OCRS 21: Walt Powell – “The rise of multi-extortion ransomware in the midst of a global pandemic.”
Oregon Cyber Resilience Summit 2021: This preeminent cyber resilience event takes a "whole community" approach, bringing together the private and public sectors, owners and operators, cybersecurity experts, students, and community members to network and train together...
Bridging the Gap between Racism, Sexism and Discrimination: Sport as a Platform for Social Justice
A Women’s History Month signature event with legendary Olympian Heptathlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee, followed by a panel of UO faculty from the Provost’s Diversity Initiative and Sport and Wellness Initiative, and the Women of Oregon. Sponsored by the Office of the...
Michael Sherwin: “Vanishing Points: Revisiting America’s Indigenous Landscape” –Visiting Artist Lecture Series
University of Oregon Winter 2022 Visiting Artist Lecture Series Presented by the Department of Art and Center for Art Research Thursday, March 3, 4:00 p.m. in Lawrence Hall, Room 177, 1190 Franklin Boulevard, Eugene, Oregon 97403 Michael Sherwin: “Vanishing Points:...
Lezley Saar: “Surrealism, Symbolism, and Significance” –Visiting Artist Lecture Series
University of Oregon Winter 2022 Visiting Artist Lecture Series Presented by the Department of Art and Center for Art Research Thursday, February 3, 4:00 p.m. on Zoom Lezley Saar: “Surrealism, Symbolism, and Significance” Lectures will also live stream on the UO IS...
Ni una menos: Violence against women and justice in Guatemala – Film Screening and Discussion
This livestream event with the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies (CLLAS) and the Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS) screens and discusses the documentary film, Ni una menos: Violence against women and justice in Guatemala, on January 27,...
Author’s Talk with Robin Wall Kimmerer
Join Common Reading and author Robin Wall Kimmerer as she gives a talk on the 2021/22 AY selection, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants.
Pei-Hsuan Wang: “I’ve Left My Body to Occupy Others” –Visiting Artist Lecture Series
University of Oregon Winter 2022 Visiting Artist Lecture Series Presented by the Department of Art and Center for Art Research Thursday, January 13, 4:00 p.m. in Lawrence Hall, Room 177, 1190 Franklin Boulevard, Eugene, Oregon 97403 Pei-Hsuan Wang: “I’ve Left My Body...
Andrew Thomas Huang: “Queer Morphologies & Digital Spirits” –Visiting Artist Lecture Series
University of Oregon Fall 2021 Visiting Artist Lecture Series Presented by the Department of Art and Center for Art Research Lawrence Hall, Room 177, 1190 Franklin Boulevard, Eugene, Oregon 97403 Free and open to the public. Thursday, November 18, 4:00 p.m. Davis...
Weaving New Beginnings 2021
Weaving New Beginnings Welcome Event Date: October 27, 2021 Time: 5:00–7:00 p.m. Locations: UO Eugene campus; UO Portland campus; Zoom call The Division of Student Life is pleased to announce the 27th celebration of Weaving New Beginnings, a networking reception to...
Amy Yao: “From ESL to Asian Clams” –Visiting Artist Lecture Series
Amy Yao will present slides ranging from her experiences playing in the punk band Emilys Sassy Lime in 1993, to her most recent work in progress involving soil analysis used in ceramics, language and theories about "invasive species" and algae-based polymers. Amy Yao...
Lumi Tan: “Invisible Rooms: Performance and Institutions” –Visiting Artist Lecture Series
University of Oregon Fall 2021 Visiting Artist Lecture Series Presented by the Department of Art and Center for Art Research Live on zoom and on the Department of Art Facebook. Free and open to the public. Thursday, October 28, 4:00 p.m. Lumi Tan: “Invisible...
Pre-Watch Party for Michelle Obama in Conversation
Catherine Haggarty: “You Know More Than You Can Say” –Visiting Artist Lecture Series
University of Oregon Fall 2021 Visiting Artist Lecture Series Presented by the Department of Art and Center for Art Research Lawrence Hall, Room 177, 1190 Franklin Boulevard, Eugene, Oregon 97403 Free and open to the public. Thursday, October 14, 4:00 p.m. Catherine...
Dianna Frid: “It Takes Time” –Visiting Artist Lecture Series
University of Oregon Fall 2021 Visiting Artist Lecture Series Presented by the Department of Art and Center for Art Research Lawrence Hall, Room 177, 1190 Franklin Boulevard, Eugene, Oregon 97403 Free and open to the public. Thursday, October 21, 4:00 p.m. Dianna...
Amy Brener: “Omni-Kits and Flexi-Shields” –Visiting Artist Lecture Series
University of Oregon Fall 2021 Visiting Artist Lecture Series Presented by the Department of Art and Center for Art Research Thursday, October 7, 4:00 p.m. Amy Brener: “Omni-Kits and Flexi-Shields” Amy Brener uses inventive mold-making and casting techniques to fuse...
