Welcome

The Portland Center for Public Humanities is a consortium of over 100 scholars who seek to foster intellectual community and activity in our metropolitan area. In addition to encouraging scholarly collaboration between our campuses and organizations, the center provides an annual slate of programs that bring scholarship and research to bear on matters of public interest. The center seeks to let knowledge serve the Portland community in the most direct possible sense, by providing forums where intellectual inquiry and civic engagement come together. We seek partnerships with all local organizations who share these goals.

Upcoming Events

Dylan Rodríguez Lecture: “American Apocalypse: Prisons, the Racist State, and U.S. Globality.”
Thursday, June 5, 2008, 7 pm, Smith 296

Dylan Rodríguez Workshop
Friday, June 6, 2008, 11 am, Neuberger 407

Download "Domestic War Zones and the Extremities of Power: Conceptualizing the U.S. Prision Regime" from his book Forced Passages: Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals and the U.S. Prison Regime.

Dylan Rodriguez, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at UC Riverside, is a scholar-activist whose inter-disciplinary scholarship links critical race studies and cultural studies to examine race, state violence, and community/identity formations. His book, Forced Passages: Imprisoned Intellectuals and the U.S. Prison Regime, offers a lineage of radical prison thought through the writings of imprisoned intellectuals such as Mumia Abu-Jamal, Angela Davis, and Leonard Peltier. He is also a co-founder of the Critical Resistance organizing collective, a national grassroots organization committed to challenging the prison industrial complex as the answer to social problems.

Jonathan Walker Talk about "The Booke of Sir Thomas Moore”
Tuesday, June 10, 2008, 1 pm, Neuberger 407

Jonathan Walker is Assistant Professor of English at Portland State University, where he teaches English Renaissance drama and critical theory. His research interests include medieval and Renaissance drama in English, performance theory, feminism and gender studies, and print and manuscript culture in early modern England. He has co-edited a collection of essays titled Early Modern Academic Drama (Ashgate, forthcoming 2008), and his current book project is titled Theater of the Obscæne: Offstage Action on the English Renaissance Stage. Jonathan has also published on transvestism in medieval hagiographic literature, on lesbianism in Ovid and Augustan Rome, and on the place of “offstage action” in classical dramatic criticism.