Reed College Podcasts

November 18, 2008 Arlene Blum PhD., biophysical chemist, author, and mountaineer is Executive Director of the Green Science Policy Institute and a Research Associate in Chemistry at UC Berkeley. Blum’s research and policy work has contributed to preventing the use of flame retardants and other harmful chemicals in children’s sleepwear, furniture, electronics, and other products world-wide. Her cur...

October 15, 2014

Anthropology Roundtable Symposium March 3,2021

November 2, 2020

Antropology Roundtable Symposium October 28, 2020 About Dr. TallBear: https://kimtallbear.com/#about

September 29, 2020 Nicholas Buccola is a writer, lecturer, and teacher who specializes in the area of American political thought. He is the author of The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America (Princeton University, 2019) and The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass: In Pursuit of American Liberty (New York University Press, 2012). He is the...

February 20, 2020 Dr. Safiya U. Noble is the David O. Sears Presidential Endowed Chair of Social Sciences and Professor of Gender Studies, African American Studies, and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is the Director of the Center on Race & Digital Justice and Co-Director of the Minderoo Initiative on Tech & Power at the UCLA Center for Critical Interne...

Nathaniel Mackey, Visiting Writers Series, November 20, 2016 Nathaniel Mackey is an American poet, novelist, anthologist, literary critic and editor. He is the Reynolds Price Professor of Creative Writing at Duke University and a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets. Mackey is currently teaching a poetry workshop at Duke University. He has been editor and publisher of Hambone since 1982 and...

Safiya Sinclair, Visiting Writers Series, February 28, 2019 Safiya Sinclair was born and raised in Montego Bay, Jamaica. She is the author of the memoir How to Say Babylon, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography, a finalist the Kirkus Prize, and longlisted for the Women’s Prize in Non-Fiction and the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. How to Say Babylon was named...

Leni Zumas, Visiting Writers Series, November, 7, 2013 Leni Zumas is the author of three books of fiction, including the bestselling novel RED CLOCKS, which won the 2019 Oregon Book Award for Fiction and was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and the Neukom Award for Speculative Fiction. The novel was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and was named a Best Book of 201...

Jen Bervin, Visiting Writers Series Jen Bervin is a visual artist and poet whose multidisciplinary practice weaves together situated poetics and entangled relationships between text and textiles. Bervin’s conceptual, scientific, and literary investigations of material histories are attuned to the embodied, visual, and tactile aspects of language; these research-driven works frequently result from...

Carl Phillips, Visiting Writers Series, September 26, 2013 Carl Phillips is the author of 16 books of poetry, most recently Then the War: And Selected Poems 2007-2020 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2022, Carcanet 2022). His honors include the 2023 Pulitzer Prize, the 2021 Jackson Prize, the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, the Kingsley Tufts Award, a Lambda Literary Award, the PEN/USA Awa...

Reed physics professor Richard Crandall ’69 presents Vollum Award to Steve Jobs who reminisces on his time as a student.

Introductory Remarks: Milyon Trulove, Vice President and Dean of Admission & Financial Aid by Reed College Public Affairs

Welcome: Audrey Bilger, President by Reed College Public Affairs

Convocation Speaker Introduction: Kathy Oleson, Dean of the Faculty & Professor of Psychology by Reed College Public Affairs

Introductory Remarks: Safi Zenger ’24, Student Body President by Reed College Public Affairs

Convocation Speaker: Mónica López Lerma, Associate Professor of Spanish & Humanities by Reed College Public Affairs

Welcome: Roger M. Perlmutter ’73 by Reed College Public Affairs

Introductory Remarks: President Audrey Bilger by Reed College Public Affairs

Commencement Address: Kraig Kraft '00 by Reed College Public Affairs

Alumni Welcome: Dave Baxter ’87 by Reed College Public Affairs

Reed’s 2021 Convocation took place on the front lawn, Tuesday, August 23, at 5 p.m.

Reed’s 2021 Convocation took place on the front lawn, Tuesday, August 23, at 5 p.m.

Reed’s 2021 Convocation took place on the front lawn, Tuesday, August 23, at 5 p.m.