Linfield celebrates Women’s History Month
Linfield is hosting a series of events in March celebrating the contributions of women to the community in honor of Women’s History Month. This week’s events include:
- Tuesday, March 8 – History of Birth Control, information table, 11 a.m.; “I Need Feminism Because…” campaign, noon, Fred Meyer Lounge
- Wednesday, March 9 – Professor Dawn Nowacki, “Voluntary and Involuntary Migrant Status: Thoughts on the International Refugee Crisis,” 4 p.m., 201 Riley Hall
- Thursday, March 10 – Pizza and Politics: Waldo Martin, “Women in the Black Panther Party,”11:45 a.m., 201 Riley Hall
In addition to weekly events, a number of activities will be ongoing throughout the month.
- Nominate outstanding female students, staff, administrators and faculty at Linfield. Nominations will close Friday, March 25, at 5 p.m. The month will conclude with a grand finale celebration Thursday, March 31, recognizing several women from each category. tinyurl.com/LinfieldWHM16
- Month-long fundraiser for Juliette’s House, 301 Riley Hall
- Accomplished Black Women Throughout History display in Nicholson Library, sponsored by BSU
The events are sponsored by Multicultural Programs, Black Student Union, Career Development, Linfield Student Health, Wellness, and Counseling Center, Political Science Department, Nicholson Library, Gender Studies, Students Advocating for Gender Equality (SAGE), Linfield College Latinos Adelante (LCLA), HHPA, Community Engagement and Service, Mass Communication Department, Juliette’s House, Men’s Antiviolence Education Network (MAVEN), Unidos Bridging Community, College Activities & Greek Life.
For more information, contact sfuller@linfield.edu, lcard@linfield.edu or dgrenie@linfield.edu.
Philosopher-poet-musician to read, perform at Linfield
George Lee Moore, philosopher, poet and musician, will present a reading and musical performance March 8 and 9.
Moore will present a reading, “Noticing, Nature and Awe: The Unique is Not Rare, Noticing it is,” Tuesday, March 8, at 7:30 p.m. in the Design Studio in the Miller Fine Arts Center. He will give a musical performance, “Radiant Episodes,” Wednesday, March 9, at 7:30 p.m. in the Delkin Recital Hall in the Vivian Bull Music Center.
Moore received his bachelor’s degree from the College of William and Mary and both his master’s and Ph.D. from Boston College. Moore currently teaches at the School of the Visual Arts in New York and previously taught at the New York University in Paris and at the University of Oregon.
This event is free and open to the public and is sponsored by the Linfield Department of Art and Visual Culture. For more information, contact Ron Mills, professor of art, at 503-883-2232 or rmills@linfield.edu.
Nowacki looks at refugee crisis in upcoming talk
The international refugee crisis will be the topic of an upcoming lecture by Dawn Nowacki.
Nowacki, the Elizabeth and Morris Glicksman Chair in Political Science, will speak on “Voluntary and Involuntary Migrant Status: Thoughts on the International Refugee Crisis,” Wednesday, March 9, at 4 p.m. in 201 Riley Hall at Linfield.
Nowacki will discuss what it is like to walk hundreds of miles voluntarily as a person from a wealthy country, as well as what it means to flee from war, leave everything behind and make one’s way through inhospitable states or across dangerous seas. Her talk will highlight humanitarian, gender and ethnic dimensions of displacement as she reflects upon her sabbatical experiences in Europe.
Nowacki teaches political science, including comparative politics and international relations at Linfield. Her current work is centered on women in politics, war and gender, women and politics in the Middle East, women and Islam, and politics and Islam. Her work has been included in the book “Discipline and Punishment in Global Politics: Illusions of Control.” Previous research focused on women’s political representation in Russia and its peripheral provinces, strategies of marginalized groups in post-communist systems, and democratic orientations and authoritarian practice.
Nowacki’s scholarship, including study in Russia, Turkey, Jordan and China, has been supported by a Fulbright Scholar Award and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Russian area studies and a master’s degree in communications from the University of Washington. She earned her Ph.D. in political science from Emory University.
The talk is free and open to the public. It is part of a series of programs at Linfield in honor of Women’s History Month. It is sponsored by the Linfield College Department of Political Science, Multicultural Programs and International Programs. For more information contact Lauren Card, 503-883-2326, lcard@linfield.edu.
