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October Green Drinks6:30 pm – 8:45 pm
Doors open at 6:30pm, the speakers starts promptly at 7:00. Announcements will follow the speakers and networking will continue upstairs until 8:45. Check www.pdxgreendrinks.org for monthly speakers.
DONATION: We ask that you donate $5 to help us cover our costs. Refreshments available.
6:30 pmOctober Green Drinks
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Oct3Wed
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The YouTube Effect: How Anger and Agitprop Shape America’s Relationship with Islam12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
U.S. relations with the Muslim world have long been shaped by a complex mix of policies, perceptions and historic mistrust. How has the accesibility and ubiquity of YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter hindered or helped this fragile balance? Lawrence Pintak, one of our foremost chroniclers of the interaction between the Arab and Western media, discusses how the explosion of satellite television and social media has created an environment in which the synergistic goals of extremists on both sides align to produce a digital one-two punch that sparks the kind of violence now playing out across the Muslim world.
Lawrence Pintak appears as part of the Understanding Muslim Societies series, a program of the World Affairs Councils of America with support provided by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York
Lawrence Pintak is the founding dean of The Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University. A former CBS News Middle East correspondent, he has been called the foremost chronicler of the interaction between the Arab and Western media. His books and articles focus on America’s relationship with the Muslim world, the role of the media in shaping global perceptions and government policy, and the future of journalism in a digital/globalized world.
Register here. ($10 for non members).
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Public Policy Lecture Series: Rick Hasen, “The Voting Wars”2:00 pm – 3:00 pmRichard L. Hasen, the Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of California, Irvine, address the partisan war over election rules that has emerged in the wake of the Florida debacle and the Supreme Court decision in Bush v. Gore. Since 2000,
election litigation has skyrocketed and election time brings out inevitable accusations by political partisans of voter fraud and voter
suppression. These allegations have shaken public confidence, as campaigns deploy “armies of lawyers” and the partisan press revs
up when elections are expected to be close and the stakes are high. Hasen is a nationally-recognized expert in election law and campaign
finance regulation, and is co-author of a leading casebook on election law. His most recent book is The Voting Wars: From Florida 2000 to the Next Election Meltdown. This lecture, in the series Changing of the Guard: Public Policy and the 2012 Election, is sponsored by the Elizabeth C. Ducey Political Science Lecture Fund.2:00 pmPublic Policy Lecture Series: Rick Hasen, “The Voting Wars” -
Roseanne Barr Booksigning2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Join Powell’s City of Books for a special booksigning event with bestselling author and television star Roseanne Barr, who is back with the paperback edition of her collection of hilarious and relevant essays, Roseannearchy (Gallery Books). Please note: This is a booksigning only.
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Reed Lecture: “From Dr. King to President Obama: Racial Vision, Racial Blindness, and Racial Politics in Obamerica”4:30 pm – 5:30 pmEduardo Bonilla-Silva is professor and chair of the sociology department at Duke University and gained visibility in the social sciences with his 1997 American Sociological Review article, “Rethinking Racism: Toward a Structural Interpretation,” in which he challenged social analysts to analyze racial matters from a structural perspective rather than from the sterile prejudice perspective. His research has appeared in numerous journals, and he has published five books, White Supremacy and Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era; Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States; White Out: The Continuing Significance of Racism; White Logic, White Methods: Racism and Social Science; and State of White Supremacy: Racism, Governance, and the United States. Bonilla-Silva has received many awards, most notably, the 2007 Lewis Coser Award, given by the theory section of the American Sociological Association for Theoretical-Agenda Setting, and, in 2011, the Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award given by the American Sociological Association “to an individual or individuals for their work in the intellectual traditions of the work of these three African American scholars.” Sponsored by the Sociology Department, the Multicultural Resource Center, and the Office for Institutional Diversity. The lecture will be followed by a reception in the lower lobby of Vollum College Center.4:30 pmReed Lecture: “From Dr. King to President Obama: Racial Vision, Racial Blindness, and Racial Politics in Obamerica”
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CHIFOO: Location as an invisible interface6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Amber will be presenting an information-packed speech on her experiences with geolocation, GPS, location triggers, and non-visual augmented reality. Amber will cover the current players in the geolocation market, the location market itself, and why location is such a big deal. Topics such as real-time location sharing, geolocation triggers, geonotes, proximal notification and automatic checkins, and privacy and security will be discussed.
About the Speaker Amber Case is a cyborg anthropologist and user experience designer who focuses on mobile software, augmented reality and data visualization, and reducing the amount of time and space it takes for people to connect. Amber has been featured in Forbes, WIRED, and Time, and also founded Geoloqi.com, a private location sharing application, out of a frustration with existing social protocols around text messaging and wayfinding. Amber has spoken at conferences all around the world, including TED, and was featured in Fast Company 2010 as one of the Most Influential Women in Technology.
More info here.
6:30 pmCHIFOO: Location as an invisible interface
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Oct4Thu
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Innovation in Motion: Community Management Beyond Social Media Marketing6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: Community Management Beyond Social Media Marketing
People everywhere are talking about community management. We’re here to answer questions like, “Who do I manage?”, “How do I start?”, and “Can’t one of the interns do this?”
Panelists will share their experiences of growing and managing vibrant, engaged communities for their brands or clients such as Yelp, Nike, and Coca-Cola. We’ll cover what community management is and why it’s critical to your marketing plan. Our experts will also discuss listening versus messaging, and share tips about the dual roles they play within their organization–representing their brand while also being the voice of their community.
Join us to learn how the community manager’s role is potentially the most powerful one in your entire organization.
Panelists:
Laura Adams, Digital Advocacy Manager at Nike Melissa Barker, Enterprise Community Manager at Jive Software Dawn Foster, Community Manager consultant.
more info.
Moderated By: Charlie Brown, Founder & CEO of Context Partnershttp://contextpartners.com/
This event is free, but RSVP is required. RSVP on Meetup at:
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Portland State of Mind: Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons – Nature, Literature, and the Arts6:00 pm – 7:30 pmDr. Haruo Shirane’s lecture will examine the role that sensitivity to the changing seasons has had on Japanese literature, arts, gardens, and architecture. Elegant representations of nature and the four seasons populate a wide range of Japanese genres and media—from poetry and screen paintings to tea ceremony, flower arrangement, and annual observances. Dr. Shirane shows how, when, and why this practice developed and explains the richly encoded social, religious, and literary meanings of this imagery.
Dr. Shirane, Professor of Japanese literature and culture at Columbia University, is the author and editor of numerous books on Japanese literature. His most recent book is Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts.
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Portland State of Mind: Placing – A Lecture by Architect Dan Wood of WORKac6:00 pm – 8:00 pmJoin Architect and urban planner Dan Wood of WORKac in New York City for a lecture hosted by the Department of Architecture investigating the concept of “placing.”
