Tuesday, February 5
10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | "Trees: A Community Asset," Patricia Farrell & Deborah Topp [J. Lloyd], Ford 122 We will discuss the benefits of trees, Salem’s tree canopy studies, and how trees can help the city meet its permit obligations while improving community health and livability. Patricia Farrell is a Natural Resource Specialist with a background in biology and landscape architecture. Deborah Topp is a Natural Resource Outreach Specialist with a background in plant ecophysiology. |
1:00-3:00 p.m. | "Roads Less Traveled," Steve Arndt [Eunice Porter], Ford 122 Steve Arndt has written six books in the series entitled “Roads Less traveled in Oregon.” His books take us to all areas of the state–especially along its backroads and byways. The series leads modern explorers on thousands of miles of routes and explains what they will find along the way.
Steve, his wife Diane, and their now-grown children have spent many weekends and school vacations exploring Oregon back roads and off-the-beaten-track places. Today, their car is filled with child safety seats for young granddaughters who have begun road trips with grandma and grandpa. |
Thursday, February 7
10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | "The History of the Chemawa Indian School," Rebecca Dobkins [Sharon Wright], Ford 122
Dr. Dobkins joined Willamette faculty in 1996, after working as a researcher at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History. Interests include museum studies, Native American contemporary and traditional arts, Maori (New Zealand) arts, and the indigenous peoples, human rights, and the environment. As a curator at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Dobkins has organized exhibitions of Native American art that have toured nationally and internationally. Projects include the exhibition The Art of Ceremony: Regalia of Native Oregon, which was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts 2008 American Masterpieces grant. Just announced is the receipt of the Earle A. Chiles Award by Dr. Dobkins for advancing native American artistic expressions. |
1:00–2:00 p.m. | "The Joy of Statistics," Video Lecture, Hans Roslin [G. Adkins], Ford 122 Hans Rosling says there’s nothing boring about stats, and then goes on to prove it. A one-hour long documentary produced by Wingspan Productions and broadcast by BBC, 2010.
This video presentation will be divided into two parts, one to be shown in this hour, the other in the 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. hour. |
2:00 - 3:00 p.m. | "The Joy of Statistics," Supplementary Presentation, George Adkins, Ford 122 "The Joy of Statistics" video (continued). Much of Rosling's research has focused on links between economic development, agriculture, poverty and health. In addition to the video, the Trendalyzer statistical animation software will be demonstrated, and used to explore some statistics relating to global health. |
Tuesday, February 12
10:00 a.m.-11:00 p.m. | "The Oratorio, Video Lecture 13," Dr. Robert Greenberg [S. Holmquist, J. Miller], Ford 122
The two most important genres to evolve in Baroque sacred music were the oratorio and the Lutheran church cantata. The Baroque oratorio, marked by an exuberance not found in the Renaissance mass, incorporated elements of opera. Oratorio evolved in Italy as a substitute for opera, which was banned during Lent. From modest beginnings as a musical setting of a biblical text, oratorio grew in popularity as an unstaged opera on a religious subject. In England, oratorio became enormously popular thanks to the creative power of George Frederick Handel, whose Messiah was, from the outset, one of the most popular pieces ever written. |
11:00 a.m. –12:00 p.m. | "Heinrich Schutz’s 'Historia von Geburt Herr Jesu Christ'," Lecture-Demonstration, Solveig Holmquist, Ford 122 Oratorio became an enormously popular genre in the years following Messiah’s first performance, often featuring lengthy performances by gargantuan forces (choirs numbering in the hundreds) during the 19th century. Huge groups, producing huge sounds, became the norm in the new performance halls, particularly in England. The new middle class, with more time and money, flocked to hear oratorios such as Elijah, the masterwork by Felix Mendelssohn. Early oratorios that were created for the edification of the faithful are often neglected today. This lecture-demonstration features the Christmas oratorio by Heinrich Schutz, the master composer born 100 years before Bach. The work is rich with symbolism, character stereotypes, text painting, and humor: just the thing to keep early Protestant churchgoers awake, warm, and amused in a freezing-cold North German church in December.
Dr. Holmquist received her musical training at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, where she sang with the renowned St. Olaf Choir; at Western Oregon State College; and at the University of Oregon. Her professional affiliations include the American Choral Directors Association, serving as President of the Oregon chapter from 2003-2005 and also as a Repertoire & Standards Chair on the Northwest Board. She was President of Oregon Music Educators National Conference from 1992-1994, and of the Northwest Division of the American Choral Directors Association. |
1:00-3:00 p.m. | "Worldviews within WIllamette," Nomi Pearce, Language in Motion Coordinator [T. Zook], Ford 122 Language in Motion (LiM) is a community outreach program that provides a volunteer opportunity for international students, study abroad returnees and language assistants to share language and culture in the community. In its sixth year, LiM has provided nearly 400 presentations. It provides Willamette University students a unique opportunity to share culture and language with students in the Salem-Keizer school district. Study abroad returnees, international students and language assistants are invited into local classrooms to provide learning opportunities for elementary, middle and high school students.
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Thursday, February 14
10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | "Student Retention: Why Students Fail College and College Fails Students," David Douglass, Dean of Campus Life [ J. Flaming], Ford 122 Description TBA
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1:00-2:00 p.m. | "Language Families – Tracing Indo-European," Language Video, Prof. John McWhorter [G. Adkins], Ford 122
How can we know what a proto-language was like? This is definitely a job for those who like puzzles, as it was not a written language. Professor McWhorter takes us through some of the logic in deciphering the original word for ‘sister-in-law’ as an example of comparative reconstruction. He also gives examples of extinct written languages recently discovered, and relates human migration to the evolution of the Indo-European language group. This lecture will be hosted by Peter Ronai. |
2:00–3:00 p.m. | "Hard Thoughts and Jealousies," Nancy Richings, Ford 122 The times and trials of my 9-times-great grandmother, Goodwife Mary Parsons who was tried for being a witch in 1674.
