Water focus of panel discussion
Issues surrounding water will be explored by a panel of Linfield College faculty representing a wide range of disciplines Monday, Sept. 28, at 7 p.m. in Ice Auditorium.
The event will be live streamed: http://portal.stretchinternet.com/linfieldadmin/
The panel discussion is part of this year’s campus-wide theme for the Program for Liberal Arts and Civic Engagement (PLACE), “Air, Water, Earth and Fire: The Ancient Elements on a Changing Planet.”
The panel discussion will explore various issues regarding water. Whose is it? What is our responsibility? How do we place a value on it? Such questions will be discussed from the viewpoints of human health, ecology, economics, social justice, and a historical perspective.
Short presentations by the panelists will be followed by an informal discussion. Linfield faculty panelists include Jeremy Weisz (biology), Sarah Coste (HHPA), Anna Keesey (English), Rob Gardner (sociology) and Eric Schuck (economics).
The event is sponsored by the Program for Liberal Arts and Civic Engagement. For more information, contact Coste at 503-883-2481, scoste@linfield.edu.
Artist, illustrator and author Lisa Congdon to read from latest work
Lisa Congdon, artist, illustrator and author, will read from her latest work on Wednesday, Sept. 30, at 7:30 p.m. in the Austin Reading Room in Nicholson Library.
“Fortune Favors the Brave: 100 Courageous Quotations” gathers wisdom from some of history’s great minds – H.G. Wells, Edna St. Vincent Millay, James Baldwin and more on how to be bold, stay strong, confront fear and have courage. Filled with reminders from her previous book, “Seize the Day,” this new volume demonstrates that the right words of encouragement can be a gift when embarking on a new adventure.
Fine artist and illustrator Congdon is known for her colorful abstract paintings, intricate line drawings, pattern design and hand lettering. She works for clients around the world including the MoMA, Harvard University, Martha Stewart Living, Chronicle Books and more. Her work has been exhibited around the country, including in shows at the Contemporary Jewish Museum and Bedford Gallery. Congdon is the author of five books, “Art Inc: The Essential Guide to Building Your Career as an Artist,” and illustrated books “Whatever You Are, Be a Good One,” “Twenty Ways to Draw a Tulip” and “A Collection a Day.” She currently lives in Portland.
The reading is a Mac Thinks event and is sponsored by McMinnville Public Library, Third Street Books and Nicholson Library. The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Susan Barnes Whyte at 503-883-2517, swhyte@linfield.edu.
Latina singer to present Mariachi workshop
The Linfield College Spanish Club will host a series of events in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month.
This week, Latina singer Edna Vazquez will present a workshop on the cultural significance of Mariachi in México on Thursday, Oct. 1, at 7 p.m. in Ice Auditorium. Vazquez is a Portland-based Mexican singer-songwriter who performs original compositions that pay homage to her many Latin American influences with a passion that comes through in her music. From Mexican folk to nueva trova, rock en español and Mariachi , Vazquez’s songs are deeply rooted in human emotion.
Born in the Mexican state of Colima and raised in Jalisco, Vazquez was surrounded with the soul of Mariachi music from a young age. As a teenager Vazquez began the lifelong process of finding her voice. Inspired by these roots, Vazquez has spent the last two decades performing with Mariachi, No Passengers and as a solo artist in spaces as the Fillmore in San Francisco, Montalvo Gardens Theater, Crest Theater, Alberta Rose Theater and others. In that time, she has achieved international exposure by singing on television shows like Tengo Talento, Mucho Talento in Los Angeles, California and Sábado Gigante Internacional con Don Francisco, where she won first prize with her rendition of Cucurrucucú Paloma accompanied by Mariachi Internacional in Miami, Fla. Vazquez has shared bills with Lila Downs, Gloria Trevi, Molotov and Jarabe de Palo.
For more information, contact Carina Garibay at cgaribay@linfield.edu or Professor Tania Carrasquillo at tcarrasq@linfield.edu.
British debaters to visit Linfield, present demonstration debate
A demonstration debate will be held between Linfield College forensics students and two members of the English-Speaking Union from Great Britain.
