{"id":2383,"date":"2017-02-28T10:33:25","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T15:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mhc\/?page_id=2383"},"modified":"2018-04-05T14:36:14","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T18:36:14","slug":"humanities-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mhc\/humanities-collaboration\/","title":{"rendered":"Humanities Collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recent event:\"\"<\/p>\n

Recognizing the importance of community-connecting conversations (such as those found in PAA), members of the Orono High School English Department and a variety of humanities faculty from UMaine developed a collective called the Humanities Collaboration in 2014. The Collaboration\u2019s aim is to deepen connections, appreciation and discussions among OHS faculty and students, UMaine faculty and students, and community members around our shared interests in the humanities.<\/p>\n

The Collaboration has brought together an impressive array of people\u2014including scores of high school students and teachers, UMaine faculty and students from English, studio art, art history, philosophy, history, education, marine science and more, a range of administrators from both schools, as well as local community members.<\/p>\n

Since the collaboration began, we have held over twenty seminar-style discussions following humanities-focused events in our communities on such topics as: the affective aftereffects of war on soldiers and their families (in conjunction with Outside the Wire<\/em>\u2019s \u201cTheater of War\u201d); family, stability, and mental health in Shakespeare\u2019s Hamlet<\/em> (prior to the National Theater Live<\/em> presentation of the play); personal and political experiences of \u201cwearing the veil\u201d (along with seeing Reza Jalali\u2019s play \u201cThe Poets and the Assassin\u201d during Islamic Awareness Week); the existential and political dimensions of child labor (in conjunction with attending a presentation by Pulitzer prize-wining photojournalist Larry Price); and, the nature of story in our lives and history (in conjunction with reading Nobel-novelist Halld\u00f3r Laxness\u2019s Independent People<\/em> and attending programs in 2016-17\u2019s UMHC Symposium \u201cSaga and Story.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

The Humanities Collaboration is a rich, diverse, and ever-expanding group of people who recognize that community discussion can enrich humanities programming by providing an opportunity for active and civically-diverse reflection in conjunction with such events.<\/p>\n

Past Humanities Collaboration events:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\t\t