Events at Reed
Welcome to the Reed College events site! All events listed below are open to the public and are free, unless noted otherwise.
FEBRUARY
10
ROMP! Conversation: "How Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire (1912) Shaped a Century of Music"
4 p.m., Eliot Hall chapel
Reed's annual symposium on music and the liberal arts, Reediana Omnibus Musica Philosopha, begins with a conversation between cellist Fred Sherry and composer David Schiff.
10
ROMP! Concert: Chamber Music Northwest
“Music from 1912: Celebrating the Reed Centennial”
7:30 p.m., Kaul Auditorium
Commemorating 1912's most progressive musical output, this concert marks the premier of “Class of 1915,” a suite of foxtrots, blues, and rags, arranged by David Schiff. Also performed are Maurice Ravel's Piano Trio (1914) and Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire op. 21 (1912) with musicians Jeffrey Swann, piano; Mary Nessinger, mezzo-soprano; Ida Kavafian, violin; Fred Sherry, cello; Tara Helen O’Connor, flute; and David Shifrin, clarinet. Tickets: $15–45; 503/294-6400 or at CMNW online.
11
ROMP! Talk: “Moonlight, Synaesthesia, and the Arts”
10 a.m.–noon, Psychology 105
Kimberly Jannarone, associate professor of theatre arts at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is the author of Artaud and His Doubles (University of Michigan Press, 2010). She received her MFA and DFA from the Yale School of Drama and has published essays and reviews on experimental performance in Theatre Survey, Theatre Journal, French Forum, Modernism/Modernity, TDR, and New Theatre Quarterly, and chapters in The Exquisite Corpse: Collaboration, Creativity, the World's Most Popular Parlor Game (University of Nebraska Press, 2009), and Avant-Garde Performance and Material Exchange (Palgrave, 2011). For essays she wrote on Artaud, she received the 2006 Gerald Kahan Scholar's Prize and the honorable mention for the 2009 ASTR Essay Prize, both awarded by the American Society for Theatre Research. She recently was a Camargo Fellow in Cassis, France, working on her next book, The Crowd in the Theatre.
11
ROMP! Talk: “1912: Music and Art on the Eve of the Great War”
1–3 p.m., Psychology 105
Olivia Mattis, a musicologist specializing in the links between music and the visual arts, is coeditor with art historian James H. Rubin of Rival Sisters: Art and Music at the Birth of Modernism (Ashgate/Lund-Humphries, forthcoming) and coauthor, with a team of art historians, of Visual Music: Synaesthesia in Art and Music Since 1900 (Thames and Hudson, 2005). She is a recipient of an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award and a research fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and is completing the first comprehensive biography of the composer Edgard Varèse. She also is a cofounder of the Sousa Mendes Foundation. Mattis works in academic administration at Stony Brook University.
11
Black History Month Performance: Darrell Grant Double Legacy Project
8 p.m., Kaul Auditorium
Join us in February during Black History Month for events honoring the movements, traditions, and legacies of peoples of the African diaspora. Internationally recognized jazz pianist and composer Darrell Grant has assembled an all-star lineup of musicians—including celebrated drummer Brian Blade, New York saxophonist Steve Wilson, and vibraphonist Joe Locke—for the Double Legacy Project, an exploration of the legacies we inherit and those we leave behind. The group will revisit compositions from Grant’s recording career and premiere “Step By Step,” an original extended suite inspired by the story of civil rights icon Ruby Bridges and composed for the celebration of Black History Month at Reed College.
12
Concert: Portland Baroque Orchestra
"Flute Recorder"
3 p.m., Kaul Auditorium
Works composed for recorder and transverse flute, performed by guest director Matthias Maute and Janet See; includes two Bach concertos and works by Quantz and Telemann. Preconcert talk, one hour prior to performance. Tickets: $16–45; 503/205-0715 or visit PBO online.
12
Concert of Chamber Music
7:30 p.m., Eliot Hall chapel
William Hunt, violin, Reed College music staff, with guest artists Erica Ward, violin; Leslie Hirsh, viola; Dorien DeLeon, cello; and Curtis Daily, bass, perform the music of Sergey Taneyev, Miklós Rózsa, and Antonin Dvorák.
