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UMaine News – Monday, November 16, 2009
HISTORY DEPARTMENT SYMPOSIUM TODAY The UMaine Department of History is sponsoring a symposium Monday at 3:10 p.m. in the Bangor Room of the Memorial Union, with Michael Socolow of the Department of Communication and Journalism faculty. The title of the event, which is free and open to the public, is “The Man up in New York or Chicago: National Network Radio and the American South.” Socolow looks at national network radio in the 1920s and 1930s as an agent for creating new conceptions of American nationalism and the homogenization of national culture.
ACADEMIC PROGRAM PRIORITIZATION GROUP SETS PRELIMINARY CRITERIA UMaine’s Academic Program Prioritization Working Group (APPWG) has created preliminary criteria for review of units and programs. APPWG, a group made up of UMaine faculty members and administrators, is interested in receiving feeback via email, accessible through the APPWG Web site at http://www.umaine.edu/achievingsustainability/. The preliminary criteria are described on the APPWG Web site here.
DARWIN LECTURES CONTINUE THIS WEEK The University of Maine’s semester-long Celebration of Darwin continues Monday with a lecture,”Hominid Evolution, Human Migrations and Ancient DNA,” by Kristin obolik of the UMaine Anthropology Department faculty, and on Wednesday, Nov.18, with a talk, “Struggle for Existence, Biocultural Evolution,” with Jim Roscoe of the Anthropology Department and Climate Change Institute. Both lectures are from 8:35-9:50 a.m. in 130 Little Hall. Each class meeting in the semester-long series is also open to members of the UMaine community and the public. A full schedule is online here. Those who are interested can also join the UMaine Darwin Program fan page on Facebook.
SPEAKER TO DISCUSS ISRAEL-PALESTINE HUMAN RIGHTS Hadas Ziv, 2009 Visiting Oak Fellow at Colby College’s Oak Institute for the Study of International Human Rights and executive director of Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-Israel), is the scheduled speaker for the Nov. 23 lecture sponsored by the Bangor Foreign Policy Forum, a non-profit, non-partisan community organization co-sponsored by UMaine. Hadas will speak on the topic “A Two-State Solution: Can Health be a Bridge to Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?” at 7:30 a.m. in the Bangor Public Library, 145 Harlow St. Anyone in attending the event is encouraged to RSVP via email to Peter Fandeorg.
UMaine in the News
SOCOLOW COLUMN IN BDN Friday’s Bangor Daily News included a guest column by Prof. Michael Socolow of the UMaine Dept. of Communication and Journalism. In the column, Socolow reflects on Vice President Spiro Agnew’s public criticisms of the news media, which began 40 years ago. He points out that Agnew’s speeches led to “a great deal of internal self-examination” in news organizations, along with subsequent changes in the media environment that reverberate today, in Socolow’s estimation.
RILEY COLUMN NOTES THE LOSS OF IVES AND SMITH Wayne Reilly’s history column in Monday’s Bangor Daily News includes reflections on UMaine professors David Smith and Sandy Ives, both of whom have died in the past few months.
WARD COMMENTS IN CREATIVE ECONOMY STORY Comments from Jake Ward, UMaine assistant vice president of research, economic development and government affairs, were included in a Monday Bangor Daily News story about Juice 2.0, a weekend Camden conference about Maine’s creative economy.
BREWER IN REPORT ON GOP AND SNOWE VOTING RECORD Prof. Mark Brewer of the UMaine political science faculty was interviewed for a Saturday Bangor Daily News story about some Republican criticism of U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe’s record. Snowe, a Maine republican who was reelected in 2006, has come under criticism from GOP figures including Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty.
