The legal battles surrounding Google Book Search raise basic questions about the digital future facing all of us—not just authors and publishers but ordinary readers and everyone concerned with access to information. Research libraries should have a say in shaping that future. Digitization gives them an opportunity to democratize knowledge by opening their collections to the outside world. But how can they share their intellectual wealth when commercial firms want to market it? What will be the place of printed books in a world where most works will be “born digital” and read in new ways by “digital natives”? Libraries are developing strategies to cope with these issues, which are vital to our country’s future and deserve widespread discussion before the general public.

Event: 2009-2010 Kritikos Lecture
Speaker: Robert Darnton, Director of the Harvard University Library
Title: Digitize, Democratize: Google, Libraries, and the Future of Books
Date: Thursday, November 12, 2009

Featured, Oregon Humanities Center · Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Panelists:

Steve Mital- Director, UO Office of Sustainability

Dr. Greg Bothun- Professor, Department of Physics

Joshua Skov- Principal, Good Company

Dr. Ryan Herzog- Adjunct Instructor of Finance, Lundquist College of

Business and the Department of Economics

Marcus Widenor- Instructor, UO Labor Education and Research Center

(LERC)

Roger Ebbage- Director of the Northwest Energy Education Institute

(NWEEI), Lane Community College

The panelists share their perspectives on this topic through the lens of their respective professional expertise and academic research. Answering many questions from students hoping to see a future in Green Collar jobs.

Community Conversations is an academic program that is one of the Living Learning Initiatives of University Housing in partnership with the Clark Honors College, the Oregon Humanities Center, and Undergraduate Studies. The goal of Community Conversations is to stimulate intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, contrarian debate, and articulate discourse among the 3,300+ residential students at the University of Oregon.

Academic, Community Conversations, Featured, Outreach · Thursday, November 12th, 2009

Community Conversations is an academic program that is one of the Living Learning Initiatives of University Housing in partnership with the Clark Honors College, the Oregon Humanities Center, and Undergraduate Studies. The goal of Community Conversations is to stimulate intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, contrarian debate, and articulate discourse among the 3,300+ residential students at the University of Oregon.

Academic, Community Conversations, Featured, Outreach · Thursday, November 12th, 2009

Community Conversations is an academic program that is one of the Living Learning Initiatives of University Housing in partnership with the Clark Honors College, the Oregon Humanities Center, and Undergraduate Studies. The goal of Community Conversations is to stimulate intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, contrarian debate, and articulate discourse among the 3,300+ residential students at the University of Oregon.

Academic, Community Conversations, Featured · Thursday, November 12th, 2009

Panelists:

Dr. Elizabeth Whitchurch- Instructor, UO Department of Biology

Wendy Maltz- LCSW, DST, Author, Psychotherapist, and Certified

Diplomate Sex Therapist

Dr. Cristina Calhoon- Senior Instructor with the UO Classics

Department

Kara Barnette-  PhD Student, UO Department of Philosophy; GTF, Women

& Gender Studies

Panelists offered an interdisciplinary exploration of cultural perceptions and myths about desire, love, passion, and eroticism.  The panel shares original research, scholarship, and poetry.

Community Conversations is an academic program that is one of the Living Learning Initiatives of University Housing in partnership with the Clark Honors College, the Oregon Humanities Center, and Undergraduate Studies. The goal of Community Conversations is to stimulate intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, contrarian debate, and articulate discourse among the 3,300+ residential students at the University of Oregon.

Academic, Community Conversations, Featured, Outreach · Thursday, November 12th, 2009

Panelists:

Mickey Dee, aka Mike Barrz – Hip Hot Artist

Jamie Laurie- lead emcee of the Flobots

Charlotte Nisser, J.D.- KWVA 88.1 Station Manager

Andre Sirois- Doctoral Candidate & Graduate Teaching Fellow, UO

School of Journalism and Communication

This highly interactive and multi-media event combines performance, presentation, and dialogue to explore how the digital revolution and convergence culture of old and new media has radically transformed the musical landscape. This panel assesses how the digital age has affected the creation, performance, promotion, distribution, and acquisition of music as intellectual property.

Community Conversations is an academic program that is one of the Living Learning Initiatives of University Housing in partnership with the Clark Honors College, the Oregon Humanities Center, and Undergraduate Studies. The goal of Community Conversations is to stimulate intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, contrarian debate, and articulate discourse among the 3,300+ residential students at the University of Oregon.

Academic, Community Conversations, Featured, Outreach · Thursday, November 12th, 2009

Dale Jamieson, 2009-10 Wayne Morse Chair, Director of Environmental Studies at New York University, where he is also Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy, and Affiliated Professor of Law, discusses the moral and ethical dimensions of climate change. He also talks about the implications of geo-engineering. Original air date 11/16/09.

Featured, Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today · Monday, October 26th, 2009

Sandow Birk, visiting artist, discusses his animated film, “Dante’s Inferno,” which was presented by the Department of Romance Languages on Oct. 1, 2009. He talks about how he became interested in the Divine Comedy and his design process in making the film. Original air date 11/9/09.

Featured, Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today · Monday, October 26th, 2009

Richard Lariviere, President, University of Oregon, discusses the issues he faces as he embarks on his tenure with the UO, as well as his views on athletics and academics. Original air date 10/19/09.

