Room 141, Diamond Bldg., Colby College

For over a dozen years, Leslie Thomas, founding executive and creative director of ART WORKS Projects,  has curated and directed multi-media exhibitions and public projections.  She will present a sample of these along with a film excerpt from her soon to be released documentary, The Prosecutors, and discuss the role of the arts in ending grave […]

In her new book, Gesture and Power, Yolanda Covington-Ward, Department of Africana Studies, University of Pittsburgh, examines the everyday embodied practices and performances of the BisiKongo people of the Lower Congo to show how their gestures, dances, and spirituality are critical in mobilizing social and political action. This lecture will focus on two separate yet related […]

Sustain Mid Maine Coalition’s Education & Community Outreach Team invites you to Peak Oil: A Love Story. This hour-long film was made by Nelson Cole (of Cambridge, ME) and features Iver Lofving (former Education Team leader and Skowhegan resident). Peak oil is defined as “the point in time when oil extraction reaches its highest level […]

Sustain Mid Maine Coalition’s Education & Community Outreach Team invites you to “Timber First: An Introduction to the New Generation of Tall Timber Buildings,” presented by Bill Basford. Recent advances in timber framing technology and changes to the 2015 International Building Code now allow Tall Timber Framed buildings of 18 storeys or more.  Roughly a […]

Ben Rooney speaks of "Growing Rice in Maine" We have been growing rice at Wild Folk Farm for 4 years in paddies in central Maine. We grow with human power, on a multi-acre rice paddy ecosystem where we test different methodologies, trial seeds, and integrate different plants and animals into our paddies. We want to […]

Inscribed steatite seals are among the most distinctive artifacts of the Indus Valley Civilization (2600-1900 BCE). Though these seals were often thought to be highly standardized, recent research has revealed that they are actually highly diverse in style and production techniques. In this lecture, Gregg Jamison will present results of ethnoarchaeological research he conducted with modern […]

Maine is one of the most car dependent states in the country. With about 1.1 Million cars, and an average cost of $8700 per year according to AAA, our total spending on cars is around $10 Billion per year! This wouldn't be so bad if we made some of the cars here, or if we […]

Don’t miss an opportunity to meet Rwandan director Kivu Ruhorahoza after the screening of his well-acclaimed film Things of the Aimless Wanderer, which was presented at the Sundance Film Festival. To be absolutely mesmerized by a film, totally transfixed, is a rare happening in cinema, but should be the norm, right? Ruhorahoza’s Things Of The Aimless […]

The Goldfarb Center’s Education Reform Policy anchor event, with Angela Hardy, director of coaching at Great Schools Partnership. Hardy supports the coordination of the League of Innovative Schools and codirects the NextGen Personalized Learning initiative. She coaches in Maine and supports a team of senior associates as they work with schools and districts across the region and […]

Emily Kennedy-Talmage, a teacher in Lewiston, Maine, is an active blogger on education reform efforts in Maine, with a particular focus on the state’s proficiency-based learning (PBL) model. Kennedy-Talmage will speak about her concerns with how PBL is being implemented and promoted in Maine. Co-sponsored with the Education Department as part of the Goldfarb Center’s Engaged Scholarship Initiative.

Contemporary American politics are highly polarized. Some blame social issues as the driver of polarization, while others point to economic inequality and class divisions. Building on his recent book, Mark Brewer, professor and interim department chair of political science at the University of Maine, will argue that disagreement over a much more fundamental matter lies at […]