On Monday, February 12th, Darius Wallace is returning to Lewis & Clark to again portray Frederick Douglass in his performance The Lion of Thunder.  Please join us in Miller 105 beginning at 3pm, followed by a Q & A ending at 4:40pm. This event is sponsored by General Education with support from Arts@LC. It is free and open to the public.

LC students are welcome to attend the Spring 2025 Study Abroad in Cuba information session. 

Students study at the University of Havana, visit Viñales, Trinidad, and Santa Clara, and experience individual homestays.

This LC Overseas Program counts for Latin American and Latino Studies, Hispanic Studies (with appropriate language level), and Global Perspectives Gen Ed.

Faculty Leader: Professor Elliott Young (History)

Prerequisites: Spanish 202 (with at least a B) and Modern Cuban History (offered Fall 2024).

Join LC Professor of English Pauls Toutonghi when he discusses his new novel THE REFUGEE OCEAN (Simon & Schuster, October 2023) in conversation with Jon Raymond, at Powell’s City of Books. All are welcome to attend and celebrate.

A Center for Community and Global Health Colloquium

Interested? We’d love to have you! The event is open to all First Year students and space is limited.

Register Here

A Center for Community and Global Health Colloquium

Interested? We’d love to have you! The event is open to all First Year students and space is limited.

Register Here

A Center for Community and Global Health Colloquium

Interested? We’d love to have you! The event is open to all First Year students and space is limited.

Register Here

A Center for Community and Global Health Colloquium

Interested? We’d love to have you! The event is open to all First Year students and space is limited.

Register Here

A presentation by Levi McLaughlin of North Carolina State University.

Between the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth century, the ongoing crises of the late-colonial Caribbean mingled with an emerging trend: white American and European tourists who flocked in growing numbers to the tropics in search of pleasure, leisure, and adventure. As these travelers arrived in port in the era before commercial flight, they encountered a ubiquitous scene: boys and young men in small rowboats, who would surround the incoming steamship and, nude or nearly nude, dive in the tropical surf for coins tossed overboard. Images and accounts of these coin divers circulated widely in travel media, and were instrumental in constructing a tourist-friendly vision of the Caribbean seaside as exotic, picturesque, erotic, and accessible. In colonial Caribbean sources, however, coin divers were viewed not as an alluring spectacle but as a criminal threat, somewhere between beggar, truant, and sex worker. The divers themselves were working-class youth inhabiting a harbor-world on the periphery of a stratified and shifting society. They experienced firsthand the transition from Caribbean colonialism to mass tourism, and used the harbor to enact a limited autonomy and demand recognition within a system that provided few meaningful alternatives.

Analyzing the tensions between these contrasting modes of power—one that commodified and one that criminalized—we can better understand the complex dynamics in the transition from plantation colonialism to tourism neocolonialism in the Caribbean.

Join us in Smith Hall at 10:30 a.m. during the Festival of Scholars and Artists to listen to the work of last year’s James J. Kopp Library Research Award honorees! Coffee, tea, and pastries will be provided.

Join us for an event featuring Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm of Williams College.

Amy Baskin is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, an Oregon Literary Arts fellow, and an Oregon Poetry Association prize winner. Her first collection, NIGHT HAG (Unsolicited Press, 2023), is about Lilith, the mythic “first woman,” and will be available in April. Amy works with students and faculty in the Departments of English and History at Lewis & Clark and helps run the annual Fir Acres Summer Writing Workshop. Her chapbook HYSTERICAL CAKE was published by Dancing Girl Press in 2022. Her work has been featured in journals including Cultural Daily, Timberline Review, Pirene’s Fountain, Friends Journal, Literary Review, and SWWIM. 

Fashionistas and Revolutionaries: Sign up your team here for the History Department’s 9th Annual Project Runway History Edition! This year’s theme is…REVOLUTION!

Teams of 3 compete in a fashion-design competition inspired by revolutionary historical events. Students are mentored along the way by Andy Bernstein/Tim Gunn. (Will YOU be the next Christian Siriano?) Contestants then will strut their stuff before a panel of illustrious guest judges who will choose winners based fashion and historical execution. Slay!

Pizza and prizes!

How is China governed? It is a question on our minds as the rule of its president Xi Jinping challenges American hopes and stokes our fears. Is it Communist? Capitalist? Confucian? Making sense of Chinese statecraft, or of how any state is governed, requires not only political analysis but also some sense of its history. This is a fundamental historiographical challenge: how can knowledge of past practice inform, deepen, or throw into question what we think we know about later and present practice? This lecture responds to these questions through the example of one mode of Chinese governance—state-sponsored, village-based, public education in civic virtues. This effort to create ideal subjects began with 11th century Confucian bureaucrats, continued in rural education programs in the 1930s, re-emerged with Mao’s ideological campaigns of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, and has reappeared today in Xi Jinping’s mandatory political study sessions. In the end, we find that the past does not determine the present, but does shape its choices through inherited conditions (such as administering a nation the size of an empire), political culture, and, most significantly, the parts of historical memory China’s leaders choose to remember or repress.