Featured, Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today · Monday, October 26th, 2009

Ben Saunders, Assistant Prof., English, discusses “Understanding Superheroes,” an interdisciplinary conference, which was held at the UO 10/23-10/24/09. He also talks about “Faster Than a Speeding Bullet: The Art of the Superhero,” an exhibit that he curated for the JSMA in conjunction with the conference. Original air date 10/12/09.

Featured, Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today · Monday, October 26th, 2009

Carla Bowers, coordinator PathwaysOregon, University Teaching and Learning Center, discusses the UO’s PathwayOregon program which provides tuition and fees to Oregon students who might not otherwise be able to afford college tuition. She also talks about the broad support the program offers students. Original air date 10/5/09.

Featured, Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today · Sunday, October 18th, 2009

Kenneth Miller, 2008-9 Kritikos professor, Cell Biology, Brown University, testified in the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School district case in 2005. Miller is a practicing Roman Catholic who does not find his belief in God to be incompatible with his scientific views. Miller gave the 2008-9 Kritikos Professorship lectures on May 27 and 28, 2009. Original air date 10/26/09.

Featured, Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today · Saturday, October 17th, 2009

Susi Rosenberg, visiting artist, discusses her sculpture “PATH II” which has been installed on campus. She also talks about her creative process and some of her other work. Original air date 11/2/09.

Featured, Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today · Friday, October 16th, 2009

This episode features Joe Giansante, Assoc. Athletic Director, UO Ducks Baseball program, discusses the history of the UO Baseball program and its reinstatement after a 26 year hiatus. He also talks about PK Park, the new baseball stadium that will be completed this year. Aired June 22, 2009

Featured, Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today · Thursday, October 15th, 2009

This episode features Richard Herskowitz, Instructor, Film Studies and Arts Administration, discusses his work with the Virginia Film Festival and plans for the proposed Pacific Rim Film Festival, which would be run in conjunction with the new Cinema Studies program at the UO. Aired June 15, 2009

Featured, Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today · Thursday, October 15th, 2009

This episode features Nicholas Isherwood, Asst. Prof., Opera Studies, School of Music and Dance, discusses his vision for the UO opera program and his international career as a bass-baritone. He performs two opera excerpts in the studio. Aired June 8, 2009

Featured, Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today · Thursday, October 15th, 2009

January 21 2009. Peter Galison, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor of Physics and the History of Science, Harvard University. A lecture about Albert Einstein’s friendship with schoolmate Friedrich Adler. Adler, the son of the leader of the Socialist Party in Vienna, was, like Einstein, a physicist very much engaged with both epistemology and politics. Einstein and Adler spoke often about their efforts in physics. In the midst of World War I, Adler assassinated the Prime Minister of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Einstein rallied to Adler’s defense and—between death row and Berlin—Adler and Einstein began an extraordinary correspondence about the meaning and validity of relativity.

Academic, Featured, Oregon Humanities Center · Friday, October 9th, 2009

May 28, 2009, UO in Portland. Kenneth Miller, Professor of Biology and the Royce Family Professor for Teaching Excellence, Brown University; and the 2008-09 Kritikos Professor in the Humanities. Ken Miller is a professor of cell biology and an outspoken proponent of the theory of evolution, which, he explains, has never been on stronger scientific footing. He is also a practicing Roman Catholic who does not find his belief in God to be incompatible with his scientific views. Part of the Darwin Bicentennial Lecture Series.

Featured, Oregon Humanities Center · Friday, October 9th, 2009

This episode features Barbara Schaffer Bacon, director of Animating Democracy, a program of Americans for the Arts that fosters civic engagement through arts and culture. Barbara was a guest of the UO Center for Community Arts and Cultural Policy and the Arts and Administration Program, wherein she presented a workshop on arts-based civic engagement and hosted a community and campus forum and round table talk.

Featured, Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today · Thursday, October 8th, 2009

This episode features the poet, essayist, critic, and distinguished lawyer and professor of law at St. John’s University in New York City, Lawrence Joseph. Joseph has published and lectured extensively in areas of labor, employment, tort and compensation law, jurisprudence, law and literature, and legal theory. Joseph has published multiple books of poems, including Into It, which received widespread attention and praise. Joseph is the Oregon Humanities Center’s 2008-2009 Colin Ruagh Thomas O’Fallon Memorial Lecturer in Law and American Culture.

Featured, Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today · Thursday, October 8th, 2009

This episode features Daniel J. Tichenor, the Philip H. Knight Professor of Social Science and Senior Faculty Fellow at the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics. He has published extensively on immigration, national identity, the American presidency, civil liberties, interest groups, social movements, political parties, and public policy. He has been a Faculty Scholar at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University, Research Fellow in Governmental Studies at the Brookings Institution, Abba P. Schwartz Fellow in Immigration and Refugee Policy at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Research Scholar at the Eagleton Institute of Politics, a visiting scholar at Leipzig University, and a faculty associate at Princeton’s Center for Migration and Development and the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California, San Diego.

His book, Dividing Lines: The Politics of Immigration Control in America (Princeton University Press), won the American Political Science Association’s Gladys M. Kammerer Award for the best book in American national policy.

His forthcoming works include Faustian Bargains: The Origins and Development of America’s Illegal Immigration Dilemma (University of Michigan Press) and The Oxford Handbook on International Migration (Oxford University Press).
He also has written essays for popular journals like The Nation and The Utne Reader, regularly gives public lectures, and has testified and provided expert briefings to Congress on American immigration policy and politics.

