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
6 through 8 April 2009
Lewis & Clark hosts leading intellectuals and advocates during a three-day symposium, welcoming members of the campus community as well as the greater Portland community to an exciting, informative, and dynamic series of discussions. This year’s symposium is titled “A World of Warfare: Dynamics of Conflict in the 21st Century.” Topics include the privatization of security forces, the notion of preemptive war, and the efficacy of embedded journalists, just to name a few. Each session includes time for audience questions.
WHERE: Templeton Campus Center, Council Chamber
COST: Free
CONTACT: Amy Timmins, Administrative Coordinator, 503-768-7630
Past Event
Monday, 30 March 2009, 3:30 p.m.
The East Asian Studies Program and departments of International Affairs, History, and Sociology/Anthropology will co-sponsor the following presentation: “The Work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, South Korea: Uncovering the Hidden History of the Korean War”
Guest lecturers will include Dong-Choon Kim, Professor, Department of Sociology, SungKongHoe University, and Standing commissioner, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Republic of Korea, and Hee Kyung Sub, Ph.D., Investigator, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Republic of Korea.
In response to petitions to bereaved families, the South Korean National Assembly established an independent Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 2005 to investigate charges that unarmed civilians and political prisoners were massacred before and during the Korean War. The U.S. and the current south Korean governments have been reluctant to fully acknowledge the findings of the Commission because the evidence unearthed raises doubts about the official narrative of the Korean War. The two speakers will discuss the major findings of the Commission, the investigative process with reference to specific cases, and future challenges facing the Commission’s truth and reconciliation work.
The event will be held in Albany Quadrangle Smith Hall. If you have questions, please contact Marty Hart-Landsberg, professor of economics, 503 768-7624.
Past Event
Thursday, 5 March 2009, 7:30 p.m.
This year’s Steinhardt Lecture in Economics will feature Linda Bilmes, Professor of Economics Kennedy School, Harvard University.
Apart from its tragic human toll, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been, and will be staggeringly expensive in financial terms. Author of The Three Trillion Dollar War (with Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz), Bilmes will speak on expense items that have been hidden from the U.S. taxpayer, including not only big ticket items like replacing military equipment (being used up at six times the peace time rate) but also the cost of caring for thousands of wounded veterans - for the rest of their lives. Shifting to a global focus, she will discuss the cost in lives and economic damage within Iraq and the region. Professor bilmes will focus on what the U.S. taxpayer’s money would have produced if instead it had been invested in the further growth of the U.S. economy. Bilmes’ research has changed the way we think about the war.
The event will take place in Templeton Campus Center, Council Chamber.
Past Event
3 through 4 March 2008
A new exhibit on the human and economic cost of the Iraq war to Oregon will be on display on the Glade, March 3. The exhibit consists of a memorial to those who have lost their lives in the Iraq War, including boots to honor the fallen soldiers from Oregon, hardhats to represent the Oregon contractors killed in Iraq, and a display that recognizes Iraqis who have died in the war.
