Reed on the Road
Reed on the Road is designed for you—Reed alumni and parents. These events offer an opportunity for you to connect with your fellow Reedies and Reed parents and hear from college leadership.
Attendees will receive an update on the college from President Audrey Bilger and Vice President for Advancement and College Relations Hieu Nguyen.
Portland and Seattle will hear a presentation from Victoria Fortuna, Associate Professor and Chair in the Dance Department at Reed College titled Allá no, acá sí: On Serious Dancing, International Exchange, and Modern Dance History.
San Francisco and DC will hear a presentation from Ellen Millender, Omar & Althea Hoskins Professor of Greek, Latin, and Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Humanities titled “All the World’s a Stage: Spectacular Spartans in Xenophon’s Lacedaemoniōn Politeia and Agesilaus”.
Registration opens in early January, 2025
Reed on the Road 2025 Schedule of Events
Reed on the Road—Portland
Date: Thursday, March 20, 2025
Venue: Reed Performing Arts Building, 3rd Floor
Address: 3017 SE Woodstock Blvd, Portland, OR 97202
Timing: 6–7 p.m.: Welcome Reception
7–8:30 p.m.: Presentation
Reed on the Road—Seattle
Date: Monday, March 24, 2025
Venue: The Rainier Club
Address: 840 4th Ave., Seattle, WA 98104
Timing: 6–7 p.m.: Welcome Reception
7–8:30 p.m.: Presentation
Reed on the Road—San Francisco
Date: Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Venue: The City Club of San Francisco
Address: 155 Sansome St. 10th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94104
Timing: 6–7 p.m.: Welcome Reception
7–8:30 p.m.: Presentation
Reed on the Road—Washington, D.C.
Date: Thursday, March 27, 2025
Venue: National Union Building
Address: 918 F St. NW, Washington, DC 20004
Timing: 6–7 p.m.: Welcome Reception
7–8:30 p.m.: Presentation
Faculty Bios:
Victoria Fortuna:
Victoria Fortuna is Associate Professor and Chair in the Dance Department at Reed College. She is a dance studies scholar and community dance practitioner. Her teaching and research interests include Latin American concert and social dance, collaborative creation methods, and cultural histories of dance in transnational perspective. She founded and directs the Community Dance at Reed project, which brings together members of the Reed and broader Portland communities. Her book, Moving Otherwise: Dance, Violence, and Memory in Buenos Aires (Oxford UP, 2019), examines the relationship between Buenos Aires based contemporary dance practices and histories of political and economic violence in Argentina from the mid-1960s to the mid-2010s. She is currently working on a project that examines the relationship between concert dance and the construction of race in Argentina during the twentieth century. She has received grants and from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the New York Public Library, Fulbright, and the Dance Studies Association. Victoria holds a BA in Comparative Literature from Brown University and an MA and PhD in Performance Studies from Northwestern University.
Ellen Millender:
Ellen Millender is the Omar & Althea Hoskins Professor of Greek, Latin, and Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Humanities at Reed College, Oregon, US, where she has taught since 2002. After receiving her BA in Classics from Brown University, she earned another BA in Literae Humaniores from Oxford University and then her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. She has published numerous works on many aspects of Spartan society, including leadership, literacy, kingship, military organization, and women. Recent publications include her chapter, “Xenophon on Spartan Obedience: Virtue or Vice ?” in Xenophon’s Virtues (Berlin, 2024) and another chapter on “The Perils of Victory: Sparta’s Uneasy Relationship with the Profits of War” in Money, Warfare, and Power in the Ancient World: Studies in Honour of Matthew Freeman Trundle (London, 2024). Forthcoming publications address the nature of leadership in Spartan society, Spartan austerity, and Xenophon’s treatments of Spartan emotional practices. Professor Millender is also currently one of the heads of the International Sparta Seminar, which now includes scholars from North America, South America, Europe, Israel, and, most recently, Singapore. Professor Millender, in addition, won a J. William Fulbright Scholar Award for 2023-2024 that allowed her to conduct research at the University of Nottingham’s Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies. While there, she worked on her monograph on the Athenians’ construction of Spartan strangeness and her study of Sparta's unique double kingship.
Check out the presentation from the 2024 Reed on the Road kick-off event in Portland.