Events

A family heads to an isolated hotel (Timberline Lodge) for the winter, where a sinister presence influences the father into violence. At the same time, his psychic son sees horrifying forebodings from both the past and the future. This series will highlight an incredibly diverse range of films made in and about Oregon by filmmakers […]

Books-in-Print talk with Joyce Suechun Cheng, History of Art and Architecture, in conversation with Edgar Garcia, English, University of Chicago. In interwar Paris, the encounter between surrealism and the emerging discipline of ethnology led to an intellectual project now known as “ethnographic surrealism.” In her book, The Persistence of Masks: Surrealism and the Ethnography of […]

Location TBA Edgar Garcia, Associate Professor of English at the University of Chicago and a poet and scholar of the hemispheric cultures of the Americas.  Garcia works on the literatures and cultural practices that tend not to be taken seriously as literature and culture: the contemporary literature, visual art, legal philosophy, and environmental thinking of […]

“Citizen-artist” speaks about their work at JSMA “Love, Desire, and Sorrow: Artworks from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation” is on view at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the UO through May 24, 2026. The exhibit foregrounds the notion of home, broadly defined, to ponder the economic, social, cultural, […]

A documentary circling the origin of the death myth from the Chinookan people in the Pacific Northwest. Featuring a discussion with Rachel Cushman, PhD candidate, Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies, and hereditary and elected leader of the Chinook Indian Nation. This series will highlight an incredibly diverse range of films made in and about Oregon […]