Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation
Location: 110 Willamette Hall 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 […]
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 […]
Christopher Brown and his jazz band Each moment of our lives presents us with opportunities and challenges for us to make decisions that will shape the next minute, hour, day, week, month, year, and decade to come. If we want positive outcomes, the challenge is learning how to string together appropriate decisions in each moment. […]
“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 […]
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 […]
