Maine Humanities Council https://www.mainehumanities.org/ Readings, talks, interviews, and stories from programs supported by the Maine Humanities Council. Thu, 28 Mar 2024 12:00:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.mainehumanities.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/cropped-MHC-Seal-32x32.png Maine Humanities Council https://www.mainehumanities.org/ 32 32 yes Readings, talks, interviews, and stories from programs supported by the Maine Humanities Council. Maine Humanities Council false Maine Humanities Council info@mainehumanities.org podcast Maine Humanities Council https://www.mainehumanities.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/MHC-Audio.jpg https://www.mainehumanities.org/about/news/ 8d054820-4ccb-5c0a-b09c-de24f0771fb1 Audio | Cedric Gael Bryant | Beloved https://www.mainehumanities.org/blog/news-announcements/cedric-gael-bryant-beloved/ Mon, 06 Apr 2020 16:14:51 +0000 https://mainehumanities.org/?p=18239 https://www.mainehumanities.org/blog/news-announcements/cedric-gael-bryant-beloved/#respond https://www.mainehumanities.org/blog/news-announcements/cedric-gael-bryant-beloved/feed/ 0 <p>Cedric Gael Bryant presents his talk Definitions, Definers, and the Defined: Literacy and Orality in Toni Morrison’s Beloved  at Winter Weekend 2020. Bryant is the Lee Family Professor of English at Colby College. His talk was accompanied by dance and movement vignettes by René Goddess Johnson.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.mainehumanities.org/blog/news-announcements/cedric-gael-bryant-beloved/">Audio | Cedric Gael Bryant | Beloved</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.mainehumanities.org">Maine Humanities Council</a>.</p> Cedric Gael Bryant presents his talk Definitions, Definers, and the Defined: Literacy and Orality in Toni Morrison’s Beloved  at Winter Weekend 2020. Bryant is the Lee Family Professor of English at Colby College. His talk was accompanied by dance and movement vignettes by René Goddess Johnson.

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Cedric Gael Bryant presents his talk Definitions, Definers, and the Defined: Literacy and Orality in Toni Morrison’s Beloved  at Winter Weekend 2020. Bryant is the Lee Family Professor of English at Colby College. Cedric Gael Bryant presents his talk Definitions, Definers, and the Defined: Literacy and Orality in Toni Morrison’s Beloved  at Winter Weekend 2020. Bryant is the Lee Family Professor of English at Colby College. His talk was accompanied by dance and movement vignettes by René Goddess Johnson. Maine Humanities Council full false 38:13
Audio | Carolyn Denard | Beloved https://www.mainehumanities.org/blog/news-announcements/audio-carolyn-denard-beloved/ Wed, 18 Mar 2020 19:59:52 +0000 https://mainehumanities.org/?p=18146 https://www.mainehumanities.org/blog/news-announcements/audio-carolyn-denard-beloved/#respond https://www.mainehumanities.org/blog/news-announcements/audio-carolyn-denard-beloved/feed/ 0 <p>Dr. Carolyn Denard presents her talk “Why Read Beloved in 2020?” at Winter Weekend 2020. Denard is the Chief Diversity Officer at Georgia College and Founder and Board Chair of the Toni Morrison Society.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.mainehumanities.org/blog/news-announcements/audio-carolyn-denard-beloved/">Audio | Carolyn Denard | Beloved</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.mainehumanities.org">Maine Humanities Council</a>.</p> Dr. Carolyn Denard presents her talk “Why Read Beloved in 2020?” at Winter Weekend 2020. Denard is the Chief Diversity Officer at Georgia College and Founder and Board Chair of the Toni Morrison Society.

