Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation
“Innovation in SHL Language Program Administration: Development and Outcomes of a Latinx ambassador Program” Sergio Loza, Romance Languages, Director of the Spanish Heritage Language Program, and 2023–24 OHC Faculty Research Fellow. My project explores the collective experiences of Latinx students who served as student ambassadors for the Spanish heritage Language program at the University of […]
“How to Love an Oyster: Chemistry, Slippage, and Attachment” Megan Hayes, PhD candidate, Environmental Studies and 2023–24 OHC Dissertation Fellow. My project moves through several social, cultural, and environmental milieu to conceptualize love through human-oyster relations. I take up the matter of love as a force—and not always a benevolent one—to consider how it gives […]
Climate deniers are more likely to be Republican and more likely to be white. They are also more likely to have racist beliefs, according to a 2018 study published in the journal Environmental Politics. This correlation is a relatively recent phenomenon—one that occurred in the wake of Barack Obama’s election in 2008. The paper hypothesizes […]
Extra! Journalists continue to be murdered for their work in Mexico while their killers enjoy impunity from punishment. Extra! Increasing numbers of journalists covering wars in Ukraine and Gaza are being killed in action. Extra! Russian journalists are self-exiling to stay alive. The University of Oregon-UNESCO Crossings Institute and the Global Justice Program present “Extra! […]
Stephen J. Shoemaker, Religious Studies, and 2023–24 OHC Faculty Research Fellow. “My project will provide something that has long been needed: a book-length study of the historical figure of Muhammad, the formation of the Qur’an, and the beginnings of Islam that is both grounded in the methods of historical criticism and aimed at the general […]
“Memory Work for Black Lives.” Tracy Drake, Director, Special Collections, Reed College; Ishaq Shamsud-Din, Portland community leader; and Holly Smith, College Archivist, Women’s Research & Resource Center, Spelman College. 10 a.m.–4 p.m., White Stag Block, 70 NW Couch St., Portland; and via Zoom. Sponsor: UO Libraries, memorywork.uoregon.edu/programming/plenary-2024
UO NAIS and UO Comics and Cartoon Studies are excited to welcome Arigon Starr (Kickapoo) as the final speaker in our year-long Indigenous Comics Speaker Series highlighting and celebrating Indigenous comics artists and storytellers. We invite the campus and community to join us for a public lecture entitled “Storyteller for Life” from 4:30-5:45 pm in the Knight Library […]
The relations—or lack of relations—between the humanities and the natural sciences has been a subject of long-standing debate and disagreement, perhaps since as far back as the “scientific revolution” of the early modern period. More than 60 years ago, British scientist and novelist C. P. Snow famously took up and codified that debate, lamenting that […]
Silvia Federici, Social Science (emerit), Hofstra University. 5 p.m., via Zoom. Sponsor: Romance Languages, pgcaro@uoregon.edu
Award winning Manager/Producer Steven Adams will talk about project, script, and talent evaluation in relation to current trends in the TV and Film industry in LA, and the implications of such trends for those seeking careers in the industry. Among those trends, Adams will speak about the burgeoning of transnational media, especially US collaborations with […]
