Veteran’s Day 100th Anniversary of the End of WWI: A Poetry and Literature Reading<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0This event will commemorate the end of WWI one hundred years ago. Faculty, staff, graduate and undergraduate students and members of the community will be reading the poetry of WWI and later war poets. 12 p.m.\u00a0<\/strong>in Weniger Hall, Room 149.<\/strong><\/p>\n SAC’s Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series\u00a0<\/b>\u2014<\/span>\u00a0Presents \u201cMaterial Motion,\u201d a talk by artist and film director Eric Dyer<\/b><\/a>\u00a0at\u00a07 p.m.<\/strong>, with a pre-talk reception at 6 p.m.<\/strong> Both will be held in the LaSells Stewart Center.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n The Nature of Gratitude Show<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 Spring Creek Project will host the “Nature of Gratitude” at Old World Deli<\/strong> at 7 p.m.<\/strong> Local writers and artists, including Charles Goodrich, Tom Titus, Eric Allen, and Cassandra Robertson, will present poems, music, stories, and photography expressing gratitude. Grab a beer and join us in giving thanks. The show is free and open to everyone.\u00a0Learn more<\/a>.<\/p>\n American Strings Series \u2014<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>Legendary punk rock icon John Doe<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>will perform at\u00a0<\/strong>7:30 p.m.\u00a0<\/strong>at\u00a0The Majestic Theatre.\u00a0<\/strong>Doe, a singer, songwriter, actor, poet and guitarist is the co-founder of the renowned Los Angeles punk band \u201cX.\u201d His most recent solo album is \u201cThe Westerner\u201d and he is also the author of \u201cUnder the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk,\u201d published in 2016. The audiobook version of the book was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album.<\/p>\n Making Sense of the Midterm Elections<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<\/span>Panel discussion,\u00a04 p.m., MU, La Raza, Room 208<\/strong>. Lightly catered.<\/p>\n SAC Visiting Artist\u00a0<\/strong>\u2014\u00a0A professional artist talk by\u00a0Phillip March Jones<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0takes place on at\u00a04 p.m.<\/strong>, in\u00a0Fairbanks Gallery of Art<\/strong>, Fairbanks Hall. Jones is a New York-based artist, writer and curator who has worked daily on a series of drawings, paintings, writings and collages in small workbooks that he carries with him. Some of his work will be on display in the exhibition \u201cWorkbooks,\u201d Nov. 15 \u2013 Dec. 17 at CEI ArtWorks Gallery, 480 SW Monroe St., Corvallis.<\/p>\n SAC Presents<\/strong> \u2014<\/span>\u00a0Child splay<\/b>\u00a0at 7:30 p.m.<\/strong> in the LaSells Stewart Center<\/strong>. Childsplay features virtuosic fiddling, Irish dance and renowned Irish vocalist, Karen Casey. Tickets are available at http:\/\/liberalarts.oregonstate.edu\/SACpresents.<\/a><\/p>\n Resume\u00a0Building Workshop<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 W<\/span>ith Karla Rockhold,<\/strong> Assistant Director of Career Development.\u00a04 p.m., Milam Hall, Room 301<\/strong>.\u00a0Light refreshments served.<\/p>\n Music \u00e0 la Carte<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0OSU Chamber Orchestra, 12 p.m., Memorial Union Lounge.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Vienna Boys Choir\u00a0<\/b>\u2014<\/span>\u00a0Presented by the School of Arts and Communication, with two performances on Nov. 17<\/strong> (2 p.m.<\/strong> and 4 p.m.<\/strong>) in the First United Methodist Church, 1165 NW Monroe Ave., Corvallis<\/strong>. Advance tickets may be purchased at http:\/\/liberalarts.oregonstate.edu\/SACevents<\/a>.<\/p>\n Corvallis-OSU Symphony<\/strong> \u2014<\/span>\u00a0Presents Bernstein 100<\/strong>.\u00a0Arthur Honegger: Pacific 231,\u00a0Leonard Berstein: Serenade for violin and orchestra, featuring soloist Jessica Lambert.\u00a0Carl Nielsen: Symphony No. 5. 3 p.m.,\u00a0The LaSells Stewart Center<\/strong>,\u00a0$22-32. OSU students and high school students with ID admitted free. Up to three K-8 youth admitted free per paid adult. CAFA discounts apply.\u00a0Visit\u00a0cosusymphony.org<\/a>\u00a0for more information<\/p>\n Horning Professor in the Humanities\u00a0and Professor of History,\u00a0Anita Guerrini<\/strong>,\u00a0was awarded the\u00a0Pfizer Prize for best scholarly book in the history of science at the History of Science Society meeting in Seattle.<\/p>\n Professor of Philosophy\u00a0Jos\u00e9-Antonio Orosco<\/strong>\u2019s article entitled\u00a0\u201cChicanx Existentialism as Liberation Philosophy\u201d<\/a>\u00a0was published in the Fall 2018 Issue of the APA Newsletter for Hispanic\/Latino Issues in Philosophy.