Featured, Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today, Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics · Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

This episode features Theresa May, assistant professor of Theatre Arts and director of “Earth Matters on Stage: An Ecodrama Playwrights Festival and Symposium on Theatre Ecology.” Theresa is the co-author of the book Greening Up Our Houses: A Guide to a More Ecologically Sound Theatre (1994), and is currently working on a book entitled, Earth Matters on Stage: Ecology in American Theatre (2010). Through her work, she explores how playhouses across the country can be more ecologically friendly, thus helping and nuturing our natural resources.

College of Arts and Sciences, Featured, Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today · Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

The O’Fallon Lecture was established by a generous gift from Henry and Betsy Mayer, named in memory of their nephew, son of law professor James O’Fallon and his wife, artist Ellen Thomas. The subject of this lecture alternates each year between law and art and American culture. Past topics have included philosophy, jurisprudence, American political life, architecture, and art theory and criticism.

The 2008-09 O’Fallon Lecturer, Lawrence Joseph, poet, essayist, critic, and professor of Law at St. John’s University School of Law, spoke on “Being in the Language of Poetry, Being in the Language of Law” on Thursday, April 16 at 7:30 p.m. in 175 Knight Law.

Academic, Featured, Knight Library, Oregon Humanities Center, Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics · Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

University Convocation is a formal welcome for new students and faculty. It’s the culminating event of the Week of Welcome, setting the tone for the new academic year, and highlighting the appeal of intellectual activity.

Convocation traditions go back several centuries and vary from university to university. In the 16th century, Oxford University used the term to describe an assembly of master’s graduates, welcoming them to the order of scholars. At the University of Oregon, convocation marks the start of the academic year and welcomes students to the scholarly world of the university. The event is very festive with faculty wearing their academic regalia, rousing music in the air, and a picnic dinner for students and faculty on a campus lawn.

A tradition of UO Convocation is to present an award to an outstanding Oregon high school teacher. This honor is bestowed on a selected nominee from among nominations submitted by new incoming Oregon freshmen. This year, the University honored Stephen Corkett of Sam Barlow High School, Gresham, OR.

Richard Lariviere, new UO President, was the keynote speaker for Convocation 2009. Dr. Lariviere is a renowned scholar in Religious History, specializing in languages, histories, religions and culture of India.

Academic, Featured · Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

This episode features Grammy-Award winning flutist Molly Barth and Meridian Arts Ensemble member Brian McWhorter. Barth is an assistant professor of flute at the Univeristy of Oregon, and has tought at Willamette University and held residencies at the Univeristy of Chicago and at the Univeristy of Richmond.

McWhorter, after recieving music degrees from the University of Oregon and The Julliard School, is one of the most sought-after performers of his generation. Currently, McWhorter is an assistant professor of trumpet at the University of Oregon and professor of Contemporary Music at the Manhattan School of Music. He has recorded with artists such as, Natalie Merchant, Mark Applebaum, and John Cale, of the Velvet Underground.

McWhorter and Barth perform together as Beta Collide, an enseble focusing on the collision of new and old musical artforms.

Featured, Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today · Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

This episode features musicians Joanna Blendulf and Annalisa Pappano. Joanna, an active chamber musician and early music specialist, teaches at the Univesity of Oregon as an adjunct professor of musicology and at viola da gamba workshops accross the country. Currently, Joanna performs with the Portland, Seattle and Indianapolis Baroque Orchestras.

Annalisa is a highly sought-after performer of the lirone, pardessus, and viola da gamba. Annalisa teaches viola da gamba at the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music and in 2003, led the Catacoustic Consort to win the grand prize in the Naxos/Early Music America Live Recording Competition. Currently, she performs with Baroque Northweset, the Oberlin Consort of Viols, and the Les Paisirs Durables in Brussels, Belgium.

Featured, Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today · Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

Did you know that virtually every aspect of the development of the human brain is shaped by experience?

Imagine how beneficial it would be if everyone who cares for children knew something about how and when experience shapes the development of the brain.

Imagine how beneficial it would be if every claim that is made about how to best care for children were backed up by solid scientific evidence.

Changing Brains is a science program for non-scientists, featuring information and practical recommendations based on scientific evidence for parents, educators, and policy makers… anyone who cares for children.

In this video you learn about the brain, how it develops, the methods used to study its structures and function, and how experience shapes the brain systems important for: VISION, HEARING, MOTOR SKILLS, ATTENTION, LANGUAGE, READING, MATH, MUSIC, EMOTIONS and LEARNING.

Brain Development Lap, Featured · Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

The 2009 University of Oregon School of Economics Graduation. Graduation is a wonderful celebration of a well-deserved accomplishment. At the University of Oregon, we hope you, family and friends of the graduate, are able to share in this celebration and witness the final product of a meaningful experience.

Academic, Featured, School of Economics, UO Commencement · Monday, July 20th, 2009

Nearly 400 graduates walked across the stage at Mac Court on Saturday, June 13 for the SOJC’s ninety-fourth commencement. Doug Bates ‘68, editorial page editor of The Oregonian and a member of the school’s Hall of Achievement, presented the graduates with a clear-eyed but optimistic message: “You are entering a period of great ambiguity but also incredible opportunity.”

Academic, Featured, School of Journalism and Communication, UO Commencement · Monday, July 20th, 2009

The 2009 University of Oregon School of Education Graduation. Graduation is a wonderful celebration of a well-deserved accomplishment. At the University of Oregon, we hope you, family and friends of the graduate, are able to share in this celebration and witness the final product of a meaningful experience.

