Feb 19, 2019 | Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today
Writer Karen Thompson Walker, assistant professor of Creative Writing at the University of Oregon, is author of the New York Times bestselling novel The Age of Miracles and most recently The Dreamers, which was published in January 2019. Thompson Walker reads from The...
Feb 13, 2019 | Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today
Yvette Alex-Assensoh, Vice President for Equity and Inclusion and professor of Political Science at the University of Oregon. She talks about her role as the UO’s chief diversity officer. Alex-Assensoh discusses how the UO encourages enrollment of...
Feb 6, 2019 | Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today
Thi Bui, artist and author of the illustrated memoir The Best We Could Do, a chronicle of her family’s journey from war-torn Vietnam to America. The Best We Could Do is the University of Oregon’s Common Reading book for 2018-19. Bui talks about her process...
Jan 31, 2019 | Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today
Forest ecologist Nalini Nadkarni discusses her work studying the unique ecosystems in tropical and temperate rainforest canopies. She has developed novel ways to share scientific knowledge to a wide range of public audiences and has created programs to bring science...
Jan 24, 2019 | Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today
Fiction writer, Cai Emmons, is author of the novels His Mother’s Son, The Stylist, and most recently Weather Woman. She talks about the protagonist and themes in Weather Woman and reads from the book. Emmons earned an MFA in fiction from the University of...
Jan 17, 2019 | Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today
Mae Ngai, professor of History and Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies at Columbia University, is the 2018-19 Wayne Morse Chair. She discusses the history of immigration to the United States; and talks about how restrictive immigration policy leads to...
