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Feb20Wed
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Secretary Madeleine Albright8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Before Madeleine Albright turned 12, her life was shaken by the Nazi invasion of her native Prague, the Battle of Britain, the near-total destruction of European Jewry, the Allied victory in World War II, the rise of communism, and the onset of the Cold War. Drawing on her memory, her parents’ written reflections, interviews with contemporaries, and newly available documents, Albright recounts a tale that is by turns harrowing and inspiring. InPrague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948(Harper Perennial), Albright reflects on her discovery of her family’s Jewish heritage many decades after the war, on her Czech homeland’s tangled history, and on the stark moral choices faced by her parents and their generation. At once a deeply personal memoir and an incisive work of history,Prague Winter serves as a guide to the future through the lessons of the past. Secretary Albright will be joined in conversation by Maria Wulff, president of the World Affairs Council of Oregon. This event is cosponsored by the World Affairs Council of Oregon.
Please note: Tickets for this special event, $15.99, include admission and a copy of Prague Winter, and are available at the box offices of the Bagdad Theater and Crystal Ballroom, online at eTix.com, or by phone at 855-227-8499. Books will be distributed at the event.8:00 pmSecretary Madeleine Albright -
Roger Hobbs8:30 pm – 9:30 pmDark, intelligent, and thoroughly addictive, Ghostman(Knopf) announces the arrival of an exciting and distinctive new novelist. When a casino robbery in Atlantic City goes horribly awry, the man who orchestrated it is obliged to call in a favor from someone who’s occasionally called Jack. While it’s doubtful that anyone knows his actual name or anything at all about his true identity — or even if he’s still alive — he’s in his mid-30s and lives completely off the grid, a criminal’s criminal who does entirely as he pleases and is almost impossible to get in touch with. From its riveting opening pages, Ghostmaneffortlessly pulls the reader into Jack’s refined and peculiar world — and the sophisticated shadowboxing grows ever more intense as he moves, hour by hour, toward a constantly reimprovised solution. With a quicksilver plot, gripping prose, and masterly expertise, Roger Hobbs has given us a debut thriller that will immediately place him in the company of our most esteemed crime writers.8:30 pmRoger Hobbs
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Feb21Thu
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ESCO: Celebrating 100 Years of Service and Innovation8:15 am – 9:15 amESCO: Celebrating 100 Years of Service and Innovation
ESCO will celebrate its 100 year anniversary in 2013. In those 100 years ESCO has continually produced innovative products for its customers.
Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, ESCO Corporation is an independent developer and manufacturer of highly engineered wear parts and replacement products used in mining, infrastructure development, oil and gas, and industrial applications.
Panelists:
Steve Pratt
Chairman of the Board, ESCO CorporationCal Collins
President & CEO, ESCO CorporationHank Swigert
Former Chairman of the Board– ESCO CorporationStephen Babson
Managing Director, Endeavour CapitalModerated by Scott Dawson
Dean, PSU School of BusinessLocation:
Multnomah Athletic Club
1849 SW Salmon, PortlandThere is a $20 charge to attend Business Briefings. PSU students can register at a discounted price of $10. Registrations cannot be refunded. Contact development@sba.pdx.edu or (503) 725-5932 to learn how sponsors and PSU students can register at a discount.
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Reed College Visiting Writers Series: R. Erica Doyle6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
R. Erica Doyle was born in Brooklyn to Trinidadian immigrant parents, and has lived in Washington, DC, Farmington, Connecticut and La Marsa, Tunisia. Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry, Best Black Women’s Erotica, Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Gay and Lesbian Writing from the Antilles, Ploughshares, and Callaloo. She has received grants and awards from the Hurston/Wright Foundation, the Astraea Lesbian Writers Fund and Poets and Writers, and she was a New York Foundation for the Arts Poetry Fellow. Erica is also a fellow of Cave Canem: A Workshop and Retreat for Black Writers. Her first book, proxy is forthcoming from Belladonna* Books in 2013 and has been performed as a chamber piece in collaboration with composer Joshua Fried at the Composers Collaborative, and as a multimedia performance piece with painter and digital media artist Torkwase Dyson at the Transmodern Age Festival.
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Reed Visiting Writers Series presents R. Erica Doyle7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
R. Erica Doyle was born in Brooklyn to Trinidadian immigrant parents, and has lived in Washington, DC, Farmington, Connecticut and La Marsa, Tunisia. Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry, Best Black Women’s Erotica, Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Gay and Lesbian Writing from the Antilles, Ploughshares, and Callaloo. She has received grants and awards from the Hurston/Wright Foundation, the Astraea Lesbian Writers Fund and Poets and Writers, and she was a New York Foundation for the Arts Poetry Fellow. Erica is also a fellow of Cave Canem: A Workshop and Retreat for Black Writers. Her first book, proxy is forthcoming from Belladonna* Books in 2013 and has been performed as a chamber piece in collaboration with composer Joshua Fried at the Composers Collaborative, and as a multimedia performance piece with painter and digital media artist Torkwase Dyson at the Transmodern Age Festival.
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The Last Voyageur: Amos Burg and the Rivers of the West8:30 pm – 9:30 pmAmos Burg, a Portland native, was the first to complete transits of the free-flowing, undammed Snake and Columbia Rivers by canoe, and in 1938 he became the first to navigate the length of the Colorado River in a rubber raft. Burg is considered to be the only person known to have run all major Western rivers from source to mouth. In The Last Voyageur: Amos Burg and the Rivers of the West (Mountaineers Books), Vince Welch weaves a passionate and well-researched narrative using extensive material from Burg’s own rich archives. History buffs, boatmen, and adventure readers alike will delight in this remarkable regional history of the larger-than-life Burg, a quintessential man of the American West and one of the last voyageurs of North America’s great waterways.8:30 pmThe Last Voyageur: Amos Burg and the Rivers of the West
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Thinner this Year8:30 pm – 9:30 pmIn Thinner This Year: A Diet and Exercise Program for Living Strong, Fit, and Sexy (Workman), Chris Crowley, the memorable patient and coauthor of Younger Next Year, partners with Jen Sacheck, a nutritionist and exercise physiologist from Tufts University, and in lively, alternating chapters, they spell out a weight-loss plan that will help readers lose up to 25 pounds in the first six months — and keep it off for life. Thinner This Year tells you how to eat and how to exercise, from the best aerobic workouts to strength exercises that will build muscle, protect joints, and add mobility.8:30 pmThinner this Year
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Feb22Fri
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CreativeMornings/Portland with Back Fence PDX9:30 am – 11:00 am
SPEAKERS
Our theme this February is: MONEY. We’re going to hear three different stories from Back Fence PDX, who have been showcasing people telling true and personal stories since 2008. No lies. No notes. No memorization.