Academic, College of Education, Featured, UO Commencement · Friday, July 17th, 2009

The 2009 University of Oregon Lundquist College of Business Graduation. Graduation is a wonderful celebration of a well-deserved accomplishment. At the University of Oregon, we hope you, family and friends of the graduate, are able to share in this celebration and witness the final product of a meaningful experience.

Academic, Featured, Lundquist College of Business, UO Commencement · Friday, July 17th, 2009

Ever want to work for the Portland Trailblazers? What about getting paid to go hiking or getting to make a music video? On May 5 the UO Career Center hosted a panel of professionals to discuss their experiences in getting to their current positions and give valuable advice from what they have learned along the way. The discussion is to demonstrate the often varied paths that can lead to one’s career.

Key note Speaker: Scott Coltrane, the University of Oregon’s new dean of the College of Arts and Sciences

Panelists include:

-Ian Jaquiss, Basketball Outreach Director, Portland Trailblazers
-Bill Sullivan, Writer, Oregon Hikes & Adventures
-Pamela Vorachek, Executive Director, A.C. Gilbert’s Discovery Village children’s museum
-Karmen Fore, District Director for Congressman Peter DeFazio
-Chris Kantrowitz, Owner and Executive Producer for Frank the Plumber -music video content production and tour design

Presented in collaboration with UO Alumni Association, UO Libraries and U.S. Bank.

Featured, Knight Library, Oregon Career Center · Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

On Friday, April 17, the UO Libraries hosted a talk by Carl T. Bergstrom, a University of Washington evolutionary biologist and well-known analyst of the scholarly communications industry. Bergstrom’s talk is entitled “The Structure and Economics of Scholarly Publishing.” Bergstrom is an expert on the economics of journal publishing and has developed a tool called the “eigenfactor,” which provides an alternative to the impact factors currently used to rank journals.

Bergstrom also discussed the sky-rocketing rates libraries and others have to pay for subscriptions to scholarly journals. Subscription rates have quickly outpaced library budgets for journal acquisitions and have limited their ability to provide university faculty members with ready access to journal articles.

Featured, Knight Library · Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

This episode features Frances White, Assoc. Prof., Anthropology, discusses her research on the bonobo, or pygmy chimpanzee. She describes how this species differs from the more-familiar chimp and talks about their peaceful social structure. Prof. White will give a lecture on this topic on April 14 at 7:30 p.m. in 150 Columbia Hall. Humanities Center Director Barbara Altmann interviews faculty, staff, and visiting lecturers about their research and interests for a 30 minute show that gives an inside look at the University of Oregon.

Featured, Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today · Monday, April 13th, 2009

This episode features Tim Duy, director of the Oregon Economic Forum, Economics, discusses the measures that comprise the UO Index of Economic Indicators and the current state of the economy. He also compares the Japanese economic crisis in the 1990s with the current global meltdown. Humanities Center Director Barbara Altmann interviews faculty, staff, and visiting lecturers about their research and interests for a 30 minute show that gives an inside look at the University of Oregon.

Featured, Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today · Monday, April 13th, 2009

This episode features Rebecca Force, adj. asst. prof.,SOJC, discusses her work producing the documentary, “A History of the University of Oregon, 1857-1989. She also talks about her role as the former producer of UO Today and her current teaching activities. Humanities Center Director Barbara Altmann interviews faculty, staff, and visiting lecturers about their research and interests for a 30 minute show that gives an inside look at the University of Oregon.

Featured, Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today · Monday, April 13th, 2009

This episode features Steven Shankman, director, Center for Intercultural Dialogue, discusses his position as the only American UNESCO Chair in Trascultural Studies, Interreligious Dialogue, and Peace; the new Center for Intercultural Dialog; and his work with the Inside Out Prison Exchange Program. Humanities Center Director Barbara Altmann interviews faculty, staff, and visiting lecturers about their research and interests for a 30 minute show that gives an inside look at the University of Oregon.

Featured, Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today · Monday, April 13th, 2009

This episode features Edward Tick, Soldier’s Heart, discuss Dr. Tick’s PTSD treatment model based on research of worldwide spirituality, mythology, traditional cultures and the warrior archetype. Soldier’s Heart is a non-profit program designed to create safe-return programs for veterans in communities across the country. Humanities Center Director Barbara Altmann interviews faculty, staff, and visiting lecturers about their research and interests for a 30 minute show that gives an inside look at the University of Oregon.

Featured, Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today · Monday, April 13th, 2009

This episode features Michael Bullis, Dean, College of Education, discusses the progress of the HEDCO Education Building project, his research on youth in the criminal justice system, and the College’s international initiatives. Humanities Center Director Barbara Altmann interviews faculty, staff, and visiting lecturers about their research and interests for a 30 minute show that gives an inside look at the University of Oregon.

Featured, Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today · Monday, April 13th, 2009

On Tuesday, March 10 Joseph Thornton from the UO Department of Biology and Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology presented a lecture entitled “The Evolution of Complexity: Inside Darwin’s Black Box.” It was the third of a monthly series put on by the University which started in January.

Featured, Oregon Humanities Center · Monday, April 6th, 2009

Cassandra Moseley, director of the Ecosystem Workforce Program in the Institute for a Sustainable Environment, discusses her recent testimony before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the U.S. Senate at a hearing regarding investments in clean energy and natural resources projects and programs to create green jobs and to stimulate the economy.
Humanities Center Director Barbara Altmann interviews faculty, staff, and visiting lecturers about their research and interests for a 30 minute show that gives an inside look at the University of Oregon.

