Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation
UO NAIS and UO Comics and Cartoon Studies are excited to welcome Arigon Starr (Kickapoo) as the final speaker in our year-long Indigenous Comics Speaker Series highlighting and celebrating Indigenous comics artists and storytellers. We invite the campus and community to join us for a public lecture entitled “Storyteller for Life” from 4:30-5:45 pm in the Knight Library […]
The relations—or lack of relations—between the humanities and the natural sciences has been a subject of long-standing debate and disagreement, perhaps since as far back as the “scientific revolution” of the early modern period. More than 60 years ago, British scientist and novelist C. P. Snow famously took up and codified that debate, lamenting that […]
This term-long colloquium (RL623) looks at the ways in which disposable bodies and violence are fast becoming a cultural currency associated with the kingpin culture of narcotraffic. This is a key debate for which the humanities and the social sciences are very well positioned to encourage critical thinking of the consumer culture (both Netflix shows, […]
Award winning Manager/Producer Steven Adams will talk about project, script, and talent evaluation in relation to current trends in the TV and Film industry in LA, and the implications of such trends for those seeking careers in the industry. Among those trends, Adams will speak about the burgeoning of transnational media, especially US collaborations with […]
Katherine Kelp-Stebbins, Comics and Cartoon Studies, and 2023–24 OHC Faculty Research Fellow. “My project examines graphic reportage as a tool for documenting international human rights struggles. The book considers how reporter-artists use comics to tactically and ethically intervene in discourses of injustice and representation. Via their subjective verbal-visual mediality, comics challenge the differential optics by […]
Legacy will be the final performance for Maestro Kelly Kuo (UO class of ’97) as OMP’s artistic director and conductor. He has served in this role for 12 years having “transformed this chamber group into…a band of professional, enthusiastic and superior musicians, playing confidently as one unit” (The Register Guard). He was honored as UO […]
This term-long colloquium (RL623) looks at the ways in which disposable bodies and violence are fast becoming a cultural currency associated with the kingpin culture of narcotraffic. This is a key debate for which the humanities and the social sciences are very well positioned to encourage critical thinking of the consumer culture (both Netflix shows, […]
Aimée Hope Morrison conducts research on social media, visual and digital rhetoric, digital humanities, disability studies, and life writing. She also co-hosts a very popular podcast, All the Things ADHD, and is actively working to bridge scholarly and popular knowledge about neurodiversity.
Moeko Yamazaki, PhD candidate, History, and 2023–24 OHC Dissertation Fellow “My dissertation critically examines the logistics industry by looking at the history of FedEx. I examine how economic deregulation, the expansion of precarious employment, and the weakening of labor unions made the growth of logistics possible. I demonstrate that the logistics industry enabled businesses and […]
Bring your family on a fanciful flight through Neverland at the world premiere of Toni Pimble‘s all new full-length ballet, Peter Pan. We’ve commissioned Kenji Bunch to create a new score – played live by Orchestra Next at all performances – for J.M. Barrie’s story of the boy who will never grow up. Orchestra Next is a […]
