Events Calendar 11/3

Friday, November 03, 2023

Gaza War Teach-In (9am to 11am @ Trillium Multipurpose Room)

The violence in Israel and Palestine has touched us all personally and collectively. The ongoing bombardment, threatened invasion, and humanitarian crisis in Gaza is unconscionable and calls for whatever intervention we can make to bring it to an end. As an intellectual community, we can learn from others and others’ experiences. With this in mind, please join us this Friday, 9 am, in Trillium MPR for a livestream of “Gaza in Context: A Collaborative Teach-In Series – Gaza in History” hosted by Jadaliyya and featuring the amazing Palestinian and Jewish historians Behara Doumani and Ilana Feldman.

Day of the Dead Community Ritual (10:30am to 12pm @ Student Union)

All are welcome

In a moment when there is so much to mourn,

we will gather together to find joy in the memory of loved ones

Led by Victor I. Cazares

Sponsored by the Reed Theatre Department

Biology Seminar: Dr. Tom Kraft (12pm to 1pm @ Psychology, Psychology 105 Auditorium)

Note Location Change: Meeting in Psych 105 this week!

“Modeling the Dynamics of Infectious Ddisease (SARS-CoV-2) Transmission in a Small-scale Subsistence Population”

Infectious disease dynamics are governed by patterns of contact that vary by geography, mobility, network structure, and cultural factors. Accordingly, voluntary collective isolation (VCI) has been proposed to mitigate disease transmission into relatively isolated, small-scale Indigenous groups, most recently during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. To test the viability of VCI and other interventions, I simulated disease transmission among Amazonian horticulturalists (Tsimane) using a stochastic network metapopulation model parameterized with high-resolution data on social behavior, mobility, and population structure. Findings indicate that relative isolation and Tsimane social organization offer little protection, and that VCI is unlikely to be effective. Model results closely predicted empirical serological outcomes in this population. These results suggest that pandemic policies should aim to protect small-scale communities by delivering distributed healthcare resources across remote areas.

Tom Kraft is a human behavioral ecologist interested in how interactions between social behavior, culture, and the environment shape human health and life history.

Exhibition: Jesse Murry: Rising (12pm to 5pm @ Cooley Art Gallery)

Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, in partnership with Converge 45: Social Forms: Art as Global Citizenship.Nestled in the Reed library, always free and open to the public.The Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College and Converge 45 are proud to present Jesse Murry: Rising—the first west coast showing of the poetic landscapes of American painter, poet, and art critic Jesse Murry (1948–1993).

The exhibition is curated by renowned American painter Lisa Yuskavage, and 2022 Kennedy Scholar Jarrett Earnest, and is part of Social Forms: Art as Global Citizenship—Converge curator Christian Viveros-Faune’s city-wide initiative. The exhibition is organized for the Cooley by curator Stephanie Snyder and Converge artistic director Derek Franklin.

Jesse Murry: Rising presents a group of the artist’s oil paintings created between 1988 and 1993, the last five years of Murry’s life, when he was confronted with the reality of his impending mortality from AIDS-related illness. The works testify to Murry’s lifelong belief in the capacity of painting to hold the complexity of human meaning—at the meeting of a material fact and a location within the mind.

Parent & Family Weekend Exploration Session: Hum 110 and Beyond: A Conference for Parents and Families (1pm to 1:50pm @ Various classrooms)

Join a faculty led humanities conference and discussion of the curriculum beyond the first year exprience. Reading materials for each conference will be provided during the session. Registration required; space is limited.

Parent & Family Weekend: Faculty Research Showcase (2pm to 3:30pm @ Kaul Auditorium, Gray Lounge)

Come learn what our faculty are up to as researchers. Three faculty members from different disciplines will offer brief, accessible-to-the-non-expert presentations about their current research. Question, answer, and discussion follow.

Cookies & Community Engagement Q&A (5pm to 6pm @ Aspen Multipurpose Room)

Want to find out about how you can earn wages or credit working with nonprofits? Come decorate a fall cookie and hear from current and former CE Interns!

No RSVP needed, just show up!

Saturday, November 04, 2023

Exhibition: Jesse Murry: Rising (12pm to 5pm @ Cooley Art Gallery)

Oregon Origins Project III: Maa~‑xuslh‑ghalh‑ta Tututni Dené (A Year in Tututni Dené Seasons) (12pm to 5pm @ Vollum College Center, Vollum lounge)

Oregon Origins Project presents a journey through the seasonal traditions of the southwest Oregon coast indigenous peoples. Yashuwe’ Tututni Dené culture bearer and artist Hii-ne Jake DePoe’s artwork will be on display⁣. Free and open to the public during gallery hours. More info at oregonorigins.org.

