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Linfield College DigitalCommons@Linfield PLACE Historical Documents PLACE (Program for Liberal Arts and Civic Engagement) 2-2015 PLACE Events Spring 2015 PLACE Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/place_docs  Part of the Arts and Humanities Commons, Civic and Community Engagement Commons, Life Sciences Commons, Medicine and Health Sciences Commons, and the Physical Sciences and Mathematics Commons Recommended Citation PLACE, "PLACE Events Spring 2015" (2015). PLACE Historical Documents. Document. Submission 10. https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/place_docs/10 This Document is protected by copyright and/or related rights. It is brought to you for free via open access, courtesy of DigitalCommons@Linfield, with permission from the rights-holder(s). 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PLACE EVENTS - SPRING 2015 With integrated IFOCUS SPRING SCIENCE COLLOQUIA For inquries concerning PLACE contact Jesús IllundáinFor inquries concerning the iFOCUS Science Colloquium Lecture Series or next year’s PLACE theme contact Jennifer Heath   Science Colloquia Theme, Spring 2015 — Seeing is believing: Image and experience in the information age *All Science Colloquia lectures are Thursdays at 4:15 pm in Murdock 105, unless otherwise noted (refreshments begin at 4 pm)FEBRUARY 19th Thursday - 7 pm - Austin Reading Room: Kevin Dettmar - Dead Poets Society and the Corpus That Talks Back  Lecture Inquiry Contact: Jesús Ilundáin Dettmar's writing centers on rock & roll and James Joyce-wondrous either way, combined or separately.  He has organized a year-long lecture series entitled ‘The Heart of the Liberal Arts’—which seeks to re-think/verify/critique/defend the role of the humanities in the undergraduate realm.   Contact Jesus Illundain if you are interested in a classroom visit or a meeting with a group of students outside of class.  19th Thursday iFocus Science Colloquium -  Ronald Hause, University of Washington on Genomics  http://krishna.gs.washington.edu/research.html  26th Thursday - 7:30 pm - Location ICE Auditorium: Sports Journalism Panel & Activities Lecture Inquiry Contact: Brad Thompson • Chris Ballard, senior writer at Sports Illustrated who writes feature stories (see "Best American Sports Writing 2013"). He covers the NBA.• Lindsay Schnell, also a writer at SI who covers college football.She has a strong connection to Oregon. • Lindsay Kagawa Colas, a Portland-based sports agent. Shefocuses on women’s basketball and women’s soccer. • Scott Brosius will join the three visitors for the evening panel.Contact Brad if you are interested in a classroom visit or ameeting with a group of students outside of class.Over the lunch hour in Riley 201, there will be a showing of “LetThem Wear Towels,” an ESPN Films program about womensportswriters and their campaign to gain access to lockerroomscomparable to that available to their male colleagues. This showingwill be open to anyone.26th Thursday - iFOCUS Science Colloquium -  (Riley 201)Micro-maker-faire – exhibition and discussion of hands-onprojects made by students, and of campus resources for suchprojectsMARCH  4th Wednesday - 7 pm Pioneer Reading Room: Film - Jurassic Park - Leonard Finkelman Lecture Inquiry Contact: Leonard Finkelman lfinkelm@linfield.edu  11th Wednesday -7 pm - Pioneer Reading Room-Presentation - Dinosaur Philosophy - Leonard Finkelman Lecture Inquiry Contact: Leonard Finkelman lfinkelm@linfield.edu  12th Thursday - Science Colloquium - Daniel Borrero, Reed College Dept of Physics on fluid dynamics/patterns http://people.reed.edu/~borrerod/AboutMe.html APRIL 2nd -Thursday- 4:30 pm TJ Day 219 -Blake Slonecker - We are Marshall Bloom: Sexuality, Suicide, and the Collective Memory of the Sixties Lecture Inquiry Contact: Joe Wilkins jwilkins@linfield.eduBlake Slonecker (PhD, UNC Chapel Hill, 2009) is AssociateProfessor of History and Chair of Humanities at HeritageUniversity. His book, A New Dawn for the New Left: LiberationNews Service, Montague Farm, and the Long Sixties (PalgraveMacmillan 2012), was recently described as "a flawlesslystructured, richly textured, and page-turning account of the NewLeft's utopian impulse." Currently, he is at work on a new project,Pushing Off: Sexual Politics in the Underground Press, thatexamines the complex role of alternative media in promotingfeminism, gay liberation, and the sexual revolution in the PacificNorthwest. Contact Joe if you are interested in a classroom visit or meet with a group of students outside of class   8th - Wednesday - 7pm Ice Auditorium -Panel Philosophy - The philosophy of the philosophy of science Panelists: • Jonathan Kaplan (Oregon State University)• Massimo Pigliucci (City College of New York)• Leonard Finkelman (Linfield College)Panelists will discuss the respective functions of science andphilosophy in human understanding with particular attention paidto where science and philosophy can and cannot aid one another.The discussion will include examples of productive interactionbetween science and philosophy (e.g. the development ofevolutionary theory in the past two decades) and unproductiveinteraction (e.g. efforts by Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins to co-opt moral philosophy for biology).The panelists represent three generations of an academic lineage:Professor Kaplan was Professor Pigliucci’s dissertation advisorand Professor Pigliucci was in turn Professor Finkelman’sdissertation advisor.Professors Kaplan and Pigliucci are both well-respectedphilosophers of science who have made contributions in multipledisciplines. Professor Kaplan has written extensively on howphilosophical considerations can alter practice in the social and lifesciences; Professor Pigliucci has used his PhDs in botany,evolutionary biology, and philosophy to aid his many publicphilosophy outreach efforts.Contact Leonard if you are interested in a classroom visit or ameeting with a group of students outside of class.9th - Thursday -  Science Colloquium - Arvind