May 30, 2019 | Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today
Jill Hartz, Executive Director of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art since 2008 will retire in 2019. She discusses how the museum established an academic mission during her tenure as well as enhanced its many public programs. In addition Hartz talks about how programs...
May 24, 2019 | Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today
Danielle Allen, James Conant University Professor at Harvard University, is the director of Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics. Allen discusses the deficiency of civics education in America resulting from policies wrought by polarized politics. She...
May 18, 2019 | Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today
Lindsey Mazurek, assistant professor of History at the University of Oregon, is a specialist in the ancient history of the Mediterranean region. She discusses her study of the cult of Isis in Greece during the Roman occupation and the associated material...
May 1, 2019 | Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today
Daniel Gómez Steinhart, assistant professor of Cinema Studies, discusses his book Runaway Hollywood: Internationalizing Postwar Production and Location Shooting, which focuses on Hollywood filmmaking in Europe after World War II. Steinhart also talks about...
Apr 23, 2019 | Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today
Chuck Collins, senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington DC, directs their Program on Inequality and coedits Inequality.org. He is author of Is Inequality in America Irreversible? Collins discusses the roots of economic inequality and the racial...
Apr 16, 2019 | Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today
Autumn Shafer, assistant professor of Public Relations in the School of Journalism and Communication, talks about her enthusiasm for teaching and engaging undergraduate students in research. Shafer discusses some her research projects that aim to develop effective...
