VITA
University of Oregon
541-346-5553
EDUCATION:
Undergraduate: Harvard College 1966-1969
Graduate: Harvard University; Boston
University M.A. 1973, Ph.D. 1974
Topic: "Value, Capital, and
Crisis: A Study in Philosophy and
Economics" (Advisors: Alasdair MacIntyre, Marx Wartofsky, Thomas McCarthy,
Howard Zinn,)
Law School: Harvard Law School, Law and
Humanities Fellow
1980-1981
AREAS OF
SPECIALIZATION:
Social and political philosophy; philosophy of law; peace and war studies; philosophy
of social science (philosophy of
economics); philosophy of film.
AREAS OF
COMPETENCE:
Contemporary Continental philosophy
(emphasis on Levinas); existentialism; philosophy of natural science.
ACADEMIC
POSITIOns:
2007 Visiting Senior Fellow,
Merton College, Oxford
2006- Fellow, Leverhulme Program on the Changing Character of
War,
Oxford University
2004- Adjunct Professor of Law,
Graduate Program in Conflict
Resolution Program, University of Oregon
Law School
2000-2002: Robert Clark Distinguished Professor of
Philosophy and
Critical
Thinking
1990- Professor,
Oregon
1997- Graduate Program in Conflict
Resolution, Portland
State University.
1992: Visiting Professor, Spark
Matsunaga Institute,
University of
Hawaii
1986- Co-Chair, Peace Studies
Committee.
1983-1988: Head,
1981-1989: Associate Professor,
University of
Oregon
1980-1981 Law and Humanities Fellow, Harvard Law
School
1980: Visiting Assistant Professor,
Philosophy
Department,
Northwestern University
1974-1980: Assistant Professor,
of Oregon
1973-1974 Lecturer,
1973-1974 Teaching Fellow,
University
1970-1973: Teaching Fellow,
University
AWARDS AND
RECOGNITION:
- Named by Washington Post as one of
nation's twenty leading scholars "on the frontier of peace and conflict
studies", 1992.
- Joseph J. Blau Prize, awarded by Society
for Advancement of American Philosophy for the most significant contribution to
history of American philosophy (2003).
- Article “Self Defense and the Possibility
of Killing” selected one of ten best articles published in field of philosophy
by Philosopher’s Annual 1983.
- Charles E. Johnson Memorial Faculty Award
(for the promotion of freedom of speech), 1993.
- Outstanding Teacher Award, Mortar Board
(twice: 1987, 1990).
- Co-recipient, Grassroots
Award, McKenzie River Gathering Foundation, 1989.
- Humanitarian of the Year, Oregon Jewish
Federation, 1996.
- Co-recipient, Annual Human Rights Award,
Oregon Human Rights Coalition, 1993.
- President’s Diversity Award, 2002.
- University of Oregon Student Advocate
Award (for promoting diversity), 2003.
PUBLICATIONS:
"Yours, Mine, and Ours: Property Rights and Personal Liberty",
in Ethics, Jan. 1977.
Reprinted: Reading Nozick, ed. by Jeffrey
Paul (Owen and Littlefield, 1981).
"The Normative Concept of
Coercion", in Mind, vol. LXXXIX 1979.
Reprinted: New Essays on Rights, Liberty, and
Property, ed. by J. L. Lumsdane (Routledge 1987).
"Two Traditions in Value
Theory: A Philosophical Account:, Journal
of Radical Political Economy, Spring 1979.
"Socialist Justice and the
Right to the Labor Product", Political Theory, Nov. 1980.
"The Fiends of
Commerce: Romantic and Marxist
Criticisms of Classical Political Economy", in Journal of the History
of Political Economy, Spring 1980.
Reprinted in Marxian
Economics, ed. by John E. King (part of series Schools of Thought in
Economics, ed. by Mark Blaug), Edward Elgar Publishing 1988.