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Dr. Carolyn Denard presents her talk “Why Read Beloved in 2020?” at Winter Weekend 2020. Denard is the Chief Diversity Officer at Georgia College and Founder and Board Chair of the Toni Morrison Society. Dr. Carolyn Denard presents her talk “Why Read Beloved in 2020?” at Winter Weekend 2020. Denard is the Chief Diversity Officer at Georgia College and Founder and Board Chair of the Toni Morrison Society. Maine Humanities Council full false 38:01
Audio | NEH Chairman Jon Peede https://www.mainehumanities.org/blog/news-announcements/jon-peede/ Wed, 18 Sep 2019 17:19:28 +0000 https://mainehumanities.org/?p=17382 https://www.mainehumanities.org/blog/news-announcements/jon-peede/#respond https://www.mainehumanities.org/blog/news-announcements/jon-peede/feed/ 0 <p>There’s something irresistible about an anniversary. Maine’s bicentennial, the centennial of women’s suffrage, the upcoming 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence: All invite public commemoration. But what are we doing when we mark these anniversaries? Celebrating our past? Interrogating it? Something else entirely?Presented in partnership by the Maine Humanities Council, Maine […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.mainehumanities.org/blog/news-announcements/jon-peede/">Audio | NEH Chairman Jon Peede</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.mainehumanities.org">Maine Humanities Council</a>.</p>
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There’s something irresistible about an anniversary. Maine’s bicentennial, the centennial of women’s suffrage, the upcoming 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence: All invite public commemoration. But what are we doing when we mark these anniversaries? Celebrating our past? Interrogating it? Something else entirely?

Presented in partnership by the Maine Humanities Council, Maine Suffrage Centennial, and Maine Historical Society.

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There’s something irresistible about an anniversary. Maine’s bicentennial, the centennial of women’s suffrage, the upcoming 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence: All invite public commemoration. There’s something irresistible about an anniversary. Maine’s bicentennial, the centennial of women’s suffrage, the upcoming 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence: All invite public commemoration. But what are we doing when we mark these anniversaries? Celebrating our past? Interrogating it? Something else entirely?Presented in partnership by the Maine Humanities Council, Maine […] Maine Humanities Council full false 34:48
Audio | Gov. Mills honors Monica Wood https://www.mainehumanities.org/blog/news-announcements/governor-mills-honors-monica-wood/ Thu, 06 Jun 2019 14:41:38 +0000 https://mainehumanities.org/?p=16636 https://www.mainehumanities.org/blog/news-announcements/governor-mills-honors-monica-wood/#respond https://www.mainehumanities.org/blog/news-announcements/governor-mills-honors-monica-wood/feed/ 0 <p>  On May 7, 2019, Maine author Monica Wood was awarded our 2019 Constance H. Carlson Public Humanities Prize. In attendance was Governor Janet Mills, who honored Monica by delivering the event’s opening remarks. Hear the Governor’s remarks below.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.mainehumanities.org/blog/news-announcements/governor-mills-honors-monica-wood/">Audio | Gov. Mills honors Monica Wood</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.mainehumanities.org">Maine Humanities Council</a>.</p>

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On May 7, 2019, Maine author Monica Wood was awarded our 2019 Constance H. Carlson Public Humanities Prize. In attendance was Governor Janet Mills, who honored Monica by delivering the event’s opening remarks. Hear the Governor’s remarks below.

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  On May 7, 2019, Maine author Monica Wood was awarded our 2019 Constance H. Carlson Public Humanities Prize. In attendance was Governor Janet Mills, who honored Monica by delivering the event’s opening remarks. Hear the Governor’s remarks below.   On May 7, 2019, Maine author Monica Wood was awarded our 2019 Constance H. Carlson Public Humanities Prize. In attendance was Governor Janet Mills, who honored Monica by delivering the event’s opening remarks. Hear the Governor’s remarks below. Maine Humanities Council full false 19:05
Audio | Tim Peltason | The Way We Live Now https://www.mainehumanities.org/blog/news-announcements/podcast-tim-peltason/ Wed, 07 Nov 2018 16:06:28 +0000 https://mainehumanities.org/?p=14647 https://www.mainehumanities.org/blog/news-announcements/podcast-tim-peltason/#respond https://www.mainehumanities.org/blog/news-announcements/podcast-tim-peltason/feed/ 0 <p>Professor of English at Wellesley College, Timothy Peltason writes and teaches on nineteenth and twentieth-century British and American literature and Shakespeare. His essays on Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, focuses on its relationship to Wilde’s life, its origins in earlier Victorian literature, and its extraordinary afterlife in 20th and 21st century literature and culture. He […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.mainehumanities.org/blog/news-announcements/podcast-tim-peltason/">Audio | Tim Peltason | The Way We Live Now</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.mainehumanities.org">Maine Humanities Council</a>.</p> Professor of English at Wellesley College, Timothy Peltason writes and teaches on nineteenth and twentieth-century British and American literature and Shakespeare. His essays on Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, focuses on its relationship to Wilde’s life, its origins in earlier Victorian literature, and its extraordinary afterlife in 20th and 21st century literature and culture. He has also written a sequence of web-based commentaries on five plays by Shakespeare and other essays about the place of value judgments in contemporary academic criticism.

