Maine Humanities Council

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. The post Audio | Cedric Gael Bryant | Beloved appeared first on Maine Humanities Council.

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. The post Audio | Carolyn Denard | Beloved appeared first on Maine Humanities Council.

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 […] The post Audio | NEH Chairman Jon Peede appeared first on Maine Humanities Council.

  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. The post Audio | Gov. Mills honors Monica Wood appeared first on Maine Humanities Council.

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 […] The post Audio | Tim Peltason | The Way We Live Now appeared first on Maine Humanities Council.

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 […] The post Audio | Declan Kiely | The Way We Live Now appeared first on Maine Humanities Council.

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 […] The post Audio | Grappling with questions appeared first on Maine Humanities Council.

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 […] The post Audio | Birds and citizen science appeared first on Maine Humanities Council.

“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 […] The post Audio | Violence & Belonging series appeared first on Maine Humanities Council.

In this audio story we visit the 20th annual Winter Weekend, held March 10-11, 2017, at Bowdoin College. The post Audio | 20th anniversary Winter Weekend appeared first on Maine Humanities Council.