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Thursday, 12 January

Life after War: Photography and Oral Histories of Coming Home by James Lommasson. Host Organization: Newspace Center for Photography. Contact: Laura Valenti Jelen at (503) 963-1935 or via email.

7:00 p.m., Newspace Center for Photography, 1632 SE 10th Ave., Portland

12 January 2012 | Posted in Featured On Home Page Events The Conversation Project

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Events and important dates from the Oregon Humanities calendar.

Friday, 27 January

The Ties that Bind: Interweaving Domestic and Civic Life by Wendy Willis. Host organization: Treasure Valley Community College. Contact: Christina Macklin at (541) 881-5929 or via email.

2:00 p.m., Treasure Valley Community College, 650 College Blvd., Ontario

Friday, 27 January

Your Land, My Land: Using and Preserving Oregon’s Natural Resources by Veronica Dujon. Host Organization: High Desert Museum. Contact: Erica Benton at (541) 382-4754 or via email. This program was originally scheduled for 1/19/12. Please note the NEW date!

6:30 p.m., Tower Theatre, 835 NW Wall St., Bend

Saturday, 28 January

The Ties that Bind: Interweaving Domestic and Civic Life by Wendy Willis. Host Organization: Ontario Library District. Contact: Darlyne Johnson at (541) 889-6371 or via email.

1:00 p.m., Ontario Library District, 388 SW 2nd Ave., Ontario

Saturday, 28 January

The Ties that Bind: Interweaving Domestic and Civic Life by Wendy Willis. Host Organization: Nyssa Public Library. Contact: Faith Adams at (541) 372-2978 or via email.

3:00 p.m., Nyssa Public Library, 319 Main St., Nyssa

Saturday, 28 January

From Print to Pixels: The Act of Reading in the Digital Age by Mark Allen Cunningham. Host Organization: Tigard Public Library. Contact: Mark Gottschalk at (503) 718-2517 or via email.

2:00 p.m., Tigard Public Library, 13500 SW Hall Blvd., Tigard

Latest

Current news concerning the humanities.

Magazine Call for Submissions: Fight

08 January 2012 | Posted in Publications | Comments? (0 so far)

Oregon Humanities magazine is seeking submissions for the summer 2012 issue on the theme “Fight.” We’re interested in nonfiction writing about the nature of conflict and disagreement especially as they relate to American culture. Writers may wish to consider specific notions... More

What We're Reading Over Break

26 December 2011 | Posted in Inside O. Hm. | Comments? (0 so far)

The Oregon Humanities office is closed until Tuesday, January 3, 2012, and the staff hopes to get some reading done during this break. Here’s what’s on our winter reading list; what’s on yours?

Kamla: Blue Nights by Joan Didion, Design*Sponge at Home, Then Again by Diane... More

Looking Ahead to 2012

07 December 2011 | Posted in Community New Ideas | Comments? (0 so far)

Oregon Humanities is working on a project to usher in the new year, and we want to know what people, places, and ideas you hope to learn and talk more about in 2012. Leave a comment below to let us know what’s on your mind as we say goodbye to 2011 and welcome the year to come.... More

Vote for your favorite Oregon Humanities essay

24 October 2011 | Posted in Publications | Comments? (0 so far)

Help us decide which personal essay from an issue of Oregon Humanities published before 2010 still resonates today and should be included in the upcoming “Encore” issue. Up for consideration are these ten pieces that generated a lot of conversation when they were originally... More

How the Oregon Cultural Trust Donation Works

24 September 2011 | Posted in Advocacy Community | Comments? (0 so far)

Still unclear about how the Oregon Cultural Trust tax credit works? Watch this entertaining video that explains it all. The basics are: 1) Donate to any of 1,300 cultural nonprofits in Oregon. 2) Match that gift by donating an equal amount to the Oregon Cultural Trust. 3) 100... More

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Idea Lab
Idea Lab Teaching Fellows 2012
Apply Now to Teach at Idea Lab Summer Institute

We’re looking for Oregon high school teachers interested in being 2012 Idea Lab fellows for our summer institute. Formerly Happy Camp, Idea Lab Summer Institute brings together... More

The Conversation Project
Apply Now for Conversation Project Program

Through January 31, 2012, Oregon nonprofits may apply to host Conversation Project programs taking place between March 1, 2012 and June 30, 2012.

