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Spring 2011 Visiting Artists Series, Department Of New Media

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

The New Media and Intermedia MFA Programs are requesting funds to help support a spring lecture series. The following visiting artists will share their expertise in the following areas: an evening lecture with a question and answer period to follow, classroom visits, direct one-on-one student meetings and/or critiques and performances or other public presentations. The following artists have been selected because of the quality and engaging nature of their work. The artists'desire to interact with the students in a learning environment and to engender excitement about the arts on Campus was another qualifying factor in their selection. The spring Intermedia …

Three Bands Concert, School Of Performing Arts

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

The Three Bands concert is an event that brings nearly 1000 people to campus to see performances by the University of Maine Concert Band alongside the bands of two local schools. This year the concert will take place at the Collins Center for the Arts on March 22, 2011, and we are requesting funding to bring in a guest conductor for this event. We propose to bring Dr. Andrew Trachsel of Ohio University during the week before the concert to work with each of the three bands. We have attached a biography of Dr. Trachsel as background information for this …

Scissor/ Paper/ Light Exhibition By Joan Grubin, Department Of Art

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

The Department of Art's cultural programming will consist of two related events: a major exhibition SCISSOR / PAPER / LIGHT: Paper Constructions by New York artist, Joan Grubin; and a gallery talk by Grubin to be held during the opening reception for the exhibition. In addition, while on campus to install her work, Grubin will meet with students to talk about her work.

2010 Maine Indian Basketmakers Sale And Demonstration, Hudson Museum

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

The Hudson Museum in collaboration with the Maine Indian Baksetmakers Alliance hosts one of the largest public events, which celebrates Maine Indian artforms and allows the University of Maine community and the general public to learn about Maine Indian history and culture. The Maine Indian Basketmakers Sale and Demonstration will be held in the Collins Center for the Arts on Saturday, December 11, 2010 from 9:00 to 3:00. This is the first time that funding to support the event has been requested from the Cultural Affairs.

"Cross Walking"; A Performance On Environmental Issues, Department Of Communications And Journalism

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

We request a CA/DLS grant to help fund a visit by Professor Jonathan Gray (see bio below) April 7 - I0,2011, to address the contributions of communication studies to environmental issues. CA/DLS funds are particularly appropriate for the public performance event (#1 below), which has broad audience appeal on and off campus, and which contributes to the visibility of UM's new, interdisciplinary Sustainability Solutions Initiative for "quality of place" in Maine. The complementary events (#2,3,and4) will also attract a diverse audiences.

Climate Change As A Human Rights Issue-Inuit Environmental Activist Sheila Watt- Cloutier, Canadian- American Center

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

The Canadian-American Center is coordinating pan-campus participation to bring SHEILA WATT-CLOUTIER to UMaine.

Spring 2011 Women's History Celebration, Women's Studies Program

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

Spring 201 I Women's History Celebration, March 14 to March 31. This year's celebration will focus on getting young women involved with the issues that are at the forefront of their lives. The idea behind this year's WHC is to explore issues such as reproductive rights, domestic violence, body image, bullying, suicide, environmental toxins and other hot topics that women are confronted with everyday. As always, we will provide an array of speakers, panels, films, performances and displays that will reflect the diversity of women's experiences locally, nationally, and internationally.

New Writing Series- Spring 2011, English Department

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

Featuring five CA/DLS co-sponsored writers in four events: Brock Clark (fiction), Claudia Emerson þoetry), Ken Irby (poetry), Pierre Joris (poetry), and James Wagner (poetry, translation).

2010- 2011 Philosophy Colloquium Series, Philosophy Department

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

The Department of Philosophy is seeking funding support from the Cultural Affairs/Distinguished Lecture Series Fund for its 2010-2011 Philosophy colloquium Series. This series of public talks will provide opportunities for students, faculty, and community members to hear and discuss stimulating lectures on a wide range of topics that are relevant not only to philosophers but to current topics of ethical, social, and political import. Some of the events enable collaboration and communication with other units on the campus and in the community.