Matthew Wilmore and Chessy Whalen are currently on an American tour with the Committee on International Debate and Discussion (CIDD). They will visit Linfield on Oct. 2 and 3, presenting a demonstration debate with the Linfield forensics team Friday, Oct. 2, at noon in the Pioneer Hall Reading Room.
On Saturday, Oct. 3, the two will attend the fifth annual Oregon State Penitentiary debate tournament with Linfield’s team.
“This is the first time in my career at Linfield that we will have an opportunity to host the CIDD British debaters,” said Jackson Miller, professor of communication arts and director of forensics. “It will be a great honor to have them on campus.”
Students are also looking forward to the challenge of competing against skilled international debaters, said sophomore Lacie McElvain. “I am excited to meet and compete with them,” she said. “They both have impressive resumes and I am sure there will be plenty to learn.”
Whalen just completed her B.A. in history at Balliol College Oxford. She was an active member of the Oxford Union Debating Society, representing the school at various national and international tournaments including the European Championships in Vienna where she was a quarter-finalist. In addition to debating competitions, she was active in the college choir and with various sports teams including mixed hockey and casual women’s cricket. She will begin a job at a strategy consultancy in London in March.
Wilmore recently completed a LLM in human rights at the University of Edinburgh. He previously received first class honors from the University of Sheffield in politics and philosophy. He has worked as a debate coach and judge for the English-Speaking Union since 2013 and has also taught in schools in Israel and Nigeria as well as at various universities in the U.K., France and U.S. He is an accomplished competitive speaker, winning the European Championships in 2014, and was a semi-finalist of the 2013 John Smith Memorial Mace. He has acted as chief adjudicator at competitions in the U.K. and Europe.
For more information, contact Miller, 503-883-2625, jmiller@linfield.edu.
Higgins to present annual philosophy lectures at Linfield
Kathleen Higgins, a philosophy professor at the University of Texas at Austin, will present two lectures Oct. 5 and 6.
The talks are part of the annual Walter Powell-Linfield College Philosophy Lectures at Linfield. They are also part of this year’s Program for Liberal Arts and Civic Engagement (PLACE) lecture series on the campus-wide theme “Air, Water, Earth and Fire: The Ancient Elements on a Changing Planet.”
Higgins will present “Life and Death in Rock: Meditations on Tombstones” Monday, Oct. 5, at 7 p.m. in Ice Auditorium located in Melrose Hall. She will discuss the symbolic resonances behind stones, which suit them for use in commemorations of the dead, and how many cultures make use of them for this purpose. In an effort to make sense of this phenomenon, Higgins will consider some of the roles stones play in other aspects of human experience and the associations that arise from them.
Higgins will present “The Functionality of the Aesthetic in the Context of Mourning” on Tuesday, Oct. 6, at 7 p.m. in Jonasson Hall, lower level of Melrose Hall. She will focus on the context of mourning, and how human beings often turn to aesthetic activity. Higgins will argue that the aesthetic sphere has certain characteristic capabilities that make it especially well-suited for helping one deal with bereavement.
Higgins’ areas of research are in continental philosophy, aesthetics and philosophy of music. She is a frequent visiting professor at the University of Auckland and the author of a number of books including, “Comic Relief: Nietzsche’s Gay Science,” “What Nietzsche Really Said” with Robert Solomon, “A Passion for Wisdom,” “A Short History of Philosophy” with Robert Solomon, “The Music of Our Lives” and “Nietzsche’s Zarathustra.” She has edited or co-edited several others on such topics as German idealism, aesthetics, ethics, erotic love and non-Western philosophy. She has been a resident scholar at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Study and Conference Center and a visiting fellow at the Australian National University Philosophy Department and Canberra School of Music.
The Walter Powell-Linfield College Annual Philosophy Lectureship is in recognition of a generous gift from Michael Powell in honor of his father. Walter Powell founded Powell’s Bookstore in Portland, the largest private bookstore in the United States with over one million volumes.
The lectures are free and open to the public. For more information, contact Jesús Ilundáin-Agurruza, Linfield professor of philosophy, at 503-883-2362 or jilunda@linfield.edu.
