Liberal Arts and Sciences

UMaine Humanities Initiative’s spring symposium April 5-6

The 2013 University of Maine Humanities Initiative’s spring symposium, “Bibliopoetics: The Art and Future of the Book,” will be held April 5-6. The symposium, organized by Christopher Ohge, UMHI postdoctoral fellow in digital humanities, will feature seminars and workshops on topics such as “The Book as Object,” “Editing and Publishing in the Digital Age,” and […]

Read more

UWire Covers Course Preview’s Film Screening

UWire The College Network published an article about the screening of two Maine documentary films at the Collins Center for the Arts. The screening was co-sponsored by The Camden International Film Festival and the University of Maine’s Continuing Education Division. Both films, “Downeast” and “Betting the Farm” are a preview for UMaine’s Camden International Film […]

Read more

Echo-Hawk to offer teach-in, keynote address March 28

Walter Echo-Hawk, a Pawnee lawyer, professor, activist and author, will lead a teach-in and give a keynote address March 28 on campus, sponsored by the Wabanaki Center and the Maine Indian Tribal-State Commission. From 3–5 p.m., in the Bangor Room, Memorial Union, Echo-Hawk and Wabanaki scholars will offer “Wabanaki Treaties, Petitions & Interpretations: A Teach-In,” […]

Read more

School of Social Work Grant Cited in Press Herald Article

A Portland Press Herald article on poor planning in Maine’s foster care system mentioned a five-year, $3.9 million federal grant that was awarded to the University of Maine School of Social Work and Families and Children Together, a Bangor-based foster care agency. The grant will be used to develop a program to help parents address […]

Read more

Blackstone Interviewed in Roller Derby Articles

WABI (Channel 5) and the Bangor Daily News spoke to Amy Blackstone, University of Maine sociology professor, about her roller derby team Central Maine Derby’s first public bout at the Bangor Auditorium on Sunday. The BDN also spoke to Blackstone’s teammate, UMaine entomology graduate student Jennifer Lund. Both women spoke highly of the sport, calling […]

Read more

‘The Invisible War’ Documentary to be Shown

The Academy Award-nominated documentary “The Invisible War” will be shown at 6 p.m., April 10, 100 D.P. Corbett Business Building, sponsored by the Women’s Resource Center, a program of the Division of Lifelong Learning. “The Invisible War,” directed by Kirby Dick, investigates the epidemic of sexual assault and rape in the U.S. military. The screening […]

Read more

German Women’s War Service Talk for Women’s History Celebration

Karen Hagemann, distinguished professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Anne Margaret Johnstone Memorial Lecturer, will present “Gendering World War II: The History and Memory of German Women’s War Service during the Third Reich” 3:15–5 p.m. Monday, March 25 in Hill Auditorium at Barrows Hall on the UMaine campus. […]

Read more

Dryer Receives Top Award from the Conference on College Composition and Communication

Assistant Professor of English Dylan Dryer has won the 2013 Richard Braddock Award from the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) for his article, “At a Mirror, Darkly: The Imagined Undergraduate Writers of Ten Novice Composition Instructors” published in the February 2012 issue of College Composition and Communication. CCCC is an association in the […]

Read more