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Join us for events honoring Reed's centennial! From compelling lectures and superb concerts to dramatic performances and community-wide celebrations, these campus events during the college's centennial year showcase the passion for learning, depth of creativity, and spirit of independence for which Reed is known.
All events are free and open to the public unless noted otherwise.
Stephen E. Ostrow Distinguished Visitor in the Visual Arts Series Lecture: Richard Shiff, “Loss of Subject”The Stephen E. Ostrow Distinguished Visitor in the Visual Arts Series brings Richard Shiff to the Reed campus in February for a lecture on Cézanne's Card Players. Art historians usually classify images like Cézanne's Card Players as genre pictures, views of daily life that may reveal attitudes toward a class of society or a set of cultural practices. Shiff argues that Cézanne's earliest viewers evaluated his Card Players as abstractions, and that by this interpretive route, the paintings gained a special social significance. Shiff is the Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art and director of the Center for the Study of Modernism at the University of Texas, Austin. His scholarly interests range broadly across the field of modern art from the early nineteenth century to the present, with emphasis on French painting and post-war and contemporary American and European art. He has been particularly involved with theory and criticism. Shiff’s publications include Cézanne and the End of Impressionism, Critical Terms for Art History, Barnett Newman: A Catalogue Raisonné, Doubt, Between Sense and de Kooning, and numerous studies of critical and methodological issues. Some of his recent essays have focused on Vincent van Gogh, Georges Seurat, Pablo Picasso, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Richard Serra, Bridget Riley, Georg Baselitz, Peter Doig, and Julie Mehretu.
Black History Month: Darrell Grant Double Legacy Project
Black History Month: Charles J. Ogletree Jr., "Race, Racism, and Discrimination in America"
Black History Month: Glenn C. Loury, "Obama is No King: Reflections on Presidential Politics and the Black Prophet Tradition"
Black History Month: Isabel Wilkerson, "The Warmth of Other Suns"
Visiting Writer Series: Nikky FinneyThe Reed College Visiting Writer Series presents an evening with Nikky Finney. Finney is the author of four collections of poetry, On Wings Made of Gauze, Rice, recipient of a PEN America Open Book Award, The World is Round, recipient of the 2004 Benjamin Franklin Award for Poetry, and Head Off & Split. A recipient of the Kentucky Foundation for Women Artists Fellowship Award and the Governor’s Award in the Arts, she has taught at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, Berea College in Berea,
Kentucky, and is a former faculty member at Cave Canem. In 2006 she edited The Ringing Ear, an anthology of African American poets' writing on the South. She is presently
professor of creative writing at the University of Kentucky.
Portland Chamber Orchestra's "All that Jazz" features the return of virtuosic violinist Lindsay Deutsch, along with world-renowned jazz pianist and composer Dick Hyman in his Portland debut in a new transcription of Gershwin’s "Rhapsody in Blue" and works by Dick Hyman for jazz trio, violin, piano, and orchestra. Tickets are $15 to $25; 503/205-0715.
Visiting Writer Series: Martha Collins
Alumni College: Part of Reunions 2012!Following a tradition established last year at Centennial Reunions 2011, Alumni College will be embedded within Reunions 2012—Reedfayre—instead of preceding it. Courses will be offered throughout the week and the cost of participation is included in the overall registration fee for Reunions; there are no additional charges except for any materials fees noted in individual course descriptions. A featured course on the future of liberal arts colleges, as well as many other individual courses, will make Alumni College 2012 an eclectic, content-rich, alumni-led, and alumni-inspired program.
Reunions 2012: Reedfayre
Reed College Convocation 2011
Museion: The Reed College Art Collection, One Hundred Years of GenerosityOpening reception: 6–9 p.m., September 13 The Cooley Art Gallery presents Museion September 6 through December 7. Works of art from Reed's collection are exhibited in relationship to an interdisciplinary array of artifacts and ethnographic objects. Donated to the college over the past century, the collection of works and objects that comprise Museion honor 100 years of generosity. The exhibition is curated by Cooley Gallery director Stephanie Snyder ’91 in collaboration with a variety of Reed community members, alumni, and exhibiting artists. The Cooley Gallery will present a public talk and performance by New York artist and Reed alumna Jamie Isenstein ’98 on October 27 and a table-making dinner event and installation by Michael Hebb. Museion also marks the publication of David Reed: Lives of Paintings. This unique artist's book and monograph on the work of renowned New York painter and Reed alumnus David Reed ’68 is published by the Cooley Gallery. For more information, call 503/517-7851.