Davis to talk about sexuality and HIV awareness
Human rights ambassador Thomas Davis will examine multiculturalism in the context of sexual orientation, ethnicity and minority status in two upcoming lectures.
Davis will present “How Health Care Professionals Can Effectively Work with and Support HIV Positive Clients” on Monday, Oct. 5, at 11:30 a.m. at the Linfield Portland Campus. On Tuesday, Oct. 6, at 8 p.m. he will present a second talk, “What We Don’t Know CAN Hurt Us,” in Ice Auditorium on the McMinnville Campus.
Davis, a young gay African American man and a Human Rights Campaign Youth Ambassador who is living with HIV, will meet with students and staff in Portland and McMinnville and examine multiculturalism in the context of sexual orientation, ethnicity and minority status. He will discuss his own experience and raise awareness about the need for more honest and inclusive education programs in sexuality. Davis will also remind us that HIV does not discriminate, and stress the importance of taking responsibility to reduce our risk of exposure.
He received a BFA in performing arts dance theatre from the American Musical and Dramatic Academy College and Conservatory of the Arts and also studied with Debbie Allen Dance Academy. He currently teaches at the Lula Washington Dance Theater in Los Angeles and also has toured with the theater’s professional company. Most recently Davis has started working as a research assistant at UCLA, designing a mobile application for health and well-being.
The talk is sponsored by the Department of Health, Human Performance and Athletics; Student Health, Wellness and Counseling Services; the Black Student Union; Fusion; and the Associated Students of Linfield College.
It is also funded, in part, by a grant awarded by Linfield’s Diversity Committee to explore and support the intellectual and research interests of students, faculty and staff in areas of diversity and inclusion, promoting courageous conversations about diversity and lived experiences across our college and communities. For more information about those grants, contact Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt, rdutt-b@linfield.edu.
The talk is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Dawn Graff-Haight, dghaight@linfield.edu, 503-883-2641.
Linfield to host folklore performance and panel discussion
The music and culture of northern Scandinavia will be the focus of a performance and panel discussion on Wednesday, Oct. 7, at 5 p.m. in the Delkin Recital Hall in the Vivian A. Bull Music Center.
“Sámi and Native American Folklore, Poetry, Song & Joik” will feature guests from Arctic Norway who will present joik (a Sámi expression similar to a chant) and stories from northern Scandinavia. They will be joined in a panel discussion by Ralph Salisbury, Native-American poet, scholar and professor emeritus from the University of Oregon; Tom Love, Linfield professor of anthropology; and representatives from the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. The discussion will include information about joik, how Scandinavian Sámi share common threads with the Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest and how these diverse cultures honor the earth and share wisdom. The panel will also touch on how poetry, chanting and oral history can sustain people and the environment.
Panelists from Norway include Stina Fagertun, who has coastal Sámi and Kven (Finnish descendant) ancestry and comes from the fjords of Arctic Norway. She has written fairy tales and has collected ancient, unique fairy tales from the Sámi, Kven and Arctic storyteller tradition. Her stories have been published as books and CDs in Norway. She is the winner of the Northern Norway Cultural Award and she and Anita Barth-Jørgensen, a Norwegian and an adopted Sámi, have been performing around the world for nearly two decades. Øistein Hanssen still lives inside a culture mixed with Coastal Sámis, Qvens and Nordic people. An engineer, instrument maker and composer, Hanssen also plays historical wind instruments. Today, he is the only one who still has the technique of making the traditional Sámi instrument Fádnu, the small “Sámi oboe.” Hanssen has also researched Sámi drums, and is able to interpret the ancient symbols on the heads of the Sámi drums and the meanings attributed to them by the Arctic shamans.
Salisbury is the winner of the 2012 River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize for his memoir, “So Far, So Good.” He is also the winner of a Rockefeller Bellagio Award, and recipient of the 2015 C.E.S. Wood Lifetime Achievement Award. His three books of fiction and 11 books of poems evoke his Cherokee-Shawnee-Irish-English-American heritage. He has devoted his life to writing, editing, translating and teaching. As the editor-in-chief of Northwest Review for six years, Salisbury has also edited “A Nation Within,” an anthology of contemporary Native American writing (Outriggers Press, New Zealand), and has co-translated two books by Sámi poet Nils-Aslak Valkepää: “Trekways of the Wind” and “The Sun My Father.”
