Talks: Portland next week, Chicago later

April 12, 2016 • 1:00 pm

Just a note to those who live around Portland, Oregon: I’ll be there next week to speak for the Center for Inquiry, talking about free will (or rather, its absence) on Friday, April 22 at 7 p.m.  The announcement is here, and the venue appears to be the Lucky Labrador Beer Hall (!). It’ll cost you $5 if you’re a member, or a sawbuck if you’re not, but be aware that all the money goes to CfI, as I don’t have a speaking fee for groups like this.

I’m not sure, either, if they’ll sell my books, but I’ll inquire. If so, you can get a cat drawn in one if you give the Latin name of a wild felid native to Oregon.

I’ve been traveling a lot, and it’ll be time to settle down when I return to Portland. I do have a gig as the keynote speaker for the American Humanist Association’s annual meeting May 26-29 (I speak on the 29th), but that’s in downtown Chicago and won’t involve much travel.

6 thoughts on “Talks: Portland next week, Chicago later”

  1. Are you aware, Professor, that the Lucky Lab is a d-g friendly pub? That you are likely to be assaulted by leaping slobbering hordes of shaggy hipster companions? Probably a couple of dachshunds, too.

    If I don’t have a play that evening (and I don’t think I do), I’ll be there.

    1. No other committments. So I shall be present. If I arrive with a book, is that enough to get a systematic-name-elicited kitteh in the tome?

        1. That’s why only the ‘systematic-name-elicited’ kitteh would be inscribed. I know of three native wild felids and those should be sufficient. Not sure if there are more.

  2. Unfortunately, I’ve never been to the Lucky Lab, so don’t know about the ambience, but it will be enhanced by your presence. My son and I will be in attendance. I’m driving up from Lebanon, OR and he’s driving down from
    Marysville, WA (not very far from the B.C. border). Thank you for coming out where we have the honor of seeing and listening to you.

  3. I am very disappointed I can’t make it up there that weekend. (My son lives in Portland so we do visit there.)
    Hope you will make it to Southern California to speak sometime…

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