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Sustainability Lightning Talks

Norman Smith Hall, Room 107, and Online University of Maine, Orono

Lightning talks will be held virtually via Zoom or in-person at 107 Norman Smith Hall, UMaine. If you are planning to attend virtually, complete the registration form to receive Zoom connection information. Six students will each present a seven-minute talk on their sustainability research in Maine. A request for abstracts for lightning talk presentations will […]

Free

‘Radicals cannot be Scholars’: Scholar-Activists, Academic Freedom and Harvard University, 1933–1939 (online)

Online

Speaker: Nathan Godfried Affiliation:  University of Maine Zoom Room As the dual forces of economic depression and fascism threatened U.S. society during the 1930s, a debate raged about the value of social activism in the “ivory tower.” While giving lip service to the concept of academic freedom, administrators, trustees and conservative faculty held firm to […]

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