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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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