Dan Wood is principal and co-founder of WORKac, a New York City-based firm developing architectural and urban planning projects that engage issues of culture and consciousness, nature and artifice, surrealism and pragmatism. The firm’s practice extends from the United States, to Russia, and China, and its buildings and projects have been published internationally. WORKac has received numerous awards including several AIA merit awards and the 2010 New York Design Commission award.
This lecture is the first in the Department of Architecture’s 2012-2013 lecture series, which features notable architects, designers, and urban planners Sheila O’Donnell and John Tuomey, Kevin Daly, Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano, Tim Ingold and Julie Bargmann.
This event is part of the 2012 Portland Architecture and Design Festival
6:00 pmPortland State of Mind: Placing – A Lecture by Architect Dan Wood of WORKac -
Reed Visiting Writers Series: Lysley Tenorio6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Lysley Tenorio is the author of the story collection, Monstress. His stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Zoetrope: All-Story, Ploughshares, Manoa, The Chicago Tribune, and The Best New American Voices and Pushcart Prize anthologies. A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, he is a recipient of a Whiting Writer’s Award, the Nelson Algren Award for Short Fiction, and has received fellowships from the University of Wisconsin, the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Born in the Philippines, he currently lives in San Francisco, and is an Associate Professor at Saint Mary’s College of California.
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Portland State of Mind: Lecture: The Politics of Testimony – Aftereffects of Genocide and Other Mass Atrocities7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Portland State of Mind: Portland Center for Public Humanities Lecture: The Politics of Testimony: Aftereffects of Genocide and Other Mass Atrocities by John Roth
Without testimony spoken and written by and about persons whose lives have been destroyed by genocide and other mass atrocities, awareness would be dimmed, understanding diminished, memory dulled, forgetting facilitated, and accountability betrayed. Jarring, disruptive, and destabilizing, the presence of such testimony raises ethical and political questions such as, what effect(s) should this testimony have? What responsibilities, if any, does it confer upon me? Focusing especially but not only on Holocaust-related testimony, this lecture explores important aftereffects of genocide and other mass atrocities by considering the politics of testimony–the fraught but pivotal roles of testimony in Holocaust and genocide studies, in courts that try defendants accused of genocide and crimes against humanity, in post-conflict resentment, and in the prospects for ethics in a world where the slogan “Never again!” seems increasingly problematic, if not banal.
John K. Roth is the Edward J. Sexton Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and the Founding Director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights (now the Center for Human Rights Leadership) at Claremont McKenna College, where he taught from 1966 through 2006. In 2007-2008, he served as the Robert and Carolyn Frederick Distinguished Visiting Professor of Ethics at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. In addition to service on the United States Holocaust Memorial Council and on the editorial board for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, he has published hundreds of articles and reviews and authored, co-authored, or edited more than forty books, including Approaches to Auschwitz: The Holocaust and Its Legacy; Ethics During and After the Holocaust: In the Shadow of Birkenau; The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies; and Rape: Weapon of War and Genocide. Roth has been Visiting Professor of Holocaust studies at the University of Haifa, Israel, and his Holocaust-related research appointments have included a 2001 Koerner Visiting Fellowship at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies in England as well as a 2004-05 appointment as the Ina Levine Invitational Scholar at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), Washington, D.C. Roth has served on the Church Relations Committee at USHMM, and presently he chairs the national board of the Federation of State Humanities Councils. In 1988, he was named U.S. National Professor of the Year by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
You might also be interested in the Workshop “Rape. Weapon of War and Genocide” with John Roth on Friday, 10/5 10am.
This event is free and open to the public. It is part of the Holocaust and Genocide Studies Project Series at thePortland Center for Public Humanities. Co-sponsored by the Oregon Holocaust Resource Center.
7:00 pmPortland State of Mind: Lecture: The Politics of Testimony – Aftereffects of Genocide and Other Mass Atrocities -
Public Policy Lecture Series: Sasha Issenberg, “The Victory Lab”7:00 pm – 8:00 pmColumnist Sasha Issenberg presents the secret history of modern American politics, pulling back the curtain on the tactics and strategies used by some of the era’s most important figures—including Barack Obama and Mitt Romney—to discover that the smartest campaigns, armed with insights from behavioral psychology and randomized experiments that treat voters as unwitting guinea pigs, now believe they know who you will vote for even before you do. Issenberg is the “Victory Lab” columnist for Slate and the Washington correspondent for Monocle, where he covers politics, business, diplomacy, and culture. His most recent book is The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns. This lecture, in the series
Changing of the Guard: Public Policy and the 2012 Election, is
sponsored by the Elizabeth C. Ducey Political Science Lecture Fund.7:00 pmPublic Policy Lecture Series: Sasha Issenberg, “The Victory Lab” -
The Politics of Testimony: Aftereffects of Genocide and Other Mass Atrocities7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Without testimony spoken and written by and about persons whose lives have been destroyed by genocide and other mass atrocities, awareness would be dimmed, understanding diminished, memory dulled, forgetting facilitated, and accountability betrayed. Jarring, disruptive, and destabilizing, the presence of such testimony raises ethical and political questions such as, what effect(s) should this testimony have? What responsibilities, if any, does it confer upon me? Focusing especially but not only on Holocaust-related testimony, this lecture explores important aftereffects of genocide and other mass atrocities by considering the politics of testimony–the fraught but pivotal roles of testimony in Holocaust and genocide studies, in courts that try defendants accused of genocide and crimes against humanity, in post-conflict resentment, and in the prospects for ethics in a world where the slogan “Never again!” seems increasingly problematic, if not banal.
If you have questions concerning access or accommodations for a disability please contact us at publichumanities@pdx.edu. Early requests are encouraged; a week will generally allow us to provide seamless access.
7:00 pmThe Politics of Testimony: Aftereffects of Genocide and Other Mass Atrocities -
Lecture: Tutankhamun’s Last Secret7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
The solid gold headpiece crowning the mummy of the boy-king Tutankhamun is surely the best-known Egyptian artwork in the world. Or is it?
While many have looked, all have failed to see.
In this forensically detailed study, Nicholas Reeves reveals the mask’s astonishing secret: that it had never been intended for Tutankhamun at all…
When Howard Carter and George Herbert, the 5th Earl of Carnarvon, entered the long-sought tomb in the Valley of the Kings in 1922, few could have imagined the magnificence of the treasure soon to be revealed.
Within a stone sarcophagus and three dazzling anthropoid coffins of descending size, the young king lay undisturbed, his richly bedecked mummy crowned with a burial mask of solid gold, twenty-one inches high and weighing over twenty-two pounds. Tonight we will hear how this magnificent mask has a startling new story to tell.
