Portland State will host its annual PSU Weekend celebration starting with a party Friday evening to kick off the festivities and continuing with events throughout Saturday. The event is sponsored by the PSU Alumni Association and will feature a keynote luncheon with Paul Theroux on Saturday. Theroux, who specializes in travel writing, is the author of more than 40 works of fiction and nonfiction, including the novel Waldo and several nonfiction books including, The Mosquito Coast and Kowloon Tong.
PSU Weekend kicks off today at 5p.m.
Portland State will host its annual PSU Weekend celebration starting with a party Friday evening to kick off the festivities and continuing with events throughout Saturday.
The event is sponsored by the PSU Alumni Association and will feature a keynote luncheon with Paul Theroux on Saturday. Theroux, who specializes in travel writing, is the author of more than 40 works of fiction and nonfiction, including the novel Waldo and several nonfiction books including, The Mosquito Coast and Kowloon Tong.
Theroux will discuss his latest book, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: 28,000 Miles in Search of the Railway Bazaar, and will be on hand to sign books following his address.
Thursday will include the Millar Library’s celebration of the Dark Horse Comics Collection, an alumni reception for the Maseeh College and a Friends of History Alumni reception.
Saturday’s schedule features several seminars, including “From Soup to Nuts: A Brief History of Food and Cooking in Portland,” “The Gender Card: The Masculinization of the 2008 Presidential Election,” “A Personal Glimpse of Portland State through the Decades,” “The Sky is Falling: Meteorites, Fireballs and their Impact” and “Embraced by the Octopus: How Railroad Barons Shaped History in the Pacific Northwest.”
Other events Saturday will include the Class of ’58 reunion, Graduate School of Education Breakfast with the Dean and the School of Social Work Graduate Celebration.
There will be a “global marketplace” set up on the second floor of the Smith Memorial Student Union on Saturday featuring fair trade goods for purchase through Global Sistergoods, the JFR Foundation and the Nicaragua Service Project.
PSU Weekend schedule
Thursday, Oct.16
5 p.m.-Maseeh College Alumni Reception
7 p.m.-Portland State Library Celebration: Dark Horse Comics Collection-Friends of History Alumni Reception
Saturday, Oct. 18
7:30 a.m.-Graduate School of Education Breakfast with the Dean
4:30 p.m.-School of Social Work Graduate Celebration
Free Saturday Seminars
9:00 a.m.-“From Soup to Nuts: A Brief History of Food and Cooking in Portland”-“The Gender Card: The Masculinization of the 2008 Presidential Election”-Youth Culture 1968 vs. 2008: Where have all the riots gone?
10:00 a.m.-A Personal Glimpse of Portland State through the Decades-The Artist As Time Bandit: How to Find the Time to be Creative in a World that Makes no Allowances for such -The Trouble with English, or the Trouble with Cockney, depending upon Your Point of View-Connecting Green: Integrating the Built and Natural Environments in the Portland Metropolitan Region
11:00 a.m.-The Sky is Falling: Meteorites, Fireballs and their Impact-The Demographic Storm: How Demography Will Reshape America and the World-Travel Writing on Steroids: Going from Neutral to Native-Embraced by the Octopus: How Railroad Barons Shaped History in the Pacific Northwest
PSU Weekend ratesPreview night party with Paul Theroux and Keynote Luncheon: $125 per person, $110 PSUAA members
Keynote lecture and luncheon with Paul Theroux: $30 per person
Keynote lecture: $10 per person, $5 per student