Please join us for a screening of DOG GONE, a Netflix Original #1 film based on the book by LC English Professor Pauls Toutonghi! This feel-good film is based on a true story about one family’s quest to find their son’s lost dog, and stars Johnny Berchtold, Rob Lowe, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, and Nick Peine. We will follow the film with Q&A with the author and a celebratory reception.

Hosted by the LC English Department and the Office of the President.

• • Representative Ken Helm, Oregon State Legislature, House District 3
  • Kieran O’Donnell, Manager, Office of Compliance and Enforcement, Oregon State Dept. of Environmental Quality
  • Courtney Johnson, Executive Director and Staff Attorney, Crag Law Center
  • Tom Buchele, Professor, Lewis & Clark Law School; Co-director, Earthrise Law Center, Lewis & Clark Law School
  • Moderator: Karen Russell, Earthrise Law Center, Lewis & Clark Law School; Adjunct Professor, Lewis & Clark Law School and Environmental Studies Program

Attended by all First Year Seminar students and faculty, this event will feature an exciting panel:

• Diana Leonard, Assoc Professor of Psychology
• Reiko Hillyer, Assoc Professor of History
• Sweta Suryanarayan, Visiting Assist Professor w/Term of Mathematics

Please click the link below to join the webinar:

https://zoom.us/j/99260677229

The lectures will feature speakers from different traditions and disciplines discussing with one another the great works read in the fall E&D sections in an open format.  Discussion will feature thoughts, ideas and concepts that will broaden students understanding of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own.

Guest panelists followed by Q&A:

• Dr. Michael Mirabile, Comparative Literature
• Dr. Andrea Hibbard, English & Gender Studies
• Dr. David Campion, History

This event is free and open to the Lewis & Clark Community.

The lectures will feature speakers from different traditions and disciplines discussing with one another the great works read in the fall E&D sections in an open format.  Discussion will feature thoughts, ideas and concepts that will broaden students understanding of Marx and Engels’ The Communist Manifesto.

• Dr. Sara Appel, Literature, Feminist & Queer Studies
• Dr. Ben Westervelt, History
• Dr. Chris Roberts, Religious Studies

This event is free and open to the Lewis & Clark Community.

Writing is a crucial academic skill, but it is also an essential life skill, central to a purposeful and reflective life. Surviving the next paper sometimes leads students to lose sight of longer-term goals, but setting those goals is essential to developing into a mature and confident writer. This workshop will offer concrete advice to improve your fall E&D papers, but will also help you start thinking about how to develop better writing habits, respond to feedback from professors whose expectations can differ, and track the growth of your writing across the longer arc of a Lewis & Clark education. 

Strong E&D essays require savvy decisions about topics and time.  This workshop will demonstrate simple and smart techniques for using your time effectively as you draft, revise, and edit your writing for E&D and other classes. We will discuss strategies for interpreting assignments, developing arguments, and completing work with confidence. Bring your syllabus and an essay assignment to consider; we will practice prewriting and planning techniques that will help you to make the most of your college writing experience. 

• Rachel Cole, Associate Professor of English
• David Galaty, Assistant Professor with Term of History
• Maureen Reed, Visiting Assistant Professor and Faculty Liaison in the College Advising Center

Doing well in E&D is about more than getting good grades. In your quest to make the most of your first semester you can learn, through E&D, the steps necessary to be a successful student, both inside and outside of class. In this workshop, we will discuss how to shine in class discussion (even if you’d rather fade into the background), the art of taking notes and listening at the same time, faculty interaction (from office hours to email to your online presence), resources for reading- and writing-intensive courses, and how to stay calm through it all.

• Joe Gantt, RHMS Instructor & Director of Forensics
• John Holzwarth, Political Science Asst Prof w/Term & Writing Center Director
• Nicholas Smith, James F. Miller Professor of Humanities in Philosophy Dept

This event is free and open to the Lewis & Clark Community.

This year’s E&D Kick-Off Lecture “What’s in a Name? Historical Memory at Lewis & Clark College” will take place on Friday, September 1st, in Agnes Flanagan Chapel at 1:30pm.  Attended by all E&D students and faculty, this plenary event features a panel of faculty from across the College. True to the spirit of E&D, they offer interdisciplinary perspectives on our topic:

The lectures will feature speakers from different traditions and disciplines discussing with one another the great works read in the fall E&D sections in an open format.  Discussion will feature thoughts, ideas and concepts that will broaden students understanding of Galileo’s “The Starry Messenger”.

The lectures will feature speakers from different traditions and disciplines discussing with one another the great works read in the fall E&D sections in an open format.  Discussion will feature thoughts, ideas and concepts that will broaden students understanding of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own.

Guest panelists followed by Q&A:

This event is free and open to the Lewis & Clark Community.

This forum will provide a space for discussing how we can accomplish the goal of prioritizing diversity in General Education.

 • What do we mean by diversity?

• How can we guarantee that all students graduating from L&C grapple with issues of      cultural difference and social power?

• Should exploring diversity be one of the goals of a core class like E & D?

