Central Oregon Community College is hosting the fifth lecture October 25 in the second series of How Did We Get Here? Human Origins, Evolution and Migrations presentations. The continuing series highlights cutting-edge anthropological research and discoveries. COCC will host a Bridging Cultures: Muslim Journeys October 24 with Dr. Rick Colby.
Dr. Madonna Moss will present Dead Fish Don’t Lie I: Archaeology of Herring in the Northwest at 6:30pm on Friday, October 25 in the Pozzi Education Center at the Sunriver Nature Center in Sunriver.
The amazing abundance and diversity of fish and shellfish of the Pacific Northwest played a major role in attracting and sustaining dense populations of aboriginal people of the western U.S. Pacific herring were one of the resources that helped shape these cultures from Alaska to Northern California.
Moss will draw on studies aimed at developing a more complete understanding of the ancient Alaska Native use of Pacific herring (Clupea pallasi) to better assess the historical abundance, biogeography and genetic diversity of herring. Utilizing modern tools of archaeology—including DNA analysis to look at herring bones from17 Alaska sites spanning 9,000 years—Moss aims to gain understanding of prehistoric use patterns and ultimately to help inform fisheries managers and benefit a wide range of stakeholders in the Arctic, Subarctic and beyond.Moss is a professor of anthropology at the University of Oregon, who studies the long-term history of the Tlingit and Haida peoples. Author of more than 60 scientific articles and two books, she is currently working on “The Archaeology of Herring” using ancient DNA to better understand contemporary fisheries.
Tickets are $8 for Nature Center members; general public is $10. Students are free with ID card. Tickets are available through the Sunriver Nature Center and at the door.
For information, call 541-593-4394 or www.cocc.edu/foundation/vsp or www.sunrivernaturecenter.org.The series is sponsored by the Nancy R. Chandler Visiting Scholar Program, the Sunriver Nature Center & Observatory and the Oregon Community Foundation with support from the student governments of COCC and OSU-Cascades.
COCC CONTINUES ‘BRIDGING CULTURES: MUSLIM JOURNEYS’ SERIES
Central Oregon Community College will host a “Bridging Cultures: Muslim Journeys” from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, October 24 in Wille Hall in the Campus Center on the Bend Campus. The event is free and open to the public. Dr. Rick Colby, with the department of religious studies at the University of Oregon, will present “Spiritual Companions on a Journey to the Beautiful: Muslim Pathways of Faith and Practice.”
He will explore the diverse avenues of belief and practice that Muslims have traversed in their spiritual journeys across the centuries. In particular, he will highlight the importance of the Qur’an and the example of Muhammad’s life to different Muslim communities, as well as some of the religious, spiritual and artistic ways that Muslims in different times and places have sought to reflect the idea of “putting the beautiful” into practice.
There will also be an opportunity to review and check out the books and videos in the Muslim Journeys Bookshelf collection.The event is sponsored by a NEH special initiative, Bridging Cultures, that engages the power of the humanities to promote understanding of and mutual respect for people with diverse histories, cultures and perspectives within the United States and abroad.
The grant will help sponsor a number of Muslim Journeys lectures, book discussions, and film showings. An Oregon Humanities grant is making it possible to bring three scholars to COCC as part of this Muslim Journeys initiative.
This program was made possible in part by a grant from Oregon Humanities (OH), a statewide nonprofit organization and an independent affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, which funds OH’s grant program.
Local sponsors include. COCC Barber Library, the COCC Multicultural program and the Nancy R. Chandler Visiting Scholar Program.
The Bridging cultures Bookshelf: Muslim Journeys is presented by the NEH in cooperation with the American Library Association Public Programs Office and the Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University.
The program was provided by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Additional support for the arts and media components was provided by the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art.
For information, call 541-383-7412. In advance of college events, persons needing accommodation or transportation because of a physical or mobility disability, contact Joe Viola: 541-383-7775. For accommodation because of other disability such as hearing impairment, contact Anne Walker: 541-383-7743.