Mario Ybarra Jr.: “I Did It for Revenge!” –Visiting Artist Lecture Series
University of Oregon Spring 2021 Visiting Artist Lecture Series Presented by the Department of Art and Center for Art Research Thursday, May 27, 5:00 p.m. Mario Ybarra Jr.: “I Did It for Revenge!” George and Matilda Fowler Lecture Mario will discuss some of his past...
UO 2021 JD/LLM Law School Commencement Stage Processional
The law school 2021 JD/LLM commencement stage processional allows us to celebrate our graduating J.D. students while they cross a stage to the applause they rightfully deserve. Pandemic restrictions prevent additional guests from attending this event in person, but a...
Reach for Success 2021
Reach for Success 2021 Friday, April 16, 2021. It's never too early to start thinking about college! The Center for Multicultural Academic Excellence’s (CMAE) Reach for Success is the UO's primary visitation program for traditionally underrepresented 7th and 8th...
Amir Zaki: “Building & Becoming” –Visiting Artist Lecture Series
University of Oregon Spring 2021 Visiting Artist Lecture Series Presented by the Department of Art and Center for Art Research Thursday, May 6, 4:00 p.m. Amir Zaki: “Building & Becoming” Amir Zaki has an ongoing interest in the rhetoric of authenticity, as it is...
Rebecca Morris: “Artist Talk” –Visiting Artist Lecture Series
University of Oregon Spring 2021 Visiting Artist Lecture Series Presented by the Department of Art and Center for Art Research Thursday, April 22, 4:00 p.m. Rebecca Morris: “Artist Talk” Rebecca Morris is an abstract painter whose work deeply investigates materials,...
Glenn Adamson: “Craft in America: Real and Ideal” –Visiting Artist Lecture Series
University of Oregon Spring 2021 Visiting Artist Lecture Series Presented by the Department of Art and Center for Art Research Thursday, April 8, 3:00 p.m. Glenn Adamson: “Craft in America: Real and Ideal” Co-sponsored by the MFA Applied Craft + Design at PNCA Drawing...
Alison Saar & Hank Willis Thomas conversation with Hamza Walker –Visiting Artist Lecture Series
University of Oregon Spring 2021 Visiting Artist Lecture Series Presented by the Department of Art and Center for Art Research Thursday, April 15, 4:00 p.m. Alison Saar and Hank Willis Thomas in conversation with Hamza Walker Alison Saar’s sculpture, prints and...
UO Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Alison Saar & Hank Willis Thomas conversation with Hamza Walker
University of Oregon Spring 2021 Visiting Artist Lecture Series presented by the Department of Art and Center for Art Research Thursday, April 15, 4:00 p.m. Alison Saar and Hank Willis Thomas in conversation with Hamza Walker Alison Saar’s sculpture, prints and...
Fred Liang: “Convergence” –Visiting Artist Lecture Series
Much of Fred H. C. Liang’s recent work combines jianzhi, the folk art of cut paper, with porcelain to explore cultural exchanges between the East and West. The assemblage of his work explores the complex global exchanges and the subsequent dissemination,...
John Mann: The Walled Garden- Department of Art Visiting Artist Lecture Series
John Mann: The Walled Garden “My photographic images are highly influenced by my simultaneous interests in sculpture and drawing. By using the still life as a stage for the camera, I am interested in a conceptual and aesthetic building of the image. The camera...
Undergraduate Research Symposium 2019: Anika Nykanen
Literary Racialization: The Function of Children in Southern Gothic Literature
Theo Triantafyllidis: “Escapism: The Boundaries of Virtual Space”- Visiting Artist Lecture Series
In this lecture, artist Theo Triantafyllidis will present recent work together with a sneak peek in current projects and behind the scenes material. The focus of the presentation will be on the use of the game engine as an artistic tool and the construction of alternative realities, performative systems and open narratives. Theo Triantafyllidis (b. […]
UO Today #769 guest: Elizabeth Rush
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....
UO Today #768 guest: Timothy Williams
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...
Department of Art Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Namita Gupta Wiggers: “One Hundred Lifetimes and a Day”
Namita Gupta Wiggers is a writer, curator, and educator based in Portland, OR. She is the Director and Co-Founder of Critical Craft Forum. Wiggers is the Program Director of a newly launched Master of Arts in Craft Studies at Warren Wilson College, North Carolina. This low residency program, the first of its kind, focuses on […]
Julia Haft-Candell: “Building a Visual Vocabulary”- Department of Art Visiting Artist Lecture Series
“I work intuitively and analytically, building from a conceptual groundwork that questions language, semiotics, identity and gender. Drawing influence from Philip Guston, Audre Lorde, Louise Bourgeois and Eva Hesse, my work uses humor and sensibilities of the handmade...
