Events at Reed
Welcome to the Reed College events site! All events listed below are open to the public and are free, unless noted otherwise.
FEBRUARY
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Stephen E. Ostrow Distinguished Visitor in the Visual Arts Series Lecture
Richard Shiff
: “Loss of Subject”
7 p.m., Vollum lecture hall
Art historians usually classify images like Cézanne's Card Players as genre pictures, views of daily life that may reveal attitudes toward a class of society or a set of cultural practices. Can such pictures be abstractions? Abstractions of what? This lecture investigates the fact that Cézanne's earliest viewers evaluated his Card Players as if they were abstractions, and by this interpretive route, the paintings gained a special social significance. Richard Shiff is Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art and director of the Center for the Study of Modernism at the University of Texas at Austin. His scholarly interests range broadly across the field of modern art from the early nineteenth century to the present, with emphasis on French painting and post-war and contemporary American and European art. He has been particularly involved with theory and criticism. Professor Shiff’s publications include Cézanne and the End of Impressionism, Critical Terms for Art History, Barnett Newman: A Catalogue Raisonné, Doubt, Between Sense and de Kooning, and numerous studies of critical and methodological issues. Some of his recent essays have focused on Vincent van Gogh, Georges Seurat, Pablo Picasso, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Richard Serra, Bridget Riley, Georg Baselitz, Peter Doig, and Julie Mehretu. In addition to his ongoing contributions of interpretive essays to exhibition catalogues and artists' books, his current projects include a collection of his earlier essays. Professor Shiff comes to Reed as the Stephen E. Ostrow Distinguished Visitor in the Visual Arts Series. For more details, visit Reed’s Ostrow website.
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Visiting Writer Series: Debra Gwartney
6:30 p.m., Eliot Hall chapel
Debra Gwartney is the author of the memoir Live Through This, a finalist for the National Books Critics Award and the National Books for a Better Life Award. She also is coeditor, with her husband, Barry Lopez, of Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape. For more information, visit the series website.
10
ROMP! Conversation: "How Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire (1912) Shaped a Century of Music"
4 p.m., Eliot Hall chapel
Reed's annual symposium on music and the liberal arts, Reediana Omnibus Musica Philosopha, begins with a conversation between cellist Fred Sherry and composer David Schiff.
10
ROMP! Concert: Chamber Music Northwest
“Music from 1912: Celebrating the Reed Centennial”
7:30 p.m., Kaul Auditorium
Commemorating 1912's most progressive musical output, this concert marks the premier of “Class of 1915,” a suite of foxtrots, blues, and rags, arranged by David Schiff. Also performed are Maurice Ravel's Piano Trio (1914) and Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire op. 21 (1912) with musicians Jeffrey Swann, piano; Mary Nessinger, mezzo-soprano; Ida Kavafian, violin; Fred Sherry, cello; Tara Helen O’Connor, flute; and David Shifrin, clarinet. Tickets: $15–45; 503/294-6400 or at CMNW online.
11
ROMP! Talk: “Moonlight, Synaesthesia, and the Arts”
10 a.m.–noon, Psychology 105
Kimberly Jannarone, associate professor of theatre arts at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is the author of Artaud and His Doubles (University of Michigan Press, 2010). She received her MFA and DFA from the Yale School of Drama and has published essays and reviews on experimental performance in Theatre Survey, Theatre Journal, French Forum, Modernism/Modernity, TDR, and New Theatre Quarterly, and chapters in The Exquisite Corpse: Collaboration, Creativity, the World's Most Popular Parlor Game (University of Nebraska Press, 2009), and Avant-Garde Performance and Material Exchange (Palgrave, 2011). For essays she wrote on Artaud, she received the 2006 Gerald Kahan Scholar's Prize and the honorable mention for the 2009 ASTR Essay Prize, both awarded by the American Society for Theatre Research. She recently was a Camargo Fellow in Cassis, France, working on her next book, The Crowd in the Theatre.
11
ROMP! Talk: “1912: Music and Art on the Eve of the Great War”
1–3 p.m., Psychology 105
Olivia Mattis, a musicologist specializing in the links between music and the visual arts, is coeditor with art historian James H. Rubin of Rival Sisters: Art and Music at the Birth of Modernism (Ashgate/Lund-Humphries, forthcoming) and coauthor, with a team of art historians, of Visual Music: Synaesthesia in Art and Music Since 1900 (Thames and Hudson, 2005). She is a recipient of an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award and a research fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and is completing the first comprehensive biography of the composer Edgard Varèse. She also is a cofounder of the Sousa Mendes Foundation. Mattis works in academic administration at Stony Brook University.