B. FRAYN MASTERS: Host and Executive Producer of both the live and OPB Radio versions of the show
B. Frayn is also the PDX Producer for The Moth StorySLAM. She produces, creates and performs in comedic videos and sketches, and was lucky enough to be a guest performer in w00stock 2.1, which starred the super funny Wil Wheaton, Adam Savage, and Paul & Storm. Samples of her literary leanings can be found in Airplane Reading, MonkeyBicycle 6, Hobart, SPORK and Mountain Man Dance Moves: The McSweeney’s Book of Lists. Writing the cell phones games for the Twilight movie series totally warped her viewpoint on wolves. She puts most of the monies in her bank account as an animation scriptwriter, in addition to writing for various magazines. She swoons for good stories.
MOLLY NORTON: Stuff won — and lost — on the Price is Right
Molly works part-time as a global Talent Acquisition Manager to fund her Pok Pok addiction and because children are tiny money-pits. She’s had her writing featured in Salon.com and SMITH. She once auditioned against Renee Zellweger to be a bride in a Lactaid commercial. In her free time, she enjoys writing, reading, dinner parties, storytelling, and developing camp themes for Burning Man. She once had a tweet favorited by Rob Delaney.DAVE JARECKI: Copy, closets and Birkenstocks – early misadventures in advertising.
Dave Jarecki owns Breakerboy Communications, a writing firm that partners with other creatives to produce brand stories and written communications for businesses and community organizations. Over time, he’s produced words and stories for Nike, Skylab Architecture, Lewis & Clark College, the Beaverton School District, and many others. He is also an Associate Fellow with Attic Institute, and facilitates creative and business writing workshops throughout the area. His elementary school writing workshops focus not only on writing but on divergent thinking and methods to quietly subvert the system.
JEFF HARDISON: Are you ready to die undiscovered?
Jeff Hardison has dropped out of a performing-arts high school, and run away from an MFA in writing. He’s told stories for Ignite, Back Fence PDX, Literary Death Match and at a Moth StorySLAM. For the last 15 years, he’s earned a living handling marketing for tech companies, including the mobile-app software company he’s with now.Register here!
9:30 amCreativeMornings/Portland with Back Fence PDX
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Feb23Sat
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Write to Publish Conference10:00 am – 11:00 amJoin Portland State University’s Ooligan Press for its fifth annual Write to Publish conference on February 23, from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. This year’s theme, Write What You Know, will feature local nonfiction authors, including Floyd Skloot, Kristian Williams, and Lidia Yuknavitch.Write to Publish is a unique writers’ conference focused on publishing. This year, workshops will cover the basics of getting published in the nonfiction genre, and a panel of writers will speak about their personal experiences navigating the industry. In addition, local vendors from the publishing industry will contribute their knowledge and services to attendees. As in years past, Write to Publish promises to help demystify the publishing process by offering insight, resources, and encouragement for burgeoning writers.
For more information, please visit this website. To purchase tickets, go to the PSU Box Office website.
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Peace through Women Symposium11:00 am – 4:00 pm
Women are great contributors to peace, but historically have gone unrecognized. This symposium will provide a venue in which to learn and acquire knowledge from these women leaders, who passionately work for peace around the world. These speakers will inspire you to do the same.
The symposium has an exceptional line up of presenters, including keynote, Governor Barbara Roberts, who will share her impressive story on how she got started in her career in Oregon politics. Additionally, Dr. Suzanne Feeney, will talk about her work with women in India and providing microryanpagelinesit opportunities. Dr. Feeney previously led PSU students on study abroad to India and helped write a book entitled, Grassroots NGOs by Women for Women: The Driving Force of Development in India.
The Peace through Women Symposium will be held Saturday, February 23, 2013 in the Smith Memorial Student Union Ballroom on the Portland State University campus. Doors open at 9:00 am and the event will begin at 10:00 a.m., adjourning at 3:00 p.m. Cost is $15/student and $35/non-student. The cost includes breakfast, lunch, and a Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream Social following the last speaker. A limited number of scholarships are availble for this event for more information please contact Kari Anne at karm@pdx.edu. Sponsored by: Portland Rotaract, Pearl Rotary Club, PSU Women’s Resource Center & Center for Women, Politics, & Policy, and the Jubitz Family Foundation.
To register go to http://www.portlandrotaract.org/.
11:00 amPeace through Women Symposium
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Feb24Sun
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Buddhist Boot Camp8:30 pm – 9:30 pm
In Buddhist Boot Camp (HarperOne), Timber Hawkeyeintroduces a new generation to Buddhist wisdom for modern life. Each story, inspirational quote, and teaching in Buddhist Boot Camp offers mindfulness-enhancing techniques that anyone can relate to. If you agree that Buddhism isn’t just about meditating but also about rolling up your sleeves and relieving some of the world’s suffering, then you are ready to be a soldier of peace in the army of love. Welcome to Buddhist Boot Camp.
8:30 pmBuddhist Boot Camp
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Feb25Mon
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Annapurna Potluri8:30 pm – 9:30 pm
In The Grammarian (Counterpoint), Annapurna Potluri‘s rich, descriptive debut novel, ambitious French philologist Alexandre Lautens travels to a remote Indian village and develops a friendship with a daughter of his host family. Set against the historical and political backdrop of late-colonial India, Potluri weaves an aching story of unrequited love.
