October is Archives Month! To celebrate and raise awareness about UNE's Special Collections and archives, come join us for this year's Archival Portraits event! Just like last year, UNE Special Collections wants to take your picture! But we want to capture the contents of your bag or pockets. Just like every face is different, every pocket [...]
The American Library Association documented 1269 demands to censor library books and resources in 2022. That is almost double the 729 books challenges reported in 2021. From January 1 - August 31, there have already been 695 attempts to censor library materials and challenges to 1915 unique titles. Alarmingly, the majority of challenges in school [...]
This year's Donna Loring Lecture will be a reading by Morgan Talty, author of Night of the Living Rez October 5, 2023 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. St. Francis Room, Ketchum Library, UNE Biddeford CampusFree and open to the public; refreshments providedFree books available for UNE students with student ID (while supplies last)Event will be recorded as [...]
Join UNE Librarian Sonya Durney as she hosts a Maine Humanities Council panel discussion "How Do We Keep Talking With Our Neighbors." Sonya and other panelists from Maine's library community will share how they connect with their communities despite the prevalence of fear and extreme viewpoints. Learn more about this program at the Maine Humanities [...]
Plate Rim, archival pigment print, 2016 Renowned photographer Rose Marasco will lead a gallery walk at the UNE Art Gallery in Portland to talk about the artwork in her solo exhibition "Camera Lucida", featuring pieces from the Maine Women Writers Collection, the Stephen K Halpert Collection of Photography at UNE, and the personal collection of the [...]
Online on Zoom and livestreamed on une.edu/live; free and open to the public This event will celebrate the publication of Lunden's book, American Breakdown: Our Ailing Nation, My Body's Revolt, and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Who Brought Me Back to Life (Harper Wave 2023), and will include a reading, facilitated conversation, and Q&A. American Breakdown is a Silent Spring for the human [...]
Join us for a special lunchtime event at the UNE Art Gallery in Biddeford featuring artists Honour Mack and COBRE Histology and Imaging Core Manager Peter Caradonna! Honour Mack, Boil Target. Gouache, graphite, and polymer, 2019 TRPV1 labeling in mouse cornea shown by immunofluorescence. Imaged by Phil Long. Artist Honour Mack and COBRE Histology and Imaging Core [...]
Join artist Rose Marasco for a reading and celebration of her new book At Home (OSMOS Books 2023), a memoir and meditation on the history of photography. Marasco is a key feminist voice among practitioners of vernacular photography and a widely exhibited photographer with works in many museum collections, who has also spent decades as a beloved and highly regarded teacher of photography. [...]
We are participating in the Read ME summer reading program offered by the Maine State Library and the Maine Writer's & Publishers Alliance. Each year two titles by emerging Maine authors are selected to be read and discussed at local libraries. The series features author talks and discussions across the state. This summer's featured books [...]
June 23-October 8, 2023 Rose Marasco, a major voice in the world of contemporary photography, is celebrated in the solo exhibition “Rose Marasco: Camera Lucida” opening Friday, June 23 at the University of New England Art Gallery in Portland. A collaboration between the Stephen K. Halpert Collection of Photography and the Maine Women Writers Collection at UNE, [...]
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