13
Institute for Judaic Studies of the Pacific Northwest Roscoe C. Nelson Jr. Memorial Lecture: Marat Grinberg, "Boris Slutsky, the Soviet Rashi"
7 p.m., Vollum lounge
Marat Grinberg, assistant professor of Russian and humanities at Reed, delivers a lecture based on his book, "I am to be read not from left to right, but in Jewish: from right to left": The Poetics of Boris Slutsky (Academic Studies Press, 2011). Best known in Russia as a poet of World War II, Slutsky belonged to the first—and last—generation of writers whose lives were spent completely under Communist rule. Because of his subject and style, Slutsky has been referred to by one Russian critic as a Job-like figure. Grinberg presents Slutsky not as Job, but as Moses, and his work as a midrashic interpretation of the Jewish Bible from the perspective of the Soviet era. Grinberg also seeks to unearth deeper layers of meaning by interrogating Slutsky's poetry in a hermeneutic Judaic mode. Reservations for dinner prior to the lecture (6–7 p.m.) may be made by email. Tickets: $25 each.
15
Lecture: Timothy Howe
"Everyone Wants to be Alexander: Royal Propaganda and the Politics of Memory in Ancient Alexandria"
4:40 p.m., Vollum lecture hall
Timothy Howe is associate professor in ancient Mediterranean history and ancient studies and faculty adviser for the St. Olaf Society for Ancient History at St. Olaf College. Reflecting his wide interests, he teaches a range of classes about the ancient Mediterranean and Near East, from Egypt and Mesopotamia to Greece, Carthage, Rome, and Late Antique Europe. He is especially interested in Alexander the Great, warfare, agriculture, law, religion, trade, and historiography and has written numerous articles and book chapters on these topics. Howe is also the first recipient of the Scott R. Jacobs grant for Alexander the Great research from the Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah, and is currently working on two books about Alexander: All Things Alexander the Great (Greenwood, 2013) and Inventing Alexander: A Study in the Sources and Historiography of Alexander the Great.
16
Lecture: James Ferguson
"Give a Man a Fish: The New Politics of Distribution in Southern Africa (and Beyond)"
4:15 p.m., Psychology 105
James Ferguson is Susan S. and William H. Hindle Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, and professor and chair of the anthropology department at Stanford University. His research has focused on southern Africa (especially Lesotho, Zambia, South Africa, and Namibia), and has engaged a broad range of theoretical and ethnographic issues. These include the politics of “development,” rural-urban migration, changing topgraphies of property and wealth, constructions of space and place, urban culture in mining towns, experiences of modernity, the spatialization of states, the place of “Africa” in a real and imagined world, and the theory and politics of ethnography. Running through much of this work is a concern with how discourses organized around concepts such as “development” and “modernity” intersect the lives of ordinary people. Sponsored by the anthropology department.
16
The David Robinson Memorial Lecture in Human Rights:
A Conversation with Joshua E.S. Phillips ’96 and Darius Rejali
7:30 p.m., Psychology 105
Joshua E.S. Phillips received the Heywood Broun Award in 2009 and the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for excellence in broadcast journalism in 2010 for the American RadioWorks documentary he coproduced, “What Killed Sergeant Gray.” His highly acclaimed book, None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture (2010), is based on firsthand reporting from Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as interviews with soldiers, their families and friends, military officials, and the victims of torture. Darius Rejali, professor of political science at Reed College, is a nationally recognized expert on government torture and interrogation. He is the author of Torture and Democracy (2007), an unrelenting examination of the use of torture by democracies in the 20th century, for which he received the 2007 Human Rights Book of the Year Award from the American Political Science Association and the 2009 Raphael Lemkin Award from the Institute for the Study of Genocide, New York, for the best nonfiction work in English which addresses the causes of genocide and crimes against humanity. Sponsored by the political science department.
18
Black History Month Lecture: Charles J. Ogletree Jr.
"Race, Racism, and Discrimination in America"
7:30 p.m., Vollum lecture hall
Join us in February during Black History Month for events honoring the movements, traditions, and legacies of peoples of the African diaspora. Charles J. Ogletree, Harvard Law School’s Jesse Climenko Professor of Law and founding and executive director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, is a prominent legal theorist with an international reputation for taking a hard look at complex legal issues and working to secure equal rights guaranteed by the Constitution for everyone. Ogletree’s most recent book is The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Race, Class, and Crime in America.
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Black History Month Lecture: Glenn C. Loury
"Obama is No King: Reflections on Presidential Politics and the Black Prophet Tradition"
4:30 p.m., Vollum lecture hall
Join us in February during Black History Month for events honoring the movements, traditions, and legacies of peoples of the African diaspora. Glenn C. Loury, the Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences and professor of economics at Brown University, is a distinguished economist who has contributed to a variety of areas in applied microeconomic theory. Loury is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and was a Carnegie Scholar. He has been elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as a fellow of the Econometric Society, and as vice president of the American Economics Association. His most recent book is Ethnicity, Social Mobility, and Public Policy: Comparing the US and the UK. Sponsored by the Walter Krause Economics Lectures fund.
