UO Today #750: Geri Doran
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 Reading Series.
UO Today #749: Kirby Brown and Jennifer O’Neal
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 Humanities: Partnerships between Academia and Tribal Communities.” The conference features the annual Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples […]
UO Today #748: Michael Schill
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 due to open June 2020. UO and OHSU have teamed up to combat cancer and other diseases […]
2019 Undergraduate Symposium-student interviews: Nadav Menashe
2019 Undergraduate Symposium-student interviews: Sara Bapatista
2019 Undergraduate Symposium-student interviews: Shijing Zhou
2019 Undergraduate Symposium-student interviews: Sierra Webster
2019 Undergraduate Symposium-student interviews: Sky Ramirez-Doble
2019 Undergraduate Symposium-student interviews: Takako Iwashita
2019 Undergraduate Symposium-student interviews: Tulku Sangye Tenzin
2019 Undergraduate Symposium-student interviews: Joan Hicks
2019 Undergraduate Symposium-student interviews: John Francis
2019 Undergraduate Symposium-student interviews: Joshua Mostales
2019 Undergraduate Symposium-student interviews: Karishma Shah
2019 Undergraduate Symposium-student interviews: Malyssa Robles
2019 Undergraduate Symposium-student interviews: Mary Green
2019 Undergraduate Symposium-student interviews: Megan Olivera
2019 Undergraduate Symposium-student interviews: Momo Wilms-Crowe
2019 Undergraduate Symposium-student interviews: Karishma Shah
2019 Undergraduate Symposium-student interviews: Emily Ma
2019 Undergraduate Symposium-student interviews: Elmira Louie
2019 Undergraduate Symposium-student interviews: Chaucie Edwards
2019 Undergraduate Symposium-student interviews: Ana Cecelia Barajas
Undergraduate Research Symposium 2019: Cydnie Davenport
Dialect Variation in English: An Investigation into the Disappearing Word Effect
Undergraduate Research Symposium 2019: Scott Zeigler
Antagonistic River: Reading nature through Ken Kesey’s Sometimes a Great Notion
Undergraduate Research Symposium 2019: Violet Fox
Negotiating Freedoms: Women Experiencing Homelessness in Eugene, OR
Undergraduate Research Symposium 2019: Transfer Student Panel
Panelists: Aaron MacArthur, Maria Dresser, Morgan Bunch, Zora Rose
Undergraduate Research Symposium 2019: Zoe Wassman
American, Societal Structures Inhibiting Empathy for Criminals
Undergraduate Research Symposium 2019: Frankie Leonard
Success in a Neoliberal, Capitalistic Society
Undergraduate Research Symposium 2019: Adriane Hershey
A Social and Psychological Analysis of Fatal Police Violence
Undergraduate Research Symposium 2019: Simon Narode
A Critique of Hume’s Compatibilist Philosophy: The Challenge of Reconciling Free Will and Causality
Undergraduate Research Symposium 2019: Shane Cooney
Overwhelmed and Undermined: The Use of Psychoactive Substances and the Problem of Meaninglessness
Undergraduate Research Symposium 2019: Faith Collins
The Effect of Delta Frequency Music on Insomniac Sleep Onset Latency
Undergraduate Research Symposium 2019: Rachel McGill
Analyzing Treatment of Schizophrenic Patients within Morningside Hospital from 1955-1958 UO Channel Live Stream
Undergraduate Research Symposium 2019: Gabriella Farland
Morningside Hospital: A Historical Case Study for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Depression in Mid-Century American Psychiatry
Undergraduate Research Symposium 2019: Deforest Wihtol
Caliban Yisrael: Constructing Caliban as the Jewish “Other” In Shakespeare’s The Tempest
Undergraduate Research Symposium 2019: Allene Shaw
The Role of Intonation in Japanese Politeness
Undergraduate Research Symposium 2019: Alice Harding
Migration and ideas of the foreign in the Bronze Age Near East
UO Today #747: Camisha Russell
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 and asks, “what does the idea of race do?” and posits that race is a technology (something […]
UO Today #746: Philip Haas
Artist and filmmaker Philip Haas discusses his performance installation “Sculpture Breathes Life into Painting and Music” which had a world premiere exhibition at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art May 29 through June 9, 2019. He presents excerpts from the performance.
UO Today #745: Jill Hartz
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 have broadened to serve diverse communities.
UO Today #744: Danielle Allen
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 talks about the importance of egalitarian and participatory democracy. Her Democratic Knowledge Project identifies skills, knowledge, and habits […]
UO Today #743: Lindsey Mazurek
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 culture. Mazurek also talks about her work with the Mediterranean Connectivity Project, a digital humanities initiative […]
UO Today #742: Daniel Steinhart
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 “Hollywood Style,” a class he developed and taught as a 2018-19 Oregon Humanities Center Teaching Fellow. The class examined the history and […]
UO Today #741: Chuck Collins
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 wealth divide in the United States and describes how social welfare policies can remedy inequality. He offers […]
UO Today #740: Autumn Shafer
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 messaging about health promotion. She and her students developed a successful campaign to improve students’ understanding of sexual […]
UO Today #739: Justin Driver
Justin Driver, the Harry N. Wyatt Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, discusses his book The Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind. He talks about how the law and courts shape public education in America. Driver gave a lecture titled “Are Public Schools Becoming […]
UO Today #738: Philip Scher
Philip Scher, professor of Anthropology and Folklore and Public Culture, organized the exhibition “Visual Clave: The Expression of the Latino/a Experience through Album Cover Art, 1940-1990” at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Scher discusses the social and cultural influences that have shaped Latin music and the iconography used by the album cover artists. The […]
UO Today #737: Alisa Roth
Journalist Alisa Roth is author of Insane: America’s Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness. She discusses the mental healthcare crisis in the U.S. criminal justice system. Roth gave a talk titled “America’s Hidden Mental Health Crisis” on March 12, 2019 as the 2018-19 Lorwin Lecturer in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.
UO Today #736: Jose Cortez
José M. Cortez, assistant professor of English at the University of Oregon, discusses his approach to the teaching of writing and rhetoric to students from diverse backgrounds. He talks about the importance of creating a scholarly community and wrapping students into research. He shares that the UO’s commitment to diversity and inclusion, the SAIL program, […]