Dr. Nicholas Reeves is Lila Acheson Wallace Associate Curator in the Department of Egyptian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. A specialist in the history and archaeology of the Amarna Period, he is perhaps best known for his excavations in the Valley of the Kings with the Amarna Royal Tombs Project. Reeves previously worked as a Curator at The British Museum, the Freud Museum, Chiddingstone Castle, and Eton College, and was for some years Egyptological advisor to the seventh Earl of Carnarvon at Highclere Castle. He obtained his Ph.D. at Durham University, England. Among his extensive list of publications may be noted The Complete Tutankhamun, Howard Carter Before Tutankhamun, The Complete Valley of the Kings, Ancient Egypt: The Great Discoveries, and Akhenaten: Egypt’s False Prophet.
This event is free & open to the public, and is presented by the Oregon Chapter of the American Research Center in Egypt, a private, nonprofit organization that supports research on all aspects of Egyptian history and culture, fosters broader knowledge among the general public, and strengthens American-Egyptian cultural ties.
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PSU: Tutankhamun’s Last Secret7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
The solid gold headpiece crowning the mummy of the boy-king
Tutankhamun is surely the best-known Egyptian artwork in the world. Or
is it?While many have looked, all have failed to see.
In this forensically detailed study, Nicholas Reeves reveals the
mask’s astonishing secret: that it had never been intended for
Tutankhamun at all…When Howard Carter and George Herbert, the 5th Earl of Carnarvon,
entered the long-sought tomb in the Valley of the Kings in 1922, few
could have imagined the magnificence of the treasure soon to be
revealed.Within a stone sarcophagus and three dazzling anthropoid coffins of
descending size, the young king lay undisturbed, his richly bedecked
mummy crowned with a burial mask of solid gold, twenty-one inches high
and weighing over twenty-two pounds. Tonight we will hear how this
magnificent mask has a startling new story to tell.Dr. Nicholas Reeves is Lila Acheson Wallace Associate Curator in the
Department of Egyptian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
A specialist in the history and archaeology of the Amarna Period, he
is perhaps best known for his excavations in the Valley of the Kings
with the Amarna Royal Tombs Project. Reeves previously worked as a
Curator at The British Museum, the Freud Museum, Chiddingstone Castle,
and Eton College, and was for some years Egyptological advisor to the
seventh Earl of Carnarvon at Highclere Castle. He obtained his Ph.D.
at Durham University, England. Among his extensive list of
publications may be noted The Complete Tutankhamun, Howard Carter
Before Tutankhamun, The Complete Valley of the Kings, Ancient Egypt:
The Great Discoveries, and Akhenaten: Egypt’s False Prophet.This event is free & open to the public, and is presented by the
Oregon Chapter of the American Research Center in Egypt, a private,
nonprofit organization that supports research on all aspects of
Egyptian history and culture, fosters broader knowledge among the
general public, and strengthens American-Egyptian cultural ties.7:30 pmPSU: Tutankhamun’s Last Secret
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Oct5Fri
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Portland Center for Public Humanities for a Workshop with John Roth: Rape: Weapon of War and Genocide10:00 am – 11:30 amJohn K. Roth is the Edward J. Sexton Professor Emeritus of Philosophy
and the Founding Director of the Center for the Study of the
Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights (now the Center for Human Rights
Leadership) at Claremont McKenna College, where he taught from 1966
through 2006. In 2007-2008, he served as the Robert and Carolyn
Frederick Distinguished Visiting Professor of Ethics at DePauw
University in Greencastle, Indiana. In addition to service on the
United States Holocaust Memorial Council and on the editorial board
for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, he has published hundreds of
articles and reviews and authored, co-authored, or edited more than
forty books, including Approaches to Auschwitz: The Holocaust and Its
Legacy; Ethics During and After the Holocaust: In the Shadow of
Birkenau; The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies; and Rape: Weapon
of War and Genocide. Roth has been Visiting Professor of Holocaust
studies at the University of Haifa, Israel, and his Holocaust-related
research appointments have included a 2001 Koerner Visiting Fellowship
at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies in England as well
as a 2004-05 appointment as the Ina Levine Invitational Scholar at the
Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum (USHMM), Washington, D.C. Roth has served on the
Church Relations Committee at USHMM, and presently he chairs the
national board of the Federation of State Humanities Councils. In
1988, he was named U.S. National Professor of the Year by the Council
for Advancement and Support of Education and the Carnegie Foundation
for the Advancement of Teaching.We recommend that you read the Introduction to John Roth’s book “Rape.
Weapon of War and Genocide” in preparation for the workshop. It is
available on this website:
http://bit.ly/Rape-Weapon-of-War-and-Genocide, if you click on “Look
Inside.” If you have trouble accessing this content, contact us at
publichumanities@pdx.edu. Of course, if you are unable to read the
text, you are still very welcome to come to the workshop!10:00 amPortland Center for Public Humanities for a Workshop with John Roth: Rape: Weapon of War and Genocide -
Public Humanities Workshop:Rape: Weapon of War and Genocide10:00 am – 11:00 am
Join Professor Roth for a discussion of his latest co-edited volume, Rape: Weapon of War and Genocide. If you would like a copy of the introduction to this volume, please click on http://bit.ly/Rape-Weapon-
of-War-and-Genocide and then click on “Look Inside.” If you have trouble accessing this content, contact us at publichumanities@pdx.edu.John K. Roth is the Edward J. Sexton Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and the Founding Director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights (now the Center for Human Rights Leadership) at Claremont McKenna College, where he taught from 1966 through 2006. In 2007-2008, he served as the Robert and Carolyn Frederick Distinguished Visiting Professor of Ethics at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. In addition to service on the United States Holocaust Memorial Council and on the editorial board for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, he has published hundreds of articles and reviews and authored, co-authored, or edited more than forty books, including Approaches to Auschwitz: The Holocaust and Its Legacy; Ethics During and After the Holocaust: In the Shadow of Birkenau; The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies; and Rape: Weapon of War and Genocide. Roth has been Visiting Professor of Holocaust studies at the University of Haifa, Israel, and his Holocaust-related research appointments have included a 2001 Koerner Visiting Fellowship at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies in England as well as a 2004-05 appointment as the Ina Levine Invitational Scholar at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), Washington, D.C. Roth has served on the Church Relations Committee at USHMM, and presently he chairs the national board of the Federation of State Humanities Councils. In 1988, he was named U.S. National Professor of the Year by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
This event is free and open to the public. It is part of the Holocaust and Genocide Studies Project Series at the Portland Center for Public Humanities. Co-sponsored by the Oregon Holocaust Resource Center.
