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SUMMARY:Marko Marila - Written in Stone: The Material Culture of Deep Time Communication
DESCRIPTION:Written in Stone: The Material Culture of Deep Time Communication\na presentation by Marko Marila\n\nTuesday\, April 7\, 2026\n\n\n3:30 PM\nIMRC Center 104\nFernald Adaptive Presentation and Performance Environment\nUniversity of Maine\, Orono\, ME\n\nMarko Marila is an Associate Professor of Museology at the University of Jyväskylä and an Adjunct Professor of Heritage Archaeology at the University of Turku in Finland. With a PhD in history and philosophy or archaeology from the University of Helsinki (2020)\, Marila’s research explores themes ranging from archaeological speculation to creative methods in critical heritage studies\, bringing together historical and archaeological perspectives with contemporary art practice. \n\nInfo: \n\nHuman attempts to communicate with the distant future date back millennia. From efforts to preserve the teachings of the Buddha to attempts to convey the risks of high-level nuclear waste – intended to last 100\,000 years – deep-time communication has employed a range of semiotic strategies\, highlighting the difficulty of anticipating the nature of the message’s recipient. All such future communication challenges involve questions concerning both the preservation of the medium and the intelligibility of the message. \nIn this talk\, Marila reflects on historical examples of deep-time communication\, focusing on his research into future communication strategies in anti-nuclear and anti-uranium mining activist art. Drawing on cases from Finland\, Sweden\, and the United States\, Marila demonstrates how efforts to communicate contemporary energy politics and environmental concerns to the distant future have made use of stone and rock. Marila argues that rock was chosen not only for its durability but also for its cosmological significance across millennia. \nFor more details\, email mhc@maine.edu
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LOCATION:IMRC 104 – The Fernald Adaptive Presentation & Performance Environment\, IMRC Center\, 5 Hilltop Road\, Orono\, ME\, United States
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SUMMARY:Helen Walter - St. Thomas More's Utopian Soul
DESCRIPTION:St. Thomas More’s Utopian Soul\na presentation by MHC Undergraduate Fellow Helen Walter\n\nTuesday\, April 7\, 2026\n7:00 PM\nNewman Center\nUniversity of Maine\, Orono\, ME\n\nHelen Walter is a Political Science and History double major whose project St. Thomas More’s Utopian Soul probes Thomas More’s book Utopia and the works it draws on in order to understand More’s answer to the question: how does human desire relate to justice? For this research\, Walter worked with faculty mentor Robert Ballingall\, Associate Professor of Political Science. Walter’s Fellowship is supported by the Liam Riordan Humanities Fellowship Fund. \n\nInfo: \nA four-part lecture which compares the esoteric reading of Plato’s Republic and the Laws to More’s imitation of them\, reading More’s Utopian city as an analogy for the soul and his dialogue in Book I as a discussion of the philosophical political problem. The first section will use textual evidence to justify the claim that Utopia ought to be read esoterically (in the Straussian sense). I will go through the various places in the text where More distances himself from the explicit meaning of the words of both the character of More and the character of Hythloday. In the second section\, I will examine how\, if we read between the lines of Book I\, it becomes clear that More and Hythloday are not just discussing the problem of counsel\, but the deeper question of the Socratic political problem and the limits of pure rationality. The next sections will focus on Book II and will interpret the society of the Utopians as a Platonic city in speech and metaphor for the soul\, arguing that More intends to demonstrate the limitations of a soul like Hythloday’s and the limitations of rational inquiry without Socratic eros or Christian caritas. The lecture will end with an exposition of what this interpretation means for the reader and the history of political philosophy in general.\n\n\nFor more details\, email mhc@maine.edu
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LOCATION:Newman Center at University of Maine\, 83 College Ave.\, Orono\, ME\, United States
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