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Conversation Project: Yesterday's News
Bridging the Divide: Interfaith Conversations on Globalization
Conversation Project: Yesterday's News
Conversation Project: From Print to Pixels
Conversation Project: From Print to Pixels
Conversation Project: To Cut or Not to Cut
Conversation Project: Brother Against Brother
Conversation Project: Borderless
Conversation Project: Tracking Godzilla
Conversation Project: Uniquely Oregon
Conversation Project: To Cut or Not to Cut
Conversation Project: A City's Center
Conversation Project: A City's Center
Conversation Project: Life after War
Conversation Project: Yesterday's News
Conversation Project: Life after War
Conversation Project: Your Land, My Land
Conversation Project: Marking Our Territory
Conversation Project: Uniquely Oregon
Conversation Project: Uniquely Oregon
Events and important dates from the Oregon Humanities calendar.
06 February 2012 | Monday
Conversation Project: Yesterday's News
Yesterday’s News: The New Economics of Local Information by Michael Andersen. Host Organization: Tigard Public Library. Contact: Legrand Olsen at (503) 718-2517 or via email.
7:00 p.m., Tigard Public Library, 13500 SW Hall Blvd., Tigard
10 February 2012 | Friday
Bridging the Divide: Interfaith Conversations on Globalization
Join leaders from various faith traditions as they discuss what their faiths teach about globalization. This panel, the last of five interfaith panels focused on justice issues, will help frame globalization within the wisdom of these traditions. For more information, please contact Sister Carol Higgins at (503) 534-4066 or via email. This is an Oregon Humanities grant-funded event.
Marylhurst University, 6:30 p.m., Flavia Salon, 17600 Pacific Highway (Hwy 43), Marylhurst
11 February 2012 | Saturday
Conversation Project: Yesterday's News
Yesterday’s News: The New Economics of Local Information by Michael Andersen. Host Organization: OASIS Education. Contact: Jane Griffen at (503) 241-3059 or via email.
10:30 a.m., OASIS Education Center Adult Classroom, Macy's Downtown Portland, 4th Floor, 621 SW 5th Ave., Portland
04 March 2012 | Sunday
Conversation Project: From Print to Pixels
From Print to Pixels: The Act of Reading in the Digital Age by Mark Allen Cunningham. Host Organization: Pacific City-Nestucca Valley Chamber of Commerce. Contact: José Solano at (503) 965-2244 or via email.
2:00 p.m., Kiawanda Community Center, 34600 Cape Kiwanda Dr., Pacific City
10 March 2012 | Saturday
Conversation Project: From Print to Pixels
From Print to Pixels: The Act of Reading in the Digital Age by Mark Allen Cunningham. Host Organization: Scappoose Public Library. Contact: Dan White at (503) 543-7123 or via email.
1:00 p.m., Scappoose Public Library, 52469 SE 2nd St., Scappoose
13 March 2012 | Tuesday
Conversation Project: To Cut or Not to Cut
To Cut or Not to Cut: Censorship in Literature by Pancho Savery. Host Organization: Linfield College English Department. Contact: Barbara Seidman at (503) 883-2210 or via email.
3:30 p.m., Linfield College, 900 SE Baker St., T.J. Day Hall, Room 219, McMinnville
14 March 2012 | Wednesday
Conversation Project: Brother Against Brother
Brother Against Brother: Pragmatism, Civility, and the Civil War by David Sumner. Host Organization: Rotary Club of Portland’s Wholistic Peace Institute. Contact: Philip Levinson at (503) 228-1542 or via email.
7:00 p.m., Oregon Historical Society, 1200 SW Park Ave., Portland
14 March 2012 | Wednesday
Conversation Project: Borderless
Borderless: Migration, Globalization, and Changing Communities by Elliott Young. Host Organization: Multnomah County Library. Contact: Bryan Fearn at (503) 988-5342 or via email.
6:00 p.m., Troutdale Library, 2451 SW Cherry Park Rd., Troutdale
25 March 2012 | Sunday
Conversation Project: Tracking Godzilla
Tracking Godzilla: Images of Nuclear Radiation in Film and Media by Isabella Freda. Host Organization: Pacific City-Nestucca Valley Chamber of Commerce. Contact: José Solano at (503) 965-2244 or via email.
