Sayak Valencia, Mexican academic and activist. 5 p.m., location TBA. Sponsor: Romance Languages, pgcaro@uoregon.edu
Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation
Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation
Sayak Valencia, Mexican academic and activist. 5 p.m., location TBA. Sponsor: Romance Languages, pgcaro@uoregon.edu
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 […]
Oswaldo Zavala, Latin American Literature and Culture, CUNY. 5 p.m., location TBA. Sponsor: Romance Languages, pgcaro@uoregon.edu
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 […]
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 […]
Yuri Herrera, Mexican writer. 5 p.m., location TBA. Sponsor: Romance Languages, pgcaro@uoregon.edu
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 […]
Gabriela Pérez Báez, Linguistics, and 2023–24 OHC Faculty Research Fellow. “Diidxazá is an Indigenous endangered Mesoamerican language spoken in southern Mexico. I will test out pacing and methods towards publication of a 10,000 entry Diidxazá-Spanish-English dictionary. I will focus on Spanish and English definitions and on different data sets in preparation for a full-scale process […]