Books | Speakers & Lectures | OPB Partnership

An Evening with Michael Pollan

WHERE: Gerding Theater at the Armory, Portland
WHEN: May 14, 2013, 7:30 p.m.

Powell's Books presents: An Evening with Michael Pollan, in conversation with Think Out Loud's Dave Miller. Read More »

Speakers & Lectures | OPB Partnership

Oregon Humanities Think & Drink: Reinvent America

WHERE: Mission Theater, Portland
WHEN: May 15, 2013, 6:30 p.m.

With Tamar Jacoby, President and CEO of ImmigrationWorks USA, a national federation of employers working to promote reform of immigration laws, and author of Someone Else’s House: America’s Unfinished Struggle for Integration; and Gregory Rodriguez, founder and executive director of Zócalo Public Square in Los Angeles, founding director of the Center for Social Cohesion at Arizona State University, and author of Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans and Vagabonds: Mexican Immigration and the Future of Race in America. Read More »

Speakers & Lectures | OPB Partnership

The Mark O. Hatfield Distinguished Historians Forum: David Eisenhower

WHERE: First Congregational Church of Christ, Portland
WHEN: May 21, 2013

The Mark O. Hatfield Distinguished Historians Forum bring together the nation's top scholars and writers for thought-provoking evenings of history. Read More »

Performing Arts | OPB Partnership

The Moth Story SLAM, June

WHERE: The Secret Society, Portland
WHEN: June 3, 2013

The Moth StorySLAM is now in Portland! Each month storytellers have an opportunity to tell their true tales, based on a chosen theme. Read More »

Speakers & Lectures | OPB Partnership

Oregon Humanities Think & Drink: Champion Democracy

WHERE: Mission Theater, Portland
WHEN: July 17, 2013, 6:30 p.m.

With Olga Oliker, associate director of the International Security and Defense Policy Center, senior international policy analyst at the RAND Corporation, and author of The Impact of U.S. Military Drawdown in Iraq on Displaced and Other Vulnerable Populations; and Bruce Gilley, an associate professor of political science at Portland State University and author of The Right to Rule: How States Win and Lose Legitimacy and China’s Democratic Future. Read More »

Arts | Film | OPB Partnership

2013 BendFilm Festival

WHERE: Various locations around Bend
WHEN: October 10, 2013

Join BendFilm in celebrating their 10 year anniversary! Read More »

Speakers & Lectures | OPB Partnership

Oregon Humanities Think & Drink: Serve Your Country

WHERE: Mission Theater, Portland
WHEN: Oct. 23, 2013, 6:30 p.m.

With Karl Marlantes, author of Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War and What It Is Like To Go To War, and Cameron Smith, director of the Oregon Department of Veterans’ Affairs and veteran of three tours in Iraq with the U.S. Marine Corps. Read More »

Arts | NW Life | OPB Partnership

OHS Black History Series: For All the World to See Exhibit: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights

WHERE: Oregon Historical Society, Portland
WHEN: June 16, 2013

Through a host of media—including photographs, television and film, magazines, newspapers, posters, books, and pamphlets—the project explores the historic role of visual culture in shaping, influencing, and transforming the fight for racial equality and justice in the United States from the late-1940s to the mid-1970s. more »