2:00 p.m., Kiawanda Community Center, 34600 Cape Kiwanda Dr., Pacific City
31 March 2012 | Saturday
Conversation Project: Uniquely Oregon
Uniquely Oregon: Native American Art of Oregon by Tracy Prince. Host Organization: Columbia River Maritime Museum. Contact: Betsey Ellerbroek at (503) 325-2323 or via email.
2:30 p.m., Columbia River Maritime Museum, 1792 Marine Dr., Astoria
03 April 2012 | Tuesday
Conversation Project: To Cut or Not to Cut
To Cut or Not to Cut: Censorship in Literature by Pancho Savery. Host Organization: Friends of the Forest Grove Library. Contact: Dave Pauli at (503) 380-1583 or via email.
7:00 p.m., Forest Grove Library, 2114 Pacific Ave., Forest Grove
14 April 2012 | Saturday
Conversation Project: A City's Center
A City’s Center: Rethinking Downtown by Nan Laurence. Host Organization: Friends of the Dallas Public Library. Contact: Dale Derouin at (503) 623-6340 or via email.
1:00 p.m., Dallas Public Library, 950 Main St., Dallas
22 April 2012 | Sunday
Conversation Project: A City's Center
A City’s Center: Rethinking Downtown by Nan Laurence. Host Organization: Pacific City-Nestucca Valley Chamber of Commerce. Contact: José Solano at (503) 965-2244 or via email.
2:00 p.m., Kiawanda Community Center, 34600 Cape Kiwanda Dr., Pacific City
25 April 2012 | Wednesday
Conversation Project: Life after War
Life after War: Photography and Oral Histories of Coming Home by James Lommasson. Host Organization: REACH CDC. Contact: Debbie Lowder at (503) 501-5725 or via email.
6:00 p.m., Ritzdorf Court Apartments, 1225 SE Belmont St., Portland
29 April 2012 | Sunday
Conversation Project: Yesterday's News
Yesterday’s News: The New Economics of Local Information by Michael Andersen. Host Organization: Pacific City-Nestucca Valley Chamber of Commerce. Contact: José Solano at (503) 965-2244 or via email.
2:00 p.m., Kiawanda Community Center, 34600 Cape Kiwanda Dr., Pacific City
05 May 2012 | Saturday
Conversation Project: Life after War
Life after War: Photography and Oral Histories of Coming Home by James Lommasson. Host Organization: Friends of the Vernonia Public Library and Library Board. Contact: Nancy Burch at (503) 429-1818 or via email.
4:00 p.m., Vernonia Library, 701 Weed Ave., Vernonia
06 May 2012 | Sunday
Conversation Project: Your Land, My Land
Your Land, My Land: Using and Preserving Oregon’s Natural Resources by Veronica Dujon. Host Organization: Pacific City-Nestucca Valley Chamber of Commerce. Contact: José Solano at (503) 965-2244 or via email.
2:00 p.m., Kiawanda Community Center, 34600 Cape Kiwanda Dr., Pacific City
20 May 2012 | Sunday
Conversation Project: Marking Our Territory
Marking Our Territory: How to Read Local Landscapes by Reiko Hillyer. Host Organization: Pacific City-Nestucca Valley Chamber of Commerce. Contact: José Solano at (503) 965-2244 or via email.
2:00 p.m., Kiawanda Community Center, 34600 Cape Kiwanda Dr., Pacific City
22 May 2012 | Tuesday
Conversation Project: Uniquely Oregon
Uniquely Oregon: Native American Art of Oregon by Tracy Prince. Host Organization: Canby Public Library. Contact: Hanna Hofer at (503) 266-3394 or via email.
6:30 p.m., Canby Public Library, 292 N Holly St., Canby
26 May 2012 | Saturday
Conversation Project: Uniquely Oregon
Uniquely Oregon: Native American Art of Oregon by Tracy Prince. Host Organization: Tillamook County Pioneer Museum. Contact: Carla Albright at (503) 842-4553 or via email.
1:00 p.m., Tillamook County Pioneer Museum, 2106 Second St., Tillamook