LOVELL — Charlotte Hobbs Memorial Library is partnering with the Maine Humanities Council, the Margaret Chase Smith Foundation and the Mid-Coast Forum on Foreign Relations to present a three-part speakers series, The World in Your Library.

Hobbs Library has selected three speakers and topics for hourlong presentations on domestic issues. A schedule of the series is as follows:

The Electoral College and Maine: 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 22, with Dr. Jim Melcher, professor of political science at the University of Maine at Farmington

Race and Mass Incarceration: 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 29, with Dr. Leroy Rowe, professor of African American history and politics at the University of Southern Maine.

Indigenous Rights: 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 5, with Sherri Mitchell, Indigenous Rights attorney and activist.

Melcher is professor of political science at the University of Maine at Farmington, where he has taught since 1999. His interest in politics and elections dates back to his childhood in Madison, Wisconsin. He stayed in Madison for his undergraduate degree in political science and geography at the University of Wisconsin (1985). He went to the University of Minnesota for graduate school, where he earned his Ph.D. in political science in 1995.

This fall, Melcher will teach Introduction to American Government, Civil Liberties and Constitutional Law. He has presented papers and served on panels at numerous national and regional political science conventions, published in multiple political science journals, and is the author of a chapter in the book, “Electoral College Reform on Maine.” Copies of this chapter are available at the library or can be downloaded.

The hourlong programs are free and open to the public.

FMI:  hobbslibrary.org.