Public talk and performance: October 27
Noon–5 p.m., Tuesday–Sunday, in the Cooley Art Gallery, Hauser Library
View Colin Diver's Centennial speech:
View Richard Danzig's remarks:
Reed College Centennial Community Day CelebrationReed College is hosting a Community Day to celebrate our 100th birthday! A day
of music, food, and games for the whole family kicks off at 8 a.m. with the inaugural Reed College 5k
Odyssey to benefit neighborhood elementary schools. In the evening, join us for a movie on the lawn and fireworks.
View Centennial Celebration highlights:
Reed College 5k Odyssey
Thank you, runners:
Symposium: Deepak Sarma '91, "When is a Brahmin a wicked Brahmin? Insider and outsiders in the study of religion"Deepak Sarma, associate professor of South Asian religions and philosophy at Case Western Reserve University, is the author of Classical Indian Philosophy: A Reader (2011), Epistemologies and the Limitations of Philosophical Inquiry: Doctrine in Madhva Vedanta (2005), and An Introduction to Madhva Vedanta (2003). He has produced several documentaries on Hindu rituals and practices and is currently serving as a guest curator of Indian Kalighat Paintings, an exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art. After earning a BA in religion from Reed, Sarma attended the University of Chicago Divinity School, where he received a PhD in philosophy of religions. The symposium is sponsored by the religion department.
Visiting Writer Series: Amina Gautier
Visiting Writer Series: Madeline DeFrees
Public Policy Lecture Series: Evan Dawley, "From Reed to Washington and Back Again: The Noble Tradition in the Foreign Relations of the United States"
In his role at the Department of State, Dawley studies the history of U.S. relations with East Asia and the relevance of past relations for present diplomacy. He spent a year as a visiting professor of history and humanities at Reed College and has taught classes at Georgetown University and George Washington University. He completed a PhD in modern Chinese history at Harvard and a BA in history at Oberlin.
Supported by the Elizabeth E. Ducey Lecture Fund and by Reed’s history department.
Fall Canyon DayThe idyllic canyon that runs through the heart of the Reed College campus provides a home to native plants and a host of wildlife, including great blue herons, lampreys, beavers, wood ducks, salamanders, Pacific chorus frogs, and an otter with a big appetite for unsuspecting mussels. As part of the college's ongoing efforts to restore and protect this critical part of the Crystal Springs Creek, Canyon Day brings together neighborhood community members and Reed students, faculty, and staff to pull invasive weeds, add native plants, and rebuild trails. Join us for a day of conserving one of Portland’s remaining historical waterways to the Willamette River and the Pacific Ocean and contributing to the long term survival of Oregon’s native fish populations.
Symposium: Duncan Williams ’91, "Identity/Religion/Nation: Japanese American Buddhism in a Transnational Space, 1868-1945"Duncan Williams is associate professor of religion and chair of the School of Religion at the University of Southern California, where he also codirects the USC's Center for Japanese Religions and Culture. Williams's research focuses on the social and cultural history of Japanese and Japanese American religions, particularly during the early modern and modern periods of Japanese history. His most recent book is Issei Buddhism in the Americas (2010), which he edited with Tomoe Moriya. Williams earned a BA from Reed, an MTS from Harvard Divinity School, and a PhD in religion from Harvard.
Visiting Writer Series: Skip Horack
Community Reading Project: Claude Steele, "Whistling Vivaldi: How stereotypes affect us and what we can do—in schools and in the workplace" Reed's Office for Institutional Diversity invites both the Reed community and the greater Portland community to attend a lecture by Claude Steele, preeminent social psychologist and
I. James Quillen Dean of the School of Education at Stanford University. The lecture, "Whistling Vivaldi: How stereotypes affect us and what we can do—in schools and in the workplace," is the first annual Community Reading Project hosted by Reed's institutional diversity office. Steele was educated at Hiram College and at the Ohio State University, where he received his PhD in psychology. He has received honorary degrees from the University of Michigan, the University of Chicago, Yale University, Princeton University, and from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Previously, he served as the twenty-first Provost of Columbia University, as well as a professor of psychology. Before joining Columbia University, he was a faculty member at Stanford, holding appointments as the Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences, as Director of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, and as the Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Education, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and to the American Philosophical Society. He is a member of the boards of the Social Science Research Council and of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Steele's book Whistling Vivaldi—from which the lecture will draw—provides an essential roadmap for understanding the link between identity and performance and how we can make significant
strides in mitigating the effects of negative stereotypes in our communities. Reed’s Community Reading Project supports the college's academic mission, aligning Reed’s commitment to intellectual pluralism with its dedication to academic rigor through a series of readings, lectures, and other events. This event is cosponsored by
the multicultural resource center and Reed's Student Senate.
