Thursday, November 2
10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | "Great Decisions: Conflict in the South China Sea," Greg Felker [Jeanette Flaming], Kaneko Auditorium
|
1:30 – 3:30 p.m. | "The Changing Face of Church-State Relations," Steven K. Green [Bob Muir], Kaneko Auditorium
Steven K. Green is the Fred H. Paulus Professor of Law and Affiliated Professor of History at Willamette University where he teaches courses in Constitutional Law, First Amendment, Legal History, Jurisprudence, and Criminal Law in the College of Law, and Legal History and American Religious History in the College of Liberal Arts. In addition, Professor Green directs the interdisciplinary Center for Religion, Law and Democracy, one of Willamette’s Centers of Excellence. Professor Green joined the Willamette faculty in August 2001, after serving for 10 years as legal director and special counsel for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a Washington, DC, public interest organization that concentrates on First Amendment issues. Professor Green has extensive litigation and appellate experience in First Amendment law involving issues such as school prayer, public funding of religious institutions, public religious displays, religious discrimination, religious free exercise and freedom of speech. |
Tuesday, November 7
10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | "Public Health in the Prevention of War and the Promotion of Peace," William Wiist [Jeanette Flaming], Kaneko Auditorium
Dr. Bill Wiist is a member of the Working Group on the Primary Prevention of War, a group affiliated with the Peace Caucus of the American Public Health Association. He got his professional start in violence prevention by obtaining and administering two of the first youth violence and intimate partner violence prevention grants awarded by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He has made numerous presentations about violence prevention at national meetings, including presentations about the prevention of war at Oregon State and OHSU, as well as publishing scholarly journal articles about violence and the prevention of war. In 2013 Dr. Wiist retired from his position as tenured, full Professor of Health Sciences, and Senior Scientist in the Interdisciplinary Health Policy Institute at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. He now holds a Courtesy Faculty appointment in Global Health in the College of Public Health and Human Sciences at Oregon State. |
1:30 – 3:30 p.m. | "The Great American Songbook with jazz vocalist Rebecca Kilgore," Rebecca Kilgore [Solveig Holmquist], ** Cone Chapel **
She has over 50 recordings to her credit and over 1,000 songs in her repertoire (and counting). Her most recent recording is with German pianist/arranger Bernd Lhotzky with whom she tours in Germany. For more information on her recordings and songs and her many collaborations, refer to her website: www.rebeccakilgore.com Originally from Massachusetts, she resides in Oregon but keeps busy touring the US and performing on jazz cruises. She has been a frequent guest on National Public Radio’s ‘Fresh Air’ with Terry Gross, has appeared on ‘A Prairie Home Companion’, and with Michael Feinstein at Carnegie Hall. |
Thursday, November 9
10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | "The Salem Clique : Oregon’s Founding Brothers," Barbara Mahoney [Toni Peterson], Kaneko Auditorium
BARBARA S. MAHONEY is a historian whose interest in Oregon history began when she moved with her family to Salem, Oregon, in 1976. She has contributed a number of entries to the Oregon Encyclopedia and is the author of Dispatches and Dictators, a biography of Oregon native Ralph Barnes, who was a foreign correspondent in Europe in the 1930s. Dispatches and Dictators won the Oregon Book Award for Literary Nonfiction in 2003. |
1:30 – 3:30 p.m. | "Managing our Public Lands: Why Everyone Should Care," Steve Ellis [Denis Williamson], Kaneko Auditorium Veteran land manager Steve Ellis shares his 38 years of experience managing public lands at the Bureau of Land Management and the US Forest Service. These millions of acres belong to all Americans but not everyone agrees on how they should be used. Some look to them primarily for recreation and conservation while others want them for grazing, timber production and energy development. Thousands of plant and animal species thrive on these lands while communities across the nation rely on BLM and USFS lands to provide things such as safe drinking water and a stable economy. Steve will highlight issues and challenges facing today's land managers in balancing competing demands on how we use our public lands. Steve Ellis has built his professional career on managing public lands for multiple use and sustained yield, starting as a forester for the BLM in southern Idaho and rising to become the Bureau’s Deputy Director, the top career position in the BLM until December 2016 when he retired. Ellis, who came to the Washington headquarters post in 2013, from his position as the BLM Idaho State Director, had served in a variety of jobs across the agency. He served as the Associate District Manager in Las Vegas, Manager of the Oregon’s Lakeview District and Deputy State Director in Alaska. Ellis also worked for the BLM in Washington, D.C., for five years in the middle of his career, including one year as a BLM Congressional Fellow in the U.S. Senate, where he worked on mining law reform and forest health legislation. Part of Ellis’ career in public service included seven years with the U.S. Forest Service, where he worked as Forest Supervisor of the Fremont-Winema National Forest in Oregon, and Forest Supervisor of the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest in Oregon and Idaho. |
Tuesday, November 14
9:00 - 10:30 a.m. | November ICL Board Meeting, Kaneko Conference Room |
10:30 - 11:30 a.m. | "Autumn Magic: The Science & Beauty of Autumn," Evelyn Smith [ICL], Kaneko Auditorium
|
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | “How a Western Oregon football player’s investigation into a local bit of folklore resulted in a multitude of questions and a lifetime career for him,” Wayne Wallace [ICL], Kaneko Auditorium
|
1:30 – 2:30 p.m. | "A Partial History of Willamette Valley Migrant Services," Bill Foster [ICL], Kaneko Auditorium
|
2:30 – 3:30 p.m. | "Visions for the Future--a Continuation of Our 25th Anniversary Celebration; Checkpoint: ICL Members Only," Mark Kasoff and Ken Panck [ICL], Kaneko Auditorium
2:50 - 3:30pm Mark Kasoff will moderate a discussion. Topics include "How are we doing"? New members are asked to tell us how things are going so far. This is the session to get your questions answered. ![]() Mark Kasoff is Executive Director of ICL and Ken Panck is Immediate Past President of ICL |
Thursday, November 16
10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | "Canids in Oregon Country: Oregon Wolf Recovery and Management for the 21st Century," Joe Bowersox [Anne Bowden], Kaneko Auditorium
Joe Bowersox is the Dempsey Chair of Environmental Policy and Law at Willamette University, teaching courses in the Environmental and Earth Sciences and Politics departments. His research interests include forest and land management, environmental values, and sustainability. He has just completed a project on Oregon biodiversity policy focusing on wolf management and forest management, due out in December, and is spending his sabbatical examining sustainable forestry in Tochigi Japan, Northwest Oregon, and the Coburg District of Germany. |
12:30-1:30 p.m. | Lunch Hour Discussion, Kaneko Auditorium Many folks who attended the Oct 31st discussion of Tim Snyder’s book On Tyranny: 20 Lessons from the Twentieth Century expressed an interest in further discussion. We will meet for an informal session in Kaneko Auditorium over the lunch hour to further discuss the topics. Please bring a sack lunch or join us in progress.
