Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation
Kate Huber (PhD English, UO ’22) Culture Studies, Tilburg University, Netherlands. Ireland was Britain’s first colony and its first imperial laboratory—the place where many colonial methods were tested before being exported to the farther-flung portions of the empire. In Irish Ecomedia, Katherine M. Huber examines the environmental impacts of imperial rule and the various ways they […]
Joamette Gil, illustrator, cartoonist, and writer. This academic year the Latinx Scholars Academic Residential Community (ARC) is reading the comic anthology Mañana: Latinx Comics from the 25th Century which features 27 young-adult stories by creators from across the United States and Latin America. The futures these artists imagine stretch from the depths of Earth’s oceans […]
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 […]
A Chicago waitress falls in love with a Minnesota farmer, and decides to face a life in the country. 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 […]
$10-$5, UO students free w/ID. Followed by a reception. Sponsor: School of Music and Dance, musicanddance.uoregon.edu
Patricia Caicedo, musicologist and soprano
Patricia Caicedo, musicologist and soprano. Sponsor: School of Music and Dance, musicanddance.uoregon.edu
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 […]
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. […]
