In this time of cataclysmic change in our country and our world, it is important to ask not just how to get the economy back on track, but what kind of economy we want. In 1983, Benedict Anderson wrote Imagined Communities, a book about the origins of the modern nation-state and the powerful identification with nations for which millions have fought and been willing to die. Elliott Young will lead a discussion about the ways in which local communities in the twenty-first century need to think in new ways about the relationship between migration and globalization, and their effects on Oregon communities.
Elliott Young was born in New York City and has been migrating westward ever since. He has conducted research and done community development work in Cuba, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, and Ecuador. Young has been a professor of Latin American and borderlands history at Lewis & Clark College in Portland since 1997.
Sponsored by Oregon Humanities (formerly Oregon Council for the Humanities).
Wednesday, March 2, 2011 6-7 p.m.
Gregory Heights Library
7921 N.E. Sandy Blvd.
Portland, OR 97213
503.988.5386
http://www.multcolib.org/events/conversationproject.html
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