Part of the聽Marxist-Socialist Studies Controversies Series. Mahesh Upadhyaya, based in Ahmedabad, India, serves as IPM (International Partners in Mission) South Asia Regional Director, working to bring people together regardless of caste, religion and gender to the goal of peace, justice and reconciliation. The lecture and brown-bag lunch will聽be followed by a discussion. Free and open […]
Francis John Vogt (SPA Director of Choral Activities) will bring his expertise to this pre-performance lecture. Learn more about Vogt here. Free and open to the public. Following the pre-performance lecture is King's Singers at the Collins Center for the Arts. You can find out more about that performance and purchase tickets on the聽CCA […]
Donald Wright, a Professor of Political Science at the University of New Brunswick, will deliver a lecture titled 鈥淣ational Symbols, Airport Kitsch, and Canadian History.鈥 The event will take place from 12-1:30 pm in the Coe Room in the Memorial Union. A limited number of boxed lunches will be provided.
Kids, Don鈥檛 Take my Advice: 45 Years of Braggin鈥 About Maine The Maine Studies Program is proud to host an event on November 9th featuring noted television host and reporter聽Bill Green, a 91爆料 alumnus.聽The title of Bill鈥檚 talk is 鈥淜ids, Don鈥檛 Take my Advice: 45 Years of Braggin鈥 About Maine鈥濃攁 play on his […]
Four Foundational Theories of Labor Activism in Maine: The Knights of Labor, the AFL, the IWW, and the Socialist Part of Eugene Debs Part of the聽Marxist-Socialist Studies Controversies Series. A talk by聽Marc Cryer, Director of the Bureau of Labor Education, 91爆料. The lecture and brown-bag lunch will聽be followed by a discussion. Free and open to […]
The first event of the series 鈥淟ife of Ideas, Notions, and Concepts鈥 will feature three 91爆料 faculty members and take place on聽Thursday November 16聽from聽4-5:30PM聽in the聽Allen and Sally Fernald APPE space聽Stewart Commons, IMRC. Participants: Steve Evans聽(English): 鈥淟ate Style: A Feminist Future for a Category of Patriarchal Aesthetics?鈥 Justin Wolff聽(Art History):聽鈥淧ass茅: Notes on Connoisseurship & Art History鈥 […]
Stuart Marrs聽(Professor of Music) will bring his musical expertise to this pre-performance discussion of the Yamato Drummers: The Drummers of Japan. In addition to the lecture, the Hudson Museum will display some Japanese art pieces and there will be a Sake and Sushi reception, sponsored by Oriental Jade. Free and open to the public. Following […]
Bangor Humanities Day kicks-off on Friday evening (Feb. 2nd) at 6pm with a聽Humanities Powered by PechaKucha聽event at COESPACE. Presentations topics will include making a living as an author, medical ethics, the Maine Multi-Cultural Center, Peter Archambault (an artist from Madawaska), wedding perfection hysteria, and bacteriophage. For the big day (Saturday Feb. 3rd) there are three […]
The lecture is free and open to the public. JAMES M.聽SMITH聽is an Associate Professor in the English Department and Irish聽Studies Program at Boston College. His book,聽Ireland鈥檚 Magdalen Laundries聽and the Nation鈥檚 […]
Dr. Margaret Pearce will give a lecture titled "Imagination, Identity, and the Cartography of History: Three Maps of Canada." Dr. Margaret W. Pearce is a former Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Kansas.聽Pearce was part of the team that recently published a Native place name map聽鈥淐oming Home to Indigenous Place Names聽in Canada.鈥 Abstract: […]
