Consider This with Manu Meel - La Grande screening
Join Oregon Humanities staff in La Grande for a live screening of Consider This with Manu Meel, CEO of BridgeUSA, a multi-partisan student movement working to bridge our differences and change how we talk about politics.
Consider This with Manu Meel
Join us for a conversation about political differences, young people, and the long-term health of our democracy with Manu Meel, CEO of BridgeUSA, a multi-partisan student movement working to bridge our differences and change how we talk about politics.
Consider This with Manu Meel
Join us on November 10 for a conversation about political differences, young people, and the long-term health of our democracy with Manu Meel, CEO of BridgeUSA.
Consider This Reading Group: How to Stay Open and Curious in Hard Conversations
Which do you value more: the truth or your own beliefs? Oregon Humanities invites you to a discussion of Mónica Guzmán's essay "How to Stay Open and Curious in Hard Conversations" (originally published in Greater Good Magazine). Together we'll explore Guzmán strategies for fostering curiosity and understanding across divides, including sharing "snapshot" opinions, acknowledging agreement, and admitting uncertainty. We will also discuss takeaways from our April 18 Consider This conversation with Guzmán at the Alberta Rose Theatre in Portland. Rozzell Medina will facilitate the reading group discussion.
Conversation Project: Understanding Urban/Rural Divides
We live in a time of increasing polarization that often correlates to divides between urban and rural regions in our state. This polarization is so extreme that it often seems like the two sides may have completely different experiences of the world. Join facilitator Nick Nash in a conversation that asks, How does the urban/rural divide affect the ways we relate to each other as Oregonians? What is the urban/rural divide, and how do we understand it? How does this divide affect our day-to-day lives, our experiences of being governed, and of the COVID-19 pandemic? This conversation is a chance to reflect on the beliefs we have about our urban or rural neighbors with a focus on discovering and abandoning misbeliefs, investigating and learning about the real differences between the urban and the rural, and trying to find things that we all share as Oregonians.
Conversation Project: Understanding Urban/Rural Divides
We live in a time of increasing polarization that often correlates to divides between urban and rural regions in our state. This polarization is so extreme that it often seems like the two sides may have completely different experiences of the world. Join facilitator Nick Nash in a conversation that asks, How does the urban/rural divide affect the ways we relate to each other as Oregonians? What is the urban/rural divide, and how do we understand it? How does this divide affect our day-to-day lives, our experiences of being governed, and of the COVID-19 pandemic? This conversation is a chance to reflect on the beliefs we have about our urban or rural neighbors with a focus on discovering and abandoning misbeliefs, investigating and learning about the real differences between the urban and the rural, and trying to find things that we all share as Oregonians. This event will take place in room 214/215. Enter on the east side of the building facing the parking lot.
Consider This with Mónica Guzmán - La Grande Screening
Join Oregon Humanities staff in La Grande for a live screening of our Consider This conversation with Mónica Guzmán, author of I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times. Guzmán is a bridge builder, journalist, and author who works to get people to talk across thier perceived divides.
Can We Get Along?
Rodney King’s iconic question still resonates today. Despite decades of social justice movements, police brutality and divisions persist in the United States. COVID-19 has only added more challenges. How can we connect to each other during these times? What holds us back from connecting with each other? How do our personal experiences contribute to barriers, or and have the potential to break them down? Join facilitator Chisa Hata as she holds space to examine individual questions on race, cultural values, and what brings us together and what separates us.
Seeking Common Ground: Looking Past the Rural-Urban Divide
National political discourse has amplified a conflict between rural and urban interests, culture, and values that has resulted in a bifurcated reality: two “bubbles” of experience whose paths do not often cross in the media nor in our daily lives. This session will shed light on the potential common interests in these disparate experiences, toward consensus about what the future could be. This program is supported by a Public Program Grant from Oregon Humanities.
From the Director: The Great Divide
Adam Davis on communicating and connecting across divides.
The Struggles That Unite Us
Eric K. Ward reflects on how the idea of the urban-rural divide only serves to separate us.
Posts
Readers write about Push.
From the Director: We the People
Executive Director Adam Davis on who we are as a nation, who our communities are, and how we know where we belong.
Listening over Litigation
The High Desert Partnership provides a collaborative vision for Harney County.
Supporting Urgent Conversations
Responsive Program Grants help communities across Oregon respond to pressing issues and events.
What Can Bridge the Divide?
Yoko Ikeda shares her experience with Bridging Oregon, a monthly conversation series that explores the idea that we're divided as a state and asks how we can come together to create stronger, more resilient communities.
Conversation Project: Beyond Fake News
How We Find Accurate Information about the World
Conversation Project: Beyond Fake News
How We Find Accurate Information about the World
Conversation Project: Beyond Fake News
How We Find Accurate Information about the World
Conversation Project: Beyond Fake News
How We Find Accurate Information about the World
Conversation Project: Just a Number
Aging and Intergenerational Friendship
Conversation Project: Beyond Invitation
How Do We Create Inclusive Communities?
Conversation Project: Beyond Fake News
How We Find Accurate Information about the World
Conversation Project: In Science We Trust?
