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2008-2009
Gary Snyder ’51 reads “Myths & Texts” and other poems at Reed, February 1956
On February 13, 1956, Gary Snyder ’51 returned to Reed College with Allen Ginsberg for a poetry reading at Anna Mann Cottage. The next day, when the poets read again, the unscheduled event was recorded. The reel of audiotape containing the Ginsberg reading, including his reading of “Howl,” was discovered in 2007 in Reed’s Hauser Library by John Suiter, a writer doing research for a biography of Snyder. Beside the reel was a note that contained disappointing news about the Snyder half of the reading: “Tape #1 Missing.” The morning after the story of Reed’s “Howl” tape broke—and scores of newspapers around the world reported on it—Steven Halpern ’85, a Portland-based photographer, showed up at the door of Reed’s special collections with an audiocassette copy of the missing tape. He had made the copy 25 years before as an English major doing research on Snyder’s friend and fellow-poet Lew Welch ’50. Tape 1 contains a superb copy of Snyder’s reading—virtually equal in sound quality to the Ginsberg companion reel—and a lengthy selection of 46 Snyder poems.
Listen to the entire reading.Economics Lecture Series
Frank Wolak
Why the United States Has Yet to Benefit from Electricity Industry Restructuring (And What Can Be Done to Change This)
November 13, 2008
Frank Wolak is Holbrook Working Professor of Commodity Price Studies in the economics department at Stanford University, chairman of the Market Surveillance Committee of the Independent System Operator for the electricity supply industry of California, visiting scholar at the University of California Energy Institute, and research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Lester B. Lave
Electricity Deregulation: Has It Worked? Can It Work?
November 6, 2008
Lester B. Lave ’60 is University Professor and Higgins Professor of Economics at Carnegie Mellon University, with appointments in the business school, engineering school and the public policy school. Lave is also the director of the Carnegie Mellon Green Design Initiative and co-director of the Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center.
Sponsored by the Walter Krause Economics Lecture Fund and the Reed College economics department.
William W. Hogan
Energy Policy for Electricity Markets
October 9, 2008
William W. Hogan, Raymond Plank Professor of Global Energy Policy at Harvard University, is the research director of the Harvard Electricity Policy Group, which explores the issues involved in the transition to a more competitive electricity market. While at Stanford University, Hogan founded the Energy Modeling Forum, and he has also served as president of the International Association for Energy Economics.
Sponsored by the Walter Krause Economics Lecture Fund and the Reed College economics department.
Public Policy Lecture Series
Post-election Panel
November 8, 2008
With both Republicans and Democrats adopting the mantle of “change,” the 2008 presidential contest is shaping up to be one of the most consequential of the past half-century.
Join Paul Gronke, Reed College political science professor and director of the Early Voting Information Center, Caroline Tolbert of the University of Iowa, and Robert Eisinger of Lewis & Clark College for a panel discussion on the campaigns, the results, and the election’s lasting implications.
Presented in conjunction with Parent & Family Weekend. Reception to follow.
Jacob Hacker
The Middle Class at Risk: Rising Economic Insecurity and the Future of American Politics
October 30, 2008
Professor Hacker is a well-known scholar of health care in the United States and of what he calls “privatization of risk.” His most recent books are The Great Risk Shift (2008) and Off Center (2006), with Paul Pierson. Professor Hacker is also the author of The Road to Nowhere: The Genesis of President Clinton’s Plan for Health Security (1997), which was co-winner of the 1997 Louis Brownlow Book Award of the National Academy of Public Administration, and The Divided Welfare State: The Battle over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States (2002). As a dissertation, the latter received prizes from the American Political Science Association, the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management, and the National Academy of Social Insurance.
Sponsored by the Elizabeth C. Ducey Political Science Lecture Fund.
Howard Wolpe ’60
Democracy and Peacebuilding: Rethinking the Conventional Wisdom
October 16, 2008
Wolpe, a former seven-term congressman from Michigan’s third district, served as chairman of the Subcommittee on Africa in the House Foreign Affairs Committee for 10 years. While in Congress, Wolpe was a leading congressional opponent of apartheid. He was the co-author of several key pieces of legislation, including the Pollution Prevention Act, the Industrial Process Efficiency Act, and the Taxpayer Right to Know Act. After leaving Congress in 1993, Wolpe was appointed Special Envoy to the African Great Lakes Region by President Clinton, leading the American delegation to the peace talks in Burundi.
Sponsored by the Munk-Darling Lecture Fund in International Relations.
Caitlin Baggott ’99
Utopian and Dystopian Visions of Youth Citizenship: Will the Next Generation Stand for Change?
October 2, 2008
Baggott is a recognized innovator in youth civic engagement efforts. She and her colleagues started the Oregon Bus Project in 2001 with an idea to “engage, educate, and elect” by creating forums for discussing current political issues, encouraging voter registration, and inspiring a lifelong commitment to social change. She was a contributor and guiding force behind Zephyr, a news website.
Sponsored by the Mildred Twohy Benezet Memorial Lecture Fund.
Spencer Overton
America’s Economic Agenda
September 25, 2008
Professor Goolsbee, a Fulbright scholar in 2006, is presidential candidate Barack Obama’s lead economic adviser. He has worked with Senator Obama since his successful U.S. Senate campaign in Illinois. He also serves as a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, as a research fellow at the American Bar Foundation, and as a columnist for the New York Times. Professor Goolsbee’s research focuses on the internet, investment, and taxation.
The lecture is sponsored by the Walter Krause Economics Lecture Fund and the Elizabeth C. Ducey Political Science lecture fund.
Spencer Overton
Changing Democracy: The Challenges in November and the Possibilities for Reform in 2009
September 18, 2008
Author of Stealing Democracy: The New Politics of Voter Suppression (2006), professor Overton was a member of the Carter-Baker Commission on Federal Election Reform and dissented with the commission on the topic of voter identification standards for voters. His work has been published frequently in a wide array of law journals. He is an editorial board member of the Election Law Journal.
Sponsored by the Elizabeth C. Ducey Political Science Lecture Fund.
Convocation
President Colin Diver
Welcoming remarks
Dean of Admission Paul Marthers
Welcoming remarks
Patrick McDougal
Professor of Chemistry
Presentation of Howard Vollum Award for Science and Technology to Dr. B. Kenneth Koe
Dr. B. Kenneth Koe
Vollum Award Recipient
Gail Berkeley Sherman
Professor of English & Humanities
Odyssey lecture
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