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L&C Events and Virtual Programming

The Alumni and Parent Engagement office invites you to listen, learn, and enjoy the L&C community through the following resources.

Alumni Events

February 18: 5:00pm

2026 L&C Athletics Virtual Series: Wednesdays at 5

Join us for the 2026 L&C Athletics Virtual Series, a dynamic collection of conversations that bring the L&C community together from across the globe. This series offers an insider’s look at the “Pursuit of Excellence” within L&C Athletics, featuring a unique 360-degree perspective from our dedicated coaches, inspiring current student-athletes, and successful alumni.

February 19: 12:00pm

Virtual Streaming of Past Events:

Virtual Author Chat with Professor Emeritus Kim Stafford - A Proclamation for Peace - Translated for the World
Virtual Author Chat with Associate Professor Reiko Hillyer - A Wall is Just a Wall
Virtual Author Chat with Professor Pauls Toutonghi - The Refugee Ocean
Virtual Presentation with Professor Elliott Young - sponsored by regional L&C Alumni Chapters, History of Racism in Immigration Restrictions and Illegal Entry Charge
Virtual Presentation with Associate Professor Reiko Hillyer, Education as Freedom: The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program and Mission of the Liberal Arts
Virtual Presentation with Assistant Professor with Term, Kabir Mansingh Heimsath, Mountain Pathways: Mobility and Space in the Nepal Himalaya
Virtual Presentation with Professor Julio de Paula, Light + Color = Chemistry + Archaeology
Virtual Presentation with Professor Greta Binford and Associate Professor Kundai Chirindo, Science, Race, and the Outdoors
Virtual Lecture with Associate Professor Yueping Zhang, Ever had a Gut Feeling? Messages from the Nervous System and Bacteria in our Gastrointestinal Tract to the Brain
Virtual Lecture with Associate Professor Diana Leonard, If You Don’t See Race, You Don’t See Me: Why Colorblindness Fails and What We Should Do About It
23rd Annual Environmental Studies Symposium, Stopping New Dams and Removing Old Ones: Klamath and Columbia Case Studies
Virtual Lecture with Associate Professor Powers, ‘Ugly Americans’ vs. ‘Lousy Commies’: How a Theological Divergence Among U.S. Christians (ca. 1900) Helps Explain Our Current Divided Society
Poems and Conversation with Kim Stafford, Professor Emeritus and Oregon’s ninth Poet Laureate
Virtual Lecture with Professor Magali Rabasa, Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Aid and Research in the Covid-19 Crisis
Virtual Lecture with Assistant Professor Suparna Chaudhry, Uncivil Societies: Explaining Government Repression Against NGOs
Virtual Lecture with Associate Professor Maryann Bylander, From Poverty Panacea to Credit Crisis: The Impacts of Microfinance Expansion in Southeast Asia
Virtual Lecture with Distinguished International Law Visitor Phillipe Sands, The Ratline: The Flight of the Nazis to Avoid Prosecution
Virtual Lecture with Associate Professor Jessica Kleiss, Clouds and Climate Change
Virtual Lecture with Associate Professor Emerita Janet Davidson, Human Development Across the Lifespan: Who You’ve Been and Who You’ll Be
Virtual Lecture with Professor Emeriti Jane Hunter, Missionary Daughter to Daughter of the Revolution: Isabel Crook’s Journey to China’s Great Hall of the People
Virtual Lecture with Associate Professor Norma Velazquez Ulloa, Flies, Drugs, Genes, and Undergrads
Virtual Lecture with Dr. Mojgan Sami, Pandemics and Social Change: Covid-19 and Racism in Historical Context
Virtual Lecture with Professor Emeritus Stephen Dow Beckham, The Surprising Adventures of George Gibbs, 1816-1873, on the Oregon Frontier
Virtual Lecture with Professor Tamily Weissman-Unni, Mapping the Brain in Living Color with “Brainbow”
Virtual Lecture with Professor Rishona Zimring and India Ropes-Moyes ’20, Meaning in Motion: Modernism, Literature, and Dance
Virtual Lecture with Associate Professor Liz Safran, Landslides and Lava and Floods, Oh My! How the Owyhee River Puts Up with Oregon’s Lively Geology
Virtual Lecture with Associate Professor Dawn Odell, Global Trade, Chinese Art, and Eighteenth-Century America
Virtual Lecture with Professor Emerita Jean Ward, Albany to Fir Acres: The “Cinderella College” Arrives
Virtual Lecture with Associate Professor David Campion, A Terrible Beauty: Literature, History & Memory in 20th-Century Ireland
Virtual Lecture with Professor Aaron Beck, Music and the Black Plague
2020 Festival Of Scholars and Artists - L&C’s daylong event highlighting student research in discussion panels, posters, and performances.
Virtual Lecture with Professor Rob Kugler, Of Mummified Crocodiles and Ancient Court Records: A Window on Jewish Legal Reasoning in Greco-Roman Egypt
Virtual Presentation and Q&A with Professor Stephen Dow Beckham, Changes in the Land: Oregon, 1800-2020