8:30 pmAnnapurna Potluri
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Feb26Tue
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Gretel Ehrlich8:30 pm – 9:30 pm
A passionate student of Japanese poetry and art for much of her life, Gretel Ehrlich felt compelled to return to the earthquake- and tsunami-devastated Tohoku coast, to bear witness and listen to the survivors. In an eloquent narrative that blends reportage, poetic observation, and deeply felt reflection,Facing the Wave (Pantheon) serves as a testament to the resilience and humor of people who find strength in a suddenly shattered world.
8:30 pmGretel Ehrlich
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Feb27Wed
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Illahee Lecture | Buck Parker: Who Owns Our Environment?8:00 pm – 9:00 pmWho influences, controls, and owns other key aspects of our lives: what we eat, the information we access, the environment, our own finances, and our politicians? In short, who owns us? And what can we do about it?
Buck Parker
Who Owns Our Environment?A NATIVE OREGONIAN, Vawter “Buck” Parker has worked with Earthjustice since 1980, first as a Litigation coordinator and then Executive Director (1997-2007).During his tenure as Executive Director, hegreatly expanded Earthjustice’s legislative and communications staffs and led the organization during the critical years of the administration of President George W. Bush. Read full bio.
When: February 27, 2013, 7:00 p.m.
Where: First Congregational Church, 1126 SW Park Ave, Portland, Oregon
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Ted Kerasote8:00 pm – 9:00 pmWhen Ted Kerasote, author of Merle’s Door, was ready for a new dog after losing his beloved Merle, he knew that he would want to give his puppy Pukka the longest life possible. But how to do that? So much has changed in the way we feed, vaccinate, train, and live with our dogs. In an adventure that echoes The Omnivore’s Dilemma with a canine spin, Pukka’s Promise(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) tackles all those subjects, questioning our conventional wisdom and emerging with vital new information that will surprise even the most knowledgeable dog lovers.8:00 pmTed Kerasote
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Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures8:30 pm – 9:30 pmIn Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures (Crown), science writer Virginia Morell takes us on a dazzling odyssey into the inner worlds of animals. With 30 years of experience covering the sciences, Morell uses her formidable gifts as a storyteller to transport us to field sites and laboratories around the world, introducing us to pioneering animal-cognition researchers and their surprisingly intelligent and sensitive subjects. She probes the moral and ethical dilemmas of recognizing that even “lesser animals” have cognitive abilities such as memory, feelings, personality, and self-awareness — traits that many in the 20th century felt were unique to human beings.8:30 pmAnimal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures
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Feb28Thu
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Kelli Anderson (Live Video Stream)1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Hi. I’m an artist/designer and tinkerer who is always experimenting with new means of making images and experiences.
I draw, photograph, cut, print, code, and create a variety of designed things for myself and others. From interactive paper to layered, experimental websites, everything begins and ends here in my studio which houses a 1919 letterpress and an assortment of other benevolent contraptions. I also teach art history at Pratt every summer.
PSU Art Building (click for map)
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Reed College Visiting Writers Series: Natalie Serber6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Natalie Serber is the author of the story collection Shout Her Lovely Name (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012). Her work has appeared in The Bellingham Review, Fourth Genre, Gulf Coast, Inkwell, Hunger Mountain, and others, as well as in the collectionAirfare: Stories, Poems and Essays on Flight. Awards and grants include the Barbara Deming Grant for Women Artists, Tobias Wolff Award, H.E. Francis Award, John Steinbeck Award, all for fiction, and finalist mentions for the Annie Dillard Creative Nonfiction Award, and The Third Coast Fiction Award. Natalie received an MFA from Warren Wilson College. She teaches writing at Marylhurst University in Portland, Oregon, and she is currently working on a novel set in Boring, Oregon.
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Surviving Collaboration in the Aftermath of War7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
The PSU Center for Japanese Studies presents:
Dr. Naoko Shibusawa from the History Deptartment of Brown University
Dr. Shibusawa is the author of the book America’s Geisha Ally: Re-Imagining the Japanese Enemy (Harvard 2006), which examines how Americans were able to accept the Japanese as valuable Cold War allies so quickly after a brutal and racialized war. Her talk at PSU will focus on a tale of two U.S. Army sergeants, Richard M. Sakakida and John David Provoo, who became prisoners of war when the island fortress of Corregidor surrendered to the Japanese on May 6, 1942. Because both men understood Japanese, both translated and were given tasks by their Japanese captors. Yet one emerged as a war hero—posthumously given a Congressional citation—whereas the other, though ultimately found innocent, remained hounded by the treason allegations against him for the rest of his life. The Japanese American went on to have a distinguished military career until retirement, whereas the Euroamerican became an indigent Buddhist monk who participated in anti-war demonstrations during Vietnam War. Their stories upend racialized normatives about nation and belonging, showing how the state firmly placed the Japanese American man into the circle of patriotism and honor while denying readmission to the white man. This talk will focus on Sakakida’s testimony against Provoo at his 1952-53 treason trial and explain how Cold War racial liberalism, U.S. exceptionalism, and state surveillance allowed one man to survive World War II collaboration more easily than the other.
Celebrating 30 Years of Excellence: PSU’s Japanese Language Program,
a Regional, National, and International Resource7:00 pmSurviving Collaboration in the Aftermath of War -
Reed Visiting Writers Series presents Natalie Serber7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Natalie Serber is the author of the story collection Shout Her Lovely Name (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012). Her work has appeared in The Bellingham Review, Fourth Genre, Gulf Coast, Inkwell, Hunger Mountain, and others, as well as in the collectionAirfare: Stories, Poems and Essays on Flight. Awards and grants include the Barbara Deming Grant for Women Artists, Tobias Wolff Award, H.E. Francis Award, John Steinbeck Award, all for fiction, and finalist mentions for the Annie Dillard Creative Nonfiction Award, and The Third Coast Fiction Award. Natalie received an MFA from Warren Wilson College. She teaches writing at Marylhurst University in Portland, Oregon, and she is currently working on a novel set in Boring, Oregon.
