Presentation by Kimberly Jensen. The full title is “From Citizens to Enemy Aliens: Oregon Women, Marriage and the Surveillance State during the First World War.” Federal legislation in effect from 1907 to 1922 required women who were U.S. citizens and who married men of other nations to forfeit their U.S. citizenship and take on the status of their husbands. During the First World War, some 400 Oregon women became "enemy aliens" as a result of their marriage to German men in the state. Kept under surveillance by state officials, many of the women resisted actions against them and definitions of themselves as enemy aliens. Ms. Jensen is professor of history and gender studies at Western Oregon University.
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From Citizens to Enemy Aliens
11/23/2014
Kimberly Jensen
Post-Election Analysis
11/09/2014
Jeff Seward
Jeff Seward summarizes key results of the 2014 midterm elections, analyzes their significance, and makes predictions about their implications for the rest of Obama's second term and for the 2016 presidential election. Seward, an associate professor in the Department of Politics and Government at Pacific University, has been a popular speaker at HGP. He teaches comparative politics, political philosophy, political economy, and courses on Latin America. Prior to his academic career, he was a reporter and documentary film producer.
Bridge Meadows
11/02/2014
Derenda Schubert
Dr. Derenda Schubert tells us about Bridge Meadows, a unique and innovative solution to the current foster care crisis. Located in North Portland, Bridge Meadows is a three-generation housing community consisting of homes for adoptive families and apartments for elders 55 and older who act as surrogate grandparents and as mentors to the children who live there. Dr. Schubert is a psychologist with experience in counseling children and in creating and managing programs in foster care, mental health, and developmental disabilities.
An Appeal from the Heart
10/26/2014
Doug Matheson
Doug Matheson conducts a rotating oral reading (involving audience participants) of his essay titled "An Appeal from the Heart." Doug grew up a missionary kid in India, and was educated in Christian schools until graduate school. Despite a loving Christian indoctrination he came to realize that, when beliefs and evidence are in contradiction, personal honesty requires that we impose the evidence on our beliefs, instead of attempting to impose our beliefs on the evidence.