Open Days (9:30am to 1pm @ Biology, Breezeway)

Open Days is a one-day event geared towards connecting Reed College’s biology, chemistry, and physics departments to the greater Portland community. Open Days visitors will have the opportunity to interact with Reed’s science departments, drop in to Reed’s campus, engage with science faculty, and participate in lab experiments.

Drop in for:

Research Reactor Tours Microscopy and Fly Husbandry 3D Printing and Laser Cutting Demonstrations Microscopy and Zebrafish Metals Around Us All About Trees Microscopy of Materials

Open Days is free and open to the public.

Parent & Family Weekend Exploration Session: Empowering Your Student From Afar (10:15am to 11am @ Kaul Auditorium)

An interactive session designed to build community amongst parents and Reed administrators. Parents read, discuss, and determine strategies and approaches to fictitious, but possible scenarios a student/family may face while enrolled in college. This session will empower parents with information and make connections with key Student Life leadership whom they can contact to receive support from afar.

Explore Career Resources for your Reedie with the Center for Life Beyond Reed! (11:15am to 12pm @ Kaul Auditorium)

Join the Center for Life Beyond Reed (CLBR) staff in exploring how Reed’s liberal arts model transfers to the workforce. During this session, the CLBR’s Director and Assistant Director will discuss their purpose-driven advising model and how they facilitate students identifying and achieving fellowship funding, graduate admissions and fulfilling career/pre-professional paths in between and beyond their time at Reed. You will have the opportunity to engage with our presenters throughout the discussion, so come prepared with all your questions!

Much Ado About Nothing! (7pm to 9pm @ Performing Arts Building, Atrium 1st Floor)

“I see the gentleman is not in your books.” “No, and if he were, I would burn my study!”

Come see Much Ado About Nothing! Shakespeare’s best comedy sets the stage for the bickering Benedick and Beatrice, the tentative Hero Claudio, and the bumbling Prince’s Watch amidst a cast of characters that all have schemes of their own.

Sunday, November 05, 2023

Exhibition: Jesse Murry: Rising (12pm to 5pm @ Cooley Art Gallery)

Oregon Origins Project III: Maa~‑xuslh‑ghalh‑ta Tututni Dené (A Year in Tututni Dené Seasons) (12pm to 5pm @ Vollum College Center, Vollum lounge)

Much Ado About Nothing! (2pm to 4pm @ Performing Arts Building, Atrium 1st Floor)

“I see the gentleman is not in your books.” “No, and if he were, I would burn my study!”

Peer Career Drop-in Advising (6pm to 8pm @ Aspen Multipurpose Room)

Do you have questions about job searching, fellowships, or career development? Do you need feedback on a resume, cover letter, or LinkedIn page? Join our Peer Career Advisors (PCA), a group of current Reedies who are experts in supporting you with your career exploration, for drop-in advising. No need to make an appointment; stop by Aspen Multi-Purpose room to chat with a PCA between Sunday and Thursday from 6-8pm.

Much Ado About Nothing! (7pm to 9pm @ Performing Arts Building, Atrium 1st Floor)

Monday, November 06, 2023

Peer Career Drop-in Advising (6pm to 8pm @ Aspen Multipurpose Room)

Tuesday, November 07, 2023

Peer Career Drop-in Advising (6pm to 8pm @ Aspen Multipurpose Room)

Seasonal Affective Disorder Tabling (11:30am to 1pm @ Gray Campus Center, Patio)

Feeling stressed and overwhelmed by the time change and the change in seasons? In the Pacific Northwest it is common to have issues with Seasonal Affective Disorder, aka SAD. Come stop by the HCC table in front of Gray Commons on 11/7 from 11:30-1PM to learn more about how to handle the impacts of Oregon’s gray weather and enter to win a “happy” lamp!

Wednesday, November 08, 2023

Peer Career Drop-in Advising (6pm to 8pm @ Aspen Multipurpose Room)

American Studies Presents: Marc Schneiberg on RACE, CREDIT, and AMERICAN BANKING (12pm to 1pm @ Performing Arts Building, 104)

American banking has a long history of systematically excluding borrowers in poorer or Black and Brown communities from access to credit, or including them on predatory terms. And with the US government often using the banking system to implement public policy, as it did with its Paycheck Protection Program during the pandemic, these structural biases become a feature of state programs. Predictably, the PPP made its first $360 billion in loans almost exclusively to larger and still profitable businesses in more affluent White communities, denying funds to business owners in the hardest hit Black and Brown areas. Yet in a striking turn, PPP lending institutions pivoted in later rounds to lend heavily in poorer and minority communities. In this talk, I present findings from a project on what drove that pivot to see where possibilities might exist within the American banking system for more inclusive lending.

