Spring 2021
Health and safety update for university community members
Welcome to this weekâs Friday Futurecast
These updates are archived on the UMaine Spring â21 website. The University of Maine at Machias also has a Spring â21 website.
Message from President Joan Ferrini-Mundy:
Dear members of the UMaine and UMM communities,
Throughout this pandemic, so many members of our UMaine and UMM communities have been at work, nonstop, doing their jobs in addition to the required COVID-19 response measures to help ensure the well-being of our communities, on and off campus. They include the members of our Emergency Operations Center and its COVID-19 Response Team, working tirelessly, often around the clock to provide health and safety guidance in collaboration with Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and in accord with civil and University of Maine System protocols.
February 24, 2021 News
Manisha Sinha, award-winning author and renowned expert in the history of slavery and abolition, and Civil War Reconstruction, will deliver the University of Maineâs 2021 Howard B. Schonberger Peace and Justice Lecture via Zoom at 5:15 p.m. on March 9.
Sinhaâs presentation, âThe Abolitionist Origins of Reconstructionâ will trace the roots of transformational constitutional changes implemented during Reconstruction. Her nonlinear approach will reveal how black citizenship became a legislative centerpiece after the Civil War and how that history connects to todayâs Black Lives Matter movement.
The annual Howard B. Schonberger Peace and Social Justice Lecture honors Schonbergerâs legacy as a UMaine professor of history and an activist scholar before his death in 1991. At UMaine, his interests included U.S. foreign policy during war and periods of colonialism and imp