ohc banner

Home

Calendar

About

Mission
Staff
Boards
Giving

Fellowships

Faculty
Graduate

Faculty Resources

Cosponsorship
Subvention

Lectures

Clark
Cressman
O'Fallon
Kritikos
Tzedek
•
lectures online

UO Today

Schedule
TV stations
•
archive

Publications

Newsletter
UO Video History
Lectures

 
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.

OHC Coleman-Guitteau Professorship

"My Experiences with Autism and Animals"

Temple Grandin,
Animal Science, Colorado State University
February 9, 2010
7:30 p.m.,
282 Lillis Hall

Free public event. No tickets or reservations.

 Temple Grandin

Cosponsored by the Oregon Humanities Center

Oregon Humanities
Oregon Humanities' "Think & Drink"

"Sports and American Culture" with the University of Oregon's Richard Lariviere and Mike Bellotti, Mayor Kitty Piercy, and NEH Chair Jim Leach

Think & Drink, the popular Portland happy-hour series, will visit Eugene on Friday, February 12, 2010, at 5:30 at Cozmic Pizza, 199 West 8th Ave., Eugene. University of Oregon President Richard Lariviere, University of Oregon Athletic Director Mike Bellotti, Mayor Kitty Piercy, and new NEH Chair Jim Leach will discuss the economic and cultural influences of sports in American culture. This all-ages event is free and open to the public.

For more information, please contact Oregon Humanities' Director of Programs Jennifer Allen at (503) 241-0543, ext. 118, or via e-mail.

Cosponsored by the Oregon Humanities Center

"The Question of Torture"

Seymour Hersh
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the first Distinguished UO Presidential Lecturer

February 18, 2010
7 p.m.
EMU Ballroom

February 19, 2010
5:30 p.m.
UO in Portland,
70 N.W. Couch St.
This is a free public event. UO Portland seating is limited. RSVP by calling 1-800-280-6218 or visit: center.uoregon.edu/WSB/hershlecture

Sponsors: The Carlton and Wilberta Ripley Savage Endowment, The President's Office, Clark Honors College, School of Journalism and Communication

 Seymour Hersh

Robert D. Clark Lecture in the Humanities

"Is Prosperity Incompatible with Posterity?"

Denis Hayes,
President and CEO of the Bullitt Foundation, National Coordinator of the first Earth Day, April 1970
February 24, 2010
7:30 p.m.
150 Columbia Hall

Free public event. No tickets or reservations.

 Denis Hayes

Luther 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

Free public event. No tickets or reservations.

 Denis Hayes

Cosponsored by the Oregon Humanities Center

"A Sixty-year Odyssey in Bookbinding and Conservaton"

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: Knight Library, (541) 346-3056

 Don Etherington


OREGON HUMANITIES CENTER
154 PRINCE LUCIEN CAMPBELL HALL | 5211 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON | EUGENE, OR 97403-5211
(541) 346-3934 | FAX (541) 346-5822
Updated: 2/9/2010
Join Email List

 
  facebook
UO homepage link to OHC home