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‘Hasht Bihisht’: the Garden of the Eight Paradises – the place of the garden in early Mughal culture8:00 pm – 9:00 pmThis illustrated talk will discuss the Central Asian and Afghan origins of the Mughal Empire of India (1526-1739/1858) as revealed in the Turki or Chaghatai Turkish autobiography of the founder of the Empire, Zahir al-Din Muhammad Babur (1483-1530). Babur’s autobiography is one of the most important historical sources for the Timurids, the fifteenth century descendants of Timur, and a major literary monument of Turki, the literary language of Babur and Timur’s other progeny.Stephen F. Dale is an Islamic historian who specializes in and teaches courses on the history of the eastern Islamic world, specifically India, Afghanistan, Iran and Central Asia. He took his undergraduate degree from Carleton College and both of his graduate degrees from the University of California at Berkeley, and previously taught at the Universities of Chicago and Minnesota.
Professor Dale has conducted research on one of the oldest Muslim communities in the Indian subcontinent, the Mappilas of Malabar or Kerala in southwestern India, and on Indian merchants who conducted trade in Iran, Central Asia and Russia in the early modern era. He is currently at work on a biography of Zahir al-Din Muhammad Babur, the founder, in 1526, of the Mughal (Mughul) empire of India; a project that involves research in most of the areas of Professor Dale’s interests. His most recent publication dealing with Babur’s life was an article in the August 1996 issue of the Journal of Asian Studies entitled, “Poetry and Autobiography in the Babur-nama.”
Co-sponsored by the Portland State University Department of History and presented by the Portland State University Library and Middle East Studies Center featuring some of the resources in the Bridging Cultures Bookshelf: Muslim Journeys, a collection of books, films, and other resources chosen with a view to familiarizing the American public with Islam and the cultural heritage of Islamic civilizations around the world. Supported by the U.S. Institute of Peace Public Education for Peacebuilding Support initiative
The Bridging Cultures Bookshelf: Muslim Journeys is a project of the National Endowment for the Humanities, conducted in cooperation with the American Library Association. Support was provided by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York. Additional support for the arts and media components was provided by the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art.The Portland State University Library is at the heart of the Portland State community, and is committed to providing excellence and innovation in research, teaching, and learning support. Along with its diverse collection of information resources, the University Library offers special collections and archives that feature unique materials of regional and scholarly interest; produces an extensive array of user-centered information services; and delivers a strong instruction program dedicated to improving students’ academic success. Located in an iconic building in the beautiful South Park Blocks, the Portland State University Library serves the largest student body in the Oregon University System, providing collaborative study spaces and technology-enabled environments designed to enhance students’ learning experiences.
http://library.pdx.edu/ | library@pdx.edu | 503-725-5874The Middle East Studies Center at Portland State University promotes understanding of the people, cultures, languages and religions of the Middle East. As a National Resource Center for Middle East Studies under the U.S. Department of Education’s Title VI program, the Center serves as a resource on issues pertaining to the Middle East through activities that reach students and scholars, as well as businesses, educators, and the media. The Middle East Studies Center supports academic conferences, workshops, cultural events, lectures, and a resource library.
pdx.edu/middle-east-studies | middleeaststudiescenter@pdx.edu | 503-725-40748:00 pm‘Hasht Bihisht’: the Garden of the Eight Paradises – the place of the garden in early Mughal culture -
Syria: What Now (Mercy Corps)8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Syria expert and Wilson Center Fellow Joshua Sacher brings us up-to-date on the ongoing conflict and the ripple effects in the surrounding countries.
Syria: What Now? a lecture by Syria expert and Wilson Center Fellow Joshua Sacher.
Tickets: Tickets are $10.00 and available at the Action Center during regular hours; by phone, 503-896-5747; and online through Brown Paper Tickets by clicking here.
Joshua Stacher is currently a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Kent State University. Stacher’s scholarship focuses on authoritarian durability and social movements in the Middle East and North Africa.
Stacher is the author of Adaptable Autocrats: Regime Power in Egypt & Syria (Stanford UP, 2012) as well as other peer-reviewed journal articles. He is a regular contributor to and on the editorial board of MERIP’s influential Middle East Report. He has made media appearances and written commentary for NPR, CNN, BBC,Al-Jazeera, Foreign Affairs, Jadaliyya, and The New York Times, among others. He is also a founding member of the Northeast Ohio Consortium on Middle East Studies.
Find out more about Mercy Corps’ work with Syrian refugees here.
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Mothering from Your Center8:30 pm – 9:30 pmBuilding on her insightful first book, Wild Feminine,Tami Lynn Kent‘s Mothering from Your Center: Tapping Your Body’s Natural Energy for Pregnancy, Birth, and Parenting(Beyond Words) addresses the energetic, physical, and healing power within the pelvic bowl that can sustain women through conception, pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period. Women will find tools for using this creative energy to build new mothering patterns, work with the energy bond between mother and child, enhance daily access to joy, create balance between work and home, and facilitate the notion of mother as creative visionary. With clear, compassionate language, Kent helps women heal physically and emotionally while learning to access their full creative potential as an individual and a mother.8:30 pmMothering from Your Center
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Mar1Fri
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“Placing,” PSU Department of Architecture Lecture Series: Lecture by Architects Fuensanta Nieto & Enrique Sobejano6:00 pm – 7:30 pm“Architects create places, not spaces.” In the second annual lecture series presented by the Department of Architecture at Portland State University, six internationally renowned leaders from the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, art, planning and anthropology will tackle this once-controversial idea. The series spans the 2012-2013 academic year, with presentations by Dan Wood, Sheila O’Donnell and John Tuomey, Kevin Daly, Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano, Tim Ingold and Julie Bargmann. Each of these speakers will discuss the ways in which the active processes of siting, locating, positioning and placing things and people in the world are conceived and embodied in their work.
Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano will speak as part of the “Placing” lecture series on Friday, March 1. Based in Madrid and Berlin, Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos is known for projects that marry a contemporary architectural language with traditional settings and historic structures. Their work includes the Madinat al Zahra Museum in Córdoba—recipient of a 2010 Aga Kahn Award—and extensions to the Joanneum Museum in Graz, San Telmo Museum in San Sebastian and Moritzburg Museum in Halle. In addition to practicing architecture, they teach at the European University of Madrid and at the Universität der Künste of Berlin.
6:00 pm“Placing,” PSU Department of Architecture Lecture Series: Lecture by Architects Fuensanta Nieto & Enrique Sobejano
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Literally Arts: Stephen Greenblatt7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Stephen Greenblatt recently won both the Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award for The Swerve: How the World Became Modern. He’s also the author of the New York Times bestseller Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare, the general editor of The Norton Shakespeare, and eleven other books. He is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard and is generally considered the preeminent Shakespeare scholar in the United States today. Buy Tickets.
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Stephen Greenblatt8:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Stephen Greenblatt recently won both the Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award for The Swerve: How the World Became Modern. He’s also the author of the New York Times bestseller Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare, the general editor of The Norton Shakespeare, and eleven other books. He is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard and is generally considered the preeminent Shakespeare scholar in the United States today.
8:30 pmStephen Greenblatt
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Mar7Thu
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Dan Caserro (Live Video Stream)1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Dan Cassaro is a designer, animator, and illustrator living
and working in Brooklyn, New York. He puts words on paper
so that they might be accountable for themselves. Young
Jerks is his one-man design shop specializing in custom
type, illustration, logo design, and powerful 70′s rock and roll.His works and projects have received accolades from Fast
Company, The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone,
Esquire, The New Yorker and many major design and
illustration publications.PSU Art Building (click for map)
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Reed College Visiting Writers Series: Eileen Myles6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Eileen Myles moved to New York City from Boston in 1974 to be a poet. Snowflake/different streets, a double volume (of poems) came out in 2012 from Wave Books. Eileen’s Inferno: a poet’s novel (2010) won the Lambda Book Award in 2011 for lesbian fiction. Her more than twenty publications include Sorry Tree(2007), Cool for You (2000), Skies (2001) Not Me (1991), andChelsea Girls (1994). The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art (2009) received a Warhol/Creative Capital art writing grant in 2007. In 2010 she received the Shelley Prize for her poetry. Eileen writes about books, art and culture for Art Forum, Parkett and Vice and many other publications and she has written catalogue essays on Cathy Opie, Emily Roydson, K8 Hardy, Oscar Tuazon. She’s teaching NYU’s graduate program this spring. In 2012 Eileen Myles got a Guggenheim for nonfiction to write “Afterglow” a fantastic dog memoir.
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Mercy Corps: Dispatches From the Lost Country of Mali8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Dispatches From the Lost Country of Mali, a lecture by journalist Peter Chilson.Co-sponsored by the World Affairs Council.
RSVP: Please register by emailing us here.
Peter Chilson has been traveling to West Africa since 1985 and was one of the first Westerners to travel to Mali after the collapse of democratic rule in 2012. His journalistic reports have been published by the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting and Foreign Policy and discussed on Tina Brown’s NPR Must Reads program.
Chilson teaches writing and literature at Washington State University. He has received multiple awards for both his fiction and non-fiction writings, including the Associated Writing Programs Award for Riding the Demon: On the Road in West Africa (University of Georgia Press 1999; the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Bakless Fiction Prize; and the Maria Thomas Fiction Prize for Disturbance-Loving Species: A Novella and Stories (Mariner Books 2007). His work was included in the 2003 and 2008 editions of Best American Travel Writing and has appeared in various other collections of creative nonfiction.
8:00 pmMercy Corps: Dispatches From the Lost Country of Mali
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Mar8Fri
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The Hunt for Earth 2: A Shower of Kepler Planets!8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
In March 2009, a dedicated space telescope (“Kepler”) was launched to search for terrestrial planets around other stars. Before the mission we knew almost nothing about exoplanets smaller than Saturn. Kepler is sensitive to planets with orbital periods up to a year and sizes as small as Mars, meaning that it can locate potentially habitable exoplanets, and even discover a planet that might be like the Earth. The main purpose of the mission is to find out how many smaller planets there are, and learn about their sizes and distances from their stars (it cannot discern their atmospheres or surfaces). Kepler looks at stars like our Sun, and the more common smaller stars. I describe how the mission works, and highlight some of the most amazing discoveries of the first 4 years. Nearly 3000 potential planets have been found, including many in multiple planet systems. I will summarize the distribution of sizes and locations of these candidates, and talk about some very interesting examples. The most common planets may be something that we don’t have in our own Solar System: “super-Earths” which are 1.5-3 times as big as our planet. Some of these may be like our planet, some may be “water worlds”, and some may be more like Neptune. I discuss the concept of “habitability” in that context. Finding truly Earth-sized planets is harder, especially those with a comfortable temperature, but recent results include tantalizing possibilities. The Kepler mission is rapidly leading us to the conclusion that most stars have planets going around them, and the number of planets like the Earth could easily be in the billions – and that’s just in our own Galaxy!
Speaker:
Dr. Gibor
Basri
University of California–BerkeleyGibor Basri received a BSc in Physics from Stanford Univ. in 1973, and a PhD in Astrophysics from the Univ. of Colorado, Boulder in 1979. His work in the 1980s concentrated on star formation and the study of T Tauri stars, as well as continuing studies of stellar activity. In the past decade he has continued work on these topics, as well as becoming a world expert in the study of brown dwarfs. He wrote an Annual Reviews of Astronomy and Astrophysics article on “Observations of Brown Dwarfs” in 2000, and delivered a plenary lecture to the American Astronomical Society entitled “Brown Dwarfs: Up Close and Physical” in 2004.
He has written numerous review articles, along with well over 100 technical publications. GB was awarded a Miller Research Professorship in 1997, and became a Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer in 2000. He has served on committees helping to award major NASA and NSF grants and projects, and awarding time on the (world’s largest) Keck telescopes. He is increasingly involved in science education, and encouraging the participation of minorities in science. One such effort is service on the Board of the Chabot Space and Science Center.