If you have questions concerning access or accommodations for a disability please contact us at publichumanities@pdx.edu. Early requests are encouraged; a week will generally allow us to provide seamless access.
10:00 amPublic Humanities Workshop:Rape: Weapon of War and Genocide -
PIE Demo Day1:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Description
We invite you to join us for PIE (Portland Incubator Experiment) Demo Day, October 5, 2012, at the Gerding Theatre. Doors open at 1:30pm, presentations will begin at 2:00pm.
Demo presentations will be followed by a meet greet reception with the startups and respected members of the tech, brand, startup and investor communities.
More info on PIE here.
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PSU Startup Weekend4:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Startup Weekend is a global grassroots movement of active and empowered entrepreneurs who are learning the basics of founding startups and launching successful ventures. It is the largest community of passionate entrepreneurs with over 400 past events in 100 countries around the world in 2011. More info.
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Mercy Corps: Rethinking Shelter: Teddy Cruz6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
A lecture by Teddy Cruz, Architect, Professor of Public Culture and Urbanism at UC San Diego and Visiting Professor of Cross-Cultural Architecture at Portland State University (PSU).
Teddy Cruz observes that “density is not just about units per acre but the number of social and economic exchanges” that can occur. Cruz — who was born in Guatemala and came to this country when he was 20 — argues that the high-density, ad hoc, “bottom-up” brand of development from our southern neighbor countries provides a better model of urbanism than that of the low-density American suburb. Using informal settlements as inspiration Cruz encourages urban communities to focus less on the physical buildings and more on the “social flow” of their inhabitants.
Cruz is in town as a participant in a Design Charrette about youth homelessness in Portland; read more here. He recently co-taught a graduate architecture design studio course at PSU which is the foundation for Rethinking Shelter, an exhibition of proposed solutions to the issue of youth homelessness in Portland created by Cruz’ students. In conjunction withDesign With the Other 90%: CITIES exhibit, Mercy Corps, and the Museum of Contemporary Craft, Rethinking Shelter will be on view at Mercy Corps from October 1 – 13. You can read more about this here.
RSVP: This lecture is free and open to the public. Please RSVP by emailing us here; write “Cruz” in the subject line.
6:00 pmMercy Corps: Rethinking Shelter: Teddy Cruz
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Oct8Mon
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PSU Lunch & Learn – Arab Israeli Conflict and Cooperation: The Question of Water12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
This talk will explore the relationship between shared water resources
and conflict and cooperation between Arabs and Israelis, and poses the
question, “Does territory exist over which sovereignty has been sought
politically or militarily, or which would be insisted upon in the
course of current territorial negotiations, solely because of its
access to water sources, and in the absence of any other compelling
strategic or legal rationale?”Aaron Wolf is a professor of geography in the College of Earth, Ocean,
and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University. His research
focuses on issues relating transboundary water resources to political
conflict and cooperation, where his training combining environmental
science with dispute resolution theory and practice have been
particularly appropriate.Presented by the Middle East Studies Center at Portland State University. More info.
12:00 pmPSU Lunch & Learn – Arab Israeli Conflict and Cooperation: The Question of Water
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Oct9Tue
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Rethinking Shelter: Youth Homelessness in Portland: Exhibit & Open Discussion7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
What: An open discussion about design and youth homelessness in Portland. Responding to proposals in an exhibit called Rethinking Shelter, (on view at Mercy Corps October 1-13), Portland State University professor and architect Sergio Palleroni and Pacific NW College of Art (PNCA) professor Peter Schoonmaker lead an open discussion about the design charrette process and its findings. This event is organized in conjunction with theDesign With the Other 90%: CITIES exhibit, Design Week Portland and PNCA’s Museum of Contemporary Craft.
When: The Open Discussion is 7 pm, Tuesday, October 9; The Rethinking Shelter exhibit is on view in the Aceh Community Room, Mercy Corps, October 1 – 13, during regular Action Center hours: 11 am – 6 pm, Monday – Friday; 11 am – 5 pm, Saturdays. Teddy Cruz is a featured speaker in this same Rethinking Shelter series on October 5.
Where: Mercy Corps Action Center, 28 SW 1st Avenue, Portland, Oregon, 97204; 503-896-5747.
RSVP: The exhibit and open discussion are free and open to the public; as a featured event of Design Week Portland, attendees to the October 9 discussion need to RSVP on Eventbrite by clicking here.
Portland State University Department of Architecture, Outside In, renowned architect and housing activist Teddy Cruz, and our local design community joined together in rethinking approaches to homelessness in Portland. In conjunction with Design With the Other 90%: CITIES exhibit, an exhibition of these visions will be on display at Mercy Corps from October 1-13.
On October 9, PSU professor and architect Sergio Palleroni, and the chair of Collaborative Design at PNCA, Peter Schoonmaker, lead an open discussion with participants from the design community about the possibilities offered by these explorations, and in the spirit of the CITIES exhibit, on the collaboration and contributions by the design community in solving the problems we face as a region. This Rethinking Shelter discussion is a featured event in Design Week Portland.
7:30 pmRethinking Shelter: Youth Homelessness in Portland: Exhibit & Open Discussion
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Oct10Wed
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Big Ideas for Breakfast: Resiliency in our Local Economy7:30 am – 9:00 am
“How do we build a Resilient Local Economy?” with Stuart Cowan of Autopoiesis LLC
ISSP and Net Impact Portland have joined forces to host a series of networking and dialogue meetings built around the topic of creating a local, resilient economy. This breakfast series is intended to give members of the local sustainability community a chance to enjoy a breakfast while networking, learning and co-creating ideas that will help take Portland to the next level of sustainability.
Each month will focus on a different issue with regard to resilient economies, but the inaugural meeting on October 10 will set the stage for both the process and content of the rest of the series.
We hope that everyone interested in sustainability in the Northwest will join us. Members of ISSP and Net Impact will receive a 20% discount on the price. If you are a member of either, contact Marsha Willard for the discount code to use upon registration.
Space will be limited to ensure meaningful dialogue so register today!
7:30 amBig Ideas for Breakfast: Resiliency in our Local Economy
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Oct11Thu
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Designspeaks with Jeff Kovel: Skylab Architecture2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Join us for an evening with Jeff Kovel, founder of Skylab Architecture as he reveals “The Hidden Narrative”.
About Jeff Kovel, AIA, Architect: Skylab Architecture
Jeff Kovel is motivated by the desire to push the boundaries in order to create unique, sustainable design and architectural experiences. After studying architecture in Rome, Italy, and graduating from Cornell University in 1995, he came west and settled in Portland, combining his love of the natural with his New York modernist roots. From 1996-1999, he began building his portfolio by working on a series of high profile spaces for rock musician Lenny Kravitz.