This event is part of this year’s campus-wide theme for the Program for Liberal Arts and Civic Engagement (PLACE), “Air, Water, Earth and Fire: The Ancient Elements on a Changing Planet.” It is sponsored by The American Scandinavian Foundation and the Bernhard and Johanna Fedde Grant from the Grieg Lodge Scholarship Fund.
It is also funded, in part, by a grant awarded by Linfield’s Diversity Committee to explore and support the intellectual and research interests of students, faculty and staff in areas of diversity and inclusion, promoting courageous conversations about diversity and lived experiences across our college and communities. For more information about those grants, contact Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt, rdutt-b@linfield.edu.
The event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Joan Paddock, professor of music, at 503-883-2258, jpaddock@linfield.edu.
Award-winning speaker comes to empower student leaders
Tish Norman, executive director of Transforming Leaders Now, will present “History, Herstory, YOUR Story” on Tuesday, Oct. 8, at 7:30 p.m. in the Ted Wilson Gymnasium.
In addition to the lecture, Norman will meet with student leaders from groups such as Black Student Union, Associated Students of Linfield College, Greek Life and others throughout the day, helping them understand the importance of diversity and inclusion among all students and student groups on campus.
Her presentation will offer insight for students to better understand the culture of diverse students and campus-wide organizations, and how to build effective interpersonal communication skills. She will also discuss how to identify the MVPs (Most Valuable Points) of multiculturalism and diversity and what steps students and student leaders can take to create a Personal Action Plan for implementation for themselves and their organization.
Transforming Leaders Now, Inc., is a leadership development company, specializing in educational programming. Norman has spoken in 43 states and eight countries and is an influential voice on leadership, women and the African American experience, and her keynotes have become favorites among universities, associations and leadership conferences. She has published several articles in university publications and is a contributing author of “From Mediocre to Magnificent” and “Leading the Way, Stories of Inspiration and Leadership.”
This event is funded, in part, by a grant awarded by Linfield’s Diversity Committee to explore and support the intellectual and research interests of students, faculty and staff in areas of diversity and inclusion, promoting courageous conversations about diversity and lived experiences across our college and communities. For more information about those grants, contact Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt, rdutt-b@linfield.edu.
For more information, contact Dan Fergueson, director of college activities, at 503-883-2435 or dfergue@linfield.edu.
Internship programs planned
The Office for Career Development will host Internship-related programming in October to highlight the importance and attainability of internships for all students. A series of events will be held to enable students to connect with resources, inspiration and professionals as they search and apply for internships. For a complete list of programing, visit the Internship Week site or call the Office for Career Development at 503-883-2784.
Campus Calendar
MONDAY, SEPT. 28
7 p.m.: Water panel, Ice Auditorium
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 30
7 p.m.: Panel discussion, Liz Obert’s “Dualities” exhibit, Linfield Gallery
7:30 p.m.: Lisa Congdon reading, Austin Reading Room, Jereld R. Nicholson Library
THURSDAY, OCT. 1
7 p.m.: Edna Vazquez workshop, Ice Auditorium
FRIDAY, OCT. 2
Noon: Demonstration debate, Pioneer Hall Reading Room
7 p.m.: Volleyball vs. Whitman
SATURDAY, OCT. 3
Today and tomorrow: Women’s golf at George Fox Invitational
9 a.m.: Cross country at Willamette Open
Noon: Women’s soccer vs. Lewis & Clark
1:30 p.m.: Football at Lewis & Clark
2:30 p.m.: Men’s soccer at Pacific Lutheran
5 p.m.: Volleyball vs. Whitworth
SUNDAY, OCT. 4
Today: Men’s golf at Whitworth Invitational
Noon: Women’s soccer at Pacific
2:30 p.m.: Men’s soccer at Puget Sound
