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Danila Cannamela, ‘Italian Trans Geographies: Retracing Trans/Cultural Narratives of People and Places’

Williams Hall, Rm 120 Orono, ME, United States

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, […]

Goodbye, Lord: How We Changed God’s Pronouns in the Hebrew Bible and Why It Matters (online)

Online

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: […]

The Vaginal Microbiome: Key for Women’s Health and Healthy Newborns (online)

Online

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, […]

Brown Ash, Emerald Ash Borer Focus of March Webinar/Field Tour

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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 […]

‘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 and Passamaquoddy Nations in the Twentieth Century

Class of 1944 Hall, room 102 ME, United States

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 […]

Executive Dean of Maine Business School Finalists’ Open-Campus Presentations

105 Donald P. Corbett Business Building ME, United States

The search committee for the Executive Dean of the Maine Business School is excited to welcome three finalists to the University of Maine. Each finalist will give an open-campus presentation. All members of the campus community are invited to these presentations as follows: Stephen Ferris March 2, 2023 9:30-10:30 a.m. Location:  115 Donald P. Corbett […]

Enacting a New Past in the Andes

Hill Auditorium Barrows Hall, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States

The Department of Modern Languages and Classics is hosting a talk by Professor Luis Millones Figueroa. In recent years, several communities in the Andean region are carrying out folk theater productions that revisit their relationship to their pre-colonial or colonial past. This talk will use the examples of the "tallanes" and the "chancas" in Peru, […]

Brown Ash, Emerald Ash Borer Focus of March Webinar/Field Tour

Carleton Pond Forest Readfield, ME, United States

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 […]

Executive Dean of Maine Business School Finalists’ Open-Campus Presentations

105 Donald P. Corbett Business Building ME, United States

The search committee for the Executive Dean of the Maine Business School is excited to welcome three finalists to the University of Maine. Each finalist will give an open-campus presentation. All members of the campus community are invited to these presentations as follows: Stephen Ferris March 2, 2023 9:30-10:30 a.m. Location:  115 Donald P. Corbett […]

Learners’ Collaborative Use of Human Scale Spatial Diagrams

Shibles Hall University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States

Presented by Camden Bock, Ph.D. student in STEM Education for the School of Learning and Teaching Research Brown Bag series. In school geometry, diagrams are typically inscribed on plane surfaces (e.g., whiteboards, paper, projector screens), at scales smaller than the learners who inscribe them. Spatial diagrams, rendered with virtual reality, offer depth and human-scale to […]

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