News for and about University of Portland faculty and staff.
After a decade at the heart of the Garaventa Center, Jamie Powell will be moving on to Napa, Calif., at the end of this month. Please join her many UP friends and colleagues for a farewell open house on Friday morning, April 24, from 9:30 to 11:30, in the Garaventa Center. Refreshments will be provided.
Please contact Karen Eifler at eifler@up.edu with any questions.
After a decade at the heart of the Garaventa Center, Jamie Powell will be moving on from The Bluff to Napa, California, at the end of this month. Please join her many UP friends and colleagues for a farewell open house Friday morning, April 24. Drop by the Garaventa Center on the 3rd floor of Franz Hall any time between 9:30 – 11:30 a.m. to say goodbye and share a favorite memory or two. Because it’s a Garaventa Center event, there will be plenty of gustatory treats and quaffs.
Please contact Karen Eifler at eifler@up.edu with any questions.
The Garaventa Center will sponsor two campus events this week, according to Jamie Powell, Garaventa Center:
The Garaventa Center will host three events this week, according to Jamie Powell. All faculty, staff, and students are welcome to attend:
For more information, contact Powell, at 7702 or powell@up.edu.
The University will host Charles Rosenberg, professor of art history at the University of Notre Dame, as he presents “The Sistine Chapel History and Meaning” at 7:15 p.m. on Tuesday, October 28, in Holy Cross Lounge on the 3rd floor of Franz Hall. His presentation will be the annual Hesburgh Lecture, sponsored by the Garaventa Center and the Notre Dame Alumni Club of Portland.
Rosenberg’s lecture considers a number of issues relating to the famous Renaissance frescoes covering the walls of the Sistine Chapel, including their relationship to the chapel’s functions in the past and present.
Started in 1986, the Hesburgh Lecture series honors Rev. Ted Hesburgh, C.S.C., a lifelong learner and the former president of the University of Notre Dame. The lectures provide an opportunity for the University of Portland and University of Notre Dame, both Congregation of Holy Cross schools, to come together in stimulating and thoughtful dialogue.
For more information, contact Jamie Powell, Garaventa Center, at 7702 or powell@up.edu.
The Garaventa Center will host several speakers and a reception to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the first L’Arche community by Jean Vanier (pictured) in 1964. The presentation, which includes interactive discussions with the audience, is titled “Becoming Human, Embracing the Tension Between Professionalism & Vulnerability.” It takes place on Wednesday, October 29, from 4 to 5:30 p.m., in the Bauccio Commons Board Room. The event is free and open to the public, and all attendees are asked to RSVP by Friday, October 24 by contacting Jamie Powell, Garaventa Center, at 7702 or powell@up.edu.
Community members are welcome to join in discussion about vulnerability, to explore the concept of “Becoming Human,” as introduced by Vanier, and the challenges and opportunities it presents people in their personal and professional lives. L’Arche is an international federation dedicated to the creation and growth of homes, programs, and support networks with people who have intellectual disabilities. The Portland L’Arch community was founded in 1987.
For more information contact the Garaventa Center at 7702 or powell@up.edu.
The Garaventa Center will host Carlos T. Bea, a federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and the annual Red Mass on Monday, October 20, at 5 p.m., in the Chapel of Christ the Teacher. The Red Mass is free and open to the public. Portland Archbishop Alexander K. Sample will be the principal celebrant for the Mass, with Bishop Peter L. Smith offering the Homily.
Following the Red Mass, a private dinner and law lecture will be held at 6 p.m. in the Executive Boardroom in Bauccio Commons. During the lecture, Bea will examine the use of religious art in public spaces. Tickets to the dinner and lecture are $55 per person. Please RSVP to Jamie Powell, Garaventa Center, at powell@up.edu.
The Red Mass is celebrated as a prayer for those entrusted with the law and for those who administer justice. The practice of the Red Mass dates back to the thirteenth century in Paris and London and has been celebrated in the United States since 1938.
For more information about the Mass or dinner, please contact Powell at 7702 or powell@up.edu.
The 2014 Zahm Lecture in American Catholic Education will take place on Thursday, September 11, at 7:15 p.m., in Buckley Center Auditorium. Rev. Kevin G. Grove, C.S.C., will present “Memory, Desire and Searching for God.” His lecture is free and open to faculty, staff, students, and the public; refreshments will be served. The Zahm Lecture serves as the keynote for the University’s academic year.
Father Grove is a Gates Scholar and is studying philosophical theology at the University of Cambridge. Using resources from Scripture and the writings of St. Augustine, his presentation will explore two of the most important ways people attempt to describe how it is we can know and experience God: memory and desire. He is co-editor of The Cross, Our Only Hope, a collection of spiritual reflections of Holy Cross priests and brothers on their religious order, and is the author of You Have Redeemed the World and the recently published Basil Moreau: Essential Writings.
The Zahm Lecture in American Catholic Education was established in 1999 to honor Fr. John Zahm, C.S.C., an eminent Holy Cross priest/scientist of the late 19th and early 20th century. Zahm, superior of the Holy Cross in America when the University was founded in 1901, contributed counsel, money, and Holy Cross men to the nascent University. The Zahm lecture honors both his memory and the legacy of Holy Cross priests and brothers on The Bluff by addressing important issues surrounding American Catholic education.
For more information, please contact Karen Eifler, eifler@up.edu, co-director of the Garaventa Center, which hosts the lecture.
Join staff and faculty colleagues from all over the campus at the year’s first Thirst Friday social on Friday, September 12, from 4 to 5:30 p.m., in the Garaventa Center. Come for 10 minutes or two hours to enjoy convivial conversations, one of the best balconies on campus, sodas, wine, and surprise treats that have struck the fancy of your hosts, Fr. Charlie Gordon, C.S.C., Karen Eifler, and Jamie Powell. It’s all happening in 330 Franz Hall. Bring a friend, especially if they are new to UP. For more information, contact eifler@up.edu.
The Garaventa Center will present “A Murderous Century: The Detection, Explanation, and Prevention of Genocide,” a lecture by Barbara Harff, on Thursday, March 20, at 7:30 p.m., in Buckley Center room 163. The presentation is free and open to faculty, staff, students, and the public. Harff is professor emerita of political science at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, and received the 2013 Auschwitz Institute’s Raphael Lemkin Prize in outstanding contribution to the cause of genocide prevention. Harff pioneered the systematic comparative analysis of the preconditions of genocides and political mass murders, and continues to prepare updated global risk assessments for governments, the United Nations, and non-governmental organization (NGOs).
For ADA accommodations or any questions, please contact Jamie Powell in the Garaventa Center at powell@up.edu or 7702.