Oregon Humanities

"Conflict" series at Oregon Humanities Center

Oregon Humanities is proud to cosponsor the 2011-12 “Conflict” series at the University of Oregon’s Oregon Humanities Center. From now until May 2012, OHC will offer film screenings and lectures focusing on this theme in Portland and Eugene. The schedule is as follows; more information is available at the OHC website, or at (541) 346-3934 or by e-mail.

Upcoming events:

• May 15, 2012, 7:30 p.m., EMU Ballroom, University of Oregon, Eugene, and May 16, 2012, 7 p.m., Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 147 NW 19th Ave., Portland
  Kritikos Lecture: “A Decade of War,” by Andrew J. Bacevich (pictured above), professor of international relations and history at Boston University and retired career officer in the U.S. Army. Bacevich is the author of Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War (2010) and The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism (2008).

Past events:

• November 4, 2011, 7:30 p.m., 180 PLC, University of Oregon, Eugene
  World film premiere of In the Telling, which tells the story of how twelve military veterans and their families decide that it’s time to speak, and in doing so, they start a movement. This film will also show on November 5 and 6 at Bijou Art Cinemas, 492 E. 13th Ave, Eugene.

• November 15, 2011, 7:30 p.m., 182 Lillis Hall, University of Oregon, Eugene
  Cressman Lecture: “The Mother of All Conflicts—Infinite Economic Growth vs. a Finite Planet,” by Paul Gilding, author of The Great Disruption: Why the Climate Crisis Will Bring On the End of Shopping and the Birth of a New World.

• March 6, 2012, 7:30 p.m.,182 Lillis Hall, University of Oregon, Eugene
  Clark Lecture: “The Greatest Adventure: A Survivor’s Guide to a Melting Century,” by Doug Peacock, naturalist, outdoorsman, and author of Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness and Walking it Off: A Veteran’s Chronicle of War And Wilderness.

• April 12, 2012, 7:30 p.m., 182 Lillis Hall, University of Oregon, Eugene
  O’Fallon Lecture: “The Neurobiology of Violence and Healing with Art Therapy,” by Linda Chapman, director, Art Therapy Institute of the Redwoods.

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