Donate canned goods and be part of the interactive sculpture event! Place in barrels in front of 105 Lawrence Hall. Pick the sculpture you want to support and donate to that bin.
The food drive runs through the month of February. There will be a reception on the last day, Thursday, February 28, at 4:00 p.m. in the lobby outside of 105 Lawrence.
Read more about the food drive at AroundtheO, and visit the food drive Facebook page.
Qosqo, entre el pasado y el presente: Photography in Cusco 1895 - 1945, is a portrait of a city and a culture at the dawn of the modern era, drawn from the work of nine photographers who lived in the Cusco region. Subjects range from Inca sites to romanticized evocations of Peru’s indigenous past; representations of power and authority, race, class, labor and gender, technological advances, and resistance to societal conventions. The exhibition, co-curated by Adelma Benavente García and Peter Yenne, features fifty-four digital prints made from glass plate negatives in institutional archives and small private collections. The exhibition also includes fifteen vintage gelatin silver prints by the most famous photographer of the group, Martín Chambi, and a painted backdrop circa 1895 from the studio of Miguel Chani. Socially, racially and geographically, the nine photographers represent a subtle cross-section of life in the southern highlands of Peru. Their varied techniques, subject matter and artistic personalities offer us a rare insight into the complex heritage that shaped them and the exuberantly hybrid world they depicted.
Visual Clave explores the evolution of Latin album cover art with particular focus on the United States market. It pays critical attention to issues of identity and aesthetics through depictions of Latino/a people and cultures, historical context, and the unsung graphic artists who helped present Latin music—and its attendant socio-cultural themes—to the world. The show weaves a compelling narrative through the display of album jackets for 78 RPM records from the 1930s and ’40s to LP covers from the 1960s through the ’90s. Throughout the exhibition, individual album covers are juxtaposed with their original art, often made by New York-born and based designers from the “golden age of salsa” (late 1960s-’70s). For the artists, record albums served as an important creative outlet for commentary on urgent cultural, political, and economic issues affecting Latin American and Caribbean immigrant communities in the United States. Clave (pronounced CLAH-vay) is the African-derived 2-3 or 3-2 beat used in genres from the Cuban son, mambo, cha-cha-cha and rumba to the Colombian cumbia, the Dominican merengue, and the Mexican son jarocho. Here, the concept of clave—essential to understanding Afro-Antillean popular music and dance—suggests that the visual presentation of the music is as culturally informed as the recordings contained within the packaging. A music listening station will accompany the objects on view.
Visual Clave is organized by Philip W. Scher, UO Professor of Anthropology and Folklore and Public Culture and Divisional Dean for Social, and Pablo E. Yglesias, a Northampton, MA-based Cuban-American researcher, writer, musician, artist, and DJ. An expanded version of the exhibition was on view previously at the Student Union Art Gallery at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst; the Bronx Music Heritage Center, NY; and Picture Farm Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Visual Clave takes its inspiration and intellectual structure from Yglesias’ book Cocinando: 50 Years of Latin Album Cover Art (Princeton Architectural Press, 2005). The exhibition is supported by UO’s College of Arts and Sciences, the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies (CLLAS), and a JSMA Academic Support Grant.
This collaborative exhibition between the JSMA and the George D. Green Art Institute celebrates recent work by forty-five artists who began their creative careers in Oregon during the 1960s and '70s. Among those whose paintings (as well as sketchbooks, ceramics, and mixed-media works incorporating paint) will be featured. Participating artists include: Susan Applegate, Jay Backstrand, Rob Bibler, Sharon Bronzan, Sandy Brooke, Clint Brown, Karen Carson, Craig Cheshire, Margaret Coe, Jon Colburn, Bets Cole, Jon Jay Cruson, Robert Dozono, Robert Gamblin, Humberto Gonzalez, Dennis Gould, Cie Goulet, George Green, John Haugse, Carol Hausser, Jeri Hise, George Johanson, Leland John, Kacey Joyce, Connie Kiener, Edwin Koch, James Lavadour, Nancy Lindburg, Margaret Matson, Sue-Del McCulloch, Gary Meacham, Terry Melton, Ken O'Connell, Paula Overbay, Lucinda Parker, Jan Reaves, Laura Ross-Paul, Sandra Roumagoux, Erik Sandgren, Isaka Shamsud-Din, Jim Shull, Susan Trueblood Stuart, Richard Thompson, Hugh Webb, and Phyllis Yes.
This exhibition will showcase how this generation of artists continues to represent the highest levels of artistic statement and creative accomplishment, while maintaining commitments to personalized styles. Sixty years after their careers started in this state - in many cases, as students of the University of Oregon's M.F.A. Program, at Oregon State University, or at Portland's Museum Art School (now Pacific Northwest College of Art) - these artists continue to create art that inspires and expands this state's artistic landscape. Thanks to a Ford Family Foundation Exhibition and Documentation Support Grant, the exhibition will be accompanied by a catalog with essays by JSMA McCosh Curator Danielle Knapp and Dr. Henry Sayer, Distinguished Professor of Art History at Oregon State University - Cascades Campus.
