Humanities on Demand
By Maine Humanities Council
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Podcast Description
The Maine Humanities Council podcast includes readings, lectures, interviews, and other programs sponsored by the Maine Humanities Council and partners like the Portland Public Library.
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War, Peace, and Conflict Resolution: What Homer Has to Teach Us | This year’s Winter Weekend selection, Homer’s The Iliad, translated by Robert Fagles, takes place over 51 days, somewhere in the 9th or 10th year of the Trojan War. Amid a huge cast of memorable characters—and a crew of scheming Olympian[...] | 5/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Was There a Troy and Why Does It Matter? | This year’s Winter Weekend selection, Homer’s The Iliad, translated by Robert Fagles, takes place over 51 days, somewhere in the 9th or 10th year of the Trojan War. Amid a huge cast of memorable characters—and a crew of scheming Olympian[...] | 5/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Reading the Iliad in 2012 | This year’s Winter Weekend selection, Homer’s The Iliad, translated by Robert Fagles, takes place over 51 days, somewhere in the 9th or 10th year of the Trojan War. Amid a huge cast of memorable characters—and a crew of scheming Olympian[...] | 3/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What is the role of Margaret Chase Smith in Today’s American Politics? | In an encore performance, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Maine Farmington, Jim Melcher spoke to a class on the legacy of Senator Margaret Chase Smith. This talk was originially performed at the September 30, 2011 event[...] | 1/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Maine Festival of the Book Opening Night: Stewart O’Nan and Julia Glass | Wonder what writers really think about? Get ready for a literary extravaganza! The Maine Festival of the Book, brought to you by Maine Reads brings together writers and readers to enjoy readings, panel discussions, book signings, and performances. [...] | 11/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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To End all Wars with Adam Hochschild | As the opening event of the newly minted Mechaya Center, Director Jonathan Lee, invited Adam Hochschild to Maine to discuss new new book To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914 – 1918, where he focuses on the long-ignored moral[...] | 8/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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From Far East to Old West: True Tales of the American Frontier | Wonder what writers really think about? Get ready for a literary extravaganza! The Maine Festival of the Book, brought to you by Maine Reads brings together writers and readers to enjoy readings, panel discussions, book signings, and performances. [...] | 7/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Crisis of Intellectual Property | The Center for Global Humanities is a public forum dedicated to the study of human destiny in the 21st century. Because new discoveries in science and technology are changing our understanding of human nature and raising burning questions about the [...] | 6/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How The Great Depression Changed America | The Center for Global Humanities is a public forum dedicated to the study of human destiny in the 21st century. Because new discoveries in science and technology are changing our understanding of human nature and raising burning questions about the [...] | 6/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How To Lose Your Head When All About Are Keeping Theirs: Julien, Mathilde, and the Agony of Romanticism | This year’s Winter Weekend selection, Stendhal’s The Red and the Black follows a young intellectual man from a provincial town who tries to make it in 19th century Paris. Stendhal’s psychological portrait of Julien Sorel and his love aff[...] | 6/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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There and Back: The Journey to Write a Memoir | Wonder what writers really think about? Get ready for a literary extravaganza! The Maine Festival of the Book, brought to you by Maine Reads brings together writers and readers to enjoy readings, panel discussions, book signings, and performances. [...] | 6/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Hare and the Tortoise: A General Biocultural Theory of Why People Have So Many Problems | The Center for Global Humanities is a public forum dedicated to the study of human destiny in the 21st century. Because new discoveries in science and technology are changing our understanding of human nature and raising burning questions about the [...] | 5/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Wrestling a Book Into the World | Wonder what writers really think about? Get ready for a literary extravaganza! The Maine Festival of the Book, brought to you by Maine Reads brings together writers and readers to enjoy readings, panel