Linfield to host Oregon Humanities Conversation Projects
Linfield College will host a series of Conversation Projects, sponsored by Oregon Humanities, on various topics of diversity this spring.
The first conversation, “White Out? The Future of Racial Diversity in Oregon,” will be led by sociologist Emily Drew on Wednesday, March 9, at 4:30 p.m. in 219 T.J. Day Hall. The Oregon Humanities Conversation Project brings Oregonians together to discuss their differences, beliefs and backgrounds about important issues and ideas.
Drew will lead participants in a conversation about the challenges of creating racially diverse, inclusive communities despite the accomplishments since the civil rights era. Although census data show Oregon’s population becoming more racially diverse, the state remains one of the whitest in the nation. Many Oregonians value racial diversity and the dimension and depth it adds to our lives, yet we remain largely isolated from one another and have yet to fulfill the vision of a racially integrated society.
Drew is an associate professor of sociology at Willamette University, where she teaches courses about racism, race and ethnicity, immigration and social change. Her primary areas of research involve understanding how race and racism operate inside of institutions. Drew serves as a co-trainer of “Understanding Institutional Racism” workshops for Crossroads Anti-Racism Organizing and Training.
In addition to the March event, two other Conversation Projects will be held at Linfield this spring. “Northwest Mixtape: Hip Hop Culture and Influences” will be held on Monday, April 4, and “Mind the Gaps: How Gender Shapes our Lives” will take place on Wednesday, May 4. Both conversations will be at 4:30 p.m. in 219 T.J. Day Hall.
The discussions are free and open to the public. For more information, contact Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt, Linfield professor of English, at 503-883-2485 or rdutt-b@linfield.edu.
Anthropology and climate change topic of lecture
Susan A. Crate, a leader in the anthropology of climate change, will present a lecture about the complexities and challenges of climate change and meet with students during a visit to Linfield.
Crate, associate professor of anthropology at George Mason University, will speak on “Investigating the Bottom-up Complexities and Adaptive Challenges of Contemporary Climate Change in Northeastern Siberia and Nunatsiavut, Canada” Wednesday, March 9, at 7:30 p.m. in Ice Auditorium in Melrose Hall. Humanity’s chances of adapting to large scale changes now underway must always be anchored in close understanding of how people actually deal with complex adaptive challenges on the ground. “If we move our focus to local contexts and reframe the objective of sustainability as a dialogue within those contexts, then the concept itself takes on a life and a power,” Crate said.
Crate has become an authority on anthropology and climate change, both from her own research in arctic Siberia and as a member of the American Anthropology Association task force on global climate change. While Crate has conducted most of her research in Asiatic Russia and northeastern Siberia, and is involved in several international groups that focus on sustainability in the arctic, her interests in sustainability issues and projects extend to her teaching and service, especially in campus greening issues at George Mason.
She is centrally involved with the new film “The Anthropologist,” which considers the fate of the planet from the perspective of an American teenager. Over five years, the teen travels alongside her mother, an anthropologist studying the impact of climate change on indigenous communities.
Crate received her B.A. in environmental studies, with a concentration in education, from Warren Wilson College in North Carolina. She then received her master’s degree in folklore and her Ph.D. in ecology from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The 12th annual anthropology lecture is sponsored by the Linfield Department of Sociology and Anthropology and by PLACE (Program for Liberal Arts and Community Engagement), exploring this year’s theme “Air, Water, Earth, and Fire: The Ancient Elements on a Changing Planet.” It is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Tom Love, Linfield professor of anthropology and environmental studies, at tlove@linfield.edu or 503-883-2504.
Berkeley professor to speak during “Changing America” exhibit
Author and historian Waldo E. Martin will present “Ready for the Revolution? History and the Black Panther Party” on Thursday, March 10, at 7:30 p.m. in the Austin Reading Room of the Jereld R. Nicholson Library.
The talk is part of a traveling exhibition, “Changing America: The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 and the March on Washington, 1963,” which will run through March 25.
Earlier that day, he will also host a lunchtime discussion, “Pizza and Politics — Women in the Black Panther Party,” at 11:45 a.m. in 201 Riley Hall.