Harnessing our Collective Resilience: How Understanding the Brain can Support Learning, Wellness, and Success for All (1:30pm to 2:30pm @ Psychology, 105)

There is no doubt that college can be stressful and that burnout is real. So, what can we do about it? In this talk, neuroscientist and pedagogy researcher Mays Imad will dive into the science of bouncing back and reflect on how education systems might think about resilience. We’ll talk about how we can create spaces where everyone, especially those who often feel left out, can grow and thrive. This talk is especially aimed at students who are interested in teaching and/or education, but all students are welcome. Dr. Imad hopes that the talk will help participants understand what resilience really means in college life, learn how teaching that is tuned into different cultures can help students succeed, and pick up strategies to handle challenges and turn them into learning moments.

Dr. Mays Imad’s academic journey began at the University of Michigan–Dearborn, where she pursued philosophy and minored in chemistry. She earned a doctoral degree in cellular & clinical neurobiology, with a minor in biomedical sciences, from Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Arizona’s Department of Neuroscience, she joined Pima Community College (PCC), teaching a variety of biology-related subjects. During her tenure at PCC, she founded their Teaching and Learning Center (TLC).

Imperial Religion in Eurasian Borderlands (4:30pm @ Eliot Hall, 314)

A talk by James Meador ’09 (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor).

How did imperial states expand and rule through difference? This talk explores some ways that imperial states differ from nation-states. After introducing a theoretical framework through examples taken from the late imperial Russian and Qing Chinese metropoles, it proceeds to analyze and contextualize the missionary diaries of Roman Tsyrenpilov, a Buryat Mongol Orthodox missionary active in the borderlands between the two empires. Tsyrenpilov’s diaries record an 1870 trip to an extraterritorial enclave of Chinese imperial subjects in the Russian Far East, and his efforts to advance a strategically ambiguous missionary project that blurred the line between domestic and foreign religious proselytism. Though this project was quickly abandoned, its failure offers insights into the nature of Russian imperial rule. The diaries also preserve rare glimpses of a set of Manchu communities whose legacy was erased by Russian ethnic cleansing in 1900.

James Meador studies social semiotics of religion and multilingualism in Chinese-Russian contact history. He defended his PhD dissertation in linguistic anthropology at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor in Fall 2023. Based on three years of fieldwork in Northeast China and the Russian Far East, his dissertation explores the history of the Chinese Autonomous Orthodox Church.

Physics Seminar: “Predicting the Nature and Fate of Photoexcitations in Emerging Energy Materials” Jeffrey B. Neaton (4:30pm to 5:30pm @ P123)

Jeffrey B. Neaton Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Kavli Energy Nanosciences Institute at Berkeley

The ability to synthesize and probe new classes of complex photoactive materials with tunable structure and chemical composition – such as halide perovskites, molecular solids, few-layer van der Waals heterostructures, and more – has driven the development of new theory, computational methods, and intuition for predicting their photophysics. In these novel semiconductors, photoexcited correlated electron-hole pairs, or excitons, can be strongly bound and do not conform to simple models, and new understanding is needed to interpret the behavior of these quasiparticles. Here, I will discuss advances in first-principles calculations – based on density functional theory and field-theoretic Green's function formalisms – that have enabled predictive understanding of excitons in these complex systems, including how they are influenced by lattice structure and dynamics, temperature, dielectric screening, and carrier concentration. I will share recent calculations for multiple systems, comparing them with experiments, and discuss new intuition for the nature and kinetics of excitons with relevance to optoelectronic devices and renewable energy applications.

Reedies in Sustainability–Watersheds, hosted by the Reed Career Alliance (RCA) (5pm to 6:30pm @ Virtual Event)

Join us on November 8 for a virtual RCA Career Pathways panel, Reedies in Sustainability–Watersheds.

Panelists include Jenny Balmagia ’14 (Lower Salinas Valley SGMA Watershed Coordinator, Santa Cruz, CA), Nina Bell ’77 (Executive Director, Northwest Environmental Advocates, Portland, OR), Zac Perry (Facilities Operations Manager, Reed College, Portland, OR - master of the Canyon restoration!), and Paula vanHaagen ’79 (Unit Manager, Seattle EPA Office, retired). Hear these Reedie experts in watersheds talk about their professional journeys and discuss what skills, challenges, and opportunities one may anticipate in the field.

The Tyrannical Style of American Politics (5pm @ Psychology, 105)

Elizabeth Duquette was Graeff Chair of English at Gettysburg College and co-editor of J19: The Journal of 19th Century Americanists. Currently, she is a visiting scholar in the comparative literature program at Reed, as well as Portland State University’s department of English. She is the incoming co-editor of The ALH Review. This talk is taken from Duquette’s most recent book, American Tyrannies in the Long Age of Napoleon (Oxford 2023), which argues that tyranny is as American as democracy.

Free and open to the public. Sponsored by the departments of history, comparative literature, French, German, and Spanish.

