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PORTLAND, Maine

UNE Center for Global Humanities announces fall 2015 lecture series

How comfortable are we with Google, Facebook and other internet giants collecting highly personal information about us? How do the prospects for international peace hinge on the outcome of Pakistan’s domestic dilemmas? What can the lessons of Hiroshima and Chernobyl teach us about how to respond to modern disasters?

The University of New England Center for Global Humanities’ Fall 2015 lecture series promises to shed light on these and other questions. The series will offer one lecture per month from September through December this fall. Each lecture will begin at begin at 6 p.m. on UNE’s Portland Campus and be preceded by a public reception at the UNE Art Gallery.  

Fall 2015 Center for Global Humanities Lecture Series

  • Sept. 28, 2015: “Technology, Self, & Society in an Era of Digital Rankings.” Frank Pasquale, Council for Big Data, Ethics, and Society
  • Oct. 26, 2015: “The Third Atomic Bombing of Japan: Hiroshima, Fukushima, and the Radiation Effects Research Foundation.” Susan Lindee, University of Pennsylvania
  • Nov. 19, 2015: “The Struggle for Pakistan.” Ayesha Jalal, Tufts University
  • Dec. 7, 2015: “Beauty Transformed.” David Konstan, New York University

Since its founding in 2009 by prominent UNE scholar Anouar Majid, Ph.D., the Center for Global Humanities has brought to UNE’s Portland Campus leading thinkers from around the globe to share their expertise with students and a diverse audience of community members. Past speakers have included international luminaries like Noam Chomsky, Neal Barnard, and Bill McKibben.

The Center for Global Humanities lecture series introduces attendees to the exploration of some of the most pressing issues facing humanity today. In addition to serving members of the larger Portland community, the lectures are streamed live online so that students at UNE’s campus in Tangier, Morocco and viewers around the world can enjoy them. The lectures are also archived on UNE’s website. For more information, visit http://www.une.edu/cgh.