“Harvey’s Dream,” a 12-minute film written and directed by Ryan Shelley, a graduate student from Gray, Maine, in the Intermedia MFA program, will have two screenings as part of the Maine Shorts series of the Maine International Film Festival. The film, based on the short story by Stephen King, will be shown at 9:15 p.m. […]
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Camp merges environmental science, traditional Native culture.
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The University of Maine Humanities Center has awarded summer research grants to two UMaine students. Taylor Cunningham, an English major and Honors student with a minor in folklore studies, was awarded the Sandy and Bobby Ives Research Award. Elisa Sance, a doctoral candidate in history, was awarded the center’s graduate student research award. Each award […]
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“Saving Endangered Native Languages” is the theme of the spring 2015 University of Maine Humanities Symposium April 24–25. Language activists and tribal representatives from native communities in the northeastern United States and Canada along with university partners will discuss the challenges and opportunities for language revitalization during the two-day event on campus. Jessie Little Doe […]
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Annual awards cite distinction in civil engineering, philosophy, history and communication.
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The third annual Maine Humanities Summit will celebrate the upcoming issue of Maine Policy Review that features expert analysis on the dynamic intersection of the humanities and public policy in Maine. The public is invited to join the conversation and enjoy hors d’oeuvres and dinner with three of the report’s 40 authors starting at 5 […]
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The William S. Cohen Center for International Policy and Commerce at the University of Maine has been renamed the William S. Cohen Institute for Leadership and Public Service. The new name better captures the broad range of interdisciplinary initiatives it has been involved with in recent years. The Cohen Institute is designed to model and […]
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The Bangor Daily News published 50 digital postcards as part of its “My Maine Culture” collaboration with the University of Maine Humanities Center. The project was created to celebrate Maine’s sense of place. In December, members of the public were invited to submit a digital postcard — an image or video with accompanying text — […]
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The University of Maine is one of 240 colleges and universities in the United States selected to receive the 2015 Community Engagement Classification of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. UMaine and 156 other institutions received reclassification; 83 colleges and universities received first-time classification. In 2008, UMaine and Bates College were the first […]
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The University of Maine Humanities Center will host the third annual Downtown Bangor Public Humanities Day at various locations Jan. 24 with a kickoff event Jan. 23. Free events for participants of all ages will be offered at venues including the University of Maine Museum of Art (UMMA), Bangor Public Library and Maine Discovery Museum. […]
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