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Nancy Burson Lecture, Department Of Art

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

Lecture by Nancy Burson , Seeing and Believing More, which addressed the difficulties of perception, its photographic documentation, and corroborating systems of understanding.

Spring 2006 Women's History Celebration, Women In The Curriculum And Women's Studies Program

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

This year's celebration, "Women's Work, Situated at the Boundaries" will provide an exploration of women's work, broadly defined, in music, art, photographs, and talks. We are particularly interested in exploring and raising questions about the connections between public and private, local and global, and myth and reality.

Gary Albrecht Lecture, Center For Community Inclusion & Disability Studies

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

Distinguished lecture/seminar series in the interdisciplinary field of disability studies. The purpose of the proposed series is to widely disseminate progressive disability studies and universal access scholarship, and its application to advancing social justice and civil rights for all people including those with disabilities.

Spring 2006 New Writing Series, English Department

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

The primary objectives of the New Writing Series are (i) to make contemporary poetry and fiction a valued part of the cultural life at the University of Maine, (ii) to broaden the University's local, national, and international reputation as a site of vibrant cultural exchange and creativity, and (iii) to cultivate links within the University as well as between the University and area secondary schools that foster imaginative approaches to thinking about contemporary literary practices. Whereas developing an audience for individual events can be difficult, a Series creates an ongoing context for the exploration of contemporary writing and signals a …

Judith Sloan Lecture/Performance, Women In The Curriculum And Women's Studies Program

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

Lecture/performance events with Judith Sloan to accompany the Hudson' Museum's exhibit of Crossing the BLVD: strangers, neighbors, aliens in a new america, a multi-media exhibit created by Sloan with Walter Lehrer. Four events will be held November 6-8, both in Bangor and on campus.

Dj Spooky, Honors College

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

Paul Miller a/k/a DJ Spooky is one of the best known DJ/turntable artists in the world. He has presented his innovative music and image shows at many premiere museums and performance spaces.

Dance Concert, School Of Performing Arts

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

Dance program to expose a large number of UMaine students to talented visiting guest artists, faculty and peers.

Russia And The World In The 21st Century, Department Of Political Science, International Affairs Program

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

Program entitled "Russia and the World in the 21st Century: Continuity and Change" by Dr. Thomas Remington, who is one of the very foremost scholars of Russian affairs in the western world.

Dennis Patterson Visit, Department Of Philosophy

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

The speaker will be Dennis M. Patterson form Rutgers School of Law. His topic will be "Wittgenstein and Contemporary Legal Philosophy."

Winona Laduke Lecture, Schonberger Peace & Social Justice Memorial Lecture Committee

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

Lecture by Winona LaDuke on "Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming."

Brida, New Media Program

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

BridA is a group of four Slovenian artists who formed a working collaborative while working on their respective graduate degrees. Their work spans between the technological and traditional as well as the scientific and artistic. Through their work they explore the possibilities of the information of science as expressible visual content in the art. Their methods cross continually from the digital to the analog. As a collective they work not only as artists but entrepreneurs within the context of the newly forming creative economy of Slovenia.

William Klemperer Visit, Phi Beta Kappa

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

A Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar will give a public talk of general interest on the occasion of the Phi Beta Kappa annual initiation ceremony. The speaker, Professor William Klemerer of Harvard University will also interact with students and faculty during his visit.

Jos'ee Vachon, Franco American Studies

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

Franco-American performer Jos'ee Vachon shares her Franco-American upbringing through traditional and contemporary folksongs from Quebec and Acadia as well as her own compositions.

Spoon River, School Of Performing Arts

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

Based on Edgar Lee Masters' collections of poems, the play is set in the quasi-fictional southern Illinois town of Spoon River in the late 19th century.

Blithe Spirit, School Of Performing Arts

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

Noel Coward's smash comedy hit of the London and Broadway stages. The ingenious plot tells how novelist Charles Condomine invites into his placid country home an eccentric, breezy lady medium in order to learn the language of the occult.

Fall 2005 New Writing Series, English Department

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

The primary objectives of the New Writing Series are (i) to make contemporary poetry and fiction a valued part of the cultural life at the University of Maine, (ii) to broaden the University's local, national, and international reputation as a site of vibrant cultural exchange and creativity, and (iii) to cultivate links within the University as well as between the University and area secondary schools that foster imaginative approaches to thinking about contemporary literary practices. Whereas developing an audience for individual events can be difficult, a Series creates an ongoing context for the exploration of contemporary writing and signals a …

2005 Guest Lecture Series, Department Of Art

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

Cultural programming will consist of two significant events: 1) a guest lecture by Kevin Tavin, PhD on critical pedagogy and visual culture called Hauntological Shifts: Fear and Loathing of Popular (Visual) Culture, and 2) a major exhibition, entitled Americans Who Tell the Truth which will include a variety of public programming opportunities.

Dr. Talat Rhaman Lecture, Sigma Xi

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

Dr. Talat Rahman will give a public lecture entitled "Promises of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology: Fact or Fiction?"

Special Exhibits, Hudson Museum

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

"Crossing the Boulevard: Strangers, Neighbors, and Aliens in a New America" is a multi-media project by documentary artists Warren Lehrer and Judith Sloan that portrays the lives of new immigrants and refugees in Queens, New York the most ethnically diverse locality in the United States today.

"Make Welcome the Present Guest: Maine's Newest Immigrants Tell Their Stories" by the Maine Folklife Center is a collaboration of stories from immigrants from Eastern Europe, South East Asia, the Middle East and Latin America.

Dr. Sandra Steingraber Lecture, Honors College

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

Dr. Sandra Steingraber will visit our campus and lecture on issues from her text Living Downstream. The title of the walk will be, "Contaminated Without Consent: How Chemicals in Air, Food, and Water Violate Human Rights."

Yulie Gerstel Visit, Department Of History

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

Yulie Cohen Gerstel, an Israeli film director and producer to show and discuss her two films "My Terrorist" and "My Land Zion."