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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 »

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Portland Arts & Lectures: Salman Rushdie

WHERE: Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Portland
WHEN: October 8, 2013

Salman Rushdie is the celebrated international author of eleven novels. An inventive stylist whose work combines elements of myth and magical realism, Nadine Gordimer calls him “The most original imagination writing today.” Read More »

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2013 BendFilm Festival

WHERE: Bend, OR
WHEN: October 10, 2013

BendFilm has been celebrating the brave voice of independent cinema through films, lectures and education for 10 years. Read More »

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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 »

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Portland Arts & Lectures: Ann Patchett

WHERE: Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Portland
WHEN: November 20, 2013

Ann Patchett is the best-selling author of nine books, including the novels Bell Canto and State of Wonder, and the memoir Truth and Beauty. Publisher's Weekly calls her "a master storyteller who has an entertaining habit of dropping ordinary people into extraordinary and exotic circumstances to see what they're made of." In 2012, TIME magazine named her one of the 100 Most influential people in the world, in part for starting Parnassus books and "placing herself on the front lines of several ongoing battles for the fate of the printed word". Patchett's newest book, This a Story of a Happy Marriage, a collection of essays, will be published on November 5, 2013. Read More »

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Portland Arts & Lectures: Lawrence Wright

WHERE: Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Portland
WHEN: January 14, 2014

Lawrence Wright is a staff writer for the New Yorker and the author of nine books, including the best seller The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, which won the Pulitzer Prize. His most recent book is Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief. Read More »

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Portland Arts & Lectures: Julia Alvarez

WHERE: Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Portland
WHEN: April 3, 2014

Award-winning Dominican writer Julia Alvarez has said, "a novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart" Her work frequently deals with family dramas set in politically charged climates. She has published over 19 books, including the best-selling novels How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and In The Time of Butterflies, the memoir A Wedding in Haiti, poetry and books for children. Read More »

Performing Arts | Speakers & Lectures

Rite of Spring Centenary

WHERE: Lincoln Performance Hall, PSU, Portland
WHEN: May 14th, May 29th, June 7th

Agnieszka Laska Dancers with the Portland State University Orchestra celebrate the centenary of 'The Rite of Spring' with serval events, culminating in performance of new choreography by Agnieszka Laska to with live accompaniment under the baton of Ken Selden. more »