21
Film Screening: Medicine for Melancholy
7 p.m., Psychology 105
Barry Jenkins’s feature film debut, Medicine for Melancholy, was hailed as one of the best films of 2009 by A.O. Scott of the New York Times. Sponsored by the Multicultural Resource Center at Reed.
22
Lecture and Q&A with Filmmaker Barry Jenkins
6 p.m., Eliot Hall chapel
Barry Jenkins will screen several of his recent short films and discuss being a young, black filmmaker in the U.S. Sponsored by the Multicultural Resource Center at Reed.
23–25
Reed Theatre: Technical Bodies
7:30 p.m., Mainstage Theatre
Choreographed by thesis candidate Claire Thomforde-Garner, Technical Bodies displays a high degree of physicality and distinct, transformative costumes in four duets as it explores different views of the body in wrestling—which, like dance, is surrounded by a highly stereotyped culture. Humorous and thoughtful, Claire Thomforde-Garner’s thesis production shows how costumes function to disguise the body and transform ordinary movements into the extraordinary, so don’t expect to see what you’ve seen before. Tickets: $1–3; 503/777-7284 or visit the theatre box office online.
24
Four Dance Films by Victoria Marks and Margaret Williams
7 p.m., Psychology 105
Victoria Marks will present and discuss four dance films created in collaboration with British Film director Margaret Williams: Outside In (1993), Mothers and Daughters (1994), Men (1997) and Veterans (2008). Victoria Marks creates dances for the stage, for film and for professional and non-professional movers. Her recent work has considered citizenship, as well as the representation of disability. These themes are part of her ongoing commitment to locating dance making within the sphere of political meaning. Marks is professor of choreography in the Department of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA, where she has been teaching since 1995. Recent awards include first prize in the 2008 Festival of Video Dance Barcelona for Veterans, a grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation for the creation of new work, and a 2010 CHIME award for mentoring in her field. Marks is a 2005 Guggenheim Fellow and has received numerous grants and fellowships, including those from the Irvine Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Los Angeles City Department of Cultural Affairs, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the London Arts Board, among others. In 1997, Marks was honored with the Alpert Award for Outstanding Achievement in Choreography. She has received a Fulbright Fellowship in Choreography and numerous awards for her dance films co-created with Margaret Williams, including the Grand Prix in the Video Danse Festival (1996 and 1995), the Golden Antenna Award from Bulgaria, the IMZ Award for best screen choreography and the Best of Show in the Dance Film Association’s Dance and the Camera Festival. Victoria Marks's residency is supported by Reed’s Division of the Arts and dance department and the Weitkamp Fund. Arrive early to guarantee seating.
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Black History Month Lecture: Isabel Wilkerson
"The Warmth of Other Suns"
7:30 p.m., Kaul Auditorium
Join us in February during Black History Month for events honoring the movements, traditions, and legacies of peoples of the African diaspora. Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and best-selling author Isabel Wilkerson spent years interviewing more than 1,200 people for The Warmth of Other Suns, a work of narrative nonfiction that tells the epic story of the Great Migration through the lives of three individuals. The Great Migration, which lasted from 1915 to 1970 and involved nearly six million people, was one of the largest internal migrations in United States history and changed the cultural and political landscape of the country. Wilkerson is professor of journalism and director of narrative nonfiction at Boston University. (Photo by Joe Henson.)
Through May
Hauser Library Exhibition
Flora in the Library: Books with Flowers
8 a.m.–9 p.m., Monday–Friday; 10 a.m.–9 p.m., Saturday & Sunday; in the library flat and wall cases west of the circulation desk.
Flowers surround us and yet are normally seen as merely a decoration or a passing interest beside our path. Books that contain flower images, however, abound from early treatises on husbandry to artists’ books and include photographic essays, guidebooks, and fancy illustration. Some interesting examples have been selected from the library’s special collections for this exhibition.
MARCH
5
Film Screening: Holy Hustlers
7 p.m., Eliot 314
Charismatic, street-wise young men, living in Botswana’s capital, command the prophetic domain in Eloyi—their Apostolic faith-healing church—at a time of escalating crisis. Bitter, sinful accusations divide Eloyi’s village-based archbishop and his son, the city based bishop. The church itself, seen to be “under destruction,” splits. In this Apostolic church’s time of crisis, city prophets assert themselves powerfully because they appear both holy and as hustlers. The film (53 minutes) is followed by a discussion with director Richard Werbner, University of Manchester. Sponsored by the anthropology department.
