Mar 13, 2020 | Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today
Writer Elizabeth Rush is author of Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize. She discusses her book and reads a passage. Her book offers a sensitive view of American communities routinely impacted by rising sea levels....
Mar 4, 2020 | Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today
Timothy Williams, assistant professor of History in the Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon, discusses his monograph Intellectual Manhood: University, Self, and Society in the Antebellum South, and his co-edited volume Prison Pens: Gender, Memory, and...
Feb 27, 2020 | Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today
David Mura, writer, memoirist, and performance artist, is a third-generation Japanese American whose family was interred during World War II. He discusses his recent book A Stranger’s Journey: Race, Identity, and Narrative Craft in Writing and explains how writing...
Feb 19, 2020 | Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today
Jacqueline Cordova-Arrington, assistant professor of Flute in the School of Music and Dance at the University of Oregon, talks about her experiences as a Fulbright Fellow with the Berlin Philharmonic, and as a fellow in Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect program. She...
Feb 13, 2020 | Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today
Janet Dewart Bell is the author of Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement, and the widow of Derrick Bell, former dean of the UO’s School of Law. She talks about some of the women she interviewed for her book: Myrlie Evers,...
Feb 6, 2020 | Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today
Ruha Benjamin, associate professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, is the author of Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code. She discusses how new technologies encode old forms of segregation and gives some examples of bias...