Earlier versions appeared in: Proceedings, History of Economics
Society (May 1976) and Proceedings, Twelfth Conference on Value Inquiry,
Geneseo (April 1976).
“Rate of Profit or Rate of Exploitation: A
Commentary on the Cambridge Controversy on Capital” in Proceedings,
History of Economics Society (April 1979).
"Beyond Beliefs", in American
Philosophical Quarterly, Jan. 1981.
"Justice and Consent", in Theoretical
History, Nov. 1981.
"Pacifism, Self Defense, and the
Possibility of Killing", in Ethics, Jan. 1983.
Reprinted in Philosophers
Annual (chosen one of the best articles of 1983), ed. by Grim, Martin, and
Athay, 1984.
Also reprinted in Life and Death, ed. by Louis Pojman (Jones and Bartlett, 1992); Ethics of Inclusion, ed. by Gary Percesepe (MacMillan, 1995); Morality and Moral Controversies, ed. By John Arthur, (McGraw Hill, 1996); Ethics, ed. By Timothy Challans, McGraw Hill (2000); Military Ethics, ed. by Tony Cody and Igor Primoretz, in International Library of Essays in Public and Professional Ethics (Ashgate, 2008).
"Il Tuo, Il Mio, e
Il Nostro Dirriti Di Proprieta e Liberta Individuale", revised version of
"Yours, Mine, and Ours" (above, 1977) in Giustiza Come
Liberta? Bibliotecha della Liberta
(in Italian), published by Centro di Ticera E Documentazione, 1985.
"Self Defense and Pacifism" in Nuclear
War and Morality, ed. by James Sterba, (Wadsworth 1985).
"Liberty, Equality, and
Exploitation", Revue Internationale de Philosophie, ed. by Kai
Nielson, 1989.
"Giving a Voice/Lending an Ear"
(with James O'Fallon), in Georgia Law Review, 1990.
"Crisis, Commitment, and
Science" (with Joseph Fraccia), in Marxism: Crisis or Renewal? Recent Developments in Marxist Thought,
Pluto Press, 1992.
"Peace Studies and the
Humanities", Challenges for Peace Studies in a Changing World
(Proceedings: Peace Studies Association,
Fall 1990).
"Peace Studies After the
'Cold War'", Oregon Peace Studies Guide 1992.
"The Bread of Faithful
Speech", in Artifacts, Representations and Social Practice, ed. by
Carol Gould and Robert S. Cohen, Vol. 154 of Boston Studies in the Philosophy
of Science (Kluwer, 1993).
"The Morality of Pacifism" in Contemporary
Moral Problems (4th edition), ed. by James White (West Publishing, 1994)
"The One Who Burns Herself
for Peace", Hypatia, April 1994.
Reprinted in Feminism and
Peace, ed. by Duane Cady and Karen Warren (Indiana University Press, 1996).
"The Morality of
Pacifism", in John Arthur, ed. Morality and Moral Controversies (4th
and 5th eds.), Prentice Hall, 1995 and 2004.
"Print the Legend", in Legal
Reelism: Essays on Law and Film, ed. by John Denvir (University of
Pennsylvania, 1996).
"War and the State",
in For and Against the State: New Philosophical Readings, ed. by Jan
Narveson and Jack Sanders, Rowman and Littlefield, 1996.
"Rum, Sodomy, and the
Lash", in Feminism and Foucault (2nd Edition), ed. by Irene Diamond
(forthcoming).
"'I'd Rather Sue You than
Marry You': Remarks on One Movie Every Lawyer Should See", University
of San Francisco Law Review, 1996.
"Quakers With Guns", New York
University Law Review, 1996.
"Teaching Peace Studies
Through the Vietnam War", Proceedings of Peace Studies Association, 2000.
“The Logic of Intervention: Afghanistan
2001 and Mexico 1916”, Counterpunch, winter 2002.