Featured, Oregon Humanities Center · Monday, March 2nd, 2009

Peter Galison, Pellegrino Professor of the History of Science and of Physics, Harvard University, discusses his documentary film “Secrecy” and his research into Albert Einstein’s relationship with Friedrich Adler, a fellow physicist who assassinated the Austrian Prime Minister in 1916.
Humanities Center Director Barbara Altmann interviews faculty, staff, and visiting lecturers about their research and interests for a 30 minute show that gives an inside look at the University of Oregon.

Featured, Oregon Humanities Center · Monday, March 2nd, 2009

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art 75th Anniversary with Jill Hartz, executive director, JSMA; Charles Lachman, curator of Asian Art; and Larry Fong, associate director and curator of American and Regional Art discussing the museum’s collections and history.
Humanities Center Director Barbara Altmann interviews faculty, staff, and visiting lecturers about their research and interests for a 30 minute show that gives an inside look at the University of Oregon.

Featured, Oregon Humanities Center, Uncategorized · Monday, March 2nd, 2009

John Schmor, department head of Theatre Arts, discusses the reopening of the Miller Theatre Complex, the renovation of the Robinson Theatre, and the new Hope Theatre.
Humanities Center Director Barbara Altmann interviews faculty, staff, and visiting lecturers about their research and interests for a 30 minute show that gives an inside look at the University of Oregon.

Featured, Oregon Humanities Center · Sunday, March 1st, 2009

Dr. Edward Tick is a practicing psychotherapist who has worked with veterans with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) for more than 30 years. For Tick, the key to helping veterans heal lies in how we understand PTSD.

Tick defines PTSD as more than simply a stress and anxiety disorder; it is also an identity disorder and a “wounding of the soul” resulting from the deep trauma of war. Using a holistic, psycho-spiritual model—including Greek mythology and Native American traditions—Tick helps veterans confront and heal their wounds and thereby become whole again.

Tick is the founder of Soldier’s Heart, a non-profit veterans advocacy and safe-return program. His clinical practice and his work with Soldier’s Heart are the basis for his recent book, War and the Soul: Healing Our Nation’s Veterans from Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (2005).

Featured, Oregon Humanities Center · Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

The UO International Career Forum was held Friday – January 23, 2009, and offered real-life experiences for those considering a globally-focused career, and preparation for being a competitive global professional in the 21st century. Get the inside scoop from current professionals from the nonprofit, public, business, high-tech and journalism/communication sectors that have internationally-focused positions. In this section, hear from:

     * Jess Burns – Free Speech Radio
     * Jon Palfreman – Frontline
     * Beth Naidis — Waggener Edstrom (Public Relations Firm)
     * Anne Marie Levis — Funk/Levis and Associates (Marketing, Advertising, & Branding)
     * Dan Morrison — Freelance photojournalist

on Journalism & Communications.

Featured, Oregon Career Center · Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

The UO International Career Forum was held Friday – January 23, 2009, and offered real-life experiences for those considering a globally-focused career, and preparation for being a competitive global professional in the 21st century. Get the inside scoop from current professionals from the nonprofit, public, business, high-tech and journalism/communication sectors that have internationally-focused positions. In this section, hear from:

     * Cerise Roth-Vinson — Mobility International USA (MIUSA)
     * Gary Gamer — Holt International (International Adoption Agency)
     * Tom Evans — Downtown Languages
     * Laura Miller — Mercy Corps
     * Maggie Keenan — ELAW (Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide)

on Nonprofit & NGO.

Featured, Oregon Career Center · Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

The UO International Career Forum was held Friday – January 23, 2009, and offered real-life experiences for those considering a globally-focused career, and preparation for being a competitive global professional in the 21st century. Get the inside scoop from current professionals from the nonprofit, public, business, high-tech and journalism/communication sectors that have internationally-focused positions. In this section, hear from:

    * Anne Williams — USAID (US Agency for International Development)
    * David Tyree — Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
    * Justin Overdevest — Peace Corps

on the Government & Public sector.

Featured, Oregon Career Center · Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

Altruism, the selfless concern for the well-being of others, is a core virtue in many societies and religions. But ever since Darwin wrote about cooperation and altruism, scientists have had a love/hate relationship with these behaviors. Warren Holmes, University of Oregon psychology professor, explores the paradox of cooperative behavior in “The Evolution of Cooperation and the Paradox of Altruism.” It was the second talk in a UO lecture series celebrating the life and work of Charles Darwin given on Tuesday, Feb. 10 2009.

Featured, Oregon Humanities Center · Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

On Tuesday, January 13 2009 Patrick Phillips presented his lecture entitled “Darwin’s Puzzles: The Evolution of Sex and Death” at the “150 Years Since On the Origin of Species: A Darwin Bicentennial Birthday Celebration.”

Featured, Oregon Humanities Center · Monday, February 16th, 2009

This episode features Michael Salter, Digital Arts Professor in the school of Architecture and Allied Arts. Michael Salter discusses his work and teaching as well as his acclaimed “Styrobots.” Humanities Center Director Barbara Altmann interviews faculty, staff, and visiting lecturers about their research and interests for a 30 minute show that gives an inside look at the University of Oregon.

