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The star player of a college basketball team starts to go off the rails with an illicit love affair and his roommate going crazy to avoid the war draft. 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 […]
Work-in-Progress talk with K. Olivar, PhD candidate, English, and 2025–26 OHC Dissertation Fellow. A Nest of Antics excavates examples of madness in early modern English drama that celebrate cognitive difference, arguing that the era had more interest in positive representations of neurodiversity than critics have noticed. Early modern comedy’s abundance of idiosyncratic character types treated […]
A group of likeable eccentrics whose sense of their own culture sparks them to try to buy up their houses from developers. Contradictions abound. Affectionate comic sense deftly captures the afterglow of a generation. This series will highlight an incredibly diverse range of films made in and about Oregon by filmmakers with significant ties to […]
Esther Viola Kurtz, Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, Washington University in St. Louis. A Beautiful Fight examines the potentials and limits of capoeira Angola to cohere a multiracial community committed to antiracist struggle. Capoeira, a musical fight-game that originated among enslaved Africans in Brazil, holds special significance for Black Brazilian activists as a spiritual and political […]
Wandering her rambling old house in her boring new town, a young girl discovers a hidden door to a strangely idealized version of her life that seems too good to be true. This series will highlight an incredibly diverse range of films made in and about Oregon by filmmakers with significant ties to the state. […]
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.”