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8:00 pmThe Hunt for Earth 2: A Shower of Kepler Planets!
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Mar12Tue
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Everbody Reads: Sherman Alexie8:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Get tickets here! In partnership with Multnomah County Library and The Library Foundation, Literary Arts is pleased to announce an evening with Sherman Alexie, whose books The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and Ten Little Indians are the Everybody Reads 2013 selections.
8:30 pmEverbody Reads: Sherman Alexie
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Mar19Tue
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Mercy Corps: Global Weirding and other Water Phenomena8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Hear the latest developments in climate change through the lens of water from the director of the Freshwater Climate Change program at Conservation International, Dr. John Matthews.
Global Weirding and other Water Phenomena, a lecture by Dr. John Mathews, Director of the Freshwater Climate Change program at Conservation International.
Tickets: Tickets are $10.00 ($5 Students) and available at the Action Center or by phone, 503-896-5747, during regular hours.
Dr. John Mathews directs the Freshwater Climate Change program at Conservation International (CI). Dr. Mathew focuses on freshwater systems on a global level and brings a unique humanitarian perspective to conservation efforts informed by an undergraduate degree in cultural anthropology. His work integrates climate change adaption policy with practical conservation and implementation techniques. He has provided advice and expertise to NGOs, development banks, government ministries and aid agencies in approximately twenty-five countries on five continents, in addition to regularly supporting CI program staff. Pictured at left is Khumjung, Nepal, where Matthews traveled to study how the people were coping with the changing weather patterns’ impact on water systems.
Dr. Mathews is the co-author for a 2010 report for the World Bank called Flowing Forward in addition to publishing several policy papers for PLoS Biology and various other publications. He also blogs regularly for ClimateChangeWater.org and AdaptionAction.org.
8:00 pmMercy Corps: Global Weirding and other Water Phenomena
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Mar28Thu
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Reed College Visiting Writers Series: Maggie Nelson6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Maggie Nelson is the author of four books of nonfiction, includingThe Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (WW Norton, 2011), Bluets (Wave Books, 2009), Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (University of Iowa Press, 2007; winner of the Susanne M. Glascock Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship), and The Red Parts: A Memoir (Free Press, 2007; named a Notable Book of the Year by the State of Michigan), as well as four books of poetry, including Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull Press, 2007) and Jane: A Murder (Soft Skull Press, 2005; finalist, the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir). She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship, and an Arts Writers grant from the Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation. Currently she teaches writing, art, theory, and literature in the School of Critical Studies at CalArts and lives in Los Angeles.
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Reed Visiting Writers Series presents Maggie Nelson7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Maggie Nelson is the author of four books of nonfiction, includingThe Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (WW Norton, 2011), Bluets (Wave Books, 2009), Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (University of Iowa Press, 2007; winner of the Susanne M. Glascock Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship), and The Red Parts: A Memoir (Free Press, 2007; named a Notable Book of the Year by the State of Michigan), as well as four books of poetry, including Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull Press, 2007) and Jane: A Murder (Soft Skull Press, 2005; finalist, the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir). She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship, and an Arts Writers grant from the Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation. Currently she teaches writing, art, theory, and literature in the School of Critical Studies at CalArts and lives in Los Angeles.
7:30 pmReed Visiting Writers Series presents Maggie Nelson
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Apr4Thu
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PSU Graphic Design: Lloyd Winter1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
I live in Portland, OR. Currently working at Wieden + Kennedy. I was born and raised in the rugged mountains, desolate plains and lush valleys of Idaho.
I am: a teacher turned designer, believer in collaboration, designery illustrationist, graphic wizard, the fourth Lloyd in a long line of Lloyds, lover of album art and rock posters, skateboarder, punk, a hands-on hand-made enthusiast, a father – husband and still a teacher in many ways.
I have found: that challenging work keeps you relevant – fresh – curious and hard-working, that by letting others into your creative process you become better at communicating your ideas, that the web provides infinite opportunities for collaboration – discovery and spectacle, that there is an abundance of talented people creating amazing work all over the world, and that the people I admire inspire me to work hard and be nice.
I want: to adventure, to collaborate, to learn some new spells, to work with people who inspire me, to have fun doing what I love, and to craft beautiful, yet meaningful visual experiences.
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Reed Visiting Writers Series presents Eileen Myles7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Eileen Myles moved to New York City from Boston in 1974 to be a poet. Snowflake/different streets, a double volume (of poems) came out in 2012 from Wave Books. Eileen’s Inferno: a poet’s novel (2010) won the Lambda Book Award in 2011 for lesbian fiction. Her more than twenty publications include Sorry Tree(2007), Cool for You (2000), Skies (2001) Not Me (1991), andChelsea Girls (1994). The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art (2009) received a Warhol/Creative Capital art writing grant in 2007. In 2010 she received the Shelley Prize for her poetry. Eileen writes about books, art and culture for Art Forum, Parkett and Vice and many other publications and she has written catalogue essays on Cathy Opie, Emily Roydson, K8 Hardy, Oscar Tuazon. She’s teaching NYU’s graduate program this spring. In 2012 Eileen Myles got a Guggenheim for nonfiction to write “Afterglow” a fantastic dog memoir. [photo by David Shankbone]
7:30 pmReed Visiting Writers Series presents Eileen Myles
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Apr8Mon
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2013 Oregon Book Awards Ceremony8:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Get tickets here. Join Literary Arts’ annual celebration of the state’s most accomplished writers in the genres of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, young readers, and drama. Elissa Schappell will host the ceremony. Elissa Schappell is the author of two books of fiction, most recently Blueprints for Building Better Girls, which was chosen as one of the “Best Books of 2011″ by The San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal and O Magazine, and Use Me, which was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway award, as well as a New York Times “Notable Book,” and Los Angeles Times “Best Book of the Year.”
