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Presented by Stephen Rodgers, School of Music and Dance The “Art Cart” is a mobile performance/exhibition space designed and built by a tiny-home company in Eugene, outfitted by an art collective called Harmonic Laboratory, and managed by the School of Music and Dance and the School of Art + Design. It is a 16′ x […]
Italy-based Ethiopian film director Dagmawi Yimer, a critical figure in migration cinema, Italian independent film, and participatory cinema work, will visit the UO April 28–May 1, 2025. He will visit Eleanor Paynter’s class ITAL 399 Mediating Media and conduct a filmmaking workshop for students. A public screening of his short film Waiting will take place […]
In conjunction with Lanie Millar’s Romance Languages graduate seminar this term, she and Leah Middlebrook have organized a two-day symposium “Gender, Race, and Empire” on May 1 and 2, 2025 in the Knight Library DREAM Lab. The event brings three influential scholars to campus. Complete schedule. Estefanía Bournot is a Research Fellow at the Austrian […]
Jacob Hamblin, Professor of History, Oregon State University. Dr. Hamblin is a leading environmental historian and expert on the international dimensions of science, technology, and the environment, especially related to nuclear issues, ecology, oceans, and climate. His 2021 book The Wretched Atom: America’s Global Gamble with Peaceful Nuclear Technology won the Oregon Book Award in general nonfiction. […]
Growing concern about the state of marine ecologies, combined with the recognition that the ocean has been relatively neglected in environmental theory and the arts, has propelled the emerging field called the “Blue Humanities.” Oregon as a coastal state, and the UO with its marine biology campus and initial plans for an “ocean studies” major […]
Cappella Artemisia Throughout the late 16th and 17th centuries, the chronicles of historians and travelers in Italy provide images of a fabulous musical world inhabited by women – singers, players and even composers. Such images are all the more intriguing, considering the truly draconian restrictions governing virtually every aspect of these cloistered women’s lives, especially […]
In an era of increased isolation where civic deserts, disinformation, and technological dependence separate us from one another, how can we reimagine our capacity for deeper connection and sustainable collaboration in our current reality? Deepa Iyer, a social justice advocate, will lead an exploration of the pathways that strengthen ecosystems for social change in her […]
Ryan Tucker Jones, History, and 2024–25 OHC Faculty Research Fellow. This interdisciplinary global history integrates the newest, exciting advances in whale science to reinterpret the last 500 years of human-cetacean relations. In the past decades, satellite tagging, drone footage, DNA analysis, and long-term behavioral studies have revealed whale lives in unprecedented detail. The newest […]
Oregon Mozart Players will be performing a concert called “Da Capo” on May 17, 2025, in Beall Concert Hall. This concert will close OMP’s 2024/25 season and marks a defining moment in the ensemble’s history. “Da Capo” will be the first concert with David Amado as Oregon Mozart Players’ Music Director Designate, following his selection […]
The hilarious antics of mortals and mythical creatures alike spin a tangled love story in a magical forest. Mischievous fairies and fantastical love spells might just lead to happily ever after – unless it was all a dream. Audiences will enjoy Toni Pimble’s contemporary twist on this classic Shakespeare comedy with reimagined sets and new […]