discussions, book signings, and performances. [...] | 5/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Desperate for Some Kindness: A History of Asking for Help in Hard Times | The Center for Global Humanities is a public forum dedicated to the study of human destiny in the 21st century. Because new discoveries in science and technology are changing our understanding of human nature and raising burning questions about the [...] | 5/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Pens and Pistol Shots: Crimes of Passion in Stendhal’s France | This year’s Winter Weekend selection, Stendhal’s The Red and the Black follows a young intellectual man from a provincial town who tries to make it in 19th century Paris. Stendhal’s psychological portrait of Julien Sorel and his love aff[...] | 4/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Intimate Matters: Sex and Social Class in Post-Revolutionary France | This year’s Winter Weekend selection, Stendhal’s The Red and the Black follows a young intellectual man from a provincial town who tries to make it in 19th century Paris. Stendhal’s psychological portrait of Julien Sorel and his love aff[...] | 4/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Two Heads and the Things They Carried with Tim O’Brien | Tim O’Brien has been hailed as “the best American writer of his generation” (San Francisco Examiner). A Vietnam veteran, he is the author of eight books. He received the National Book Award in Fiction in 1979 for his novel Going After Cacciato. In 2 | 1/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Bad News and the Good News with Kate Braestrup | Kate Braestrup is a Unitarian-Universalist chaplain to the Maine Warden Service, joining the wardens as they search the wild lands and fresh waters of Maine for those who have lost their way, and offering comfort to those who wait for the ones they [...] | 1/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Learning About Combat Trauma From Homer’s Iliad with Dr. Jonathan Shay | Jonathan Shay, MD, PhD is a clinical psychiatrist whose treatment of combat trauma suffered by Vietnam veterans combined with his critical and imaginative interpretations of the ancient accounts of battle described in Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey are d[... | 12/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Margaret Chase Smith and Cold War America | History Camp is a one week seminar for high school students who enjoy history. Each history camp theme is related to a Maine person, historical site, or event in United States history and may be offered in collaboration with a history-related organi[...] | 8/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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There Are No New Stories: Nicole Chaison, Debra Spark and Elizabeth Searle | Wonder what writers really think about? Get ready for a literary extravaganza! The Maine Festival of the Book, brought to you by Maine Reads brings together writers and readers to enjoy readings, panel discussions, book signings, and performances. [...] | 6/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Reawakening of Ayn Rand, Anne C. Heller | Wonder what writers really think about? Get ready for a literary extravaganza! The Maine Festival of the Book, brought to you by Maine Reads brings together writers and readers to enjoy readings, panel discussions, book signings, and performances. [...] | 6/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Franco-American Women’s Words in Maine, Rhea Cote Robbins | Wonder what writers really think about? Get ready for a literary extravaganza! The Maine Festival of the Book, brought to you by Maine Reads brings together writers and readers to enjoy readings, panel discussions, book signings, and performances. [...] | 5/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Middlemarch by George Eliot, Winter Weekend 2010, part 3 | The Council’s annual Winter Weekend, a humanities seminar on a classic text, provides an opportunity for readers to confront, in a group setting, an important work of literature. Held at Bowdoin College in early March, the program begins with [...] | 5/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Middlemarch by George Eliot, Winter Weekend 2010, part 2 | The Council’s annual Winter Weekend, a humanities seminar on a classic text, provides an opportunity for readers to confront, in a group setting, an important work of literature. Held at Bowdoin College in early March, the program begins with [...] | 5/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Middlemarch by George Eliot, Winter Weekend 2010, part 1 | The Council’s annual Winter Weekend, a humanities seminar on a classic text, provides an opportunity for readers to confront, in a group setting, an important work of literature. Held at Bowdoin College in early March, the program begins with [...] | 4/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cuba and the United States | David Carey, Jr. is an associate professor of History and Women’s Studies at the University of Southern Maine. He holds a Ph.D. in