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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, at the Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan St., Portland, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Minors allowed when accompanied by an adult. Think & Drink events are free and open to the public. Doors open at 5 p.m.
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.
If you missed the last Think & Drink, which explored the future of human intelligence, you can watch a video of the event thanks to our series media sponsor, KZME radio. Willamette Week is also a media sponsor of the 2012 Think & Drink series.
Two events in September funded by Oregon Humanities public program grants address our state’s long history of citizen activism.
On September 17 in Grants Pass, “History from Below,” is the first of a series of public workshops from the Rural Organizing Project that examine the history of social movements in rural and small-town Oregon. (Future workshops will take place in communities in eastern Oregon and on the Oregon coast.) At this event, Historians Dan Leahy and Jeff LaLande will discuss the legacy of local activism in southern Oregon, including the populist movement in 1890s Jackson County. Participants will then break into small groups to study documents relating to social movements from the archives of Southern Oregon University and the Southern Oregon Historical Society, before reuniting for a larger group discussion. Organizer Sarah Loose says she hopes that participants “can use the ideas and questions that the workshop brings up to take a critical look at social movements in Oregon today.” The workshop takes place at 6:00 p.m. Monday, September 17, in the Evergreen Room at Taprock Grill, 971 SE 6th St. in Grants Pass. A donation of $3-$10 is suggested, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds.
On September 22, Centro Cultural of Washington County and Pacific University present Hispanic Heritage and Activism in Oregon, a forum exploring the journey of Hispanics to Oregon and Washington County in particular, and the activism that has nurtured self-determination in the Hispanic community. Panels of academic scholars and community leaders will engage participants in facilitated discussion focusing on the following themes: “Latinos in Oregon: De dónde venimos y cómo llegamos”; “Activism for Social Justice: Apoyándonos y defendiéndonos”; and “Personal, Family and Professional Resiliency: Sobreviviendo y superándonos.” The forum takes places Saturday, September 22 at Pacific University, 2043 College Way in Forest Grove from 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. The event is free, but participants are required to register in advance by calling Carlos Lopez at (503) 359-0446.
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