Past Event
Tuesday, 9 December 2008, 3:30 p.m.
In honor of the 400th birthday of poet John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674), best known for his poem Paradise Lost, the Department of English will host David Biespiel, the editor of Poetry Northwest and author of Wild Civility. Biespiel will deliver a lecture and provide commentary on reading Milton’s work. There will also be an image slide show, faculty and student readings, and a birthday cake.
Past Event
Wednesday, 3 December 2008, 7 p.m.
Oregon Secretary of State Bill Bradbury, who completed a rigorous training program led by former Vice President Al Gore, will present and educate about issues and solution surrounding global warming on in Council Chamber, Templeton Campus Center.
Bradbury was part of a select group of 50 individuals chosen to receive intensive training by Gore and a team of renowned scientists about issues surrounding global warming. Each received technical training to become experienced presenters of a version of Gore’s computer-based slide show, which became the basis of his best-selling book and documentary film, “An Inconvenient Truth.”
This event is co-sponsored by ASLC, Oregon Environmental Council, and the New York Times.
Past Event
Tuesday, 2 December 2008, 7 p.m.
Laura Vandenburgh’s drawing-based practice has encompassed drawing installations, wall drawings, and works on paper, which explore our relationship to and within the natural environment. Her work has been exhibited at the Susan Hobbs Gallery in Toronto, the Portland Art Museum, the James Harris Gallery in Seattle, PICA and the Everson Museum in Syracuse, NY among other venues. The work has been supported by grants and residencies from the Ucross, Ragdale and Saltonstall Foundations. Vandenburgh received her MFA from Hunter College in New York City, following BS in Zoology and Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degrees from the University of California at Davis. She lives and works in Springfield, Oregon, and teaches at the University of Oregon.
Past Event
Tuesday, 18 November 2008, 7 p.m.
John Grade will speak at 7:00 pm, in room 102, Miller Center for the Humanities.
“Grade is a master at transforming experience of place into material manifestation. Earlier work involved travel to far-flung places to see how different cultures celebrated and preserved life forms: the pyramids, funerary towers in Peru and burial mounds in Jordan near Petra. The resulting works captured mood without resorting to the representation of actual objects. His current body of work still requires the artist to travel, but his works have begun to get in on the act too, as Grade exhibits, displaces and re-positions his work in new, often radically different territory”. -Suzanne Beal, August 2008, Sculpture Magazine
John Grade is the recipient of an Andy Warhol Foundation Award (NY), A Pollock Krasner Foundation Award (NY), and a Tiffany Foundation Award (NY); his work has been featured and reviewed in Art in America, Sculpture, the Boston Globe, and on NPR’s All Things Considered and Studio 360.
Past Event
12 through 14 November 2008
This two-day event, bringing together leading academics from across the country, will focus on why people migrate, how it affects culture and identity, and the socio-political issues tied to migration. The annual Multicultural Symposium, in its fifth year, is designed to help the community explore the personal and public face of race, culture and ethnicity in a local, national, and global context.
Events will take place at various times, in different locations within Templeton Campus Center. Consult the symposium website for details.
Past Event
Tuesday, 11 November 2008, 7 p.m.
Sue Taylor will speak at 7:00 pm, in room 102, Miller Center for the Humanities. The title of her talk is “Grant Wood, Truth and Lies.”
An art historian, curator, and critic, Sue Taylor received her B.A. in art history from Roosevelt University, and her M.A. and Ph.D., also in art history, from the University of Chicago. Before joining the faculty at Portland State University in Oregon, she served as Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Milwaukee Art Museum, and as Associate Curator at the David and Alfred Smart Museum at the University of Chicago.
Formerly a critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, Taylor is corresponding editor for Art in America and has published articles widely. With fellowships and grants a number of prestigious institutions, she has brought feminist and psychoanalytic insights to the art of Jackson Pollock, Eva Hesse, and numerous other modern artists. She is currently at work on a book on “Grant Wood beyond Regionalism.”
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
Thursday, 30 October 2008, 7 p.m.
On Thursday, October 30th at 7:00 p.m. in Council Chamber, Dr. Peggy McIntosh will present her research on the obvious and not-so obvious nuances of white privilege and privilege systems. Her lecture is titled, “Waking Up to Privilege Systems: The Surprising Journey.” Dr. McIntosh’s presentation corresponds to an article, “White
Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack,” where she states, “I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group.” Further, her interactive lecture will draw on her experiences and research on the daily effects of white privilege and the discourse surrounding earned strength and unearned power.
The groundbreaking author of “White Privilege and Male Privilege,” McIntosh has been instrumental in putting the dimension of privilege into discussions of gender, race, and sexuality in the United States.
This event, hosted by the Office of Multicultural Affairs, is free and open to the public.
Past Event
27 through 28 October 2008
Hazard Adams will visit campus October 27-28 for two events. Adams is professor emeritus of comparative literature, University of Washington, and founder and honorary senior fellow of the School of Criticism and Theory. His Critical Theory since Plato has served as a standard text in the field for more than three decades.
On Monday, October 27, at 7:30 p.m. he will deliver a lecture on Blake’s Annotations to Wordsworth in Miller Center for the Humanities, room 105. On Tuesday, October 28, at 3:30 p.m. he will read from his newest publications, The Offense of Poetry and Academic Child, in the Lewis & Clark College Bookstore. Copies of his books will be available for purchase and can be autographed.
Past Event
Thursday, 23 October 2008, 7 p.m.
Heidi Preuss Grew will speak on October 23 at 7:00 pm, in room 102, Miller Center for the Humanities.
Grew’s sculptures combine animal and human imagery that straddle real and fictional worlds. Her works are often accompanied by large-scale drawings, wall installations, or porcelain paintings. Her figurative sculptures have been exhibited nationally and internationally, including in the Portland Art Museum, Contemporary Crafts Museum in Portland, the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Wisconsin, the Taipei County Yingge Ceramics Museum in Taiwan, the Keramion Museum in Frechen, Germany, FuLe International Ceramic Museum in Fuping, China, and the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague. Preuss Grew has participated in numerous international symposia and was honored in 2007 with election into the International Academy of Ceramics. She is presently an Associate Professor of Art at Willamette University and divides her time between Portland and Salem, Oregon.