In 1999, he founded Skylab Architecture. The firm continues to thrive as a laboratory driven by a strong artistic impulse, and a design philosophy that invites inspiration, high concept and orchestration into the unfolding process.
Today, Kovel’s work seeks to illuminate the juxtapositions found throughout history and future aspirations, varying the mix of color, materials and volume so as to invite others to bring their own perspective into the often ambiguous narrative of a space.
Admission includes complimentary small-batch wine and beer from the Pacific Northwest, hors d’oevres, and treats from Portland’s Alma Chocolate. Presented by Designspeaks, 52 Limited, and Ace Hotels.
About Jeff Kovel and Skylab Architecture
Jeff Kovel’s work is recognized nationally and internationally for its innovation and ability to answer and expand upon the motivations and intent of his clients, merging high concept design with sustainable building goals. Kovel has won numerous awards and citations, is a visiting lecturer at universities and organizations throughout the country, and is a panelist for Nike and the AIA Oregon Annual Conference.
Select project experience includes:· BES, CBWTP Support Facility, Portland, Oregon (2010-2013)
· Nike Camp Victory, Eugene Oregon (2012)
· W Hotel Seattle, (2012)
· Weave Building, Portland Oregon (2009)
· Departure, Portland Oregon (2005-2009)
· Flavor Paper, Brooklyn NY (2007-2009)
· HOMB Modular, Various locations (ongoing)
· Nau Webfronts, Various locations (2007-2008)
· North HQ, Portland OR (2008)
· 12th and Alder, Portland OR (2005)
· Hoke Residence ( Twilight house) , Portland OR (2005)
· Doug Fir Lounge, Portland OR (2004)
About Designspeaks
Designspeaks exists to encourage people to talk about design. Our purpose aims to explore design within the multidisciplinary: architecture, brand, communications, experience, film, fashion, graphic, and industrial. To establish an interface within the context of real life. To support the most compelling regional voices in design. To talk it through.
Designspeaks is aligned with the Ace Hotel properties in Portland, Seattle, New York, and Palm Springs. Each local event celebrates talent practicing in the immediate region. Previous speakers include Seattle’s Modern Dog (in Portland and Seattle), professor and filmmaker Andrea Marks, dean of Northwest design, the redoubtable Byron Ferris, Communications Arts editor Patrick Coyne, creative director Jelly Helm, designer and entrepreneur Aaron Draplin (in Portland and Seattle), educator and illustrator Frank Chimero, design style-makers The Official Manufacturing Company (OMFGCo), local design pioneers The Felt Hat, the inimitable Invisible Creature, and Steve Sandstrom.
Tickets here.
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Mission Critical: Clean Energy and the U.S. Military5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
The state of Oregon, on the forefront of advanced energy policy, has a new and powerful partner. The U.S. military has emerged as a formidable leader in the push for clean energy. The Department of Defense says that our current fuel mix is a national security liability, and that global warming is a threat multiplier which will heighten geopolitical instability, creating both military and humanitarian challenges beyond the armed services’ capacity to respond. As a result, DOD is setting aggressive objectives to reduce its fossil fuel dependence and invest in low carbon renewables and energy efficiency technologies. These commitments by the military are stimulating innovation and providing critical support for the emerging U.S. clean energy sector, with significant impacts for Oregon.
Join us to hear from Oregon First Lady Cylvia Hayes, Brigadier General Mike Caldwell (Oregon National Guard), and E2’s James Marvin (CDR, USN – retired and CEO of Federal Green Solutions) about the link between Oregon’s 10-Year Energy Plan and the military’s transition to clean energy, as well as the potential of this transformation to grow the U.S. economy.
Special thanks to Climate Solutions and Stoel Rives. Limited Seating.
Please complete the registration request form and you will be contacted within a few business days to confirm your registration. If you are signing up within 2 days of the event, please feel free to contact the E2 point person listed in the description of the event. Thank you.
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Literary Arts: Jeffrey Toobin7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Jeffrey Toobin is a staff writer at the New Yorker and the bestselling author ofThe Nine, Too Close to Call, A Vast Conspiracy and The Run of His Life. His forthcoming book, slated for a September release, The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court, is a gripping insider’s account of the momentous ideological war between the John Roberts Supreme Court and the Obama Administration. Toobin is also a senior legal analyst at CNN. Buy tickets here.
7:30 pmLiterary Arts: Jeffrey Toobin
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Oct12Fri
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PDX Creative Mornings8:30 am – 10:00 am
Thomas Wester leads Second Story Labs, an incubator for new ideas and projects that explore the innovative use of technology to create cutting-edge interactive experiences. He engages with current and potential clients, partners, and the community, and guides R&D efforts to inform technology choices, build capabilities, and expand the studio’s technical competence.
Since he joined the studio in 2003, Thomas has led the technical execution of all studio projects, including installations and websites for the Library of Congress, University of Oregon, The National Archives and World of Coca Cola. Drawing examples from architecture, theater, early film and optical illusions,
Thomas will reflect on the processes used to engage audiences and move them to wonder. With a nod to the cutting-edge technologies of the past, such as Eidophusikons and cycloramas, Thomas will discuss how Second Story is using current creative technologies to do the same.
Register here!
8:30 amPDX Creative Mornings
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Oct13Sat
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Film Screening & Discussion: Forerunners7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
An Israeli documentary about three members of the national women’s
soccer team, a Mizrachi Jew, an immigrant from the Ukraine, and a
Christian Palestinian, this film shows how struggles with family,
society, and self build a positive team environment.Featuring a discussion with Alon Raab, lecturer in Religious Studies
at the University of California at Davis. Raab coedited the book,
Soccer in the Middle East, which explores the multifaceted connections
between soccer and society including questions of class, gender, and
nationalismFilm is in Hebrew with English subtitles. This event is free & open to
the public. Presented by the Middle East Studies Center at Portland State University. More info.7:00 pmFilm Screening & Discussion: Forerunners -
PSU Film Screening: Forerunners7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
An Israeli documentary about three members of the national women’s soccer team, a Mizrachi Jew, an immigrant from the Ukraine, and a Christian Palestinian, this film shows how struggles with family, society, and self build a positive team environment.
Featuring a discussion with Alon Raab, lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of California at Davis. Raab coedited the book, Soccer in the Middle East, which explores the multifaceted connections between soccer and society including questions of class, gender, and nationalism
Film is in Hebrew with English subtitles.
http://www.pdx.edu/middle-east-studies/middle-east-studies-events
7:00 pmPSU Film Screening: Forerunners
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Oct14Sun
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“Wake Up Call: The Critic as Cultural Caffeine” lecture by Suzanne Ramljak2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Ramljak’s lecture will address the importance of criticism as social stimulant. “Criticism serves a vital cultural role, helping to stimulate the public body and awaken minds to new perspectives” says Ramljak. “Yet critics are now becoming an endangered species. Recent firings of film critics at many major newspapers, along with the waning pull of critical judgment on popular opinion, are symptoms of this demise. ‘Wake Up Call: The Critic as Cultural Caffeine,’ will make a case for the value of critics as invigorating agents of awareness and change.”
