Continental Breakfast

Mind-Body Connection in 19th Century American Health Care How doctors and patients understood illness and healing. Marli Weiner, University of Maine

Art of the Crusader Era The elite international culture shared by Islamic, Armenian, Byzantine, Frankish, and European rulers connected by friendship, alliance, marriage, and competition. Rebecca Corrie, Bates College

Whose Opera Is It? What the production does to the score. James Parakilas, Bates College

Power and Idealism in Imperial Greece and Rome An exploration of the relationship between national character and political enterprises abroad. Peter Aicher, University of Southern Maine

Emily Dickinson & Toni Morrison: Giants of American Literature The surprising similarities in the way these writers negotiate language, race, and gender to get some place where the love is generous. Cedric Bryant, Colby College

Marsden Hartley: Transnational Modernist Considered a distinctly American artist, this Lewiston native actually traveled extensively; his art is a product of that experience. DONNA CASSIDY, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE

Ordinary People or Willing Perpetrators: Free Will and Coercion in Nazi Germany New research on freedom and choice among ordinary Germans under Nazism. RAFFAEL SCHECK, COLBY COLLEGE

Marco Polo: Fact and Fiction Very little is known about the explorer whose name stands for a giant leap in geographical knowledge. OTTO EMERSLEBEN, BOWDOIN COLLEGE

The Vicissitudes of Confucian Values in Modern China What role do traditional values play in China? JIE ZHAO, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE

Money and the English Novel Money as a central focus from Daniel Defoe to Charles Dickens. ANN KIBBIE, BOWDOIN COLLEGE

The Persistence of the Maya Almost five hundred years of survival, from the Spanish invasion to the present. DAVID CAREY, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE

Walt Whitman at War The Civil War devastated Whitman’s once-ardent sense of American promise; he struggled to sustain some shred of belief in the better possibilities of national life. PETER COVIELLO, BOWDOIN COLLEGE

Nature as Art in Japan From its prehistory to today, Japan has linked nature and art in ways that reflect its religious beliefs, its landscape, and the human condition. CLIFTON OLDS, BOWDOIN COLLEGE

Pilgrimages in the Middle Ages An illustrated exploration of the idea of pilgrimages, a defining characteristic of the medieval worldview. KATHLEEN ASHLEY, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE

New England and the Sea An illustrated overview of the influence of the sea on New England life. JOSEPH CONFORTI, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE

Poetry Reading BARON WORMSER AND CANDICE STOVER

World Islam and the West: Coexistence or Conflict in the Twenty-First Century? Muslim-Western relations in the 21st century in the context of history. MAHMUD FAKSH, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE

Moving Images of Maine: Selections from the Archives of Northeast Historic Film Historic and modern films on the history of woods work, Micmac basket makers, Hollywood's use of our landscape and heritage, visions of our writers, and Helen and Scott Nearing. DAVID WEISS, NORTHEAST HISTORIC FILM

Fiddle and Dance in the French Northeast A musical journey with folklorist/fiddler LISA ORNSTEIN, UNIVERSITY OF MAINE AT FORT KENT

Pioneers, Inventors and Ordinary Folks: Stories of Yankee Ingenuity Storyteller/historian JO RADNER presents a program about particularly ingenious Mainers.

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