Maine Heritage Lecture Nov. 2
Pauleena MacDougall, director of the Maine Folklife Center, will give the Maine Heritage Lecture titled “Discovering Maine’s Intangible Cultural Heritage” at 4:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 2 in the McIntire Room of the Buchanan Alumni House at the University of Maine.
Intangible cultural heritage, also known as living heritage, refers to practices, representations, expressions, knowledge and skills transmitted by communities from generation to generation.
MacDougall’s lecture will examine issues of cultural sustainability in relation to Maine’s intangible cultural heritage based on her experiences conducting field work, mentoring students and managing the Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History at UMaine.
MacDougall received her Ph.D. in American history from the UMaine in 1995. She is a faculty associate in anthropology and teaches courses in linguistics and folklore.