Ramljak is a renowned art historian, writer, curator and editor specializing in contemporary art and functional objects. She is editor of Metalsmith magazine and curator at the American Federation of Arts. She is former editor of Sculptor and Glass Quarterly magazines and associate editor of American Ceramics.
Ramljak’s lecture is part of Connective Conversations: Curator and Critic Tours and Lectures, a partnership initiated by The Ford Family Foundation with the UO School of Architecture and Allied Arts. The base of Connective Conversations is the one-on-one studio visits with select mid-career Oregon artists. Included as part of the program is a series of public lectures featuring these nationally renowned art curators and critics brought to Oregon to join in community dialogue open to the public as well as the studio visits. The partnership launches the seventh and final element of the Foundation’s Visual Arts Program.
RSVP to aaapdx@uoregon.edu
2:00 pm“Wake Up Call: The Critic as Cultural Caffeine” lecture by Suzanne Ramljak
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Oct16Tue
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Hand Eye Supply presents Rob Roy: Nostrana “Whole Hog Butchery – Utilizing and Enjoying Everything from Nose to Tail”6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Rob Roy is the Butcher and Charcutier at Nostrana Restaurant in Southeast Portland Oregon. From the trotters to the cheeks he respects every part of the animal while transforming them into delicious edibles. Rob has been working at Nostrana for over four years developing relationships with local farmers and dedicating his work to utilizing their whole animals. Rob studied art and language in Florence Italy and was instantly immersed in Italian cuisine. He treasured the quality of ingredients, the importance of local agriculture, and the ‘food-glorifying’ style of Italian cooking. After returning he sought out artistic culinary adventures that resonated with these ideals of food sourcing and cooking. He graciously contributed to some of Portland’s best traditional Italian restaurants, Assaggio, Genoa, and Nostrana, where his dream position has come to fruition.
As a Butcher in Portland Rob revels in the ability to visit the farms where the animals are raised, to witness the growing of nourishing foods, and to advocate for local farmers. He works to create an important connection between the farmers and the patrons of the restaurant by responsibly butchering the animals we consume.
Rob will be butchering a hog and discussing why it is beneficial for the farmer and the consumer to buy and use the whole animal from nose to tail. You will learn where different cuts of pork come from, how to break them down, and how to prepare them for the table. What part of the hog needs to be eaten first, what should be brined, cured, frozen, made into sausage? He will talk about curing ham, pancetta, guanciale, lardo, making of delicious charcuterie, and more on food preservation. Rob will inform you on the benefits of lard and bone stock and the many ways to cook up a pig head. He will hand out recipes so you can have a breakdown party yourself, then feed your family for months. Come learn how all the parts fit together and how to be responsible with the whole thing.
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Oregon Humanities Conversation Project: Lessons from Lincoln7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Does Abraham Lincoln’s adept use of bipartisanship during the Civil War offer guidance in dealing with the polarizing controversies of the twenty-first century? This conversation, led by independent scholar and Lincoln expert Richard Etulain, will look at what today’s leaders might learn from Lincoln’s handling of slavery, emancipation and civil rights, political patronage, and reconstruction during the Civil War era. Can these lessons serve as a model of bipartisan behavior as we debate health care, immigration reform, tax policy, and conflicting sources of government power?
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Undeclared for Life: Smooshing Your Interest Into One Career7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
On October 16th Emilie Wapnick is holding a seminar at PSU about the
benefits of a cross-disciplinary education/life, and practical ways
for building a career around multiple interests.Emilie Wapnick is the author of Renaissance Business, the founder of
http://puttylike.com, and her work has been featured in The Financial
Times along with Lifehacker. She’s a writer, coach, violinist,
filmmaker, web designer, and law school graduate (among other things).Openings for this seminar are limited. For additional information or
to sign up:http://undeclaredforlife.
eventbrite.com/ Note: Emilie Wapnick is not affiliated with PSU.
Ticket Cost: $10
7:00 pmUndeclared for Life: Smooshing Your Interest Into One Career
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Oct17Wed
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Still Here: The Future of Still Photography in the Digital Age6:00 pm – 8:30 pmRandy Cox, former senior editor for visuals at The Oregonian and a nationally known graphics, design, and photography expert explores the continuing importance of still photography in multimedia storytelling.Sponsored by UO School of Journalism and Communication’s George S. Turnbull Center and The Oregonian. Appetizers and refreshments served. RSVP at pdxrsvp@jcomm.uoregon.edu by Monday, Oct. 15.6:00 pmStill Here: The Future of Still Photography in the Digital Age
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Mercy Corps: Syria and Yemen: Through my Lens7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Mercy Corps’ photographer and journalist, Cassandra Nelson, shows photographs and reports on her recent visit to Syria and Yemen.
RSVP: You can RSVP for this free talk by clicking here; please write “Nelson” in the subject line.
As a Mercy Corps’ photographer and journalist, Cassandra Nelson has been a first-responder to many of the major humanitarian disasters over the past decade including the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, the Iraq War, the Haiti earthquake and the 2011 famine in Mogadishu. Recently on site reporting on Mercy Corps programs helping Syrian refugees in bordering countries, Nelson also looked in on our work helping children and families caught up in the fighting in Yemen.
7:00 pmMercy Corps: Syria and Yemen: Through my Lens
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Oct18Thu
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Lunch & Learn – Arab Israeli Conflict and Cooperation: The Question of Water12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
This talk will explore the relationship between shared water resources and conflict and cooperation between Arabs and Israelis, and poses the question, “Does territory exist over which sovereignty has been sought politically or militarily, or which would be insisted upon in the course of current territorial negotiations, solely because of its access to water sources, and in the absence of any other compelling strategic or legal rationale?”
Aaron Wolf is a professor of geography in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University. His research focuses on issues relating transboundary water resources to political conflict and cooperation, where his training combining environmental science with dispute resolution theory and practice have been particularly appropriate.’
12:00 pmLunch & Learn – Arab Israeli Conflict and Cooperation: The Question of Water -
Oregon immersive Education Days 20125:00 pm – 9:00 pm
The Emergent Learning Commons (ELC) and the Applied Research in Virtual Environments for Learning Special Interest Group (ARVEL SIG) of the American Educational Research Association invites you to present your teaching and learning innovations either live, in person or remotely at the Oregon Immersive Education Days (OiED) at The University of Oregon’s White Stag Building in Portland OR on October 18, 19, & 20, 2012.
