Learn about UNE's Center for Global Humanities Seminar Series
James R. Doty, M.D. - The Power of Compassion to Change Lives
Inderpal Grewal - The Global Politics of Gender
Jonathan Israel - Radical Enlightenment and the Making of the French Revolution (1750-1800)
Jeremy Gunn - Seeking the Truth in the Kennedy Assassination
Thomas Fisher - Designing Our Way to a Better World
Patrick Deneen - Why Liberalism Failed
Noam Chomsky - Arab Spring, American Winter
Jason Brennan - Is Democracy Just?
Arthur Kleinman - Enduring Caregiving: The Moral Transformation of Ordinary People
Joanna Moncrieff - The Myth of the Chemical Cure: The Politics of Psychiatric Drug Treatment
Guy Rogers - The Jewish Revolt Against Rome
Catherine Wilson - How To Be an Epicurean
Collins O. Airhihenbuwa - Global Health and You: Why Culture Matters
Gregory Cajete - Native Science: The Indigenous Mind Rising
David Rohde - The American "Deep State"
Walter Scheidel - Economic Inequality from the Stone Age to the Future
Mark Bauerlein - Dumbest Generation: Young Americans in the Digital Age
Neal Barnard, M.D. - Power Foods for the Brain
Catherine Sanderson - The Science of Happiness
Ayesha Jalal - The Struggle for Pakistan
Chris Hedges - Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
Graham Dunkley - A Case Against Free Trade and Over-Globalization
Michael T. Klare - The Race for What's Left
Catherine Besteman - Are We Entering a New Age of Global Apartheid?: The Immigration Debate in Maine
David P. Barash - A General Biocultural Theory of Why People Have So Many Problems
Zizi Papacharissi - Reimagining Democracy
Steven Smith - Patriotism, Our Most Contested Virtue
Emily Martin - Bipolar Expeditions: Mania and Depression in American Culture
Carl J. Richard - Greeks and Romans Bearing Gifts: How the Ancients Inspired the Founding Fathers
Mark Moffett - The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall
Stuart Banner - What is the Difference between Investing, Speculating, and Gambling?
Branko Milanovic - The Future of Capitalism
Hugo Mercier - Not Born Yesterday: Why Humans Are Less Gullible Than We Think
M. Susan Lindee - The Third Atomic Bombing of Japan
Françoise Hamlin - Acknowledging Black Trauma and Its National Effects
Benjamin Powell - Sweatshops: Improving Lives and Economic Growth
Richard Reeves - The Peculiar Condition of the Human Male
David M. Freidenreich - Food and Identity in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Janet Jakobsen - Religious Freedom, Sexual Freedom
Colleen Eren - Reform Nation? The Movement Against Mass Incarceration
Kirsten Fischer - Rethinking Freethought in the Early United States
Edward Berenson - The Statue of Liberty: Symbol of Global America
Ali Ahmida - The Forgotten Genocide in Libya
Jacques Berlinerblau - What is Secularism?
Global Humanities Institute Conference: PASSPORT TO INDIA
Shaping the Future of Portland (Full Event)
Kathleen Brown - How Abolitionists Put the Body at the Center of the Fight Against Slavery
Khalid Amine - Shakespeare in the Arab World
Pauline Maier - Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788
Barry Costa-Pierce - How Climate Change is Reshaping Maine’s Ocean Economy
Peter Swirski - Ars Americana, Ars Politica: Of Democracy and Its Deficits
Joseph Dumit - Maximum Prescriptions: Growing Health and Happiness through Facts and Pharmaceuticals
Sarah Conly - Personal Liberty in the Contemporary World
Peter Ditto - The Psychology of Political Polarization
Jonathan Marks - Conservatives on the Quad
Richard McNally - What Is Mental Illness?
Christina Hoff Sommers - Gender and Freedom in America
Laura Browder - "Communism is Twentieth Century Americanism," or the Odyssey of Earl Browder
Gordon Wood - Why America Has Wanted to Spread Democracy Everywhere