Gloria S. Duclos Convocation

Crest for the Wabanaki Confederacy with seven feathers hanging from a center circle surrounded by primitive faces. Circle is divided into four areas of colors with images representing the many tribes of the Wabanaki.

Wabanaki Reach

We are pleased to be partnering with Wabanaki REACH to bring their workshops to the University community.

Rocky lake shore before an evergreen forest in the shadow of a mountain

Written Expressions: Voices from Native American Communities

We hope you can take a few minutes to read what’s currently available, and return each month to read what’s new.

News

Memory Trauma event poster

USM Convocation hosts "Memory, Trauma and the Generations of Genocide" with internationally renowned therapist Dr. Yael Danieli

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Weekly Event Highlights

Strossen book cover

USM Convocation events to explore trauma and race through music, lectures, and film

Reza Jalali’s “The Poets and the Assasin” to be performed at USM on Feb. 14

Brian Purnell at W. E. B. DuBois Lecture 2017

Annual W. E. B. DuBois lecture addresses racism, segregation outside Southern U.S.

Andrew Seligsohn

Democracy, civic action center of lecture at USM

Brian Purnell

Award-winning author to speak about 'The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North' at USM's 2nd annual W. E. B. Du Bois lecture event Nov. 6

Women Without Men movie poster

First Iranian film festival in Maine to be hosted by USM Honors program as part of year-long Gloria S. Duclos Convocation

Lacks family speak at Hannaford Hall

Henrietta Lacks' descendants discuss bioethics, race and compassion at USM

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (book cover)

USM to host “Descendants of Henrietta Lacks” bioethics lecture Oct. 13