This 4th annual gathering of educators, researchers and developers working in immersive environments and emerging technologies for education in Oregon, the NorthWest Americas, and beyond related to the immersive Education group will feature a series of live, virtual, hands-on presentations, and special events providing attendees with an overview of Immersive Education and how virtual worlds and game-based learning technologies are used in both formal and informal settings to engage learning.
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Sustainability – The Business Case6:00 pm – 8:45 pm
Why it’s the best strategic investment your company can make
What is Sustainability?
-Some people sound like Sustainability is the next big movement.
-Others (especially in the Portland area) equate Sustainability with Green – and they can’t afford any more low-return capital expenditures.
-Others figure it’s a fad that will wane soon, and they can’t afford to take their eye off of the important things like making a profit this quarter.Come hear what it’s really all about, by a practical entrepreneur who has spent 40 years in business, and who has written a course on Sustainability for the AICPA, and a business novel on Sustainability. In this meeting, Gary Langenwalter will:
-Explain what Sustainability is, and what it isn’t
-It is practical, profit-oriented
-It isn’t only “green”
-Tell why it works, the “secret sauce” that most people overlook.
-Tell real results in different industries, including manufacturing, building trades, fast food, retirement homes, etc.
-Engage in dialogue about how it works where the rubber hits the road in operations.Takeaways:
-Quick self-assessment of your potential opportunities with Sustainability
-Proven road map for successful implementation.Members: $25, Non-Members $35
6:00 pmSustainability – The Business Case
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Oct19Fri
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Culture Wars in British Literature12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Tracy Prince, PCPH Scholar in Residence will discuss her newly released book Culture Wars in British Literature. The past century’s culture wars that Britain has been consumed by, but that few North Americans seem aware of, have resulted in revised notions of Britishness and British literature. Yet literary anthologies remain anchored to an archaic Anglo-English interpretation of British literature. Conflicts have been played out over specific national vs. British identity (some residents prefer to describe themselves as being from Scotland, England, Wales, or Northern Ireland instead of Britain), in debates over immigration, race, ethnicity, class, and gender, and in arguments over British literature. These debates are strikingly detailed in such chapters as: “The Difficulty Defining ‘Black British’,” “British Jewish Writers” and “Xenophobia and the Booker Prize.” Connections are also drawn between civil rights movements in the U.S. and UK. This generalist cultural study is a glimpse into Britain’s changing identity as reflected in 20th and 21st century British literature.
Tracy J. Prince, Ph.D. has spent two decades teaching and writing about race, gender, and social equity issues and has taught in or spent extensive research time in Turkey, England, Australia, Canada, and throughout the United States. Her first book, Portland’s Goose Hollow (2011), explores the history of Native, Chinese, Irish, German, and Jewish residents of one of Portland’s oldest neighborhoods.You can get a preview of Dr. Prince’s book at this address: http://www.amazon.com/Culture-
Wars-British-Literature- Multiculturalism/dp/0786462949 Please RSVP by following this link or by sending us an email (publichumanities@pdx.edu) so that the event can be catered accurately.
This event is part of the Faculty Lunch and Lecture Series sponsored by the Portland Center for Public Humanities.
If you have questions concerning access or accommodations for a disability please contact us at publichumanities@pdx.edu. Early requests are encouraged; a week will generally allow us to provide seamless access.
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Mercy Corps: A Buyer-Led Approach to Creating Jobs for the Poor12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Dr. James T. Riordan challenges conventional wisdom on international development work in his book, We Do Know How: A Buyer-Led Approach to Creating Jobs for the Poor. With practical guidance, Riordan shows how to build on the incentives that drive businesses and, in the process, expand poor people’s incomes.
Riordan takes buzzwords commonly used in development circles–”demand-driven,” “results-oriented,” “accountability”– and makes them real, spelling out a proven approach to drive economic growth. With more than 35 years of experience working in the public, non-profit and academic sectors, Riordan has designed and implemented anti-poverty, food security, business development, rural development and policy reform programs in 59 countries. Sponsored by Global Envision, Mercy Corps’ blog about market-driven solutions to poverty.
12:00 pmMercy Corps: A Buyer-Led Approach to Creating Jobs for the Poor
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Oct22Mon
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HTML, CSS, and JS: Welcome to Windows 86:00 pm – 7:00 pm
If you’re a web developer, now you’re a Windows 8 developer. Using standard web technologies, web developers can target the largest device market by deploying on Windows 8.
In this two-part presentation, Microsoft Developer Platform Evangelist Jeremy Foster will provide an introduction to Windows 8 design and development.
Part One: What differentiates Windows 8 apps from previous and competing platforms?
We’ll explore how Windows 8′s comprehensive design language provides a robust and cohesive methodology for pegging the UX meter.
Part Two: Developing on Windows 8
Welcome to Microsoft’s native (but by non-proprietary) Windows 8 development environment! You’ll meet the WinJS library: a wide-open JavaScript library for Windows 8. WinJS allows HTML5 compliant data-tags to become controls, templates, and Windows 8 contracts. It provides a very lightweight but powerful navigation framework that can hold rich page state. It implements asynchronicity through the CommonJS promise pattern. It provides classes and namespaces, and a lot more. Plus, your favorite 3rd party JS libraries work in Windows 8! JavaScript apps running natively on a device including graphical hardware acceleration — that’s awesome.
CSS, the styling language you know and love (even more now at version 3), is implemented very thoroughly and even has support for some new features like flexboxes and grids, so layout in a Windows 8 app is far less painful than web dev days of old.
About the Speaker
Jeremy Foster, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft
Jeremy Foster was educated in computer engineering and mathematics, gathered disparate industry experience in education, aerospace manufacturing, and insurance. With just enough and not nearly enough education and experience, he finally joined Microsoft with the goal of informing and inspiring other software developers to write code and write it right. When he is not working, he is likely spending time with his wife and son, hiking and camping, sailing, scuba diving, or working on house projects. Find Jeremy online at @codefoster and codefoster.com.
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“Don’t Buy It” by Anat Shenker-Osorio7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
In Don’t Buy It (PublicAffairs), political communications expert Anat Shenker-Osorio shows how wrong-headed ways of conceptualizing the economy have led to bad decisions and policies, and demonstrates that radically altering our politics and policies for the better is a matter of changing the conversation — literally.
7:30 pm“Don’t Buy It” by Anat Shenker-Osorio
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Oct23Tue
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#PDXchat Live: How To Use Social Media To Optimize Your Brand, and Create Loyal Ambassadors6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Social Media Club of Portland is proud to present the 2nd in a series of open forum “#PDXchats“. Free to attend, SMCPDX invites the Portland community at large to join our informal sessions, focused around a singular discussion : social media!