Culturefest, Office Of International Programs

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

Culturefest is an annual event hosted by Office of International Programs and the International Student Association. This is a day-long celebration of various cultures from around the world. This is a place for our international students to showcase their cultural traditions. US students from multicultural backgrounds are also welcome to take part and celebrate their families' heritage. Each country will have a table to exhibit their traditional items brought from home. There will be a talent show with music, dances, and other performance art from different cultures and in different languages. We also have a fashion show for students to …

2010-2011 Colloquium Series- Department Of History, Department Of History

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

The Department of History is seeking the Committee's support for its 2010-2011 Colloquium Series. Its annual series of talks is designed to support both the curricular and scholarly interests of undergraduates, graduates and faculty in History and to reach out to interested faculty and students in other disciplines at the University of Maine.

Maine Archaeology Month Lecture, Hudson Museum

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

The Hudson Museum seeks support from the Cultural Affairs Committee for a public lecture by Karen Olsen Bruhns one of the leading authorities on Precolumbian fakes from Mesoamerica and the Andes. The lecture will be held in October during Maine Archaeology Month, a month established in 2000 to present archaeological research to the public through scholarly lectures, exhibits and tours of archaeological sites. Karen Bruhns' visit to UMaine will also provide opportunities for her to interact with students in Anthropology, History and Climate Change, and with the Hudson Museum's collections, which includes an internationally significant collection of Precolumbian artifacts donated …

Spring Dance Concert 2011, School Of Performing Arts

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

The Dance productions for the 2010- 2011 season were an outstanding success. The Fall and Spring Concerts, together with the four emerging works showcases provided creative outlets for our students interested in dance, as well as provided significant entertainment for our audiences. The Fall Dance Concert and Emerging Works Concerts had respectable turnouts, and figures are not available for these since we do not run a box office for them. The Annual Spring Concert played to approximately 830 people during its two performance run.

Guest Artist, Col Michael Colburn- Band Program, School Of Performing Arts

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

The Music division will host Colonel Michael Colburn of the "Presidents Own" United States Marine Band in April 2011. He will conduct the UMaine Symphonic Band and the Concert Band at the April 5th concert for these ensembles at the Collins Center for the Arts. He will also teach a masterclass ln the Class of I 944 Hall for K-12 area teachers on April 2nd, in which the workshop participants will conduct the UMaine Symphonic Band and will be critiqued by Col. Colbum.

Fall 2010 Visiting Artists Series, Department Of New Media And Intermedia Mfa

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

Summary of program requiring funding (title; featured artist(s); speaker(s); scheduled date(s): The New Media and Intermedia MFA Programs are requesting funds to help support a fall lecture series. The following visiting artists will share their expertise in the following areas: an evening lecture with a question and answer period to follow, classroom visits and direct oneon- one student meetings and/or critiques. The following two artists have been selected because of the quality and engaging nature of their work. The artists' desire to interact with the students in a learning environment and to engender excitement about the arts on Campus was …

Special Collections Dept, Fogler Library, Raymond H. Fogler Library

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

We are organizing a one-day conference titled The Promise and Problems of Transparency to be held at Wells Conference Center on Friday November 12 2010. The theme of transparency emerged from the William S. Cohen collection in a number of ways. Following Watergate, Cohen said repeatedly that openness in government would be the only way to regain the trust of the American people. Each year, he prepared and submitted his finances to be included in the Congressional Record, stating that the public deserved to know the financial holdings of individuals in whom they had placed their trust. He advocated for …

The Boys Next Door By Tom Griffin- Theatre Production, School Of Performing Arts

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

THE STORY: The place is a communal residence in a New England city, where four mentally handicapped men live under the supervision of an earnest, but increasingly "burned out" young social worker named Jack. Norman, who works in a doughnut shop and is unable to resist the lure of the sweet pastries, takes great pride in the huge bundle of keys that dangles from his waist; Lucien P. Smith has the mind of a five-year-old but imagines that he is able to read and comprehend the weighty books he lugs about; Arnold, the ringleader of the group, is a hyperactive, …

2010 Senator George J. Mitchell Lecture On Sustainability, University Of Maine

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

On Thursday, October 21,2010, the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental & Watershed Research (Mitchell Center) will host the annual Senator George J. Mitchell Lecture on Sustainability. Note that with Senator Mitchell's approval, we have changed the name of the event from the Lecture on the Environment to the Lecture on Sustainability to reflect the new direction of the Mitchell Center and the Sustainability Solutions Initiative.

