Jan
9
to Jan 20
Events and Archive
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Dec
20
to Jan 15
Dec
14
7:30 PM19:30
An intimate evening w/ John Darnielle benefiting OICR
True West Presents: The Mountain Goats. An intimate evening with John Darnielle, to benefit The Oregon Institute for Creative Research.
Dec
8
11:00 AM11:00
Dec
1
8:00 PM20:00
Barry Sanders selected as juror for PSU's Climate Change Writing Contest
Barry Sanders was a judge, fall 2017, for a climate-change themed essay contest sponsored by the Institute for Sustainable Solutions, at Portland State University, and run by Paul Lask, English Instructor. The winner was Karen Grey for her essay, “A State of Change.”
“Because they are a moral crisis, global warming and extinction are also a crisis of the imagination. The world can’t fight its way out of this. We have to think our way out. This will require as great an exercise of the human imagination as the world has ever seen.” —Nature essayist and philosopher Kathleen Dean Moore.
The Institute for Sustainable Solutions at Portland State University sponsored a “climate-themed” essay contest titled “Thinking Our Way Forward: Climate Change.”
Science tells us we are at a tipping point—that if we continue with business as usual global temperatures will rise to catastrophic levels in the next three decades, bringing widespread drought, heat waves, food and water shortages, flooding, and social unrest.
Three decades. Not a century or two. So what can we as writers do about this? It might mean reimagining the traditional good life; it might mean explaining how we as global citizens can prevent the harm our children will inherit; it might mean showing us how an economy that doesn’t wreck the world functions. We are looking for writing that is vivid, beautiful, and bold. Show us.
Deadline is December 1, 2017
https://www.pdx.edu/sustainability/writing-contest
Oct
31
7:00 PM19:00
Halloween 2017: E.A. Poe Party
Tuesday, October 31st, 2017
Commencing at 7:00 p.m.
Feel free to bring a short Poe-m, or other, appropriate for the occasion.
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Oct
3
7:00 PM19:00
"Readings for Now" Seminar [#2]: "Opinion Delusion Society"
Following the success of the first OICR “Readings for Now” Series, we will hold a second event on Tuesday, October 3, at 7:00 p.m. in the Kitchen at Yale Union, where we will devote ourselves to a close reading and discussion of Adorno's aptly-named "Opinion Delusion Society."
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Sep
21
7:00 PM19:00
"Readings for Now" Seminar [#1]: "Are there writings and records that might help us understand what is happening now?"
Are there writings and records that might help us understand what is happening now? Join us for a roundtable discussion on Thursday, September 21, 2017, 7:00 p.m., at Mother Foucault's Bookshop. Our readings include Hannah Arendt, “Lying in Politics"; Vilém Flusser, “Criteria—Crisis—Criticism”; Georg Simmel “Knowledge, Truth, and Falsehood in Human Relations"; Henri Lefebvre, “The Idea of Reality"; and Theodor W. Adorno, “Opinion Delusion Society"--and can be found on this website.
Join us for a roundtable discussion on Thursday, September 21, 2017, 7:00 p.m., at Mother Foucault's Bookshop, 523 SE Morrison Street, Portland, Oregon 97214.
Selections:
Click to view + download PDF of readings.
Hannah Arendt, “Lying in Politics,” Crises of the Republic, 3–13
Vilém Flusser, “Criteria—Crisis—Criticism,” Vilém Flusser: Writings, 42–50
Books can be purchased at Mother Foucault’s Bookshop.
Aug
24
6:30 PM18:30
Apr
11
to Apr 14
OICR Spring Colloquium and Artist Residency at Caldera
Dates: Tuesday, April 11-Friday, April 14, 2017
Theme: “Defactualization and Its Discontents; Or, The New Unreality”
Faculty: Anne-Marie Oliver, Oregon Institute for Creative Research; Barry Sanders, Oregon Institute for Creative Research; Kathleen Eamon, Evergreen State College; Shaw Osha, Evergreen State College
Chef: Max Germano
Sous-chef: Cydney Lipscom
Participants: Laura Birchard, Natassia Haas, Emily Hyde, Taryn Tomasello, Mark Tracy, Daniel Dubiel, Andrew Woods, JR Rothfuss, Maia Rasmussen, Madeline Weltchek, Ryan Fazio, Garrett Bailey, Natalie Schultz-Purves, Aiden Skogheim
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OICR Spring Colloquium & Artist Residency Schedule
Spring Colloquium Menu
Apr
8
11:30 AM11:30
The Coming Prehuman (A Peculiar Relation to Life and Life-Time): Two Perspectives, "What Is Life?" Conference, University of Oregon
In this talk, we locate (in)distinguishability as a singularly important criterion and 21st-century challenge, examining what seems to be a deep resemblance and mutual implicature of electro-optical media, synthetic biology, quandaries of verification, socio-political madness, and the inability to distinguish between sleep and wakefulness, “life” and “Life itself,” the living and the dead.
