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In addition to ongoing regular programming, Oregon Humanities occasionally offers public lectures, panels, and reading and discussion series in communities around the state. We also work in partnership with other organizations to offer this type of programming.

Four Questions for Humanity
Pendleton, October 2005

This four-part reading and discussion series explored questions of fundamental importance to the citizens of a democracy: What is the relationship between an individual and his or her community? What is the nature of love and desire? What is the relationship between power and justice? What is the role of knowledge in virtuous actions? Guided by faculty from Reed College in Portland, participants looked at the ways in which these questions have been explored in ancient Athens and modern America, and discussed how we, as reflective citizens, can answer these questions in our own time.

Four Questions for Humanity is based on Humanity in Perspective, a course OCH has offered for the last four years to adults living in poverty in Portland. OCH is partnering with the Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution in Pendleton to bring a HIP course to inmates. In addition, OCH offered this condensed lecture series to interested members of the Pendleton community.

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