Consider This: Our Place in the World with Ben Rhodes
A conversation about geopolitics, American power, and public service with Ben Rhodes, a former national security and diplomacy advisor to President Barack Obama and host of the "Pod Save the World" podcast.
Conversation Project: Can We Get Along?
Rodney King’s iconic question still resonates today. Despite decades of social justice movements, police brutality and divisions persist in the United States. COVID-19 has only added more challenges. How can we connect to each other during these times? What holds us back from connecting with each other? How do our personal experiences contribute to barriers, or and have the potential to break them down? Join facilitator Chisao Hata as she holds space to examine individual questions on race, cultural values, and what brings us together and what separates us.
Conversation Project: Can We Get Along?
Rodney King’s iconic question still resonates today. Despite decades of social justice movements, police brutality and divisions persist in the United States. COVID-19 has only added more challenges. How can we connect to each other during these times? What holds us back from connecting with each other? How do our personal experiences contribute to barriers, or and have the potential to break them down? Join facilitator Chisao Hata as she holds space to examine individual questions on race, cultural values, and what brings us together and what separates us.
Blood Money
Vanessa Veselka writes about poverty, precarity, and plasma.
Finding a Voice as an Advocate for Others
Sosan Amiri and Rozzell Medina speak about power, justice, education, and community.
People, Places, Things
Lana Jack (Celilo Wy-am) performs a dance in honor of her ancestors, photographed by Josué Rivas.
Consider This with David F. Walker and Douglas Wolk
Our 2022 Consider This series, American Dreams, American Myths, American Hopes, continues on March 16 with a conversation about comics. Comic books, and especially the superhero comics of Marvel and DC, have embodied the hopes and fantasies of many Americans for nearly a century, and the myriad media arising from them have come to comprise a uniquely American mythology.
Our guests for this conversation are David F. Walker, a comic book writer, filmmaker, journalist, and educator whose work includes Bitter Root, Naomi, and The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History, and Douglas Wolk, a pop culture critic and author of Reading Comics and All the Marvels, for which he read some 27,000 Marvel comic books. Writer Courtenay Hameister will moderate the program.
UPDATED: Consider This with Omar El Akkad
Join us for an onstage conversation with Omar El Akkad, author of American War and What Strange Paradise. This event is part of our 2022 Consider This series, American Dreams, American Myths, American Hopes.
Due to the current rise in COVID cases, we have canceled the in-person portion of this event. The conversation will be streamed live on YouTube. Click here to watch.
Democracy in America: Who? - FULL
This five-part discussion series facilitated by David Gutterman invites participants to gather together for conversations about the essential elements of what it means to be a democratic citizen in the United States today.
Democracy in America: What? - FULL
This five-part discussion series facilitated by David Gutterman invites participants to gather together for conversations about the essential elements of what it means to be a democratic citizen in the United States today.
Democracy in America: Where? - FULL
This five-part discussion series facilitated by David Gutterman invites participants to gather together for conversations about the essential elements of what it means to be a democratic citizen in the United States today.
Democracy in America: When? - FULL
This five-part discussion series facilitated by David Gutterman invites participants to gather together for conversations about the essential elements of what it means to be a democratic citizen in the United States today.
Democracy in America: How? - FULL
This five-part discussion series facilitated by David Gutterman invites participants to gather together for conversations about the essential elements of what it means to be a democratic citizen in the United States today.
From the Director: The Great Divide
Adam Davis on communicating and connecting across divides.
Neither Here nor There
Kiki Nakamura-Koyama writes about her struggle to fit in across continents and how she is empowered to change that experience for her students.
Think & Drink with Richard Blanco
Join Young Artist Institute Artists-in-Residence and acclaimed poet Richard Blanco in conversation with Oregon Humanities' board member and SOU professor Bobby Arellano for an evening of exploring the American narrative, past and present, and the unkept promise of its ideals. This is a Think & Drink partner event with the Southern Oregon University Pre-College Youth Programs
Conversation Project: What Does It Mean to Be American?
Join this conversation led by facilitator Ellen Knutson to share your ideas about what it means to be American and hear others’ ideas, to identify differences and points of connection that may lead us toward the ideal stated in our nation’s motto: E pluribus unum, out of many, one.
Conversation Project: Faith and Politics in Oregon and Beyond
This conversation explores how our religious ideas and political identities mix and what it means for our common life together.
Conversation Project: Seeing the Forest for the Trees
Stewarding Our Public Forests
Conversation Project: Keeping Tabs on America
Surveillance and You
Conversation Project: Keeping Tabs on America
Surveillance and You
Conversation Project: What We Owe
Living With Debt
Conversation Project: After Obama *POSTPONED*
Talking Race in America Today
Conversation Project: The Middle Class and Other Stories about Wealth, Status, and Power
Join Oregon Humanities Executive Director Adam Davis for a conversation that explores what we think and how we talk about class in Oregon and the nation. What exactly, for example, is the middle class, who does it include and exclude, and why does it get so much attention?
Conversation Project: Keeping Tabs on America
Surveillance and You
Conversation Project: After Obama *POSTPONED*
Talking Race in America Today
Conversation Project: Seeing the Forest for the Trees
Stewarding Our Public Forests
Conversation Project: Faith and Politics in Oregon and Beyond
Join writer, educator, and former minister Russ Pierson in a conversation about how our religious ideas and political identities mix and what it means for our common life together.
