Shantala Subramanayan, flute Sponsor: School of Music and Dance, musicanddance.uoregon.edu
Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation
Event Category: Event cosponsored by OHC
European scholar Alessandro Testa will give a talk titled “Ritualization and Myth-Making in Contemporary Societies” on Monday, April 14, 2025 at 3 p.m. in the Knight Library’s DREAM Lab. He will present his thoughts on processes of ritualization, myth-making, and the emergence of new forms of religiosities—with a specific focus on his ethnographic research in […]
How have colonial legacies—from the Spanish Colonial period to the present—shaped the lives, lands, and cultures of Indigenous and Latinx peoples across the U.S. and Latin America? How do modern borders and nation-states perpetuate the erasure of Indigenous existence and histories across the Americas? On Thursday, April 24, 2025, “The Limits and Possibilities of Crossborder […]
Italy-based Ethiopian film director Dagmawi Yimer, a critical figure in migration cinema, Italian independent film, and participatory cinema work, will visit the UO April 28–May 1, 2025. He will visit Eleanor Paynter’s class ITAL 399 Mediating Media and conduct a filmmaking workshop for students. A public screening of his short film Waiting will take place […]
In conjunction with Lanie Millar’s Romance Languages graduate seminar this term, she and Leah Middlebrook have organized a two-day symposium “Gender, Race, and Empire” on May 1 and 2, 2025. The event brings three influential scholars to campus. Estefanía Bournot is a Research Fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, where she leads the project […]
Growing concern about the state of marine ecologies, combined with the recognition that the ocean has been relatively neglected in environmental theory and the arts, has propelled the emerging field called the “Blue Humanities.” Oregon as a coastal state, and the UO with its marine biology campus and initial plans for an “ocean studies” major […]
Cappella Artemisia Throughout the late 16th and 17th centuries, the chronicles of historians and travelers in Italy provide images of a fabulous musical world inhabited by women – singers, players and even composers. Such images are all the more intriguing, considering the truly draconian restrictions governing virtually every aspect of these cloistered women’s lives, especially […]