11
Black History Month Performance: Darrell Grant Double Legacy Project
8 p.m., Kaul Auditorium
Join us in February during Black History Month for events honoring the movements, traditions, and legacies of peoples of the African diaspora. Internationally recognized jazz pianist and composer Darrell Grant has assembled an all-star lineup of musicians—including celebrated drummer Brian Blade, New York saxophonist Steve Wilson, and vibraphonist Joe Locke—for the Double Legacy Project, an exploration of the legacies we inherit and those we leave behind. The group will revisit compositions from Grant’s recording career and premiere “Step By Step,” an original extended suite inspired by the story of civil rights icon Ruby Bridges and composed for the celebration of Black History Month at Reed College.
12
Concert: Portland Baroque Orchestra
"Flute Recorder"
3 p.m., Kaul Auditorium
Works composed for recorder and transverse flute, performed by guest director Matthias Maute and Janet See; includes two Bach concertos and works by Quantz and Telemann. Preconcert talk, one hour prior to performance. Tickets: $16–45; 503/205-0715 or visit PBO online.
12
Concert of Chamber Music
7:30 p.m., Eliot Hall chapel
William Hunt, violin, Reed College music staff, with guest artists Erica Ward, violin; Leslie Hirsh, viola; Dorien DeLeon, cello; and Curtis Daily, bass, perform the music of Sergey Taneyev, Miklós Rózsa, and Antonin Dvorák.
15
Lecture: Timothy Howe
"Everyone Wants to be Alexander: Royal Propaganda and the Politics of Memory in Ancient Alexandria"
4:40 p.m., Vollum lecture hall
Timothy Howe is associate professor in ancient Mediterranean history and ancient studies and faculty adviser for the St. Olaf Society for Ancient History at St. Olaf College. Reflecting his wide interests, he teaches a range of classes about the ancient Mediterranean and Near East, from Egypt and Mesopotamia to Greece, Carthage, Rome, and Late Antique Europe. He is especially interested in Alexander the Great, warfare, agriculture, law, religion, trade, and historiography and has written numerous articles and book chapters on these topics. Howe is also the first recipient of the Scott R. Jacobs grant for Alexander the Great research from the Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah, and is currently working on two books about Alexander: All Things Alexander the Great (Greenwood, 2013) and Inventing Alexander: A Study in the Sources and Historiography of Alexander the Great.
16
The David Robinson Memorial Lecture in Human Rights:
A Conversation with Joshua E.S. Phillips ’96 and Darius Rejali
7:30 p.m., Psychology 105
Joshua E.S. Phillips received the Heywood Broun Award in 2009 and the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for excellence in broadcast journalism in 2010 for the American RadioWorks documentary he coproduced, “What Killed Sergeant Gray.” His highly acclaimed book, None of Us Were Like This Before: How American Soldiers Turned to Torture (2010), is based on firsthand reporting from Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as interviews with soldiers, their families and friends, military officials, and the victims of torture. Darius Rejali, professor of political science at Reed College, is a nationally recognized expert on government torture and interrogation. He is the author of Torture and Democracy (2007), an unrelenting examination of the use of torture by democracies in the 20th century, for which he received the 2007 Human Rights Book of the Year Award from the American Political Science Association and the 2009 Raphael Lemkin Award from the Institute for the Study of Genocide, New York, for the best nonfiction work in English which addresses the causes of genocide and crimes against humanity. Sponsored by the political science department.
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Black History Month Lecture: Charles J. Ogletree Jr.
"Race, Racism, and Discrimination in America"
7:30 p.m., Vollum lecture hall
Join us in February during Black History Month for events honoring the movements, traditions, and legacies of peoples of the African diaspora. Charles J. Ogletree, Harvard Law School’s Jesse Climenko Professor of Law and founding and executive director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, is a prominent legal theorist with an international reputation for taking a hard look at complex legal issues and working to secure equal rights guaranteed by the Constitution for everyone. Ogletree’s most recent book is The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Race, Class, and Crime in America.
