Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation
Speakers: Joe Whittle (Caddo), photographer and creator of LANDBACK: RETURNING PUBLIC LANDS TO NATIVE AMERICANS, a four-part photojournalism project documenting the Landback Movement Kanim Moses-Conner (Nez Perce) great-great-great grandnephew of the legendary Chief Joseph and a favorite subject/ collaborator of Whittle’s Marisol Peters (Karuk), co-director of the Native American Student Union and third-year NAIS and […]
Shantala Subramanayan, flute, Kamalakiran Vinjamuri, violin, and Hariharan Sundarraman, percussion. Sponsor: School of Music and Dance, musicanddance.uoregon.edu
Kate Mondloch, History of Art and Architecture and Clark Honors College, and 2024–25 OHC Faculty Research Fellow. Immersive art experiences are becoming increasingly popular, even outside of museums. This essay suggests using installation art theory to understand how viewers engage with these multisensory environments. By examining the characteristics of installation art and the types […]
Alessandro Testa, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague The talk will present some of the speaker’s arguments and conclusions on processes of ritualization, myth-making, and the emergence of new forms of religiosities–with a specific focus on his ethnographic research in several European countries. Special attention will be devoted to how cultural heritagization, re-enchantment, 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. […]
David Wacks, Romance Languages, and 2024–25 OHC Faculty Research Fellow. In this project I study medieval translations, chronicles, legends, and plays based on the Hebrew Bible from the Iberian Peninsula’s three religious traditions. I show how Muslim, Jewish, and Christian authors draw on shared languages and traditions, stage the religious polemics of the day, and […]
12 p.m. Keynote: María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University. 1 p.m. Panel: “Pre-1848 Mexican Borderlands: Californio Ranchero Culture and Indigenous California.” Yvette Saavedra, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Naomi Sussman, History; moderated by Laura Pulido, Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies. 2 p.m. Panel: “Media, History and Citizenship of Indigenous and […]
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 […]
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 […]
Deepa Iyer is this year’s Lorwin Lecturer. Over the course of two decades supporting social movements, Deepa Iyer has played many roles: weaver, frontline responder, storyteller, and guide. Currently, she is the Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives at Building Movement Project where she builds projects, resources, and narratives around transformative solidarity practices. Iyer’s primary areas […]
