Tuesday, February 5
10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | "The Exploration of Mars," Michael Seibert [Don Gallagher], *** Ford 122 *** NOTE CHANGE IN VENUE
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1:30 – 3:30 p.m. | "Frederick Law Olmsted," Priscilla Hibbard [Jinx Brandt], *** Ford 122 *** NOTE CHANGE IN VENUE
Frederick Law Olmsted was born in Hartford, Connecticut, a member of the eighth generation of his family to live in that city. His mother died when he was four, and from the age of seven he received his schooling mostly from ministers in outlying towns, with whom he lived. His father, a successful dry-goods merchant, was a lover of scenery, and much of Olmsted's vacation time was spent with his family on "tours in search of the picturesque" through northern New England and upstate New York. As he was about to enter Yale College in 1837, Olmsted suffered severe sumac poisoning, which weakened his eyes and kept him from the usual course of studies. |
Thursday, February 7
10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | "Evolution of Photography - From Civil War to Drones," Ronald Cooper [Bill Foster], Kaneko Auditorium Ron Cooper will take us through photography, from Brady to now, as he describes and give examples of the rapidly changing photographic paradigm, the sudden and rapidly changing ways of photographing the world around us and what the future may have in store. Ron is a self-taught photographer. He started at the Oregon Statesman in 1969. He has photographed presidents, bull riders, governors, bus drivers and many other people and events. He has continued to pursue his passion for photography since retirement, adopting the new digital format. In recent years he has purchased a photo drone and his "flying cameras" are seen frequently in the skies over Salem and the Mid-Willamette Valley landmarks. |
1:30 – 3:30 p.m. | "In Praise of Renaissance F-words: Exploring the Creative Side of Forgery and Falsification in Sixteenth-Century Art ," Professor De Mambro Santos [Bob Muir]", Kaneko Auditorium
While the imitation of previous models, based on the study of well-chosen examples, was still considered an important part in the training process of young artists, more experienced masters were expected, as a sign of their creative maturity, to refrain from mimicking someone else’s visual vocabularies and produce images that could fully embody their distinctive maniera, or “manner,” combined with a certain degree of personal licenza, or “poetic license.” Debates focusing on the concepts of imitation and emulation, along with the publication of treatises describing the practices of copying and borrowing, became recurrent topoi in the art literature between 1562 and 1604. In this same period, the production of market-oriented copies of well-known works and the making of forgeries intentionally designed to fool the eyes of well-trained “art lovers” and collectors reached unprecedented levels of technical mastery, visual sophistication and conceptual novelty. This lecture will examine this intriguing cultural phenomenon, focusing, in particular, on the reception of a series of prints made by Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617), in which the artist has programmatically pursued what could be called an “intervisual dialogue” with his models, reinterpreting styles and techniques associated with famous masters of the past. By imitating what was supposed to be inimitable, Goltzius plays with the expectations of his audiences, while asserting his manual dexterity and intellectual vitality within the highly competitive art market of late sixteenth-century Europe. Thanks to his “fake forgeries,” Goltzius set a model of creative procedure that presents revealing similarities with the Renaissance paradigm of “conversation”. Professor De Mambro Santos is an expert in Italian and European Renaissance and Mannerism. He has taught for twelve years in the Department of Art History at the University of Rome courses on Renaissance Art Literature and Visual Culture as well as classes on Methodologies of Art Criticism. In the Department of Oriental Studies at the University of Rome, he has also taught courses on the activity of European painters in India, China and Japan from the sixteenth- to the eighteenth-century. More recently, as a Visiting Professor, he taught at the University of Washington and Whitman College classes on Northern Renaissance, Brazilian visual culture, and theories of art from Neoclassicism to Postmodernism. |
Tuesday, February 12
10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | "The U.S. Economy: Performance, Problems, and Policies," Mark Kasoff, Tom Hibbard, Kaneko Auditorium
Monetary and fiscal policy, (including the 2017 Tax Act), will focus on past performance and future prospects. |
1:30 – 3:30 p.m. | "Fall risk assessment in older adults: An update on my work to develop a clinical test of rapid stepping performance," Dr. Brandi Lazzarini [Jim McDonald], Kaneko Auditorium
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Thursday, February 14
9:00 – 10:00 a.m. | "Valentine's Day Coffee," Social Services [WUICL], *** Hines-Willson Room in Goudy Commons *** NOTE CHANGE IN VENUE Members with last names starting with M to Z please bring a goodie to share. |
