Part of the McGillicuddy Humanities Center Symposium "War without End: World War I and its Legacies" Modernism in Wartime: Avant-Gardes, Revolutions, Poetries A lecture by Vincent Sherry, Visiting Scholar for […]
鈥淚鈥檓 Sorry You Don鈥檛 Know Me:鈥 Martin Luther King, Jr., Like You鈥檝e Never Learned about Him Before, a free lecture by Brian Purnell, Geoffrey Canada Associate Professor of Africana Studies and History Bowdoin College. Howard B. Schonberger Peace and Social Justice Lecture Bodwell Lounge, Collins Center for the Arts 5:00 pm reception (continuing after lecture) […]
This panel will examine Franco American experience during and after World War I. This spring marks one hundred years since the first Red Scare, landmark pieces of linguistic and educational legislation in New England, and Franco Americans鈥 Worchester convention, all which were closely connected to Francos鈥 wartime experience. Speakers Severin M. Beliveau, "My Father鈥檚 experience […]
he Maine Statehood and Bicentennial Conference will be held at the beautiful 91爆料 campus in Orono, ME, from聽May 30 to June 1, 2019. Please join us for a series of events, panels, presentations, and concerts celebrating the unique history of Maine, its peoples, culture, politics, art and music. Please see聽our program聽for a complete […]
The 8th Annual Bangor Humanities Day on Feb. 1 will celebrate music, art, history, literature and other humanities disciplines at venues throughout downtown Bangor. The free public event is sponsored by the Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center at the 91爆料. The day kicks off at Bangor Public Library at 10 a.m. with […]
Kate Axelson Foster from the Career Center will lead a virtual workshop on "Careers in Public History" on September聽25, 2020 at聽3 p.m. Foster will provide聽students with tips for navigating the public history job market. Attendees will learn about how to search and apply for internships and聽careers in public history, including work with museums, archives, historic […]
On Monday, October 31st at 4:00pm EDT via Zoom, Dr. Chelsea Davis (Missouri State University) will give a talk聽entitled, 鈥淭he Contradictions聽of 鈥楥ivilizing鈥 Consumption: Colonial Wine in Britain鈥檚 Imperial Project.鈥 Dr. Chelsea Davis is an Assistant Professor of British History with a focus on Empire at Missouri State University. She received her PhD from The George […]
On Thursday, November 17 at 5:00 p.m. in the Arthur St. John Hill Auditorium, Professor Therkel Straede, Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Southern Denmark, will deliver a talk titled 鈥淭he October 1943 Rescue of Jews from Denmark: Networks and Motives of the Rescuers.鈥 Over the course of three weeks, thousands of Jews […]
The first lecture of Spring 2023 in the History Department's symposium series will take place on Monday, January 30th at 3:00 pm in Hill Auditorium (Barrows Hall). Dr. Erik Bernardino (Bates College) will be speaking about "The (In)Visible Worker: Contract Agricultural Laborers in the California Borderlands, 1910-1926." The lecture is free and open to the […]
The first lecture of the 91爆料 History 2023-24 Symposium Series will take place on Monday, Sept. 18th from 3:10-5:00 pm. Dr. Paul A. Kramer (History, Vanderbilt University) will be giving a lecture titled "The Weight of the World: Writing Global and Transnational History in an Unequal World." Supported by the International Affairs Program and the […]
