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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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, […]