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Castoffs of Capital: Work and Love among Garment Workers in Bangladesh (2022). Lamia Karim, Anthropology and 2018–19 OHC Faculty Research Fellow. Castoffs of Capital draws on fieldwork in Bangladesh to examine how female garment workers experience their work and personal lives within the stranglehold of global capital. Anthropologist Lamia Karim focuses on relations among work, gender, […]
“Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness” Alfredo Jaar, installation artist. livestream: youtube.com/@ISMediaServicesUO Sponsor: History of Art and Architecture, design.uoregon.edu/arthistory Read the newsletter story
Cole Pauls is a Tahltan comic artist, illustrator, and printmaker hailing from Haines Junction (Yukon Territory) with a BFA in Illustration from Emily Carr University. Residing in Vancouver, Pauls focuses on his two comic series, the first being Pizza Punks: a self contained comic strip about punks eating pizza, the other being Dakwäkãda Warriors. In […]
“Eight Dogs Part Three” Glynne Walley, East Asian Languages and Literatures and 2023–24 OHC Ernest G. Moll Research Fellow in Literary Studies. The 19th-century adventure novel Eight Dogs by Kyokutei Bakin is one of the most influential books in Japanese history and a key example of the spread of literary ideas and techniques across the […]
Yahya Ashour is an emerging poet known for his profound and moving reflections on the human experience, particularly the challenges faced by Palestinians of Gaza. His unique perspective as a Palestinian poet adds depth and authenticity to the discourse surrounding the complexities of the Middle East. Yahya arrived in the United States in September 2023 […]
“Forensic Architecture: Art and Activism Against State Violence” Robert Trafford, research coordinator, Forensic Architecture. livestream: youtube.com/@ISMediaServicesUO Sponsor: History of Art and Architecture, design.uoregon.edu/arthistory Read the newsletter story
Brian Griffith, post-doctoral scholar, European History, UCLA and Scripps College. Sponsor: Romance Languages and Literatures, dgarvin@uoregon.edu Read the newsletter story
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a field which combines computer science and robust datasets to enable problem solving. The sub-fields of machine learning and deep learning are frequently mentioned in conjunction with AI. These disciplines are comprised of AI algorithms that seek to create systems which make predictions or classifications based on input data. Over the […]
“Spanish in the linguistic landscape of Eugene, Oregon” Devin Grammon, Romance Languages and 2023–24 OHC Faculty Research Fellow. The idea that bilingual signage helps to create welcoming and inclusive public spaces for U.S. Spanish speakers is complicated by the inequitable treatment of English and Spanish on many signs in terms of translation quality, text size, […]
Marla Stone, Modern European of History, History, Occidental College. Sponsor: Romance Languages and Literatures, dgarvin@uoregon.edu Read the newsletter story