“The Difference between Difference and
Otherness”, in Who, Exactly, Is the Other, Western and Cultural
Perspectives, ed. By Steve Shankman and Massimo Lollini, (University of
Oregon Books, 2002)
“War without Sacrifice?”, Responsive
Community, fall 2002.
“War: What Is It Good for?” Ethics and
International Affairs, winter 2004.
“War, Abolitionism, and the Origins of
Pragmatism: Some Extremely Critical Reflections on Menand’s The Metaphysical
Club”, proceedings of Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, 2003
(electronic). Revised version forthcoming.
“Marxism and War,” in Socialism’s
Relevance Today, ed Anatole Anton and Richard Schmitt, Lexington Press,
2006.
"Across
the Border-Again? (Reflections on Law in "A Touch of Evil"), in Screening
Justice-The Cinema Of Law, ed. By
Rennard Strickland, Teree Foster, Taunya Banks William s Hein & Co, 2006.
“Justice and Negotiation,” in The
Negotiator’s Fieldbook, ed. by Andrea K. Schneider and Christopher
Honeyman, American Bar Association Section of Dispiute Resolution publisher,
Washington D.C., 2006.
“Moral Equality, Conscription,
and the Experience of Soldiers in Combat,” in Just and Unjust Warriors,
ed. by Henry Shue and David Rodin, Oxford University Press, 2008.
“Sovereignty,
Soldiering, and the Rise of Alienated War,” in Rethinking the 21st
Century, ed. by Amy Eckert (Zed, 2008).
“Isaiah
Berlin,” Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Second Edition, Macmillan
(forthcoming).
“Thinking about the
Unforgivable,” in Forgiveness, ed. by Holly Campbell (forthcoming)
“Lewis Mumford”, in Encyclopedia
of American Philosophy (forthcoming).
“The Chickenhawk
Argument” Ethics and International Affairs (forthcoming).
BOOKS:
Peace Nation:
War and Peace, Community and Conscience in American Political Philosophy
(forthcoming)
Other
Priorities: The Chickenhawk Argument and Alienated War
(forthcoming)
OTHER WRITINGS:
I have written numerous
editorials for newspapers and other periodicals on matters of contemporary
politics, mainly dealing with war and race. My most recent piece, “Pacifism and
Common Sense,” a reply to Michael Kelly of the Washington Post, was first
printed in the Eugene Register Guard, fall 2001, subsequently printed in over a
dozen other papers nationwide.
In conjunction with the Portland State
University Conflict Resolution Program, I am at work co-editing a number of
volumes, beginning with one on neutrality and mediation.
BOOK REVIEWS (partial list):
Review of Marx by David McClelland,
Hartford Courant, 1976.
Review of From Mandeville to Marx by Louis
Dumont, in American Journal of Sociology, 1978.
Review of Autonomy by Richard Lindley, in
Ethics, 1986.
Review of And We Are Not Saved by Derrick
Bell, Eugene Register Guard.
Review of The Tain in the Mirror by Rodolph
Gasche, in Comparative Literature, 1987.
Review of Nuclear Deterrence and Realism by
Finnis, Boyle, and Grisez, in The Personalist, 1988.
Review of Just Health Care, by Norman
Daniels, in The Philosophical Review, 1989.
Review of Woman, Nature, and Psyche by
Patricia Jagentowicz Mills, in Canadian Philosophical Reviews, 1989.
"Conservatism and Free Speech",
(guest editorial) Eugene Register Guard, May 12, 1991.
Review of The Sane Society Ideal in Modern
Utopianism by Kerry Walters, in Ethics 1992.
Review of Marxism and Ethics, by Phillip
Cain, in Philosophical Review 1992.
Review of Robert Nozick, by Jonathan Wolff,
in Mind 1992.
Review of From War to Peace, by Janine Chanteur,
in Ethics 1993.
Review of Ethics and Airpower in World War
II, by Stephen A. Garrett, in Ethics,
1994.
Review of Confronting Authority, by Derrick
Bell, in Eugene Weekly 1995.
