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International Sculpture Conference Keynote Lecture: Leonardo Drew

International Sculpture Conference Keynote...

Lecture / Art

Leonardo Drew is known for creating reflective abstract sculptural works that play upon the dystopic tension between order and chaos. His work recalls Post...

10/14 6:30pm
Vollum College Center, Vollum lecture hall  
Latinx Heritage Month: Things My Mami Taught Me about Mi Cuerpo

Latinx Heritage Month: Things My Mami Taught Me...

Lecture, Performing Arts / Multicultural Resource Center / Multicultural Resource Center

A talk about sex, babies, bodies, and the courage to defy gendered expectations. Mia Bonilla '19 is an artist and amateur sociologist interested in the...

10/14 7:00pm
Eliot Hall, Chapel  
Meditation

Meditation

Community / Wellness

Silent meditation sessions are open to all members of the Reed community and campus visitors. Drop-ins are welcome! Please visit A Quiet Place for more...

10/15 12:00pm
Eliot Hall, Chapel  
Democratic Presidential Debate Watch Party

Democratic Presidential Debate Watch Party

Social / Political Science

Join us on Tuesday starting at 4:30 p.m. for a Democratic presidential debate watch party in Vollum Lounge. Open to the entire Reed community, we'll have a...

10/15 4:30pm
Vollum College Center, Lounge  
melting, asexually

melting, asexually

Lecture / Art

Ianna Hawkins Owen is assistant professor of English at Williams College. She earned a PhD in African diaspora studies at the University of California,...

10/15 4:45pm
Eliot Hall, Chapel  
An Iliad

An Iliad

Lecture, Performing Arts / Humanities

One man (with live cello accompaniment) performs this tour-de-force modern retelling of Homer's epic tale of love, battle, gods, and honor. Has anything...

10/15 7:00pm
Vollum College Center, Vollum lecture hall  
A Crane’s Tombstone: Monument, Landscape, and Calligraphy in Sixth Century China

A Crane’s Tombstone: Monument, Landscape, and...

Lecture / Art

Eulogy for Burying a Crane is a sixth century inscription once carved on a cliff of Jiaoshan Island in the Yangzi River. Its ruins were discovered in the...

10/16 4:45pm
Biology, 19  
Community Dance at Reed

Community Dance at Reed

Community / Dance

The Reed College Dance Department is excited to announce open community dance sessions. These sessions are a collective forum for moving and talking about...

10/16 6:10pm
Performing Arts Building, Massee Performance Lab  
Hernan Reinaudo: Master of Tango Guitar

Hernan Reinaudo: Master of Tango Guitar

Performing Arts / Music

Join us for a pop up concert featuring world-class tango guitar virtuoso Hernan Reinaudo interpreting classic and original works, accompanied by Mirta...

10/17 6:00pm
Performing Arts Building, First floor atrium  
Visiting Writers Series: Jos Charles

Visiting Writers Series: Jos Charles

Lecture / Visiting Writers Series / English

Jos Charles is author of feeld, a National Book Award long-listed finalist and winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series, selected by Fady Joudah (Milkweed...

10/17 6:30pm
Eliot chapel  
Portland Baroque Orchestra: The Brandenburgs

Portland Baroque Orchestra: The Brandenburgs

Performing Arts / Music

Monica Huggett leads all six of J. S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos while playing violin, viola, and violino piccolo. Harpsichordist Byron Schenkman,...

10/20 3:00pm
Kaul Auditorium  
Portland Chamber Orchestra: Classical Meets Jazz with Special Guest Ken Peplowski, Clarient

Portland Chamber Orchestra: Classical Meets...

Performing Arts

Portland Chamber Orchestra, under the direction of Yaacov Bergman, performs in Kaul Auditorium. Click here for tickets. Program includes: Appalachian Spring...

10/27 3:00pm
Kaul Auditorium  
Collective Voices Solidarity Series: Cascades Abortion Support Collective

Collective Voices Solidarity Series: Cascades...

Informational Session / SEEDS / Institutional Diversity

Discuss local efforts to remove financial and logistical barriers to abortion with a team of organizers. Presented by SEEDS (Students for Education, Equity,...

10/30 7:00pm
Student Center, Living room  
Psychology community event: Halloween Studies

Psychology community event: Halloween Studies

Community / Psychology

Halloween snacks and discussion of Psychology's "Halloween Studies"

10/31 4:30pm
Psychology, 115  
Friday @ 4 Music Series

Friday @ 4 Music Series

Performing Arts / Music

We invite you to join us for our regular Friday @ 4 Music Series. The program features 45-minute recitals featuring Reed student musicians, film screenings,...

