Program for Liberal Arts and Civic Engagement
PLACE Events Calendar for the "Legacies of War"
Please scroll down to see a list of events for the upcoming 2013-14 PLACE year:
FALL 2013
August 2013:
Friday, August 23rd, 11:00am- 12:30pm. Wilson Gym. Convocation Address: Colonel Matthew Bogdanos, "The Thieves of Baghdad."
Matthew Bogdanos, author of the Thieves of Baghdad, will provide the keynote address at the Convocation. When Baghdad fell, Colonel Matthew Bogdanos was in southern Iraq, tracking down terrorist networks through their financing and weapons smuggling- until he heard about the looting of the museum. Immediately setting out across the desert with an elite group chosen from his multiagency task force, he risked his career and his life in pursuit of Iraq's most priceless treasures. Thieves of Baghdad takes you from his family's flight to safety at Ground Zero on 9/11, to his mission to hunt down al-Qaeda terrorists in Afghanistan, and into the war-torn streets of Baghdad on the trail of antiquities.
Bogdanos holds a degree in classics from Bucknell University, a law degree and a master’s degree in classical studies from Columbia University, and a master’s degree in strategic studies from the Army War College. He has been an assistant district attorney in Manhattan since 1988. Recalled to active duty as a colonel in the Marines after Sept. 11, 2001, he received a Bronze Star for counterterrorist operations in Afghanistan, and served two tours in Iraq. He was released back into the reserves in 2005, and even after returning to the DA’s Office, has continued the hunt for stolen antiquities.
September 2013:
Tuesday, September 3rd, 2-7pm. Dillin Hall. Linfield Farmer's Market.
Hosted by Linfield College Sustainability and PLACE, the market will feature produce from the Linfield Student Community Garden, Gaining Grounds Farm, River Ridge Farm, LB Farms, and Home Grown Food Products. Head Chef Noah Bekofsky will highlight how to cook healthy and organic produce in a Healthy Cooking Demonstration.
Thursday, September 5th, 2013, 2-7pm. Linfield Student Garden (Renshaw Field). Garden Fresh Woodfired Pizza. 7-8:30pm. The War on Fertilizers Lecture.
Come enjoy homemade pizzas using fresh vegetables from the Linfield student garden cooked in a mobile brick oven. Following the pizza party, WHO will present a lecture discussing the impact of chemical warfare on agricultural fertilizers.
Thursday, September 12th 2013, 5-7:30 pm. Providence Willamette Falls Conference Center, 519 15th Street Oregon City, OR 97045. Movie Screening of Honor Flight.
Providence Hospice and Linfield College have partnered to sponsor a community screening of the film, Honor Flight, a documentary about four living WWII veterans and a Midwest community coming together to give them the trip of a lifetime. Tickets are free. To register, go to www.Ticketbud.com. Click on “Events” and type in Honor Flight.
Contact: Twilla at Providence Hospice 503-215-0902.
Thursday September 19th, 11:45 am. Riley 201. Dr. Elizabeth Hillman, "FDR, Obama & How Presidents Drop Bombs."
Hosted by the Frederick Douglass Forum on Law, Rights, and Justice and the Office of Academic Affairs, Professor Elizabeth Hillman of UC Hastings Law School will deliver this lecture as part of Constitution Day. Professor Hillman joined the UC Hastings faculty in 2007. Prior to that, she was professor of law and director of faculty development at Rutgers University School of Law at Camden, where she won awards for teaching, a Board of Trustees Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence, and a Human Dignity Award for service to the university community. Professor Hillman has testified before Congress and as an expert at trial about military law, history, and culture, topics about which she frequently writes and speaks.