LECTURES
AND PRESENTATIONs
(PARTIAL LIST):
"Yours, Mine, and Ours", American
Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, 1976.
“Self Defense, Rights and
Responsibilities", American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division,
1978.
Law and Society Series, University of
Oregon Law School, lectures on "Property Rights" (1978), and
"Self Defense" (1979).
"The Tasks of Radical
Theory" (symposium), American
Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, 1980.
"Equality of Talent", American
Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, 1986.
"On 'Deliberation and
Determinism'", American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, 1989.
Chair, panel on "Ethnic Rights and
Ethnic Conflict", American Philosophical Association, March 1994.
"Heroes and Traitors", Conference
on Responsibility, Fullerton, 1976.
"Beyond Beliefs", Oregon State
Philosophy Colloquium, 1976; also presented to University of Oregon Sociology
Colloquium (1976) and Philosophy Club (1975).
"Fiends of Commerce" Romantic and
Marxist Criticisms of Classical Political Economy", History of Economics
Society, Chicago, 1976; also presented at Conference on Value Inquiry, Geneseo
NY, 1978.
"Pacifism", presented at Reed
College, 1978; also presented at University of Oregon Philosophy Colloquium,
1978; Northwestern University, 1980.
"French Structuralism",
California State University, Northridge Structuralism Colloquium, 1976.
"On Marxism and Justice",
Northwest Philosophy Conference, 1976.
"Responsibility and Punishment",
Lane County Bar Association, 1977.
"Marxism and Justice", May Day
Lecture, Oregon College of Education, 1977.
"What Philosophers Can Tell
Playwrights", Bay Area Writers Guild, 1978.
"On Socialism and the Market",
Northwestern University, 1980.
"Law and Morality", Harvard Law
School, 1981.
"Natural Assets, in Rawls and
Others", Oregon State Philosophy Colloquium, 1983, also presented to
University of Oregon Philosophy Colloquium, 1983.
"The Romance of Value",
University of California, Santa Cruz, 1985.
"Hegel and the Person', Lewis and
Clark College Philosophy Colloquium, 1985.
"Law and Punishment", Western
Oregon State College Philosophy Colloquium, 1985.
Commentary on K. Nielson, "Marxism and
Relativism", Northwest Philosophy Conference, 1986.
Speaker, University of Oregon Colloquium on
Robert Bellah's Habits of the Heart, 1986.
"Poverty and Justice", Oregon
Humanities Conference, 1986.
"War, Morality, and Silence",
University of Southern California
"The Politics of Play",
Conference on Philosophy and Literature, University of Kansas, 1987.
Speaker, University of Oregon Colloquium on
the Constitution, 1988.
"Peace Studies in the Public
University", Annual Conference of Oregon Peace Studies Consortium, 1989.
"Peace Studies and Ethics", Peace
Studies Association, Boston, May, 1988.
"The Future of Peace Studies",
Annual Conference of Oregon Peace Studies Consortium, 1989.
"Morality and Utility",
Conference on Objectivity and Method, University of Oregon, October, 1990.
"What Is To Be Done? On the Future of Marxism", invited
lecture to the Northwest Philosophy Conference, November 1990; also delivered
to Western Oregon State College Philosophy Club, February 1991.
"Utilitarianism and Liberty" and
"On Violence", lectures delivered to Southern Oregon State College
Honors Program, March, 1991.
"On Colorization and Film",
participant in panel at American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division,
March, 1991.
"Peace Studies and Ethnic Conflict and
the Post-Cold War World", International Institutes for Peace Education,
Kineeta, Oregon, June 1992.
"On George Bataille and Lewis
Mumford", Institute for Cultural Studies, University of Oregon, Eugene,
Oregon, June 1991.
"Peace Studies and Post
Modernism", Peace Studies Association, Boulder, Colorado, 1992.
"Whither Socialism?”, panel at
American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, 1992.
