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

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

Spring 2004 Women's History Celebration, March 15-28. This year's celebration , "Women Freedom Fighters : The True Patriots " , is committed to encouraging the academic community to think historically about the diverse ways women have fought to ensure that all Americans achieve equality and freedom.

Three Bands Concert Spring 2004, University Of Maine- School Of Performing Arts

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

Over the past eight years, the Three Bands concert has grown to become a recipe for success. Take the School of Performing Arts Concert Band, throw in a local middle and high school, add a well-known composer, mix them up to benefit a local hospital and you have a perfect treat for University students and the community in general.

We are requesting $1200 from Cultural Affairs to cover travel expenses for guest conductor/composer Robert Sheldon, an internationally recognized clinician, whose bio is included on the attached page.

Much Ado About Nothing - Shakespeare Play, University Of Maine - School Of Performing Arts

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

Shakespeare's timeless tale of fiery wit, confused identities, lost love and love scorned is Marcia Douglas's choice for spring 2004, as she brings to the stage Much Ado About Nothing. lt has been four years since the School of Performing Arts has presented a Shakespearean play, so this selection will well serve the needs of theatre students and provide students from across campus with a cultural event. This play will also appeal to the Shakespeare-appreciating public who were deprived of their dose of the Bard when the Bangor waterfront Shakespeare series was cancelled last summer.

War, The Economy, And The Universe, University Of Maine

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

The conference will consist of a keynote speaker, Phyllis Bennis, from the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C., a workshop on War and the Economy, conducted by Mike Prokosch, from United for a Fair Economy, Boston, Mass., and a panel discussion including Prokosch, Joe Gerson of New England American Friends Service Committee, and Chcllie Pingree, Director of Maine Common Cause. More information on the speakers and the workshop is provided below.

The Sherman Alexie Lecture, Division Of Lifelong Learning- Wabanaki Center

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

"Without Reservation: An Urban Indian's Comic, Poetic & Highly Irreverent Look at the World"-April 19, 2004. The Division of Lifelong Learning (including the Wabanaki Center) in cooperation with the Native American Studies Program, American Indians at UM (AIUM); the English Department, and Student Affairs will bring to campus _for a a Iecture Sherman Alexie author, poet, screenwriter. Alexie is a Spokane Coeur d'Alene Indian from Wellpinit, Washington. The attached speaker press kit speaks to Alexie's numerous accomplishments and standing room only engagements. Bringing Alexie to The University of Maine's Maine Center for the Arts will not only provide an _incredible …

You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown, University Of Maine- School Of Performing Arts

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

Theatre faculty members typically chose plays that will provide learning experiences for the students involved, usually translating into a production that will appeal to college audiences or community members in general. Touring productions aside, in the history of Umaine theatre, there hasn't been a stage production that is specifically geared for children and a family-oriented audience. You're a Good Man, Charlíe Brown is the perfect play to break the mold. It will be an uplífting play that audiences will embrace and appreciate - especially during the Holiday bustle of December.

Distinguished Lecture- Rabbi Michael Lerner, University Of Maine

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

The Schonberger Memorial Lecture Committee is asking Cultural Affairs/DlS to share costs for the forthcoming lecture by Rabbi Michael Lemer: o'Social Transformation and Psycho-Spiritual Healing: Strategies for Peace and Justice in the Era of George Bush and Ariel Sharon." The lecture, to be given at 7:30 pm on Thursday, November 6,2003, in 100 DPC, is free and open to the public, which in past years has been a substantial part of the audience for the annual event. We are requesting $ 2000 from the Distinguished Lecture Series and contributing between $1923 and $2223 from the Howard B. Schonberger Memorial Gift …

Escape From Happiness, University Of Maine- School Of Performing Arts

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

Escape from Happíness is a darkly entertaining, slice-of-life comedy by George F. Walker one of Canada's most prolific and widely produced playwrights. lt is a very funny drama about a family, riddled with delusions, neuroses, and paranoia; the crooks, who have family issues of their own to resolve; and the investigating officers who arrive at the family's home to deal with a bizarre incident. Playwright Walker's humorous take on reality is riddled with crime, violence, and drugs.