Latin American Studies from Tulane University; his publications include Ojer taq tzijob’äl kichin ri Kaqch[...] | 2/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Colonial Legacies: Cuba and Latin America | Allen Wells, the Roger Howell, Jr. Professor of History at Bowdoin College, scholarship has focused on modern Mexican history, especially Yucatán. His most recent book is Tropical Zion: General Trujillo, FDR and the Jews of Sosúa. Professo[...] | 2/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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First Mainers and New Mainers: Dignity in Diversity | Listen to the inaugural event that launched the new minor of Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Studies at the University of Maine, Augusta. This program was hosted by the Director, Abraham Peck at the Michael Klahr Center in Augusta. The panel di[...] | 1/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Politics of Zora Neale Hurston | Tess Chakkalakal, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and English at Bowdoin College, is the last in our series of podcasts from our October, 2009 event: Looking for Zora: The Many Lives of Zora Neale Hurston. This one day event explored the lif[...] | 1/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Seeing Green | Kate Miles, Associate Professor of Environmental Writing at Unity College, is the third in our series of podcasts from our October, 2009 event: Looking for Zora: The Many Lives of Zora Neale Hurston. This one day event explored the life and lasting [...] | 12/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Worlds in their Mouths | Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, the John D. and Catharine T. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and African-American Studies at Colby College, is the second in our series of podcasts from our October, 2009 event: Looking for Zora: The Many Lives of Zora Neale[...] | 12/11/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Looking for and Finding Zora Neale Hurston | Cedric Gael Bryant, Lee Family Professor of English at Colby College, is the first in our series of podcasts from our October, 2009 event: Looking for Zora: The Many Lives of Zora Neale Hurston. This one day event explored the life and lasting work [...] | 12/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Thinking Heart: A Performance in Two Voices, with Cello | The Thinking Heart is a performance piece in two voices, with cello, based on the journal and letters of Etty Hillesum, a Dutch woman who lived in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation and died in Auschwitz in 1943. The performance is an original ar[...] | 10/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Poets Writing Memoir: A Conversation with Elizabeth Garber and Dawn Potter | Denise Pendleton, Maine Humanities Council’s Program Director of Born To Read and poet, sat down at the Belfast Free Library with two of Maine’s best-known poets, Elizabeth Garber and Dawn Potter. In addition to reading from their memoirs, the[...] | 10/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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That Old Cape Magic, Richard Russo | For the kick-off of the new season of the Portland Public Library’s brown-bag lunch series, Pulitzer Prize winning author, Richard Russo, came back to Portland to read from his new novel That Old Cape Magic. Despite being a Yankees fan, Russo[...] | 9/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Faculty Flash Reading | In the “flash reading” by Stonecoast MFA program faculty members, each writer gets three minutes in which to share his or her work before introducing the next writer in the queue. The flash reading from Stonecoast’s summer residency in July 20[...] | 7/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Today’s Challenges on the Korean Peninsula | Brad Babson is a consultant on East Asia and global development issues. He served 26 years with the World Bank, most recently as Senior Advisor for the East Asia and Pacific Region, with assignments including Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, South Korea, T[...] | 7/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Not Norman | Not Norman by Kelly Bennett, illustrated by Noah Z. Jones, is one of five books that Raising Readers included in an anthology of Maine stories for pediatricians to give to 5-year-olds. Noah Z. Jones lives in Maine, and recently read Not Norman aloud[...] | 6/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Love and Kisses | Love and Kisses by Sarah Wilson, illustrated by Melissa Sweet, is one of five books that Raising Readers included in an anthology of Maine stories for pediatricians to give to 5-year-olds. Melissa Sweet lives in Maine, and the Born to Read program r[...] | 6/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Library Lion | Library Lion by Michelle Knudson, illustrated by Kevin Hawkes, is one of five books that Raising Readers included in an anthology of Maine stories for pediatricians to give to 5-year-olds. Kevin Hawkes