A talk given by Dr. Susan Bredlau (Philosophy, UMaine) as part of the Department of Communication and Journalism's Spring 2023 Colloquium Series
Speaker James Eric Francis Sr. is the Penobscot Nation’s director of cultural and historic preservation, Tribal historian and chair of the Penobscot Tribal Rights and Resource Protection Board. As a historian, Francis studies the relationship between Maine Native Americans and the landscape. All talks in the Mitchell Center’s Sustainability Talks series are free and are offered both […]
Dr. Cody Miller of Appalachian State University will be delivering a talk titled Soil as Archive: Agroecological History, Soil Conservation, and Place-Based Pedagogy in Appalachia. This talk is the 2022 Babcock Lecture which welcomes back a graduate of the Department of History. Due to demand, a Zoom option has been added. Click here to register. The History Department Symposium Series, […]
The History Department's 2022–23 symposium series will hold its next meeting on Feb. 27 at 3:15 p.m. in Hill Auditorium, located in Barrows Hall. Dr. Cody Miller of Appalachian State University will be delivering a talk titled "Soil as Archive: Agroecological History, Soil Conservation, and Place-Based Pedagogy in Appalachia." This talk is the 2022 Babcock Lecture […]
Online SAT Prep Matters is a four-session SAT prep course designed for college-bound high school sophomores and juniors who plan to take the SAT. Dates: Mondays, Feb. 6, 13, 27, […]
UMaine welcomes Dr. Danila Cannamela from Colby College. Cannamela has published a book on Italian Crespucular poetry, The Quiet Avant-Garde: Crepuscular Poetry and the Twilight of Modern Humanism (U Toronto Press, 2019), and is now undertaking novel work in cultural studies related to gender and sexuality, geography, and gastronomy. She will discuss her current project, […]
Rabbi Beth Lieberman will take us on a journey through the history of Jewish translations of the Hebrew Bible, offer a glimpse into the translation process for the forthcoming JPS TANAKH: Gender-Sensitive Edition, and explore its game-changing potential for the next generation. Lieberman served as literary editor and a revising translator of the JPS TANAKH: […]
Speaker: Sarah Lebeer, Ph.D. About the Speaker: Sarah Lebeer is a research professor at the Department of Bioscience Engineering of the University of Antwerp, Belgium. She has studied bioscience engineering, with a specialisation in cell and gene biotechnology and food and health and obtained her Master’s degree at KU Leuven (Belgium) in 2004. In 2008, […]
Webinar: March 1 1 Cat 1 SAF CFE eligible Field Tour: March 3, 9–1 p.m. 4 Cat 1 SAF CFE eligible Webinar and Field Tour Registration Register once for webinar series; field tours limited to 25 guests Panelists John Daigle, Tyler Everett, Emily Francis, Andy Shultz, and Mike Parisio will focus on species preservation goals […]
On Wednesday, March 1 at noon in Class of 1944 Hall, Room 102, outgoing MHC Undergraduate Fellow Tom Pinette will present the results of his MHC project, titled "'This Land is Your Land and This Land Is My Land’: The Role of the Roman Catholic Church in the Political and Cultural Lives of the Penobscot […]
