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Upcoming events Black History Month Reed's celebration of Black History Month will bring together powerful speakers, acclaimed musicians, poetry, and an art exhibition featuring photographs of the early Black Panther movement.
A well-known scholar of constitutional law, civil liberties, and judicial behavior, Gibson is currently investigating the transformation of South African society in the context of its much-heralded Truth and Reconciliation Committee. The lecture is co-sponsored by Reed's Public Policy Lecture Series and by the David Robinson Memorial Fund for Human Rights. ROMP 2005
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"Black Panthers 1968: Photographs
by Ruth-Marion Baruch and Pirkle Jones," which opened
in January, presents 45
photographs from 1968's
"A Photographic Essay on
the Black Panthers." Noted photographers Baruch
and Jones were invited by Eldridge Cleaver to chronicle the Black Panther movement in and around
Oakland, California. Jones will give
an artist's talk February 9 in Biology 19, with a reception following in the Douglas F. Cooley
Memorial Art Gallery.
On February 2, Grammy Award winners the Fairfield Four will perform a concert
in Kaul Auditorium. The group has been among the top-ranked gospel groups in the country for more
than
50 years. Deemed a National Treasure in 1989 by the National Endowment for
the Arts, the Fairfield Four recently received a Grammy for their performance on
the O Brother, Where Art
Thou? soundtrack.
On February
18 in Kaul Auditorium, Cornel West will present
a lecture, "Democracy Matters," followed by a book signing. West, currently the Class
of 1943 University Professor of Religion at Princeton University, changed the course of America's
dialogue on race, justice,
and democracy through
his scholarship that weaves together traditions of the Baptist church, transcendentalism, socialism,
and pragmatism.
Poet Tim Seibles speaks
at Reed on February 24 in Vollum Lounge. The author
of six collections of poetry including the recent Buffalo Head Solos, has received many grants and
fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Writers Project. His other books
include Hurdy-Gurdy, Hammerlock,
and Body Moves.
On February 28, Washington University of St. Louis
professor James Gibson will give a lecture, "Can Truth Reconcile a Divided Nation?"
From
February 19 to 26, Reed and ROMP! (Reediana Omnibus Musica Philosopha) will partner with the Oregon
Symphony and Chamber Music Northwest to present a Brahms festival in Portland. This year's
ROMP! 
will focus on the historical and cultural milieu that fostered the genius of Johannes Brahms.
The symphony will perform Brahms' German Requiem and his Symphony No. 2 in D major. The chamber
ensemble will perform two separate programs including a Brahms piano trio, quintets, and string quartet.
Featured lecturers include Columbia University professor and Brahms scholar Walter Frisch, Celia Applegate
of the University of Rochester, and Anna Burton, a New York City psychoanalyst. For more
information, performance dates, venues, and ticket prices, visit 