Featured, Oregon Humanities Center, Oregon Local Interest, UO Today · Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

Henry Jenkins, Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities, co-director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT, and author of Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide offers a report card on the role of media (new and old) in what appears to be one of the most transformative elections since the 1960 Nixon/Kennedy race demonstrated television’s increased centrality to American politics.

Academic, Featured, Oregon Humanities Center, Oregon Local Interest, Outreach · Thursday, November 13th, 2008

This video from Resource Innovations, a program within the Institute for a Sustainable Environment, details how heating buildings with woody biomass can save money and promote carbon-neutral energy uses. The video highlights the first public school in Oregon to switch from a heating-oil system to one based on woody biomass. As communities struggle with climate change and rising energy costs one isolated rural community is using what’s in their backyard to heat their school and save money. The episode features Nils Christoffersen from Wallowa Resources, a community-based non-profit, Brad Royce, Superintendent of Schools for the Enterprise School District and Cameron Hamilton of McKinstry Co, the contractor who supervised construction. A companion guidebook, Wood Heat Solutions: A Community Guide to Biomass Thermal Projects is available from Resource Innovations.

Academic, Featured, Oregon Local Interest · Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

The Internet has become a global phenomenon since its original introduction to a limited part of the academic world in January 1983. The research upon which it was based began in the 1960’s with the exploration of packet-switching concepts as alternative to conventional telephony circuit switching. In the intervening 40 or so years, the Internet has evolved in significant ways, but it has also left unresolved a number of issues that need attention. In this talk, we will briefly explore a few highlights of the Internet’s evolution and then look at some of the new anticipated applications that are foreseeable. We will look at current statistics and some projections for the growth of the Internet and where its users will be. Vinton G. Cerf is Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google. In this role, he is responsible for identifying new enabling technologies to support the development of advanced, Internet-based products and services from Google. He is also an active public face for Google in the Internet world.

Academic, Featured, Outreach · Thursday, November 6th, 2008

The Securities Analysis Center at the University of Oregon has assembled a panel of industry leaders and university faculty members to discuss the turbulence in world financial markets. During the event, panel members discussed the credit crisis, the $700 billion congressional rescue bill and the government’s recent nationalization of and loans to private firms. Panelists are Ron Sauer, chief executive of Mazama Capital Management in Portland; Bob Jesenik, chief executive of Aequitas Capital Management in Lake Oswego; John Chalmers, head of the UO finance department; and Ben Salm, managing director of the Securities Analysis Center.

Academic, Featured · Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

Convocation marks the start of the academic year and welcomes incoming students to the scholarly world of the university. The event is festive and resonates with the centuries-old tradition of inducting scholars into the community of the academy. This year’s convocation speaker is Steven Pinker, cognitive scientist and the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. The UO Channel is pleased to present Steven Pinker’s keynote speech, with an introduction by UO President Dave Frohnmayer.

Academic, Featured · Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

This episode features David Frohnmayer, President of the University of Oregon. David Frohnmayer talks about various subjects including his resignation at the end of the 2008-09 academic school year, plans for the upcoming year, higher education at the global level, and thoughts about the new president. Humanities Center Director Barbara Altmann interviews faculty, staff, and visiting lecturers about their research and interests for a 30 minute show that gives an inside look at the University of Oregon.

Academic, Featured, Oregon Humanities Center, Oregon Local Interest, UO Today · Monday, September 29th, 2008

Music scholar Richard Taruskin talked about his controversial views on censoring musical performances that contain anti-Semitic or other offensive sentiments during the 2008 Kritikos lectures in Eugene and Portland. During his UO visit, Taruskin led a graduate seminar and met with a group of undergraduate students from the Living Learning Center residence hall. He also met with Oregon Bach Festival organizers to discuss the controversial text of St. John Passion, which includes anti-Semitic language. Taruskin is a specialist in several fields of music history. He is the author of the “Oxford History of Western Music” and six other books. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Times and The New Republic and has won numerous awards for his scholarship.

Academic, Featured, Oregon Humanities Center, Oregon Local Interest · Monday, September 22nd, 2008

Community Conversations is an academic program that is one of the Living Learning Initiatives of University Housing in partnership with the Clark Honors College, the Oregon Humanities Center, and Undergraduate Studies. The goal of Community Conversations is to stimulate intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, contrarian debate, and articulate discourse among the 3,300+ residential students at the University of Oregon.
Speakers: Joe Henderson, Janet Heinonen, Laura Coll, Brad Hudson

Academic, Community Conversations, Featured, Outreach · Friday, August 22nd, 2008

“The Olympic Trials at Hayward Field: The story of a community, A University, and the Athletes of Oregon” is a 15 minute documentary created at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication. It takes a look back at Eugene’s history, the origins of Hayward Field, past athletes, the recent Olympic Trials, and all the things that make Eugene “Track Town U.S.A.”.

Featured, Oregon Documentary Project, Oregon Local Interest, Student Productions · Monday, August 4th, 2008

Graduation is a wonderful celebration of a well-deserved accomplishment. At the University of Oregon, we hope you, family and friends of the graduate, are able to share in this celebration and witness the final product of a meaningful experience.The 2008 commencement speaker was Ronald B. Mitchell, Professor of Political Science. Ronald Mitchell is an accomplished political scientist who specializes in international relations and environmental politics. His current research is supported by two National Science Foundation grants – “Fostering Cross-Disciplinary Relationships and Early-Career Development to Advance Interdisciplinary Research on Climate Change and Impacts” and “Analysis of the Effects of Environmental Treaties.” He has published two books and numerous articles on environmental politics and treaty compliance. Mitchell is a core faculty member in the Environmental Studies Program and is very active in national and international advisory boards and scientific committees.

