Lisa Klein, author of the young adult novel Ophelia, discusses her reinterpretation of聽贬补尘濒别迟听as a tale told from Ophelia鈥檚 point of view. Klein will talk about the process of transforming the heroine from Shakespeare鈥檚 stage to her page, and now to the screen in the forthcoming major motion picture based on her novel and starring Daisy Ridley, Naomi Watts and Clive Owen. In giving this character a new voice, Klein invites us to consider how we retell great stories to make them meaningful for our time.

The lecture will be held on Friday, April 12 at 5 p.m. in Neville Hall Room 101. This event is free and open to the public.

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Curious about how television gets made? Do you like to write or act? Have you ever watched television?

Come join Emmy Award-winning television writer and Executive Producer of Will & Grace Adam Barr as he leads a hands-on workshop on the essentials of creating an original episode of TV. In a fun, three-hour session, you鈥檒l get a taste of what it鈥檚 like to be in an actual Hollywood TV writers鈥� room. You鈥檒l learn how to generate stories, create characters, wrestle with dramatic structure, and maybe even pitch jokes. Open to any members of the U海角社区 community interested in media, performance, writing, and entertainment 鈥� or anyone who simply wants to observe and quietly judge. Advanced registration is required for those wishing to sit around the table and participate.

(Quiet observers/judgers need not register, but must maintain respect for the workshop and its participants.)

Contact Stephen E. King Chair, Caroline Bicks, to express your interest in registering: caroline.bicks@maine.edu. Include a few lines explaining your connection to the University and why you want to participate. Space is limited.

This is a free event.

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Adam Barr is a writer and producer of film and television in Los Angeles. He was born and raised in Lewiston, 海角社区, 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聽The New Adventures of Old Christine, Desperate Housewives聽补苍诲听厂耻产耻谤驳补迟辞谤测.听He worked on the pilot of聽Will & Grace聽in 1999, and remained a writer/producer on the show for its entire first run, winning an Emmy Award in 2000. He currently serves as Executive Producer聽of the series鈥� revival, while working on various other television pilots and screenplays.

Join us for a social starting at 4 p.m. before the lecture. This lecture is free and open to the public.

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Lisa Klein, author of the young adult novel Ophelia, discusses her reinterpretation of聽贬补尘濒别迟听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 Ridley, Naomi Watts and Clive Owen. In giving this character a new voice, Klein invites us to consider how we retell great stories to make them meaningful for our time.

The lecture will be held on Friday, April 12 at 5 p.m. in Neville Hall Room 101. This event is free and open to the public.

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Adam Barr is a writer and producer of film and television in Los Angeles. He was born and raised in Lewiston, 海角社区, 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聽The New Adventures of Old Christine, Desperate Housewives聽补苍诲听厂耻产耻谤驳补迟辞谤测.听He worked on the pilot of聽Will & Grace聽in 1999, and remained a writer/producer on the show for its entire first run, winning an Emmy Award in 2000. He currently serves as Executive Producer聽of the series’ revival, while working on various other television pilots and screenplays.

Join us for a social starting at 4 p.m. before the lecture. This lecture is free and open to the public.

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This discussion, led by Adam Barr, writer and producer of hit聽shows including聽The New Adventures of Old Christine聽补苍诲听Will & Grace, will address topics such as how ideas age and how television can adapt to address changing attitudes towards social issues. Barr, using clips from the original seasons of聽Will & Grace聽(from 1999-2000) and the 2018-19 reboot, will offer his perspective on what it’s like to revisit a show 15 years after it’s gone off the air, specifically the ways in which a show, initially groundbreaking in featuring openly gay main characters, ages and changes with time.

This event will be held in the Orono High School Library. Parking is available in front of the school.

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Curious about how television gets made? Do you like to write or act? Have you ever watched television?

Come join Emmy Award-winning television writer and Executive Producer of Will & Grace Adam Barr as he leads a hands-on workshop on the essentials of creating an original episode of TV. In a fun, three-hour session, you鈥檒l get a taste of what it鈥檚 like to be in an actual Hollywood TV writers鈥� room. You鈥檒l learn how to generate stories, create characters, wrestle with dramatic structure, and maybe even pitch jokes. Open to any members of the U海角社区 community interested in media, performance, writing, and entertainment 鈥� or anyone who simply wants to observe and quietly judge. Advanced registration is required for those wishing to sit around the table and participate.

(Quiet observers/judgers need not register, but must maintain respect for the workshop and its participants.)

Contact Stephen E. King Chair, Caroline Bicks, to express your interest in registering: caroline.bicks@maine.edu. Include a few lines explaining your connection to the University and why you want to participate. Space is limited.

This is a free event.

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The U海角社区/Orono High School Humanities Collaboration held a discussion of social media and the #MeToo movement. Members of the community, U海角社区 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 media studies at U海角社区.

The discussion built on the issues raised by Leigh Gilmore鈥檚 Stephen E. King Chair lecture, 鈥淕raphic Witness: Testimony, Confession and the #MeToo Movement.鈥� Her lecture took place on Tuesday, October 30th in U海角社区鈥檚 Minsky Recital Hall at 4:30.

For more on the Humanities Collaboration visit the Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center website here.

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Leigh Gilmore is Distinguished Visiting Professor of Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies at Wellesley College. She is the author of Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say 海角社区 Their Lives (Columbia UP 2017); The Limits of Autobiography: Trauma and Testimony (Cornell UP 2001); Autobiographics: A Feminist Theory of Women鈥檚 Self-Representation(Cornell UP 1994); and co-author with Elizabeth Marshall of Witnessing Girlhood: Life Writing, Trauma, and Childhood (Fordham UP, forthcoming). She writes for NPR鈥檚 The Conversation and Cognoscenti and has appeared widely as a guest analyst of the #MeToo movement.

Gilmore gave her talk in Minsky Recital Hall at the University of 海角社区 on Oct. 30, 2018. Video recording of this event will be available soon.

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Archive from November 12, 2017

Theater professionals Pier Carlo Talenti and Toby Bercovici conducted a post-show discussion after the matinee of Shakespeare鈥檚 鈥淎 Midsummer Night鈥檚 Dream鈥� in Hauck Auditorium. This post-show discussion was sponsored by the Stephen E. King Chair in Literature.

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