Satanarayan,Stanford University Dept of Computer Science, on interactive datavisualization http://arvindsatya.com/16th  - Thursday - 7:30 pm - Austin Reading Room  - Peter Heller -WriterLecture Inquiry Contact: Anna Keesey akeesey@linfield.edu  Peter Heller’s career as an adventure writer almost ended with his first assignment. A jack-of-all-trades who had done everything from logging and fishing to construction and washing dishes, he was 29 when Outside magazine sent him on a kayaking expedition in western Sichuan, on the edge of the Tibetan Plateau. Since that time, Heller, 53, has chronicled the exploits of an eco-pirate ship trying to stop whaling in Antarctica; was the official journalist of a kayaking team that dared to traverse Tibet’s Tsangpo Gorge (also known as “the Everest of rivers”); and used a helmet cam to capture grisly footage of Japan’s dolphin-killing cove, which appeared in the Academy Award-winning film “The Cove.” His latest undertaking is a debut novel “The Dog Stars,” a post-apocalyptic tale of a man who’s survived a flu epidemic that wiped out most of the world -- including his pregnant wife. The main character tries to find a survivor's radio transmission. Publishers Weekly gave the book a star, its highest honor, and named it one of its top 10 picks for the fall. 16th - Thursday -  Science Colloquium - Maria Davis, University of Minnesota Dept of Geology, on volcanology, “Determining magma permeability of an eruption at a Representative Elementary Volume using volcanic ejecta” http://www.esci.umn.edu/orgs/geofluids  23rd - Thursday- Science Colloquium - Rob Williams, MD on experiences with Doctors without Borders April 29th & April 30th  Speaker and Presentations - Agustín Fuentes, a Physical Anthropologist from Notre Dame  Lecture Inquiry Contact: Hillary Crane hcrane@linfield.edu  29th - Wednesday - 7 pm  (Location TBD)-What race is, and what it is not: how do we know and why does it matter Race, and racism, are amongst the most problematic and important issues facing us today…but what do we really know about them? Is race biology?  Are “races” real?  Are people naturally racist? Why is there so much confusion, conflict and disagreement surrounding this topic? This talk will cover the biology, history and reality of race, racism, and inequality in the USA and provide us with a much needed toolkit to move forward.  30th -Thursday-  4:30 pm. (Location TBD)- War, peace and human nature(s): what do we know and how do we know it? Are humans naturally aggressive and violent or are we peace-seeking and cooperative? Or is it all more complicated than that? War, cruelty and suffering as well as peace, harmony and collaboration are all part of the human experience…but where do they come from and what can our past tell us about the future of our species?  This talk will lay out what we know about human evolutionary processes and histories and how they inform us about the human capacity for war and our propensity for peace. Contact Hillary if you are interested in a classroom visit or meet with a group of students outside of class. 30th -Thursday - Science Colloquium -Ben McMorran, University of Oregon Dept of Physics, on magnetic microscopy http://pages.uoregon.edu/mcmorran/ MAY 7th - Thursday & 8th   Friday - Symposium on James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the American Dream” Lecture Inquiry Contact: Nicholas Buccola nbuccol@linfield.edu The star-studded list of panelists include:s • Eddie Glaude (Princeton University)• Michele Elam (Stanford University)• Will Barndt (Pitzer College)• Susan McWilliams (Pomona College)• Lawrie Balfour (University of Virginia)• Jack Turner (University of Washington)• Patrick Allitt (Emory University)• Joe Lowndes (University of Oregon)• Award-winning author William HogelandThe proceedings will be videotaped and made available on theLinfield website.The symposium is being sponsored by the Douglass Forum, the Office of Academic Affairs, the Program for the Liberal Arts and Civic Engagement, and the National Endowment for the Humanities “Enduring Questions” program. Nick has asked the scholars to think about the Baldwin-Buckley debate through the lens of our 2014-2015 PLACE theme, How Do We Know: Paths to Wisdom. This is also connected to the “Enduring Questions” grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to teach a course called “What is Freedom?” in the Spring 2015 semester grant he was award.  The students in “What is Freedom?” will be reading Buckley and Baldwin and they will be writing essays on the concept of freedom in the Buckley-Baldwin debate. The scholars have been encouraged to consider incorporating some discussion of the concept of freedom into their presentations. Additionally, students enrolled in “What is Freedom?” will participate in panel discussions of their term papers. Contact Nick if you are interested in a classroom visit or meet with a group of students outside of class. Detailed Schedule of events: Thursday, May 7th 4:30pm - Screening of Baldwin-Buckley Debate / Q&A  5:45pm – Welcome Reception Friday, May 8th 9:00 to 10:30am - Panel on William F. Buckley's Significance in American Political Thought Chair: To Be Announced Lecture 1: Patrick Allitt (Emory University)  Lecture 2: William Hogeland (Author) 10:30am to 11:00am – Morning Break 11:00am to 12:30pm - Panel on James Baldwin’s Significance in American Political Thought Chair: To Be Announced Lecture 1: Michele Elam (Stanford University) Lecture 2: Susan McWilliams (Pomona College) 12:30 to 1:30pm – Lunch / Keynote Lecture by Eddie Glaude (Princeton University) 1:30 – 2:00pm – Early Afternoon Break 2:00 – 3:30pm – William F. Buckley & Contemporary American Politics Chair: To Be Announced Lecture 1: Joe Lowndes (Univ. of Oregon) Lecture 2: Will Barndt (Pitzer College) 3:30pm – 4:00pm – Late Afternoon Break 4:00pm to 5:30pm – James Baldwin & Contemporary American Politics Chair: To Be Announced Lecture 1: Lawrie Balfour (Univ. of Virginia) Lecture 2: Jack Turner (Univ. of Washington)	

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