Topic: symposium
Video: Students bring war pundits to campus for International Affairs Symposium
2 April 2009
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A small group of students set out on a quest to develop an conference to address a series of serious questions facing the international community about the rules of war, who participates in war and how war is covered. The International Affairs Symposium, A World of Warfare: Dynamics of Conflict, brings together well-known international affairs [...]
Video: Symposium offers unique forum for gender issues discussion
8 March 2009
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Now in its 28th year, the Lewis & Clark Gender Studies Symposium brings together artists, activists, and academics to cover a wide range of gender issues including the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality. The three-day symposium, titled “Poverty, Property, and Personhood: Challenging Gender Injustice,” includes two keynote speakers and nearly 20 other presentations, panel [...]
Students challenge traditional immigration politics to expand understanding of global migration
27 October 2008
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Discussion of immigration has long been highly politicized and in America, often devolves into debate about Mexican immigration to the United States. A group of Lewis & Clark students are asking people to reconsider their understanding of immigration and its effects on the country. The Ray Warren Multicultural Symposium, Landscapes of Migration, will focus on [...]
Ocean wave technology gaining momentum
20 September 2007
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(Portland, Ore.)—Ocean wave technology could eventually power as much as 10 percent of the world’s electrical demand, but it is an alternative energy source that comes with little-understood legal, economic and environmental impacts. The day before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) convenes a public hearing on licensing pilot projects along Oregon’s coast, Lewis & [...]
Proposals due for Hope in a Time of Violence Conference
10 July 2007
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(Portland, Ore.)—Lewis & Clark College will host a symposium in support of the journal Democracy & Education November 16 & 17, 2007. Proposals for panels, symposia, interactive sessions and papers are due August 31, 2007. For more information, please see the Hope conference Web site.