Hillman is president of the National Institute of Military Justice, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting fairness in and public understanding of military justice worldwide, and is co-legal director of the Palm Center, a public policy research institute that played a key role in ending the “don’t ask/don’t tell” policy of discriminating against gay men and lesbians in the U.S. armed forces. She has published two books, Military Justice Cases and Materials (2d ed. 2012, LexisNexis, with Eugene R. Fidell and Dwight H. Sullivan) and Defending America: Military Culture and the Cold War Court-Martial (Princeton University Press, 2005), and many articles, the most recent a chapter entitled “Sexual Violence in State Militaries” in Prosecuting International Sex Crimes (Forum for International Criminal and Humanitarian Law, 2012). Her current research concerns the law and politics of aerial bombing, military sexual violence, veterans’ claims and benefits, and trust administration (she is a bar review lecturer on California wills and trusts).
Lunch wil be available on a first come, first served basis. Contact Nick Buccola at nicholasbuccola@gmail.com.
Friday, September 20 and Saturday, September 21 at 7:30 p.m. Marshall Theater in Ford Hall. Legacies of War Onstage in Three Acts, Bradass87 by Claire Lebowitz; No Sir! by Jerry Goralnick; and The Living Theatre Legacies of War: A Dialogue.
Presented by Linfield Theatre and the Lacroute Arts Series at Linfield
Featuring Jerry Goralnick and Claire Lebowitz of The Living Theatre Workshops and Linfield Students
Claire Lebowitz and Jerry Goralnick of The Living Theatre Workshops will be in residence at Linfield from September 16th – September 21st. Working with Linfield students they will present Bradass87, No Sir!, and will guide a discussion about the legacies of war.
Created by Claire Lebowitz for Whistleblowers Theatre, Bradass87, a compelling political drama, explores the motivations of WikiLeaks whistleblower, Private First Class Bradley Manning. The play has been composed from documentary sources: chat logs of Manning's own words, trial transcripts and journalistic interviews. Set in solitary confinement at Quantico Marine Corp Brig and on the Internet, Bradass87, a highly physical and multimedia play, also examines the court martial that has serious consequences for freedom of the press in the United States.
No Sir! probes the controversial topic of military recruitment in protest of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is presented in front of a commercial made by the U.S. government for military recruitment and was originally performed as street theatre at the giant screen at the armed forces recruitment station in Times Square
Monday, September 23rd, 7:30pm. Ice Auditorium. Voices of Hiroshima: Legacies of the Atomic Bomb, Sponsored by the World Friendship Organization.
Please join us for what is truly a once in a lifetime opportunity to hear stories of survival, hope, and rebuilding of Hiroshima from the people that lived it.
The World Friendship Center was founded on August 6th, 1965 (exactly 20 years after the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima to provide a place where people from many nations can meet, share their experiences and reflect on peace. Dr. JoAnn Sims, Adjunct Faculty Linfield College and Larry Sims, Trustee of Linfield College just returned to the US in July from a 25-month stay in Hiroshima, Japan as Volunteer Directors of the WFC and played a key role in organizing this visit.
Contact Patrick Cottrell at pcottre@linfield.edu or Megan Schwab at mschwab@linfield.edu.
October 2013:
October 1st 2013- November 30th, 2013. The Linfield Art Gallery. Suzanne Opton’s "Soldier and Many Wars" series.
Photographer Suzanne Opton, 2009 Guggenheim fellow and teacher at the International Center of Photography, will display her series of photographs depicting images of soldiers between tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. The exhibit will include the debut of a new work: a video portrait of US soldiers between tours of duty.
Contact Brian Winkenweder at bwinken@linfield.edu
Monday October 14th- Tuesday 15th. Venue TBD. Gary Machlis, "The Ecological Impacts of War."
As the Jane Claire Dirk-Edmunds Lecturer, Gary Machlis will give an evening lecture on the effects of war on the ecology of impacted communities. Dr. Gary E. Machlis is Science Advisor to the Director, National Park Service, and Professor of Conservation at the University of Idaho. He is the first scientist appointed to this position with the NPS, and advises the director on a range of science policy issues and programs. Dr. Machlis has served as Interim Associate Vice President for Research at the University of Idaho, and been a visiting professor at Nanjing Technological College in China and at Yale University.
