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Profiles: Jill Tarter and the Search for E.T.

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

This ongoing series explores the people, places, and events that shape our lives, our world, our universe. Presented by Dr. Bill Thierfelder, professor emeritus and docent at the American Museum of Natural History. JILL TARTER AND THE SEARCH FOR E.T.: Jill Tarter has spent more than 40 years working on a Holy Grail search for life beyond planet Earth. Tarter, an astronomer and co-founder of the SETI Institute in California, is also the inspiration for Ellie Arroway, the alien-hunting protagonist of Carl Sagan’s 1985 classic novel Contact and the award-winning 1997 Jodie Foster film adaptation. While Sagan and his friends were popularizing the mysteries of the universe in books and television, Tarter was working behind the scenes, spending countless hours managing underfunded telescopes, fundraising for…

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Free

Matthias Kemeny Endowed Design Lecture Series Presents: Amuki

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Known as “Amuki” (inner silence), Vanessa Zúñiga Tinizaray is an Ecuadorian designer. Join us as we welcome her to PSUGD! About this Event Known as “Amuki” (inner silence), Vanessa Zúñiga Tinizaray is an Ecuadorian designer. Her passion has led her to investigate the visual signs of the ancestral cultures of Latin America. She is known for her typeface, motion graphics and pattern design. Vanessa will be offering a free lecture, as well as an exclusive eight-person, in-depth workshop on modularity and typography! Explore Vanessa's work more at amuki.com.ec! Join us via zoom: https://pdx.zoom.us/j/84420457308 Promo by Cody Sheppard Shaw The Matthias Kemeny Design Lecture Series is coordinated and managed by the Portland State Graphic Design program. This series brings internationally celebrated design professionals annually to Portland…

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Ooligan and Beyond Series: Career Possibilities Panel

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Celebrate twenty years of Ooligan Press by joining us for a panel discussion featuring some of our fabulous alumni to learn about the many different career possibilities for graduates of the book publishing program. Panelists include Jenny Kimura, YA book designer at Little, Brown; Dory Athey, who just hung out a shingle for a boutique marketing firm in Minnesota, having marketed for Counterpoint/Softskull (she's also a zine maker); Lisa Hein, an editor working in production at U. Chicago Press; and Kate Barnes, who is an ebook producer at W. W. Norton. Register for the event here: https://forms.gle/onYwabefbeTXHA2i9

Free

“A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff” Film Talkback with Alicia Jo Rabins

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff, the acclaimed one-woman show by Alicia Jo Rabins, has been adapted into a film, to be featured in Portland International Film Festival. Join us as Havurah Shalom hosts the Jewish community in a talk-back and Q&A with Alicia Jo and her director, Alicia J. Rose! To participate, purchase a ticket through PIFF for virtual viewing. The film will be available to you Friday, March 5, to Sunday, March 14: https://cinemaunbound.org/events/a-kaddish-for-bernie-madoff/ Consider watching it individually or in a group you organize at 7 pm on March 6, then join our Havurah-hosted Zoom Room at 8:30 pm for the talkback. RSVP here: https://www.havurahshalom.org/event/watch-party-for-a-kaddish-for-bernie-madoff.html Questions? Email info@havurahshalom.org.

$9

Artist Statement As Manifesto Workshop w/ Pamela K. Santos

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

WITH: Pamela K. Santos WHAT: 3 hour online workshop (with frequent bio breaks for every hour) WHEN: Sat., March 13, 2021, from 11AM to 2PM PST WHERE: Zoom. Meeting ID provided in advance after purchase COST: $125 for workshop, $60 for consultation. See details below. Do you feel challenged by the prospect of describing your writing? Do you need guidance on what an artist statement is for writers? Are you trying to create an artist website and want to include your philosophy on writing? Open to writers of all experience levels, Pamela will share her approach to crafting artist statements as manifesto, love letter to her art, and bold declaration of her place in literary community. The craft lecture will include examples from her applications…

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$125

Band of Submitting Writers & Artists—Begins March 14th

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

WHAT: A two week online collaboration on submitting work to literary publications WHEN: Sunday March 14th @12-2pm & Sunday, March 21st @12-2pm ACCESS: $100 (additional $50 for glamour photo by Katie) Payment plans always available—contact Daniel at registration@corporealwriting.com Where: The Corporeal Zoom room SCHOLARSHIPS: Scholarships are available for collaboration only, not headshots please click here to apply. So, you’ve written something and/or created some visual art and want to get it out into the world of literary publications, now what? The process of submitting can be overwhelming, whether you’re just beginning to think about it, or returning to the process, and doing it alone can seem even more daunting. Where do we begin? Who do we submit to? What if you have questions along the…

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$100

Joanne B. Freeman: Virtual Hatfield Lecture

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War Joanne B. Freeman, a professor of history and American studies at Yale University, is a leading expert on early American politics and culture. The author of the award-winning Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic, and editor of Alexander Hamilton: Writings and The Essential Hamilton, readers know Freeman best for her expertise in dirty, nasty politics. Her most recent book, The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War—a New York Times notable book of 2018 and a finalist for the Lincoln Prize—explores the impact and legacies of physical violence in the U.S. Congress in the decades leading up to the Civil War. Long committed to public-minded history, she…

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$30 – $80

Bagley Wright Lecture Series: Douglas Kearney

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Red Read: Depictions of Violence Put Down in Poem Douglas Kearney has long written about the conflation between violence and entertainment in U.S. American culture, from badman folklore to postcards of lynching. Yet, the question that may haunt any writer is, what are the ethics of representing violence? How do poetic aestheticizations of brutality transform, reinscribe, or abet flesh and blood violence? Through a series of vignettes in which Kearney entangles his encounters with violence in writing and his own attempts to put it down on the page, the poet investigates what compels him about the subject. The Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry supports contemporary poets as they explore in-depth their own thinking on poetry and poetics, and give a series of lectures resulting…

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Mind Fuck: A Seminar on Writing Better Sex with Melissa Febos

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

WHEN: Saturday, March 27th, 2021 :: 1PM—3PM Pacific WHERE: ZOOM! (But of course.) Meeting ID will be provided ahead of time. HOW MUCH: $100. Payment plans are available, please contact Daniel Elder at registration@corporealwriting.com SCHOLARSHIPS: Scholarships are always available. Click here to apply. Mind Fuck: A Seminar on Writing Better Sex Desire drives any story worth telling. One of the most notoriously difficult forms of desire to write is the sexual. As Audre Lorde wrote, “The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women. It has been made into the confused, the trivial, the psychotic, the plasticized sensation.” To write scenes that remove sex from patriarchal structures means to (re)place them in the context of their inhabiting corporeal bodies and realities, to engage topics…

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$100

Mass Atrocities: Could it happen in the US?

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Please join us in welcoming Dr. James Waller to Portland via Zoom, where he will be presenting his world recognized research on Atrocity Prevention, and will be sharing findings from his recent report on risks in the United States, published through the Stanley Center for Peace and Security. Through his work with the Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass atrocities, Dr. Waller has identified categories of risk that have particular significance in our current social and political landscape. Mike Brand and Jessica Murrey will respond to Dr. Waller’s presentation, engaging questions and conversation from their unique perspectives in atrocity prevention, policy making, and peacebuilding. This event is co-sponsored by OJMCHE, Never Again Coalition, PSU’s Holocaust and Genocide Studies Project, WorldOregon, The Immigrant…

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