Thomas Lamb Eliot Lecture on Religion: Peter Eli Gordon ’88, "Between Crucifix and Crescent: Jürgen Habermas and the Debate over Secularization in Post-War Germany"Peter E. Gordon received a BA from Reed College and a PhD from
the University of California, Berkeley. He has been a member of the Princeton
Society of Fellows and since 2000 a member of the faculty at Harvard
University, where he is now Amabel B. James Professor of History and Harvard
College Professor. Gordon specializes in modern European intellectual history
from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth century. His most recent book—a
major historical and analytical reconstruction of interwar German philosophy
that received the Jacques Barzun Prize from the American Philosophical
Society—is Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos (2010). In 2005
Gordon received the Phi Beta Kappa Award for Excellence in Teaching. He is
cofounder and cochair of the Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History. William Greenleaf Eliot Jr. ’21 created the Thomas Lamb
Eliot Fund in Religion in 1953 in memory of his father, Thomas Lamb Eliot. T.
L. Eliot, a Unitarian minister who originally encouraged the funding for Reed
from Portland transportation magnate Simeon Reed and his wife Amanda, served as
Reed regent (1911–25) and regent president (1911–20). In addition to an annual
lecture, the fund has been used to support religion studies at Reed and to
establish a Thomas Lamb Eliot Professorship of Religion and Humanities. This
year's Eliot Lecture on Religion marks the 170th anniversary of the birth of
Thomas Lamb Eliot and the centennial of Reed College.
Public Policy Lecture Series: Robert A. Pape, "Moving Beyond the War on Terror”Reed's 2011–12 Public Policy Lecture Series series explores the rapidly
changing international environment through a set of perspectives on the
past, present, and future of U.S. foreign policy. Robert A. Pape, political science professor at the University of Chicago and the parent of a Reedie, draws on lessons from the previous decade—and the "War on Terror"—to develop future policy prescriptions aimed at combating global terrorism. Pape’s most recent book, coauthored with James K. Feldman, is Cutting the Fuse: The Explosion of Global Suicide Terrorism and How to Stop It (University of Chicago Press, 2010). He has published widely in peer-reviewed journals and his commentary on international security policy has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, New Republic, and the Los Angeles Times, as well as on the Newshour with Jim Lehrer, Nightline, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, Anderson Cooper, and Lou Dobbs, and National Public Radio. Lecture followed by a short Q&A.
Sponsored by the Munk-Darling Lecture Fund in International Relations.
Public Policy Lecture Series: Richard J. Danzig ’65, "National Insecurity"
Danzig, who served as the 71st Secretary of the Navy, is the chairman of the board for the Center for a New American Security. He is also a member of the RAND Corporation’s board of trustees and of the Defense Policy Board, a federal advisory committee to the U.S. Department of Defense. Danzig earned a BA in political science from Reed and BPhil and DPhil degrees from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He then earned a JD from Yale Law School and was a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Byron White. Danzig has taught at Harvard and Stanford, and spent two years as a member of the Harvard Society of Fellows. During the 2008 presidential campaign, Danzig served as a senior adviser to Senator Barack Obama.
In 2011, Danzig was selected as the first recipient of the Thomas Lamb Eliot Award for Lifetime Achievement by a Reed College Graduate. T. L. Eliot, Reed’s founding board president, was a Unitarian minister who encouraged the original funding for the college from Portland transportation magnate Simeon Reed and his wife Amanda. Eliot also worked for temperance and women's suffrage, founded the Oregon Humane Society, and helped to develop the public library. Danzig's extraordinary contributions to his field and his deep commitment to public service exemplify the spirit of intellectual rigor, independence, and integrity for which Thomas Lamb Eliot was known.
Visiting Writer Series: Malena Mörling
Duniway Holiday Home Tour: Featuring Reed's Parker House
Alumni Holiday Party
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