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Maine Humanities Council episodes

  • Audio | Cedric Gael Bryant | Beloved
    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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    39 min
  • Audio | Carolyn Denard | Beloved
    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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    39 min
  • Audio | NEH Chairman Jon Peede
    Photo by James Hardman

    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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    35 min
  • Audio | Gov. Mills honors Monica Wood
     

    Photo by Jen Sorkin

    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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    20 min
  • Audio | Tim Peltason | The Way We Live Now
    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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    56 min
  • Audio | Declan Kiely | The Way We Live Now
    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 on Jane Austen, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, and Abraham Lincoln.

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    1 hr 5 min
  • How can we know?
    Each year, on the third Saturday of October, the Dorothy Schwartz Forum (link) brings people together with expert guides to grapple with a basic question so big it’s everyone’s. In 2017, we asked the question “How can we know?” Now, in 2018, we’re starting to ask the next question: “Who is we?”
    As the 2018 event continues to develop, listen to MHC Program Officer Meghan Reedy talk with Gary and Ania Small, founders and teachers at Aikido of Maine.
    11 min
  • Audio | Grappling with questions

    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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    7 min
  • Audio | Birds and citizen science
    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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    13 min
  • Audio | Violence & Belonging series
    “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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    4 min

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