lives in Maine, and the Born to Read program re[...] | 6/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Looking North | Donna Cassidy is Professor of American & New England Studies and Art History at the University of Southern Maine. Her most recent book, Marsden Hartley: Race, Region, and Nation, led to her current research on U.S. artists in Quebec and Atlanti[...] | 6/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jane Austen’s Gardens | Kim Wilson is the Wisconsin-based author of two books: Tea with Jane Austen and In the Garden with Jane Austen. Her presentation at the Maine Festival of the Book, “Jane Austen’s Gardens: Love in the Shrubbery,” was beautifully illustrat[...] | 5/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Craft of Writing: A Panel Discussion | Moderated by the publisher of Warren Machine Company, Ari Meil, this event was a discussion of why Maine provides such rich inspiration for writers, and what has brought the writers Lewis Robinson, Andrew McNabb, and Lisa Carey to their respective p[...] | 5/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Librarian’s Introduction to Rules | School librarian Connie Burns of South Portland is a steadfast supporter of the Maine Student Book Award program. Here, she presents the winning book from the 2006-07 school year: Rules (Scholastic, 2006) by Maine’s own Cynthia Lord. Part of t[...] | 5/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Meeting of the Apes | In this three-part episode, two particularly quick-witted and talkative apes, Hannah Holmes (The Well-Dressed Ape) and Bill Roorbach (Temple Stream), address their collisions with the rest of the natural world. Roorbach’s recent work has taken him i[... | 5/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ann Hood | Ann Hood is the author, most recently, of The Knitting Circle and Comfort: A Journey Through Grief. Both new books deal with the loss of her 5-year old daughter, one through fiction and one through memoir. In this talk, she compares the two approach[...] | 5/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address | To close the Lincoln Bicentennial Symposium on March 21, 2009, former Maine Governor Angus King read Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address. He also shared some thoughts about Lincoln, whom he includes in his course on “Leaders and Leadershi[...] | 4/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Afterlife of Abraham Lincoln | Thomas J. Brown is Associate Professor of History at the University of South Carolina, where he also serves as Associate Director of the Institute for Southern Studies. He is a Distinguished Lecturer with the Organization of American Historians. In [...] | 4/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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In the Aftermath of the Lincoln Assassination | Elizabeth D. Leonard is the John J. and Cornelia V. Gibson Professor of History at Colby College, where she has taught since 1992. Leonard is the author of three books on the Civil War era, and she is under contract to write the biography of Joseph [...] | 4/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Rise of Abraham Lincoln | Before he was the leader of a nation torn apart by a Civil War, Abraham Lincoln was a young man growing up during tumultuous times in Illinois. In the first presentation of the Lincoln Bicentennial Symposium, historian Bruce Chadwick explained Linco[...] | 4/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address | To open the Lincoln Bicentennial Symposium on March 21, 2009, Portland Mayor Jill Duson read Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. Mayor Duson is the Director of Rehabilitation Services, Maine Department of Labor. She is serving her third term on the [...] | 4/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sarah Caldwell and Prokofiev’s War and Peace | James T. Morgan was a long-time friend and colleague at The Opera Company of Boston of the late Sarah Caldwell, the most innovative opera director of mid-20th-century America and the first woman to conduct at the Metropolitan Opera. He worked with C[...] | 4/7/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Thin Blue Lines | Thin Blue Lines is a project of Portland’s Arts & Equity Initiative. The project brings local poets and photographers together with Portland police officers and detectives to create poems and photographs that increase the public’s knowledge and [...] | 4/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Shall We Dance? A Close Reading | Sheila McCarthy is Associate Professor of Russian at Colby College. She has a B.A. in Russian from Emmanuel College, an M.A. from Harvard in Russian Area Studies, and a Ph.D. from Cornell University in Russian literature. She teaches 19th-century Ru[...] | 3/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Love and War in War and Peace | Justin Weir is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. He received a B.A. in Russian from the University of Minnesota and his master’s and doctoral degree in Russian literature from Northwestern