News for and about University of Portland faculty and staff.
Come one, come all faculty and staff for good company and conversation, tasty treats and libations, and a generous helping of spirit. The last Thirst Friday of the year is on Friday, April 15, from 4-6 p.m., in the Garaventa Center, Franz Hall 330. Invite a friend and stop by for a few minutes or a couple hours.
For more information, contact Karen Eifler at eifler@up.edu or x8014.
All April 9 “Julia Caesar” ticket holders are invited to enjoy a complimentary wine and cheese reception as campus experts highlight intriguing themes and production details, courtesy of the Garaventa Center and alumni relations. The reception begins at 6 p.m. on Saturday, April 9 with panel at 6:45 Mago Hunt Recital Hall; the play begins at 7:30 p.m.
For tickets call the Hunt Center box office at x7287; for more information, contact the Garaventa Center at 7702 or garaventa@up.edu.
Does theology have something to learn from a humble and humorous world view? Come enter into theological conversation through the comedy of Louis CK on Wednesday April 6, at 7:15 p.m., in Franz Hall Room 120. The event is free and open to all. The talk will be facilitated by David Turnbloom, theology, and theology students Kit Tobin and Jonathan Wiley, and is part of the Beckman Humor Project.
For ADA accommodations or more information, please contact the Garaventa Center at garaventa@up.edu or 7702.
Karen Eifler and Fr. Charlie Gordon, C.S.C., of the Garaventa Center will host a free screening and discussion of the movie “Mad Max: Fury Road,” as part of the Bringing Eyes of Faith to Film series on Thursday, April 7, at 7:15 p.m., in Franz Hall Room 026. All are welcome to explore themes of grace, transcendence, and redemption in surprising places. Movie snacks will be served.
For ADA accommodations or more information contact the Garaventa Center at x7702 or garaventa@up.edu.
All University community members are invited to attend the Kate Regan Short Film Festival on Thursday, March 31, at 5 p.m., in the Bauccio Commons. True to the vision of its founder, the late Kate Regan, the annual festival celebrates the making of visual stories, featuring short digital films by UP faculty and students in categories of documentary, humor, animation, international, and narrative.
For more information contact the Garaventa Center at 7702 or garaventa@up.edu.
The University of Portland will host poet, professor, and scholar Sr. Eva Hooker, C.S.C., as she reads from her new collection of poetry, Godwit (“at once pastoral, startling and luminous”) on Monday, April 4, at 7:15 p.m., in Franz Hall Room 120. Her talk is free and open to the public.
Hooker is professor of English and writer in residence at Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Ind. Her Notes for Survival in the Wilderness, profoundly influenced by Lake Superior and Madeline Island, was published in 2011. Her earlier work, The Winter Keeper, was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award in poetry in 2001. Prior to her appointment at Saint Mary’s, she was regents’ professor of poetry at Saint John’s University in Collegeville, Minn.
This event is co-sponsored by the Garaventa Center and the English department. Sr. Hooker’s poetry will also be featured in the Women of the Bible concert on Saturday April 2, at 7 p.m., in the Chapel of Christ the Teacher.
For ADA accommodations or further information contact the Garaventa Center at 7702 or garaventa@up.edu.
The University of Portland will present “Women of the Bible,” a concert inspired by the feisty, faithful women of the Bible, on Saturday, April 2, at 7 p.m., in the Chapel of Christ the Teacher. The concert is free and open to the public, with a reception to follow.
The concert will feature world premieres of music and poetry along with well-loved classical works. Confirmed artists include Nicole Leupp Hanig, Valerie Saul, Eva Wolff Hortsch, Susan McDaniel, Cythia Gerdes, and Eva Hooker C.S.C.
“Women of the Bible” is sponsored by the Garaventa Center and the UP music program. For ADA accommodations or more information contact the Garaventa Center at garaventa@up.edu or x7702.
Mitchell R. Wayne, a professor of physics at the University of Notre Dame, will present the 2016 Hesburgh Lecture, “Einstein: How One Mild-Mannered Physicist Changed the Way We Understand Our World,” on Monday, March 21, in Franz Hall Room 120, at 7:15 p.m. His talk is free and open to the public.
Wayne will explain some of Albert Einstein’s more significant discoveries, how they changed understanding of the laws of nature, and their relevance to today’s world. Einstein’s enormous influence is still being felt today with the exciting new discovery of gravitational waves.
Wayne has served as chair of the Notre Dame physics department and as associate dean of the College of Science. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from the University of California, and is the recipient of the Kaneb Teaching Award and the Shilts-Leonard Teaching Award.
The event is co-sponsored by the Notre Dame Club of Portland and the Garaventa Center. For ADA accommodations or further information contact the Garaventa Center at 7702 or garaventa@up.edu.
Dale Recinella, chaplain for Florida’s death row, will explore challenges to the death penalty rooted in sacred Scripture on Monday, March 14, at 7:15 p.m., in Franz Hall Room 120. His talk is free and open to all.
Recinella has served for 25 years as a spiritual counselor and Catholic correctional chaplain, ministering to men on Florida’s death row. His talk will offer a riveting integration of Scripture, law, history, and theology from his books denouncing America’s death penalty, including The Biblical Truth About America’s Death Penalty (2004), and Now I Walk on Death Row: A Wall Street Finance Lawyer Stumbles into the Arms of a Loving God (2011).
Co-sponsored by the Garaventa Center and Oregonians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty. For ADA accommodations or more information contact the Garaventa Center at 7702 or garaventa@up.edu.
All ticket holders for the February 27 performance of The Adding Machine are invited to enjoy a complimentary wine and cheese reception as campus experts highlight intriguing themes and production details, courtesy of the Garaventa Center. The reception begins at 6:15 p.m. in Mago Hunt Recital Hall, with panel at 6:45.
For theater tickets call x7287. For more information, contact the Garaventa Center at 7702 or garaventa@up.edu.