{"id":3139,"date":"2017-10-09T15:47:05","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T15:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/edge\/?p=3139"},"modified":"2017-10-09T15:47:05","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T15:47:05","slug":"cla-week-10917","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/edge\/2017\/10\/09\/cla-week-10917\/","title":{"rendered":"CLA This Week \u2014 10\/9\/17"},"content":{"rendered":"

Events<\/h2>\n

Monday, Oct. 9<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Degrowth: Subversive Subjectivities and the Transformation of the Social Imaginary<\/b>\u2013a presentation by\u00a0Barbara Muraca<\/a>. Muraca will participate in a research cluster on futures of sustainability as a visiting scholar this winter at the Institute for Sociology at the University of Hamburg. In this talk, she\u2019ll discuss her work on new worldwide social movements and collective practices that challenge the pervasive logic of economic growth and embody alternative ways of living. The talk will take place at\u00a04 p.m. at the OSU Center for the Humanities, Autzen House, 811 SW Jefferson<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Tuesday, Oct. 10<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Join the School of Writing, Literature, and Film<\/strong> for an exclusive screening of a thirty-minute trailer and overview of Ken Burns and\u00a0Lynn Novick\u2019s eighteen-hour series, The Vietnam War<\/strong>. The screening will be followed by a panel and Q&A featuring Charlie Haughey<\/strong>, whose 3,000 photographs captured the experience of the soldiers in his division and the lives of the citizens they encountered. Alongside Haughey, Robert Santelli<\/strong>,\u00a0Executive Director of the GRAMMY Museum and Director of Popular Music at OSU, will discuss the representation of the war in music of the sixties. Jon Lewis<\/strong>,\u00a0Distinguished Professor of Film Studies, will discuss the war as it has been portrayed on the screen. And Larry Rodgers<\/strong>, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Professor of English, will detail how the Vietnam War became a literary subject. The panel will be moderated by Marisa Chappell<\/strong>, Associate Professor of History. 7 p.m., the LaSells Stewart Center.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wednesday, Oct. 11<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The Politics of Surveillance, Past, Present, and Future \u2014<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/b>We are all being watched. We are all being tracked. We are all being recorded virtually all the time. How did this happen? What have we lost and what have we gained? Are we all “just” data and what does that mean? New technologies and new understandings of individual rights, corporate rights, collective rights, and national security have dramatically shifted in recent years. What is at stake in these new visions of rights and new technologies of control? A panel of experts aims to provoke a dynamic discussion of the past, present, and future of surveillance and the surveillance society in which we live today at\u00a04 p.m<\/b>. in the Memorial Union, Journey Room 104.<\/strong><\/p>\n

American Strings Concert Series: An Evening with Tony Trischka<\/strong> \u2014<\/span><\/b>\u00a0In this inaugral event of the College of Liberal Arts’ new American Strings Concert Series, join renowned banjo artist Tony Trischka at 8 p.m.<\/strong> for an intimate performance and Q&A at the Majestic Theatre, 115 SW 2nd Street<\/strong>, Corvallis.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thursday, Oct. 12<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The Bohemian Reformation\u00a0\u2014<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/b>Lecture by Dr. David Luft,<\/strong> Horning Professor of History at OSU. The Bohemian Reformation occurred a hundred years before the German Reformation. David Luft\u2019s lecture on this \u201cmagnificent ride\u201d of the religious transformation of Bohemia is part of the Reformation 500 \u00adCorvallis series and the first lecture in this year\u2019s Horning lecture series on \u201cOther Reformations.\u201d 7 p.m.\u00a0<\/b>at the\u00a0LaSells Stewart Center, C & E Auditorium<\/strong>. Luft’s talk is one of many events in Reformation@500, a campus and community-wide celebration of the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. For more information and for a complete schedule of other events please visit\u00a0Reformation 500<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bluegrass Jam Session<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014<\/span><\/b>\u00a0Join\u00a0<\/span>Tony<\/span><\/strong> Trischka <\/span><\/b>fo<\/span>r a bluegrass jam session at 8 p.m.<\/strong> at the<\/span> Corvallis Odd Fellows Hall, 223 SW 2nd Street. <\/span><\/b>The event is free with an RSVP<\/a> kindly requested.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Friday, Oct. 13<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Music \u00e0 la Carte\u00a0\u2014 The OSU Faculty Showcase <\/span><\/b>will take place<\/span>\u00a0at 12 p.m.<\/strong> in the Memorial Union Lounge.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