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Lecture: Richard Werbner
"The Occult, The Moral and Deliberation in Africa"
4:30 p.m., Psychology 105
Richard Werbner, professor emeritus in African anthropology and Honorary Research Professor in Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester and senior fellow in the National Humanities Center, is a long-term ethnographer of séances, charismatics, and faith-healing in Botswana and Zimbabwe. His most recent films, Holy Hustlers (2009), Counterpoint One (2011), Counterpoint Two (2011), and Counterpoint Botswana (2011) complement his most recent book, Holy Hustlers, Schism and Prophecy (University of California Press, 2011). Werbner’s lecture attacks the now entrenched paradigm of the modernity of witchcraft. The revision is an approach that restores the moral imagination to the foreground in the light of actual séances. Sponsored by the anthropology department.
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Lecture: Pnina Werbner
"‘The Mother of all Strikes: Popular Protest Culture and Vernacular Cosmopolitanism in the Botswana Public Service Unions’ Strike, 2011"
4:30 p.m., Psychology 105
Pnina Werbner is professor emerita of social anthropology at Keele University and author of The Manchester Migration Trilogy, including The Migration Process: Capital, Gifts, and Offerings among British Pakistanis (1990/2002), Imagined Diasporas among Manchester Muslims (2002), and Pilgrims of Love: the Anthropology of a Global Sufi Cult (2003). She also is the editor of several theoretical collections on hybridity, multiculturalism, migration and citizenship, and has researched in Britain, Pakistan, and Botswana. Werbner is researching and writing a book on the Manual Workers Union and other public service unions in Botswana. Her lecture explores the emergence of working class oppositional popular culture among members of five public service unions in Botswana, whose joint, two months’ long strike challenged the country’s establishment and the perceived authoritarianism of government in creative and imaginative ways. Sponsored by the anthropology department.
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Visiting Writer Series: Nikky Finney
6:30 p.m., Eliot Hall chapel
Nikky Finney is the author of four collections of poetry: On Wings Made of Gauze, Rice, The World is Round, and Head Off & Split. She has taught at Smith College in Massachusetts, Berea College in Kentucky, and is presently professor of creative writing at the University of Kentucky. For more information, visit the series website.
10
Concert: Portland Gay Symphonic Band
"Places in Time"
7:30 p.m., Kaul Auditorium
Take a musical trip around the world as seen by the rising of the sun! Featuring music by Copland, Zdechlik, Turina, and more, and featuring a silent auction. Tickets: $12; available online.
17 & 18
Concert: Portland Gay Men's Chorus
"The Young Person's Guide to the Gay Men's Chorus"
March 17 at 8 p.m. & March 18 at 2 p.m., Kaul Auditorium
The students in the Gay/Straight Alliance at Truman High (a fictitious Portland-area school) are assigned a field trip to PGMC’s spring concert. The inspirational and memorable songs of the gay choral movement that have accompanied the struggle for equality for over three decades now serve as a soundtrack for the members of the GSA. We watch them overcome their inner angst, familial discord, and interpersonal drama, while they learn about contemporary gay history and choral music, and prepare to stake their own claim as leaders of tomorrow. Tickets: $16–30 online.
21
Lecture: Samhita Mukhopadhyay
6 p.m., Vollum lounge
Samhita Mukhopadhyay, executive editor of feministing.com and the author of Outdated: Why Dating is Ruining Your Love Life, delivers a lecture on race, gender, and technology. Sponsored by the Multicultural Resource Center at Reed.
21
Concert: Friends of Chamber Music
Kronos Quartet
7:30 p.m., Kaul Auditorium
For more than 30 years, the Kronos Quartet has pursued a singular artistic vision, combining a spirit of fearless exploration with a commitment to expanding the range and context of the string quartet. (Photo by Jay Blakesberg.)
Tickets: $14–40; 503/224-9842 or visit FOCM online.
22
Lecture: Connie Y. Chiang
"Winning the War at Manzanar: Environmental Patriotism and the Japanese American Incarceration"
4:40 p.m., Psychology 105
Connie Chiang is Associate Professor of History & Environmental Studies at Bowdoin College. Her wide-ranging research interests include modern American history—including environmental history, the history of the American West, and social history, particularly race, ethnicity, gender, and labor. She is the author of Shaping the Shoreline: Fisheries and Tourism on the Monterey Coast (University of Washington, 2008). Her current book project explores the environmental history of the Japanese internment camps. Sponsored by environmental studies at Reed and the Mellon Fund.
