Garaventa Center
August 27, 2024
In four decades of advocacy for earth democracy, anti-globalization, food sovereignty, and ecofeminism—Dr. Vandana Shiva has been dubbed the “Gandhi of grain,” named a 2003 Time Magazine “environmental hero,” and selected one of Forbes’ “seven most powerful women on the globe” in 2010.
Garaventa Center
February 12, 2024
We are pleased to announce former Congressman and UP alum Larry LaRocco as the featured speaker for The Mazzocco Lecture on Distributive Justice on Tuesday, March 12, 2024. LaRocco was the Congressional Representative for Idaho's 1st District (D) from 1991-95 and will present: "Do Right, Risk Consequences: Perspective on politics and life during an era of increased threats to democracy."
Education
Garaventa Center
December 7, 2020
Karen Eifler, University of Portland professor of education and co-executive director of the Garaventa Center for Catholic Intellectual Life and American Culture, was named the next executive director of Collegium. Founded in 1992, Collegium invites faculty at Catholic colleges and universities to better understand the mission of Catholic higher education and help prepare them to become leaders in advancing that mission in creative ways.
Garaventa Center
September 14, 2020
Catholic cosmologist and chair of physics at Creighton University Gintaras Duda will present the 2020 Zahm Lecture “From the Big Bang to The Saint John’s Bible: The Role of Astonishment in a Scientist’s Journey to Integrate Faith and Reason” on Wednesday, September 16 at 5 p.m. The virtual event is free and open to the public.
Portland Magazine
Garaventa Center
February 19, 2020
Linda Plitt Donaldson, associate dean of the College of Health and Behavioral Studies at James Madison University, came to University of Portland to speak about Catholic social justice icon Dorothy Day and the lessons we can still learn from her today. Donaldson also walked through the root cause of homelessness—the lack of affordable housing in this country—and the ways in which the “housing first” model—namely, getting people into secure housing and then tackling any other potential health issues second—is backed by evidence and research.
Garaventa Center
Library
January 22, 2020
Author Lisa Ko’s 2017 debut novel The Leavers is the 2019-2020 selection for University of Portland’s annual ReadUP campaign and the Schoenfeldt Distinguished Visiting Writers series. Ko will give a lecture in Buckley Center Auditorium on Monday, February 10, at 7 p.m. It is free and open to the public. Ko will follow the lecture with a book signing.
Garaventa Center
September 3, 2019
Renowned author and Pulitzer Prize winner Marilynne Robinson will present the 2019 Zahm Lecture “Wisdom and Knowledge” on Wednesday, September 11, at 7:15 p.m. in the Chiles Center. Robinson will speak about wonder and the absolute necessity of the humanities, faith and reason as partners in understanding our world.
Garaventa Center
Portland Magazine
June 17, 2019
In March 2019, Christopher Pramuk, Chair of Ignatian Imagination and Thought at Regis University, came to University of Portland and spoke to a packed room in Franz Hall. What follows is an excerpted version of his talk, “Amazing Grace: Diversity, Deep Listening, and the Anatomy of a Song.”
Garaventa Center
Residence Life
Library
February 7, 2019
Author Colum McCann’s 2009 novel Let the Great World Spin is the 2018-2019 selection for University of Portland’s annual ReadUP campaign and Schoenfeldt Distinguished Visiting Writers series. The lecture will take place in Buckley Auditorium on February 20, at 7 p.m. and is free, and open to the public. McCann will follow the lecture with a book signing.
Garaventa Center
Political Science
January 29, 2019
The University of Portland will welcome William Chafe, author and emeritus professor of history at Duke University, on Monday, February 4 at 7:15 p.m. in Franz Hall Room 120.
College of Arts and Sciences
Library
English
Residence Life
Garaventa Center
February 3, 2017
Acclaimed author Anthony Doerr will speak at the University of Portland about his award-winning novel, All the Light We Cannot See, at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, February 27 in the Buckley Center Auditorium.
Garaventa Center
September 12, 2016
The 2016 Zahm Lecture in American Catholic Education will take place on Thursday, September 22, at 7:15 p.m., in Buckley Center Auditorium. Sr. Ilia Delio, OSF, a Franciscan Sister and American theologian specializing in the area of science and religion, will present “Cosmology, Catholicity and Consciousness: Why Wholeness Matters” on Thursday, September 22, at 7:15 p.m., in Buckley Center Auditorium. The Zahm Lecture is free and open to all.
Awards and Rankings
Campus Ministry
Garaventa Center
January 9, 2016
Karen Eifler, co-director of the Garaventa Center for Catholic Intellectual Life and American Culture will receive the Spirit of Holy Cross Award for her contributions to the work of the Congregation of Holy Cross.
Garaventa Center
Awards and Rankings
September 16, 2015
Karen Eifler, a professor in the University of Portland’s School of Education and co-director of the Garaventa Center for Catholic Intellectual Life and American Culture at UP, has received a 2015 Spirit of Holy Cross Award.
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