Latest Past Events
Humanities Collaboration Discussion of Social Media and the #MeToo Movement
Orono High School 14 Goodridge Drive, OronoThe UMaine/Orono High School Humanities Collaboration invites you to a discussion of social media and the #MeToo movement. Members of the community, UMaine faculty and students, and local high school students, parents, and faculty are all welcome. The discussion will be held in the Orono High School Library and will be moderated by Judith E. […]
Leigh Gilmore, feminist critic and writer, on “Testimony, Confession, and the #MeToo Movement”
The University of Maine's Stephen E. King Chair Lecture Series presents Leigh Gilmore: "Graphic Witness: 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 […]
Patricia Wen, former editor of the Boston Globe Spotlight team, on “Investigative Journalism in a ‘Post-truth Age’”
Public Lecture by Patricia Wen, editor of the Boston Globe Spotlight Team Patricia Wen is the editor of the Boston Globe Spotlight Team, the nation’s oldest continuously operating newspaper investigative unit. She took over the six-member team after several decades of working as one of its reporters. Over the years, Wen has specialized in covering social service, […]