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Vandana Shiva

Earth Democracy: World-Renowned Advocate Dr. Vandana Shiva Headlines UP’s Sept. 10 Zahm Lecture

Garaventa Center

August 27, 2024

In four decades of advocacy for earth democracy, anti-globalization, food sovereignty, and ecofeminism—Dr. Vandana Shiva has been dubbed the “Gandhi of grain,” named a 2003 Time Magazine “environmental hero,” and selected one of Forbes’ “seven most powerful women on the globe” in 2010.

Larry LaRocco

2024 Mazzocco Lecture on Distributive Justice with Former Congressman Larry LaRocco

Garaventa Center

February 12, 2024

We are pleased to announce former Congressman and UP alum Larry LaRocco as the featured speaker for The Mazzocco Lecture on Distributive Justice on Tuesday, March 12, 2024. LaRocco was the Congressional Representative for Idaho's 1st District (D) from 1991-95 and will present: "Do Right, Risk Consequences: Perspective on politics and life during an era of increased threats to democracy."

Karen Eifler

University of Portland Professor Karen Eifler Named Collegium Executive Director-Elect; Assumes Top Leadership in 2022

Education

Garaventa Center

December 7, 2020

Karen Eifler, University of Portland professor of education and co-executive director of the Garaventa Center for Catholic Intellectual Life and American Culture, was named the next executive director of Collegium. Founded in 1992, Collegium invites faculty at Catholic colleges and universities to better understand the mission of Catholic higher education and help prepare them to become leaders in advancing that mission in creative ways. 

Franz Hall

Catholic Cosmologist Gintaras Duda to give 2020 Zahm Lecture, Wednesday, September 16

Garaventa Center

September 14, 2020

Catholic cosmologist and chair of physics at Creighton University Gintaras Duda will present the 2020 Zahm Lecture “From the Big Bang to The Saint John’s Bible: The Role of Astonishment in a Scientist’s Journey to Integrate Faith and Reason” on Wednesday, September 16 at 5 p.m. The virtual event is free and open to the public.

Dorothy Day

James Madison professor Linda Plitt Donaldson offers lessons on ending homelessness by following in the footsteps of Dorothy Day

Portland Magazine

Garaventa Center

February 19, 2020

Linda Plitt Donaldson, associate dean of the College of Health and Behavioral Studies at James Madison University, came to University of Portland to speak about Catholic social justice icon Dorothy Day and the lessons we can still learn from her today. Donaldson also walked through the root cause of homelessness—the lack of affordable housing in this country—and the ways in which the “housing first” model—namely, getting people into secure housing and then tackling any other potential health issues second—is backed by evidence and research.

Lisa Ko in front of backdrop

University of Portland to host Lisa Ko, visiting Schoenfeldt Writer and author of ‘The Leavers,’ on February 10

Garaventa Center

Library

January 22, 2020

Author Lisa Ko’s 2017 debut novel The Leavers is the 2019-2020 selection for University of Portland’s annual ReadUP campaign and the Schoenfeldt Distinguished Visiting Writers series. Ko will give a lecture in Buckley Center Auditorium on Monday, February 10, at 7 p.m. It is free and open to the public. Ko will follow the lecture with a book signing.

photo of Marilynne Robinson

Renowned author and Pulitzer Prize winner Marilynne Robinson to give 2019 Zahm Lecture, Wednesday, September 11

Garaventa Center

September 3, 2019

Renowned author and Pulitzer Prize winner Marilynne Robinson will present the 2019 Zahm Lecture “Wisdom and Knowledge” on Wednesday, September 11, at 7:15 p.m. in the Chiles Center. Robinson will speak about wonder and the absolute necessity of the humanities, faith and reason as partners in understanding our world.

Bell Tower

The little-known history of "Amazing Grace"

Garaventa Center

Portland Magazine

June 17, 2019

In March 2019, Christopher Pramuk, Chair of Ignatian Imagination and Thought at Regis University, came to University of Portland and spoke to a packed room in Franz Hall. What follows is an excerpted version of his talk, “Amazing Grace: Diversity, Deep Listening, and the Anatomy of a Song.”

photo of Colum McCann

University of Portland to host Colum McCann, visiting Schoenfeldt Writer and author of ‘Let the Great World Spin’, on Feb. 20

Garaventa Center

Residence Life

Library

February 7, 2019

Author Colum McCann’s 2009 novel Let the Great World Spin is the 2018-2019 selection for University of Portland’s annual ReadUP campaign and Schoenfeldt Distinguished Visiting Writers series. The lecture will take place in Buckley Auditorium on February 20, at 7 p.m. and is free, and open to the public. McCann will follow the lecture with a book signing.

photo of William Chafe

University of Portland to host Mazzocco Lecture speaker William Chafe, Mon., Feb. 4 at 7:15 p.m.

Garaventa Center

Political Science

January 29, 2019

The University of Portland will welcome William Chafe, author and emeritus professor of history at Duke University, on Monday, February 4 at 7:15 p.m. in Franz Hall Room 120.

Author Anthony Doerr

Pulitzer-winning author Anthony Doerr to speak at University of Portland on February 27

College of Arts and Sciences

Library

English

Residence Life

Garaventa Center

February 3, 2017

Acclaimed author Anthony Doerr will speak at the University of Portland about his award-winning novel, All the Light We Cannot See, at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, February 27 in the Buckley Center Auditorium.

2016 Zahm Lecture features Sr. Ilia Delio, OSF on "Cosmology, Catholicity, and Consciousness: Why Wholeness Matters"

Garaventa Center

September 12, 2016

The 2016 Zahm Lecture in American Catholic Education will take place on Thursday, September 22, at 7:15 p.m., in Buckley Center Auditorium. Sr. Ilia Delio, OSF, a Franciscan Sister and American theologian specializing in the area of science and religion, will present “Cosmology, Catholicity and Consciousness: Why Wholeness Matters” on Thursday, September 22, at 7:15 p.m., in Buckley Center Auditorium. The Zahm Lecture is free and open to all.

Feast of Blessed Basil Moreau, C.S.C., to be celebrated on Jan. 20; Karen Eifler, co-director of Garaventa Center, to receive Spirit of Holy Cross Award

Awards and Rankings

Campus Ministry

Garaventa Center

January 9, 2016

Karen Eifler, co-director of the Garaventa Center for Catholic Intellectual Life and American Culture will receive the Spirit of Holy Cross Award for her contributions to the work of the Congregation of Holy Cross.

Karen Eifler, co-director of University of Portland Garaventa Center and education professor, receives 2015 Spirit of Holy Cross Award

Garaventa Center

Awards and Rankings

September 16, 2015

Karen Eifler, a professor in the University of Portland’s School of Education and co-director of the Garaventa Center for Catholic Intellectual Life and American Culture at UP, has received a 2015 Spirit of Holy Cross Award.