Lewis & Clark

Chief Diversity Officer

Diversity Events Calendar

Following are a few events happening around Lewis & Clark throughout the year.  Check with the Events Calendar for details on these and other events going on at the college.

January 22nd, 2012

  • All Day: Diversity Film Series
    A Different Perspective: A Film Series on Diversity 
    (Until March 18th)

February 5th, 2012

  • 4:00pm: The Way Chapel Service
    Come join us for worship and fellowship in the Gregg Chapel Pavilion
    (Until 5:00pm on February 12th)

February 12th, 2012

February 14th, 2012

  • Image preview 7:00pm: Black History Month 2012 Keynote
    Ericka Huggins is a human rights activist, poet, professor, and former Black Panther leader and political prisoner.  For the past 25 years, she has lectured throughout the United States, where her extraordinary life experiences have enabled her to speak personally and eloquently on issues relating to the physical and emotional well-being of women and children, youth, education, incarceration, and the role of the spiritual practice in sustaining activism and promoting change. 

February 17th, 2012

  • Image preview 6:30pm: Beatles Shabbat
    Join Hillel for a Beatles themed Shabbat celebration. A night full of Beatles songs and melodies. Dinner will be provided and feel free to come early and help cook! Contact hillel@lclark.edu with questions or find us at Portland Hillel on Facebook.
  • Image preview 7:00pm: Concert for Shree Mangal Dvip School
    The Pamplin Society of Fellows at Lewis & Clark College is hosting a fundraiser for Shree Mangal Dvip in Nepal, a school for Himalayan and Tibetan refugee children. The event will include a silent auction, presentation, and performances by the Section Line Drive, an a cappella group from Lewis & Clark, along with other local combos and performers. 

February 19th, 2012

February 23rd, 2012

  • Image preview 3:30pm: Living Humanism: Material Culture and the Remaking of Religion
    What’s this religion in material culture? How does the performativity of religion in material cultural practices often remake religion into forms of humanist expressions? Although the Pacific Northwest, in particular, has been dubbed the ‘None Zone’ due to low rates of institutional religious participation, scholars have suggested that the cultural cartography of religion points towards a more “spiritual” remaking of religion. What does this landscape look like, especially among young people in Portland, Oregon? This one day symposium brings scholars together, whose scholarship, in divergent ways, gives thought to the shifting context, understanding, classification, and modalities of how material culture (broadly understood), reshapes how we think about the category of religion, both theoretically and methodologically. The shape shifty landscape of contemporary culture offers a robust terrain to interrogate and rethink how we give thought to categories such as religion, as expressed in the multiplicities of material cultural products.This symposium is dedicated to the theme “Living Humanism” to consider the complex ways in which religion and religious rhetorical housing often provides a space to negotiate human interests, means, and ends. Here, we consider how material culture, as both product and context, forces a rethinking of how religion is remade, often providing a cosmology of Humanism as both practice and posture in seemingly un/conscious ways.

    7:30pm Dr. Anthony B. Pinn, Keynote Speaker
    What Are We to Each Other?
    Thoughts of Ethics in the Age of “None” 

    Panel Discussions:

    3:30- Patricia O’Connell Killen, Gonzaga University

    3:30- Cassie Trentaz, Warner Pacific College

    3:30- Susanna Morrill, Lewis & Clark College

    3:30- Diabolus Rex, Chaos Imperium

    3:30- Monica Miller, Lewis & Clark College
  • Image preview 4:30pm: Black History Month: Community Roundtable
    Students, faculty and community guests are invited to join a discussion about the politics and social effects of “whiteness” in the formation of black racial identity, and what it means to be “black” in today’s post-racial society.

February 25th, 2012

  • Image preview 5:30pm - 7:30pm: More Than Two Options
    Ivan Coyote weaves humor and spoken word in performances that tackle topics such as gender identity, class, and growing up queer in a small northern town.

February 26th, 2012

March 2nd, 2012

  • Image preview 7:30pm: Taize Prayer Service
    Our monthly Taize Prayer Service will take place on Friday, March 2nd at 7:30 PM in the South Campus Chapel.

March 3rd, 2012

  • Image preview 11:00am - 4:00pm: 47th Annual International Fair
    Join us for the 47th Annual International Fair for international food, cultural displays, a fashion show, and many performances.

March 4th, 2012

March 5th, 2012

  • Image preview 5:30pm: Spring Global Law Lecturer
    Professor Anita Ramasastry, D. Wayne & Anne Gittinger Professor of Law at the University of Washington

March 11th, 2012

March 14th, 2012

  • All Day: 2012 Gender Studies Symposium
    “Objection! Gender, Sex, Law, and Social Change”
    Join us for three days of workshops, panel discussions, readings, performances, lectures, and other events exploring gender, sexuality, law, and social change.
    (Until March 16th)

March 18th, 2012

March 22nd, 2012

  • 6:00pm - 8:00pm: Worship Night
    Come and join us in the Chapel for a non-denominational Christian Worship night. Including music, prayer and possibly some slam-poetry.

April 6th, 2012

  • Image preview 12:30pm: Good Friday Service
    This Good Friday prayer and meditation service features readings from the Gospel of Mark about the arrest, trial, and crucifixion of Jesus Christ.  There will be time for silent meditation and reflection, and singing of the Good Friday hymn “Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?”
  • Image preview 5:30pm: Passover Seder
  • Image preview 7:30pm: Taize Prayer Service
    Our monthly Taize Prayer Service will take place on Friday, April 6th at 7:30 PM in the South Campus Chapel.

April 8th, 2012

  • Image preview 11:00am: Easter Worship Service
    Come celebrate Easter morning with us in a worship service led by Dean of the Chapel Mark Duntley and featuring our wonderful Casavant organ played by student organist extraordinaire David Wills.  There will be coffee, pastries and fruit available before the service from 10:30 AM to 11:00 AM in the Diane Gregg Memorial Pavilion.  

April 15th, 2012

  • 4:00pm - 5:30pm: The Way Christian Worship Service
    Come join us for worship and fellowship in the Gregg Chapel Pavilion
  • 11:59pm: The Center for Human Rights at Trinity Law School Writing Competition
    Scholarly papers must address the issue of “A Christian’s Response to Human Rights.”  Papers may consider addressing issues of the source of Human Rights, the nature of Human Rights, why it matters if Human Rights have a religious or secular basis, how Human Rights are (or should be) protected and enforced, religion’s role in protecting Human Rights, etc. Scholars are not bound by these suggestions and are encouraged to thoroughly address the topic in a manner that best addresses the pertinent issues.

May 4th, 2012

  • Image preview 7:30pm: Taize Prayer Service
    Our monthly Taize Prayer Service will take place on Friday, May 4th at 7:30 PM in the South Campus Chapel.