10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | "The Making of The General, Buster Keaton's Masterpiece," Jim Scheppke [Bill Foster], Kaneko Auditorium The General is a 1926 American silent comedy film released by United Artists. It was inspired by the Great Locomotive Chase, a true story of an event that occurred during the American Civil War. The story was adapted from the memoir The Great Locomotive Chase by William Pittenger. The film stars Buster Keaton who co-directed it with Clyde Bruckman. At the time of its initial release, The General, an action-adventure-comedy made toward the end of the silent era, was not well received by critics and audiences. The General has since been reevaluated, and is now often ranked among the greatest American films ever made. |
1:30 – 3:30 p.m. | "The French-Indian Families of Champoeg," Franca Hernandez, Kaneko Auditorium
Franca Hernandez has been a member of ICL since the fall of 2012. |
Tuesday, February 19
10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | "Great Decisions: Decoding U.S.-China Trade," Doug Lusk [Jeanette Flaming], Kaneko Auditorium
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1:30 – 3:30 p.m. | "Just Dying: Viewing Social Justice Through Public Health and Patterns of Mortality," Sammy Basu [Anne Bowden], Kaneko Auditorium
Sammy Basu, professor of history and humanities (formerly of politics), hails from northern England, grew up in Canada, received his PhD from Princeton, and has been at Willamette for more than 25 years. His research and teaching interests extend from intellectual history to contemporary ethics and public policy, with special interests in democratic theory, humor, Nazism, Canada, and death (in no particular order). His presentation will draw upon a course he has taught for many years, Death in America, and anticipate his efforts together with other colleagues to establish a new major in public health at Willamette. |
Thursday, February 21
10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | "Surviving Getting a Book Published," Virginia Furtwangler, Ph.D., Professor Emerita, Willamette University [Anne Bowden], Kaneko Auditorium
In the second hour, she will read selections from Keeping Time: a Life of Making Music and happily answer your questions. Virginia Furtwangler returned to the USA in l996 after living in eastern Canada for 25 years. During that time five collections of her short fiction were published. The sixth, Season of Apples, a finalist for the Oregon Book Award, came out after her return to the U.S. in 1996 when she was named first holder of the Hallie Ford Chair of English at Willamette University. Her collection, The Golden Thread, is based on her l3 years as a religious in the Ursuline Order. Subsequent collections mix topics sacred and secular, and her current project—spanning 10 years—is a music-moir charting years of making music, alone or with others, in schools, chapels, living rooms, in multiple forms and states of mind. Her fiction has won numerous prizes and awards including two NEA Fellowships, several Canada Council Awards, and a finalist for The Governor General’s Award for Fiction in Canada. Years of teaching, as a Professor of English Literature and also as Distinguished Visiting Fiction Writer have brought her to U.S. and Canadian universities in locales including New York, Kansas, Idaho, Minnesota, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, a Canadian maximum security penitentiary, and finally to a happy landing in Salem, Oregon. Her Ph.D. from Cornell is in Modern Literature. |
1:30 – 3:30 p.m. | "Symphonies, Sonatas and Songs," Oregon Guitar Quartet: John Mery, Jesse McCann, Mario Diaz, Bryan Johanson [Solveig Holmquist], *** Cone Chapel *** NOTE CHANGE IN VENUE
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Tuesday, February 26
10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | "Reflections on Serving Those in Power: Two Views," Kristen Grainger, Special Assistant to President Steve Thorsett of Willamette University and Thomas Imeson, NW Natural’s vice president of Public Affairs [Anne Bowden]", Kaneko Auditorium
Kristen Grainger has been the Special Assistant to the President of WU and Acting Chief Communications Officer since returning to WU in 2018. She assists President Thorsett with state and federal affairs. She formerly served as vice president and executive assistant to the president of WU from 2002 to 2015. She was communications director for Gov. Kate Brown from 2015 to 2018. Thomas Imeson has had extensive involvement in Oregon politics and public life, including working in high level jobs for Governors Hatfield, Kitzhaber and Kulongoski. He has worked for the Port of Portland as director of public affairs. His private sector experience includes, in addition to his consulting practice, 11 years with PacifiCorp. He is currently VP for Public Affairs at NW Natural Gas. His civic involvement includes The Nature Conservancy, the Cascade Aids Project, Oregon Land Conservation, and the Oregon Board of Education. He is currently chair of the Oregon Board of Forestry. Imeson received a bachelor's degree from Johns Hopkins University. |
1:30 – 3:30 p.m. | "Nationalism Versus Globalism: the New Political Divide," TED talk by Dr. Harari followed by discussion [Dru Johnson], Kaneko Auditorium
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Thursday, February 28
10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | "Artists and Their Self-Portraits," Sharon Wright and Don Gallagher [Jinx Brandt], Kaneko Auditorium
Sharon has been a member of ICL since September of 1999. Don only arrived on the scene in 2004. |
1:30 – 3:30 p.m. | "Philosophical Ideas: Ancient Greek Philosophers," Bob Muir, Kaneko Auditorium
Charts used in the Presentation: Great Ideas of Philosophy charts.pdf |