Academic, Featured · Friday, June 27th, 2008

The 2008 School of Journalism and Communication commencement gathered more than 3,000 friends and family members to salute the 350 graduates. Graduation is a wonderful celebration of a well-deserved accomplishment. At the University of Oregon, we hope you, family and friends of the graduate, are able to share in this celebration and witness the final product of a meaningful experience. Dan Wieden, who received the UO’s Distinguished Alumnus Award, delivered a brief address.

Academic, Featured · Friday, June 27th, 2008

The 2008 University of Oregon Department of Education Graduation. Graduation is a wonderful celebration of a well-deserved accomplishment. At the University of Oregon, we hope you, family and friends of the graduate, are able to share in this celebration and witness the final product of a meaningful experience.

Academic, Featured · Friday, June 27th, 2008

The 2008 University of Oregon Department of Economics Graduation. Graduation is a wonderful celebration of a well-deserved accomplishment. At the University of Oregon, we hope you, family and friends of the graduate, are able to share in this celebration and witness the final product of a meaningful experience.

Academic, Featured · Friday, June 27th, 2008

The 2008 University of Oregon Lundquist College of Business Graduation. Graduation is a wonderful celebration of a well-deserved accomplishment. At the University of Oregon, we hope you, family and friends of the graduate, are able to share in this celebration and witness the final product of a meaningful experience.

Academic, Featured · Friday, June 27th, 2008

George Lakoff is the co-founder of the Rockridge Institute, a think tank for progressive politics and public policies. His talk surveys basic findings about what human reason is really like and shows why this matters in politics. Over the past 30 years, Lakoff posits, cognitive and brain sciences have shown that human reason –instead of being conscious and logical — takes place mostly below the level of consciousness and is much more interesting and complex than was once believed.

Academic, Featured, Oregon Humanities Center · Friday, May 2nd, 2008

The Clark Lecture in the Humanities promotes “public discussion on the natural sciences, the history of Oregon, and the interface between science and social and cultural affairs.” The 2007-08 Clark Lecturer was Stanford biology and environmental studies professor Stephen Schneider. Schneider is the founder and editor of the interdisciplinary journal, Climatic Change. He is editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather and author of The Genesis Strategy: Climate and Global Survival; The Coevolution of Climate and Life; Global Warming: Are We Entering the Greenhouse Century? and Laboratory Earth: The Planetary Gamble We Can’t Afford to Lose. Stephen Schneider talked about how much more could be done to substantially reduce the magnitude of the risks associated with global warming if only we can summon the political will to take decisive action—soon.

Featured, Oregon Humanities Center, Outreach · Friday, March 28th, 2008

This episode features Mark Quigley, an Assistant Professor in the English Department. Mark Quigley’s research interests are focused on Irish literature and postcolonial literature and theory. He is also interested in African-American literature and culture. Humanities Center Director Steve Shankman interviews faculty, staff, and visiting lecturers about their research and interests for a 30 minute show that gives an inside look at the University of Oregon.

Academic, Community Conversations, Featured, Media Services, Oregon Humanities Center, Oregon Local Interest, Outreach, UO Today · Friday, March 14th, 2008

This episode features Andrew Kirkpatrick, the Digital Projects Manager for Knight Library Media Services. A large part of his work is focused on the development of visual teaching tools to improve education. This episode also features J.D. Hauger, the Streaming Video Developer for the University of Oregon. J.D. Hauger came to the University in April of 2005. He has designed the UO Channel, a searchable website containing video archives of University events and speakers. Humanities Center Director Steve Shankman interviews faculty, staff, and visiting lecturers about their research and interests for a 30 minute show that gives an inside look at the University of Oregon.

Academic, Community Conversations, Featured, Media Services, Oregon Humanities Center, Oregon Local Interest, Outreach, UO Today · Friday, March 14th, 2008

Convocation marks the start of the academic year and welcomes incoming students to the scholarly world of the university. The event is festive and resonates with the centuries-old tradition of inducting scholars into the community of the academy.

This year’s convocation speaker is Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Center for Public Policy, University of Pennsylvania. Jamieson has frequently asserted that it is incumbent on America’s leaders to tell the citizenry “truths it does not want to hear.” Such statements are part of the reason syndicated columnist Paul Greenberg recently dubbed Jamieson the “magisterial arbiter of American eloquence.” She has long excelled at guiding Americans to more insightful analysis of the world.

The UO Channel is pleased to present Kathleen Kamieson’s keynote speech, with an introduction by UO President Dave Frohnmayer.

Academic, Featured, Media Services · Monday, October 1st, 2007

Michael Moffitt, associate director of the Appropriate Dispute Resolution Center at the University of Oregon School of Law, delivered the keynote address to the class of 2007 at spring commencement June 16, 2007.

Moffitt’s speech, “In Praise of Surprises: Lessons from Conflict Resolution,” dealt with the importance of keeping an open mind when dealing with the conflicts that inevitably arise in life.

“We have done our students a disservice if we have taught them that now they are educated, they should no longer expect to be surprised,” Moffitt says. “To be surprised is to be open to new information and new points of view. We learn when we see something we didn’t expect to see.” That unexpected moment, he says, can lead to a broader understanding of how to resolve conflicts.

