Past Event
Thursday, 5 March 2009, 7 p.m.
“The New Orleans Tea Party” is a 74-minute documentary about the rebuilding of civil society in post-Katrina New Orleans.
Filmmakers Marline Otte, Associate Professor of History, Tulane University, New Orleans, and Laszlo Fulop, Assistant Professor in the Film Deptartment at the University of New Orleans, chronicled the achievements of both the local residents and the millions of volunteers streaming to the region. “We believe that exploring the slow and painful renaissance of this singular American city - its ongoing struggle for existence - throws open a window onto the collective consciousness of a nation…”
Professor Otte will present the film and lead a Q&A following the film. The event will take place in BoDine, room 300. For more information, contact Nancy Hugg at 503-768-7378.
Past Event
Tuesday, 2 December 2008, 7:30 p.m.
Curt Ellis, writer and documentarian, will speak on “King Corn and the American Diet.” A Food and Policy Fellow at the University of Texas, Austin, Ellis co-created and appeared in the Mosaic Films feature documentary King Corn, which was released theatrically by Balcony Releasing in 2007 and was broadcast nationally on PBS in April, 2008. His work with King Corn has been featured in publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post and Congressional Quarterly, and on NPR, CBS, ABC and CNN. He continues to travel and speak about the connections between farm policy, large-scale corn production, family farm loss, and obesity.
Past Event
3 through 6 November 2008
This conference aims to raise awareness and foster understanding on challenges facing Palestine and Israel. Coordinated by junior Maraya Massin-Levey, the three-day event will feature panel discussions, lectures, and a film festival.
Sessions will take place at various times and locations on Monday, Nov. 3, Wednesday, Nov. 5, and Thursday, Nov. 6. For a complete schedule, and for more information on the project, visit the event website.
Past Event
Tuesday, 23 September 2008, 7 p.m.
Holly Andres will speak on September 23 at 7:00 p.m. in room 102, Miller Center for the Humanities.
Andres approaches her art in a multidisciplinary manner, and has worked in film, photography, sculpture and installation. Andres’ newest body of photographic work, Sparrow Lane, recently premiered at Quality Pictures Contemporary Art in Portland OR, and this on-going series will exhibit at the Robert Mann Gallery in NYC in Oct.
In 2007 her much acclaimed narrative photo series, Stories from a Short Street exhibited at the DNJ Gallery in LA, the Jen Bekman Gallery in NYC, in ‘Girl Machine’ at the Honfluer Gallery in Washington DC, and at her hometown, The Missoula Art Museum. In 2006 she was represented in the Oregon Biennial at the Portland Art Museum and at the Annual National Juried Exhibition at Newspace Center for Photography. Andres’ photo work has been showcased in Elle Magazine, the Portland Modern, on the cover of the Portland Mercury, PDX Magazine, and Art Ltd.-who recently profiled her as one of 15 emerging West Coast artists under the age of 35.
Andres has also collaborated with performer/filmmaker Grace Carter to create the short films Nora, Dandelion and Brave New Girl. Their work has been featured in the 31st Annual NW Film + Video Festival, Best of the Northwest Touring Program, the Portland International Film Festival, the Portland Experimental Film Festival and the Perpetual Art Machine in New York. Andres currently teaches studio art classes at Portland State University and Pacific Northwest College of Art. Andres received an MFA from PSU in 2004.