Mar
22
to Apr 19
Feb
27
5:00 PM17:00
Jan
20
to Jan 27
"Two thousand years after Plato wrote it seems as if not only the gods but the wise have abandoned us, and left us alone with our partial knowledge and our ignorance."
Join us for a roundtable discussion on a range of critical topics, from the growing indistinction of the real and the fake to the threatened disappearance of politics as a system of challenge, contest, and negotiation.
Nov
14
5:00 PM17:00
Anne-Marie Oliver presents “Why We Can’t Stop Talking about Utopia: The Artist’s Guide to an Enigma”
Washington State University Department of Fine Arts will have scholar Anne-Marie Oliver present on the following topic of Utopia/Dystopia.
Oct
4
to Oct 7
OICR Fall Colloquium and Artist Residency at Caldera
Dates: Tuesday, October 4-Friday, October 7, 2016
Theme: “Question and Answer”
Special Guests: Nick Fish, City Commissioner, City of Portland; Chiara Ricciardone, Frank E. Ratliff Fellow in Classical Antiquity, University of California, Berkeley; Micah White, Author and Activist, Occupy Wall Street; Deniz Tasdemir-Conger, Vice President for Philanthropy/ Development, Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare; Tsui, Ling Toomer, Executive Producer, Big-Giant; Emily Chenoweth, Author; Joan Handwerg, Art Historian; Lisa Siewert, Writer; Martina Ford, Medical Teams International
Faculty and Staff: Anne-Marie Oliver and Barry Sanders, Founding Directors, OICR
Assistant to the Directors: Andrew Woods
Chefs: Granger Johnson, Larissa Johnson
Research Associates: Laura Birchard, Jessie Drake, Natassia Haas, Joseph Higby, Tracé Hulette, Emily Hyde, Harrison Salton, Taryn Tomasello, Mark Tracy, Terence Tynan
Joining us from Berlin: Siya Manova, Lucas Rehnman Magalhães
Fall Colloquium & Artist Residency Schedule
Fall Colloquium Menu
Sep
8
12:30 PM12:30
Yale Radio Interview with Anne-Marie Oliver and Barry Sanders
CT+CR Collective 2016, 4755.8 (Casting Our Glances across These Shores towards Fukushima-Daiichi on the 5th Anniversary of the Pacific Disaster)
Atta Kim, Caldera
Aug
6
4:00 PM16:00
C’MON LANGUAGE: ANNE-MARIE OLIVER, BARRY SANDERS, THOMAS ZUMMER, AND WITH FRIENDS LIKE YOU
A critical conversation on method and madness, knowledge and respect, theory and nascent wonder, ignorance and arrogance, authority and tradition, judgment and distinction, learning and the pleasing of another, sober realism and the rage for justice.
Jun
21
4:00 PM16:00
C'mon Language: Come If You Dare
A series of 12-15 mini-presentations and performances, 1-5 minutes apiece, whether funny, sad, tragic, or silly, but never indifferent, led by members of the Critical Theory and Creative Research Collective under the title of its esteemed guest-lecturer series “Come If You Dare.”
Apr
15
to Apr 20
Oct
3
to Oct 7
CT+CR Fall Colloquium and Artist Residency
CT+CR Fall Colloquium and Artist Residency @ Caldera 2012
With major support from Paul Livadary and the Marshall and Margherite McComb Foundation and with special thanks to Peets Coffee
Dates: October 3-7, 2012
Theme: “The Visible, the Invisible, and the Indivisible”
Special guests: Nina Katchadourian, Clinical Assistant Professor at the NYU Gallatin School for Individualized Study; Sina Najafi, Editor-in-Chief, Cabinet magazine; Dan Heagerty, Board of Governors, Caldera Arts Center
Faculty: Anne-Marie Oliver, Barry Sanders, Marie-Pierre Hasne, Joan Handwerg
Program coordinator: Nicole Eriko Amagai-Smith
Chef: Cathy Cleaver
Participants: Marshall Astor, Karena Bennett, Carmen Denison, Kimberly Disney, Peter Falanga, André Busch Fortes, Dustin Freemont, Val Hardy, Lauren Heagerty, Hannah Horovitz, Evangelina Owens, Mel Ponis, Robert Reincke, Kevin Smith, Dawn Stoppiello, Muhammad Usruf, Brooke Wendt, Chloé Womack