Featured speaker, Conference on Creativity,
University of California, San Diego, Fall 1992.
"On Moral Creativity", talk at
University of Portland, Fall 1992.
"Back to the Future: On Postmodernism
and Politics", University of Oregon Philosophy Club, February 1993.
"The Social Construction of the
Soldier", talk to Spark Matsunaga Institute, University of Hawaii, April
1993.
"Philosophy and Gender", panel
for University of Oregon Philosophy Club, February 1994.
"Stone Rock Lady", talk to Oregon
State University, May 1994.
"New Perspectives on Violence",
opening lecture in series organized by U of O Law School, Eugene and Portland,
June 1994.
"War and Human Nature", talk to
Oregon State University series on violence, fall 1994.
Speaker, panel on the work of Mary Bateson,
organized by U of O Graduate School, fall 1994.
"Economics and Rhetoric", invited
presentation to the American Economic Association, Washington D.C., January
1995.
"The Philosophy of Violence and the
Violence of Philosophy", invited talk to Concerned Philosophers for Peace
session at Pacific A.P.A., San Francisco, March 1995.
"The Germans Have Outlawed
Miracles," lecture to Lewis and Clark College, January 1996.
Featured speaker, "Images of Law in
American Film", Conference on Picturing Justice, University of San
Francisco Law School, March, 1996.
"Affirmative Action and Work,"
two lectures as part of National Endowment for the Humanities, "A Nation
That Works", Eugene, Oregon, Winter 1997.
"The Arc of the Moral
University", at Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, New
Mexico, 1997.
"On Violence and Moral Judgment",
Northwest Peace Studies Consortium, Portland, 1997.
"Teaching Peace Studies Through the
Vietnam War", Annual Meeting of the Peace Studies Association, Washington,
D.C.
"Feminism and Hebraic
Epistemology", talk at Engendering Rationalities Conference. Eugene, 1997.
"The Integrity of the Text", talk
at International Samuel Becket Conference, hosted by the UO Theater Dept,
Eugene, 1997.
Featured speaker on panel "Society and
Performance" organized by UO Theater Dept, 1997.
"Peace at the Fin de Siecle",
American Philosophical Association, Los Angeles, 1998.
“On
Law and Morality,” lecture to Oregon Bar Association, Portland, Oregon , 1998.
"Saving
Private Ryan and the Saga of the Citizen Soldier," Society for the
Advancement of American Philosophy, Eugene, Oregon, 1999.
"Peace
at the Fin de Siecle", Concerned Philosophers for Peace, Washington D.C.,
1999.
Commencement
speaker, WellSprings School, Eugene Oregon 1999.
"Taking
War Seriously", invited talk to University of Utah Philosophy Colloquium,
1999.
"Your
Money Where Your Mouth Is", conference on Levinas, Emery University, 1999.
"The
Difference Between Difference and Otherness", conference on "Who, Exactly,
Is the Other?” University of Oregon Humanities Center, 2000.
“On Non-Violence”, talk
to Wellsprings School, 2000.
"Philosophy and the Problems of Violence", Radical
Philosophy Association, Chicago, Illinois, 2000.
“On
War and Responsibility,” Conference on War and Morality, Portland State
University, 2001.
“Thinking
about the Unforgivable”, talk to conference on Forgiveness, University of Utah,
2001.
“On
the Unforgivable,” Portland State University Philosophy Club, 2002.
“War
and Responsibility,” Annual Meeting, North American Society for Social
Philosophy, Eugene, 2002.
Speaker, “Contested Values and
Moral Reasoning in International Affairs,” Vanderbilt University and Carnegie
Council for Ethics and International Affairs, June 2002.
Panelist,
“Legal Realism—-Pro and Con”, American Philosophical Asssociation, Seattle,
2002.
“Philosophy
and Public Space,” commentary on American Philosophical Asssociation,
Philadelphia, 2002.
