Lisa Klein on her novel “Ophelia: ‘Hamlet’s Girlfriend Gets a Life’”

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Lisa Klein on her novel “Ophelia: ‘Hamlet’s Girlfriend Gets a Life'”

Lisa Klein, author of the young adult novel Ophelia, discusses her reinterpretation of Hamlet as a tale told from Ophelia’s point of view. Klein will talk about the process of transforming the heroine from Shakespeare’s stage to her page, and now to the screen in the forthcoming major motion picture based on her novel and starring Daisy […]

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Humanities Collaboration Discussion of Social Media and the #MeToo Movement

The 91±ŹÁÏ/Orono High School Humanities Collaboration held a discussion of social media and the #MeToo movement. Members of the community, 91±ŹÁÏ faculty and students, and local high school students, parents, and faculty were all welcome. The discussion was held in the Orono High School Library and was moderated by Judith E. Rosenbaum, Assistant Professor of […]

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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 […]

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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 TĂłibĂ­n as essential reading “for anyone interested in the fear and cruelty surrounding women’s sexuality in the Ireland […]

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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 91±ŹÁÏ 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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