March
The Thirty-fourth Annual Walter C. Schnackenberg Memorial Lecture
Omer Bartov
John P. Birkelund Professor of European History
Sunday, March 16, 2008
7:00 p.m. - Xavier 201
Omer Bartov is the John P. Birkelund Professor of European History,
Professor of History, and Professor of German Studies at Brown
University. He has edited three volumes and authored seven books, the
most recent of which, Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in
Present-Day Ukraine (Princeton, 2007), is the topic of this lecture. In
this book he considers the politics of memory in the Western Ukraine
and the widespread removal of both memory and the physical remains of
Jewish culture there. Earlier books have dealt with the German
Wehrmacht and the Holocaust, genocidal connections between World Wars I
and II, and connections between violence, representation and identity
in the twentieth century. He has also written one monograph examining
antisemitic stereotypes in European, American, and Israeli film. Bartov
was born in Israel and educated at Tel Aviv University and St. Antony’s
College Oxford. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences since 2005 and has been awarded fellowships at Harvard
University, the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard, the Davis Center for
Historical Studies at Princeton, the International Research Center for
Cultural Studies at Vienna, the American Academy in Berlin, the Center
for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and the U.S.
Holocaust Memorial Museum, among others. He was the Raoul Wallenberg
Professor in Human Rights and Senior Fellow at Rutgers University
before assuming his present position at Brown.
Inaugural Paul O. Ingram Lecture in Comparative Religions
Dr. Harold Roth
Brown University
“’To Treat Yourself as Other:’
The Psychodynamics of Self-Alterity in Early Daoism”
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
7:30 p.m. - Xavier 201
Harold D. Roth is Professor of Religious Studies and East Asian Studies
at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Dr. Roth is a
specialist in Early Chinese Religious Thought, Taoism, the History of
East Asian Religions, and the Comparative Study of Mysticism. His
publications include The Textual History of the Huai-nan Tzu (1992),
“Inward Training” and the Foundations of Taoist Mysticism (1999),
Daoist Identity: Cosmology, Lineage, and Ritual (2002), and A
Companion to Angus C. Graham’s Chuang Tzu: the Inner Chapters
(2003).
MBA Executive Leadership Series
Tom O’Keefe
Founder, Chairman and Head Barista of Tully’s Coffee
March 12, 6:00 p.m.- Morken 103
O'Keefe started the company in 1992. Tully’s is a leading
roaster, retailer and wholesaler of gourmet coffee and related
products. He is also president and CEO of O’Keefe Development
Corporation, a real estate development and investment firm he founded,
reflecting his 25-year real estate career in the Puget Sound
region. He credits Tully’s success to the combination of his
passion for quality coffee and his background in real estate, as he is
able to successfully identify sites for specialty coffee store
locations.
Spring Speaker Event
Sponsored by the Department of Sociology and Social Work
Karen Seccombe, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Sociology, Portland State University, “Health Care and Poverty in the United States”
March 12, 7:00 p.m. – Xavier 201
Spring Psychology Colloquia
Sponsored by the Department of Psychology
Kevin King, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Child Clinical Program, U of Washington
“Alcohol Dependence in the Absence of Drug
Dependence: An Issue of Severity of Disorder or a Case of Unique
Etiology”
March 14, 2:00 p.m. – Xavier 201
April
Mary Oliver
Tuesday April 22, 2008
"The Writer’s Story": 5PM, Garfield Book Company at PLU
Reading: 7:30 PM, Lagerquist Concert Hall of the Mary Baker Russell Music Center
Mary Oliver’s poetry, with her lyrical connection to the natural world,
has firmly established her in the highest realm of American poets. She
is renowned for her evocative and precise imagery, which brings nature
into clear focus, transforming the everyday world into a place of magic
and discovery. As poet Stanley Kunitz has said, “Mary Oliver’s poetry
is fine and deep; it reads like a blessing. Her special gift is to
connect us with our sources in the natural world, its beauties and
terrors and mysteries and consolations.” She has received countless
distinctions, including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award,
and continues to influence generations of younger poets, as well as
adding to her legions of loyal readers with each eagerly awaited new
book.