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Black History Month Lecture: Glenn C. Loury
"Obama is No King: Reflections on Presidential Politics and the Black Prophet Tradition"
4:30 p.m., Vollum lecture hall
Join us in February during Black History Month for events honoring the movements, traditions, and legacies of peoples of the African diaspora. Glenn C. Loury, the Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences and professor of economics at Brown University, is a distinguished economist who has contributed to a variety of areas in applied microeconomic theory. Loury is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and was a Carnegie Scholar. He has been elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as a fellow of the Econometric Society, and as vice president of the American Economics Association. His most recent book is Ethnicity, Social Mobility, and Public Policy: Comparing the US and the UK. Sponsored by the Walter Krause Economics Lectures fund.
21
Film Screening: Medicine for Melancholy
7 p.m., Psychology 105
Barry Jenkins’s feature film debut, Medicine for Melancholy, was hailed as one of the best films of 2009 by A.O. Scott of the New York Times. Sponsored by the Multicultural Resource Center at Reed.
22
Lecture and Q&A with Filmmaker Barry Jenkins
6 p.m., Eliot Hall chapel
Barry Jenkins will screen several of his recent short films and discuss being a young, black filmmaker in the U.S. Sponsored by the Multicultural Resource Center at Reed.
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Black History Month Lecture: Isabel Wilkerson
"The Warmth of Other Suns"
7:30 p.m., Kaul Auditorium
Join us in February during Black History Month for events honoring the movements, traditions, and legacies of peoples of the African diaspora. Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and best-selling author Isabel Wilkerson spent years interviewing more than 1,200 people for The Warmth of Other Suns, a work of narrative nonfiction that tells the epic story of the Great Migration through the lives of three individuals. The Great Migration, which lasted from 1915 to 1970 and involved nearly six million people, was one of the largest internal migrations in United States history and changed the cultural and political landscape of the country. Wilkerson is professor of journalism and director of narrative nonfiction at Boston University. (Photo by Joe Henson.)
Through February
Hauser Library Exhibition
Treasures from Reed Friends: Donors and Their Books 1911–2011
8 a.m.–9 p.m., Monday–Friday; 10 a.m.–9 p.m., Saturday & Sunday; in the library flat and wall cases west of the circulation desk.
The Reed library has been immensely enriched by the gifts of many donors over the years. This display shows only a fraction of the people: alumni, faculty, and friends of Reed, who have generously donated outstanding materials to the library. All students and other researchers at Reed benefit greatly from access to these materials, particularly the primary resources. From the several poetry book manuscripts from Philip Whalen ’51 and Mary Barnard ’32 to original documents from the 15th and 16th centuries from Steven Herold ’63 and wonderful illuminated manuscript facsimiles from Burton Onstine ’54, we are all the richer for these wonderful supporters.
MARCH
8
Visiting Writer Series: Nikky Finney
6:30 p.m., Eliot Hall chapel
Nikky Finney is the author of four collections of poetry: On Wings Made of Gauze, Rice, The World is Round, and Head Off & Split. She has taught at Smith College in Massachusetts, Berea College in Kentucky, and is presently professor of creative writing at the University of Kentucky. For more information, visit the series website.
10
Concert: Portland Gay Symphonic Band
"Places in Time"
7:30 p.m., Kaul Auditorium
Take a musical trip around the world as seen by the rising of the sun! Featuring music by Copland, Zdechlik, Turina, and more, and featuring a silent auction. For more information, visit PGSB online.
17 & 18
Concert: Portland Gay Men's Chorus
"The Young Person's Guide to the Gay Men's Chorus"
March 17 at 8 p.m. & March 18 at 2 p.m., Kaul Auditorium
The students in the Gay/Straight Alliance at Truman High (a fictitious Portland-area school) are assigned a field trip to PGMC’s spring concert. The inspirational and memorable songs of the gay choral movement that have accompanied the struggle for equality for over three decades now serve as a soundtrack for the members of the GSA. We watch them overcome their inner angst, familial discord, and interpersonal drama, while they learn about contemporary gay history and choral music, and prepare to stake their own claim as leaders of tomorrow. Tickets: $16–30 online.
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Lecture: Samhita Mukhopadhyay
6 p.m., Vollum lounge
Samhita Mukhopadhyay, executive editor of feministing.com and the author of Outdated: Why Dating is Ruining Your Love Life, delivers a lecture on race, gender, and technology. Sponsored by the Multicultural Resource Center at Reed.
