Lewiston native Adam Barr, a Los Angeles-based, Emmy Award-winning television writer and executive producer of “Will & Grace,” will moderate a public discussion on how television can adapt to changing attitudes and social concerns from 5:30–7 p.m. Feb. 28 at the Orono High School library. Made possible through the University of Maine/Orono High School Humanities […]
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The Times Record previewed a free Feb. 8 presentation by Liam Riordan, a professor of history at the University of Maine, on the roots of statehood in advance of Maine’s bicentennial in 2020. Riordan will speak at 6:30 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Brunswick. According to the article, “Bicentennial Beginnings: Setting the Stage […]
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Nick Rotter-Weller is an inaugural recipient of the Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center (MHC) Undergraduate Fellowship at the University of Maine. The fellowship provides financial support so the senior English major can concentrate on coursework, develop his research project, work collaboratively with peers, participate in interdisciplinary humanities programs, and gain professional skills. Rotter-Weller has […]
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Kim Crowley is an inaugural recipient of the Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center (MHC) Undergraduate Fellowship at the University of Maine. The fellowship provides financial support so the senior English major can concentrate on coursework, develop her research project, work collaboratively with peers, participate in interdisciplinary humanities programs, and gain professional skills. The Newport, […]
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The Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center has extended its deadline to Feb. 1 for poster, panel and performance proposals for Bangor Humanities Day on March 2. Humanities students are invited to showcase their work among professionals at the annual multidisciplinary collaboration and celebration of the study of what makes us human, says Amy Holt, […]
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Applications are being accepted for the Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center Undergraduate Fellows program at the University of Maine. The program offers junior and senior humanities students the support needed to concentrate on coursework, develop research and creative projects, work collaboratively with others, participate in interdisciplinary humanities programs, and gain professional skills. Fellows attend, […]
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The University of Maine’s Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR) has announced the recipients of the 2018–2019 Academic Year Research and Creative Activities Fellowships. The fellowships were developed to enhance and increase undergraduate student involvement in faculty-mentored research. Each fellowship provides a $1,100 award for the student to help cover costs of the project. Funding for […]
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The Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center at the University of Maine will welcome Vincent Sherry, a leading scholar of modernism and the literature of World War I, to campus Nov. 15 and 16. Sherry will deliver a lecture on “Modernism in Wartime: Avant-Gardes, Revolutions, Poetries” at 3 p.m. Nov. 16 in Hill Auditorium, Barrows […]
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John Patrick’s classic play “The Curious Savage” is the latest offering from the University of Maine School of Performing Arts, opening Friday, Nov. 9 at Hauck Auditorium. The production runs for seven performances: 7:30 p.m. Nov. 9–10 and Nov. 16–17; 2 p.m. Nov. 11 and 18; and 10 a.m. Nov. 15. Tickets are $10 and […]
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Maine writers Paul Doiron and Kristen Lindquist will be the featured guests of the third installment of the Framing Maine conversation series at the University of Maine on Nov. 8. “Framing Maine Three: An Eye for Detail,” will take place at 7 p.m. in Minsky Recital Hall, Class of 1944 Hall. Doiron and Lindquist, who […]
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