To Heart Mountain
Alice Hardesty travels to see the site of a World War II prison camp that her father designed.
Conversation Project: Seeing the Forest for the Trees
Stewarding Our Public Forests
Conversation Project: The Middle Class and Other Stories about Wealth, Status, and Power
Join Oregon Humanities Executive Director Adam Davis for a conversation that explores what we think and how we talk about class in Oregon and the nation. What exactly, for example, is the middle class, who does it include and exclude, and why does it get so much attention?
Conversation Project: Keeping Tabs on America
Surveillance and You
Conversation Project: Keeping Tabs on America
Surveillance and You
Conversation Project: After Obama
Talking Race in America Today
Conversation Project: After Obama
Talking Race in America Today
Conversation Project: After Obama
Talking Race in America Today
Conversation Project: What Does It Mean to Be American?
Given the differences of race, ethnicity, place, religion, wealth, language, education, and ideology that exist in the US, what are the things that unite us a nation?
Conversation Project: Keeping Tabs on America
Surveillance and You
Conversation Project: Seeing the Forest for the Trees
Stewarding Our Public Forests
Conversation Project: After Obama *CANCELLED*
Talking Race in America Today
Conversation Project: The Middle Class and Other Stories about Wealth, Status, and Power
What exactly is the middle class, who does it include and exclude, and why does it get so much attention? Join Oregon Humanities Executive Director Adam Davis for a conversation that explores what we think and how we talk about class in Oregon and the nation.
Conversation Project: What Does It Mean to Be American?
Given the differences of race, ethnicity, place, religion, wealth, language, education, and ideology that exist in the US, what are the things that unite us a nation?
Conversation Project: Seeing the Forest for the Trees
Stewarding Our Public Forests
Conversation Project: The Middle Class and Other Stories about Wealth, Status, and Power
What exactly is the middle class, who does it include and exclude, and why does it get so much attention? Join Oregon Humanities Executive Director Adam Davis for a conversation that explores what we think and how we talk about class in Oregon and the nation.
Conversation Project: Seeing the Forest for the Trees
Stewarding Our Public Forests
My Brother's Keeper: "Waging a Living"
This fall, Four Rivers Cultural Center in Ontario will present My Brother's Keeper, a series of eight documentary film screenings exploring the lives of marginalized peoples and issues such as mental health, addiction, and mass incarceration. Each screening will be followed by a presentation and Q&A session by a local nonprofit or government agency.
My Brother's Keeper: "Homeless in America"
This fall, Four Rivers Cultural Center in Ontario will present "My Brother's Keeper," a series of eight documentary film screenings exploring the lives of marginalized peoples and issues such as mental health, addiction, and mass incarceration. Each screening will be followed by a presentation and Q&A session by a local nonprofit or government agency.
Conversation Project: What Are You?
Mixed-Race and Interracial Families in Oregon’s Past and Future
Conversation Project: After Obama
Talking Race in America Today
Conversation Project: What Does It Mean to Be American?
Given the differences of race, ethnicity, place, religion, wealth, language, education, and ideology that exist in the US, what are the things that unite us a nation? How do we understand what it means to be American and what we hold valuable?
People Aren’t Illegal
Photographer Ezra Marcos Ayala reflects on the making of “To Live More Free”
Conversation Project: Keeping Tabs on America
Surveillance and You
Conversation Project: Keeping Tabs on America
Surveillance and You
Making Peace with Chaos
Author Zahir Janmohamed and photographer Tojo Andrianarivo profile student refugees living and thriving in Portland despite uncertainty.
Within Makeshift Walls
Author Eric Gold on the Portland Expo Center’s era as a prison for Japanese Americans during World War II.
Conversation Project: Keeping Tabs on America
Surveillance and You
Civil Rights with Guns
Are there alternatives to police that could keep communities safe? Author Kristian Williams discusses lessons from the Black Freedom Movement.
The Problem with the Immigration Problem
Elliot Young writes about the origins of the belief that immigrants harm our society
Damaged
When disaster strikes, sanity is a matter of degree. An essay by Evelyn Sharenov
Boxed In
Writer Wendy Willis ponders which race to check and which people to leave behind when asked about her racial and ethnic background.
Small Man in a Big Country
Native language is just the first thing an immigrant family abandons in order to become American. An excerpt from Little Big Man: In Search of My Asian Self by Alex Tizon
Who's Minding Your Business?
A conversation with writer William T. Vollmann on privacy, surveillance, and hope
A Hidden History
Walidah Imarisha on revealing the stories and struggles of Oregon’s African American communities.
One America?
A conversation between Gregory Rodriguez and Tomas Jimenez about American identity, race, immigration, and ideology.
Clinging to the Dream
Why do Americans have such a hard time talking about class? An essay by Leigh van der Werff
Under God
Frances Bellamy and the origins of the Pledge of Allegiance. By Richard Ellis
Immobile Dreams
How did the trailer come to be a symbol of failure? An essay by Rebecca Hartman
Legally White
Muslim immigrants vie for citizenship in the early twentieth century. By Kambiz Ghaneabassiri
A Nation of Can-Do Optimists
A brief history of American cheerfulness by Ariel Gore
The Working Class
Bette Lynch Husted argues that hard times are good times to rethink our attitudes about the fungibility of workers.