at the University of Maine at Farmington
George Orwell’s novel 1984 imagined a future where language was severely constrained and all technology was oriented to state surveillance. In this recorded online discussion, Eryk Salvaggio uses Orwell's book to explore historic relationships between truth, surveillance and artificial intelligence technology today. Artist, researcher…
Find out more »Join Eryk Salvaggio for a live online discussion of George Orwell's 1984 and modern surveillance technology hosted on Zoom by the New Commons Project.
Find out more »Join Dr. Grace Gipson (Assistant Professor of African American Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University) for an exploration of Dungeons & Dragons' complex relationship with individual identity. This prerecorded keynote address will be available on Wednesday, February 24, 2021.
Find out more »Join Dr. Grace Gipson for a live online discussion of Dungeons & Dragons' relationship with individual identity hosted on Zoom by the New Commons Project.
Find out more »Join Dr. Daphne Brooks (Professor of African American, Theater Studies, American Studies, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University and author of the forthcoming Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound) for a live online lecture and…
Find out more »Join Dr. Elizabeth Donaldson (Professor of English at the New York Institute of Technology and editor of Literatures of Madness: Disability Studies and Mental Health) for an examination of the depiction of Mentall Illness in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper." This prerecorded keynote…
Find out more »Join Dr. Elizabeth Donaldson for a live online discussion of mental illness in "The Yellow Wallpaper" hosted on Zoom by the New Commons Project.
Find out more »Fall 2021 programming for the New Commons Project kicks off with an examination of Andrew Wyeth's stunning 1948 painting, Christina's World.
Find out more »The New Commons Project's October 2021 events will explore David Bowie's classic "Life on Mars?" (released on his 1971 album, Hunky Dory).
Find out more »Arthur Miller's dramatic deconstruction of the American Dream, Death of a Salesman (1949), will take center stage in the New Commons Project in November 2021.
Find out more »Jordan Peele's Oscar-nominated 2017 horror film that critiques racism in America, Get Out, will provide the foundation for New Commons Project events in December 2021.
Find out more »New Commons Project programming for January 2022 focuses on Marjane Satrapi's landmark graphic novel about growing up during the Iranian Revolution of the 1970s, Persepolis.
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