This event is free and open to all. lt will take place from 1pm-3pm at Wells Conference Center, University of Maine, Orono. Our keynote speaker for the event will be Elinor Ostrom, winner …

Edward D. "Sandy" Ives Memorial Lecture Series: Humanities And Place, University Of Maine

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

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Without Borders 7 Contemporary Arts Festival, Department Of New Media

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

Intermedia, is the seventh iteration of the annual exhibition and festival, Without Borders Contemporary Arts Festival. The exhibition will take place in the Lord Hall Galleries from August through September of 2010. Presenting the work of UMaine Intermedia MFA graduate students as well as collaborating artists from around the country, this series highlights a wide range of work focused on exploring the spaces between culture, art, science, and technology. The festival will focus on artistic forms that utilize technology and analog materials and processes in either production or presentation of the work. It will include a main exhibition centered around …

The New Writing Series - Fall 2010, English Department

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

I write to request the Committee's support for the fall 2010 New Writing Series, an innovative literary arts program sponsored by the English Department and the National Poetry Foundation. The Series marked its tenth anniversary in 2009-2010 and our fall 2010 programming seeks to capitalize on the momentum generated by the programming that we were able to offer in part through the generosity of the Committee,

Deborah Cook, Thwarted Voices Concert- Guest Artist, School Of Performing Arts

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

Deborah Cook is one of the most distinguished sopranos of her generation. As can be ascertained from the accompanying CV her career literally soared from triumph to triumph. Ms Cook's voice has retained the freshness and expressiveness of youth, her previous guest appearances on Phillip Silver's Thwarted Voices program were met by enthusiastic audience approbation. We are very happy that Deborah Cook will appear on next year's Thwarted Voices event. This concert, scheduled for October 23,201},will include lieder by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, a composer with whom Ms Cook is very familiar and will include a performance of a stunning lieder …

New Media Department Spring Lecture Series, Department Of New Media

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

The New Media Department and the Intermedia MFA Program are requesting funds to help support our Spring lecture series. All of the visiting artists and researchers proposed in our lecture series will publicly share their expertise in the following areas: an evening public lecture with question and answer period to follow (except Christopher Biddle), classroom visits and direct one-on-one student meetings andlor critiques, and in two cases they will provide half day workshops for interested people across the university and local communities. Each of the featured artists have been selected, because of the quality and engaging nature of their work, …

David Bacon Lecture, Department Of Communications And Journalism

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

The University of Maine Dept. of Communications and Journalism will host a distinguished author and photojournalist, David Bacon on April 19,2010. His talk, to be presented at 1 PM in DPC 115 is entitled, "Immigration and Free Trade, The New Realities." Note that the Diversity Committee of the College of Education, the School of Policy and International Affairs and are all cosponsors of this visit.

Art As Research: Conversations With Graeme Sullivan, Department Of Art

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

This proposal is a collaboration between the Intermedia MFA and the Department of Att. 'We are seeking Cultural Affairs/Distinguished Lecture Series funds to support a guest lecture as well as classroom visits by Dr. Graeme Sullivan (Director, School of Visual Art at The Pennsylvania State University). Sullivan is the author of Art Practice as Research: Inquiry in Visual Arts (2"d edition, 2010) and one of the country's leading scholars on arts-based research as well as art education. Sullivan's primary research focuses on critical-reflexive thinking processes, specifically those associated with visual arts inquiry and practice. We have attached a brief "bio-statement" …

Monday Noon Cmj Research Colloquium, Department Of Communication & Journalism/ History

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

Jeremy Engels, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric in the Department of Communication at Pennsylvania State University, will give a lecture on "Democracy's Evolving Meaning: Bostonos Independent Chronicle Wages War on the Federalists, 1803" on April 12,2010, from 12:10 to 1:00 as part of the CMJ Monday Noon Research Colloquium series. The event it co-sponsored by the Department of History. The Communication department at PSU is ranked third in the United States and Professor Engels has rapidly established himself as a critical member of a well-respected faculty and one the top young scholars in rhetoric in the country. His research centers on …

" Sizzling Dodos College Tour" With Dr. Randy Olson, Collins Center For The Arts

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

Randy Olson is an award-winning filmmaker who has a provocative sense of humor and a Ph.D. in coral-reef ecology. Through film, public lecture, and discussion, he will share his humorous, serious, and passionate insights on the challenges in today's world of information overload of communicating accurate scientific information to people who are not scientists. His efforts in this arena include co-founding the "Shifting Baselines Ocean Media Project," a partnership between marine scientists and Hollywood to highlight the crisis threatening the oceans.