Tuesday, October 4
10:00 am-12:00 pm | "From Las Vegas to Googie and Back," Bill Foster , Kaneko Auditorium ![]() Bill is a retired architect, member of ICL since 2015, and a former Curriculum Director. His presentations have been multiple and varied. We are always happy to have him share his knowledge and passion. |
1:00 pm-2:00 pm | "Art Potpourri," Gretchen Coppedge, Brenda Kidder, Paul Rice [Sharon Wright], Kaneko Auditorium
Gretchen will tell us about Janis Rozentals, a Latvian painter; Brenda will talk about artist and architect Mahoney Griffin; Paul will discuss the bronzes of Loet Vanderveen |
2:00 pm-3:00 pm | "Great Decisions DVD: Industrial Policy," Jeanette Flaming, Kaneko Auditorium ![]() Jeanette Flaming has been a member of ICL since September 2000. |
Thursday, October 6
10:00 am-12:00 pm | "Icelandic Family Sagas," Gantt Gurley [Ann Boss], Kaneko Auditorium ![]() Dr. Gantt Gurley is a Professor at the University of Oregon where he teaches Scandinavian Literature and Folklore, Judaic Literature and Folklore, and Old Norse Literature. He is also the Program Director of the Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies. Gantt received his B.A. from Bard College in 1994 and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2007. Before joining the faculty at the University of Oregon, Gurley lectured in the University of California’s Scandinavian Department. He was a Harry Starr Fellow in Judaica at the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University. His book, Meïr Aron Goldschmidt and the Poetics of Prose, looks at one of the greatest nationalistic writers of Denmark, who was a Jewish artist, examining Goldschmidt’s relationship with the Hebrew Bible and later Rabbinical traditions as a form of poetics. Gantt is currently working on a joint project that is mapping the sudden appearance of Rabbinic tales in 18th and 19th century vernaculars in Northern Europe. A central aim of the project is to illuminate the mechanisms whereby Hebraic thought is reawakened in the European consciousness. His research and teaching interests include ancient and medieval song culture, the birth of the novel, the Wandering Jew, Long Romanticism, Old Norse literature, the lyrical mode, Hans Christian Andersen, and notions of religiosity in the Danish Golden Age. |
Tuesday, October 11
10:00 am-12:00 pm | "Environment OR: Protecting Our Air, Water, and Open Space," Celeste Meiffren-Swango [Eric Reif], Kaneko Auditorium ![]() As director of Environment Oregon, Celeste develops and runs campaigns to win real results for Oregon's environment. She has worked on issues ranging from preventing plastic pollution, stopping global warming, defending clean water, and protecting our beautiful places. Celeste's organizing has helped to reduce kids' exposure to lead in drinking water at childcare facilities in Oregon, encourage transportation electrification, ban single-use plastic grocery bags, defend our bedrock environmental laws and more. She is also the author of the children's book, Myrtle the Turtle, empowering kids to prevent plastic pollution. Celeste lives in Portland, Ore., with her husband and two daughters, where they frequently enjoy the bounty of Oregon's natural beauty. |
1:00 pm-2:00 pm | "Great Decisions DVD: Russia and the United States," Kasia Quillinan [Jeanette Flaming], Kaneko Auditorium ![]() Kasia has been a member of ICL since September 2007. |
2:00 pm-3:00 pm | "Great Decisions DVD: Biden's Agenda," Jeanette Flaming, Kaneko Auditorium ![]() Jeanette Flaming has been a member of ICL since September 2000. |
Thursday, October 13
10:00 am-10:30 am | "ICL 30th Anniversary Celebration: Social," ICL Social Services, Kaneko Auditorium
Social time with coffee, tea, and (back by popular demand) an extensive buffet of sweet and savory goodies provided by members with last names A-L. |
10:30 am-11:30 am | "Anniversary Celebration: Reflections on 30 Years of ICL," Joan Robinson, Don Gallagher [Don Gallagher], Kaneko Auditorium
Welcome by Joan Robinson, ICL Executive Director, followed by Reflections on 30 Years of ICL, a slide presentation by long-time member, Don Gallagher. |
11:30 am-12:00 pm | "ICL 30th Anniversary Celebration: Social," ICL Social Services, Kaneko Auditorium
More socializing with coffee and refreshments. |
Tuesday, October 18
10:00 am-12:00 pm | "Trumpets and Colors of the Musical Alphabet," Joan Paddock [Solveig Holmquist], Kaneko Auditorium Dr. Joan Paddock will share music on trumpets, cornets, flügelhorn, and the Scandinavian Wooden Trumpet, the Lur. Excerpts of favorites will feature twelve different members of the trumpet family in a variety of repertoire spanning several centuries. Historical and anecdotal experiences will be shared. Paddock, originally from Minot, North Dakota, continued trumpet studies in Miyazaki, Japan while abroad with American Field Service (AFS) in high school. She is the first woman to receive a doctorate in trumpet performance from Indiana University, was a Fulbright scholar to Norway, and received an Emmy Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for original music written and performed by her for the documentary, “Journey from Death,” in 1992. A longstanding member of Oregon’s Britt Festival Orchestra trumpet section, she also performs as ‘on call’ trumpeter with the Portland Opera and Oregon Symphony. Paddock enjoys sounding the Lur (Scandinavian Wooden Trumpet) and trumpets for Nordic cultural celebrations abroad and in the USA |