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Concert: Friends of Chamber Music
"Kronos Quartet"
7:30 p.m., Kaul Auditorium
For more than 30 years, the Kronos Quartet has pursued a singular artistic vision, combining a spirit of fearless exploration with a commitment to expanding the range and context of the string quartet. (Photo by Jay Blakesberg.)
Tickets: $14–40; 503/224-9842 or visit FOCM online.
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Concert: Portland Chamber Orchestra
"All That Jazz"
7:30 p.m., Kaul Auditorium
Concert features the return of virtuosic violinist Lindsay Deutsch, along with world-renowned jazz pianist and composer, Dick Hyman, in his Portland debut in a new transcription of Gershwin’s "Rhapsody in Blue" and works by Dick Hyman for jazz trio, violin, piano, and orchestra. Tickets: $15–25; 503/205-0715 or visit PCO online.
25
Concert: Portland Baroque Orchestra
"Oboe Clarinet Chalumeau"
3 p.m., Kaul Auditorium
Violinist/director Monica Huggett with clarinetist Eric Hoeprich and oboist Gonzalo X. Ruiz performing music by Fasch, Albinoni, Telemann, and Vivaldi. Preconcert talk, one hour prior to performance. Tickets: $16–45; 503/205-0715 or visit PBO online.
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Vine Deloria Jr. Lecture Series: Nichole Maher
4:30 p.m., Eliot Hall chapel
The fifth annual Vine Deloria Jr. Lecture Series explores the recent Coalition of Communities of Color and Portland State University 2011 report, "The Native American Community in Multnomah County: An Unsettling Profile." Nichole Maher, executive director of the Native American Youth and Family Center in North Portland, is the featured panelist. The Vine Deloria Jr. Lecture Series recognizes the work of Native American scholars whose intellectual pursuits reflect the spirit and commitment exhibited by Deloria. Sponsored by the Multicultural Resource Center at Reed.
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Concert: Chamber Music Northwest
"East Coast Chamber Orchestra"
7:30 p.m., Kaul Auditorium
Music by Elgar, Bunch, Beethoven, and Stravinsky, performed by the 18-piece “conductorless” chamber orchestra. Tickets: $15–45; 503/294-6400 or at CMNW online.
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Visiting Writer Series: Ander Monson
6:30 p.m., Eliot Hall chapel
Ander Monson is the author of a host of paraphernalia including a decoder wheel; several chapbooks and limited edition letterpress collaborations; a website (otherelectricities.com); and five books; most recently The Available World and Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir. For more information, visit the series website.
30 & 31, April 5–7
Reed Theatre: One Flea Spare
7:30 p.m., Mainstage Theatre
A play by Naomi Wallace, directed by theatre professor Kate Bredeson.
Tickets: $1–5; 503/777-7284 or visit the theatre box office online.
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Spring Canyon Day
9 a.m.–3 p.m., meet in the canyon below the Grove
Join the Reed community in planting native trees and shrubs in the canyon below the Grove residence halls; we'll be focusing on improving the habitat that overlooks the Farm property. The event is free and open to anyone. Tools, training, food, and fun will be provided. Dress for the weather and bring gloves if you have them. For more information email Zac Perry or call 503/572-8636. Visit the canyon website to learn more about the canyon, the ongoing restoration work, and this annual event.
APRIL
5
Visiting Writer Series: Martha Collins
6:30 p.m., Eliot Hall chapel
Martha Collins is the author, most recently, of White Papers, and of the booklength poem Blue Front, which won an Anisfield-Wolf Award and was chosen as one of 25 Books to Remember from 2006 by the New York Public Library. For more information, visit the series website.
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Concert: Portland Baroque Orchestra
"Emma Kirkby in Recital"
7:30 p.m., Kaul Auditorium
Soprano Emma Kirkby with Marcia Hadjimarkos on fortepiano in songs and cantatas by Mozart, Haydn, and Schubert. Cosponsored by the Reed music department. Tickets: $24–75; 503/205-0715 or visit PBO online.
MAY
6
Concert: Portland Baroque Orchestra
"Orchestra Keyboard"
4 p.m., Kaul Auditorium
J.S. Bach’s "Goldberg Variations" arranged for string and orchestra, led by Monica Huggett. Preconcert talk, one hour prior to performance. Tickets: $16–45; 503/205-0715 or visit PBO online.