UO Today #767 guest: David Mura
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...
UO Today #766 guest: Jacqueline Cordova-Arrington
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...
UO Today #765: Janet Dewart Bell
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,...
UO Today #764 guest: Ruha Benjamin
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...
UO Today #763 guest: Brian Gillis
Brian Gillis is a professor of art in the College of Design and the director of the Center for Art Research (CFAR), which is housed in the 510 Oak building in downtown Eugene. Gillis talks about the CFAR as a collaborative, artist-run platform for experimentation and...
UO Today #762 Guest: Ramon Alvarado
Ramón Alvarado, assistant professor of Philosophy and an affiliate of UO’s Data Science Initiative, discusses his work in data ethics. He defines the concepts of big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence; and talks about the bias of algorithms and the...
UO Today #761: Gabriele Hayden
Gabriele Hayden is Assistant Librarian for Research Data Management and Reproducibility in the Data Services Department of the University of Oregon Libraries. She discusses the resources available to help faculty and students manage their research data and materials. Hayden, with a PhD in English Literature from Yale University, is uniquely situated to help humanities scholars […]
UO Today #760: Amanda Cote
Amanda Cote, assistant professor of Media Studies and Game Studies in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon, discusses her interest in Game Studies and the significance of the field. She also talks about her forthcoming book Gaming Sexism: Gender and Identity in the Era of Casual Video Games, and describes […]
UO Today #759: Danielle Knapp and Cheryl Hartup
Cheryl Hartup, Curator of Academic Programs and Latin American and Caribbean Art at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art; and Danielle Knapp, the McCosh Curator at the Jordan Schnitzer of Art, discuss the museum’s Common Seeing collaboration with the UO’s Common Reading program. This year the exhibit responds to Helena Maria Viramontes’s novel, Under the […]
UO Today #758: Patrick Phillips
Provost Patrick Phillips discusses his role as the chief academic officer of the University of Oregon. He is working on filling some academic leadership vacancies as well as working to hire and retain faculty from diverse backgrounds. Phillips also talks about his work as an award-winning evolutionary biologist and the development of the SCORE (Students […]
UO Today #757: John Arroyo
John Arroyo, assistant professor in the School of Planning, Public Policy, and Management at the University of Oregon, joined the faculty in fall 2019. He describes his interdisciplinary approach to urban design and planning. Arroyo discusses his interest in how Mexican immigrants create community in suburban areas to help allay their fear of harassment. His […]
UO Today #756: John Weber
John Weber, Executive Director of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, discusses his Oregon roots and his aspirations for the museum. Weber took over as Executive Director on October 1, 2019 after Jill Hartz retired.
Julie Rodrigues Widholm: “Expanding the Canon: A Call for Curatorial Activism in 21st Century Museums” – Visiting Artist Lecture Series
Julie Rodrigues Widholm: “Expanding the Canon: A Call for Curatorial Activism in 21st Century Museums Julie Rodrigues Widholm is Director and Chief Curator of DePaul Art Museum where she leads the strategic and artistic vision to promote equity and interdisciplinary education in art museums. Prior to taking the helm at DPAM in September 2015, she was […]
Department of Art Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Angela Washko “Poking the Hive-Interventions in Unusual Media Environments”
Artist and activist Angela Washko will present several different strategies for performing, participating in and transforming online environments that are especially hostile toward women. She will introduce her long-term performative intervention “The Council on Gender Sensitivity and Behavioral Awareness in World of Warcraft” alongside several interventions, interviews, performances, written works and video games works she […]
UO Today #755: Stacy Alaimo
Stacy Alaimo, professor of English and Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon, is an internationally recognized scholar of American literature, ecocultural theory, environmental humanities, and gender theory. She discusses her three books about posthuman environmental politics, and defines the concept of “carbon-heavy masculinity.” Alaimo also talks about her current book project Composing Blue Ecologies: […]
UO Today #754: Lucy Jones
Lucy Jones, 2019-20 Wayne Morse Chair of Law and Politics, is the founder of the Dr. Lucy Jones Center for Science and Society, and the author of The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us (and What We Can Do About Them). She discusses how scientists can better communicate about the impact of their […]
UO Today #753: Courtney Cox
Courtney Cox, assistant professor of Race and Sport in the Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies, joined the faculty in Fall 2019. She discusses disparities of gender, race, and class in sports organizations. Cox comments on the recent NCAA vote to permit college athletes to benefit financially from the use of their name, image, […]
UO Today #752: Helena Maria Viramontes
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 University of Oregon’s 2019-20 Common Reading selection. Viramontes also […]
UO Today #751: Brent Dawson
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 explains the importance of studying historical literature.