<\/p>\n Instructor of Music\u00a0Ryan Biesack<\/strong>\u00a0and his Trio Untold’s self-titled PJCE Records release received a favorable review by Midwest Record,\u00a0an entertainment review and news site. Trio Untold also received accolades from\u00a0Bandcamp<\/a>, where their latest album was listed under the “Best Jazz in October” category. Other well known artists receiving this distinction included Ben Wendell, Wayne Horovitz and Rudy Boyston.<\/p>\n Coordinator of Contemporary Music and Research\u00a0Dana Reason\u00a0<\/strong>was a featured artist and performer in “Propositional Worlds,” a SITE\/Less art initiative in Chicago on October 26.\u00a0Her work “Tea and Fences: A virtual tea party” published in “Propositional Attitudes” (ed. by Elana Mann and John Burtle, Golden Spike Press 2018) included a remotely projected performance with Ivan Manzanilla in Guanajuato, Mexico; Reason in Bend, Oregon, and a live audience in Chicago. Other artists included \u00a0Michael Workman<\/a>, John Burtle, Elena Mann,\u00a0Jose Santiago Perez<\/a>,\u00a0Udita Upadhyaya<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Zephyr Dance<\/a>.<\/p>\n Director of Piano Studies\u00a0Rachelle McCabe<\/strong>\u00a0and OSU emeritus professor\u00a0Kathleen Dean Moore\u00a0<\/strong>recently performed their program “A Call to Life: Variations on a Theme of Extinction” at notable locations across the country. \u00a0On November 1, the duo presented the work at the New York City Explorer’s Club in a benefit for the Safina Center.\u00a0On November 2 they performed at Clark University in Worcester,\u00a0Massachusetts, and on November 9 they presented the program at Black Mountain Circle in Point Reyes, California. “A Call to Life” addresses the crisis of global climate change through the music of Rachmaninoff and spoken word.<\/p>\n Instructor of Guitar\u00a0Cameron O’Connor<\/strong>\u00a0performed on November 10 with Oregon Symphony violinist Ryan Lee in a duo recital at the Casa della Zisa concert series in Portland, Oregon. \u00a0O’Connor and Lee also performed the program in Corvallis on November 6 as the inaugural concert of the “Guitar en Route” series.<\/p>\n Coordinator of Music Technology\u00a0Jason Fick\u00a0<\/strong>performed his composition “I’m the Expert” at the Electroacoustic Barndance Music Festival in Jacksonville, Florida on November 9. He also served as an invited panelist on November 10 in a session titled “Teaching Music Technology in Diverse Interdisciplinary Classrooms.”<\/p>\n Instructor of Music\u00a0Amy Hansen\u00a0<\/strong>coordinated the National Association of Teachers of Singing Music Theater Festival \u00a0at Western Oregon University in Monmouth, Oregon. Over 140 students attended the adjudication, which culminated in an honors recital for the winning performers on November 11.<\/p>\n Instructor of Art\u00a0Michael Boonstra<\/strong>\u00a0and Instructor of Art\u00a0Andrew Myers<\/strong>\u00a0attended, along with students, the State of the Coast conference<\/a> in Coos Bay. They presented on their continuing efforts to integrate art and science through experiential learning, getting art students out of the classroom\/studio and engaging with people and places. This was the fifth year establishing an ever-growing liberal arts presence at this conference.<\/p>\n Myers, Boonstra<\/strong>\u00a0and Assistant Professor of Art\u00a0Kerry Skarbakka<\/strong>, have work in an exhibition with students at the Newport Visual Arts Center. The exhibition, “Coast|Lines”, is comprised of work from their summer term marine related courses . This exhibition is a partnership of the OSU College of Liberal Arts and the OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center. The exhibition is also a part of \u201cFor Freedoms\u201450 State Initiative,\u201d a non-partisan, nationwide campaign to use art as a means of inspiring civic participation in advance of the 2018 mid-term elections. It is a featured project<\/a> on the For Freedoms website.<\/p>\n Instructor of Art\u00a0John Whitten<\/strong>\u00a0has contributed an original piece of art to Disjecta Gallery\u2019s<\/a> 12th<\/sup>Annual Artist Auction, which takes place on Saturday, Nov. 17 from 5:30 \u2013 6:30 p.m. It is a graphite drawing mounted with high visibility reflective flagging.<\/p>\n Instructor of Art\u00a0Anna Fidler<\/strong>\u00a0is the recipient of an Oregon Arts Commission Career Opportunity Grant in partnership with the Ford Family Foundation. The funds will support the production of a brochure of her artwork in conjunction with her upcoming exhibition at Johansson Projects in Oakland this winter. The brochure will include an essay by critically acclaimed author, Sarah Sentilles.<\/p>\n The Passion of Dracula\u00a0\u2014 <\/b>Presented by University Theatre<\/strong><\/a>, written\u00a0by David Richmond and Bob Hall, opening November 8<\/strong>, with performances Nov. 8-10<\/strong> and 16-17<\/strong> at 7:30 p.m.<\/strong>, and Nov. 18<\/strong> at 2 p.m.\u00a0<\/strong>on the Withycombe Hall Main Stage.<\/strong><\/p>\nWednesday Nov. 14<\/h3>\n
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Current Research, Publications and Creative Activity<\/h2>\n
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