Maine Humanities Council

Maine Humanities Council

Readings, talks, interviews, and stories from programs supported by the Maine Humanities Council.

Episodes

  1. 06/04/2020

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

    38 min

  2. 18/03/2020

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

    38 min

  3. 18/09/2019

    Audio | NEH Chairman Jon Peede

    Photo by James HardmanThere’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. The post Audio | NEH Chairman Jon Peede appeared first on Maine Humanities Council.

    35 min

  4. 06/06/2019

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

    19 min

  5. 07/11/2018

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

    56 min

  6. 01/10/2018

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

    1h 4m

  7. 08/05/2018

    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?” The post Audio | Grappling with questions appeared first on Maine Humanities Council.

    6 min

  8. 06/02/2018

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

    13 min

  9. 03/10/2017

    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.The post Audio | Violence & Belonging series appeared first on Maine Humanities Council.

    4 min

  10. 05/07/2017

    Audio | 20th anniversary Winter Weekend

    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.

    4 min
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