New Writing Series Fall 2003, University Of Maine- English Department

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

I am writing on behalf of the English Department and the National Poetry Foundation to request the Committee's assistance in continuing the New Writing Series established in the spring of 2000. The $6000 I am requesting for the fall semester of 2003 represents less than one half of the Series' operating budget of approximately $14,520 for the semester (please see attached budget). The remainder of the required funding will be provided by the English Department's Lloyd H. Elliott fund, with some financial help from other departments' programs, and offices. The primary objectives of the New Writing Series are (i) to …

Concert In Minsky Recital Hall, University Of Maine - School Of Performing Arts

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

Concert in Minsky Recitql Hall on February 14, 2004 featuring,Swiss violinist, Jan Dobrzelewslci and Stuart Marrs, percussion The international duo will present an exciting chamber music program including four world premieres of new commissions from an international line-up of composers, David Gordon (New York), Beth Wiemann (UMaine), Mario Alfaro (Costa Rica), Germán Cáceres @l Salvador). The American composers whose works will be premiered plan to attend the performance. The new repertoire premiered in this concert is scheduled to be released on the Swiss Amie label in the fall of 2004. Admission is free to UMaine students and $6 at the …

Lecture By Dr. Meave Leakey, University Of Maine- Hudson Museum

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

The Hudson Museum and the Maine Center for the Arts will host a distinguished lecture by Dr. Meave Leakey. The lecture will be held on Tuesday, October 7, 2003 at 7:00 p.m. in the Hutchins Concert Hall and will be free and-open to the UMaine community and the public. Seating is limited to 1600.

For over 70 years, the Leakeys have been digging in Africa, uncovering fossilized clues to the origins of our earliest ancestors. Dr. Meave Leakey's field and lab work have established her as one of the most visible and distinguished scientists in a highly competitive and male-dominated …

Fall 2003- Department Of Art, Guest Lecture Series, University Of Maine- Department Of Art

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

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Colloquium Series- Speaker Tim Crane, University Of Maine- Department Of Philosophy

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

Our first speaker, Tim Crane, has been in the Philosophy Department of University College of London since 1990. He is currently Tutor to MA students and Director of the Philosophy Programme in the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Professor Crane has worked mostly in the broad area of Philosophy of Mind, with a focus on physicalism and mental causation, intentionality and the philosophy of perception. He is currently working on the relationship between intentionality and consciousness. We are sure that faculty and students across the campus and community, especially in the departments of psychology and computer science, will …

Distinguished Lecture : Governor Richardson, University Of Maine

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

Earlier this summer, at the request of the GDLSC, Gov. Baldacci extended an invitation to Governor Bill Richardson (D-NM) to deliver our first GDLS lecture on October 7th at 11.00 a.m. in the Maine Center for the Art. In consultation with the office of Gov. Richardson, the GDLS proposed the topic The United Nations, Iraq and the United States: Meeting the Challenge, Sharing the Burden Gov. Richardson has accepted our invitation and will arrive on the morning of Oct. 7. In addition to his free public lecture, Gov. Richardson will meet with UM officials and selected faculty and students and …

2003- 2004 Philosophy Colloquium Series, University Of Maine - Philosophy Department

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

The Department of Philosophy is seeking the Committee's support for its 2003- 2004 Colloquium Series. This series of talks is designed both to support the curricular and scholarly interests of students and faculty in Philosophy and to reach out to interested faculty and students in other disciplines at the University of Maine.

Hollywood Icons, Local Demon- Paintings By Mark Anthony, University Of Maine- Museum Of Art

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

The Museum of Art respectfully requests funding for the presentation of an art exhibition during the fall semester of the 2003/2004 academic year. Specifically, funding is requested for support of the touring exhibition: Hollywood lcons, Local Demons Ghanaian Popular Paintings by Mark Anthony. The exhibition will be presented in Norumbega Hall from October 2, 2003 - January 17 ,2004.

Lecture Lily Wong Fillmore, University Of Maine

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

Project Opportunity would like to host a faculty luncheon and public lecture at University of Maine on Thursday October 16,2003 and have Lily Wong Fillmore as the speaker. Project Opportunity supports ESL and Bilingual programs and training throughout the State of Maine. Lily Wong Fillmore would be a popular lecture choice for many University of Maine faculty members and students. Dr. Fillmore's research would be informative to faculty dealing with ESl/Bilingual issues, the Maine Learning Results, preservation of indigenous languages, and avariety of other research topics. She will be coming to be the keynote speaker at the Maine ESL conference …

Estuary And Coastal Processes Seminar Series Travel Funds, University Of Maine

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

Estuaries are the place where fresh water and seawater environments converge. Despite the importance of this ecosystem, this universe does not have a course addressing estuary studies. To fill this curricular void, I have organized a seminar series entitled "Estuary and Coastal Processes" for the fall of 2003. The series will feature prominent estuary scientists and managers from around the nation. There will also be one scientist from Northern Europe who studies estuaries in there that are very similar to those here in Maine. Funds to support this program have already been pledged by the Vice President for Research, the …

