2018-2019
FALL TERM 2018
Thursday, October 18–Friday, December 2
Thursday, September 27-Sunday, September 30: Portland EcoFilm Festival
Thursday, October 18: First Day of Fall Term
Friday, October 19-Sunday, October 21: Airstream Poetry Festival, Seaview, Washington (co-sponsored with Mother Foucault’s Bookshop)
Tuesday, November 6-Wednesday, November 21: IWP Writer-in-Residence at OICR (International Writers Project, University of Iowa)
Thursday, December 13–Friday, December 14: Winter Pecha Kucha
Sunday, December 16: OICR Holiday Party
Friday, December 21: Last Day of Fall Term
WINTER BREAK: Monday, December 24-Wednesday, January 23
SPRING TERM 2019
Thursday, January 24–Friday, March 29
Thursday, January 24: First Day of Spring Term
Monday, March 11-Friday, March 15: Reading Week
Thursday, March 21-Friday, March 22: Research Thesis Presentations
Friday, March 29: Last Day of Spring Term
Tuesday, April 9-Friday, April 12: OICR SPRING EDIT-A-THON
Tuesday, April 22-Friday, April 26: OICR Spring Colloquium & Artist Residency
May 2019: Vermont Studio Center Artist Residency
SPRING BREAK: Monday, April 29-Wednesday, May 29
SUMMER TERM 2019
Thursday, June 6–Friday, August 23
Thursday, June 6-Friday, June 7: Continuation of “Springtime Waters” (Readings for OICR Spring Colloquium & Artist Residency at House on Metolius)
Thursday, June 13: Reading of New Work, OICR Summer 2019 Visiting Artist Romeo Oriogun
Friday, June 14: Guest Lecturer Sigrid Hackenberg y Almansa, “Dreaming Language, the Unknown”
Thursday, June 20: Writing Workshop w/ Nicholas Tarter
Friday, June 21: Discussion of Gérard Genette, “Failing Natural Languages,” Mimologics, 201-247
Friday, June 28: Guest Lecturer Susan Cohen, Founding Chair of Immigration Practice at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo: “The U.S. Immigration Landscape in the Trump Era”
Guest Lecturer Michael Klein, William L. Clayton Professor of International Economic Affairs at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University: “An Alternative to Alternative Facts”
Thursday, July 4-5: Holiday—no class
Thursday, July 11: Grammar Workshop w/ Emily Hyde, Writing Workshop w/ Brian Liu
Friday, July 12: Discussion of unedited advance version of the UN-backed “Summary for policymakers of the global assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services.” The 39-page document can be accessed via the OICR website at https://oicr-e4.org or directly at https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5989433/IPBES-Global-Assessment-Summary-for-Policymakers.pdf.
Thursday, July 18-Friday, July 19: Summer 2019 Research Presentations
Thursday, July 25: Continuation of discussion of UN Report & Workshop
Friday, July 26: Jacques Rancière, “Are Some Things Unrepresentable?” The Future of the Image, 109-139
Wednesday, July 31: Special Event: OICR Test Kitchen
Friday, August 2: Presentation by Romeo Oriogun at Mother Foucault’s Bookshop
Sunday, August 4: OICR Reunion & Party
Thursday, August 8: Discussion of Vilém Flusser, Peter Sloterdijk, Ernst Bloch:
Peter Sloterdijk, What Happened in the 20th Century?, 55-81
Vilém Flusser, "On the Crisis of Our Models," Writings, 75-84
Ernst Bloch, "The Journey: Method and Motive," A Philosophy of the Future, 38-83
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, “The Perceptual Faith and Perception,” The Visible and the Invisible, 28-49
Friday, August 9: Roundtable discussion of the unedited advance version of the UN-backed “Summary for policymakers of the global assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services." The event will take place on Friday, August 9, with Jacob Lebel and other members of Our Children’s Trust on his family's 600-acre biodynamic farm about twenty minutes from Roseburg in southern Oregon.
Thursday, August 15: Guest Lecturer Bennett Gilbert, Senior Instructor in University Studies, Portland State University; author, A Personalist Philosophy of History (Routledge, 2019): "Two Ways to Think in Two Directions at the Same Time"
Friday, August 16: Preparation Day for Final Presentations (no class)
Thursday, August 22-Friday, August 23: End-of-the-Year Presentations
Sunday, September 1: End-of-the-Year Party
SPECIAL EVENT: Thursday, September 26-Sunday, September 29: PDX Eco-Film Festival
FALL TERM 2019
Thursday, October 24–Friday, December 20
Thursday, October 24: First Day of Fall Term 2019
Friday, October 25-Sunday, October 27: Airstream Poetry Festival, co-sponsored with Mother Foucault’s Bookshop