OSU Disability Network\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<\/span><\/b>Join a group of OSU community members interested in discussing Disability Studies teaching and research, in general, and the development of a\u00a0DS curriculum at OSU, in particular.\u00a0Developing an Accessible Research Design Checklist<\/b>, a lecture\u00a0by Katie Linder, will take place at\u00a012 p.m <\/b>in\u00a0Milam Hall 301<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Visiting Writers Series\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>Fiction writers and Oregon State University alumni <\/span>Jaclyn<\/span> Watterson<\/span><\/strong> and Michael Shou-Yung Shum<\/strong> will read at 7:30 p.m.<\/span><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0in the Lab Theater <\/strong>in Withycombe Hall<\/strong>.\u00a0A question-and-answer session and book signing will follow.<\/span><\/p>\n

Upcoming Events<\/h2>\n

News<\/h2>\n

A proposal by an interdisciplinary team comprised of Marta Maria Maldonado<\/strong> (PI, Ethnic Studies), Bradley Boovy<\/strong> (Co-PI, WGSS and WLC), Flaxen Conway<\/strong> (Co-PI, MRM and Sea Grant) and Jamie Doyle<\/strong> (Sea Grant Extension), has been selected for funding in Sea Grant\u2019s 2018-2020 Biennial Competition. The award of more than $200,000 supports research on the connection between seafood processing, demographic change, and community resilience.<\/span><\/p>\n

Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for Humanities Christopher McKnight Nichols<\/strong> recently published the following with Raymond Haberski, Jr.: \u201cKneeling players are showing their country tough love, not disrespect: they\u2019re embracing a strain of civil religion that prods America to live up to its ideals<\/span><\/a>,\u201d\u00a0Washington Post, Made by History section, Sunday October 1, 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n

Awards and Honors<\/h2>\n

School of Language, Culture and Society associate professor Sebastian Heiduschke’s<\/strong> documentary film “The Land of Eternal Spring” will receive a Merit Award of Awareness on Oct. 15 at the Awareness Film Festival in Los Angeles. The documentary was filmed during a short-term study abroad trip to Guatemala organized by the School of Language, Culture and Society in 2014.<\/p>\n

Current Research, Publications and Creative Activity\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

David Kerr<\/strong> of the School of Psychological Science co-authored an article in the journal “Health and Place” with University of Koper, Slovenia colleagues, Nu\u0161a \u0160edivy and Tina Podlogar entitled, “Community social support as a protective factor against suicide: A gender-specific ecological study of 75 regions of 23 European countries.”<\/p>\n

Instructor of Guitar Cameron O’Connor<\/strong> was the featured performer at the Portland Guitar Society on Oct. 2; he was also the featured performer for the Jefferson Guitar Society on September 5. Other summer activities included the premiere of Michael Lee’s work for guitar and choir, “Come What May,” with the New York Virtuoso Singers in Manhattan; the premiere of Lee’s “Song for Children” in concerts with the guitar and piano duo,\u00a0ensemble demitasse;<\/i>\u00a0the premiere of O’Connor’s vocal work, “Dirt,” at the unSung series in Glendale, CA; and solo and chamber recitals in Japan and throughout southern California.<\/p>\n

Associate Professor of World Languages and Cultures Nabil Boudraa\u00a0<\/strong>recently published, “Counter-history and Resistance in the Films of Merzak Allouache” in “CELAAN Review” vol. XIV, no. 2 & 3. He also co-authored “Loss, Displacement and Exile in Algerian Cinema” in “The Journal of North African Studies,” volume 22, issue 5, with Joseph Krause.<\/p>\n

