UMaine Lecture Series to Educate and Inform About Campus Heritage
Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571
ORONO — A series of four lectures will highlight the educational component of a comprehensive new University of Maine project aimed at studying the university’s historic campus and planning for its preservation. Known as the University of Maine Campus Heritage project, the initiative is supported by funding from the Getty Grant program. The grant was secured in 2004 by UMaine history professor Martha McNamara, with support from UMaine’s Office of Development and the university administration.
The project has two primary goals. The first is to create an Historic Preservation Master Plan, which will be integrated into the university’s ongoing development of a comprehensive master plan for the campus.
“Through this process, we will be positioned to create a model for combining historic preservation with campus planning,” says Janet Waldron, UMaine’s vice president for finance and administration. “The UMaine campus is ideally suited for this type of effort because of its natural beauty, historic significance and the fact that much of its original core remains intact.”
The second goal is to educate the UMaine community and others with interest in related subjects about the value of campus historic preservation. This component includes the training of staff members and student interns, along with a lecture series featuring prominent historic preservationists. The lecture series schedule follows:
Thursday, Feb. 24
Bodwell Lounge, Maine Center for the Arts
Reception at 4:30 p.m., Lecture at 5 p.m.
“The Economics of Historic Preservation”
Donovan Rypkema, of “Place Economics,” a consulting firm in real estate and economic development services for state and local governments and non-profit organizations
Wednesday, March 23
Bodwell Lounge, Maine Center for the Arts
Reception at 4:30 p.m., Lecture at 5 p.m.
“Giving Preservation a History”
Max Page, assistant professor of Architecture and History at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Thursday, April 7
Bodwell Lounge, Maine Center for the Arts
Reception at 4:30 p.m., Lecture at 5 p.m.
“Social Connections as Guides for Preserving Cultural Landscapes”
Paul Groth, professor of U.S. Cultural Landscape History at the University of California, Berkeley
Thursday, April 21
Bodwell Lounge, Maine Center for the Arts
Reception at 4:30 p.m., Lecture at 5 p.m.
“The University of Maine’s Historic Preservation Master Plan”
Malcolm Collins, Prof. Martha McNamara, Jennifer Jones and Sara Martin of the Campus Heritage Project Team
The lectures are free and open to the public.