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 powerful men turned the N.F.L. into a financial and cultural juggernaut.

The lecture will be held on Tuesday, October 21 at 5:30 p.m. in Neville Hall 101 at the University of Maine. This event is free and open to the public.

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Just in time for the scary season, the hosts of a popular film podcast are coming to Orono on October 19 to discuss a pair of iconic movies adapted from the works of the Master of Horror himself, Stephen King.

Millie De Chirico and Danielle Henderson are the co-hosts of the popular film podcast . They will be at the IMRC Center to engage with the films Pet Sematary and Misery. De Chirico and Henderson will talk attendees through the films with clips and commentary, followed by a discussion and Q&A session.

The event is scheduled for 3:30-5:30 PM on October 19 in the Fernald��Adaptive Presentation & Performance Environment, located in Room 104 in the IMRC. Hosting the event will be professor of English Jennifer Moxley and interdisciplinary PhD student and intermedia artist Sean Lopez. It is made possible with the support of the Stephen E. King Chair in Literature and the McGillicuddy Humanities Center.

Started in 2020, I Saw What You Did is distributed by Exactly Right Media. Since then, De Chirico and Henderson have been bringing their intelligent, irreverent takes on movies to listeners all over the world.

The description says it all:

“Millie and Danielle, a film expert and a film enthusiast, program a double-feature of their favorite movies with a different wild theme every week. Join these friends as they dissect the films and explore the weird ways we respond to and learn to love movies.”

Jennifer Moxley extended the invitation to De Chirico and Henderson after learning of the pair’s affinity for King’s work and realizing that they could really help students see the connection between loving movies and thinking critically about them.

“I got the idea to bring the��I Saw What You Did��podcasters Millie De Chirico and Danielle Henderson to the University of Maine after listening to an episode in which they talked about how much they loved Stephen King,” said Moxley. “I thought to myself: these two smart, funny, irreverent women could help our students see how being a movie fan��and analyzing films can go hand in hand. They make critical thinking about film approachable and fun.”

Danielle Henderson is a TV writer (Maniac, Divorce, Dare Me, and more), a retired��freelance writer, and a former editor for Rookie. A book based on her popular website,��Feminist Ryan Gosling, was released by Running Press in August 2012. Her memoir,��The Ugly Cry, was published by Viking in June 2021. Currently she’s a show-runner for��The Other Black Girl.

Filipina-American Millie De Chirico worked as a programmer for TCM Underground for 18��years and recently released a book she co-wrote called TCM Underground: 50 Must-��See Films from the World of Classic Cult and Late-Night Cinema.

Join these podcasters as they dig into two of the most celebrated film adaptations of Stephen King’s work, bringing their own unique perspectives to the conversation even as they invite audience members to share thoughts of their own.

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Susan Choi’s first novel, The Foreign Student, won the Asian American Literary Award for fiction. Her second novel, American Woman, was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize. In 2019, her novel Trust Exercise won the National Book Award for Fiction. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, she teaches fiction writing at Yale and lives in Brooklyn.

This event will be held on Thursday, Oct. 21 at 5:30-6:30pm in the Minsky Recital Hall at the Collins Center for the Arts, University of Maine. This event is free and open to the public.

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Rebecca Traister on Women, Anger and Political Change
Part of the Stephen E. King Chair Lecture Series
Thursday, April 2, 4:30 p.m.
Hutchins Concert Hall at the Collins Center for the Arts, University of Maine Free and open to the public Lecture will be followed by a book signing (in partnership with The Briar Patch)
Rebecca Traister is an award-winning journalist and leading voice on gender, society and politics. She is the author of three books, including The New York Times bestsellers, Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger and All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation. She is a writer-at-large for New York magazine and The Cut.
Photo by Victoria Stevens

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Date: Wed., November 6^th

Time: 5:30-7:30pm

Place: Cyrus Pavillion Theatre, 6 Sebago Rd., Orono, ME

Free and open to the public

In this performance-based workshop, we will explore the characters of��Othello, and the ways in which they “Other” one another. How do race, gender, religion, and class function in the play, and what can we learn by getting on our feet and exploring some scenes from one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies together? We will dig into the meaning of the text by considering its metrical and rhetorical components, and then move out to the broader context of performing��Othello��in today’s environs.��No need to read anything in advance. Just come ready to play and to be played to by professional actor Cordell Cole and American Shakespeare Center education director, Sarah Enloe. Note: Due to the mature subject matter of the play, this workshop is not recommended�� for children under the age of 14.

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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, 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 of Old Christine, Desperate Housewives��and��Suburgatory.��He worked on the pilot of��Will & Grace��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��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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The 91����/Orono High School Humanities Collaboration held a discussion of social media and the #MeToo movement. Members of the community, 91���� 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 91����.

The discussion built on the issues raised by Leigh Gilmore’s Stephen E. King Chair lecture, “Graphic Witness: Testimony, Confession and the #MeToo Movement.” Her lecture took place on Tuesday, October 30th in 91����’s 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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