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Narrating Lives: Creation of Comics by Heritage Learners

Arthur St. John Hill Auditorium University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States

Interested parties are invited to attend the talk of Professor Sandra Bernal-Heredia about how the creation of. comics can be especially beneficial for heritage learners as students develop visual and narrative abilities but can also serve to reflect and transmit trauma, memory and emotions. Many studies have highlighted the prominence and appeal of using comics […]

Book Presentation: a Presentation of a Facsimile Edition of Ajy Tojen

Arthur St. John Hill Auditorium University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States

The Department of Modern Languages and Classics will be hosting a book presentation on Sept. 29 from 5–6:30 p.m. in the Arthur St. John Hill Auditorium in Barrows Hall. It's a […]

Talk: ‘Yojch’o’ pa Qach’ab’äl’: Remediating Indigenous Orality in the Bilingual Language Classroom in the Guatemalan Highlands

Arthur St. John Hill Auditorium University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States

Interested parties are invited to attend the talk of Professor Tiffany Creegan-Miller about her new book The Maya Art of Speaking Writing (2022). In her book, she discusses images that are sonic, pictorial, gestural and alphabetic. She reveals various forms of creativity and agency that are woven through a rich media landscape in Indigenous Guatemala, […]

Reaching Readers

Arthur St. John Hill Auditorium University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States

Understanding how best to make a topic, subject or theme relevant to non-specialized audiences is a skill that takes years to master. This roundtable event brings three nationally recognized University of Maine scholars together to discuss the process of planning, researching and composing their new books, and how they were able to gain the interest […]

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