Oct 28, 2019 | Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today
Helena María Viramontes, the Goldwin Smith Professor of English at Cornell University, is the author of numerous short stories and two novels, Their Dogs Came with Them and Under the Feet of Jesus. She discusses her writing and Under the Feet of Jesus which is the...
Oct 18, 2019 | Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today
Brent Dawson, assistant professor of English at the University of Oregon, and a 2019-20 Oregon Humanities Center Ernst G. Moll Fellow in Literary Studies. He discusses his book project Worldly Muck: The Matter of Universality in English Renaissance Literature. Dawson...
Oct 16, 2019 | Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today
Poet Geri Doran, associate professor of Creative Writing at the University of Oregon, discusses her latest collection Epistle, Osprey (2019) and reads her poetry. Doran will give a reading on November 20, 2019 as part of the Creative Writing Program’s 2019-20...
Oct 3, 2019 | Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today
Kirby Brown, associate professor of English and Native American Studies at the University of Oregon, and Jennifer O’Neal, assistant professor of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon, offer a preview of the conference “Engaged...
Sep 28, 2019 | Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today
Michael Schill, president of the University of Oregon, shares his enthusiasm for several campus projects and initiatives. The recently-opened Willie and Donald Tykeson Hall houses the new, integrated academic advising and career planning center. The Knight Campus is...
Jun 12, 2019 | Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today
Camisha Russell, assistant professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon, discusses her book The Assisted Reproduction of Race, which examines how concepts of race are reinforced by reproductive technologies. Russell talks about how race is a social construct...