Martin is the Alexander F. and May T. Morrison professor of American history and citizenship at the University of California, Berkeley. His scholarly and teaching interests include modern American history and culture with an emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries; his principal areas of research and writing are African American cultural and intellectual history. Martin has published numerous articles and lectured widely on a variety of topics in modern African-American history and culture. He is the author of a number of books including “Black Against Empire: The history and politics of the Black Panther Party.” His current book project is “A Change is Gonna Come,” a cultural analysis of the modern African-American freedom struggle.
The traveling exhibition is presented by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture and the National Museum of American History in collaboration with the American Library Association Public Programs Office. The exhibition is made possible by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
The exhibit and lecture are free and open to the public. They are sponsored by the Linfield Department of Political Science, The Frederick Douglass Forum on Law, Rights, and Justice, the Elliot Alexander Fund for Political Science, the Dean’s Speaker Fund and the Linfield Nicholson Library. For more information, contact Susan Barnes Whyte, college librarian, at swhyte@linfield.edu or 503-883-2517.
Linfield music department presents Keyboard Kapers
The Department of Music will sponsor Keyboard Kapers, featuring a piano masterclass and recital with visiting artist Futaba Niekawa Thursday and Friday, March 10-11.
The piano masterclass will be presented on Thursday, March 10, at 4 p.m., featuring students of Linfield music professor Albert Kim. The Friday, March 11, recital will be at 7:30 p.m. and include performances by students and works by Beethoven, Chopin and Liszt performed by Niekawa. The recital will also feature selections from Olivier Messiaen’s piano-duo masterpiece Visions de l’Amen, performed by Niekawa and Kim. Both events will be in the Delkin Recital Hall, Vivian A. Bull Music Center.
Niekawa is a postdoctoral scholar and visiting assistant professor of strings/collaborative piano at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Known for her verve and sensitivity, she is versatile as a soloist, collaborator, improviser and harpsichordist. She has given performances in renowned venues and festivals both in the U. S. and abroad. Her numerous collaborative engagements led to working relationships with such musicians as Jean Barr, Charles Castleman, James Buswell, Roger Tapping, Carol Rodland, Steven Doane, Paul Katz, Laurence Lesser, and the Lafayette and Borromeo quartets. She regularly performs with her duo partners across several continents. She is a founding member of duo526, a violin-piano duo that released its debut album, Ballade, through PARMA recordings in 2014. Her discography also includes the world premiere recording of “Twenty-Five Preludes” by pianist/composer Hwaen Ch’uqi. Niekawa earned her doctorate degree from the Eastman School of Music.
Kim, assistant professor of music at Linfield since 2013, made his professional debut at age 10. He earned his doctorate from the Eastman School of Music, where he studied piano with Natalya Antonova and completed an assistantship in music theory under Matthew Brown. Kim has performed throughout the United States and Europe as a soloist and chamber musician, with performances at Weill Hall, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Konzerthaus Wien, the Köln Philharmonie, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and more. Kim has collaborated in chamber and ensemble performances with Ensemble Signal, Eastman Musica Nova, Charles Castleman, Colin Jacobsen, Edward Arron, the Argos Piano Trio, the Tabletop Opera and fellow Linfield professor, Anton Belov. He has coached chamber music at Linfield College and UNC Chapel Hill and serves as a music mentor for Linfield’s thriving ensemble education program.
Both events are free and open to the public. For more information, call 503-883-2275 or visit linfield.edu/arts.
Linfield presents Japanese sword lecture
Michael and Gabriel Bell, founders of and swordsmiths at Dragonfly Forge, will present “Earth, Wind, Water and Fire: The Art and Science of the Japanese Sword,” on Monday, March 14, at 7 p.m. in Ice Auditorium in Melrose Hall.
The lecture will be live streamed for those unable to attend.
The discussion will include a short lecture, a panel discussion featuring Linfield faculty, and a display of some of their swords. The panelists include Tianbao Xie, professor of physics; Brian Winkenweder, professor of art history; Chris Keaveney, professor of Japanese; and Jesús Ilundáin-Agurruza, professor of philosophy. During their visit, the Bells will visit several philosophy and Japanese classes and the Fencing Club.
Michael Bell is the master swordsmith and chief instructor at Dragonfly Forge which is located in Coquille. His interest in Japanese martial arts led to practicing kendo and iaido and eventually led to a five-year apprenticeship with master Japanese sword maker, Nakajima Muneyoshi, in 1970. During this time he learned how to judge the quality of a sword and its mountings and how to restore the sword to its potential, both as a weapon and as art. Michael continued working after his apprenticeship at several locations and in 1987 he, along with his wife and son, Gabriel, moved to Oregon and established Dragonfly Forge, where he forges and mounts swords of the highest quality and teaches the art to others. His blades have won numerous awards at major knife shows, as well as other honors.
