BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Lewis & Clark//NONSGML v1.0//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20060402T100000 RDATE:20060402T100000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20061029T090000 RDATE:20061029T090000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20060201 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20060202 LOCATION:Council Chamber\, Templeton Campus Center SUMMARY:Endowed Lectures and Special Events DESCRIPTION:An evening with bell hooks Wednesday\, February 1\, 7 p.m. Agnes Flanagan Chapel (Simulcast in Templeton Student Center\, Council C hamber) NO ADDITIONAL TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE FOR THE CHAPEL. IF YOU DO NO T HAVE A TICKET\, PLEASE TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE SIMULCAST IN TEMPLETON STU DENT CENTER\, COUNCIL CHAMBER. A passionate scholar\, Bell Hooks is amon g the leading public intellectuals of her generation. Although hooks is m ainly known as a feminist theorist\, her writings cover a broad range of topics on gender\, race\, teaching and the significance of media for cont emporary culture. She strongly believes that these topics can not be addr essed separately\, but must be understood as being interconnected. Like P aulo Freire\, hooks sees education as the practice of freedom\, Profoundl y influenced by Freire\, she sees his ideas as affirming her "right as a subject in resistance to define reality" (Teaching to Transgress\, p. 53) . She has written over 20 books including\, "Feminist Theory from Margin to Center"\, "Yearning: Race\, Gender and Cultural Politics"\, "Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life" (Co-authored with Cornel West)\ , and "Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom". Bo rn in Hopkinsville\, Kentucky in 1952\, hooks\, received her BA from St anford University in 1973\, her MA in 1976 from the University of Wisco nsin and her PhD in 1983 from the University of California at Santa Cru z. This is a ticketed event. Complimentary tickets for the Lewis &\; Clark College community (students\, faculty\, staff\, and alumni) are ava ilable in advance at the College Bookstore. For further information abou t this lecture and other events throughout Black History Month\, contact (503) 768-7051 and Ethnic Student Services 43rd Annual Arthur L. Throckm orton Lecture William J. Cronon\, Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Re search Professor of History\, Geography and Environmental Studies Univer sity of Wisconsin\, Madison The Portage: How to Read a Landscape Monday \, February 6\, 3:30 p.m. Templeton Student Center\, Council Chamber Po tluck following at 5:30 p.m.\, Albany Quandrangle\, Smith Hall William C ronon\, an accomplished author\, has published research that seeks to und erstand the history of human interactions with the natural world: how we depend on the ecosystems around us to sustain our material lives\, how we modify the landscapes in which we live and work\, and how our ideas of n ature shape our relationships with the world around us. His books includ e Changes in the Land: Indians\, Colonists\, and the Ecology of New Engla nd and Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. His current resea rch includes work on a book entitled Saving Nature in Time: The Past and the Future of Environmentalism\, that how environmental history contribut es to contemporary environmental politics and work on Life on the America n Land: A Commonplace Book\, an anthology of first-person accounts of pas t landscapes in the United States and the lives people have lived on them . In 1992\, Cronon became the Frederick Jackson Turner Professor of Hist ory\, Geography\, and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsi n-Madison after having served for more than a decade as a member of the Y ale University history department. Cronon has been a Rhodes Scholar\, Dan forth Fellow\, Guggenheim Fellow\, and MacArthur Fellow\; has won prizes for his teaching at both Yale and Wisconsin\; and in 1999 was elected a m ember of the American Philosophical Society. Johanna Sherrer Memorial Le cture Peering Through the Net: Students' Perspectives on the Net Generat ion Monday\, February 20\, 4 p.m. Templeton Student Center\, Council Ch amber Reception following in Templeton Student Center\, Stamm Dining Hal l The presentation will consist of a panel of students from various inst itutions providing views on their information and technology needs and wi shes. 2006 Steinhardt Lecture in Economics Samuel Bowles Center for Po pular Economics\, Santa Fe Institute and University of Massachusetts The Weightless Economy: Invisible Hand and the Communism of Ideas Wednesday \, February 22\, 7:30 p.m. Templeton Student Center\, Council Chamber S amuel Bowles (PhD\, Economics\, Harvard University) is Director of the Behavioral Sciences Program at the Santa Fe Institute\, founder and co-he ad of the Research Network on the Effect of Inequality on Economic Perfor mance (a decade-long international project supported by the MacArthur Fou ndation)\, Professor of Economics at the University of Siena. and since 1 974\, Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amhers t (now Emeritus). Prior to taking this position he had taught economics a t Harvard University since the mid 1960s. His recent scholarly papers ha ve appeared in Nature\, American Economic Review\, Journal of Theoretical Biology\, Philosophy and Public Affairs\, Quarterly Journal of Economics \, Journal of Economic Literature\, Journal of Economic Perspectives\, Be havioral and Brain Science\, Theoretical Population Biology\, and the Eco nomic Journal. His academic and popular writings address issues of econo mic justice\, education\, inequality\, labor markets\, economic democracy \, and the importance of ethical values and unselfish motives in economic life. He has served as an economic advisor to the Government of South Af rica\, the Rev. Jesse Jackson\, Robert F. Kennedy\, the Congress of South Africa Trade Unions\, and the International Labor Organization. Among t he many challenging questions posed by Bowles\, his Steinhardt Lecture wi ll focus on The Weightless Economy: Invisible Hand and the Communism of I deas. The Steinhardt Lecture is free and open to the general public. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
An evening with bell hooks
Wedne
sday\, February 1\, 7 p.m.