8:30 pm2013 Oregon Book Awards Ceremony
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Apr9Tue
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The Art of Sport + Play, Lecture by Kevin Carroll8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
What: A Ball Can Change the World, a talk by the master of motivation and fun, Kevin Carroll.
Tickets: Tickets are $10.00 ($5 Students) and available at the Action Center or by phone, 503-896-5747, during regular hours.
In conjunction with his exhibit The Art of Sport + Play, Kevin Carroll, will talk about how sport and play changed his life, and the lives of thousands throughout the world. Sport and play are common human denominators and equalizers. No matter where you go in the world – regardless of socioeconomic, political or religious system – we ALL PLAY + we ALL SPEAK BALL. Stories abound about the use of sport and play as social innovation tools versus foes of the human condition – HIV/AIDS, gender equity, social inclusion, homelessness, literacy, natural disaster, conflict and many others. Sport and play are ever-present throughout our world and there are human catalysts who utilize it to inspire change and action.
8:00 pmThe Art of Sport + Play, Lecture by Kevin Carroll
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Apr11Thu
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PSU Graphic Design: Scott Ponik1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Born 1977
Los Angeles, California2008 MFA Werkplaats Typografie
Arnhem, The Netherlands2006 Designer Walker Art Center
Minneapolis, Minnesota2004 Designer Ph.D
Los Angeles, California2003 BFA Art Center College of Design
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1:00 pmPSU Graphic Design: Scott Ponik
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Apr12Fri
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The Metaphysical Disunity of Science8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Philosophers and scientists for millennia have tried to give us a complete account of the order of things. Dupré systematically attacks the ideal of scientific unity by showing how its underlying assumptions are at odds with the central conclusions of science itself.
Speaker:
Dr. John
Dupre
University of ExeterJohn Dupre is a philosopher of biology who has held posts at Oxford, Stanford (for fourteen years), and Birkbeck College, London. In 2006 he held the Spinoza Visiting Professorship at the University of Amsterdam. He is currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of Exeter and Director of the ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society (Egenis). His publications include The Disorder of Things (Harvard, 1993); Human Nature and the Limits of Science (Oxford, 2001); Humans and Other Animals (Oxford, 2002): and Darwin’s Legacy: What Evolution Means Today (Oxford, 2003).
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8:00 pmThe Metaphysical Disunity of Science
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Apr18Thu
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PSU Graphic Design: JD Hooge & Shawn Peterson, Instrument1:00 pm – 2:00 pm1:00 pmPSU Graphic Design: JD Hooge & Shawn Peterson, Instrument
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“Placing,” PSU Department of Architecture Lecture Series: Lecture by Anthropologist Tim Ingold6:00 pm – 7:00 pm“Architects create places, not spaces.” In the second annual lecture series presented by the Department of Architecture at Portland State University, six internationally renowned leaders from the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, art, planning and anthropology will tackle this once-controversial idea. The series spans the 2012-2013 academic year, with presentations by Dan Wood, Sheila O’Donnell and John Tuomey, Kevin Daly, Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano, Tim Ingold and Julie Bargmann. Each of these speakers will discuss the ways in which the active processes of siting, locating, positioning and placing things and people in the world are conceived and embodied in their work.
Anthropologist Tim Ingold will speak as part of the “Placing” lecture series on Thursday, April 18, 2013. Tim Ingold is a preeminent anthropologist, Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh and author of numerous books on anthropology. Taking an unconventional view of his discipline, Professor Ingold tries to bring the “4 A’s” (anthropology, architecture, archaeology and art) together, looking at the ways in which environments are perceived, shaped and understood.
6:00 pm“Placing,” PSU Department of Architecture Lecture Series: Lecture by Anthropologist Tim Ingold
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Apr23Tue
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Literary Arts: Nikky Finney7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Nikky Finney won the National Book Award for her most recent book of poetry, Head Off & Split. Her other books include The World Is Round, Riceand On Wings Made of Gauze. She is Professor of English and creative writing at the University of Kentucky. Bruce Weigl has said, “Nikky Finney takes the reader to a wonderfully alive world where the musical possibilities of language overflow with surprise and innovation.” Buy tickets here.
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Nikky Finney8:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Nikky Finney won the National Book Award for her most recent book of poetry, Head Off & Split. Her other books include The World Is Round, Riceand On Wings Made of Gauze. She is Professor of English and creative writing at the University of Kentucky. Bruce Weigl has said, “Nikky Finney takes the reader to a wonderfully alive world where the musical possibilities of language overflow with surprise and innovation.”
8:30 pmNikky Finney
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Apr25Thu
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PSU Graphic Design: Pattern People1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Pattern People is a surface design studio founded by designers Claudia Brown and Jessie Whipple Vickery who came together with a mutual appreciation of pattern and a shared vision. Collectively they bring their illustrations to all types of surfaces from fashion to interiors.
We specialize in creating designs using paint, ink, graphite, and pixels for a range of projects and products – from wrap-around residential murals to perfume packaging for the likes of Estée Lauder, Adidas and Godiva Chocolate. We offer a selection of services from consultation to completion including commissioned designs to our ready-made print collection.
Our daily inspiration and visual resources are shared on our blog which is dedicated to the appreciation and application of print design. The blog features a wealth of valuable resources from trends in fashion and interiors to color palettes, DIY guides, book reviews and more to inspire, inform and educate pattern lovers of all ages.
Pattern People is based in Portland, Oregon.
PSU Art Building (click for map)1:00 pmPSU Graphic Design: Pattern People
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May3Fri
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The Post-Scientific Engineering Worldview8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
I will argue that the Engineering Worldview and Philosophy of Engineering represent the long sought after post-scientific, post-objectivist framework. They constitute the More General Framework subsuming the successes of traditional science as inherently limited special cases. The modern evidence requiring a post-scientific understanding of nature and our place in it arose with ‘the new physics’ at the beginning of the 20th century. The failure of the interface of the highly successful Newtonian and Maxwellian Research Programs forced the embrace of complementarity – a new, scientifically enigmatic, post-objectivist situation. Complementarity entails that the Participant inquirer encounters a reality that is not governed by one universal, objective order that uniquely determines the course of events. Complementarity entails that the future is mechanically under-determined. The emergence of the actual future involves a choice. That choice by its very nature can have no objective mechanical determinant or traditional scientific explanation. The choice is by its very nature scientifically incoherent – scientifically arbitrary. However – in the framework of the Philosophy of Engineering – the choice is understandable as the embodied ability of the engineer to problem solve – to attempt to bring about a more desirable (viz better) future.