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Tuesday, February 19
10:00 a.m. | "Historic School Names," Billijean Hill [P. Rasmussen], Ford 122 Names of Salem high schools and grade schools, which are named for local individuals.
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11:00 a.m. | "Leveraging the New to Showcase the Old," Mary McRobinson, University Archivist [I. Konopasek], Ford 122 Archival repositories collect “old stuff,” but the methods used to preserve, promote, and provide access to the materials are "cutting-edge." Learn how Willamette’s Archives and Special Collections is utilizing the latest technology to increase access to collections—including ICL’s.
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1:00-3:00 p.m. | "Manuel Izquierdo: Myth, Nature and Renewal," Roger Hull [Sharon Wright], Ford 122 (possible Hallie Ford Museum venue TBA) Professor Emeritus Roger Hull will talk about the life and artistic legacy of Izquierdo as pertains to a major retrospective show currently in three galleries at Hallie Ford Museum of Art. Manuel Izquierdo was an important Portland sculptor and teacher who created sculptures in steel, wood, and stone based on mythological figures as well as abstract and biomorphic plant and animal forms. Organized by Professor Hull, the exhibition will feature a range of works from the past 60 years drawn from public and private collections throughout the region.
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Thursday, February 21
10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | Great Decisions: "Iran," Richard Francaviglia [J. Flaming], Ford 122
Dr. Francaviglia last spoke to ICL in December, 2012 on "Understanding Islam." |
1:00-3:00 p.m. | "Career Decision Making," Jerry Houser, Associate Dean and Director of Career Services at WU [D. Gallagher], Ford 122 Dr. Jerry Houser, Associate Dean and Director of Career Services at Willamette University, will discuss Career Services at WU and other universities, employment trends nationally and locally for college students, and student issues around career decision-making. He will also update us on technologies that are now being used in employment such as social media, web pages, personal portfolios, how the job market is different now than when ICL members were employed, what employers look for in today's graduate, and also the different characteristics of the Millennials (roughly the age group of ICL grand kids).
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Tuesday, February 26
10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. | "Experimentation and Uses for Solar Energy" Dorothy Dobson & Jan Miller, Ford 122
Dorothy and Jan will also present information about the developing field of solar energy. |
1:00-3:00 p.m. | "Family Entanglements in Poetry – or – Is Every Family as Weird as Ours?" Colette Tennant [Lois Rosen], Ford 122 When my youngest son was five years old, he asked me, “Mom, do you think every family is as weird as ours?” I replied, “Yes, Sweetie, the more you get to know families, the weirder they become.” George Burns, the comedian, once quipped, “Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” Poets and writers have been dealing with and writing about family entanglements since writing began. George Bernard Shaw wrote, “If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.” I think that’s a good description of how poets take their family complications and reflect them in their work–sometimes they waltz–and sometimes they wrestle in a mosh pit! For the first hour, my son–who is also a poet–and I will read some poems we have written about family as well as poems by well-known writers on this complicated subject. For the second hour, we will write poems on this fun, complex, entertaining topic.
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Thursday, February 28
10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. | "Economic Challenges in the U.S. and the Eurozone," Michael Dothan [M. Kasoff], Ford 122
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12:50-2:10 p.m. | ICL Visits a Rehearsal of the Award-Winning Willamette Singers* [S. Holmquist, J. Miller], Mary Stuart Rogers Music Center
Willamette Singers is a vocal jazz group joining 12 solo voices with piano, bass and drums. Led by Professor Wallace Long, Willamette Singers shares performance dates with the Jazz Ensemble for the popular “Jazz in Smith” series as well as for the Puttin’ on the Ritz jazz dinner dance. Recent off-campus performance venues include Hawaii, Washington, Idaho, California, Indianapolis, New Orleans, Boston and Japan. In 1999, the group was invited to perform at the American Choral Directors Association national convention in Chicago. We currently have eleven jazz recordings by the Willamette Singers including the newest CD, Take the "A" Train. *IMPORTANT NOTE FROM SOLVEIG HOLMQUIST Hello, ICL friends, There are some special instructions connected to our attendance at the rehearsal of the Willamette Singers (Vocal Jazz Group) on Thursday, February 28. Please do your best to help with this, as the Singers are in final preparation for an invited performance at the national conference of the American Choral Directors Association in Dallas, Texas, a very high honor for them and the university. Here's the schedule for us that afternoon: 12:50 Quietly enter the Rehearsal Room in Mary Stuart Rogers Music Building. Chairs will be set up for us. The singers will be warming up and setting up equipment. 1:00 Brief introduction and greeting, with explanation of their program by their director, Dr. Wallace Long, Jr. The group will then present its conference program. This is one of many trial runs they must do in the days before departure: timing is a very important aspect, since performing groups are held to a strict 40-minute time limit. 1:50 (approximately) At the conclusion of their performance/rehearsal, the students and Dr. Long will be happy to answer questions. 2:10 At this time, it is imperative that the singers put their equipment away and prepare to vacate the room by 2:20, since the next ensemble will need the 10-minute cushion to set up for their 2:30 class. WE MUST LEAVE EFFICIENTLY AT 2:10, TO GET OUT OF THEIR WAY. PLEASE DO NOT LINGER TO CHAT WITH EACH OTHER OR WITH THEM! PLEASE EXIT QUIETLY AND QUICKLY! I'm very grateful that they're sharing their rehearsal with us at this crucial time, and don't want to wear out our welcome. 2:15 Recess and early release for ICL. Thanks for understanding about this shortened schedule. I promise to keep you late at the next music session. Thanks,Solveig Holmquist |