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Holocaust Remembrance Day

January 23, 2013 By casdept

Friday, April 19, 2013 at 4:00p.m.

Holocaust survivor, Miriam Greenstein, will speak in commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day. She survived the death camps in Europe before immigrating to Portland to live with an uncle and aunt. Greenstein is the author of “In the Shadow of Death, A Young Girl’s Survival in the Holocaust” (2010) and a regular speaker for the Oregon Holocaust Resource Center. Event is co-sponsored with the Multicultural Programs in Student Activities.

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Religion in Cuba: Past, Present, and Future

January 23, 2013 By casdept

Tuesday, February 26, 2013 at 7:00p.m. in Buckley Center #163

Blair Woodard is a professor of history with research interests in Latin American history and U.S.-Latin American relations. His presentations will discuss Cuba’s many religious influences. From Catholicism, Santeria, and official State Atheism, religion has played a defining role in the formation of Cuba’s cultural heritage and will continue to do so as the nation faces many changes in the future. Woodard’s research in both Cuban and U.S. archives has been supported by grants from Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations and the University of New Mexico.

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Diving into Mink River

January 23, 2013 By casdept

Wednesday, February 20, 2013 at 7:00pm in Bookstore (Pilot House)

Brian Doyle and Rev. Charlie Gordon, C.S.C., will again join forces as they explore the braided spiritual journeys of defiant hope and faith in Doyle’s novel Mink River, and in the works of other spiritual writers including Annie Dillard, David James Duncan, Marilynne Robinson, and Ron Hansen. Please join them on Wednesday, February 20, at 7 p.m., in the Pilot House bookstore. Their spirited talk is free and open to the public.

Doyle’s Mink River, a finalist for the Oregon Book Award and winner of the Foreword Reviews’ Novel of the Year in 2011, is the story of a small town on the Oregon coast and its “fitfully graceful” denizens, among them a priest, a nun, and a remarkably wise and articulate crow. The book is now on the reading lists of students in high schools and colleges around America, and Fr. Gordon teaches it in his class on modern Catholic literature. Doyle, editor of the University of Portland’s Portland Magazine, is the author of many other books, among them the spiritual essay collections Grace Notes and Leaping. A new collection of his spiritual essays, The Thorny Grace of It, will be published in September by Loyola Press in Chicago.

For more on the Garaventa Center’s busy slate of events, all of them free and open to the public, see http://www.up.edu/garaventa/. For more information on this event contact Jamie Powell, Garaventa Center, at ext. 7702 or powell@up.edu.

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Jeff Dietrich Lecture

January 13, 2013 By casdept

From UPBEAT

The University will host activist, author, and cook Jeff Dietrich at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, January 24 when he presents “Broken and Shared: Tales from a Hippie Kitchen” in the Executive Boardroom of the Bauccio Commons. His presentation is free and open to faculty, staff, students, and the public.

For over 40 years, Dietrich has lived in community at the Los Angeles Catholic Worker House. Through his efforts, three million meals have been provided to the homeless in Los Angeles. He is the author of Broken and Shared: Food, Dignity, and the Poor on LA’s Skid Row, a collection of thought-provoking essays. For more information, contact Jamie Powell, Garaventa Center, at powell@up.edu or ext. 7702.

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Final “Faith In Film” Session

November 26, 2012 By casdept

From UPBEAT

The next and final fall 2012 installment in the Bringing Eyes of Faith to Film series sponsored by the Garaventa Center will be the Woody Allen movie “Midnight in Paris” on Wednesday, November 28.

Hosts Fr. Charlie Gordon C.S.C., and Karen Eifler, education, will precede the screening with comments highlighting themes of grace and transcendence in the film. The event will be held in Shiley Hall room 301 and is free and open to faculty, staff, students, and the public. Thematic snacks will be served.

For more information contact Jamie Powell, Garaventa Center, at ext. 7702 or powell@up.edu.

Filed Under: Events, Garaventa Center, Theology Tagged With: Bringing Eyes of Faith to Film, Midnight In Paris, Movie, Snacks, UPBEAT

Amy-Jill Levine Lecture

November 19, 2012 By casdept

From UPBEAT

Amy-Jill Levine (Vanderbilt University)

Vanderbilt University’s Amy-Jill Levine will present “How Jews and Christians Read Scripture Differently” on Thursday, November 29, at 7:30 p.m., in Buckley Center room 163. The presentation is free and open to faculty, staff students, and the public.

Levine is the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies at Vanderbilt University and a Professor of Jewish Studies in the Vanderbilt Divinity School. Her work includes the upcoming book Parables: Hearing the Stories of Jesus Again for the First Time (December, 2012).

For more information, contact Jamie Powell, Garaventa Center, at ext. 7702 or powell@up.edu.

 

Filed Under: Catholic Studies, Events, Garaventa Center, Theology Tagged With: Speaker, UPBEAT, Vanderbilt University

Wayne Miller Poetry Reading

November 19, 2012 By casdept

From UPBEAT

Poet and editor Wayne Miller will read from his work on Monday, November 12, at 7:30 p.m., in Buckley Center room 163 as part of the English department’s Readings and Lectures Series. Miller is the author of three poetry collections, including his most recent The City, Our City.

The reading is free and open to faculty, staff, students, and the public. For more information contact Molly Hiro, English, at ext. 8031 or hiro@up.edu.

Filed Under: English, Events, Garaventa Center Tagged With: Poetry, Readings and Lectures Series

Garaventa Center Welcome

April 29, 2012 By Mark

The Garaventa Center for Catholic Intellectual Life and American Culture was dedicated in June 2005 with a gift from the Garaventa family of Concord, California. The mission of the Center is rooted in the identity of the University as a Catholic, Holy Cross, and American institution of higher learning.

The Garaventa Center is a thriving enterprise on campus that brings people together around our mission as a Catholic university. Through lectures, conferences, symposiums, art exhibits, and concerts, the Center explores the Catholic intellectual tradition from an array of perspectives and disciplines.

Recent speakers and artists hosted on The Bluff by the Garaventa Center include:

  • Helen Alvare, Vatican advisor
  • Michael Behe and Jack Haught, Intelligent Design vs. Evolution dialogue
  • Alice Cahana, Holocaust survivor and artist
  • Timothy Carney, U.S. Ambassador
  • Elias Chacour, Archbishop of Galilee
  • Jim Towey, Director of White House Faith-based and Community Initiatives
  • David Fagerberg, Iconographic scholar
  • Jonathan Kozol, author of Amazing Grace
  • Antonin Scalia, U.S. Supreme Court Justice

The Garaventa Center has a strong interdisciplinary focus and the Garaventa Center strives to deepen the conversation on campus about what it means to be a Catholic in America. Your generous support will help fund our many endeavors in this regard. If you would like to make a gift to the Garaventa Center, please call (503) 943-7702 or email us at powell@up.edu.

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