Lecture Series Archives - Stephen E. King Chair in Literature

Lecture Series

Ken Belson, New York Times journalist, on “Investigating the N.F.L.”

Public Lecture by Ken Belson, New York Times Sports and Business Reporter New York Times journalist Ken Belson writes about the business of sports. He reports on the teams and personalities of the N.F.L., including finances, stadiums, medical issues, lawsuits and more. His new book, Every Day is Sunday, chronicles his reporting on how three […]

“Will and Grace” writer Adam Barr on “Writing to Keep Hollywood Relevant”

Adam Barr is a writer and producer of film and television in Los Angeles. He was born and raised in Lewiston, Maine, where he attended Lewiston High School, then went on to study American History & Literature at Harvard University. For nearly 30 years, he has written for a number of shows, including The New Adventures […]

Leigh Gilmore, feminist critic and writer, on “Testimony, Confession, and the #MeToo Movement”

Leigh Gilmore is Distinguished Visiting Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Wellesley College. She is the author of Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say About Their Lives (Columbia UP 2017); The Limits of Autobiography: Trauma and Testimony (Cornell UP 2001); Autobiographics: A Feminist Theory of Women’s Self-Representation(Cornell UP 1994); and co-author with […]

From page to stage: a midsummer night's dream

From Page to Stage: “Midsummer Night’s Dream” Post-Show Discussion

Archive from November 12, 2017 Theater professionals Pier Carlo Talenti and Toby Bercovici conducted a post-show discussion after the matinee of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in Hauck Auditorium. This post-show discussion was sponsored by the Stephen E. King Chair in Literature.

Sean McDermott Street in Dublin, Corpus Christi parade with women from the nearby Our Lady of Charity of Refuge Magdalene convent, escorted by the Irish police, 1960's.

Professor James Smith on “Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries, Academic Advocacy, and Restorative Justice”

Archive from March 7, 2018. Presented by James M. Smith, an Associate Professor in the English Department and Irish Studies Program at Boston College. His book Irish Magdalen Laundries and the Nation’s Architecture of Containment, was praised by Colm Tóibín as essential reading “for anyone interested in the fear and cruelty surrounding women’s sexuality in the Ireland […]

Patricia Wen, former editor of the Boston Globe Spotlight team, on “Investigative Journalism in a ‘Post-truth Age’”

Archive from April 20, 2018. Patricia Wen of the Boston Globe visited the University of Maine to give a Stephen E. King Chair Lecture Series talk titled: “Getting it Right: Investigative Journalism in a ‘Post-Truth’ Age” Patricia Wen is the editor of the Boston Globe Spotlight Team. She took over this six-member investigative unit after several […]

Professor James Smith on “Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries, Academic Advocacy, and Restorative Justice”

James Smith’s lecture (3/7) “Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries, Academic Advocacy and Restorative Justice” is now online for public viewing. You may access the video here.