Thursday, November 09, 2023

Exhibition: Jesse Murry: Rising (12pm to 5pm @ Cooley Art Gallery)

Peer Career Drop-in Advising (6pm to 8pm @ Aspen Multipurpose Room)

Student Flu Clinics (11am to 1:30pm @ Gray Campus Center, A)

Stay safe this flu season and get your annual booster at student flu clinics offered by the HCC. Medical staff will be administering vaccines Thursdays from now until March 2024 in GCC-A from 11am-1:30pm. No appointment necessary, walk-ins encouraged. Please bring an insurance card.

Chemistry Seminar: Eric Reinheimer, Ph.D. “Single crystal X-ray diffraction: A 30,000-foot view” (4:30pm to 5:15pm @ Biology, 19)

Dr. Eric Reinheimer completed his B.S. and M.S. degrees from California State Polytechnic Uni versity @ Pomona in Chemistry in 2000 and 2002 respectively. In 2007, he received his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University under the direction of Professor Kim Dunbar studying charge transfer co-crystals and conducting systems composed of tetrathiafulvalene (TTF). From 2007-2009, he completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in the lab of Professor Doug Rees at the California Institute of Technology studying the enzyme nitrogenase. In 2009, he received a Chateaubriand Fellowship from the French government to conduct research in the lab of Professor Marc Fourmigue at the University of Rennes on the synthesis and condensed matter physics of organic conductors and superconductors. After a short stint back at Texas A&M, he took a post in 2010 at California State University San Marcos where he served as both a staff crystallographer and an adjunct professor in both the departments of chemistry and physics. In 2015, he left Cal State to become a Senior Applications Scientist in Small Molecule Crystallography for Rigaku and later switched to the sales group in 2018 where he not only works with universities and companies on finding solutions to fulfill their structural goals, but also collects data (from time-to-time) and assists many groups around the world with figuring out problem structures.

Sound-Meaning Mapping in Music (4:30pm @ Psychology, 105)

Cultures around the world communicate via musical instruments by transposing phonological and phonetic features to musical melodies. This system of encoding linguistic features with musical instruments is called musical speech surrogacy. While the abilities to decode the message of the music is often considered an aspect of linguistic competence in these cultures, this musico-linguistic practice is rarely considered in linguistic investigation. As language-external evidence for linguistic theory, this talk will focus on the musical speech surrogates which are based on the Yorùbá language (Yoruboid, Niger-Congo; Nigeria). With evidence for vocal imitation and interpretation of video-music by Yorùbá gamers, the talk will show that the practice of musical speech surrogacy can influence the perception and interpretation of music as containing linguistic information, even when the interpreted music are not based on language.

Samuel Akinbo a community-based researcher with interests in phonological description, analysis and theory, syntax-phonology interface, and phonetics. He has deep experience doing community-based research on endangered and under-resourced African languages. His approach to linguistic research involves considering language-external evidence for linguistic theory, so his research also focuses on language-music connections (e.g., talking drums) and language-based cultural aesthetics.

Open to the Reed community.

Break and Flow: The Poetics of Hip Hop in Latin America (4:40pm to 5:30pm @ Eliot Hall, 314)

In August 2023, hip hop turned 50. For at least the last 40 years, it has functioned as a global form of cultural expression.In Latin America, rappers claim the art form as a means to empower themselves and their communities in the face ofpostcolonial racial and class violence. Despite the geographic and linguistic borders that separate these artists, their songs point to a common understanding of hip hop’s capacity to intervene in the public sphere and a shared poetics of neighborhood, nation, and transatlantic yearnings. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Cuba, Brazil, and Haiti, Charlie Hankin ’11 will share findings and musical selections from his recent book, Break and Flow: Hip Hop Poetics in the Americas. Charlie Hankin ’11 received his Master of Music in Violin Performance from the University of Oregon and his PhD in Spanish and Portuguese from Princeton University. His research explores the relationship between popular music.

Free and open to the public. Reception to follow in the E314 foyer from 5:30-6pm. Sponsored by the Spanish department.

Visiting Writers Series: Lehua M. Taitano (6:30pm @ Eliot Hall, Chapel)

Lehua M. Taitano is a queer CHamoru writer and interdisciplinary artist from Yigu, Guåhan (Guam), familain Kabesa yan Kuetu, and co-founder of Art 25: Art in the Twenty-fifth Century. She is the author of two volumes of poetry: Inside Me an Island and A Bell Made of Stones.

Her chapbook, appalachiapacific, won the Merriam-Frontier Award for short fiction. She has two chapbooks of poetry and visual art: Sonoma and Capacity. Her poetry, essays, and Pushcart Prize-nominated fiction have been published internationally. Taitano will serve as poetry faculty at the 2023 Kundiman Writers’ Retreat and as Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Curatorial Council member for the 2023-2024 San Francisco Bay Area Triennial. Her work investigates modern indigeneity, decolonization, and cultural identity in the context of diaspora.

Free and open to the public.

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