Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation
Developed in 1994, the Northwest Forest Plan was the first ecosystem management plan in the nation. The plan took a holistic approach to forest management and was scientifically sound, ecologically credible, and legally responsible; this compromise was intended to conserve endangered species, restore water quality, protect rare habitats, and produce a predictable supply of timber […]
The Cascade Song Festival, devoted to the study and performance of song, is presented in partnership between scholars from the University of Oregon (UO) and the University of Washington (UW). The inaugural 2025 festival will be held at the UO January 23–26, 2025. The annual festival will alternate between the two campuses. In addition to […]
Speakers: Joe Whittle (Caddo), photographer and creator of LANDBACK: RETURNING PUBLIC LANDS TO NATIVE AMERICANS, a four-part photojournalism project documenting the Landback Movement Kanim Moses-Conner (Nez Perce) great-great-great grandnephew of the legendary Chief Joseph and a favorite subject/ collaborator of Whittle’s Marisol Peters (Karuk), co-director of the Native American Student Union and third-year NAIS and […]
Elisa Camiscioli, History at Binghamton University, is an NEH award winner and leader of several NEH writing circles at her home institution Friday, January 24, 2025 12–1 p.m. Register Event attendees are encouraged to incorporate lessons learned from the webinar to draft or revise a three-page proposal for a 30-minute, in-person consultation during Dr. Camiscioli’s […]
Rachel DiNitto, Jina Kim, Lee Moore, and Glynne Walley, East Asian Languages and Literatures; and Dong Hoon Kim, Cinema Studies Han Kang is a South Korean writer. From 2007 to 2018, she taught creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. Han rose to international prominence for her novel The Vegetarian, which became the […]
A story of lesbian world-builders, Outliers and Outlaws uncovers the fabulous history of a large and vibrant lesbian community in Eugene, Oregon. Women who migrated to this small town in the 1960s-80s candidly share stories about the power of courageous and creative world-building. Through intimate portraits—both then and now—they show us how to live in […]
Film: SOS–The San Onofre Syndrome: Nuclear Power’s Legacy (2023, 97 min.). The film chronicles how Southern California residents came together to force the shutdown of an aging, leaking nuclear power plant only to be confronted by an alarming reality—tons of nuclear waste left near a popular beach, only 100 feet from the rising sea. The […]
Vera Keller, History. 7 p.m., Whirled Pies, 199 W. 8th Ave. Sponsor: History, history.uoregon.edu
“Unmaking the Bomb: Environmental Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility.” Shannon Cram, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington, Bothell. Cram is an interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersections of geography, anthropology, science and technology studies, and the environmental humanities. Her new book, Unmaking the Bomb: Environmental Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility (2023), blends […]
Rochelle Tobias, Johns Hopkins University; Thomas Schestag, Brown University; Helmut Schneider, University of Bonn; Davide Stimilli, University of Colorado; Martina Kolb, Susquehanna University; and UO colleagues. The colloquium affirms “reading” in the emphatic sense, as it upholds the pressing importance of aesthetical-rhetorical analysis in the approach to material objects and texts during our late modernity […]
