2012-13 Events Sponsored by the Oregon Humanities Center

UPCOMING COSPONSORED EVENTS | WORK-IN-PROGRESS TALKS | PAST THEMES | LECTURESHIPS

			November 13, 2012 (VIDEO) Michelle Alexander, Moritz College of Law and the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Ohio State University; author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceraton in the Age of Colorblindness (2010).

			January 24, 2013—Eugene (VIDEO) January 25, 2013—Portland (VIDEO) Ira Byock , M.D., director of Palliative Medicine, Dartmouth–Hitchcock Medical Center; author of The Four Things That Matter Most (2004), and The Best Care Possible: A Physician’s Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life (2012).

May 29, 2013—Eugene "How Human Beings Got Morality, Religion, Civilization, and Humanity" 7:30 p.m., 182 Lillis Hall May 30, 2013—Portland "What on Earth is Happening to Us? Polarization, Demonization and Paralysis in American Politics." 7 p.m., UO in Portland, 70 NW Couch St. Jonathan Haidt, Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership, New York University; author of The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion (2012). Sponsor: Oregon Humanities Center Kritikos Lecture. Information: ohc@uoregon.edu or (541) 346-3934. Watch live-streaming video.			February 12, 2013 (VIDEO) Wade Davis, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence and anthropologist; author of The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in a Modern World.

			March 5, 2013 David Eagleman, neuroscientist and director of the Laboratory for Perception and Action, Baylor College of Medicine; author of Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives (2010) and Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain (2011).

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