Attention series continues in winter and spring term

Acclaimed musician, composer, and bandleader Christopher Brown will give a talk and performance “Beyond the Buzz: Finding the Signal in a Noisy World” with his band on Thursday, January 29, 2026 at the Shedd Institute’s Sheffer Recital Hall. Brown is an educator who seeks to be a voice for the advocacy of jazz music and American culture. Through the expansive range of groups that he has assembled and/or performed with—from duos to jazz big bands to military marching bands and orchestras—his musical and personal experiences have led him towards an interest in synthesizing the principles of jazz with the day-to-day practicalities of life.

Former U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón will give a talk on Wednesday, April 8, 2026 on the UO campus. Limón is the author of seven books of poetry, including Startlement: New & Selected Poems; The Hurting Kind; The Carrying, which won the National Books Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award; and Bright Dead Things, which was named a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Award. Limón is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and was named a 2024 Time Magazine Woman of the Year. 

More information will be forthcoming about these events.