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.
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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 […]
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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 […]
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