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Professor of English at Wellesley College, Timothy Peltason writes and teaches on nineteenth and twentieth-century British and American literature and Shakespeare. His essays on Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, Professor of English at Wellesley College, Timothy Peltason writes and teaches on nineteenth and twentieth-century British and American literature and Shakespeare. His essays on Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, focuses on its relationship to Wilde’s life, its origins in earlier Victorian literature, and its extraordinary afterlife in 20th and 21st century literature and culture. He […] Maine Humanities Council full false 55:51
Audio | Declan Kiely | The Way We Live Now https://www.mainehumanities.org/blog/news-announcements/podcast-declan-kiely-the-carnivores-appetite/ Mon, 01 Oct 2018 15:26:43 +0000 https://mainehumanities.org/?p=14297 https://www.mainehumanities.org/blog/news-announcements/podcast-declan-kiely-the-carnivores-appetite/#respond https://www.mainehumanities.org/blog/news-announcements/podcast-declan-kiely-the-carnivores-appetite/feed/ 0 <p>Declan Kiely is the Director of Exhibitions at New York Public Library where he oversees exhibitions at the iconic Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. He was most recently the Robert H. Taylor Curator at the Morgan Library and Museum and Head of its Department of Literary and Historical Manuscripts. During this time he curated major exhibitions focusing […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.mainehumanities.org/blog/news-announcements/podcast-declan-kiely-the-carnivores-appetite/">Audio | Declan Kiely | The Way We Live Now</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.mainehumanities.org">Maine Humanities Council</a>.</p>

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Declan Kiely is the Director of Exhibitions at New York Public Library where he oversees exhibitions at the iconic Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. He was most recently the Robert H. Taylor Curator at the Morgan Library and Museum and Head of its Depart... Declan Kiely is the Director of Exhibitions at New York Public Library where he oversees exhibitions at the iconic Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. He was most recently the Robert H. Taylor Curator at the Morgan Library and Museum and Head of its Department of Literary and Historical Manuscripts. During this time he curated major exhibitions focusing […] Maine Humanities Council full false 1:04:20
Audio | Grappling with questions https://www.mainehumanities.org/blog/news-announcements/grappling-with-basic-questions/ Tue, 08 May 2018 12:57:22 +0000 https://mainehumanities.org/?p=13473 https://www.mainehumanities.org/blog/news-announcements/grappling-with-basic-questions/#respond https://www.mainehumanities.org/blog/news-announcements/grappling-with-basic-questions/feed/ 0 <p>Each year, on the third Saturday of October, The Big Question brings people together with expert guides to grapple with question. In 2017, we asked the question “How can we know?”  Listen to MHC Program Officer Meghan Reedy  talk to folks about how they know things in the work they do. As you listen, you may […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.mainehumanities.org/blog/news-announcements/grappling-with-basic-questions/">Audio | Grappling with questions</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.mainehumanities.org">Maine Humanities Council</a>.</p> Each year, on the third Saturday of October, The Big Question brings people together with expert guides to grapple with question.

In 2017, we asked the question “How can we know?”  Listen to MHC Program Officer Meghan Reedy  talk to folks about how they know things in the work they do.

As you listen, you may find yourself wondering “Who is the ‘we’ in the question ‘How can we know?'” That’s the next question! Join us on October 20 for the 2018 Schwartz Forum question “Who is we?”

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Each year, on the third Saturday of October, The Big Question brings people together with expert guides to grapple with question. In 2017, we asked the question “How can we know?”  Listen to MHC Program Officer Meghan Reedy  talk to folks about how the... Each year, on the third Saturday of October, The Big Question brings people together with expert guides to grapple with question. In 2017, we asked the question “How can we know?”  Listen to MHC Program Officer Meghan Reedy  talk to folks about how they know things in the work they do. As you listen, you may […] Maine Humanities Council full false 6:15
Audio | Birds and citizen science https://www.mainehumanities.org/blog/news-announcements/podcast-birds-and-citizen-science/ Tue, 06 Feb 2018 20:14:35 +0000 https://mainehumanities.org/?p=12867 https://www.mainehumanities.org/blog/news-announcements/podcast-birds-and-citizen-science/#respond https://www.mainehumanities.org/blog/news-announcements/podcast-birds-and-citizen-science/feed/ 0 <p>Each year, on the third Saturday in October, The Big Question brings people together with expert guides to grapple with a question. In 2017, the question we asked ourselves was ‘How can we know?’ One of the most exciting things about asking this question was getting to talk with all sorts of people about how […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.mainehumanities.org/blog/news-announcements/podcast-birds-and-citizen-science/">Audio | Birds and citizen science</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.mainehumanities.org">Maine Humanities Council</a>.</p> Each year, on the third Saturday in October, The Big Question brings people together with expert guides to grapple with a question. In 2017, the question we asked ourselves was ‘How can we know?’ One of the most exciting things about asking this question was getting to talk with all sorts of people about how this crazy big question arises for them in the work that they do. In preparing for 2018’s big question, MHC program officer Meghan Reedy talked birds and citizen science with Maine Audubon’s Doug Hitchcox.

