Home
About
Fellowships
Faculty Resources
Cosponsorship
Subvention
Lectures
UO Today
Publications
Events
September 26, 2009-January 3, 2010
Exhibit: "Faster Than a Speeding Bullet: The Art of the Superhero"
December 1, 2009
Theatre/Discussion: “Futura,” staged reading of a new play by Jordan Harrison that imagines a world where all libraries have been digitized and no print culture remains. (Or, so the government thinks….),
7 p.m., Knight LibraryBrowsing Room. Discussion with the playwright to follow.
Sponsor: Theatre Arts. Information: 346-1998 or sarafree@uoregon.edu
December 4, 2009
Lecture: "Open Access to Knowledge and the Intellectual Properties of Learning," John Willinsky, Professor of Education, Stanford University and founder of the Public Knowledge Project, 3 p.m., Knight Library Browsing Room. Sponsor: Knight Library, jqj@uoregon.edu
Date TBA
Lecture/Reading: “Strength in What Remains,” Tracy Kidder, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, time and location TBA. Sponsor: Clark Honors College
January 21, 2010
Lecture: "The Book—Not Just Another Gadget," Paul Courant, University Librarian and Dean of Libraries at the University of Michigan, 4 p.m., Knight Library Browsing Room. Sponsor: Knight Library
February 4, 2010
Lecture: "MANUScript—Historical Roots of the Modern Manuscript Book" Suzanne Moore, book artist, designer, and illuminator working on the Saint John's Bible, 7:30 p.m., 177 Lawrence Hall. Sponsor: OHC O'Fallon Lectureship
February 7, 2010
Reading: W.S. Merwin, poetry, time and location TBA. Sponsors: Lane Literary Guild and Eugene Public Library, (541) 682-5450
February 18, 2010
Lecture: Seymour Hersh, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the first Distinguished UO Presidential Lecturer, 7 p.m., EMU ballroom. Sponsors: The Carlton and Wilberta Ripley Savage Endowment and Clark Honors College
February 19, 2010
Lecture: Seymour Hersh, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the first Distinguished UO Presidential Lecturer,UO in Portland. Sponsors: The Carlton and Wilberta Ripley Savage Endowment and Clark Honors College
March 4, 2010
Reading: Miriam Gershow, fiction, 8 p.m., Knight Library Browsing Room. Sponsor: Creative Writing
March 9–April 18, 2010
Exhibit: The Art of the Book. Sponsor: Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
Date TBA
"New Worlds and New Media: Text, Image, and Language Community in Early Print Culture," Thomas Hahn, Professor of English, University of Rochester, time and location TBA. Sponsor: English, (541) 346-3911
April 5, 2010
Lecture: Frances Moore Lappé, author, democracy advocate and world food hunger expert, 7:30 p.m., EMU Ballroom. Sponsor: OHC Cressman Lectureship
April 7, 2010
Film: "Passages from James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake," 5:30 p.m., Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Sponsor: Schnitzer Cinema
April 17, 2010
Lecture: “Do (Artists’) Books Have a Future?” Johanna Drucker, Professor of Bibliographical Studies, UCLA, and book artist, 1:30 p.m., Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.
April 17, 2010
Workshop: “Text Shapes and/in Book Spaces,” Johanna Drucker, Professor of Bibliographical Studies, UCLA, and book artist, 3-5 p.m., Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.
April 22, 2010
Readings: J. T. Bushnell, fiction, and Keetje Kuipers, poetry, 8 p.m., Knight Library Browsing Room. Sponsor: Creative Writing
May 13, 2010
Reading:
Mark Jarman, poetry, 8 p.m., EMU Fir Room. Sponsor: Creative Writing
May 26, 2010
Lecture: Kwame Anthony Appiah, Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University and PEN American Center, 7:30 p.m., location TBA. Sponsor: OHC Tzedek Lectureship, 346-3934
May 27, 2010
Lecture: Kwame Anthony Appiah, Professor of Philosoph, Princeton University and PEN American Center, UO in Portland. Sponsor: OHC Tzedek Lectureship, 346-3934