The 2024–25 Consider This series explored all things public. Who are the people, and what is the public? When we talk about public opinion or public service, whose opinions are we including, and who is being served? Does public ownership of land mean that land should be equally accessible to everyone? What are the dividing lines between public and private life?
Onstage conversations in Portland, Hood River, La Grande, Pendleton, Corvallis, and Salem dug into questions like these with people working in public engagement, public education, land management, media, government, and more.
2024–25 Events
September 18, 2024: Dahlia Lithwick, Supreme Court reporter, host of the Amicus podcast, and author of Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America.
Video from this event on YouTube.
November 10, 2024: Manu Meel, CEO of BridgeUSA, a multi-partisan student movement working to bridge our differences and change how we talk about politics.
Video from this event on YouTube.
December 5, 2024: Stories of the Hood River Watershed with Abigail Elder, Sarah Fox, and Lesley Tamura
Columbia Center for the Arts, Hood River
Video from this event you YouTube.
Audio on The Detour.
January 29, 2025: Ben Rhodes, advisor to President Barack Obama on national security and host of Pod Save the World.
View this event on YouTube.
April 9, 2025: The Lands We Live On with Chuck Sams, former director of the National Parks Service.
Pendleton Center for the Arts, Pendleton / Watch party at Willamette University in Salem
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April 15, 2025: Nikole Hannah-Jones, creator of the 1619 project, on public history and who tells it. Presented in partnership with the Center for the Humanities at Oregon State University. This event was not recorded.
May 7, 2025: Reinventing American Democracy for the Twenty-first Century with Danielle Allen, director of the Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center.
Video from this event on YouTube
Sponsors
This series was made possible by funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the Oregon Cultural Trust, The Standard, Meyer Memorial Trust, Susan Hammer Fund of Oregon Community Foundation, and Pacific West Bank.
Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities or Oregon Humanities.
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