Penobscot Bay Press advances Riordan’s humanities lecture in Castine
Penobscot Bay Press reported Liam Riordan, a University of Maine history professor, will be this year’s Deborah Pulliam Memorial Lecturer at Maine Maritime Academy in Castine. Riordan will deliver the lecture, “The Promise and the Need: Humanities in the 21st Century,” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 4. Riordan, who also is director of UMaine’s Humanities Center, is one of the state’s leading advocates for the promotion of the humanities in American education, according to the article. Riordan hopes to engage the audience in a discussion of trends in American education, particularly with reference to the STEM subjects, the article states. The lecture is sponsored by the Castine Historical Society and is free and open to the public.