Meanwhile, as you finish the copies of the book please return them so others can at least get started on it, prior to the discussion. |
1:30 – 3:30 p.m. | "Museum Education, Looking at Art," Elizabeth Garrison [Sharon Wright], Kaneko Auditorium
She is the Cameron Paulin Curator of Education at Hallie Ford and has held positions at the Portland Art Museum, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and at the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska. Education B.A., University of the Pacific M.A., University of California, Davis. |
Tuesday, November 21
THANKSGIVING BREAK NO CLASSES |
Thursday, November 23
THANKSGIVING BREAK NO CLASSES |
Tuesday, November 28
10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | "Adventures in Custom Underwater Housings for Scientific Equipment," Ken Sexton [Joel Woodman], Kaneko Auditorium
Ken Sexton recently retired from his business of 45 years, designing and building underwater housings for scientific equipment. Customers included federal and state governments, US Navy, EPA, US National Laboratories, many domestic and foreign universities, and National Geographic, Good Morning America, Deadliest Catch, and many others. He holds a BA in Zoology from California State University San Diego and a Masters in Biology from Cal State Long Beach. He has traveled on business to many US and foreign destinations, generally to support the housings he made for customers, and for conferences. His passions include birds and marine mammals, photography, inventing/tinkering, and constantly gaining new knowledge. As part of his retirement, he is founding a new Innovation Center at the Oregon State University Marine Science Building that will open in June 2019 in Newport, Oregon. |
1:30 – 2:30 p.m. | "Contemporary Book Discussion," Jan Svingen , Kaneko Auditorium
|
2:30 – 3:30 p.m. | "Favorite Books," Susan Lee [ICL Curriculum], Kaneko Auditorium ![]() |
Thursday, November 30
10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | "Great Decisions: U.S. Foreign Policy and Petroleum," ICL Members [Jeanette Flaming], Kaneko Auditorium
Danny Shaffer will be presenting some of his research and questions. Will Staver will guide us in group discussions. Additional information can be found at www.greatdecisions.org, including the glossary. |
1:30 – 3:30 p.m. | "Theme and Variations," Georgeanne Young [Solveig Holmquist], ** Cone Chapel ** Georgienne Young and friends will present a program of chamber music for piano and strings which is all Theme and Variations by Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Brahms and Lee Morgan. The four musicians include two different pianists, Guy Hallman and Bill Leland, violinist Cathy Heithaus and Georgienne Young on cello. You will hear a Passacaglia by Halvorson based on a tune of Handel's written for violin and cello duo, a violin and piano sonata movement by Mozart played by Cathy and Guy, a playful variations for piano and cello a theme by Mozart written by Beethoven, performed by Georgienne and Guy, the monumental "Variations Serieuses" (serious variations) for solo piano played by Bill, a lovely Brahms Trio Andante con moto movement performed by Guy, Cathy and Georgienne and finally an arrangement of the jazz tune "The Sidewinder" by Lee Morgan especially arranged for violin, cello and piano by Guy Hallman for this program. The musicians are excited to share this program and hope to show you how and why the form of Theme and Variations has been popular throughout music history with composers, performers and listeners alike. Georgienne Young began her study of cello at age nine and has continued to be a student and teacher of the instrument ever since then. Her professional background is extensive, in solo, symphonic, opera and chamber music performance. She has been Principle Cellist for many regional productions. Guy Hallman has been a student of the piano since childhood and has achieved remarkable success. He obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree from UCLA in 1979, and since the has done freelance piano performance and has been affiliated with a variety of top notch orchestral and choral groups in Southern California. Ask him about his amazing second career as a science educator. Cathy Heithaus is a student of the violin. She studied with Will Schwartz at Colorado State and with Abraham Chavez Jr. and Oswald Lehnert at the University of Colorado.She has been affiliated with the Aspen Music Festival Orchestra, Colorado Philharmonic National Repertoire Orchestra, The Brico Symphony and many local and regional music groups in Oregon. William Leland is Professor of Music, Emeritus, at New Mexico State University. He is a graduate of the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music, and received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the College-Conservatory of the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Leland has performed in Solo and Chamber music recitals in 28 states, Germany, Italy and Mexico. He has many articles about piano performance. |