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Year of the Book logo

The Oregon Humanities Center, with units across campus, presents a year-long series of interdisciplinary events featuring the history and future of the book. Join us for lectures by visiting scholars, art exhibits, workshops, theatre, and more.


A Year of the Book EventLuther S. and Dorothy Cecilia Cressman Lecture in the Humanities

"Getting a Grip—Gaining Clarity, Creativity, and Courage for the World We Really Want"

Frances Moore Lappé,
author, democracy advocate and world food hunger expert Monday, April 5, 2010
7:30 p.m.
EMU Ballroom

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Free public event. No tickets or reservations.
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Denis Hayes

A Year of the Book Event—Cosponsored by the Oregon Humanities Center

"Authors, Censors, and Book Production in the Peruvian Viceroyalty"

Pedro M. Guibovich, history, Catholic University of Peru
April 7, 2010
3:30 p.m.
111 Lillis Hall

Sponsor: Latin American Studies
Information: Carlos Aguirre, (541) 346-5905

Viceroalty of Peru

A Year of the Book Event—Cosponsored by the Oregon Humanities Center

"A Sixty-year Odyssey in Bookbinding and Conservation"

Don Etherington,
internationally known book conservator, fine binder, and instructor; president of Etherington Conservation Services
April 13, 2010
3:30 p.m.,
Knight Library Browsing Room

Sponsor:
UO Libraries, (541) 346-3056

Don Etherington

A Year of the Book Event—Cosponsored by the Oregon Humanities Center

"New Worlds and New Media: Text, Image, and Language Community in Early Print Culture"

Thomas Hahn, Professor of English, University of Rochester
April 15, 2010
4 p.m.
Knight Library Browsing Room


Sponsor: English, (541) 346-3911
Thomas Hahn

A Year of the Book Event—Cosponsored by the Oregon Humanities Center

April 16—Lecture: "Books, Art, Now"
April 17—Lecture: "Do (Artists') Books Have a Future?"
April 17—Workshop: "Text Shapes and/in Book Spaces"

Johanna Drucker, Information Studies, UCLA, and book artist

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Johanna Drucker

Cosponsored by the Oregon Humanities Center Endowment for Public Outreach in the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities

Exhibit: "American Southwest"

photography exhibit by
Gary Tepfer,
April 22-June 1, 2010
White Lotus Gallery

767 Willamette St.
Eugene

with related visit of Native American scholars Harry and Anna Walters.

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Tepfer photograph

Sandstone Alcove, Navajo Food Storage
(Ilfochrome color photograph. 1991. 15x15 inches)

A Year of the Book Event—OHC Endowment for Public Outreach in the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities

"Information is Power: Access to Archives and Human Rights in Latin America"

Peter Kornbluh, director of the Chile and Cuba Documentation Projects at the National Security Archive
May 5, 2010
7:30 p.m.,
182 Lillis Hall

Free public event.
No tickets or reservations.

FAQs about lectures.
(541) 346-3934

Peter Kornbluh

A Year of the Book EventTzedek Professorship in the Humanities

Kwame Anthony Appiah,
Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University and President, PEN American Center

Eugene:
"Defending Freedom of Expression in the Written Word"
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
7:30 p.m.
182 Lillis Hall

Portland:
"A Life of Honor"
Thursday, May 27, 2010
5:30 p.m.
UO in Portland
White Stag Block, N.W. Couch St.

Free public event.
No tickets or reservations.

FAQs about lectures.
(541) 346-3934

Kwame Anthony Appiah



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Updated: 3/16/2010
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