University. He is co-edit[... | 3/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Chris Bohjalian | Chris Bohjalian is the author of eleven novels, including the New York Times bestsellers The Double Bind, Before You Know Kindness, The Law of Similars, and Midwives. Bohjalian won the New England Book Award in 2002. His work has been translated int[...] | 2/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Patricia Smith | Patricia Smith is a 2008 National Book Award Finalist for Blood Dazzler, also the basis of a forthcoming dance/theater performance with Urban Bush Women. Her other books of poetry are Teahouse of the Almighty, winner of the National Poetry Series, t[...] | 2/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Marilyn Nelson | Poet Marilyn Nelson is the author or translator of twelve books and three chapbooks. She has won numerous awards, including two Boston Globe—Horn Book Awards, and is a three-time National Book Award Finalist. From the American Library Association, h[... | 2/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Suzanne Strempek Shea | Suzanne Strempek Shea is the author of five novels: Selling the Lite of Heaven, Hoopi Shoopi Donna, Lily of the Valley, Around Again, and Becoming Finola. She has also written three memoirs, Songs From a Lead-lined Room, Shelf Life, and Sundays in A[...] | 2/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Stonecoast Faculty Flash Reading, Part 2 | This episode is the continuation of the Stonecoast MFA Faculty “flash reading” from the winter residency in January 2009, in which each writer gets three minutes in which to share his or her work before introducing the next writer in the[...] | 1/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Stonecoast Faculty Flash Reading, Part 1 | One of the highlights of each 10-day residency in the Stonecoast MFA program is the “flash reading” by faculty members. Each writer gets three minutes in which to share his or her work before introducing the next writer in the queue. The flash readi[. | 1/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Michael Steinberg | Michael Steinberg is a memoirist and the founding editor of the award-winning literary journal Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction. His latest book, Still Pitching, was chosen by ForeWord Magazine as the 2003 Small and Independent Press memoir/[...] | 1/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Gray Jacobik | Gray Jacobik is author of three collections of poetry: The Double Task (University of Massachusetts Press), winner of the Juniper Prize, nominated for the James Laughlin Award and The Poet’s Prize; The Surface of Last Scattering (Texas Review Press)[... | 1/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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India and Pakistan: The History Behind the Headlines | The goal of this day-long program was to provide an introduction to the complex web of politics, culture, and religion that has made South Asia both a volatile area and an emerging power. Rachel Sturman, Assistant Professor of History and Asian Stud[...] | 1/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Colin Sargent | Colin Sargent is a playwright and author of three books of poetry. A graduate of the United States Naval Academy, he earned a Stonecoast MFA in creative writing and was awarded the Maine individual artist fellowship in literature. His screenplay “Mo[... | 1/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party | Another contender for a Maine Student Book Award in 2008-09 is Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party (Random House, 2007) by Ying Chang Compestine (pictured at right). This novel about life in China during the Cultural Revolution is based on the author’s[... | 11/21/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat | Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat by Lynne Jonell, illustrated by Jonathan Bean (Henry Holt, 2007), is intended for children ages 8-12, but its whimsy and wit broaden its appeal. The novel was chosen as one of School Library Journal’s Best Book[... | 11/21/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Landscapes of Poland Spring | David Richards earned his Ph.D. in History from the University of New Hampshire. His research for the 2006 book Poland Spring: A Tale of the Gilded Age (University Press of New England) forms the basis of this presentation at the Yarmouth Historical[...] | 10/16/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blaine House Oral History | The Blaine House is the Governor’s residence in Augusta, Maine. At the 175th anniversary celebration of this historic house on August 16, 2008, historian Jo Radner interviewed some of its former residents and staff. Phyllis H. Siebert was the Blaine[... | 10/16/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Children’s Authors at the Blue Hill Library | Maine is home to many children’s authors and illustrators. Fans are usually only fortunate enough to see one at a time, but in July 2008, three of the best-known—Cynthia Voigt, Ruth Freeman