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The School of Music and Dance’s 2025 World Music Series kicks off with Argentine singer-songwriter Cecilia Zabala giving a concert on Thursday, October 2, 2025 at 7:30 p.m. in Berwick Hall. Guitarist, singer, composer Cecilia Zabala was born in Buenos Aires in 1975. Throughout her career, she has expressed her musical creativity using her guitar […]
Work-in-Progress talk withLanie Millar, Romance Languages, and 2025–26 OHC Faculty Research Fellow.
Korean music, in particular K-pop, has become a global phenomenon. Led by performers such as Psy and the group BTS, K-pop and its sounds, dance, and style have become integrated into America’s everyday popular cultural landscape. Korea, however, has a richer history of musical performance, that ranges from court music and folk songs to importation […]
Work-in-Progress talk with Nicholas Forster, Cinema Studies, and 2025–26 OHC Faculty Research Fellow
Join us as we embark on a new academic year. Enjoy refreshments. Meet your colleagues and share camaraderie. Learn what OHC has planned for this year.
Join the Oregon Humanities Center for an Open House! Come enjoy refreshments while greeting colleagues and community.
Global fans of Japanese popular culture are changing universities, giving rise to new curricula and pedagogies and raising new legal and ethical issues for educators. Popular culture is among the main reasons why generations who have come of age since the 1990s are taking Japanese language and culture courses. Students use their knowledge to pursue […]
A longstanding hub of African performing arts, Senegal was at the forefront of the explosion of contemporary dance across Africa at the turn of the twenty-first century. In her new book Dancing Opacity: Contemporary Dance, Transnationalism, and Queer Possibility in Senegal (University of Michigan Press, 2025) Amy Swanson, assistant professor of Dance Studies, Theory, and […]
Work-in-Progress talk with Anita Chari, Political Science, and 2025–26 OHC Faculty Research Fellow
Can Indigenous artists, curators, and historians resist the colonial narrative of art museums when the museum itself is a colonizer institution? Reflecting on his own experience visiting the museum on the Gila River Indian Community, David Martínez argues that the path to resistance lay in the land itself in his talk “There Is No Word […]
