Past Event
Celebrating the 25th Commencement ceremony of the Lewis & Clark College Graduate School of Education and Counseling on Sunday, June 7, 2009 at 10 a.m. Commencement will be held at the Pamplin Sports Center. A short reception for graduates and guests will be held in the Fields Dining Hall or, weather permitting, the Manor House lawn immediately following Commencement.
Past Event
Commencement for the Law School will be held at Griswold Stadium at 11:00 a.m., Saturday, May 23, 2009. A short reception for graduates and guests will be held on the Law School Campus immediately following commencement. Graduates must be at Pamplin Sports Center at 9:30 a.m. A reception at the Law School follows commencement. This year’s speaker will be nationally known trial lawyer, Robert S. Bennett, who has been described as one of the 100 most influential attorneys in America. This year two honorary degrees will be awarded, one to Robert S. Bennett and one to Alter Wiener. Alter Wiener is a Holocaust survivor who has shared his life story with over 450 audiences.
Past Event
The 137th Commencement ceremony at Lewis & Clark College will take place on Sunday, May 10, 2009. The ceremony begins promptly at 10 a.m., and family and guests are encouraged to arrive early (doors open at 8:30 a.m.). Commencement will take place in Griswold Stadium. In case of bad weather, Commencement will be indoors at Pamplin Sports Center. Tickets are required for admission to Pamplin; guests without tickets are welcome to enjoy the Commencement ceremony in Agnes Flanagan Chapel, where it will be simulcast.
Past Event
Tuesday, 28 April 2009, 7 p.m.
Students in Pauls Toutonghi’s Advanced Fiction Writing courses will read from the short stories they wrote and developed during the semester.
WHERE: Manor House Armstrong Lounge
COST: Free
CONTACT: Dyann Alkire, Department of English, 503-768-7405
Past Event
The Lewis & Clark College Cappella Nova Choir, Women’s Chorus, and Orchestra will present a major performance including Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s final masterpiece, the Requiem; the haunting Music for Women’s Chorus, Harp, and Two Horns by Johannes Brahms; and Gustav Mahler’s stirring Adagietto. A major collaboration between music majors and non-majors, the concert will include approximately 140 people.
The Requiem will be performed with professional vocal soloists Anna Haagenson, soprano; Angela Niederloh, mezzo-soprano; Carl Halvorsen, tenor; and Winston Jones, bass-baritone.
WHERE: Evans Music Building Auditorium
COST: $5 Students (advance student tickets free at the bookstore); $8 senior citizens, faculty, staff, and alumni; $10 general admission
CONTACT: Denise Gerhardt, 503-768-7461
Past Event
Join us for an exciting two days of envisioning the future, as national legal and industry experts discuss the laws we need to support the growth of low- or no-carbon energy sources for the power transmission grid. Renewable energy, clean coal technology and nuclear power will all be on the table for discussion by speakers and participants.
WHERE: Templeton Campus Center, Council Chamber
CONTACT: Oregon Law Institute
Past Event
Tuesday, 21 April 2009, 7 p.m.
Bringing their work out of the classroom and into the public realm, advanced poetry students will share their poems in a reading on campus on Tuesday, April 21. The culmination of an extensive writing and revision process, the public reading will feature 12 students who have worked closely with Assistant Professor of English Mary Szybist.
WHERE: Manor House Armstrong Lounge
COST: Free
CONTACT: Department of English, 503-768-7405
Past Event
Monday, 20 April 2009, 5:30 p.m.
Mark Selden is a research associate in the East Asia Program at Cornell University a coordinator for The Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus. He examines the processes of political economy, geopolitics, and social change in East Asia. Hosted by East Asian Studies, Selden will deliver a lecture titled “Japanese and American War Atrocities, Historical Memory and Reconciliation.”
WHERE: Miller Center for the Humanities, room 105
COST: Free
CONTACT: Alison Walcott, 503-768-7451
Past Event
Thursday, 16 April 2009, 7 p.m.
Alan Crotzer was sentenced in 1981 to 130 years imprisonment after his conviction for sexual battery, kidnapping, and robbery. In 2006, Mr. Crotzer was freed from prison after post-conviction DNA testing proved his innocence. He had spent nearly 25 years in Florida prisons - more than half his life.
Mr. Crotzer will speak about his conviction, his fight to prove his innocence, and his life after exoneration. He will be joined by David Menschel, the lead attorney on Mr. Crotzer’s case and legal director of the Florida Innocence Project, who will discuss the exoneration process, the use of DNA testing, and the systemic defects that lead to wrongful convictions.
WHERE: Templeton Student Center Council Chamber
COST: Free
CONTACT: Rosie Ayala, Office of Multicultural Affairs and the Ethnic Studies Department, 503.768.7743
Past Event
Thursday, 16 April 2009, 6 p.m.
Professor Jennifer Hochschild is currently the Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor Government and a Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She also holds lectureships in the Kennedy School of Government and the Graduate School of Education. Prof. Hochschild studies the intersection of American politics and political philosophy — particularly in the areas of race, ethnicity, and immigration — and educational policy. She also works on issues in public opinion and political culture. A prolific author with books out of the Princeton, Oxford, Harvard, and Yale presses, Professor Hochschild has also served as vice president of the American Political Science Association, has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, and the Mellon Foundation, and has taught at Duke, Columbia, and Princeton.
Her lecture at Lewis & Clark will detail her current book project, tentatively titled Blurring Racial Boundaries: Skin Color, Immigration, Multiracialism, and DNA.
WHERE: BoDine 300
COST: Free
CONTACT: Alison Walcott, The Pamplin Society of Fellows, awalcott@lclark.edu
