Date: Monday, May 7th2012
Lecture: 6:00 - 7:30pm
Location: PSU Smith Memorial Student Union, Room 236
1825 SW Broadway, Portland (map)
Cost: Free
Alumni are also invited to join us for a special reception with Professor Logan before the lecture:
Alumni Reception, 5:00 - 5:30pm, PSU College of Urban Affairs, Room 311, 506 SW Mill Street, Portland
Wednesday, March 7
5:30pm board meeting (all welcome)
6:30pm happy hour
Dig A Pony: 736 SE Grand Avenue (map)
If you have never attended a Board Meeting please join us! Your contribution of two or more hours PER YEAR would greatly enhance our organization’s ability to host events for everyone to enjoy. Your help is needed to make our local alumni chapter successful!
We invite you to join us for a special evening with Brown University Prof Ralph E. Rodriguez for dinner and lecture featuring a “lyrical criticism on the relationship between culture and identities”. The evening is our first event this academic year in an ongoing series bringing Brown faculty to you, sponsored by the Brown Club of Oregon with support from the Brown Alumni Association.
Noble Rot / 1111 E. Burnside / Fourth Floor / Portland (map)
6:00 pm drinks & appetizers
7:00 dinner & lecture
$35 all inclusive
>> Attendance is strictly limited to 30 people, so reserve your space soon!
First Course:Endive salad with hazelnuts, blue cheese & beets
Second Course(choose one):
Beef short rib with whipped potatoes;
Market selection fish with roasted white roots & shrimp sauce; or
Leek & chanterelle tart, roasted carrots & parsnips
Third Course: Chocolate torte with dulche du leche
Wine and non-alcoholic drinks
A Question of You and Meis a manuscript of lyrical criticism that examines how we inhabit, enact, and represent our racialized, gendered, and sexualized identities. I analyze how culture not only represents our multi-form identities but also helps produce the very identities we inhabit or might be interested in inhabiting. Culture, that is, is as richly productive of our heterogeneous, protean selves as it is reflective of them. Since the project is historically interested in the postmodern notion that our lives have become increasingly fragmented, I pursue my argument in a series of associatively related fragments rather than in a traditional linear argument. Fragment as form is a style that has long interested writers and readers. Thus antecedents for my project can be found as far back as Pascal’sPensees, Nietzsche’sBeyond Good and Evil, and more recently in works such as Roland Barthes’sPleasure of the Text, Kathleen Stewart’sOrdinary Affects, and Jed Perl’sAntoine’s Alphabet, to name but a very few of the rich books written in fragment form. The topics engaged in my argument range from literature, to critical theory, to music, to film, and I have also written a few as micro-fiction.
We invite you to join us for our quarterly Brown Club of Oregon happy hour at North 45 in NW Portland.
Wed, October 5th
5:30pm - 7:30pm
North 45 Pub
517 Northwest 21st Avenue, Portland (map)
* The Club will provide a limited supply of appetizers, no-host bar
* You are welcome to bring guests
* Dress is casual
The time for our 5th annual summer picnic is almost here! Come spend a leisurely day at local alum Peter & Jill McDonald’s (’63) idyllic farm in Wilsonville — approximately 360 acres of working hazelnut and timber farm right on the west bank of the Willamette River.
EVENT DETAILS
What: The Brown Club of Oregon Summer Picnic, a family-friendly afternoon of BBQ, Ultimate Frisbee, swimming and more!
Cost:
- Adult: $15 at the door / $10 if you pre-register online
- Children ages 5 - 16 (under 5 are free): $10 at the door / $5 if you pre-register online
- Current student & Recent Grads: $10 at the door / $5 if you pre-register online
- Family pack (up to 5 adults and children): $35 at the door / $25 if you pre-register online
The Brown Club of Oregon
Tues, June 7th
6:00 - 7:00 pm
Lucky Lab brewery
915 SE Hawthorne Blvd (map)
Refreshments will be served!
Please join us for a discussion of upcoming events, including our next happy hour and the summer picnic.
All alumni are encouraged to come.
Come hear from one of the country’s leading scientists in the field, Brown’s Professor of Geological Sciences, Tim Herbert, on a topic called, “A Geologist’s Look at Climate Change.”
This event is being underwritten by the Brown Club of Oregon and the Brown Alumni Association to keep the cost at $10 per person, including hearty seafood appetizers and drinks. Space is limited to 25 participants on a first-come basis. Please see details below.
