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Nadine Strossen, the John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law Emerita at New York Law School and past President of the American Civil Liberties Union (1991-2008), is a Senior Fellow with FIRE (the Foundation for Individual Rights and Education) and a leading expert and frequent speaker/media commentator on constitutional law and civil liberties, who has […]
Work-in-Progress talk with Alejandro Marin, PhD candidate, Romance Languages , and 2025–26 OHC Dissertation Fellow Migration today is often framed as crisis, but literature reveals it as a site of creativity and resistance. Contemporary novels from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Equatorial Guinea portray movement across borders as an opportunity to forge new communities and […]
The Oregon Humanities Center presents its 2025–26 speaker series centered on the theme of “Attention.” The “Attention” series will explore the dynamics of how, why, and what we focus on shapes our reality and creates our purpose. Also known as concentration, alertness, focus, notice, awareness, heed, regard, and consideration—Attention is the fundamental cognitive ability to […]
Work-in-Progress talk with Jessica M. Johnson, PhD candidate, History of Art and Architecture, and 2025–26 OHC Dissertation Fellow During the Georgian era, a period noted for the transatlantic slave trade and the development of racial theory, an individual’s class could outweigh their race. My dissertation considers the utilization of portraiture by wealthy and influential Blacks […]
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. […]
At a time when social media and our societal structures demand our constant attention to the rigged algorithm, we’ve stopped paying attention to what really matters, the world around us. Using poetic examples and stories from real life, this talk is designed to allow us to remember that we are alive and to help us […]
The Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages hosts the Mediterranean Seminar Spring Workshop and Conference titled “Food: Production, Consumption, Representation.”
