Oregon Humanities

"Being Human/Human Being" series at University of Oregon Humanities Center

Oregon Humanities is cosponsoring the University of Oregon Humanities Center‘s 2012-13 lecture series on the theme “Being Human/Human Being.” From November 2012 to May 2013, OHC will host several free lectures in Eugene and Portland, all featuring scholars who offer a fresh look at the human condition. For more information about any of the events listed below, please contact OHC at (541) 346-3934 or by email.

Upcoming events in this series

• May 29, 2013, in Eugene
  “How Humans Got Morality, Religion, Civilization, and Humanity” by Jonathan Haidt, professor, Stern School of Business, New York University, and author of The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion (Vintage) (2012). 7:30 p.m., 182 Lillis Hall, University of Oregon.

• May 30, 2013, in Portland
  “What on Earth Is Happening to Us? Polarization, Demonization, and Paralysis in American Politics” by Jonathan Haidt (see May 29 lecture above). 7:00 p.m., University of Oregon in Portland, White Stag Block, 70 NW Couch St.

Below, a TED Talk by Haidt:

Past events in this series

• November 13, 2012, in Eugene
  “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness” by legal scholar and author Michelle Alexander of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and the Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University. 7:30 p.m., 182 Lillis Hall, University of Oregon.

• January 24, 2013, in Eugene
  Tzedek Lecture in Eugene: “Mortality, Morality, and the Meaning of Life” by Ira Byock, director of Palliative Medicine, Dartmouth–Hitchcock Medical Center and author of The Four Things That Matter Most: A Book about Living (2004), and The Best Care Possible: A Physician’s Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life (2012). 7:30 p.m., 282 Lillis Hall, University of Oregon.

• January 25, 2013, in Portland
  Tzedek Lecture in Portland: “The Best Care Possible Through the End of Life: What It Is and How to Get It” by Ira Byock (see January 24 lecture above) 7 p.m., University of Oregon in Portland, White Stag Block, 70 NW Couch St.

• February 12, 2013, in Eugene
  Cressman Lecture by Wade Davis, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence and anthropologist and author of Light at the Edge of the World: A Journey Through the Realm of Vanishing Cultures (2009) and Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest (2011). 7:30 p.m., 182 Lillis Hall, University of Oregon

• March 5, 2013, in Eugene
  Clark Lecture by David Eagleman, neuroscientist and director of the Laboratory for Perception and Action, Baylor College of Medicine and author of Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives (Vintage) (2010) and Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain (Vintage) (2011). 7:30 p.m., 182 Lillis Hall, University of Oregon

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