Speaking Justice \u2014 <\/b>Join us for a night of spoken word poetry by the OSU community and our feature artist, TOO BLACK<\/span><\/a>, at 7 p.m.<\/strong> in the MU Lounge<\/strong>. Preceding the performance, TOO BLACK will conduct a workshop entitled \u201cHistory of Race Relations at OSU\u201d from 3-5 p.m. in the Valley Library 5<\/strong><\/span>th<\/sup><\/span><\/strong> floor Special Collections & Archives Research Center<\/span><\/strong>. In the workshop, participants will learn about the history of race relations at OSU and its connections to contemporary issues. To register of the workshop or for more information: 541-737-3653 or\u00a0natalia.fernandez@oregonstate.edu<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n School of Writing, Literature, and Film professor Evan Gottlieb<\/strong> will be giving a talk, “From Here to Utopia: Imagining Better Worlds from the Sixteenth Century to Today,” as part of the Oregon Rare Books Initiative<\/a> speaker series at the University of Oregon. Gottlieb’s talk will be accompanied by a curated display drawn from UO’s Special Collections. The event begins at 4:45 p.m. in the Knight Library Reading Room<\/strong>, University of Oregon, Eugene.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n OSU Anthropology Lecture Series <\/b><\/span>\u2014 <\/b><\/span>Dr. Christina Cappy<\/strong>, lecturer in Education Policy at Central Oregon Community College, will give a lecture on “Unity, Fragmentation and the Moral Self in South African High Schools.” She will speak from 12 to 12:50 p.m. in Waldo Hall Room 201A. This event is part of the Anthropology Program’s<\/span><\/a> “Tan Sack” Lecture Series.<\/span><\/p>\n Music a la Carte<\/strong> \u2014 Cellophoria (Cello Quartet). Noon, Memorial Union Lounge<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n When Wellness was Weird \u2014 <\/b>Today, “wellness\u201d is a familiar feel-good label slapped on everything from smoothies and school lunch programs to swanky real estate developments. But it was not always so. Historian and wellness advocate Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Ph.D.,<\/span> explains where our current wellness fascination originated<\/a> and how it’s grown into a massive movement.\u00a0<\/span>3:00 p.m. in the MU Journey Room 104<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n Author reading<\/b> \u2014 Fiction writers Jeff Fearnside<\/strong> and Jesse Donaldson<\/strong> will read from their respective books, \u201cMaking Love While Levitating Three Feet in the Air\u201d and \u201cThe More They Disappear\u201d at 7:30 p.m. in the Valley Library Rotunda<\/strong>.\u00a0 The reading will be followed by a Q&A and book signing, and is part of the School of Writing, Literature, and Film\u2019s 2016-2017 Literary Northwest Series<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n Children of Men Screening \u2014 <\/b>The Anarres Project for Alternative Futures<\/strong>, Allied Students for Another Politics!<\/strong>, and the Spring Creek Project<\/strong> present a film and discussion series of classic dystopian movies to help spur the radical imagination about the possibilities for transformation in daunting times.\u00a0\u00a0Our first film is the award winning film of 2006 “Children of Men” that portrays a world affected by climate change and pollution to the point of complete human infertility, triggering war and global mass migration to the last stable nation on the planet. Monday, January 23, at 6 p.m. in Milam Hall 301.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Oregon State Senator Arnie Roblan<\/strong>, SD 5 (Coos Bay, Florence, Newport, Tillamook) will be on campus to discuss issues related to “Ocean and Coastal Law and Policy in Oregon\u201d in the MU 213 Pan Afrikan \u2013 Sankofa<\/strong> on January 24, 12:45 \u2013 2:00 p.m<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n The Little Gallery will be presenting <\/i>Source<\/strong>, a group exhibition of works featuring <\/span>Liisa Rahkonen<\/span><\/strong>, <\/span>Sandra Roumagoux<\/strong>, and <\/span>Eliza Murphy<\/strong> \u2013 January 9 – February 17<\/strong>, with an <\/span>opening on January 19, 3:30-5 p.m., 210 Kidder Hall<\/strong>. <\/span>All are welcome. Source will present paintings, sculptures and box shrines that reference the sacredness of our rivers and coastal waters \u2013 the very source of life.<\/span><\/p>\n The Fairbanks Gallery at Oregon State University will host \u201cMontage,\u201d an exhibition of art and poetry by OSU students, Dec. 9 through Jan. 23<\/strong>. An artist\u2019s talk and public reception will take place in the gallery at 5 p.m. on Jan. 19<\/strong>. The event is free and open to the public. It is open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, and 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. the third Thursday of each month for the Corvallis Arts Walk.<\/p>\nFriday,\u00a0Jan. 20<\/h3>\n
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