This #PDXchat is hosted and sponsored by eROI, with the topic:
“How to Use Social Media To Optimize Your Brand, and Create Loyal Ambassadors”
The speakers are Matt Popkes and Tyler Holmes of eROI, and they will talk about:- The importance of optimizing strategies and tactics through social analytics
- Making Social Media actually strategic, by asking “why” at every turn
- A specific case study (at eROI) that highlights how social media can create internal brand ambassadors
Beverages and snacks will be served, so join us on October 23rd as we once again #PDXchat about Social Media at eROI!#PDXchat events are FREE, so hurry and sign up now – space is limited: http://pdxchat1012.eventbrite.com/
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Oregon Humanities Conversation Project: The Voters Have Spoken6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Oregonians participate in the political ritual of voting on citizen initiatives with more frequency and, at times, more enthusiasm than any other group of citizens in the U.S. Over the past century, Oregon has had more statewide citizen-generated ballot measures than any other state, and, as a result, “direct democracy” has dramatically transformed the state’s political and social landscape. Linfield College associate professor Jackson Miller will lead a conversation about the role of persuasion and communication in the political process, focusing on issues raised by Oregon ballot measures over the past ten to fifteen years, which include abortion, education, gay rights, land use, marijuana, medical liability, obscenity, physician-assisted suicide, taxes, and timber. In order to tailor the conversation to the specific interests of the community, hosts may select up to three issues to serve as focal points.
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Oregon Humanities Conversation Project: Brother Against Brother7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
April 2011 marks the sesquicentennial of the first shots fired in the American Civil War. This war changed the way Americans approached disagreement and fostered the birth of the one major American contribution to philosophy: pragmatism. One hundred and fifty years later, how can the lessons of this national crisis inform the ways we conduct our current debates? More often than not, conversations on the radio or cable news surrounding the difficult issues faced by our communities and nation are about hardened positions and talking past one another, rather than real engagement with each other’s ideas. Linfield College associate professor David Sumner will facilitate a discussion that asks how we can look to American pragmatism to help us move past entrenched positions and engage in productive and civil discussions about important issues.
7:00 pmOregon Humanities Conversation Project: Brother Against Brother
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Oct24Wed
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Reed Public Policy Lecture Series: Jose Antonio Vargas, “Define American”4:30 pm – 5:30 pmPulitzer Prize–winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas explores the politics of immigration, beginning with his personal experience. A highly successful journalist contributing to some of the most prestigious news organizations in the country, including The New Yorker, the Washington Post, CNN, ABC News, and PBS NewsHour, Vargas is also an undocumented immigrant, which he discovered at the age of 16 and hid from friends and colleagues until 2011, when after 18 years of living in the United States, Vargas exposed his story in his groundbreaking essay, “My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant,” for the New York Times Magazine, stunning the media and political circles and attracting world-wide coverage. This lecture, in the series Changing of the Guard: Public Policy and the 2012 Election, is cosponsored by the David Robinson Memorial Fund for Human Rights, the department of political science, and the multicultural resource4:30 pmReed Public Policy Lecture Series: Jose Antonio Vargas, “Define American”
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Think & Drink: Future of Robotic Warfare6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
The fourth and final Think & Drink of 2012 looks at the future of robotic warfare with General Merrill “Tony” McPeak, retired 14th Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, and Tung Yin, professor of law at Lewis & Clark Law School specializing in post-9/11 national security law
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Think & Drink: The Future of War6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
What will the wars of tomorrow look like? Given current advances in
robotics, electronic surveillance, and digital sabotage, future
battles may be fought as much from cubicles as in the trenches. Will a
future of robotic warfare lessen the human cost of international
conflict, or will fighting by proxy desensitize us to the horrors of
war? Or both?Join Oregon Humanities in considering these questions and others like
them with Tung Yin, a professor at Lewis & Clark Law School, and
General Merrill A. McPeak, former Chief of Staff of the United States
Air Force, in the final conversation in Oregon Humanities’ 2012
Think & Drink series on Wednesday, October 24.Tung Yin teaches national security law at Lewis & Clark Law School. He
has published numerous scholarly articles and editorials on domestic
legal issues arising out of the United States’ military and
prosecutorial responses to the 9/11 attacks, including such matters as
the jurisdiction of the federal courts to entertain habeas petitions
by Guantanamo Bay detainees, the theory of unilateral executive branch
war powers, and the potential constitutional rights available to alien
detainees outside the country.General Merrill A. (“Tony”) McPeak entered the Air Force in 1957.
He was a member of the Air Force’s elite aerobatic team, the
Thunderbirds, and flew 269 combat missions in Vietnam. He commanded
the 20th Fighter Wing in NATO, the Twelfth Air Force and the Pacific
Air Forces, and was Air Force chief from 1990 to 1994. He is a member
of the New York City Council on Foreign Relations and Chairman of the
American Battle Monuments Commission.Richard Read, economics and international affairs reporter for the
Oregonian, will moderate the conversation.Address: Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan St.
Time: 6:30 to 8 p.m. Doors open at 5 p.m.
Ticket Cost: Free.
Event Contact info:
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Powell’s Books Presents – SHERMAN ALEXIE “Blasphemy”7:00 pm – 9:00 pmOver the course of Sherman Alexie’s 20-book, 20-year career, his stature as a writer of stories, poems, and novels has soared. From “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven” to his most recent PEN/Faulkner award-winning “War Dances,” his work has established him as a star in modern literature. A bold and irreverent observer of life among Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest, the daring, versatile, and funny author showcases all his talents in his newest collection, “Blasphemy” (Grove Press) where he unites 15 beloved classics with 15 new stories in one sweeping anthology for devoted fans and first-time readers alike. “Blasphemy” is further proof that Alexie is one of our greatest contemporary writers and a true master of the short story. Ticket price includes admission and a copy of “Blasphemy.” Books will be distributed at event. Tickets are also available at the Bagdad Theater, the Crystal Ballroom, and Edgefield. All ages welcome. No refunds or exchanges.7:00 pmPowell’s Books Presents – SHERMAN ALEXIE “Blasphemy”
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Portland in the 1960s7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
In 1968, Newsweek reported an imminent threat of 20,000 hippies descending on Portland, Oregon. Although the numbers were exaggerated, Portland did boast a vibrant 1960s culture of disenchanted and disenfranchised individuals seeking a social and political revolution.Polina Olsen‘s Portland in the 1960s: Stories from the Counterculture(History Press) brings to life the beat-snapping Caffe Espresso, the incense and black-light posters of the Psychedelic Supermarket, and the spontaneous concerts and communal soups in Lair Park
7:00 pmPortland in the 1960s
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