2008
January 30: Martha Bailey "Abstract Moral Realism and Moral Absolutes"
March 26: Peter Abrahams, "1608-2008: Clarifying the Anniversary of the Telescope"
May 14: Anne Key, "From Beloved Sisters to Vampires: Myths and Misinterpretations of the Cihuateteo"
September 3rd: David Kohl, "Lutherans on the Yangtze"
November 12th: Don Sevetson, " A Pioneer Missionary"
2007
January 17: Hilary Russell "How authors can work with a professional editor
to improve their work".
March 14: Richard Etulain "Telling Stories about the American West"
May 24: Diane Goeres-Gardner "Making the Past Relevant
September 19: Joshua Binus "How the West was One: Extra High Voltage Electrical Transmission and the Origins of the Western Grid"
November 14: Sara Piasecki, ""Materials in the OHSU History of Medicine Collection of interest to local historians"
2006
January 27: Margaret DeLacy, "Benjamin Franklin and Eighteenth-Century English Medicine"
March 14: Josh Binus will discuss the new Northwest History Network
May 24: David Ritchie: "Two Young Women Pose Atop A Camel, An Exercise in Seeing"
September 20: Robert Newman: "The December Panic of 1950"
November 15: Harry Stein: "Fighting for Aluminum and For Itself: The Bonneville Power Administration, 1939-1949"
2005
February 2: Carole Glauber: "The Paperless Paper Trail"
March 23: Michael Meo: "Nineteenth-Century Algebra finds use in String Theory"
May 18: Herb Beals: Spanish Exploration on the NW Coast of America (1774-75)"Sept. 21: Sharan Newman: "Digging up the Dirt in Portland and finding a Pearl or Why Writers Should Do Their Own Research"
November 30: Jim Kopp "From Aurora to The Zoo: Exploring Oregon’s Utopian Heritage"
2004
January 14: Harry Stein:, "Gus J. Solomon, Local Counsel, and DeJonge v. Oregon's Extension of Freedom of Assembly and the Right to Petition to the States."
February 25: David Ritchie: "Going Nowhere in Grand Style; William Drummond Stewart's Big Botanical Party"
May 19: Michael Meo: "The Greatest Advance in Vectors during the 20thCentury"
August 25: Business meeting, conference discussions
Sept. 22: Tom Edwards: "Student Activism at Pomona, Willamette, and Whitman, 1965-1971."
November 10: Sara Halprin: "Writing a Biography of a Living Subject: Seema's Show: a Life on the Left"
January 29: Mike Munk, "Portland's Bohemia, 1912-1919: The Diaries of Helen Walters"
March 26: Margaret DeLacy, "Smallpox controversies in the early eighteenth century"
June 4: Sharan Newman: "A roundtable discussion about publishing and promoting your work"
September 24: Business meeting, election of officers, social and discussion of possible conference
November 19: Sandy Polishuk: "Julia Ruuttila"
January 16: Janice Archer: "Watching Women Work in late Thirteenth-century France: Official and Unofficial Visibility"
March 13: Susan Butrille: "Mysteries of the Black Madonna."
May 8: Frank Engel: "Acts of Faith, Acts of Madness: The Two Faces of Fray Jose Diaz Pimienta, 1680-1720"
September 17: David Ritchie: "Across the void by e-mail"
November 11, Mary Cross: Exhibit, "Quilts: Heirlooms from the Homefront"
January 8: Lin Hathaway Bunza, "Malevich, Kandinsky, and the Russian Avant-Garde"
April 11: Michael Meo, "A mathematical metaphor in the work of Victor Hugo"
May 30: Rayna Kline, "Crossing boundaries: Voices of women from the French Resistance"
September 13: Sharon Wood Wortman, "Portland's Willamette River Bridges"
November 7: Carole Glauber, "Isabella Bird Bishop: Korea, the Yangtze Valley and Beyond"
January 12: Priscilla Macy, "Women's Voices from Mozambique"
March 15: Judith McGaw, "If Men Wore Bras: Reflections on the Book that Changed My Life"
May 10: Peter Abrahams, "Alexis-Marie Rochon, Jean-Baptiste Grateloup, and the earliest cemented lens."
September 27, Norm Cohen, "The railroad in American folk and popular song: a survey with recorded examples and accompanying slides"
November 16, Harry Stein, "Judge Gus Solomon, an Oregon liberal on the bench"
January 13th: James Kopp, "Medicine in the Year 2000 -- A View From the 19th Century: Health and Disease in the Utopian Writings of Edward Bellamy"
March 3rd: Harry Stein, "Cascadia and the Start of Company Lumbering"
May 12: David Ritchie, "Words, Swords and the Ties that Bind"
September 15: Charles Wallace, "Antepast of Heaven: Eating and Drinking with the Wesleys in Eighteenth-Century England"
November 16: Lawrence Hammar, " Welcome to Daru!–'the world's smallest capital': Space, race, and sex in Papua, 1893-1993
1998
January 21: Christopher Zinn, the new director of the Oregon Council for the Humanities, Informal discussion of the goals of the Council and the role of independent scholars.
March 4: Mary Cross, "Quilts as Visual Records of Human Experience."
May 20: Sharan Newman, "Jews at the time of Rashi: before Ghettoes or Yiddish"
October 7th., Tom Franzel, "Data manipulation and massage, and the emerging concept of error in early studies of sound, 1636-1713"
November 17th., Franklin Engel, The Last Crypto-Jews of Portugal"
September 9: Dory Hylton, "The People's Jamboree: A Vietnam War Protest in Portland"
November 4: Susan Butrille,"On the Trail of Three Books: Women's Voices from the Oregon Trail, Women's Voices from the Western Frontier, and Women's Voices from the Motherlode