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.
Changes
The 33rd Student Senate meeting on March 18 has been cancelled.
Featured Speakers
Vintage U.S. Road Map Lecture: March 15
For those who remember when one could get a free road map at every corner gas station, the USM Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education is presenting the lecture “Road Map Nostalgia:? Retrospective Tour of the USA via Road Maps,” given by Peter Yensen, guest curator of the Harvard Map Collection’s exhibit “The All-American Road Map.”
The free lecture is part of the 10th anniversary of the map library. The Osher Map Library’s mission is to share its rare maps not only with scholars, but also with the general public, including school children.? Ronald E. Grim, head of the Reference and Bibliography Section at the Library of Congress, said, “The Osher Map Library is one of not more than a dozen historical cartographic collections in the country that are accessible to the public.”
A reception will take place from 6 to 6:30 p.m., followed by the 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. lecture, both held on the 7th Floor of the Glickman Family Library.
For more information, please call 780-4850.
Other upcoming events
March 15
Candidates for Student Body President will debate at Portland campus in the Woodbury Campus Center from 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. A second debate will be held at Gorham in the Brooks Dining Hall that evening from 5:30 to 7 p.m.
Questions will cover similar issues at each debate, but each debate will have different questions. All students are encouraged to attend and learn about the candidates for student body president.
For more information contact the Student Life Office at 780-5470.
March 16
The College Democrats will meet at 8 p.m. to discuss changes that are being proposed on a national level in regards to federal aid. All USM students are invited to attend. The meeting will be held in the Woodbury Campus Center, rooms A, B, or C. For more information e-mail James McKeon at [email protected]
March 17
“Women of Color in the Americas: New Scholarship on Race and Sex.” Panelists: Eve Raimon will discuss and sign copies of her new book, The “Tragic Mulatta” Revisited; David Carey, Jr., will discuss his forthcoming book, Engendering Maya History; Maureen Elgersman Lee will discuss her forthcoming book, Black Bangor. The event is sponsored by the Women’s Studies Program and the African American Collection of Maine/ Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine.
The event will take place in the Glickman Library, 7th floor University Events Room, from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Students, on campus organizations, faculty and staff: If you have somebody coming to the school, or you, yourself, have something to say send the who, what, when, where and why to [email protected].