The Role of Science in a Democracy
Conversation Project: In Science We Trust?
The Role of Science in a Democracy
Conversation Project: Just a Number
Aging and Intergenerational Friendship
Conversation Project: Beyond Fake News
How We Find Accurate Information about the World
Conversation Project: Beyond Invitation
How Do We Create Inclusive Communities?
Bridging Oregon Participant Application Deadline (EXTENDED)
Oregon Humanities is looking for people in Central Oregon to participate in this monthly conversation series.
Conversation Project: Beyond Invitation
How Do We Create Inclusive Communities?
Conversation Project: Beyond Fake News
How We Find Accurate Information about the World
Bridging Our Divide Community Dialogue
Bridging Our Divide community events are focused on fostering conversation and understanding across political and ideological divides. This event will feature speakers from the local community and group activities to promote dialogue and empathy. This event is made possible in part by a Public Program Grant from Oregon Humanities.
Conversation Project: Beyond Invitation
How Do We Create Inclusive Communities?
Conversation Project: Beyond Invitation
How Do We Create Inclusive Communities?
Conversation Project: Beyond Fake News
How We Find Accurate Information about the World
Conversation Project: Beyond Fake News
How We Find Accurate Information about the World
Conversation Project: Beyond Invitation
How do you know if a space is inclusive and accessible for all, and is such a goal even possible? What do you do about the tension between people who have different needs to feel included? Join Rachel Bernstein to explore what it takes to make the shift from invitation to inclusion.
Conversation Project: Beyond Invitation
How Do We Create Inclusive Communities?
Field Work: Bridging Divides over Dinner
In Bend, residents come together to share meals and conversation.
Conversation Project: Beyond Fake News
How We Find Accurate Information about the World
Conversation Project: Beyond Invitation
How Do We Create Inclusive Communities?
Conversation Project: Just a Number
Aging and Intergenerational Friendship
Conversation Project: In Science We Trust?
The Role of Science in a Democracy
Conversation Project: In Science We Trust?
The Role of Science in a Democracy
Conversation Project: Just a Number
Aging and Intergenerational Friendship
Conversation Project: Beyond Invitation
How Do We Create Inclusive Communities?
Conversation Project: Beyond Invitation
How Do We Create Inclusive Communities?
Conversation Project: Beyond Fake News
How We Find Accurate Information about the World
Conversation Project: Beyond Invitation
How Do We Create Inclusive Communities?
Conversation Project: Beyond Fake News
How We Find Accurate Information about the World
Conversation Project: Beyond Invitation
How Do We Create Inclusive Communities?
Conversation Project: What Does It Mean to Be American?
Given the differences of race, ethnicity, place, religion, wealth, language, education, and ideology that exist in the US, what are the things that unite us a nation?
Conversation Project: Beyond Fake News
How We Find Accurate Information about the World
Conversation Project: Beyond Fake News
How We Find Accurate Information about the World
Conversation Project: Just a Number
Aging and Intergenerational Friendship
Conversation Project: What Does It Mean to Be American?
Given the differences of race, ethnicity, place, religion, wealth, language, education, and ideology that exist in the US, what are the things that unite us a nation?
Conversation Project: Beyond Fake News
How We Find Accurate Information about the World
Conversation Project: Beyond Invitation
How Do We Create Inclusive Communities?
Conversation Project: Just a Number
Aging and Intergenerational Friendship
Conversation Project: Beyond Fake News
How We Find Accurate Information about the World
Conversation Project: What Are You?
Mixed-Race and Interracial Families in Oregon’s Past and Future
Conversation Project: Just a Number
Aging and Intergenerational Friendship
Conversation Project: Beyond Invitation
How Do We Create Inclusive Communities?
Conversation Project: Beyond Fake News
How We Find Accurate Information about the World
Conversation Project: Beyond Fake News
How We Find Accurate Information about the World
Conversation Project: What Does It Mean to Be American?
Given the differences of race, ethnicity, place, religion, wealth, language, education, and ideology that exist in the US, what are the things that unite us a nation? How do we understand what it means to be American and what we hold valuable?
Conversation Project: Beyond Fake News
How We Find Accurate Information about the World
Conversation Project: In Science We Trust?
The Role of Science in a Democracy
Posts
Readers write about Claim
What We Share
From the Director
Conversation Project: Just a Number
Aging and Intergenerational Friendship
Conversation Project: In Science We Trust?
The Role of Science in a Democracy
Conversation Project: In Science We Trust?
The Role of Science in a Democracy
Dry Years, Wet Years, Tradition and Change: An Evening with Patricia Nelson Limerick
This is an Oregon Humanities grant-funded event.
Just People Like Us
Writer Guy Maynard on a little-known history of a Southern Oregon community during World War II where prisoners of war were more welcome than US military of color
Whose State Is This?
Journalist Brent Walth on how legal measures targeting Latino Oregonians reflect fears of change.
Firing a Friend
It's hard to be a good citizen during an election year. An essay by Jennifer Ruth
Home Economics
Using the house to bridge the public/private divide.