USM has a variety of illustrious speakers coming here every week. Here is a sample of some of them. This list is not all-inclusive and the number of listings is contingent on space. If you, your student group, club, or etcetera would like to place a listing send an e-mail to [email protected] with the word “Demosthenes” in the subject line.
Major Ongoing Event
Thinking Matters Syposium
On April 21 and April 22, Thinking Matters, a student research, scholarship, and creativity symposium will pack as much thought and creativity as can be in two days. Keynote speakers include Catherine Manegold and James M. Cox.
A full schedule of the event can be found at www.usm.maine.edu/thinkingmatters/
Featured speakers
Mainers Serve and Return from Iraq
Join the World Affairs Council of Maine for a timely and informative evening about the role Maine National Guard service members performed while serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom.? General Libby will lead this panel discussion.? The speakers will share their experiences in the Maine National Guard and what their deployments to Iraq meant to them as well as their perspective as to what their service has meant to the people of Iraq. The speakers will include: General John (Bill) Libby (Adjutant General and Commander – The State of Maine Department of Defense, Veterans and Emergency Management), Captain Phillip Trevino (A Battery, 1-152nd Field Artillery Commander, Maine National Guard), Lt. Colonel John Jansen (Commanding Officer Maine ANG 133rd Engineer Battalion), Sam Patten (Civilian, Resident Political Director for the International Republican Institute in Iraq from March 2004-February 2005).
The event will take place on Thursday, April?28. Registration begins at 5:45 p.m. and the presentation, with a Q&A, goes from 6 to 7 p.m. This event is free and open to the public. For more information contact the World Affairs Council of Maine at [email protected]
Other Upcoming Events
Tuesday, April 19
The Ford Focus College Marketing Program, an industry-education course sponsored by the New England Ford Dealers, JWT and EdVenture Partners will host a large, interactive marketing event on the Gorham Campus. The event will feature the 2005 Ford Focus as well as interactive games with the vehicles and the awarding of the grand prize for the “Ugliest Car on Campus” competition.
Students can submit pictures of their cars at www.usm.maine.edu/sb/adjustyyourfocus.html
The event will take place from 2 to 6 p.m.
For more information contact Stephanie Gavett at 712-8214 or [email protected]
Wednesday, April 20
“The Forum,” a venue where students can discuss issues of race, ethnicity, and power, will show “Color Adjustment,” a continuation of director Marlon Riggs’ program “Ethnic Notations into the Television Age.” Students discuss race relations in America as viewed through the filter of primetime television, moderated by Rebecca Sockbeson, director of Multicultural Student Affairs, and J. E. Boon, USM’s clinical counselor. Following the movie students will discuss American attitudes, including their own, towards race.
The Forum will take place in the Multicultural Center, Woodbury Campus Center, from 10 a.m. to noon. For more information call 780-4006.
Refreshments will be served.
Maine Civic Fellows and New Mainer’s Partnership will host a discussion “Exploring Diversity.” Join panelists from Somalia to discuss their culture and experiences.
The event will take place in the Woodbury Campus Center Room C from 9:30 to 11 a.m. and is free and open to the public.
For more information contact Deborah Long at 223-5006 or [email protected].
The Ford Focus College Marketing Program, large, interactive event on the Portland Campus. See April 19 entry.
Thursday, April 21
Doug Henwood, hosted by the USM Economic Forum, will give a lecture “The Bush Economy: Barely Recovering, on Lots of Borrowed Money,” in the Woodbury Campus Amphitheater from 11:45 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Friday, April 22
In celebration of Earth Day, the Residential Life Sustainability Committee will hold a Campus Clean-Up event on the Gorham Campus on Friday from 2 to 5 p.m.
Groups and individuals interested in helping sponsor the event or who would like more information, contact Alicia Menard at [email protected]. The rain date is April 29.
Saturday, April 23
The Environmental Science & Policy (ESP) student group will hold a trail building event with Portland Trails. The event will take place from 9 a.m. to noon.
For more information contact Jeanna Leclerc at [email protected].
Lunch will be provided.
Thursday, April 28
Dr. Mark Publicker, medical director of the Mercy Hospital Recover Center, will present “This is your brain on drugs.” The presentation will look at the neurobiology of alcohol and opiod addiction.
This event, hosted by Americorps and the Landing Project, will take place in the Luther Bonney Auditorium from 9:30 to 11 a.m., and is free and open to the public.
For more information contact Deborah Long at 223-5006 or [email protected].
Saturday, April 30
The Environmental Science & Policy (ESP) student group will hald a planting and shed building party at the community gardens.
The event will take place at Cultivating Community, Boyd St. Gardens, from 9 a.m. to noon. Students are encouraged to bring water.
For more information contact Jeanna Leclerc at
Tuesday, May 17
The Maine Association of Dispute Resolution Professionals, in conjunction with the Muskie School, is hosting the 2005 conference “Emerging Possibilities: Appreciative Approaches to Human Conflict.” The conference is geared to community leaders, mediators, facilitators, organizational development and HR professionals.
The conference will be held at the Mariner’s Church Banquet Center, 368 Fore St. Registration rates, before May 1, range from $85 for to $110 for nonmembers and after May 1, from $110 to $125, repectively.
For more information contact Jeff Croft at 775-3130, or [email protected]