The McGillicuddy Humanities Center is sponsoring a two-night research showcase event, “The Stories We Tell,” featuring the research and creative work of our four graduating undergraduate student fellows. While each student has been working independently, their collective research this past year all happened to center around stories that people tell from generation to generation. The showcase will take place on Wednesday, April 21, and Thursday, April 22, from 7-8:30 p.m. on both nights. . Passcode Ìý899432 if prompted.ÌýEmail questions to mhc@maine.edu.

PRESENTATION SCHEDULE

Wednesday, April 21, 7-8:30 PM, FELLOWS KATHERINE REARDON AND NOLA PREVOST

Katherine Reardon, “What It Was and What I Know: Attempts at Family History”

Senior English major KatherineÌýReardon will be reading her creative work discussing family histories and storytelling through the lens of her own Irish family. Reardon was inspired to do this work while studying abroad in her family’s native Ireland. Combining the oral histories and family lore she grew up with sometimes contradictory archival records, Reardon examines where the truth fits in with these stories, and whether or not it is important if a family story is true. She will also discuss her personal reflective process, and locating herself within these stories.

Nola Prevost, “All The Girls In The Woods: Feminist Fairy Tales for the Modern World”

Nola Prevost will present selections from her original collection of feminist fairy tales, All The Girls In The Woods. Prevost, a senior English major and a Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies minor, will explore the ability of the fairy tale genre to create and disseminate knowledge and values, and how this can be useful for social justice activism. She will also discuss the impact of inclusive and diverse representation in stories on women, people of color, and the LGBTQ+ community.

Thursday, April 22, 7-8:30 PM, FELLOWS HAILEY CEDOR AND NOLAN ALTVATER

Hailey Cedor, “Local Involvement, Memory and Denial: the Complexities of the Holocaust in Lithuania”

Senior History major HaileyÌýCedor will present part of her Honors thesis research about local involvement and memory of Lithuanians in relation to the Holocaust. The complex relationship of current Lithuanians with past atrocities shows the difficulties of acknowledging and reconciling difficult history, and the dangers of that ignorance. In Lithuania, the country’s complicated past has left ample room for self-victimization and denial that favors the public memory of non-Jewish Lithuanians, leaving the small Jewish community that survived the Holocaust to be continually marginalized. CedorÌýhas worked with Holocaust material since the fall of 2018, and this past experience sparked an interest in Lithuania’s relationship to the Holocaust.

Nolan Altvater, “Wabanaki Tools of Diplomacy: Storying Protocols as Political Will”

Using Indigenous research methodologies, senior fellow Nolan Altvater’s project aims to center the needs and voices of Wabanaki communities to inform education policy in the State of Maine. Altvater, a Passamaquoddy citizen and future Tribal educator, addresses the current barriers of implementation of the Wabanaki Studies Law (LD 291) and presents how Wabanaki diplomacy can lead the way to address these issues and serve as political will toward decolonization and antiracist conviction in Maine education. In addition, it explores the concepts and protocols of wampum and its later form of Indigenous writing and how Wabanaki people have used traditional intellect to use these tools for empowerment to resist colonialism. Altvater is also a board member of Wabanaki Reach.

Click here for more information on the McGillicuddy Humanities Center fellowship program, or email mhc@maine.edu with questions.

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This event, part of the MHC’s 2020-2021 Symposium on “The Story of Climate Change”ÌýbringsÌýtogetherÌýpeopleÌýfromÌýdifferentÌýprofessionalÌýfieldsÌýtaskedÌýwith communicatingÌýthe impact of climate change to the public. The panel (which will be remote, ) features a veteran reporter, scientists working with Maine’s Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (DIFW), and is moderated by Dr. Katherine Glover from the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute.Ìý Panelists will discuss best practices for telling the story of climate change, and for helping theÌýpublicÌýunderstand environmental transformation on both a local and global scale.

Panelists:

is a veteran Bangor Daily News reporter who writes about how the Atlantic Ocean and the state’s iconic coastline help to shape the lives of coastal Maine residents and visitors.ÌýÌýBased , he writes about fisheries, marine-related topics, and covers eastern coastal Maine communities.

Dr. Amanda Cross is a wildlife biologist with the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife and a member of .ÌýÌýShe studies, teaches, and conducts public outreach about vernal pool ecology across Maine.

is aÌýMoose Biologist for the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.ÌýÌýIn 2019, Kantar was awardedÌýat the 53rd North American Moose Conference held in Carrabassett Valley, Maine.

Moderator

is a Research Associate at the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute. Specializing in how interactions between hydroclimate, vegetation, and wildfire produce landscape change, and the sustainableÌýÌýmanagement of public lands, Dr. Glover will be teaching WGS 301/501: Women and Climate Change, in the spring, 2021 semester.

The panel will run 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., and it will be recorded.
Join via Zoom at:Ìý

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Maine in the Statehood Era (ca. 1780s-1820s) and itsÌýCommemoration and Legacy

A volume of scholarly essays to be edited byÌýRichard Judd (McBride Professor of History, emeritus, Univ. of Maine) andÌýLiam Riordan (Professor of History, Univ. of Maine).

To mark the bicentennial of the state of Maine in 2020, the co-editors seek essays on any aspect of Maine history in the broad statehood era (ca. 1780s-1820s) or about the commemoration of statehood and its legacy. We anticipate accepting several papers that were presented at the Maine Statehood and Bicentennial Conference (held May 30-June 1, 2019), but we also seek submissions from those who did not present at (or attend) the conference.

Possible topics include but are not limited to:

• the politics and popular culture of separation from Massachusetts
• Wabanaki people, sovereignty, and the consequences of Maine independence
• French-speakers and their relationship to statehood and the new state
• the unsettled international border and relationships with Canada
• the Maine-Missouri Crisis and the politics of slavery and blackness
• religion in the statehood era
• land use, natural resources, and environmental history
• material culture and visual representations of Maine
• commemoration of statehood and its legacy
• assessments of local history, historical museums, and historic sites
• evaluations of the goals for public history in the twenty-first century

Submission Schedule:

Nov. 15, 2019ÌýÌý submit a 300-word article proposal (state the scope, argument, and core evidence for your essay) as well as a short CV to riordan@maine.edu

Dec. 15, 2019ÌýÌý notification from editors

July 31, 2020ÌýÌýÌý deadline to submit complete accepted essay (length ca. 7,500 words exclusive of notes, captions, and images)

We partly conceptualize this volume as revisiting and updating some of the approaches in Charles E. Clark, James S. Leamon, and Karen Bowden, eds., Maine in the Early Republic: From Revolution to Statehood(1988). As in that collection, we will seek funding to permit numerous illustrations, images, and the graphic presentation of data. Please consider this in making your proposal.

For videos from the Maine Bicentennial Conference in 2019, as well as links to online resources about the Maine statehood process, please visit:

Please direct inquiries or submit proposals to Liam Riordan at riordan@maine.edu

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