Led by experts who are trained... More

Special Projects
Oregon Humanities Center conflict series
"Conflict" series at Oregon Humanities Center

Oregon Humanities is proud to cosponsor the 2011-12 “Conflict” series at the University of Oregon’s Oregon Humanities Center. From now until May 2012, OHC will offer film... More

Think & Drink
Wordstock Think & Drink Happiness
"Happiness Myth" Author Featured at Wordstock Think & Drink

Jennifer Michael Hecht, author of The Happiness Myth, headlines Wordstock Think & Drink on Wednesday, October 5, 2011, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at rontoms, 600 E. Burnside, Portland. In... More

Grants
Apply Now for 2012 Public Program Grants

Oregon Humanities is pleased to announce the guidelines for 2012 Public Program Grants. We are particularly interested in proposals for programs that bring together diverse groups... More

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Support Oregon Humanities

Donor spotlight: Larry Slessler
Donor Spotlight: Larry Slessler

Medford resident Larry Slesser is a long-time donor to Oregon Humanities. Larry is a Vietnam veteran and former teacher and coach, who says he most values OH for its support of one of his core values: “looking at various facets of our world and the different people and ideas.” Here, Larry takes a virtual spin of the Wheel of Cogitation. 

Somebody unlike you whom you are curious... More

From the blog

Posts from staff, peers and others


Theater as an Act of Communion

The act of gathering together to worship is nothing new. Sometimes that worship takes the form of praising a higher power. Sometimes it takes the form of humans role-playing the lives of other humans. Portland Playhouse in northeast Portland is melding the ideas of worship,... More


Getting to Know Our Places

In Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape, desire path is defined as “the route people have chosen to take across an open place, marking a human pattern upon a landscape.” Desire paths are everywhere—diagonal shortcuts from sidewalk to sidewalk, trails blazed through... More


The Secret of Life

In Roald Dahl’s short story “The Hitch-Hiker,” the title character is coy about his line of work, initially telling the narrator only that he is in a skilled trade. “The secret of life,” the Londoner says, “is to become very, very good at something that is very, very... More


Tireless Poetry Traveler

Paulann Petersen, Oregon’s poet laureate, has been on the road for nearly two weeks, traversing the state in an effort to visit as many communities during her tenure as possible.

Petersen was appointed to a two-year term by Governor Kulongoski in April 2010. Oregon Humanities... More


How We Got "Here"

People often ask how we come up with themes for Oregon Humanities magazine. We find inspiration everywhere, including in our own programs and those of other organizations. For instance, with the Fall/Winter 2011 issue on the theme “Here,” we were inspired by a special program... More

Voices

Comment from across the site.


My most recent “favourite idea” is:
The idea that we can encourage and assist each other to have ideas that excite us is itself an idea that...

Mike Sands, Vancouver, Canada | on Donor profile Jennifer Schuberth


Hi,
I am interested in the issue of prisons, in your project.  I am writing an essay as part of a Leadership Program I recently completed. ...

Laurent, Salem, OR | on Beyond Bars: Reenvisioning the Prison System


utterly satisfying in content and form. and prolly a buncha other levels i can’t quite articulate.

donna | on Scott Nadelson on forbidden looking


I had a mother who collected things ... after she passed, I foud her wedding ring, long lost in the bottom of a cardboard box full with...

MJ | on Dmae Roberts on hoarding


Dmae-we are sisters in so many ways.  I come home from being with family and vow to change my ways…only to stumble in the efforts.  The...

Gloria Guinn | on Dmae Roberts on hoarding

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01-27 4:15

From Print to Pixels, a conversation on what technology means for readers and writers, 1/28 at 2 p.m. at the Tigard Public Library....

01-27 11:15

Join faith leaders for a grant-funded discussion of human trafficking. 1/28 at 1 pm at Marylhurst Univ. http://t.co/n9CZVl9K

01-27 9:40

The Ties That Bind, a conversation on civic society and the domestic arts, twice on 1/28: 1 pm in Ontario and 3 pm in Nyssa....

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