Brown Club of Oregon

Dinner & Lecture with Prof Rodriguez: A Question of You and Me

admin — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 03:46:18 +0000

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.

Guests will enjoy drinks, appetizers and northwest cuisine while engaging in a conversation about the nature of our identity and the influence of race, gender, culture and sex. See below for menu details.

Friday, Dec 9 2011
Noble Rot / 1111 E. Burnside / Fourth Floor / Portland (map)
6:00 pm drinks & appetizers
7:00 dinner & lecture
$35 all inclusive

REGISTER by Sunday Dec 4:
https://alumni.brown.edu/alumni/BRAVO/Events/Registration.aspx?Event=794*
>> Attendance is strictly limited to 30 people, so reserve your space soon!

Dinner Menu

Appetizer: Goat cheese mousse with caramelized squash & escarole
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

Lecture:“Life in Fragments: Reflections on Culture, Society and the Self“

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.

Happy Hour at North 45

admin — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 04:52:30 +0000

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

Annual Summer Picnic

admin — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 16:14:28 +0000

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!

When: Sunday, July 24, 2011

Time: 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Where: Wilsonville, OR

(address available upon registration)

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

REGISTER HERE: https://alumni.brown.edu/alumni/BRAVO/Events/Registration.aspx?Event=742 *

Register online by Friday July 22 to secure your pre-registration discount (cutoff is midnight EST, 9pm PST)

Even more details:

Thanks to the McDonald’s generosity, we will soak up the sun while enjoying a barbeque feast, great company, and a range of activities including: swimming, tennis (please bring white shoes and your own equipment if you want to play), and frisbee. Families and kids of all ages are invited and encouraged!

There will be plenty of food and entertainment; please feel free to bring whatever games and amenities you’d bring with you to a picnic, such as blankets or your favorite camping chair. (No pets please)

We look forward to seeing you!

The Brown Club of Oregon

Board Meeting at Lucky Lab

admin — Wed, 18 May 2011 16:22:34 +0000

The Brown Club of Oregon’s next Board Meeting is:

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.

Happy Hour and lecture: A Geologist’s Look at Climate Change

admin — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 05:10:51 +0000

What can the earth’s climate 100 or 1,000 years ago teach us about what is happening today? What can geological studies tell us about how much of today’s climate change may be natural, and how much due to human activity?

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”.

Join us for Middle-Eastern dinner and discussion

admin — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 20:46:25 +0000

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.’

Happy Hour Aug 5th at Departure

admin — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:36:10 +0000

We invite you to join us for a warm summer evening happy hour on the deck of Portland’s most unique bar: Departure. Soak up their space age ascetic, imaginative cocktails and stunning views of downtown Portland from the 12th floor of the Nines Hotel.

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

Annual Summer Picnic

admin — Thu, 20 May 2010 05:03:25 +0000

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!

Find us on Facebook!

admin — Sat, 15 May 2010 05:04:03 +0000

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Larry’s Kidney: Daniel Asa Rose ‘71

admin — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:52:43 +0000

Author Daniel Asa Rose ‘71 will be speaking about his new book “Larry’s Kidney: Being the True Story of How I Found Myself in China with My Black Sheep Cousin and His Mail-Order Bride, Skirting the Law to Get Him a Transplant–and Save His Life“.

Please join us for a reading and discussion:

Date: Wednesday Dec 2, 2009
Time: 7:30 pm - 9:00pm
Place: SOUK, 322 nw 6th avenue, suite 200, Portland (map)
Cost: Donation of $5 suggested (to pay for the room rental)

The Washington Post’s Andrew Ervin described the book this way:

“A stranger-than-fiction memoir by Daniel Asa Rose, serves as an enjoyable testament to the lengths to which we sometimes go to help family, even when doing so is a terrible, terrible idea. The absurdly long subtitle — “Being the Story of How I Found Myself in China with My Black Sheep Cousin and His Mail-Order Bride, Skirting the Law to Get Him a Transplant — and Save His Life” — should come with a spoiler alert. It’s not giving too much away to reveal that the plot involves a guy named Larry, who somehow persuaded his long-lost cousin, Daniel Rose, editor of the literary magazine the Reading Room, to leave his wife and kids behind and accompany him to China. There Larry hoped to get an illegal kidney transplant and meet his bride-to-be. The ensuing adventure is the stuff of slapstick comedy, as Rose and Larry navigate the Chinese black market, the dodgy medical establishment and their own relationship. It’s curious and occasionally tense, especially when after all that trouble Larry threatens to call off the operation if it’s going to be too expensive. Though their odyssey was a success in the end, Rose makes the moral of the story clear: “Don’t try to go to China for a kidney. We got the last one.” Copyright 2009, The Washington Post.

You can also watch a short video of Daniel talking about the book on his website: http://www.danielasarose.com/