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The Space Between Us: Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon

An Oregon Humanities Conversation with Manuel Padilla
Wed, 05/24/2017 - 5:30pm

Participants will consider questions of uprootedness, hospitality, identity, perception, and integration, and how we might build more responsive communities. Oregon Humanities / Conversation Project Conversation leader profile Manuel Padilla has a BA in philosophy from Portland State University and an MA in peace, conflict, and development studies from the UNESCO Chair for the Philosophy of Peace. He has done peace work in Haiti, Chad, and Washington, DC, working with internally displaced people, immigrants, and refugees. Currently he is the Executive Director of Portland Meet Portland, works with youth through restorative justice frameworks, and is adjunct faculty at Marylhurst University. His professional interest is rooted in his deep spiritual desire to use group processes and dialogue to foster cultures of encounter and vulnerability to transform conflict and build civil society. An Oregon native, he is happy to be back, rediscovering roots and enjoying all life has to offer here. Padilla’s program is made possible by funding from Oregon Humanities, which connects Oregonians to ideas that change lives and transform communities. More information about Oregon Humanities’ programs and publications, which include the Conversation Project, Think & Drink, Humanity in Perspective, Public Program Grants, Responsive Program Grants, and Oregon Humanities magazine, can be found at oregonhumanities.org. Oregon Humanities is an independent, nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities and a partner of the Oregon Cultural Trust.

This program is made possible by the generous support of Oregon Humanities, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Oregon Cultural Trust.