Swain, and Rebekah Raye—appeared together at the Blue Hill | 10/6/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Librarian’s Introduction to Moon Runner | School librarian Connie Burns of South Portland is a steadfast supporter of the Maine Student Book Award program. She presents one of the books on the list of contenders from the 2006-07 school year: Moon Runner (Candlewick, 2005) by Carolyn Marsde[...] | 10/6/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Eve LaPlante | Samuel Sewall, the only judge to publicly repent his decision to condemn twenty people to death as witches in 1692, is the subject of Eve LaPlante’s new biography, Salem Witch Judge: The Life and Repentance of Samuel Sewall (HarperOne, 2007). LaPlan[... | 9/22/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Beyond the Clash of Civilizations | The 2008 Douglas M. Schair Memorial Lecture on Genocide and Human Rights was a dialogue for Muslim-Jewish understanding, presented in cooperation with the Islamic Society of Portland and the Jewish Community Alliance of Southern Maine. The featured [...] | 9/22/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Linda Greenlaw | Linda Greenlaw’s three books about life as a commercial fisherman—The Hungry Ocean (1999), The Lobster Chronicles (2002), and All Fishermen Are Liars (2004)—have climbed as high as #2 on the New York Times bestseller list. Her first novel, Slipknot, | 9/18/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Devil of Great Island | Emerson ‘Tad’ Baker of York, Maine, is a former chair of the Maine Humanities Council. An author and Professor of History at Salem State College, he directs several archaelogical excavations in New England and also served, from 2002 until its premie[. | 9/9/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Vietnam in the Context of the American Way of War | Patrick Rael is Associate Professor of History at Bowdoin College. His areas of interest include antebellum America, Civil War and Reconstruction, and comparative slavery. Among other publications, he has edited a volume of scholarship on African-Am[...] | 8/26/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Margaret Jane Mussey Sweat | Connie Burns is a school librarian in South Portland with a hidden passion: the lives of Victorian women. In pursuit of her passion, Burns researched Margaret Jane Mussey Sweat (1823-1908) for her Master’s thesis in the American and New England Stud[... | 8/26/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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First Anniversary of the Portland Freedom Trail | “Weaving History and Literature: the African American Oral and Written Tradition” brought five writers together to read from their work and discuss how African American history is revealed through storytelling and literature. The speakers were Jerri[. | 8/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Annaliese Jakimides and A Coastal Companion | A Coastal Companion: A Year in the Gulf of Maine, from Canada to Cape Cod (Tilbury House, 2008) is part field guide, part almanac; a celebration of the natural world that also highlights people who have chosen the Gulf of Maine as the setting for th[...] | 8/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Interview with Lizz Sinclair | Created by the Maine Humanities Council, Literature & Medicine: Humanities at the Heart of Health Care® is a national award-winning reading and discussion program for health care professionals. The Maine Public Broadcasting Network’s Tom Porte[...] | 8/8/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nalo Hopkinson | Nalo Hopkinson is one of the world’s best known fantasy and science fiction writers. She is the author of four novels (most recently The New Moon’s Arms, Warner, 2007) and numerous short stories, and editor or co-editor of several anthologies, inclu[. | 8/8/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Alison Hawthorne Deming | Alison Hawthorne Deming is the author of three books of poetry, three nonfiction books, and two limited-edition chapbooks. Her place-based writing has earned her fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center in Prov[...] | 8/8/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Conversation about Thanks to the Animals | When the Born to Read program selected books for its anti-bias initiative, Many Eyes, Many Voices, there was a distressing gap in the field of contenders: a suitable children’s book about Maine Native Americans. The few titles available were either [... | 7/25/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sleep Tight, Little Bear | Here is another story by Martin Waddell about Little Bear and Big Bear. It is read aloud by Rachel Davis, children’s librarian at the Thomas Memorial Library in Cape Elizabeth. Then Rachel shares two fingerplays. Text copyright 2005 by Martin Waddel[... | 7/25/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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You Can Do It, Sam | Amy Hest’s third book about the bear named Sam is read aloud by Rachel Davis, children’s