11/1 4:00pm
 
Seminar: Kelly Monk, PhD

Seminar: Kelly Monk, PhD

Lecture / Biology

Dr. Kelly Monk is a senior scientist and co-director of the Vollum Institute. Her research uses mouse and zebrafish models to better understand how...

11/1 4:10pm
Biology, Biology 19  
Simon Tam - Slanted: How an Asian American Troublemaker Took on the Supreme Court

Simon Tam - Slanted: How an Asian American...

Lecture / Political Science / Institutional Diversity

When Simon Tam started an Asian American dance rock band called The Slants, he didn't realize that he was starting an entire movement around freedom of...

11/1 4:30pm
Vollum College Center, Vollum Lecture Hall  
Linked Jades: Creativity and Reciprocity in Chinese Calligraphy

Linked Jades: Creativity and Reciprocity in...

Lecture / Art

A cursive-script letter by the renowned eighth-century statesman Yan Zhenqing is the original work in a long handscroll that also includes a colophon by the...

11/4 4:45pm
Biology, 19  
Lecture-Demonstration with Reggie Wilson

Lecture-Demonstration with Reggie Wilson

Performing Arts / Dance

The Company: Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group is a Brooklyn-based dance company whose mission is to create, research, develop, and present new...

11/4 6:30pm
Performing Arts Building, Massee Performance Lab - PAB 128  
Choreography Workshop with Reggie Wilson

Choreography Workshop with Reggie Wilson

Performing Arts / Dance

Join us for a choreography workshop for dancers (mixed-level). Space is limited. Sign up here. The Company: Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group is...

11/5 1:30pm
Performing Arts Building, Steiner Dance Studio (2nd Floor)  
Nailed It with Adele Pham

Nailed It with Adele Pham

Lecture / Sociology / Comparative Race and Ethnicity Studies (CRES) / Institutional Diversity

Join us for a screening of this documentary film followed by a Q&A with director Adele Pham. In virtually every city, state, and strip mall across the U.S.,...

11/6 4:30pm
Psychology, 105  
Heaven on Earth: Justinian's Hagia Sophia

Heaven on Earth: Justinian's Hagia Sophia

Lecture / Art

This talk addresses the transformation of the basilica as an architectural form and its subsequent impact on architecture in the eastern Mediterranean....

11/6 5:00pm
Eliot Hall, 314  
Psychology Colloquium: Beth Green

Psychology Colloquium: Beth Green

Lecture / Psychology

"Using Research to Improve Practice in Community-Based Early Childhood Programs" Join us for a talk by Beth Green, PhD, Director of Early Childhood & Family...

11/7
Psychology, 136  
Anthropology Roundtable Symposium: Alex Blanchette

Anthropology Roundtable Symposium: Alex Blanchette

Lecture / Anthropology

Join us for a presentation from Alex Blanchette as part of the Anthropology Roundtable Symposium Series! Refreshments will be served. Free and open to the...

11/7 5:00pm
Vollum College Center, 116  
Visiting Writers Series: Hilary Plum

Visiting Writers Series: Hilary Plum

Lecture / Visiting Writers Series / English

Hilary Plum is the author of the novel Strawberry Fields, winner of the Fence Modern Prize in Prose (2018); the work of nonfiction Watchfires (2016), winner...

11/7 6:30pm
Eliot chapel  
Archaeology and Politics in the Mid-Twentieth Century

Archaeology and Politics in the Mid-Twentieth...

Lecture / Archaeological Institute of America Lecture Series / Classics

Newly Discovered Results of the 1951-53 Excavations at Sinop, Turkey. Presented by Ulrike Krotscheck of Evergreen State University. Co-sponsored by the Reed...

11/7 7:00pm
Performing Arts Building, 320  
Comedy and Climate Action with the Stand-Up Economist

Comedy and Climate Action with the Stand-Up...

Lecture / Economics

Yoram Bauman ’95 has a PhD in economics but makes a living doing stand-up comedy about economics and politics. He also writes cartoon books—most recently The...

11/7 7:00pm
Psychology, 105  
Biology Seminar: Saumya Gopalkrishnan, PhD

Biology Seminar: Saumya Gopalkrishnan, PhD

Lecture / Biology

Dr. Gopalkrishnan studies fundamental issues in the molecular biology of gene expression in bacteria using cutting edge biochemical and genetic techniques.

11/8 4:10pm
Biology, Biology 19  
Philosophy Colloquium: The Epistemology of Interpersonal Relations

Philosophy Colloquium: The Epistemology of...

Lecture / Philosophy

Join us for a talk by Matt Benton, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Seattle Pacific University. Epistemology has focused primarily on propositional...

11/8 4:10pm
Eliot Hall, 314  
The Present Life of Blasphemy: Kanye West in American Popular Culture

The Present Life of Blasphemy: Kanye West in...