“A Geologist’s Look at Climate Change”
Featuring Brown University’s Chair and Professor of Geological Sciences Tim Herbert
Wednesday, January 12
5:30 - 7:30 pm
Newport Seafood Grill at Riverplace, Portland (map)
Lecture, appetizers, beer or wine
$10 per person
>> Register Here* by December 20, 2010
Professor Herbert is an oceanographer and paleoclimatologist, someone who deciphers the climate of the earth’s past. Geological studies offer us a unique perspective to sort out how much of the climate change we’ve recently experienced may be natural and how much due to human activity. It also allows us to look at natural “climate experiments” that the earth has already run for insights into what we may experience in the coming century of climate change. Past, Present, and Future — it’s all Geology.
Tim Herbert received his B.S. in Geological Sciences from Yale College in 1980 (Magna Cum Laude), and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in Geological Sciences, in 1997. He has been recognized for his research in the area of Earth Systems History and paleoceanography, earning him a leadership role in the paleoclimate community. His research has led to a better understanding of the history of global change. Within the University community, he has worked hard to develop strong links between the Department of Geological Sciences and Environmental Studies, the Environmental Change Initiative and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology groups. He teaches broad-reaching courses such as “Ecology and Climate”, “Ocean Biogeochemistry”, and “The Enigma of Warm Climates in the Geological Record.”
* If you don’t have, or don’t remember your Brown Alumni Association login, use the link at the top of the registration page that says “If you don’t have an account, you can still register for this event here”.
Please come and join Sunday, October 17th for a stimulating and convivial Middle-Eastern lecture and dinner. This event is being underwritten by the Brown Club of Oregon and the Brown Alumni Association to keep the cost at $15 per person, including an authentic 8-course Middle-Eastern dinner and drinks.
Space is limited to 20 participants on a first-come basis. Please see details below.
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Archaeology at a Wonder of the World: Brown at Petra 2010
Brown archaeologists have been working for decades at the ‘rose-red’ city of Petra in southern Jordan, a site recently voted a modern ‘Wonder of the World’. But many questions still remain about just how this place came to be, and how people lived and worked within it. In 2010, the Brown team dug, walked, mapped, and analyzed everything from Paleolithic stone tools to present-day garbage, in a new attempt to understand the mystery that is Petra.
Sunday, October 17
6:00 - 9:00 pm
Nicholas Restaurant - Arabian Breeze Banquet Room
3223 NE Broadway Portland
8-course Middle-Easter dinner with beer and wine
Only $15 per person
Register Here by Sunday October 10
Featuring Professor Susan Alcock
Director, Artemis A.W. and Martha Sharp Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
Joukowsky Family Professor in Archaeology Professor of Classics
Sue Alcock is a classical archaeologist, with interests in the material culture of the eastern Mediterranean and western Asia, particularly in Hellenistic and Roman times. Much of her research to date has revolved around themes of landscape, imperialism, sacred space, and memory. Her fieldwork has, until recently, taken the form of regional investigations in Greece, but she is now involved with the Vorotan Project, an international collaborative effort in southern Armenia.
Sue Alcock was trained, at Yale and at the University of Cambridge, in the field of classical archaeology — that is the archaeology of the circum-Mediterranean world. Her research interests chiefly target the material culture of the eastern Mediterranean and western Asia, particularly in Hellenistic and Roman times. She has also worked on the long-term history of Messenia (southern Greece), the homeland of the famed ‘helots’ of antiquity. Much of her research to date has revolved around themes of landscape, imperialism, sacred space, and memory. Her work attempts to straddle the usual divide of ‘historian’ and ‘archaeologist.’
]]>Thursday, August 5th
5:30pm - 7:30pm
Departure Restaurant and Lounge – at the Nines Hotel
525 SW Morrison Street, Portland (map)
The details:
The Club will provide a limited supply of appetizers, you purchase your own drinks
You are welcome to bring friends/lovers over 21
Dress is casual
The time for our annual summer picnic is almost here! Come spend a leisurely day at local alum Peter and Jill McDonald’s (’63) idyllic farm in Wilsonville — approximately 360 acres of working hazelnut and timber farm right on the west bank of the Willamette River.
- Date: Sunday June 27, 2010
- Time: 1-6pm
- Place: Wilsonville, OR
More details to come!
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