Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation
The School of Music and Dance’s World Music Series continues with Zoë Aqua, violin, and Transylvanian folk musicians Gergely Réman, cimbalom; Kálmán Szopos, brácsa (rhythm viola); and Károly Dénes, double bass, giving a performance on Thursday, February 24, 2026 at 7:30 p.m. in Aasen-Hull Hall (190 Music). In Transylvanian folk music the violin leads the […]
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 […]
Esther Viola Kurtz, Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, Washington University in St. Louis. A Beautiful Fight examines the potentials and limits of capoeira Angola to cohere a multiracial community committed to antiracist struggle. Capoeira, a musical fight-game that originated among enslaved Africans in Brazil, holds special significance for Black Brazilian activists as a spiritual and political […]
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. […]
The Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages hosts the Mediterranean Seminar Spring Workshop and Conference titled “Food: Production, Consumption, Representation.”
