Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation
Katherine Kelp-Stebbins, Comics and Cartoon Studies, and 2023–24 OHC Faculty Research Fellow. “My project examines graphic reportage as a tool for documenting international human rights struggles. The book considers how reporter-artists use comics to tactically and ethically intervene in discourses of injustice and representation. Via their subjective verbal-visual mediality, comics challenge the differential optics by […]
Legacy will be the final performance for Maestro Kelly Kuo (UO class of ’97) as OMP’s artistic director and conductor. He has served in this role for 12 years having “transformed this chamber group into…a band of professional, enthusiastic and superior musicians, playing confidently as one unit” (The Register Guard). He was honored as UO […]
This term-long colloquium (RL623) looks at the ways in which disposable bodies and violence are fast becoming a cultural currency associated with the kingpin culture of narcotraffic. This is a key debate for which the humanities and the social sciences are very well positioned to encourage critical thinking of the consumer culture (both Netflix shows, […]
Aimée Hope Morrison conducts research on social media, visual and digital rhetoric, digital humanities, disability studies, and life writing. She also co-hosts a very popular podcast, All the Things ADHD, and is actively working to bridge scholarly and popular knowledge about neurodiversity.
Moeko Yamazaki, PhD candidate, History, and 2023–24 OHC Dissertation Fellow “My dissertation critically examines the logistics industry by looking at the history of FedEx. I examine how economic deregulation, the expansion of precarious employment, and the weakening of labor unions made the growth of logistics possible. I demonstrate that the logistics industry enabled businesses and […]
Bring your family on a fanciful flight through Neverland at the world premiere of Toni Pimble‘s all new full-length ballet, Peter Pan. We’ve commissioned Kenji Bunch to create a new score – played live by Orchestra Next at all performances – for J.M. Barrie’s story of the boy who will never grow up. Orchestra Next is a […]
Watch his UO Today interview Public disappointment with universities has reached epidemic proportions, and a common complaint is that they do a poor job of preparing students to find a job, especially given how much they cost. Christopher Newfield, today’s leading scholar of Critical University Studies, will address this in his talk “Jobs and Universities: […]
Maria Fernanda Escallón, Anthropology, and 2023–24 OHC Faculty Research Fellow. “My project examines global inequality. In particular, I focus on the workings of UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, and trace how despite its mission to promote global peace, dignity, and equality, it perpetuates geo-political power imbalances between the Global North and […]
This term-long colloquium (RL623) looks at the ways in which disposable bodies and violence are fast becoming a cultural currency associated with the kingpin culture of narcotraffic. This is a key debate for which the humanities and the social sciences are very well positioned to encourage critical thinking of the consumer culture (both Netflix shows, […]
Americans have come to love espresso. For some, it’s seen as continental, cultured, and sophisticated. Sure, it might be mixed with milk to make a cappuccino, latte, café au lait, or mixed with hot water to make an Americano. We drink it for the intense flavor and aroma, not to mention the caffeine punch it […]