Lecture / Religion

Thomas Lamb Eliot Lecture on Religion Is Kanye West the problem or the solution? Is Kanye a self-hating misogynist or a sui generis artist—or both, or...

11/8 4:30pm
Psychology, 105  
Reed Theatre presents Euripides' "Medea"

Reed Theatre presents Euripides' "Medea"

Performing Arts / Theatre

"What’s next, my friends, is clear. I must kill the children quickly and be gone. I gave them life and now I’ll give them death—my heart all dagger. Do it....

11/8 7:30pm
Performing Arts Building, Diver Studio Theatre  
Western Early Keyboard Association Recital

Western Early Keyboard Association Recital

Performing Arts / Music

Get your tickets here. Gregory Crowell, Harpsichord Flights of Fancy: Music by Byrd, Frescobaldi & Bach Sunday, November 10, 2019, 2-4pm Reed College,...

11/10 2:00pm
Performing Arts Building, PAB 320 - Music Rehearsal Room  
Chemistry Seminar: “Exploring the Chemical Origins of Biopolymers”

Chemistry Seminar: “Exploring the Chemical...

Lecture / Chemistry

Nicholas Hud received his B.S. degree from Loyola Marymount University. His Ph.D. was conferred by the University of California, Davis for investigations of...

11/14 4:15pm
Biology, 19  
Visiting Writers Series: She Who Has No Master(s)

Visiting Writers Series: She Who Has No Master(s)

Lecture / Visiting Writers Series / English

She Who Has No Master(s) is a project of multi-voiced collectivity, hybrid poetics, encounters, in-between spaces and (dis)places of the Vietnamese diaspora....

11/14 6:30pm
Eliot chapel  
Biology Seminar: Anna Jacobsen, PhD

Biology Seminar: Anna Jacobsen, PhD

Lecture / Biology

Dr. Jacobsen examines the structure of the three-dimensional vessel network of woody plants (i.e. how vessels develop and connect with one another throughout...

11/15 4:10pm
Biology, Biology 19  
Joel Alden Schlosser: Herodotus in the Anthropocene

Joel Alden Schlosser: Herodotus in the...

Lecture / Political Science

We are living in the age of the Anthropocene, in which human activities are recognized for effecting potentially catastrophic environmental change. In his...

11/15 5:00pm
Eliot Hall, 207  
Democratic Presidential Debate Watch Party

Democratic Presidential Debate Watch Party

Social / Political Science

Join us on Wednesday starting at 4:30 p.m. for a Democratic presidential debate watch party in Vollum Lounge. Open to the entire Reed community, we'll have a...

11/20 4:30pm
Vollum College Center, Lounge  
Gender Bending in the Stories of Joseph and Esther in the Hebrew Bible

Gender Bending in the Stories of Joseph and...

Lecture / English / Humanities / Religion

As feminine figures, Joseph and Esther are groomed to please, concealing their identities in the foreign imperial court. Yet Esther gradually sheds her...

11/21 4:30pm
Psychology, 105  
Biology Seminar: Lauren Shoemaker, PhD

Biology Seminar: Lauren Shoemaker, PhD

Lecture / Biology

Dr. Shoemaker's lab studies how spatial structure, landscape heterogeneity, and movement patterns alter population dynamics and community stability. We apply...

11/22 4:10pm
Biology, Biology 19  
Portland Baroque Orchestra: Crossing The Channel: Immigrant Composers in London

Portland Baroque Orchestra: Crossing The...

Performing Arts / Music

18th century London was one of Europe’s great cultural capitals, thanks in part to a tide of immigrant composers. In Crossing the Channel, guest director and...

11/24 3:00pm
Kaul Auditorium  
American Sutra: Buddhism and the WWII Japanese American Incarceration

American Sutra: Buddhism and the WWII Japanese...

Lecture / Dean of the Faculty / History / Humanities / Institutional Diversity / Religion

The mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II is not only a tale of injustice; it is a moving story of faith. In this pathbreaking...

12/4 5:30pm
Vollum College Center, Vollum lecture hall  
Renew Oregon: Coalition for Clean Energy

Renew Oregon: Coalition for Clean Energy

Lecture / Political Science

Renew Oregon is a clean energy advocacy coalition of businesses and workers, healthcare professionals and parents, farmers and ranchers, faith and community...

12/5 4:30pm
Eliot Hall, 207  
Theatre Thesis Performance

Theatre Thesis Performance

Performing Arts / Theatre

Join us for the upcoming theatre thesis performances. Details about the performances will be made available in early November. If you have any questions,...

12/5 7:30pm
Performing Arts Building, Blackbox Theatre  
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