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Central City Concern
11/19/2023
Juliana Lukasik

Presentation by Juliana Lukasik about Central City Concern (CCC) and the services that this organization provides for the homeless and other populations. How can we work together to address challenges in our community relating to homelessness, behavior health challenges, and addiction? Juliana joined CCC in 2020. Her passion is to educate the public about the critical services CCC provides to our community. Before joining CCC, she spent the bulk of her career in the film and advertising industries and as a community organizer.

History of Comics
11/12/2023
Steve Duin

Presentation at Friendly House by Steve Duin. He writes: “I've put in my 10,000 hours, more than enough to introduce the medium's most colorful storytellers and unforgettable images … Comic books have provided an unflinching, often unsettling perspective on our heroes, our prejudices, and our desperate relationships with war and romance.” Steve Duin is the long-time lead columnist for The Oregonian. He has written several books,including a history of comics.

 

 

Thinking About Inequality
11/05/2023
Jeff Seward

Presentation at Friendly House by Jeff Seward. If inequality is a growing problem in the U.S. and yet few, if any, want to eliminate it altogether, how do we think about inequality in order to arrive at a reasonable and acceptable level of inequality? And in what forms? Seward offers some ideas about how to deal with these questions. Jeff has a Ph.D from Stanford. He has had a career in public television as a political reporter, news anchor, andfilm producer. Before his retirement, he was a professor in the Department of Politics and Government at Pacific University.He has presented to us many times in the past.

Los Alamos: The Manhattan Project
10/29/2023
Stephen Kral

Presentation by Stephen Kral. The film “Oppenheimer” shows stylized scenes of people hard at work. This talk addresses the problems that participants in the Manhatten Project dealt with. Kral earned his Ph.D. in physics at the University of Minnesota. He was recognized with an Outstanding Physics Teaching Award at the University of Utah. In addition to physics, he has also taught interdisciplinary studies in the history and philosophy of science.

 

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