Colby Center for the Arts and Humanities

Please join students, faculty, and central Maine community members for a public Animal Studies Symposium on May 5th. There will be student research panels, a keynote discussion on "Caring for Birds, Building Community", and a morning bird walk the following day at 7am!

Faculty Book Celebration Alert! 🗣
Join us on Tuesday, March 3, with Professor Harkett in conversation with Professor Nüffer in Parker Reed (SSWAC). See you there!

We are beyond excited to announce that the applications for the 2026 Colby College Summer Institute in Environmental Humanities are open! Join us in Waterville from July 27 - August 1. We can't wait to see you!

Learn more: https://cah.colby.edu/initiatives/environmental-humanities/summer-institute/
Apply here: https://forms.gle/yvoWvpkrv8KFuMBQA

Announcing the new Humanities Scholars Program! This program supports juniors and seniors in the humanities and humanistic disciplines who are pursuing research-intensive projects such as honors theses, independent studies, and independent majors.

To learn more visit here: https://bit.ly/CAHHSprogram. Applications due Nov. 24th at noon.

We're so excited for Colby Faculty, José Martínez to give the next Islands seminar! Join us for "Drumming for the Orishas" on Monday, November 3.

Join us tonight at 7pm for "Under the Influence
of the Tide" with Sofia Gallisá Muriente! This lecture is part of the Islands seminar series. See you soon!

Join us this weekend for our final John Green themed events at the Waterville Public Library and the Maine Film Center! All events are free and open to the public. See you there!

Learn more here: https://www.mainehumanities.org/

We are so excited to have Laura Furlan join us as our online speaker for Readers Retreat April 5th! Get your tickets before they sell out. Here's a bit more about Laura:

Laura M. Furlan is Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she teaches courses in Native American literature, American Studies, and creative nonfiction. She earned a PhD in English from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

She is the author of Indigenous Cities: Urban Indian Fiction and the Histories of Relocation (2017, Nebraska), a study of contemporary Indigenous novels that are set in urban spaces. In 2020, she co-edited a special issue of the Massachusetts Review of new Native writing, and in 2021 she co-edited a special issue of Studies in American Indian Literatures focused on Deborah Miranda’s memoir Bad Indians in which her award-winning essay, “The Archives of Deborah Miranda’s Bad Indians” appears.

She is working on a book project that studies the uses of the archive in contemporary Native writing and art. Her creative work has appeared in Sentence, Sovereign Erotics (2011, Arizona), Touchstone, and ZYZZYVA. She has slowly been writing a memoir that chronicles her experience as an adoptee of Native descent. She is the current president of the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures (ASAIL).

Tickets are now available for "Play: A Conversation with John Green"! This free, public event will take place at Colby College’s Lorimer Chapel from 6:30–8:30 PM, with doors opening at 5:30 PM. We hope you’ll join us for an evening of conversation and reflection! Get your ticket here: http://Purplepass.com/johngreencolby, or scan the QR code on the second slide.

Fauna, Colby’s only environmental literary and art magazine, is now accepting submissions for its seventh edition! We welcome contributions from students, faculty, and staff! Deadline April 4th, 2025.