Portland State University
Smith Memorial Student Union Room 238
We are animals who must eat, but should we eat animals? If we eating animals are to be sustainable, is eating animals sustainable? Do eating animals need to eat animals who eat? This roundtable assembles a diverse group of experts from the fields of philosophy, law, and meat production and butchery for a lively discussion of what is increasingly being recognized as one of the most vexing set of issues of our time.
Eating Animals is a roundtable conversation with Camas Davis (former Food Editor, Portland Monthly), Kathy Hessler (Center for Animal Law Studies, Lewis & Clark College), Ramona Ilea (Professor of Philosophy, Pacific University). Moderated by Alastair Hunt (Professor of English, Portland State University).
Someday Lounge (21+)
125 NW 5th Ave
A conversation about modern music
Frank Black writes and plays music as a solo artist and as a member of Grand Duchy and The Pixies.
Carl Wilson is a Toronto-based music editor for The Globe and Mail and the author of Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste.
Made possible through support from the Northwest Film Center and PSU’s Graduate Literary Organization (GLO).
Free and open to the public. 21+
Portland State University, Smith Memorial Student Union
Room 238
A discussion of new issues and directions in environmental history with major national scholars in the field. Participants will include:
William Cronon (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Author of Changes in the Land; Nature's Metropolis; Uncommon Ground
Nancy Langston (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Author of Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares; Where Land and Water Meet; Toxic Bodies
James Feldman (University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh), Author of Storied Wilderness
Cronon studies American environmental history and the history of the American West. His research seeks to understand the history of human interactions with the natural world: how we depend on the ecosystems around us to sustain our material lives, how we modify the landscapes in which we live and work, and how our ideas of nature shape our relationships with the world around us.
Moderated by Professor William Lang, Department of History at Portland State University and editor of the Oregon Encyclopedia Project.
Portland State University
Room TBD
Portland State University
Room TBD
May 2010
“Understanding Sustainability: Perspectives from the Humanities. A National Conference" Exact Dates to be Determined
May 20-22
Portland State University
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Thomas Bender Lecture
“Cities, Nations, and the Cosmopolitan Experience”
October 29, 2009
Dale Jamieson Lecture
“The Moral and Political Challenges of Climate Change”
October 16, 2009
Dale Jamieson Interview
Facilitated by Avram Hiller (Philosophy, PSU)
October 16, 2009
International Writers Forum
October 9, 2009
Julie Sze Lecture
“Environmental Justice and Environmental Humanities at the Crossroads”
May 20, 2008
Julie Sze APA Compass Interview
May 20, 2008
Dylan Rodríguez Lecture
American Apocalypse: Prisons, the Racist states, and U.S. Globality
June 5, 2008