“On the War on Terror,” panel sponsored by
Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, at American Philosophical
Asssociation, San Francisco, 2003.
Lecture on war and
responsibility to Oregon State University “Philosophy and Society” series, fall
2003.
Walter Powell Lindfield
College Philosophy Lectureship, May 9-10, 2004.
Two invited talks: “On
Levinas,” and “War and Responsibility,” Gettysburg College, November 2004.
“Moral Equality and the Responsibility of
Soldiers,” Oxford University, June 2005.
Lecture at University of
Maryland, Winter 2005, “A New Symmetry Problem in War”.
“A New Symmetry Problem
in War”, Peace Research Institute of Oslo Norway, March 2005.
“The Laws of War and the
Future of State Sovereignty”, Special Session Arranged by the
APA Committee on the Status and Future of the Profession, Pacific
APA, Portland, Oregon spring 2005:.
“What Can Philosophy Say
about Public Policy?” Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on International Cooperation, Pacific APA, Portland, Oregon spring 2005.
“The Chickenhawk Argument”, Symposium Paper, Pacific
APA, Portland, Oregon spring 2005.
“Why Conservatives Can’t Compete in the Marketplace of Ideas”, Gandhi King
Society, Pacific APA, Portland, Oregon
spring 2005.
”The Political Philosophy of Pirates,” Leverhulme
Program on the Changing Character of War, Oxford University February 2008.
“Corporate Warfare and Kant,” University of Oslo, Program on
Ethics, February 2008.
“Girard and Conflict Resolution,” University of California, Riverside, colloquium: “Catastrophe in Conversion: Political Thinking for the New Millennium”, June 2008.
GRANTS:
Major grants:
National Endowment for the Humanities, for
"The Nation That Works", 1996-1997.
National Endowment for the Arts/Expansion
Arts Program, support for ongoing work 1988-1995.
Oregon Arts Commission, 1981, 1988.
California Arts Council, support for
ongoing work, 1989-1995.
Oregon Council for the Humanities, 1986,
1987, 1988, 1992, 1993.
University grants:
University of Oregon Summer Faculty
Research Awards 1978; 1983
Oregon Humanities Center Faculty Grant,
1991.
Oregon Humanities Center grants for
individual projects, 1997, 2003.
Development Grant, University of Oregon
Office of International Affairs, 1995.
Others:
The Flintridge Foundation, 1984-1985.
Ralph Smith Foundation, 1985-1987.
Ruth Mott Foundation, 1986-1987.
Public Welfare Foundation, 1986-1989.
Vanguard Foundation, 1987-1999.
A Territorial Resource, 1987-1990.
The Funding Exchange, 1987-1990.
The Millbank Fund, 1989-1990.
Harburg Fundm 1989-1990.
The Eastman Fund, 1990-1991.
Zellerbach Foundation, 1990-1991.
The Funding Exchange, 1991-1992.
McKenzie River Gathering Foundation,
periodic grants from 1985-1990.
Levinson Foundation, 1990-1992.
James Irvine Foundation, 1990-1992.
TEACHING:
I have been first reader on the PhD
dissertations of Dan Athearn (subsequently published by S.U.N.Y. Press), Doug
Donkel (subsequently published by Lang Publishing), Lani Roberts, Robert Gould,
Charles Dewberry, Joan Woolfrey, Steve Brence (co-chair), Jaime Ross
(co-chair), John Shuford, Steve Stern, Ken Pendleton, Jeff Stolle, Cynthia Coe,
David Butlerichie, and Roxie Green.
I have been the first reader of masters
theses by Johnathan Schwerk, Pan Hardy, Jeremy Bensam, and Breyer Patterson (partial list).
I have been the first
reader of fifteen honors theses in the
UNIVERSITY
RELATED ACTIVITIES:
1. I am a co-founder (1977) of the
University’s Council on Minority Education, now the Office of Multi-Cultural
Affairs. I was on its governing board for its first four years.