Colloquium Series, Speaker Professor Tim Crane, University Of Maine- Department Of Philosophy

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

The Department of Philosophy is seeking the Committee's support for the first speaker in its 2003-2004 Colloquium Series. We will make application for the remainder of the series in Fall 2003. This series of talks is designed both to support the curricular and scholarly interests of students and faculty in Philosophy and to reach out to interested faculty and students in other disciplines at the University of Maine. Our first speaker, Tim Crane, has been in the Philosophy Department of University College of London since 1990. He is currently Tutor to MA students and Director of the Philosophy Programme in …

Book Launching Party, University Of Maine- Franco American Studies

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

On Thursday, April 17, 2003 the University of Maine Franco American Studies Program, English Department, Franco-American Centre, and University of Maine Press will co-host a book launch. We are celebrating the release of the new University of Maine Press edition of the long-out of-print, Papa Martel. Written by Lewiston author Gérard Robichaud, Papa Martel is a classic of Franco American literature. The event will feature readings by Mr. Robichaud as well as by Franco- American authors Rhea Coté Robbins of Brewer and Grégoire Chabot of Waterville, also published by the University of Maine Press. The reception and book signing will …

Public Lecture, "Rethinking Free Market Solutions, University Of Maine- Department Of Economics

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

Presenter: Robert F. Wescott, Ph.D. (See attached Curriculum Vitae.) Dr. Wescott is an economist of international standing who specializes in international economic policy. He served as senior adviser to President Clinton on international economic and financial policy issues and as chief economist and acting member of the Council of Economic Advisers, a unit within the Executive Office of the President. ln these roles, he has been involved in policy formulation in many key areas, including reform of international financial institutions, U.S. policy toward Russia and China, bilateral policy toward the G-7 countries and major developing countries, and domestic macroeconomic policy. …

Dance Concerts, University Of Maine- School Of Performing Arts

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

Each year has brought increased interest in the Dance program. The Dance department is faced with increasing interest each year. More and more students want to declare Dance as a minor and the program is fitted to capacity. The problem with the program is that all faculty members are part-time and are paid per course. Yet, students want and should be able to perform under the guidance of an Artistic Director. It is essential to compensate that person for the time she spends choreographing and facilitating both the fall works-in-progress and the full spring concert. Therefore, the Division of Theatre/Dance …

Much Ado About Nothing, University Of Maine- School Of Performing Arts

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

Shakespeare's timeless tale of fiery wit, confused identities, lost love and love scorned is Marcia Douglas's choice for spring 20M, as she brings to the stage Much Ado About Nothing. It has been four years since the School of Performing Arts has presented a Shakespearean play, so this selection will well-serve the needs of theatre students and provides students from across campus with a cultural outlet. Marcia will offer students the opportunity to study Shakespeare in a fall course, then participate in the play in the spring.

Chemical Education Scholar, Spring 2003, University Of Maine- Department Of Chemistry

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

The University of Maine Chemistry Department and the Center for Science and Mathematics Education Research (CSMER) request funding to help support the visit of one of several Chemical Education Scholars in the Spring of 2003. Dr. Robert Lichter of Merrimack Consulting will be kicking off the series with a public talk entitle d,, The Future of Scholarship ß All of Us, at 1:10 PM on April 4,2003 in 316 Aubert Hall. We believe that his talk will be of interest to a broader community and we also anticipate that this presentation will be of some use in creating awareness of …

New Writing Series Spring 2003, University Of Maine- English Department

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

The spring 2003 Series began on 6 February and comprises seven events involving eleven writers. The lineup includes the African American poet Bl Roberson, queer writers Dodie Bellamy and Kevin Killian, Vancouver poet Lisa Robertson, Fort Kent native Connie Voisine, the Chilean Jewish poet Marjorie Agosin, two emerging writers-Beth Anderson and Mike Scharf-and two widely anthologized experimental writers, Bob Perelman and Kit Robinson.

Chicago, University Of Maine- School Of Performing Arts

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

The dazzling world of music and dance that personifies Chicago will be brought to life as the Division of Theatre/Dance in the School of Performing Arts presents the musical of the same name. Director Tom Mikotowicz plans to transform Hauck Auditorium into a 1920s vaudeville stage as Chícago unfolds in the tabloid tale of murder, greed, corruption, violence, exploitation and treachery.