Thursday, March 2
10:00 am-12:00 pm | "Music Potpourri," Bill Foster, Tracy Ragland, Sharon Wright, Mark Blackburn, Harvey Reynolds [Solveig Holmquist], Kaneko Auditorium
This popular variety show will be brought to you by the following ICL members: |
1:00 pm-3:00 pm | "Fire, Ice, and Insect Plagues: What We Can learn From the Life of Trees," Joe Bowersox [Tom Ellis], Kaneko Auditorium ![]() |
Tuesday, March 7
10:00 am-12:00 pm | "The 1693 Shipwreck of Santo Cristo de Burgos," Cameron La Follette [Ann Boss], Kaneko Auditorium ![]() Cameron La Follette received her Master’s in Psychology from New York University and her Law degree from Columbia University. She is Executive Director of Oregon Coast Alliance, a coastal conservation and land use watchdog organization. Her book Sustainability and the Rights of Nature was published in 2017, and the sequel, Sustainability and the Rights of Nature in Practice, in 2019. She is also a traditional poet, whose work is archived at the University of Oregon Special Collections and University Archives. As a coastal historian, her research interests include land use history, early Pacific Northwest exploration and shipwrecks, and the environmental effects of early commercial resource extraction along the coast. In 2018 she was the lead researcher and author on most of the articles in the award-winning special issue of Oregon Historical Quarterly, “Oregon’s Manila Galleon,” about the wreck of a Spanish galleon on the Oregon coast. |
1:00 pm-3:00 pm | "Oregon History Snapshot: The Chemeketans," Don Gallagher, Janet Adkins, Kaneko Auditorium
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Thursday, March 9
9:15 am-10:00 am | "ICL Mid-Semester Coffee," ICL Social Services, Kaneko Lobby
Social time with coffee, tea and an extensive buffet of sweet and savory goodies provided by members with last names M-Z. |
10:00 am-11:00 am | "Salem's Moving History," Virginia Green [Dave MacMillan], Kaneko Auditorium Salem’s Moving History' highlights residences and other structures that have changed location, especially since the Capitol fire of 1935. Beginning in 1937, state properties expanded into what is now the North Capitol Mall, demolishing a half-mile corridor of residences stretching from Court to D Street. |
11:00 am-12:00 pm | "American Studies Program Post Covid," Jo Kozuma [Eric Reif], Kaneko Auditorium ![]() Due to COVID-19, a temporary pause was placed on the program in April 2020. We are delighted to report that the American Studies Program resumes for the Spring 2023 semester for a special one-semester program that will be followed by a new annual one-year program starting in August 2023. The program is designed for ASP students to gain cross-cultural awareness and understanding, intercultural communication, and strengthened abilities to study, live, and work in intercultural environments. This presentation will explore how ASP facilitates a structured interdisciplinary study abroad program to foster a learning environment for students to be able to develop linguistic and scholastic skills in academic and co-curricular contexts of learning. The program aims to prepare students to become active future leaders and responsible members of a global society where international experience and intercultural skills are viewed as important assets for professional success. Dr. Jo Kozuma is a veteran international education specialist who has both faculty and administrative experience in the United States and overseas. As faculty, she has been an English professional in Japan and a Japanese language and culture professional in the United States. Later, her teaching career shifted to direct undergraduate and graduate-level teacher preparation programs for international students who aspire to be K-12 second language educators or college practitioners. She holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with a concentration in English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) and Bilingual Education from the University of Florida. Her research interest is in the cross-cultural analysis of how sociolinguistic community structures support the development of bilingual speakers. |
1:00 pm-3:00 pm | "Salem Police Department Tours," Brenda Kidder, Salem Police Department ![]() Each tour will be limited to 12 people. Tour times are 1:00 pm and 2:15 pm. They ask that we show up a few minutes early so we are ready to start promptly. We will meet in the lobby, there are chairs to sit in while we wait. Everyone will be responsible for their own transportation, carpooling is encouraged. Since we have class that morning, you can meet and rideshare from the Heritage Center parking lot. The building is located at 333 Division St. NE, just a little north of downtown, near Marion Square Park, right across from the new Union Gospel Mission building on commercial Street. Sign up today! Email or call Brenda Kidder to sign-up: 503-871-1827 or kidster58@gmail.com. |
