Margaret Chase Smith Library

Prof. Daniel Sandweiss of the University of Maine is a geoarchaeologist who studies the effects on cultural development of climate change, particularly the prehistory of the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon, as well as environmental change, such as rising sea level during the last deglaciation period. He also investigates the development and organization of complex […]

Over the past year, speakers have talked to the Mid-Maine Global Forum about the many problems Africa faces: overpopulation and underdevelopment, starvation and strife, climate change and corruption. Yet, it remains a continent with enormous potential because of its youthful demographics. Stephany Perkins will be speaking about work she has done in Tanzania to turn […]

Seth Singleton is Adjunct Professor of Political Science and Libra Professor of International Relations at the University of Maine. He won the American Political Science Association prize for best dissertation in International Relations while at Yale University and has held grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Council on Soviet and East European Research, the […]

(Please note the earlier starting time. Please arrive 15 minutes early if you are having lunch.) The images most Americans have of Saudi Arabia are frighteningly predictable – deserts, camels, and oil; Sharia law, Islamic fundamentalism, and jihad; rich sheikhs in white robes, oppressed women in black veils, and terrorists. In this talk I challenge […]

Cyber warfare can be thought of as the latest embodiment of military intelligence. The ubiquity of computing devices has blurred the distinction between kinetic and non-kinetic forms of warfare. In his talk, Prof. George Markowsky will survey the precursors of cyberwarfare, the current state of cyberwarfare and some scenarios for how it might develop in […]