Sandy Ives Memorial Lectures Announced
Contact: Pauleena MacDougall, 581-1848
ORONO — The first of three lectures in the Edward D. “Sandy” Ives Memorial Lecture Series: On Humanities and Place is scheduled Monday, Oct. 4 in the Memorial Union with speaker Donna Cassidy, writer and professor of American and New England studies and art history at the University of Southern Maine.
The title of Cassidy’s talk, from 3:30-5 p.m. in the Bangor Lounge, is “Re-mapping Region and Nation: U.S. Artists in Quebec and Atlantic Canada 1890-1940.”
The second lecture, “Going Back to the Land in Northern New England the 1930s,” by Dona Brown, associate history professor at the University of Vermont, is Monday, Oct. 18 from 12-1:30 p.m. in 137 Bennett Hall. The third lecture, Monday, Nov. 1 features folklorist Gerald Pocius, university research professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland, speaking on “How Are Places Imagined?: The Case of the Newfoundland Outport, from 3:30-5 p.m. in the Bangor
Sandy Ives was a popular UMaine English and anthropology professor from 1955-1999, an international known folklorist and founder of the Maine Folklife Center.
The series is sponsored by Cultural Affairs/Distinguished Lecture Series, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, departments of Anthropology, History and Art, and Women in the Curriculum, Canadian American Center and the Maine Folklife Center.
Biographical details about the speakers are included on the UMaine online calendar of events at http://www.calendar.umaine.edu/.