Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation
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 […]
Work-in-Progress talk with Abigail Fine, Musicology, and 2025–26 OHC Faculty Research Fellow. NOTE: this talk will take place in Collier House. In nineteenth-century Europe, most middle-class people kept a friendship album: handwritten poems, drawings and musical snippets offered by loved ones. While the practice waned in the twentieth century, popular music magazines published hundreds of […]
This series will highlight an incredibly diverse range of films made in and about Oregon by filmmakers with significant ties to the state. Each film will have student and faculty introductions and discussions, some screenings will have guest speakers, some will be held at historic institutions in Eugene, and the series will culminate in Cinema […]
Work-in-Progress talk with Cera Smith, Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies; and 2025–26 OHC Faculty Research Fellow. Scientific racism and discrimination in American healthcare make bioscience seem irredeemable for many Black Studies scholars. Consequently, critics often attempt to disassociate race from biology, instead emphasizing Black people’s psychological, emotional, and intellectual complexity to reject racist dehumanization. This […]
Beyond the Frame: A screening and discussion about public history projects with Simone Brioni in conversation with Eleanor Paynter and Jessica Johnson Oltre i bordi/Beyond the Frame (2023), 41 minutes Simone Brioni and Matteo Sandrini, dirs. Stony Brook University professor Simone Brioni has spent the past ten years researching Italian colonialism. On a return visit to Italy, […]
Work-in-Progress talk with Dong Hoon Kim, Cinema Studies, and 2025–26 OHC Faculty Research Fellow. My project explores how North Korean cinema represents gender, sexuality, and national identity, particularly through representations of women and womanhood in major state-sponsored films. It examines how these films, while politically driven, gained mass popularity and reflected shifting national ideologies during […]
The School of Music and Dance’s World Music Series continues with Zoë Aqua, violin, and Transylvanian folk musicians Gergely Réman, cimbalom; Kálmán Szopos, brácsa (rhythm viola); and Károly Dénes, double bass, giving a performance on Thursday, February 24, 2026 at 7:30 p.m. in Aasen-Hull Hall (190 Music). In Transylvanian folk music the violin leads the […]
Film screening and discussion with Jeff Gipe, director and producer. Nuclear power is being promoted recently as the green solution to climate change. However, this ignores the accidents at nuclear power plants, their vulnerability to climate change, the high cost and delayed construction of new plants, the harm to adjacent communities, and possibly the most […]
The star player of a college basketball team starts to go off the rails with an illicit love affair and his roommate going crazy to avoid the war draft. This series will highlight an incredibly diverse range of films made in and about Oregon by filmmakers with significant ties to the state. Each film will […]
Work-in-Progress talk with K. Olivar, PhD candidate, English, and 2025–26 OHC Dissertation Fellow. A Nest of Antics excavates examples of madness in early modern English drama that celebrate cognitive difference, arguing that the era had more interest in positive representations of neurodiversity than critics have noticed. Early modern comedy’s abundance of idiosyncratic character types treated […]