librarian at the Thomas Memorial Library in Cape Elizabeth. Rachel then teaches two fingerplays that you can do after you read the book. Text copyright 2003 by [. | 7/25/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Baby Brains | Here’s a funny book by British author Simon James, read aloud by Rachel Davis, children’s librarian at the Thomas Memorial Library in Cape Elizabeth. After she reads the book, Rachel teaches a fingerplay called “The Baby Grows” and a poem called | 7/25/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kiss Good Night | This is the first book that author Amy Hest wrote about the bear named Sam, a character inspired by her own son, Sam. Here, the book is read aloud by Rachel Davis, children’s librarian at the Thomas Memorial Library in Cape Elizabeth. Rachel then te[... | 7/25/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Why Are Some Biographies So Good? | Charles Calhoun is Scholar in Residence at the Maine Humanities Council. He is the author of Longfellow: A Rediscovered Life (2004), A Small College in Maine: 200 Years of Bowdoin (1993), and the volume on Maine in the Compass American Guide Series [...] | 7/16/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Family and Gender in Contemporary China | Nancy Riley is a professor of sociology at Bowdoin College whose work focuses on family, gender and population, and China. She has completed years of research in Dalian on the family lives of women factory workers, and taken groups of students (and [...] | 7/16/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Miriam Colwell | Miriam Colwell was born in Prospect Harbor in 1917 and still lives in the house built by her great-great-grandfather in 1817. She is the author of Wind Off the Water (1945), Day of the Trumpet (1947), and Young (1955). As a small town resident and l[...] | 7/10/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robert P. Tristram Coffin | The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Robert P. Tristram Coffin (1892-1955) was a native Mainer, Bowdoin College graduate, and longtime Bowdoin faculty member. Though a popular writer and speaker in his time, his work is not widely known today. In this po[...] | 7/10/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Good Life of Helen K. Nearing | For her doctoral dissertation in American history, scholar Mimi Killinger researched the life of homesteader and writer Helen Nearing. Her dissertation became the biography The Good Life of Helen K. Nearing (University of Vermont Press, 2007). Here,[...] | 7/10/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Neil Rolde | Neil Rolde’s 2006 book, Continental Liar from the State of Maine, is a biography of James G. Blaine, the Maine politician who dominated the American political stage from just before the Civil War and almost until the twentieth century. A former Main[... | 7/1/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jeff Shaara | The Steel Wave is the second novel in what will be a trilogy of World War II stories by Jeff Shaara, who has also written about the Civil War, the American Revolution, the Mexican War, and the first World War. Shaara is the son of the late Michael S[...] | 7/1/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lewis Robinson | Lewis Robinson is the author of Officer Friendly and Other Stories and the forthcoming novel Water Dogs, due out from Random House in January 2009. A graduate of Middlebury College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he is the winner of a Whiting Writer[... | 6/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Shara McCallum | Shara McCallum is the author of two poetry collections, The Water Between Us (University of Pittsburgh, 1999, winner of the 1998 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize) and Song of Thieves (University of Pittsburgh, 2003). McCallum was born in Jamaica, w[...] | 6/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Interview with Ashley Bryan | Born and raised in New York City, Ashley Bryan is another author “from away” who has found a home in Maine. Folklorist, writer, illustrator and performer, Bryan draws on African myths and tales, his own and others’ experience, and his literary, arti | 6/6/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Don’t You Feel Well, Sam? | Here is one of Amy Hest’s popular books about a bear named Sam, read aloud by Amy Hand, children’s librarian at the Camden Public Library. Text copyright 2002 by Amy Hest. Illustrations copyright 2002 by Anita Jeram. Reproduced by permission of Cand[. | 6/6/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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In the Rain With Baby Duck | Amy Hest is the author of this book about a duck who learns to love the rain. Here is Amy Hand, children’s librarian at the Camden Public Library, reading the book aloud and sharing a rhyme and two songs. For more children’s books about rain, see th[. | 6/6/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Can’t You Sleep, Little Bear? | Owl Babies is not the only bedtime book by Martin Waddell. He