Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation
Film: SOS–The San Onofre Syndrome: Nuclear Power’s Legacy (2023, 97 min.). The film chronicles how Southern California residents came together to force the shutdown of an aging, leaking nuclear power plant only to be confronted by an alarming reality—tons of nuclear waste left near a popular beach, only 100 feet from the rising sea. The […]
Vera Keller, History. 7 p.m., Whirled Pies, 199 W. 8th Ave. Sponsor: History, history.uoregon.edu
Sarah Agou, PhD candidate, Global Studies and Languages, and 2024–25 OHC Dissertation Fellow. My dissertation conceptualizes forced enclosures as a violence imposed on Indigenous Quebec, Haiti, and Cuba. Spatial enclosure took the form of reservations, forced displacements, and migration controls; gender violence and enforced heteronormativity created gender enclosures, upon which debt systems, neocolonialism, and heavy […]
“Unmaking the Bomb: Environmental Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility.” Shannon Cram, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington, Bothell. Cram is an interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersections of geography, anthropology, science and technology studies, and the environmental humanities. Her new book, Unmaking the Bomb: Environmental Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility (2023), blends […]
Rochelle Tobias, Johns Hopkins University; Thomas Schestag, Brown University; Helmut Schneider, University of Bonn; Davide Stimilli, University of Colorado; Martina Kolb, Susquehanna University; and UO colleagues. The colloquium affirms “reading” in the emphatic sense, as it upholds the pressing importance of aesthetical-rhetorical analysis in the approach to material objects and texts during our late modernity […]
Olivia Wing, PhD candidate, History, and 2024–25 OHC Dissertation Fellow. By the late 1960s Asian American youth played a central role in the creation of a pan-Asian American political identity. My dissertation seeks the pre-1960s origin of youth’s increasing prominence in the creation of Asian American cultural citizenship by examining intersections of youth, gender, and […]
Afghani Music with Salar Nader and Homayoun Sakhi As the standard-bearers of Afghan traditional music, rubab master Homayoun Sakhi and tabla virtuoso Salar Nader carry the rich and varied legacy of classical compositions and folk melodies of this ancient Central Asian nation. At the heart of this musical odyssey lies the enchanting sounds of the […]
Reproductive justice is a critical framework that was developed in response to reproductive politics in the U.S. Three core values of reproductive justice are the right to have a child, the right to not have a child, and the right to parent a child or children in safe and healthy environments. LGBTQIA+ individuals need and […]
Jennifer O’Neal, Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies, and 2024–25 OHC Faculty Research Fellow. Between 1975-1980, after major public takeovers of the Red Power movement, Native American activism shifted significantly from a domestic agenda to an international Indigenous initiative in the fight for sovereignty, self-determination, and human rights. My project explores how Native American activists and […]
Allison Pugh is Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University, and the 2024-25 Vice President of the American Sociological Association. She writes about how people forge connections and find meaning and dignity at work and at home. Her book The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World was published in June 2024. […]