2. I am a co-founder of the University of
Oregon Humanities Center. I organized the Symposium on Critical Theory 1982-83,
that led to the creation of the Center.
3. I was the principal faculty member
soliciting funds for and establishing the Carleton Savage Endowment in
International Relations in Peace, providing ongoing support for peace related
scholarship and lectures (established 1988). I have chaired or co-chaired the
Savage Endowment since its inception.
In this capacity, I have supervised
numerous year-long projects on such topics as South African liberation
struggles; peace and conflict in post-Communist Eastern Europe; violence and
the imagination; approaching peace through music; the legacy of the Vietnam
War; Native American visions of peace; feminism and peace; Hiroshima and its
legacy; etc.
4. I am a co-founder of the University of
Oregon Peace Studies Program (1987). I have been a co-chair of the program ever
since.
With Robert Gould, I helped create the Portland State University
Conflict Resolution Program, in Portland, with which I am still affiliated.
5. I was co-chair of President’s
Committee on Rights of Gay and Lesbian Students (1990-1992), investigated the
situation of gay and lesbian students on campus and formulated proposals to
address their concerns. This led to the creation of the University’s Office on
Gay and Lesbian Affairs.
6. I was faculty sponsor of the legislation
creating the University’s current policies barring “fraternization” (sexual
relations) between faculty and students. I worked with the Oregon State
Legislature and Representative Cynthia Wooten to change state policies on this
matter, specifically related to statute-of-limitations issues.
7. I was principal faculty organizer of international conference “Ethics After
the Holocaust” (May 1996), that brought scholars and students together to
discuss moral and political significance of the event.
I was also principal
faculty organizer of related conference on “Community: The Forgotten Tradition”
the following year (1997), in conjunction with U of O Hillel.
Both events led to the creation
of the U of O Schnitzer Program on Judaic Studies, of which I am a co-founder.
8.
I co-chaired the President’s committee to create Center on Diversity and
Community (CODAC). The Center was established in 2000 to help coordinate
diversity efforts across the campus and sponsor research related to
diversity.
9. I am a co-founder of the Masters Program in
Conflict Resolution, housed in the University of Oregon Law School. In 2007 the
Law’s schools program in conflict resolution was named on the top ten in the
United States.
10. In 2005, I was
responsible for soliciting a bequest from former University of Oregon professor
Henry Alexander to develop work in peace and conflict resolution at both the
University of Oregon and Portland State University. The initial gift was
$300,000. It was given the Northwest Institute of Conflict Resolution to
initiate several programs, which I help oversee. Our ultimate aim is to create
a center on peace and conflict resolution that will serve the Northwest.
11. I have been involved
for the past several years in developing the “Insight Seminars” with Professor
Jim Earle and a number of community members. In the fall of 2006 I gave a month
long seminar on Hollywood films. In spring 2007 I will be giving a seminar on
forgiveness.
OTHER
UNIVERSITY RELATED ACTIVITIES (PARTIAL LIST):
Organizer, Conference on Cultural
Reconciliation, Spring 1997.
Advising Humanist for National Endowment
for the Humanities series, "A Nation That Works".
Advising Humanist for Oregon Committee on
the Humanities Projects, 1982 (Oregon Repertory Theater); 1987, 1988, 1990,
1991 (for projects related to Theater Adelante—see theatrical resume).
Co-coordinator, Peace Studies Association Annual Meeting, Eugene,
Oregon, March, 1990.
Co-coordinator, International Institutes on
Peace Education, Kineeta, Oregon, June, 1991.
Organizer of conference on violence,
presented by Western States Humanities Consortium, fall 1994; representative to
that organization 1994-1995.
Humanities Center Advisory Committee,
1985-1990; 1993-1997; numerous other committees for the Humanities Center.
Vietnam-UO Sister
University Project, Advisory Board, 1997-2000.
Executive Committee, Oregon Peace Studies
Consortium, 1986-present.