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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. […]
Ada Limón is the author of seven books of poetry, including Startlement: New & Selected Poems; The Hurting Kind, which was a finalist for the Griffin Prize; The Carrying, which won the National Books Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award; and Bright Dead Things, which was named a […]