Dr. Machlis received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Washington in Seattle, and his Ph.D. in human ecology from Yale. He has written numerous books and scientific papers on issues of conservation, including The State of the World's Parks (1985), the first systematic study of threats to protected areas around the world. He is currently at work on his next co-authored book, The Structure and Dynamics of Human Ecosystems, to be published by Yale University Press in 2012. His research has been published in journals as varied as Bioscience, Climatic Change, Conservation Biology, Society and Natural Resources, and Science.
Contact: Jeremy Weisz at jweisz@linfield.edu.
Monday, October 21st. Time TBD, Ice Auditorium. Dr. Douglas Gentile, "It isn't IS Brain Science: Media Violence as a Risk Factor for Aggression."
Although there appears to be a heated public controversy about the effects of media violence and violent video games, psychological theory and research has demonstrated both short-term and long-term effects of media violence on children, adolescents, and adults. This talk will review the research and demonstrate how using a public health risk and resilience approach can allow us to cut through the rhetoric to achieve a deeper understanding of this issue.
Dr. Douglas Gentile is an award-winning research scientist, educator, author, and associate professor of developmental psychology at Iowa State University. His experience includes over 25 years conducting research with children and adults. He is the editor of the book Media Violence and Children (2003, Praeger Press), and co-author of the book Violent Video Game Effects on Children and Adolescents: Theory, Research, and Public Policy (2007, Oxford University Press). He has authored scores of peer-reviewed scientific journal articles, including studies on the positive and negative effects of video games on children in several countries, the validity of the American media ratings, how screen time contributes to youth obesity, and what is being called video game and Internet "addiction." In 2010, he was honored with the Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Media Psychology Award from the American Psychological Association (Division 46). He was named one of the Top 300 Professors in the United States by the Princeton Review.
November 2013:
Thursday November 7, 2013, 7:30pm- 9:30pm. Austin Reading Room, Nicholson Library. Ericksen Lecture by Dr. Elaine Scarry, "Thinking in an Emergency."
Harvard University social theorist Elaine Scarry will discuss her recent monograph Thinking in an Emergency, a study of the assault of democracy and human rights by nuclear war readiness and means of returning civic authority to American citizenry in counterpoint to the so-called Global War on Terror.
Contact Barbara Seidman at bseidma@linfield.edu.
Thursday November 7-Sunday November 10, 2013. 7:30pm. Marshall Theatre in Ford Hall. Ajax in Iraq.
Put on by Linfield students, past and present collide in Ellen McLaughlin's mash-up of Sophocles' classic tragedy Ajax with the modern-day war in Iraq. The play follows the parallel narratives of Ajax, an ancient Greek military hero, and A.J., a modern female American soldier, both undone by the betrayal of a commanding officer. Athena, goddess of war, coolly presides over the whole. Inspired by material collected from interviews with Iraq war veterans and their families, Ajax in Iraq explores the timeless struggle soldiers face in trying to make sense of war. http://www.linfield.edu/culture.
Price is $9, $7, $5, and $3, contact for the Marshall Theatre Box Office is 503-883-2292.
Sunday, November 10th at 3pm. Mcminnville Community Center, 600 NE Evans Street, McMinnville. Veterans Day Band Concert.
Sponsored by the Department of Music for the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address and honor veterans and the armed forces. Ninety-plus musicians from Linfield and McMinnville as well as Mike Donahue (retired Channel 6 newscaster) will present music of the civil war including a musical arrangement of the Gettysburg Address, Ashokan Farewell, and Copland's A Lincoln Portrait. The event will also include various speakers, a presentation of the nation's colors by the Pacific Northwest Council of Civil War Re-enactors, and a presentation of antebellum clothing and fashioin. Canned food will be collected as admission for all audience members. Price is free.
Contact Shelly Sanderlin: ssander@linfield.edu or 503-883-2275. Contact Joan Paddock at jpaddoc@linfield.edu.
