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WHAT'S POSSIBLE

Our mission. Your big ideas.

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Whether you're dreaming up a research project abroad, exploring ways to collaborate with friends and partners on campus, or coming up with the next world-changing idea, the Center is here to support and celebrate your vision.

OUR UPCOMING EVENTS

Lynda Barry was a 2019 recipients of MacArthur "Genius" Grant.

Maine Lit Fest with Lynda Barry

October 4 | Ostrove Auditorium, Diamond Building | 5:00 p.m.

Lynda Barry has worked as a painter, cartoonist, writer, illustrator, playwright, editor, commentator, and teacher and found that they are very much alike. She lives in Wisconsin, where she is associate professor of art and Discovery Fellow at University of Wisconsin Madison.

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PLAY! Seminar The Affective Properties of Images within the Power of Play

October 7 | Diamond 122 | 7:00 p.m.

The Last Physician of Images is the founder and host of the online forum and discussion series “Criticism and Value,” a forum for sharing experimental essays about art, criticism, and hosting live public conversations between living and non-living national and international artists.

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Environmental Humanities Film Screening Okja (2017)

October 8 | 7:00 p.m., | The Film Screening Room, Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts

The Center for the Arts and Humanities, in conjunction with Environmental Humanities, will show the film Okja (2017).

ANNUAL THEME

PLAY

‘Play’ is a term that spans a gamut of endeavors in the liberal arts without resolving the tensions. Bounding and bouncing across diverse histories and geographies, play connects action and rest, pleasure and exhaustion, young and old, human and nonhuman, and intellect and whimsy. This two-year theme (23-24 and 24-25) invites the campus and its community partners to explore, embody, and enact the complications of the theme. Engaging playful paradoxes as well as the inequalities that surround the theme, we ask: Is it work to intellectualize play? How and when is playing around seen as a subversive and even dangerous act? Who gets to play, and who doesn’t? Play, as practice and concept, challenges the demands of intellectual rigor, offering possibilities for haptic engagement, queer curiosities, happenings and actions, and fun.

The Center By The Numbers

Since 2012, the Center has supported:

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ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES

The Colby Summer Institute in Environmental Humanities

Mark your calendars for the 2024 Colby Summer Institute in Environmental Humanities! If you are an academic, artist, activist, or independent scholar with a passion for the Environmental Humanities, we invite you to join us in beautiful Maine from July 28-August 4, 2024, for a week of seminars, lectures, workshops, field trips, and other events.