Gabriel Bell is the son of Michael Bell and grew up in Dragonfly Forge, learning how to work with his hands and forge knives. Gabriel attended Willamette University, working with his father during the summers. In the spring of 2006, he studied at Tokyo International University in Saitama, Japan. After graduating from Willamette in 2007, Gabriel managed the incorporation of Dragonfly Forge LLC with his parents, and helped with the foundation of Dragonfly Forge’s formal swordsmithing school, Tomboyama Nihonto Tanren Dojo. One of his Japanese tanto swords was awarded Best Art Knife in 2009 by the Oregon Knife Collectors Association, and in October 2013 he had the privilege of attending Ford Hallam’s intensive Iron Brush Immersion Workshop in Wilmot, N.H., to study kinko, fine Japanese metalworking. Gabriel works full-time for Dragonfly Forge as a swordsmith and cutler, as well as assisting with instructing the swordsmithing school.
This event is free and open to the public and sponsored by the Dean’s Speaker’s Fund and PLACE (Program for Liberal Arts and Community Engagement), exploring this year’s theme “Air, Water, Earth, and Fire: The Ancient Elements on a Changing Planet. For more information, contact Jesús Ilundáin-Agurruza at 503-883-2362 or jilunda@linfield.edu.
Community News
Linfield’s Institutional Research office is conducting a student satisfaction survey beginning this week. This survey is conducted every three years in partnership with Ruffalo Noel Levitz and goes to all current students at all Linfield locations. For more information, contact Jennifer Ballard at jballard@linfield.edu or 503-883-2509.
Campus calendar
TUESDAY, MARCH 8
11 a.m.: History of Birth Control, information table, Fred Meyer Lounge
Noon: “I Need Feminism Because…” campaign, Fred Meyer Lounge
7 p.m.: Women’s lacrosse vs. Berry
7:30 p.m.: George Lee Moore, “Noticing, Nature and Awe,” Miller Fine Arts Center
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9
4 p.m.: Dawn Nowacki, “Voluntary and Involuntary Migrant Status: Thoughts on the International Refugee Crisis,” 201 Riley Hall
4:30 p.m.: Community French class, 203 Walker Hall
4:30 p.m.: Oregon Humanities Conversation Project, Emily Drew, “White Out? The Future of Racial Diversity in Oregon,” 219 T.J. Day Hall
7:30 p.m.: Susan A. Crate, “Investigating the Bottom-up Complexities and Adaptive Challenges of Contemporary Climate Change in Northeastern Siberia and Nunatsiavut, Canada,” Ice Auditorium
7:30 p.m.: George Lee Moore, “Radiant Episodes,” Delkin Recital Hall
THURSDAY, MARCH 10
11:45 a.m.: Pizza and Politics — Waldo E. Martin, “Women in the Black Panther Party,” 201 Riley Hall
2 p.m.: Softball at Trine
4 p.m.: Keyboard Kapers masterclass, Delkin Recital Hall
7:30 p.m.: Waldo E. Martin, “Ready for the Revolution? History and the Black Panther Party,” Nicholson Library
FRIDAY, MARCH 11
Today and tomorrow: Track and field at NCAA indoor championships
Noon: Baseball at Webster
2:30 p.m.: Softball at Augustana
7:30 p.m.: Softball at Christopher Newport
7:30 p.m.: Keyboard Kapers recital, Delkin Recital Hall
SATURDAY, MARCH 12
Today and tomorrow: Men’s and women’s golf at Lewis & Clark Invitational
Today and tomorrow: Softball at NFCA Leadoff Classic
10 a.m.: Track and field at Pacific Preview
10 a.m.: Men’s tennis at Whitworth
11 a.m.: Women’s tennis vs. Whitworth
12:30 p.m.: Softball at Fontbonne
1 p.m.: Baseball at Webster
SUNDAY, MARCH 13
10 a.m.: Women’s tennis vs. Whitman
10 a.m.: Men’s tennis at Whitman
10:30 a.m.: Baseball at Pomona-Pitzer
Noon: Women’s lacrosse at George Fox