Thursday November 14, 2013- Saturday November 16, 2013 at 7:30pm. Marshall Theatre in Ford Hall. Ajax in Iraq.
Sponsored by the Theatre and Communication Arts Department. Past and present collide in Ellen McLaughlin's mash-up of Sophocles' classic tragedy Ajax with the modern-day war in Iraq. The play follows the parallel narratives of Ajax, an ancient Greek military hero, and A.J., a modern female American soldier, both undone by the betrayal of a commanding officer. Athena, goddess of war, coolly presides over the whole. Inspired by material collected from interviews with Iraq war veterans and their families, Ajax in Iraq explores the timeless struggle soldiers face in trying to make sense of war. http://www.linfield.edu/culture.
Price is $9, $7, $5, and $3, contact for the Marshall Theatre Box Office is 503-883-2292.
SPRING 2014 (tentative)
February 2014:
Arab Spring Commemoration.
A commemoration of the Arab Spring of 2012.
Contact Dawn Nowacki at dnowacki@linfield.edu or Barbara Seidman at bseidma@linfield.edu.
March 2014:
Thursday, March 13th 2013. 7pm, Ice Auditorium. Edith Green Lecture, Andrew Bacevich, "The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism."
Andrew Bacevich is Professor of International Relations and History at Boston University; he previously taught at Johns Hopkins University and at West Point, where he graduated in 1969. Time calls him "one of the most provocative – as in thought-provoking – national-security writers out there today." His book, Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country is a blistering critique of the gulf between America’s soldiers and the society that sends them off to war.
Bacevich's bestseller, Washington Rules, is a critique of the country's military industrial complex. In his previous book, The Limits of Power, he deconstructed decades of disastrous foreign policies, arguing that America's lust for empire and its sense of entitlement, coupled with its myth of indestructibility, has deluded and diminished the nation, at home and in the eyes of the world. "This compact, meaty volume ought to be on the reading list of every candidate for national office," The Washington Post wrote.
Andrew Bacevich also holds a Ph.D. in American Diplomatic History from Princeton. With the US Army, he served during the Vietnam War, and has held posts in Germany and the Persian Gulf; he retired, as a Colonel, in the early 1990s. Bacevich's books include The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War, and American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U. S. Diplomacy. Bacevich has also written for The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, and The New York Times, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Contact Patrick Cottrell at pcottre@linfield.edu.
Patti Duncan Lecture and Film.
Patti Duncan, Professor of Gender Studies at Oregon State University, will show the 2009 documentary Finding Face, created by Duncan and Skye Fitzgerald, and conduct a discussion about the deliberate assaultive disfigurement of women through acid attacks.
Contact Dawn Nowacki dnowacki@linfield.edu and/or Barbara Seidman at bseidman@linfield.edu.
Women's History Month Panel.
Panel and discussion in honor of Women’s history month that addresses contemporary politics on the assaults on women’s rights globally and in the US.
Contact Dawn Nowacki dnowacki@linfield.edu and/or Barbara Seidman at bseidman@linfield.edu.
April 2014:
Tuesday April 1st, 2013- Wednesday April 30th, 2013 at the Linfield Art Gallery. Wafaa Bilal and Nada Shabout Art Exhibition.
Wafaa Bilal is a teacher at the Tisch School of the Arts and an artist known for his Shoot an Iraqi exhibit. Bilal makes site specific work and incorporates performance, other actors, video and technology into his elaborate productions. Nada Shabout, professor at the University of North Texas, will also come to speak during Bilal’s exhibit.Contact Brian Winkenweder at bwinken@linfield.edu.
May 2014:
Tuesday May 6th, 2014. Part of the Readings at the Nic series: Aimee Phan.
Aimee Phan will read from her 2011 novel The Reedecuation of Cherry Truong, a book about the experience of South Vietnamese families during the Vietnam War and afterward as refugees dispersed around the globe.
Contact Dawn Nowacki dnowacki@linfield.edu and/or Barbara Seidman at bseidman@linfield.edu.