Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation
Joamette Gil, illustrator, cartoonist, and writer. This academic year the Latinx Scholars Academic Residential Community (ARC) is reading the comic anthology Mañana: Latinx Comics from the 25th Century which features 27 young-adult stories by creators from across the United States and Latin America. The futures these artists imagine stretch from the depths of Earth’s oceans […]
A family heads to an isolated hotel (Timberline Lodge) for the winter, where a sinister presence influences the father into violence. At the same time, his psychic son sees horrifying forebodings from both the past and the future. This series will highlight an incredibly diverse range of films made in and about Oregon by filmmakers […]
A Chicago waitress falls in love with a Minnesota farmer, and decides to face a life in the country. 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 have student and faculty introductions and discussions, some screenings will […]
Location TBA Edgar Garcia, Associate Professor of English at the University of Chicago and a poet and scholar of the hemispheric cultures of the Americas. Garcia works on the literatures and cultural practices that tend not to be taken seriously as literature and culture: the contemporary literature, visual art, legal philosophy, and environmental thinking of […]
A documentary circling the origin of the death myth from the Chinookan people in the Pacific Northwest. Featuring a discussion with Rachel Cushman, PhD candidate, Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies, and hereditary and elected leader of the Chinook Indian Nation. This series will highlight an incredibly diverse range of films made in and about Oregon […]
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 have student and faculty introductions and discussions, some screenings will have guest speakers, some will be held at historic institutions in Eugene, and the series will culminate in Cinema […]
Film screening and discussion with Jeff Gipe, director and producer. Nuclear power is being promoted recently as the green solution to climate change. However, this ignores the accidents at nuclear power plants, their vulnerability to climate change, the high cost and delayed construction of new plants, the harm to adjacent communities, and possibly the most […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
