UNE Center for Global Humanities

07/31/2026

We're enjoying the glorious Maine summer, but also very much looking forward to the fall when we'll host five events on campus. Mark your calendar and join us!

The five public events will challenge attendees to consider such topics as the possibilities created by the recent Artemis moon mission; what Henry David Thoreau’s experiences at Walden Pond can teach us about how we perceive time; and the inner workings of the human brain where memories form.

07/07/2026

For Josh Pahigian's latest "Oh, the Humanities" podcast conversation, he spoke with University of Saint Louis history professor Douglas Boin about his fascinating biography of Clodia, the woman famously defamed in one of Cicero's most famous speeches, in the waning years of the Roman Republic. Listen: https://lnkd.in/gNF3g62U

06/18/2026

For our latest “Oh, the Humanities” podcast episode, Josh sat down with David Bennell, who has created and led sustainability programs at Fortune 500 companies, global NGOs, and philanthropic foundations, and has recently brought his expertise to the UNE College of Business.

Their wide-ranging conversation covered such topics as the Cuyahoga River catching on fire during David’s youth in Ohio, the demise of a robust Atlantic Cod fishery in the Gulf of Maine, whether AI can help solve our climate crisis, and how UNE students and faculty are working across traditional disciplinary boundaries to create a healthier world. Throughout the talk, the importance of the humanities to the environmental and sustainability movements kept coming up, too.

Thanks for listening! https://open.spotify.com/episode/3DsULQmKhuYBuKUwpG7rPZ?si=9dac80b357fd4f24

05/30/2026

For our latest "Oh, the Humanities" podcast, Josh chatted with author Jonathan D. Reich about his new biography of Charles Lindbergh. https://open.spotify.com/episode/258ZtNTz86Bw1gnPs5zwWP?si=06410826ea5e42e3

05/02/2026

The Atlantic's Yoni Appelbaum discusses how increasing housing affordability is the key to restoring the American Dream.

1 like. "Yoni Appelbaum - Who Killed the American Dream?"

04/29/2026

Last night, we honored our 2026 CGH Scholars, who have completed two semesters of the CGH Seminar Course, and listened to a riveting lecture about America's affordable housing crisis by the Atlantic Magazine's Yoni Appelbaum. It was a great way to cap our 17th academic year at CGH!

04/22/2026

04/16/2026

Listen to CGH Director Josh Pahigian's latest podcast conversation with Maine island doctor Chuck Radis. https://open.spotify.com/episode/6mcJses3iSr6OWEzQdm31a?si=gMjj-3VmQB-Us0CEPdW10w

Oh, the Humanities · Episode

04/07/2026

Watch Patricia Vieira's talk "The Amazon Beyond Extractivism: Indigenous Stories of Entangled Beings."

Patrícia Vieira, who leads the ECO-Amazon project at the University of Coimbra in Portugal, describes the extractivist paradigm that has dominated the Wester...

04/05/2026

Join us on April 28 for an evening with the Atlantic's Yoni Appelbaum, who will discuss his new book "Stuck."

Historian and journalist Yoni Appelbaum will present a lecture titled “Who Killed the American Dream?” when he visits the Center for Global Humanities on Tuesday, April 28 at 6 p.m. at Girard Innovation Hall on the UNE Portland Campus for the Health Sciences.