A total of 4,359 students who completed work toward a degree during the 2006-2007 academic year participated in the spring ceremonies, which were held at McArthur Court.

Academic, Featured · Thursday, July 5th, 2007

A year after the 1995 Rose Bowl appearance, the 1996 Duck gridiron squad had a week to prepare for the annual Oregon Civil War game. At stake, an invitation to the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas to face Colorado. The UO Channel presents a direct cinema record of that week, as young men balanced academics and athletics for seven days leading to the pinnacle of their collegiate football careers.

Featured, Media Services, Oregon Local Interest · Friday, February 2nd, 2007

The commencement ceremony is a time when the campus community comes together to honor all graduates and their families. This year, Francis Bronet, dean of the University of Oregon School of Architecture and Allied Arts, addressed summer graduates, their families and friends during the university’s 2006 summer commencement on Saturday, Aug. 19. Bronet was named dean in August of 2005. She came to the university from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Albany, N.Y., where she was a professor and former associate dean of architecture. More than 1,000 degree candidates were eligible to participate in the ceremonies, which were held outdoors at the Memorial Quadrangle on the west edge of the University of Oregon campus.

Featured, Media Services · Tuesday, September 12th, 2006

Red carpets spangled with yellow rose petals greeted Her Royal Highness the Princess Bajrakitiyabha Mahidol of Thailand at every turn on the occasion of the first visit of royalty to campus in more than forty years. On behalf of her father, the Crown Prince of Thailand, Her Royal Highness the Princess Bajrakitiyabha Mahidol graciously presided over three days of special events related to her country’s Diamond Jubilee, the sixtieth anniversary celebration of King Bhumibol Adulyadej’s accession to the throne. “This campus is one of the most beautiful that I have seen,” said the princess, who holds two law degrees from Cornell University. The UO Channel is pleased to present the launch of a new series of teacher training workshops, created by leading UO math and science professors and beamed via satellite from the UO campus to schools across Thailand and neighboring countries, featuring a message in Thai from the Princess delivered from Media Services’ television studio in the Knight Library.

Featured, Knight Library, Media Services · Wednesday, August 16th, 2006

Bishop John Shelby Spong presented two public lectures as the 2005 – 2006 Kritikos Professor in the Humanities. On May 24th he spoke on “Who is the Popular God in Public Life in the 21st Century?” in Columbia Hall at the University of Oregon campus.

Bishop Spong, whose books have sold more than a million copies, was the Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark for 24 years before his retirement in 2001. His admirers acclaim his legacy as a teaching bishop who makes contemporary theology accessible to the ordinary lay person—he’s considered a champion of an inclusive faith by many, both inside and outside the Christian church. In his latest book, “The Sins of Scripture: Exposing the Bible’s Texts of Hate to Discover the God of Love” (Harper San Francisco, April 2005), this visionary thinker seeks to introduce people to a proper way to engage the holy book of the Judeo-Christian tradition.

Featured, Oregon Humanities Center · Tuesday, May 30th, 2006

The annual Warsaw Women in Sports Business Symposium is a leading academic forum for students and business professionals interested in the sports industry. Sponsored by the James H. Warsaw Sports Marketing Center, the Symposium creates a unique learning opportunity for both current professionals and the business leaders of tomorrow.

This year, the second annual “Warsaw Sports Business Woman of the Year” award for significant contribution in the advancement of women in sports was given to Lee Ann Daly, who was most recently the ESPN Executive Vice President, Marketing. At ESPN, Ms. Daly was responsible for the development, direction and implementation of all branding, creative services and marketing for ESPN’s media businesses. Daly and her team were responsible for the development or enhancement of over 50 campaigns annually, including “This is SportsCenter” and most recently, “Without Sports” which celebrates the role of sports in society. Daly also played a role in the successful development of ESPN Original Entertainment.

The UO Channel is pleased to make available Lee Ann Daly’s keynote address.

Featured, Warsaw Sports Marketing Center · Monday, May 8th, 2006

David Lynch, the critically-acclaimed director behind such films as Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive, spoke at the University of Oregon on Tuesday, November 8th, 2005. The Lecture is entitled “Consciousness, Creativity and the Brain.” Lynch was accompanied by Drs. John Hagelin, Ph.D., and Fred Travis, Ph.D.

Off Site Resources: DIVING WITHIN: A conversation with esoteric filmmaker David Lynch – Eugene Weekly, 11/03/2005

Featured, Media Services · Tuesday, November 8th, 2005

Join the UO Channel in a walk down memory lane as we present a documentary film reel circa 1934 that provides a snap shot of the campus shortly after the Great Depression. This old film reel’s brief credits state simply: Jesse G Sill Presents… “Know Your Pacific Coast Colleges” – Number 1 – University of Oregon at Eugene, Oregon. Regardless of how it was used in the 1930’s, this old film is enjoying a new life through a high tech medium.

Featured, Outreach · Saturday, November 5th, 2005

Louis Menand-critic and author of “The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America,” spoke on Thursday, May 12, about Andy Warhol’s 1962 exhibit of paintings of Campbell’s soup cans and the role it played the intellectual history of the Cold War era.

The lecture on “The Story of the Soup Cans” is sponsored by the Oregon Humanities Center at the University of Oregon.

Featured, Oregon Humanities Center · Tuesday, May 10th, 2005