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Each year, on the third Saturday in October, The Big Question brings people together with expert guides to grapple with a question. In 2017, the question we asked ourselves was ‘How can we know?’ One of the most exciting things about asking this questi... Each year, on the third Saturday in October, The Big Question brings people together with expert guides to grapple with a question. In 2017, the question we asked ourselves was ‘How can we know?’ One of the most exciting things about asking this question was getting to talk with all sorts of people about how […] Maine Humanities Council full false 12:31
Audio | Violence & Belonging series https://www.mainehumanities.org/blog/news-announcements/podcast-violence-belonging/ Tue, 03 Oct 2017 14:15:52 +0000 https://mainehumanities.org/?p=11989 https://www.mainehumanities.org/blog/news-announcements/podcast-violence-belonging/#respond https://www.mainehumanities.org/blog/news-announcements/podcast-violence-belonging/feed/ 0 <p>“Violence & Belonging: The 14th Amendment and American Literature” is a Let’s Talk About It book and discussion series that addresses issues of diversity, identity, and inequality. For many Americans, the promises of citizenship fall short of reality, and the books in this series remind us that the more expansive version of American citizenship brought […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.mainehumanities.org/blog/news-announcements/podcast-violence-belonging/">Audio | Violence & Belonging series</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.mainehumanities.org">Maine Humanities Council</a>.</p> Violence & Belonging: The 14th Amendment and American Literature” is a Let’s Talk About It book and discussion series that addresses issues of diversity, identity, and inequality. For many Americans, the promises of citizenship fall short of reality, and the books in this series remind us that the more expansive version of American citizenship brought about by the Fourteenth Amendment was formed in the wake of violence and historical trauma. Tune in to this new audio story and  hear perspectives on Let’s Talk About It and “Violence & Belonging” from South Berwick Public Library and Norway Public Library, both of which have recently offered the series in their community.

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“Violence & Belonging: The 14th Amendment and American Literature” is a Let’s Talk About It book and discussion series that addresses issues of diversity, identity, and inequality. For many Americans, the promises of citizenship fall short of reality, “Violence & Belonging: The 14th Amendment and American Literature” is a Let’s Talk About It book and discussion series that addresses issues of diversity, identity, and inequality. For many Americans, the promises of citizenship fall short of reality, and the books in this series remind us that the more expansive version of American citizenship brought […] Maine Humanities Council full false 3:34
Audio | 20th anniversary Winter Weekend https://www.mainehumanities.org/blog/news-announcements/podcast-20th-anniversary-winter-weekend/ Wed, 05 Jul 2017 18:36:22 +0000 https://mainehumanities.org/?p=11405 https://www.mainehumanities.org/blog/news-announcements/podcast-20th-anniversary-winter-weekend/#respond https://www.mainehumanities.org/blog/news-announcements/podcast-20th-anniversary-winter-weekend/feed/ 0 <p>In this audio story we visit the 20th annual Winter Weekend, held March 10-11, 2017, at Bowdoin College.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.mainehumanities.org/blog/news-announcements/podcast-20th-anniversary-winter-weekend/">Audio | 20th anniversary Winter Weekend</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.mainehumanities.org">Maine Humanities Council</a>.</p> Winter Weekend teachersIn this audio story we visit the 20th annual Winter Weekend, held March 10-11, 2017, at Bowdoin College.

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In this audio story we visit the 20th annual Winter Weekend, held March 10-11, 2017, at Bowdoin College. In this audio story we visit the 20th annual Winter Weekend, held March 10-11, 2017, at Bowdoin College. Maine Humanities Council full false 3:43