pen-pal friendship between these two great thinkers that spanned almost half a century. Their intensive correspondence covers everything from questions of torture and human rights, effective and ineffective forms of governance and global finances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Title:<\/td>\n“The Enlightenment Then and Now”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date:<\/td>\nOctober 30, 2012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Time:<\/td>\n5:00 – 6:00PM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Location:<\/td>\nBumps Room, Memorial Union<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

A panel discussion with Guy Ben-Aharon, Israeli State and Goethe Institute; Alexander Grab, Department of History; David Gross, Honors College; and Raymond Pelletier, Department of Modern Languages and Classics.<\/p>\n

Connecting Our Worlds: The Contemporary Role of the Humanities<\/strong><\/p>\n

Keynote Speaker:\u00a0\u00a0Professor Christopher Newfield (UC – Santa Barbara)<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Title:<\/td>\n“Humanities in the 21st Century and the Land-Grant University”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date:<\/td>\nFebruary 21, 2012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Time:<\/td>\n4:00 – 6:00PM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Location:<\/td>\nLeonard and Renee Minsky Music Recital Hall, the Class of 1944 Hall<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

This event is supported in part by a grant from the Cultural Affairs\/Distinguished Lecture Series.<\/em><\/p>\n

UMHI Seminars:<\/h3>\n

UMHI Seminars bring together campus scholars for discussion of humanities readings on a topic of broad interest. Each seminar is proposed and facilitated by a team of scholars.<\/p>\n

Seminar I\u00a0<\/strong>Topic: “The Meaning of Death and End of Life Care”<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n
Date:<\/td>\nFebruary 13, 2012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Time:<\/td>\n4:00 – 6:00PM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Location:<\/td>\nUniversity Club, Fogler Library<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Seminar Organizers:
\nJessica Miller, Associate Professor of Philosophy
\nKirsten Jacobson, Assistant Professor of Philosophy<\/p>\n

Despite important advances in caring for patients at the end of life, such as the Hospice movement and the Palliative Care movement, Americans still struggle in many ways at life’s end and in considering issues pertaining to their dying prior to this point. As philosophers, we feel that a still under-explored dimension of end of life care involves the meaning of death. We propose exploring the end of life from phenomenological, narrative and ethical perspectives. These perspectives are often underexamined owing to the contemporary emphasis on reducing pain, minimizing suffering, understanding the patients’ wishes, and even, from a societal viewpoint, cost savings. We are particularly interested in discussing the existential significance of dying with the goal of suggesting further innovations and possible correctives to contemporary practices in end of life care.<\/p>\n

Seminar I Readings:
\n“Death in the First Person” by “Anonymous”
\n“Being – toward – death” by Martin Heidegger
\n“Body Medical Ethics” by David Schenck
\n“Seeing the Difference” by Christina Marsden Gillis<\/p>\n

Seminar II\u00a0<\/strong>Topic: “Critical Theory and the Humanities”<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n
Date:<\/td>\nMarch 26, 2012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Time:<\/td>\n4:00 – 6:00PM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Location:<\/td>\n3 Wells Conference Center<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Seminar Organizers:
\nSteven Evans, Associate Professor of English
\nJustin Wolff, Assistant Professor of Art History
\nMichael Lang, Assistant Professor of History<\/p>\n

This seminar will consider the role of critical theory in the humanities today.\u00a0 It is open to UMaine faculty, post-docs, and graduate students who are interested in discussing the function of critical theory in their research, collaborations with colleagues, and teaching.\u00a0 The readings are intended to stimulate discussion among participants about the state of critical theory and the humanities, about the uses of critical theory in pedagogy, and about ways to increase interdisciplinary research and teaching collaborations at UMaine.\u00a0 The hope is that the seminar will initiate a “critical theory” group on campus that will continue to meet formally and informally to discuss these issues.\u00a0 The session organizers would like to emphasize that this is intended to be a collaborative discussion that could potentially lead in many directions. The organizers are pleased to facilitate the discussion but do not intend to “lecture” on the selected readings — they hope, rather, that participants will use the readings to make connections across disciplinary boundaries and between research and teaching.<\/p>\n

Seminar 2 Readings:
\nAdorno, Theodor W.\u00a0 “Why Still Philosophy”
\nDerrida, Jacques. “The Future of the Profession or the Unconditional University (Thanks to the ‘Humanities,’ What Could Take Place Tomorrow)”<\/p>\n

Co-Sponsored Events:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Fall 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  • School of Performing Arts:\u00a0 <\/strong>Performance:\u00a0 “America in the Poetic Imagination,” with John Burns, Narrator, Nancy Ellen Ogle, soprano, and Ginger Yang Hwalek, pianist (co-sponsored with the University of Maine School of Performing Arts, the departments of Foreign Languages and Classics, English, History, and the Honors College.)<\/li>\n
  • Digital Humanities Week – 2011:\u00a0 <\/strong>Lecture:\u00a0 “Many to Many Engagement in Digital Humanities,” Professor Craig Dietrich, Institute of Multimedia Literacy, University of Southern California; Lecture:\u00a0 “Taking History to Cyberspace: Maine Memory Network and Public History,”\u00a0 Dr. Candace Kanes, Maine Historical Society (co-sponsored with the Departments of English, History, New Media and Sociology, and the University of Maine Digital Curation Program.)<\/li>\n
  • Maine Heritage Lecture:\u00a0 <\/strong>Lecture:\u00a0 “Saving Second Nature:\u00a0 The Environmental Movement in New England,”\u00a0 McBride Professor of History\u00a0 Richard Judd, Department of History, University of Maine (co-sponsored with College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Spring 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n

      \n
    • Women in Curriculum\/Women\u2019s Studies<\/strong>:\u00a0 Lecture: \u201cTherapeutic Amnesias: Medical Rhetoric about Abortion from the 1930s to the 1960s\u201d; Nathan Stormer, Associate Professor, Communication and Journalism, University of Maine<\/li>\n
    • Canadian-American Center<\/strong>\u00a0 [with Maine Folklife Center and numerous contributors]:\u00a0 Public Presentation: \u201cEverything is Connected: Environment, Economy, Foreign Policy, Sustainability, Human Rights and Leadership in the 21st Century\u201d; Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Nobel Peace Prize Nominee and World Leader on Global Climate Change and Human Rights; Visiting Professor, Bowdoin College<\/li>\n
    • Department of English<\/strong>: Public talk and screening of documentary film: Hey, Boo: Harper Lee and \u201cTo Kill a Mockingbird\u201d; Mary McDonagh Murphy, Independent film and television writer\/producer<\/li>\n
    • Department of Modern Languages and Classics<\/strong> [also Anthropology and Project Opportunity]: Public showing and forum discussion of The Linguists; Jane Smith, Associate Professor, Modern Languages and Classics, University of Maine; Cynthia Fox, University of Albany<\/li>\n
    • Department of Philosophy<\/strong>: Lecture: \u201cParanoia and Policy: Reading Popular Fiction as Bioethics\u201d; Catherine Belling, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medical Humanities and Bioethics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University<\/li>\n
    • Department of History<\/strong>: Lecture: \u201cMilitary History at American Universities and Colleges\u201d; John Lynn, PhD, Professor of History, Northwestern University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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