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Race and Labor In The Aftermath of the 2024 Election

The Wilson Center 67 College Avenue, Orono, ME, United States

A talk by labor scholar and activist Bill Fletcher, Jr. with time for questions. Refreshments provided Supported by the Cultural Affairs/Distinguished Lecture Series Award and the Wilson Center RSVP is not required but helpful. RSVP here: http://bit.ly/4gFZYI6 Join in person or by Zoom at: https://maine.zoom.us/j/89153418740

Talk – Casting a Wide Net: Diversity of Perspectives Improves Management of Gulf of Maine Ecosystems

Norman Smith Hall University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States
Hybrid Hybrid Event

The talk will be held virtually via Zoom and in-person at 107 Norman Smith Hall, UMaine, Orono. Virtual attendance: Complete the registration form for Zoom connection information Speaker: Jocelyn Runnebaum, Marine Program Manager, The Nature Conservancy in Maine Environmental governance scholarship emphasizes the need for public participation in natural resource policymaking, and it is often […]

Free

Talk – At Last, Restoration of Maine’s Longest River: the Unprecedented Cleanup of the Mighty Penobscot

Norman Smith Hall University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States
Hybrid Hybrid Event

The talk will be held virtually via Zoom and in-person at 107 Norman Smith Hall, UMaine, Orono. Virtual attendance: Complete the registration form for Zoom connection information Speaker: Lauri Gorton, Program Manager, Greenfield Penobscot Estuary Remediation Trust LLC Talk description to follow shortly. As Greenfield’s Program Manager for the Penobscot Estuary Mercury Remediation Trust, Lauri […]

Free

Intimate Partner Violence Training

Online

This two-day program, presented in partnership with New Hope Midcoast, is designed for social workers, substance abuse counselors and other mental health professionals, as well as clergy, police officers and first responders to become certified in intimate partner violence training. The following topics will be covered during the 12-contact hours of the program: foundations of […]

$235.00

Grant Writing Essentials

Online

You have a lot on your plate. Between annual appeals, communications, virtual event planning and fundraising, you’re overwhelmed. And now you’ve been tasked with writing a grant and you don’t know where to start. Our online grant writing program can help! This interactive online professional development program will teach you the basics of seeing a […]

Talk – Wicked Storms and Rising Oceans: Leading an Island Community in Peril

Norman Smith Hall University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States
Hybrid Hybrid Event

The talk will be held virtually via Zoom and in-person at 107 Norman Smith Hall, UMaine, Orono. Virtual attendance: Complete the registration form for Zoom connection information Speaker: Kathleen Billings, Town Manager, Stonington, Maine  

Free

Making the News: The Mid-century Black Freedom Struggle and the Development of Network Television News

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

Many point to the network era as a “golden age” of broadcast journalism when Americans could trust neutral reporters who told them the news the way it was. Except a lot of Americans did not. Television entered US homes in the mid-twentieth century, swiftly becoming the nation’s primary source of news just as the fight […]

Panel Discussion – The Tekαkαpimək Contact Station at Katahdin Woods & Waters

Norman Smith Hall University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States
Hybrid Hybrid Event

The talk will be held virtually via Zoom and in-person at 107 Norman Smith Hall, UMaine, Orono. Virtual attendance: Complete the registration form for Zoom connection information Moderator: Darren Ranco, Chair of Native American Programs; Professor, Anthropology and Mitchell Center, UMaine Panelists: Jennifer Neptune, Penobscot Nation James Francis, Director of Cultural and Historic Preservation, Penobscot […]

Free

Talk – Scallop Aquaculture in the Gulf of Maine: Challenges, Opportunities, and Lessons Learned

Norman Smith Hall University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States +1 more

The talk will be held virtually via Zoom and in-person at 107 Norman Smith Hall, UMaine, Orono. Virtual attendance: Complete the registration form for Zoom connection information Co-sponsors: Ecology & Environmental Sciences, UMaine Speaker: Damian Brady, Agatha B. Darling Professor of Oceanography in the School of Marine Sciences, UMaine

Free

Making Stories in Maine

IMRC, Stewart Commons University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States

Caroline Losneck is a Maine-based documentarian, radio/podcast producer, filmmaker and experimental installation artist. She seeks out off-the-radar venues for her documentary work - from buildings slated for demolition, public parks, and flooded city streets, to empty campgrounds and film festivals. For "Making Stories in Maine" Losneck will screen her short documentary film "Diving for Scallops" […]

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