Think & Drink with Ursula Le Guin and Lani Roberts in Portland on June 17

Think & Drink with Ursula Le Guin and Lani Roberts: A happy-hour conversation series sponsored by the Oregon Council for the Humanities. Wednesday, June 17, 2009, at 6:30 p.m. at rontoms, 600 E. Burnside, Portland. Free and open to the public

Using the short story “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,” writer Ursula Le Guin and Oregon State University philosophy professor Lani Roberts will explore morality and self-deception at the next Think & Drink happy-hour conversation on Wednesday, June 17, 2009, at 6:30 at rontoms, 600 E. Burnside, Portland. This free, bimonthly series, which sparks provocative conversations about big ideas, is sponsored by the Oregon Council for the Humanities (OCH).

Ursula K. Le Guin is a multi-genre writer who has been a finalist for the American Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and has won a National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and a Pushcart Prize, among others. Many of her major titles have remained in print for more than forty years, and her writing has been translated into sixteen languages.

Professor Lani Roberts is a long-time OCH Oregon Chautauqua scholar and a new Conversation Project scholar. Among her research interests is the role of individual moral complicity in the maintenance of social injustices. Roberts is an author and the co-editor of The Journal of Philosophy in the Contemporary World.

OCH is an independent, nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. More information about OCH’s programs and publications, which include Oregon Chautauqua, Humanity in Perspective, Public Program Grants, Opportunity Grants, and Oregon Humanities magazine, can be found at www.oregonhum.org.

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