Tuesday, March 1
10:00 am-12:00 pm | "How to Speak Ballet: An Introduction to the History, Styles and Vocabulary of Classical Ballet," Sharon Oberst [Barbara Young], ZOOM ![]()
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Thursday, March 3
10:00 am-12:00 pm | "Nothing About Us Without Us". The Promise of Transformative Justice," Melissa Michaux [Jeanette Flaming], ZOOM ![]()
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Tuesday, March 8
10:00 am-12:00 pm | "Music Potpourri," Grant Hagestadt, Sheila Sund, Sally Schriver, Marjorie Wallace [Solveig Holmquist], ZOOM
Grant Hagestadt will present Vivaldi |
Thursday, March 10
10:00 am-12:00 pm | "Ethnographic & Linguistic Evidence of an Oregon Visit by Sir Francis Drake in 1579," Melissa Darby [Solveig Holmquist], ZOOM ![]()
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Tuesday, March 15
10:00 am-12:00 pm | "Measuring Distances to Galaxies," Dr. Richard Watkins [Dru Johnson], ZOOM ![]()
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Thursday, March 17
10:00 am-12:00 pm | "Stewarding Our Oregon White Oaks: A Willamette rersity CAFES Grant Funded Project.," David Craig, Angelina Wang, Grace Shiffrin [Judy Gram], ZOOM ![]()
Project Lead - Grace Shiffrin (She/Her). Grace is a third-year student at Willamette University, double majoring in Biology and Environmental Science. She is currently the president of Zena Farm club, where she co-leads the Beekeeping Circle and the Native plant Circle. With an interest in ecological systems and the interactions between plants and animals, she is excited to work with the community to create a new generation of Oregon Oaks. Faculty Advisor - David Craig (He/Him). Since Fall 2001 David has been privileged to teach at Willamette University. The germination of this project in one of his classes is among the most wonderful intersections of his devotion to combating the oppression of people and the natural world. David is grateful to the grant writers and reviewers who inspired hope in the midst of the 2020-2021 academic year - a year wrought by a global pandemic, national violence against the BIPOC community, and historically devastating local wildfires and ice storms. |
Tuesday, March 22
10:00 am-12:00 pm | "SPRING BREAK," NO CLASSES |
Thursday, March 24
10:00 am-12:00 pm | "SPRING BREAK," NO CLASSES |
Tuesday, March 29
10:00 am-12:00 pm | "Explaining the global distribution of language endangerment: A language ecology approach.," Gregory Anderson [GwenEllyn Anderson], Kaneko Auditorium ![]() Dr. Gregory D.S. Anderson is the Founder and Director of Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages. He is an expert of endangered languages, language contact, linguistic typology and historical linguistics. He has done fieldwork with 100+ language communities on all inhabited continents. He is the author of eleven books and over 120 academic articles. His main areas of focus has been languages of the Turkic, Yeniseic, Munda, Tibeto-Burman, Salish, Algonquian, Ogonoid, Central Sudanic, and Chadic families, languages of Papua New Guinea and the isolate language Burushaski. |
Thursday, March 31
10:00 am-12:00 pm | "The Riddle of Russia," Sarah Bishop [Dru Johnson], Kaneko Auditorium ![]() Sarah Bishop is an Associate Professor of Russian at Willamette University. Sarah teaches Russian language, literature, and film. Her courses include a survey of Russian and Soviet film, a writing-centered approach to Russian short stories, and a theme-based course on love and family in twentieth-century Russian literature. Sarah has a BA from Williams College and a MA,PhD from Princeton University. |