News for and about University of Portland faculty and staff.
Are you a new faculty or staff member who has not yet had their professional photo taken for the UP directory? The Office of Marketing and Communications has scheduled a professional photographer for photos, Thursday, September 8. Please email Suzanne Frey at freys@up.edu to schedule a five-minute headshot session.
Please join us for an in-person film screening and conversation with writer and director Walter Thompson-Hernández. We will watch his 12-minute film—If I Go Will They Miss Me—for which he won a Sundance award in the short film category.
September 8, 2022
6 p.m.–7:30 p.m.
Brian Doyle Auditorium, Dundon-Berchtold Hall
Co-hosted by OIEDI & Portland Magazine
About If I Go Will They Miss Me
On January 14, 2020, Delta airlines dumped roughly 15,000 gallons of jet fuel on an area of Los Angeles that included neighborhoods and schools. Walter Thompson-Hernández grew up in one of those communities. The incident and his childhood dreams about flight inspired this 12-minute film.
Walter Thompson-Hernández, a UP alum from the Class of 2009, is a former New York Times journalist and podcast host of California Love. He’s the author of The Compton Cowboys: The New Generation of Cowboys in America’s Urban Heartland, which is being adapted into a film for Fox Searchlight. He wrote and directed If I Go Will They Miss Me.
The Garaventa Center is eager to welcome all staff and faculty back to our agenda-free social. Join us on Friday, September 9, 4 p.m.–6 p.m., for 10 minutes or until last call, for great conversation, laughter, and libations. Seventeen extra credit points for anyone who is attending their first Thirst Friday, brings a newbie, or brings their own cup.
Garaventa Center, Franz Hall 3rd Floor. Hope to see you! Questions? Karen Eifler, eifler@up.edu.
Faculty and staff are invited to attend the kickoff event for our Women in Leadership Forum. Regardless of position or title, we are all leaders on campus. Our goal is to come together in community to support one another and create space for growth and connection. This initial meeting will be an informal opportunity to get to know each other and discuss topics of interest for future events. Light refreshments will be provided. Please reach out to chase@up.edu or herdener@up.edu with any questions.
Register here: https://uportland.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_dnXnEVtWfv53l30
What: Women in Leadership Forum
When: Wednesday, September 14 from 4 p.m.–5 p.m.
Where: Franz 120
UP’s fall 2022 Schoenfeldt Distinguished Writers Series speaker will be Palestinian-American poet Naomi Shihab Nye, who joins our campus Tuesday, September 13. A self-described “wandering poet,” she’s lived and worked in San Antonio, TX, while spending the past 40 years traveling the country and world to lead writing workshops and inspire people of all ages with her poetry. Across over 30 volumes, her poetry explores the Middle East, gratitude and hope, mindfulness, immigration, what we consume, and what we throw away. Nye is a creative writing professor at Texas State University, and is dedicated to having people see poetry everywhere. Other writers who will give evening readings during the fall term include trans memoirist Cooper Lee Bombardier (Pass with Care, date tba), biographer Hilary Holladay (The Power of Adrienne Rich, Oct. 26), and Fr. Pat Hannon (Such Dizzy Natural Happiness: A Long, Loving Look at the Our Father, Nov. 15).
For details contact English chair Lars Erik Larson larson@up.edu.
Staff and faculty are invited to the 2022 Opening Convocation taking place on Tuesday, August 30, at 4 p.m. in Buckley Center Auditorium. Dr. Kelly will offer reflections on his time as President thus far, and information on what’s new and what’s next for UP. Reception to follow in Bauccio Commons.
All UP community members are invited to join President Kelly for UP’s First Day of Classes Celebration! The brand-new event takes place on Monday, August 29, 12:15 p.m.–2 p.m. on the Academic Quad. Please stop by, say hello, and enjoy free ice cream and fun activities!
Join us onWednesday, September 14, at 5 p.m. in the Brian Doyle Auditorium (Dundon-Berchtold 004) for the 2022 Annual Zahm lecture as Dr. González-Andrieu explores themes of social justice, hope, truth, and not letting beauty get lost in the shuffle.
Cecilia González-Andrieu is professor of theology at Loyola Marymount University, where she also works on multiple initiatives to serve the Latinx community, especially undocumented students’ and workers’ rights. A graduate of LMU and the Graduate Theological Union Berkeley, where she was named Alumna of the Year, she is a contributing writer for America magazine and publishes and speaks widely as a public theologian. Committed to a faith that does justice, she is also a member of the board of directors of the Ignatian Solidarity Network and an advisor to the Discerning Deacons Project. A respected international lecturer on issues of political theology, theological aesthetics, and Latino theology, she is the author of the book Bridge to Wonder: Art as a Gospel of Beauty, co-editor of Teaching Global Theologies: Power and Praxis, and a contributor to many other publications, including Go into the Streets!: The Welcoming Church of Pope Francis.
For ADA accommodations or further information, please contact the Garaventa Center at 503.943.7702 or garaventa@up.edu.
Be a good American citizen and join us for the annual Constitution Day Event on Thursday, September 15, at 5 p.m. in D-B 004! This year we are hosting Law Professor Ofer Raban, who will discuss his recent book, The Silent Prologue: How Judicial Philosophies Shape Our Constitutional Rights (George Mason University Press, 2020). Professor Raban teaches constitutional law, jurisprudence, criminal investigation, and criminal law at the University of Oregon School of Law. He received his BA from the City College of New York, his JD from Harvard Law School, and his doctorate in legal philosophy from Oxford University. He also worked as a prosecutor in New York before joining academia. Free pocket copies of the US Constitution will be awarded to all attendees! The lecture is hosted by the Department of Political Science & Global Affairs and was made possible by a generous grant from the Jack Miller Center. Contact Professor Bill Curtis with any questions (curtisw@up.edu).
The first meeting of the Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group for the 2022-23 academic year will be on Friday, September 16, 3:30 p.m.–5 p.m., in the Murphy Room (Franz Hall). We will discuss “Seeing” by Annie Dillard (from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek), “Silence Brought Me a Community and an Escape” by Sara Novic, and the poem “Hurrahing in Harvest” by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Readings can be found on the Garaventa Center website: https://www.up.edu/garaventa/fildg/index.html. All faculty and staff are welcome. Refreshments will be served.