Agnes Flanagan Chapel
(Simulcast
in Templeton Student Center\, Council Chamber)
NO ADDITIONAL TICK
ETS ARE AVAILABLE FOR THE CHAPEL. IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A TICKET\, PLEASE TA
KE ADVANTAGE OF THE SIMULCAST IN TEMPLETON STUDENT CENTER\, COUNCIL CHAMB
ER.
A passionate scholar\, Bell Hooks is among the leading p
ublic intellectuals of her generation. Although hooks is mainly known as
a feminist theorist\, her writings cover a broad range of topics on gende
r\, race\, teaching and the significance of media for contemporary cultur
e. She strongly believes that these topics can not be addressed separatel
y\, but must be understood as being interconnected. Like Paulo Freire\, h
ooks sees education as the practice of freedom\, Profoundly influenced by
Freire\, she sees his ideas as affirming her "right as a subject in resi
stance to define reality" (Teaching to Transgress\, p. 53). She has writt
en over 20 books including\, "Feminist Theory from Margin to Center"\, "Y
earning: Race\, Gender and Cultural Politics"\, "Breaking Bread: Insurgen
t Black Intellectual Life" (Co-authored with Cornel West)\, and "Teaching
to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom".
Born
in Hopkinsville\, Kentucky in 1952\, hooks\, received her BA from Stanf
ord University in 1973\, her MA in 1976 from the University of Wisconsi
n and her PhD in 1983 from the University of California at Santa Cruz.<
br />
This is a ticketed event. Complimentary tickets for the Lewi
s &\; Clark College community (students\, faculty\, staff\, and alumni
) are available in advance at the College Bookstore.
For fur
ther information about this lecture and other events throughout Black His
tory Month\, contact (503) 768-7051 and Ethnic Student Services
43
rd Annual Arthur L. Throckmorton Lecture
William J. Cronon\,
Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of History\
, Geography and Environmental Studies
University of Wisconsin\, Ma
dison
The Portage: How to Read a Landscape
Monday\, Februar
y 6\, 3:30 p.m.
Templeton Student Center\, Council Chamber
Potluck following at 5:30 p.m.\, Albany Quandrangle\, Smith Hall
William Cronon\, an accomplished author\, has published research tha
t seeks to understand the history of human interactions with the natural
world: how we depend on the ecosystems around us to sustain our material
lives\, how we modify the landscapes in which we live and work\, and how
our ideas of nature shape our relationships with the world around us.
His books include Changes in the Land: Indians\, Colonists\, an
d the Ecology of New England and Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Gre
at West. His current research includes work on a book entitled Saving Nat
ure in Time: The Past and the Future of Environmentalism\, that how envir
onmental history contributes to contemporary environmental politics and w
ork on Life on the American Land: A Commonplace Book\, an anthology of fi
rst-person accounts of past landscapes in the United States and the lives
people have lived on them.
In 1992\, Cronon became the Fred
erick Jackson Turner Professor of History\, Geography\, and Environmental
Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison after having served for m
ore than a decade as a member of the Yale University history department.
Cronon has been a Rhodes Scholar\, Danforth Fellow\, Guggenheim Fellow\,
and MacArthur Fellow\; has won prizes for his teaching at both Yale and W
isconsin\; and in 1999 was elected a member of the American Philosophical
Society.
Johanna Sherrer Memorial Lecture
Peering Th
rough the Net: Students' Perspectives on the Net Generation
Monday
\, February 20\, 4 p.m.
Templeton Student Center\, Council Chamber
Reception following in Templeton Student Center\, Stamm Dining Ha
ll
The presentation will consist of a panel of students from
various institutions providing views on their information and technology
needs and wishes.
2006 Steinhardt Lecture in Economics
Samuel Bowles
Center for Popular Economics\, Santa Fe Ins
titute and University of Massachusetts
The Weightless Economy: Inv
isible Hand and the Communism of Ideas
Wednesday\, February 22\, 7
:30 p.m.
Templeton Student Center\, Council Chamber
S
amuel Bowles (PhD\, Economics\, Harvard University) is Director of the
Behavioral Sciences Program at the Santa Fe Institute\, founder and co-he
ad of the Research Network on the Effect of Inequality on Economic Perfor
mance (a decade-long international project supported by the MacArthur Fou
ndation)\, Professor of Economics at the University of Siena. and since 1
974\, Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amhers
t (now Emeritus). Prior to taking this position he had taught economics a
t Harvard University since the mid 1960s.
His recent scholar
ly papers have appeared in Nature\, American Economic Review\, Journal of
Theoretical Biology\, Philosophy and Public Affairs\, Quarterly Journal
of Economics\, Journal of Economic Literature\, Journal of Economic Persp
ectives\, Behavioral and Brain Science\, Theoretical Population Biology\,
and the Economic Journal.
His academic and popular writings
address issues of economic justice\, education\, inequality\, labor mark
ets\, economic democracy\, and the importance of ethical values and unsel
fish motives in economic life. He has served as an economic advisor to th
e Government of South Africa\, the Rev. Jesse Jackson\, Robert F. Kennedy
\, the Congress of South Africa Trade Unions\, and the International Labo
r Organization.
Among the many challenging questions posed b
y Bowles\, his Steinhardt Lecture will focus on The Weightless Economy: I
nvisible Hand and the Communism of Ideas.
The Steinhardt Lec
ture is free and open to the general public.