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Concert: Portland Chamber Orchestra
"All That Jazz"
7:30 p.m., Kaul Auditorium
Concert features the return of virtuosic violinist Lindsay Deutsch, along with world-renowned jazz pianist and composer, Dick Hyman, in his Portland debut in a new transcription of Gershwin’s "Rhapsody in Blue" and works by Dick Hyman for jazz trio, violin, piano, and orchestra. Tickets: $15–25; 503/205-0715 or visit PCO online.
25
Concert: Portland Baroque Orchestra
"Oboe Clarinet Chalumeau"
3 p.m., Kaul Auditorium
Violinist/director Monica Huggett with clarinetist Eric Hoeprich and oboist Gonzalo X. Ruiz performing music by Fasch, Albinoni, Telemann, and Vivaldi. Preconcert talk, one hour prior to performance. Tickets: $16–45; 503/205-0715 or visit PBO online.
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Vine Deloria Jr. Lecture Series: Nichole Maher
4:30 p.m., Eliot Hall chapel
The fifth annual Vine Deloria Jr. Lecture Series explores the recent Coalition of Communities of Color and Portland State University 2011 report, "The Native American Community in Multnomah County: An Unsettling Profile." Nichole Maher, executive director of the Native American Youth and Family Center in North Portland, is the featured panelist. The Vine Deloria Jr. Lecture Series recognizes the work of Native American scholars whose intellectual pursuits reflect the spirit and commitment exhibited by Deloria. Sponsored by the Multicultural Resource Center at Reed.
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Concert: Chamber Music Northwest
East Coast Chamber Orchestra
7:30 p.m., Kaul Auditorium
Music by Elgar, Bunch, Beethoven, and Stravinsky, performed by the 18-piece “conductorless” chamber orchestra. Tickets: $15–45; 503/294-6400 or at CMNW online.
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Visiting Writer Series: Ander Monson
6:30 p.m., Eliot Hall chapel
Ander Monson is the author of a host of paraphernalia including a decoder wheel; several chapbooks and limited edition letterpress collaborations; a website (otherelectricities.com); and five books; most recently The Available World and Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir. For more information, visit the series website.
30 & 31, April 5–7
Reed Theatre: One Flea Spare
7:30 p.m., Mainstage Theatre
A play by Naomi Wallace, directed by theatre professor Kate Bredeson. In a landscape marred by red painted crosses that signal the plague, a couple’s 1600s London home is invaded on the last day of their month-long quarantine. When the invaders, a trickster sailor and a fractured young girl, spill into the house, they set off another 28-day quarantine for all four of the occupants. In this ravaged and infected world, boundaries of culture, age, and sex are transgressed. Wallace writes a world of heartbreaking connection where to survive is to be wild.
Tickets: $1–5; 503/777-7284 or visit the theatre box office online.
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Spring Canyon Day
9 a.m.–3 p.m., meet in the canyon below the Grove
Join the Reed community in planting native trees and shrubs in the canyon below the Grove residence halls; we'll be focusing on improving the habitat that overlooks the Farm property. The event is free and open to anyone. Tools, training, food, and fun will be provided. Dress for the weather and bring gloves if you have them. For more information email Zac Perry or call 503/572-8636. Visit the canyon website to learn more about the canyon, the ongoing restoration work, and this annual event.
APRIL
5
Visiting Writer Series: Martha Collins
6:30 p.m., Eliot Hall chapel
Martha Collins is the author, most recently, of White Papers, and of the booklength poem Blue Front, which won an Anisfield-Wolf Award and was chosen as one of 25 Books to Remember from 2006 by the New York Public Library. For more information, visit the series website.
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Concert: Portland Baroque Orchestra
"Emma Kirkby in Recital"
7:30 p.m., Kaul Auditorium
Soprano Emma Kirkby with Marcia Hadjimarkos on fortepiano in songs and cantatas by Mozart, Haydn, and Schubert. Cosponsored by the Reed music department. Tickets: $24–75; 503/205-0715 or visit PBO online.
MAY
6
Concert: Portland Baroque Orchestra
"Orchestra Keyboard"
4 p.m., Kaul Auditorium
J.S. Bach’s "Goldberg Variations" arranged for string and orchestra, led by Monica Huggett. Preconcert talk, one hour prior to performance. Tickets: $16–45; 503/205-0715 or visit PBO online.