George S. Turnbull Portland Center

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The Turnbull Center is located in the UO Portland building at the historic Old Town White Stag Block.   A full schedule of speakers, classes, professional workshops, and public events -- many of them free -- will unfold over the next few months.

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Most Turnbull Center events and programs are held at UO Portland, in the White Stag Block, 70 NW Couch St. Floor 3R, Portland.


Jacqui Banaszynski

Rock, Paper, Scissors ... Stars
The Enduring Triumph of the Human Story


Tuesday, June 4
Turnbull Center, Floor 3R
Light Refreshments: 6:30 p.m.
Free Presentation: 7-8:30 p.m.

Newspapers are as good as dead. The Internet is filling our brains with infotrivia. And independent, in-depth journalism is a relic.

But wait! As long as humans have stood upright, they’ve told stories – true stories that have archived their history, recorded their passions, passed along their lessons and helped them survive.

Jacqui Banaszynski, a Pulitzer-winning journalist, former senior editor of The Oregonian, and a teacher at one of the country’s best journalism schools, muses on what is changing about the profession of storytelling – and what never will.

 Please RSVP at rsvp-turnbull@jcomm.uoregon.edu


Evgeny Morozov: To Save Everything
CLICK HERE –The Folly of Technological Solutionism

 Evgeny MorozovTuesday, May 14
Turnbull Center, Floor 3R
Noon

Co-sponsored by the World Affairs Council of Oregon and the Technology Association of Oregon

$10 General
$5 WAC Members
Free for UO Students and Staff
(Brown-bag lunches welcome)

For more information and to register, please visit the World Affairs Council of Oregon website

While some futurists find the promise of technology-driven utopias  enticing, Evgeny Morozov, author of The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom, wonders if we might be entering into a bargain with “solutionism” that trades ease and efficiency for the “imperfections” of freedom and democracy.
 
Morozov is a contributing editor for The New Republic. He’s also written for the New York Times, the Economist, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times and the London Review of Books.


POSTPONED - Scott MacEachern: Livestrong: From the Vision to 'What Now?'
Co-sponsored with the Portland Advertising Federation

Scott MacEachern

$30 for Turnbull staff and students.

For more information and to register, visit the Portland Advertising Federation website  

Scott MacEachern joined Nike in 1995 and saw his role evolve from sports marketing, to global marketing, to business creation and management. He was the creative force behind the Nike LiveStrong brand, and his career culminated with the creation of the yellow LiveStrong wristbands. But where does LiveStrong go after Lance Armstrong?


UO journalism school names new Portland director

http://uonews.uoregon.edu/sites/uonews.wc-sites.uoregon.edu/files/headshot.png Dr. Stephen Ward, a distinguished University of Wisconsin professor of journalism ethics, will become director of the George S. Turnbull Center on July 1. Dr. Ward covered foreign conflicts and served as a bureau chief for The Canadian Press news agency. He was founding director of the University of British Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and founded the University of Wisconsin's Center for Journalism Ethics. His most recent book, Ethics and the Media, has just been published.