Liddy Detar<\/strong> of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Charles Robinson<\/strong> of the Dean’s Office and Extension attended the Engagement Scholarship Conference in Birmingham, AL, to present an interactive workshop of their Listen Up! object stories project. The project explores the practice of storytelling in engaged scholarship and community building, utilizing a digital archive of personal objects and stories. Robinson also presented at a poster session on the Creative Oregon collaboration between CLA and OSU Extension (co-authored with Andrew Myers<\/strong> of Art).<\/p>\n

Assistant Professor of Music Technology Jason Fick<\/b> recently had his article “Electronic Music History through Guided Discovery: An Active Learning Approach to Engage the Millennial Student” published in “Engaging Students: Essays in Music Pedagogy,” vol. 5.<\/p>\n

Instructor of Voice and Opera Mitchell Hutchings <\/b>was recently featured in two voice pedagogy articles: Operapolitan’s \u00a0“The Voice Builder: Talking about Teaching with Up-and-Coming Voice Teacher Mitchell Hutchings<\/a>” and Schmopera.com’s “The Voice Teacher Series: Mitchell Hutchings.<\/a>”<\/p>\n

Recurring Events<\/h2>\n

Fairbanks gallery coordinator and art instructor\u00a0Andrew Nigon<\/b>\u00a0has a solo exhibition titled \u2018t\u2019 running through October 19<\/strong> in the basement of Fairbanks Hall, room 004. \u2018t\u2019 is an installation of sculptures intended to create beauty by combining wild organic form and a geometric framework within single objects. Nigon\u2019s studio practice is based in the dramatic visual language of the Catholic church.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Fairbanks Gallery features \u201cSpectacle,\u201d<\/strong> photographs by Nicole Jean Hill<\/strong> and Alexis Pike<\/strong>, Oct. 2 \u2013 Oct. 21<\/strong>\u00a0<\/b>as part of the Society of Photographic Educators Northwest (SPE-NW) Conference being held on the OSU campus. The gallery is located on the first floor of Fairbanks Hall and is open 8 a.m. \u2013 5 p.m. M-F and until 8 p.m. on Oct. 19 for the Corvallis Arts Walk. Art’s\u00a0Julia Bradshaw\u00a0<\/strong>curated the exhibit. She also curated\u00a0<\/span>\u201cSurface Tension,<\/a>\u201d a two-person exhibit with Christopher Russell<\/strong> and Rafael Soldi<\/strong>, which will be on view at the Arts Center in Corvallis until Nov. 9.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hiking the Cascades: Photos from the Pacific Crest Trai<\/b>l<\/strong>, work by Eugene-based photographer Ed Pabor, will be on view in the Center for the Humanities until Dec. 8 (M \u2013 F, 10 \u2013 4). Drop by the Autzen House and meet the artist at an open reception during the Corvallis Arts Walk on\u00a0Thursday Oct. 19, from 4 \u2013 6.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Spanish artist Dolors Escala\u2019s<\/strong> exhibit, “Emotions & Sensations,” is currently on view at The Little Gallery in 210 Kidder Hall<\/strong>. The exhibition runs through November 9<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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OSU Anthropology Lecture Series \u2014<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/b>Dr. Nelson Ting<\/strong>, Associate Professor\u00a0of Anthropology at the University of Oregon, will give a lecture titled, “Monkeys, Migration, and Microbes: Factors Shaping Migration and the Microbiome in African Colobus Monkeys.” \u00a0Dr. Ting will speak on October 20<\/span><\/span><\/strong> from 12 to 12:50 p.m.<\/span><\/span> <\/strong>in Waldo Hall Room 201A<\/strong>. This event is part of the\u00a0Anthropology Program’s<\/a>“Tan Sack” Lecture Series.<\/p>\n

Bluegrass Banjo Workshop\u00a0\u2014<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span>Tony<\/span><\/strong> Trischka\u00a0<\/span><\/b>will lead a banjo workshop in Benton Hall 204<\/strong> at 4 p.m.<\/strong>\u00a0 The workshop is free with an RSVP<\/a> kindly requested.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n