also wrote this book about a bear who cannot fall asleep. Amy Hand, children’s librarian at the Camden Public Library, reads the story aloud, then shares two rhymes and a song about the n[... | 6/6/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dido’s Lament: Virgilian Epic and 17th Century English Opera | Andrew Walkling is Dean’s Assistant Professor of Early Modern Studies at the State University of New York at Binghamton, where he teaches in the departments of art history, English, and theater and is affiliated with the faculties of history, music,[... | 5/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Art for Justice: Using Writing to Create Social Change | Jennifer Hodsdon, a 2008 graduate of the Stonecoast program who now coordinates the Maine SpeakOut Project, led this discussion of some of the rewards and challenges that come from using writing as a transformative exercise to effect social change. [...] | 5/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Peaceable Stories with Jody Fein | Storyteller Jody Fein visited the East End Community School in Portland on May 15, 2008, to tell stories to the Kindergarten, 1st Grade, and 2nd Grade. She selected the stories “Abiyoyo,” “Stone Soup,” and “The Wind and the Sun,” all of which | 5/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Believing Shakespeare: Religion in Shakespeare’s World and in his Plays | David Scott Kastan is the Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities and Chair of the English Department at Columbia University. He specializes in 16th- and 17th-century literature and culture, Shakespeare, and the history of the book. He i[...] | 5/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Moon Pie Press | Three poets whose work has been published by the small, Maine-based Moon Pie Press, read together as part of the Portland Public Library’s Poetry Festival in April, 2008. Alice N. Persons, founder of Moon Pie Press, is a sometime English teacher and[... | 5/13/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ford In Focus | Michael C. Connolly and Kevin Stoehr are the editors of John Ford in Focus, a collection of essays that offers a comprehensive examination of Ford’s life and career, revealing the frequent intersections between Ford’s personal life and artistic visi[. | 5/13/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Annie Finch and Patricia Hagge | Patricia Hagge and Annie Finch opened the library’s 2008 Poetry Festival with this reading. Hagge earned her MFA from the Stonecoast MFA program. She serves on the boards of SPACE Gallery and The Telling Room. Finch, who directs the Stonecoast progr[... | 5/13/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How Did You Get Here? | Playwright Victoria Mares-Hershey’s “How Did You Get Here?” gives voice to Africans in Maine, during the period of slavery and beyond, by giving audiences a sense of their everyday lives. This reading of the play’s first act was recorded on March | 5/7/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cowboy Baby | This bedtime story by Sue Heap is set in the Wild West. As Rachel Davis, children’s librarian at the Thomas Memorial Library in Cape Elizabeth, reads the book aloud, you can follow along in your own copy or a copy borrowed from the library. Then, l[... | 5/2/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Oliver Finds His Way | While walking through the woods in autumn, Oliver chases a leaf and gets separated from his parents. This is the story of how he finds them again. It is read aloud by Rachel Davis, children’s librarian at the Thomas Memorial Library in Cape Elizabe[... | 5/2/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Only Joking, Laughed the Lobster! | Colin West is a prolific British author who writes nonsense verse and humorous books, such as this one, about a lobster who takes his joking one step too far. Rachel Davis, children’s librarian at the Thomas Memorial Library in Cape Elizabeth, reads[... | 5/2/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Translating Virgil | Barbara Weiden Boyd is the Henry Winkley Professor of Latin and Greek at Bowdoin College, where she has taught since 1980. She earned her Ph.D. at Michigan and has written extensively on Latin literature, notably two books on the poet Ovid. In recen[...] | 4/22/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Rome of Augustus | Peter Aicher is Professor of Classics at the University of Southern Maine in Portland, where he frequently teaches courses on Homer and Virgil, in translation and in Greek and Latin. He combines these literary interests with a fascination with the c[...] | 4/17/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Virgil and History | Michael C. J. Putnam is MacMillan Professor of Classics and Professor of Comparative Literature at Brown University, where he has taught since 1961. Educated at Harvard, he has written 11 books on Latin literature and has edited four others. He is w[...] | 4/11/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 115 Episodes |
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