1:00 pm-3:00 pm | "When Ideology Trumps Science," Erika Wolters [Don Gallagher], Kaneko Auditorium ![]() Erika Allen Wolters is Assistant Professor in Political Science and Associate Director of the Public Policy undergraduate program at Oregon State University. As an Environmental Social Scientist, her research focuses on environmental behavior, adaptation, and policy in response to resource use and conservation in an era of rapid climate change. Focusing primarily on the Western United States, Dr. Wolters examines the interface of science and policy, public lands issues, community resilience, contested natural resources, sustainable behavior and adaptive capacity, and policies regarding the food, energy, and water nexus. |
Thursday, October 20
10:00 am-11:00 am | "Garden Restorations," Bobbie Dolp [Jinx Brandt], Kaneko Auditorium ![]() Garden restoration is a multifaceted undertaking, unique in every case, challenging, and fun! The outcome is an amalgam of many factors: the goal, guidelines established by the US Dept of Interior, history of the site, available historic resources, unanswerable questions, “aha” moments, cost, and the impact of climate change. I look forward to sharing with you the journey at Gaiety Hollow. Dr. Dolp received her PhD in Biology from University of California, at Berkeley. She eventually came to Oregon, creating a home and a gentleman farm on the Westside of Eola Hills. She taught physics and chemistry at Central High School in Independence. Once retired, she became very involved with the newly emerging Lord & Shriver Conservancy in Salem, helping to establish it and the legacy of these two women landscape architects. A past member of ICL, she re-enrolled again in 9/1/2021. |
11:00 am-12:00 pm | "The Cutting Edge," Ken Ash [Jinx Brandt], Kaneko Auditorium ![]() Ken Ash has been an ICL member since 2012 and is a respected and popular ICL presenter. |
Tuesday, October 25
10:00 am-12:00 pm | "Building a Monster," James DeRosso [Jinx Brandt], Kaneko Auditorium ![]() The presentation will include how the whole monster thing got started and then grew to the thing that consumes his art life. He will show and talk about the process he goes through to conceive ideas, sketch them, and then sculpt them in clay. James will show his techniques for texturing, and glazing, and incorporating found objects. He'll talk about the business of his art, and also the whole other aspect of teaching monster making to kids and adults, and leading monster making parties. The conclusion will be a look at where the monster ideas are going next. James grew up in The Dalles, Oregon and then traveled the world while serving 4 years in the Navy. He then got his college degree in graphic design, but ceramics quickly drew him away from a career in advertising. He has now been making monsters for over 25 years here in Portland. He sells his work at large art shows, and also in galleries. He teaches monster making in middle school classrooms, and also to adults in private parties. |
1:00 pm-2:00 pm | "Music Potpourri," Betsy Belshaw, Don Gallagher [Solveig Holmquist], Kaneko Auditorium
Betsy will talk to us about opera. Don's musical offering is titled "Postmodern Jukebox" |
2:00 pm-3:00 pm | "Great Decisions DVD: Drug Policy in Latin America," Jeanette Flaming, Kaneko Auditorium ![]() Jeanette Flaming has been a member of ICL since September 2000. |
Thursday, October 27
10:00 am-11:00 am | "Water-Ice-Sky: an Artist's Journey to Antarctica," April Waters [Jinx Brandt], Kaneko Auditorium ![]() Waters’ paintings have been featured in numerous one person and group exhibitions, including a one person show in the office of Oregon’s Governor. Her work is included in public and private collections throughout the United States including The Hallie Ford Museum of Art, The State of Oregon’s Art Collection, Western State University, Oregon State University, Salem Hospital, The Adventist Medical Center in Portland, The Sacred Heart PeaceHealth Medical Center, Springfield, OR and The Hermann Memorial Hospital in Houston, Texas. |
11:00 am-12:00 pm | "Great Decisions: Climate Change," Great Decisions DVD [Jeanette Flaming], Kaneko Auditorium
The ideological divide in the United States on the subject of climate change has impeded progress in curbing greenhouse emissions. But extreme weather events at both ends of the thermometer have focused attention on the consequences of inaction. What role will the United States play in future negotiations on climate? By Ron Bee |