Rose Garden Restoration Project: An Update with Sophie Abbassian ’25
From Dorm Room to Dreamhouse: A Journey into Home Ownership, sponsored by the L&C Young Alumni Council
Budgeting - Surviving the Capitalism Hellscape 101 (and Have Fun Doing It!) sponsored by the L&C Young Alumni Council. (presentation slides)
Careers in Marketing, sponsored by the L&C Young Alumni Council
Albany Society Senior Alumni Summer Celebration 2021
The Spymaster of Baghdad: A Conversation with author Margaret Coker BA ’93
Real Nice Winemakers Wine Tasting with owner Anthony Van Nice BA ’97
Buon Appetito! Italian Cooking with Chef Jake Greenberg ’79
A to Z Wineworks Wine Tasting with owner Cheryl Francis BA ’92
Beer Tasting and Lecture with Professor Brian Detweiler-Bedell
Brick House Vineyards Wine Tasting with owner Doug Tunnell BA ’72
Groth Vineyards Wine Tasting with President and CEO Suzanne Groth BA ’92
Alumni Honors Celebration 2021
A Conversation with Earl Blumenauer, BA’70, JD ’76
Tales and Lessons from an American Diplomat featuring Ambassador Niels Marquardt ’75
Elk Cove Vineyards Wine Tasting with owner Adam Campbell BA ’95
Beckham Estate Vineyard Wine Tasting with owner Andrew Beckham BA ’98, G’01
Okapi Wine Tasting with owner Kim Johnson BA ’86
Cartoon Happy Hour with Matt Wuerker ’79 - Politico cartoonist and Pulitzer Prize winner Matt Wuerker ’79 recently led an easy drawing workshop and happy hour for the Lewis & Clark community. Click on the link above to see the whole presentation.

LCPioneers.com/Live: Live - Happening Tuesday through Friday at 11:30am. Tune in to hear from student-athletes, coaches, and alumni from the Pioneer community.
Athletics Portal: Access past Pioneer athletic events

Equity & Inclusion Classroom Resources - This guide provides Lewis & Clark faculty, staff, and students with resources related to equity, inclusion and antiracism.
Resources to Support Antiracist Practice and Advocacy - This list was compiled by faculty at Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Education.
Antiracist Resource List - This is a running list from the Office of Equity & Inclusion.
Antiracism, Black Lives Matter, and Transformative Justice List from the Associated Students of Lewis & Clark.
Resources to Get Involved and Act - Curated by the Ethnic Studies Department.

Virtual Concert with L&C Orchestra, “Serenade” by William Grant Still with the Northwest Orchestra Consortium
Vir tual Concert with Associate Professor Susan Smith , Champagne and Chopin
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L&C Events and Virtual Programming

Alumni Events

2026 L&C Athletics Virtual Series: Wednesdays at 5

2026 L&C Athletics Virtual Series: Thursdays at Noon

2026 L&C Athletics Virtual Series: Wednesdays at 5

2026 L&C Athletics Virtual Series: Thursdays at Noon

2026 L&C Athletics Virtual Series: Wednesdays at 5

2026 L&C Athletics Virtual Series: Thursdays at Noon

2026 L&C Athletics Virtual Series: Wednesdays at 5

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