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‘Climate Change as an Ethical and Institutional Crisis’: A Talk by Professor Stephen Gardiner

McIntire Room, Buchanan Alumni House 2 Alumni Place, Orono, Maine

Professor Stephen Gardiner is the 2023 John M. Rezendes Visiting Scholar in Ethics. A renowned climate ethicist from the University of Washington, Gardiner will deliver a talk entitled "Climate Change as an Ethical and Institutional Crisis." The talk will be held on April 13, 3:30–5 p.m. in Buchanan Alumni House. A dessert reception will follow. […]

Running with Purpose: An Evening Discussion with Jordan Daniel ’11

McIntire Room, Buchanan Alumni House 2 Alumni Place, Orono, Maine

All are welcome to this presentation by Jordan Daniel, a University of Maine alum who majored in political science and was also a runner on the cross-country and track teams. Daniel is now an Indigenous advocate, organizer, athlete, and filmmaker. Daniel will be sharing stories and experiences of using running and movement as advocacy tools […]

2022 Geddes Simpson Lecture — How the Arctic Became Global

McIntire Room, Buchanan Alumni House 2 Alumni Place, Orono, Maine

The 2022 Geddes Simpson Lecture will be presented by Stephen Bocking, Professor Emeritus in the Trent School of the Environment, Trent University, on Thursday, Oct.13 at 1 p.m. Stephen Bocking […]

David Barnouw: Who Betrayed Anne Frank and Who Owns her Legacy?

McIntire Room, Buchanan Alumni House 2 Alumni Place, Orono, Maine

A presentation on Anne Frank, betrayal, and the legacy of both by David Barnouw. Barnouw is an independent scholar and emeritus researcher at the Dutch Institute for War, Holocaust and […]

2022 John M. Rezendes Visiting Scholar in Ethics: ‘Self-Care and Radical Communion: Walking Each Other Home’

McIntire Room, Buchanan Alumni House 2 Alumni Place, Orono, Maine

Dr. Vaishali Mamgain (she/her) is the Associate Professor of Economics and Director of the Bertha C. Ball Center for Compassion at the University of Southern Maine. Mamgain received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her past economics research has focused on the contributions of (im)migrants and refugees in […]

2021 Geddes W. Simpson Lecture: Dr. Banu Subramaniam (in person and virtual)

McIntire Room, Buchanan Alumni House 2 Alumni Place, Orono, Maine

A talk by Banu Subramaniam, professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Trained as a plant evolutionary biologist, Subramaniam engages the feminist studies of science in the practices of experimental biology. Author of Holy Science: The Biopolitics of Hindu Nationalism (University of Washington Press, 2019), and Ghost Stories for Darwin: […]

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