Tuesday, March 14
10:00 am-12:00 pm | "Opal Creek: Burned But Not Lost," Andy Adkins [George Adkins], Kaneko Auditorium ![]() Andy Adkins is a documentary producer, editor and motion graphic artist based in Portland, OR. His award-winning career highlights include documenting the first All-African-American mountaineering team to attempt Denali in An American Ascent, and editing the nationally televised, Emmy-winning PBS documentary Indian Relay. Andy has an MFA in non-fiction film and has also produced films for the National Park Service, Montana Tourism, Montana PBS, and dozens of other commercial and nonprofit organizations. |
1:00 pm-3:00 pm | "Freedom Is Indivisible : Democratic Socialism and the Challenge of Totalitarianism," William Smaldone [Jeanette Flaming], Kaneko Auditorium ![]() This presentation examines this problem from the perspective of Rudolf Hilferding, a major political figure in the Austrian and German socialist movement from 1900-1940. Hilferding's career spanned the entirety of a decisive era in which the high tide of democratic socialism gave way to its almost complete destruction. His observations on the socialists' dilemma continue to resonate in our own time as our democratic order comes under threat. William T. Smaldone is the E. J. Whipple Professor of History at Willamette.. Bill Smaldone came to Willamette's History Department in 1991. In addition to general surveys in modern European history, he offers courses on German and Russian history, Latin American history, urban history, the Holocaust, European socialism, and capitalism. Education: B.S. State University of New York College at Brockport M.A. State University of New York College at Brockport Ph.D. State University of New York at Binghamton |
Thursday, March 16
10:00 am-12:00 pm | "Art Potpourri," Bob Muir, Anita Owens, Lucy Foster, Tracy Ragland, Linda Kirsch [Tracy Ragland], Kaneko Auditorium Bob Muir: 19th century orientalism |
1:00 pm-2:00 pm | "Building Community Theater from the Bottom Up," Tom Nabhan [Jinx Brandt], Kaneko Auditorium ![]() Thomas Nabhan is the executive director of Theatre 33 at Willamette University He has worked in film, television, commercials and theater. |
2:00 pm-3:00 pm | "Understanding the Inventions That Changed the World, Video Lecture: Beer, Wine and Distilled Spirits ," W. Bernard Carlson [Mark Blackburn], Kaneko Auditorium ![]() Understanding the Inventions That Changed the World is a Great Courses DVD series introduced by W. Bernard Carlson, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Engineering and Society, University of Virginia. Professor Carlson is an expert on the role of innovation in American history; his research focuses on the inventors, engineers, and managers who used technology to create new systems and enterprises. This series starts with the development of the potter’s wheel and concludes with the changes brought to the world with the Internet. |
Tuesday, March 21
10:00 am-12:00 pm | "Utopia:Literary Genre & Social Experiment ," Robert Muir, Kaneko Auditorium ![]() “Utopian” has also been an epithet used to ridicule attempts at intentional communities and even revolutionary governments of nations. It implies that attempts are unrealistic, doomed to fail and even dangerous. Many have failed. Was failure always due to the form of the utopian society or due to other causes? Why are we so reluctant to attempt to improve the structure of our society? |
1:00 pm-3:00 pm | "A Different View of Planned Communities," Eric Olson [Jinx Brandt], Kaneko Auditorium Description TBA |
Thursday, March 23
10:00 am-12:00 pm | "Breaking Barriers: The Suffrage Movement in America ," Gloria Holland [Deborah Ehlers], Kaneko Auditorium In 1848, five women sat at a kitchen table and planned a convention that would begin a 72 year long movement to gain suffrage for women across America. This hour-long readers’ theater presentation will introduce you to some of the women who led the charge. We will hear from Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Abigail Scott Duniway, Carrie Chapman Catt, and others who worked tirelessly to enable the passage of the 19th Amendment, in 1920, affording women in this county the right to vote. |
1:00 pm-2:00 pm | "The story of the castrati in the 17th and 18th centuries.," Susan Miller [Solveig Holmquist], Kaneko Auditorium
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2:00 pm-3:00 pm | "Fake or Fortune," Betsy Belshaw , Kaneko Auditorium ![]() Betsy has been an ICL member since 2015. |
Week of March 28-30
SPRING BREAK—NO CLASSES |