• Reiko Hillyer, Assistant Professor of History
• Joseph Gantt, Director of Forensics and Instructor of Rhetoric and Media Studies
• Maureen Reed, Visiting Assistant Professor and Faculty Liaison in the College Advising Center

• Kim Cameron-Dominguez, Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology
• John Holzwarth, Director of the Writing Center
• Nicholas Smith, James F. Miller Professor of Humanities

This event is free and open to the Lewis & Clark Community

Exploration & Discovery is excited to be sponsoring the screening of the film #chicagoGirl and Ala’a Basatneh (the subject of the film) coming to campus to talk about her recent visit to the liberated territory in Syria.  We hope you can join us!

• Showing the 74 minute film #chicagoGirl: The Social Network Takes On a Dictator
• Presentation by Ala’a Basatneh
• Q&A with Ala’a

Being a successful student is about more than good grades. Important things to consider in your quest to make the most of your time in college start with taking the steps necessary to succeed, both inside and outside of class. In this workshop, we will discuss study strategies, on-campus resources for academic success, how to develop a professional life outside of class, how to email a professor (and get a response), digital privacy, and how to earn strong recommendation letters. We’ll cover the business of being a student from the classroom to office hours to email and beyond!

This year’s event – In Dialogue With Plato – features a panel of faculty from across the College. True to the spirit of E&D, they offer interdisciplinary perspectives on our topic.

• Kim Cameron-Dominguez, Visiting Assistant Professor in CORE
• John Holzwarth, Director of the Writing Center
• Nicholas Smith, James F. Miller Professor of Humanities

Guest Panelists:

• Ryan Wines, Co-founder and CEO of Marmoset Music
• Johnny Clay, musician with The Dimes
• Christopher Brown, musician, actor, and teacher
• Katy Davidson, LC Alumna, musician & DJ
• Angela Webber, LC Alumna, musician with The Doubleclicks

Our guest panelists will speak about the music scene in Portland.

A few Lewis & Clark student acts (solo, ensemble, or band) will perform and get some feedback from our panelists.

The Colloquium Series is free and open to the Lewis & Clark Community

According to the World Health Organization: One hundred years ago, 2 out of every 10 people lived in an urban area. By 1990, less than 40% of the global population lived in a city, but as of 2010, more than half of all people live in an urban area. By 2030, 6 out of every 10 people will live in a city, and by 2050, this proportion will increase to 7 out of 10 people… Today, the number of urban residents is growing by nearly 60 million every year. (http://www.who.int/gho/urban_ health/situation_trends/urban_population_growth_text/en/, 1/10/14) What are the causes and effects, the advantages and disadvantages, of urbanization? How have cities changed through history and how do they differ throughout the world? How has the move to cities affected our social, political, economic, and cultural experiences and expressions?

Guest panelists followed by Q&A

• Prof. Joel Sweek, Exploration and Discovery
• Prof. Kabir Heimsath, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
• Prof. Reiko Hillyer, Department of History

The Colloquium Series is free and open to the Lewis & Clark Community

Screening of the documentary “Black Girl in Suburbia” following by panel.

Panel Guests:

• Melissa Lowery, filmmaker
• Traci Prinkki, documentary participant
• Bridgette Hickey, LC student

This event is free and open to the Lewis & Clark Community

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A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

The lectures will feature speakers from different traditions and disciplines discussing with one another the great works read in the fall E&D sections in an open format.  Discussion will feature thoughts, ideas and concepts that will broaden students understanding of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own.

Guest panelists (TBD) followed by Q&A:

• Dr. Rishona Zimring, English
• Dr. Michael Mirabile, Comparative Literature
• Dr. Will Pritchard, English

The Colloquium Series is free and open to the Lewis & Clark Community.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass

The lectures will feature speakers from different traditions and disciplines discussing with one another the great works read in the fall E&D sections in an open format.  Discussion will feature thoughts, ideas and concepts that will broaden students understanding of Frederick Douglass’ Narrative.

Guest panelists followed by Q&A.

• Dr. Maureen Reed, American Studies
• Dr. David Galaty, History of Science

The Colloquium Series is free and open to the Lewis & Clark Community.

Shakespeare’s The Tempest
Guest panelists followed by Q&A.

• Prof. Rebecca Lingafelter, Theatre
• Michael Mendelson, Founding Artistic Director, Portland Shakespeare Project
• Dr. Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, Scholar in Residence, Portland Shakespeare Project and Professor of English at Linfield College

Discussion will feature thoughts, ideas and concepts that will broaden students understanding of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest.  

The Colloquium Series is free and open to the Lewis & Clark Community.

Genesis & Exodus: “Three Ways of Looking at the Hebrew Bible”

The lectures will feature speakers from different traditions and disciplines discussing with one another the great works read in the fall E&D sections in an open format.  Discussion will feature thoughts, ideas and concepts that will broaden students understanding of the Bible as a work of literature. 

Guest panelists followed by Q&A:

• Dr. Jerry Harp, English
• Dr. Ben Westervelt, History
• Dr. Rob Kugler, Classical & Religious Studies, Paul S. Wright Professor

The Colloquium Series is free and open to the Lewis & Clark Community.