The Engineering Worldview is found through a reflection on the limits of the Scientific Worldview, and the correct, self-referentially coherent Philosophy of Engineering is found through a reflection on the limits of Philosophy of Science.
Henry Petroski has recently argued along the same lines that all real inquiry – often misrepresented as classically logico-mathematically scientific – is better understood as part of the overall creative, experimental, exploratory engineering problem solving.
Speaker:
TerryBristol
Institute for Science,
Engineering and Public PolicyTerry Bristol is a Philosopher of Science and Engineering who has held teaching positions at Linfield College, Portland State University, and Portland Community College. He has been President of the Institute for Science, Egineering and Public Policy, affiliated with Portland State University since 1987. He graduated from University of California at Berkeley with a degree in Philosophy with an emphasis in the Philosophy of Science. Paul Feyerabend was his Honors Thesis Advisor at Berkeley. He then entered a PhD program at the University of London, working with Imre Lakatos and the ‘Karl Popper Group’ at the London Scool of Economics, completing five years of graduate research.
Terry Bristol served as President of the Columbia Willamette Chapter of Sigma Xi (Research Society of America) for several years. He has a number of both scientific and philosophical publications and has made numerous conference presentations. He is an active member of the Philosophy of Science Association, The History of Science Society, the Society for the History of Technology, the Forum on Philosophy, Engineering and Technology, Sigma Xi,The Amrican Philosophical Association, the American Physical Society, and the AAAS.
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8:00 pmThe Post-Scientific Engineering Worldview
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May9Thu
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PSU Graphic Design: Jen Wick1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Jen Wick came to design by way of cut-up paper and Letraset rub-on type while making zines in high school. After working as a photocopy enthusiast at an office supply store, Jen then kick-started her career in the design industry as the lead pre-press designer at an offset printing shop. In 2000, she was hired as Art Director of the weekly culture rag Portland Mercury, where she toiled for 5 years, and in 2007, she signed on as a Senior Designer at Sagacity Media. In 2010, she launched her own design studio in Northeast Portland.
Jen earned a B.A. from the Evergreen State College in serigraphy and art, and an M.F.A.from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Graphic and Interactive Design.
Jen approaches design with curiosity and a spirit of collaboration, a sense of humor, and a desire for clear concepts. You might also find her away from the computer, taking a run with her tiny pug, Mimi Meatsworth, blending fruits and nuts in a high-powered Vitamix blender, or crashing your annual office karaoke party.
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1:00 pmPSU Graphic Design: Jen Wick
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May16Thu
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PSU Graphic Design: Epicenter (Live Video Stream)1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
The Epicenter is a community resource organization that serves the town of Green River, Utah (pop. 953). We are committed to creating positive change locally by proving resources to homeowners, renters, small businesses, and through active involvement in our community.
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Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
We all make mistakes. Nobody is perfect. And that includes five of the greatest scientists in history—Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle, and Albert Einstein. But the mistakes that these great luminaries made helped advance science. Indeed, as Mario Livio explains, science thrives on error, advancing when erroneous ideas are disproven.
As a young scientist, Einstein tried to conceive of a way to describe the evolution of the universe at large, based on General Relativity—his theory of space, time, and gravity. Unfortunately he fell victim to a misguided notion of aesthetic simplicity. Fred Hoyle was an eminent astrophysicist who ridiculed an emerging theory about the origin of the universe that he dismissively called “The Big Bang.” The name stuck, but Hoyle was dead wrong in his opposition.
They, along with Darwin (a blunder in his theory of Natural Selection), Kelvin (a blunder in his calculation of the age of the earth), and Pauling (a blunder in his model for the structure of the DNA molecule), were brilliant men and fascinating human beings. Their blunders were a necessary part of the scientific process. Collectively they helped to dramatically further our knowledge of the evolution of life, the Earth, and the universe.
Speaker:
Dr. Mario
Livio
Space Telescope
Science InstituteDr Mario Livio is a senior astrophysicist and former Head of Science Division at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), the institute which conducts the scientific program of the Hubble Space Telescope.
He received his Ph.D. in theoretical astrophysics from Tel Aviv University in Israel, was a professor in the Physics Dept. of the Technion-Israel Institute of technology from 1981 till 1991, and joined STScI in 1991.
Dr Livio has published over 400 scientific papers and received numerous awards for research, for excellence in teaching, and for his books.
His interests span a broad range of topics in astrophysics, from cosmology to the emergence of intelligent life. Dr Livio has done much fundamental work on the topic of accretion of mass onto black holes, neutron stars, and white dwarfs, as well as on the formation of black holes and the possibility to extract energy from them.
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8:00 pmBrilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein
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May23Thu
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Andy Pressman1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Rumors is a graphic design studio producing print, interactive, and identity work. We approach each project from the ground up, working closely with our clients on conceptualization and planning before moving on to design and development.
Typically we partner with cultural, institutional, and editorial clients such as the American Institute of Architects, the AIGA, Bard College, Bidoun, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Columbia University, Good magazine, the Helsinki Design Lab,Metropolis magazine, The New York Times, Princeton University, MoMA PS1, Talking Points Memo, and Verso Books. The studio’s work has been included in the Brno Design Biennial, exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, and awarded by the AIGA, Printmagazine, and the Society of Publication Designers.
Andy Pressman, principal, graduated from the Cooper Union in New York City. He has taught graphic design at Parsons School of Art, and information design at the Cooper Union. He now lives in Portland, OR.
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1:00 pmAndy Pressman
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