Join us March 19 at 3:30 pm in the LC Bookstore to celebrate the release of Religion & Hip Hop, the latest book from Religious Studies professor, Monica Miller. Coffee and cookies will be served.

For more information about Visiting Professor of Religious Studies, Monica Miller, check out her professional bio.

Emmanuel Habimana, Guellord Ndagijimana, and Matthew Rugamba, three LC students from Rwanda, will share their stories of genocide and future plans, 11am on Feb 16, at Lake Oswego Public Library.

Following the panel, Nike Foundation employee Teresa Schader will be speaking about the girl effect - the unique potential of adolescent girls to end poverty for themselves and the world - and in particular, exciting work that is unleashing the girl effect in Rwanda.

To read more about these students, check out the following links: Emmanuel Habimana, Guellord Ndagijimana, Matthew Rugamba.

For directions and more information about Lake Oswego Reads Program, visit the Lake Oswego Public Library website.

Join us in the LC Bookstore, February 12, at 3:30 pm to celebrate the release of Left Coast Roast, written by our very own Hanna Neuschwander. Coffee (of course!) and cookies will be served.

For more information about Hanna and her book, check out this 2012 interview and her book's website.

Join us in the LC Bookstore on February 7, at 4 pm, as we celebrate the latest book from Associate Professors of Psychology Jerusha and Brian Detweiler-Bedell. Doing Collaborative Research in Psychology: A Team-Based Guide will be discussed followed by questions from the audience. Coffee and cookies will be served.

This month, diversions is all about music. We've assembled an awesome selection of books to complement the 9th annual Watzek Rocks. Check out these reads on the diversions bookshelf at Watzek or online on Pinterest.

Image: Kathleen Hanna reads. (via Awesome People Reading)

Join us for a screening of the powerful documentary, Komora: To Heal, co-directed by filmmaker and LC Academic English Studies student, Emmanuel Habimana on Thursday, January 31, in Council Chamber.

Emanuel was only 9 during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. His powerful story of survival is told this documentary, co-directed by Emmanuel and Natalia Ledford, and sponsored by National Geographic. Today Emmanuel is committed to a vision of the world filled with peace, hope and reconciliation. He was awarded the Dallaire Scholarship at Lewis & Clark College where he is currently enrolled in Academic English Studies. Read more about Emanuel here. A question and answer session with Emmanuel will follow the screening of the film.

This film screening is free and open to the general public. While it it not necessary to preregister, it will be helpful in our planning, as we anticipate a large audience for this screening. We invite you to preregister here.

For additional information or special needs, please contact: Michael Ford Associate Vice President for Campus Life Member, Dallaire Scholarship Committee mford@lclark.edu 503 768-7216

Join us for the 1st screening in our documentary film series on Tuesday, February 5, at 7pm in Miller 102. Titicut Follies was directed by Frederick Wiseman in 1967. To read more about this film and the Documentary film series, check out the Watzek Screens blog.

Questions or comments regarding Watzek Screens may be directed to Jim Bunnelle (bunnelle@lclark.edu).

Join us for a screening of the Maysles brothers' 1968 film, Salesman, on Tuesday, February 19, at 7pm in Miller 102. Of the film, film series coordinator Jim Bunnelle writes, "documenting Bible salesmen on their day-to-day peddling routes through suburban Boston could have been unbearably dull. But it isn't. In fact, I would argue that what is captured--and importantly, brilliantly edited together--exemplifies a sort of quintessential Americanism: a fusion of huckster commercialism, quasi-religiousness, human frailty, and a good dose of sales guilt, all stretched over the classic Horatio Alger myth of "working your way up from nothing." To read more about this film and the Documentary film series, check out the Watzek Screens blog.

(FYI, we were informed recently that David's daughter Celia is a Lewis & Clark graduate and documentary filmmaker. A great interview with her is available here.)

Questions or comments regarding Watzek Screens may be directed to Jim Bunnelle (bunnelle@lclark.edu).

Join us for the 3rd screening of the semester on Tuesday, March 5, at 7pm in Miller 102. Don't Look Back was directed by D.A. Pennebaker in 1967. To read more about this film and the Documentary film series, check out the Watzek Screens blog.

Questions or comments regarding Watzek Screens may be directed to Jim Bunnelle (bunnelle@lclark.edu).

Join us for a screening of Davis's 1974 film, Hearts and Minds on Tuesday, March 19, at 7pm in Miller 102. To read more about this film and the Documentary film series, check out the Watzek Screens blog.

Questions or comments regarding Watzek Screens may be directed to Jim Bunnelle (bunnelle@lclark.edu).