Visual Magic: An Oregon Invitational is made possible with the generous support of the Coeta and Donald Barker Changing Exhibitions Endowment, Arlene Schnitzer and Jordan Schnitzer, the Oregon Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, and JSMA members. The accompanying catalog was funded by a Ford Family Foundation Exhibition and Documentation Support Grant and the George D. Green Art Institute’s Benefactors (Sonya McDowell Education Grant, Meri & Scott McLeod, Stephen & Dr. Becky Miller-Moe) and Sponsors (Sharon Bronzan, Sandy Brooke, Karen Carson, Barb & Dave Corden, Jon Jay Cruson, Robert & Noriko Dozono, Sandy Green, Dinny Hausser & Lenny Held, Nels Hall & Deb Mawson, Terry Melton, Ward Family Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation, Annie Painter, Betsy & Wally Preble, Ned Preble, Jane & Reagan Ramsey, Laura Ross-Paul, and Andy Thaler).
The JSMA mourns the recent losses of two featured artists, Edwin "Ed" Koch (1937 - 2018) and Janet "Jan" Reaves (1945 - 2018).
The Queer Ally Coalition (QAC) is a volunteer training workshop open to students, faculty, and staff who are looking for opportunities to expand dialogue and understanding for issues within the campus LGBTQIA+ community.
Location will be provided when you RSVP!
Tuesdays through Sundays at 2:00 p.m.
Enhance your visit to the Museum of Natural and Cultural History with a talk and exhibit tour! Perfect for solo visitors, couples, or small groups, 2PM Walk & Talks are included with the price of admission. Topics range from the geology of the Cascades to Oregon’s dynamic cultural heritage. Call 541-346-3024 to find out what we’re talking about today!
Team Duckling, developmental science at the UO, is partnering with the Eugene Science Center for a day of fun, research-inspired activities for children and families of all ages.
Learn about local psychology and brain development research, try some mind and brain science activities, and participate in studies to help us make new discoveries in science!
Check out a clip of all the science fun from last year!
Winter Family Day
FLYING FEATHERED DINOS!
Giant reptiles once roamed the land and swam the sea, but did you know they also flew through the skies? Come celebrate these ancient feathered animals and explore their relationships to modern birds. The whole family will enjoy games, activities, crafts, and performances—all included with regular museum admission!
Admission is half-price for families presenting Oregon Trail cards, and free for MNCH members. Not a member yet? Family memberships are 20 percent off during family day!
Are you an undergraduate student with a business or nonprofit idea? Apply to our 4th annual QuackHatch business idea competition and earn up to $1,500 cash to advance your venture. Previous winners of this competition have gone on to launch successful businesses (Tutortree, Trail Supply Co, etc).
Your idea must not have been developed before Spring 2018. If selected to compete, you must be available to present in front of a public audience and judges on March 5 from 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Applications are due February 24. For more information about the competition, visit our website.
Questions? Contact Kate Harmon Undergraduate Program Manager for the Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship at kharmon2@uoregon.edu.
In response to the 2018-19 University of Oregon common reading THE BEST WE COULD DO, by Thi Bui, UO art students created works of art inspired by ideas of family, memory, and connection. Working in photography, sculpture, jewelry and metalsmithing, painting, printmaking, fibers, and ceramics, each artist produced an original work specifically for this exhibition.
Organized by Amanda Wojick, Professor of Art, featuring student artwork by:
Meg Arnold
Irene Chau
Izzy Cho
Desi Colley
Kailie DeBolt
Meggan Dodds
Haley Duhaime
Reid Ellingson
Amanda Fang
Rachel Harsey
Macon Sumpter
Chad VanNatta
Anna Warnecke
Sam Wrigglesworth
Jin Wu
Please join AAGS for a talk from University of Washington anthropologist Dr. Dan Eisenberg: 'Evolutionary and developmental perspectives on telomeres and aging: thrifty telomeres and intergenerational plasticity'. Lunch will be provided.
Dan Eisenberg is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Washington. He is a human biologist and anthropological geneticist who is interested in understanding how our health, biology and behavior can be better understood from evolutionary perspectives. Dr. Eisenberg specializes in telomere biology. His research is primarily with populations in the Philippines and Bolivian Amazon.
Center for Art Research, University of Oregon, Department of Art
Jan Tumlir Book Reading - "The Magic Circle. On The Beatles, Pop Art, Art-Rock and Records"
Los Angeles based art writer and curator Jan Tumlir will read from his book "The Magic Circle. On The Beatles, Pop Art, Art-Rock and Records." Charting a pathway of historical analysis and speculative association outward from The Beatles’ "Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band," "The Magic Circle" is a meditation on the form of the concept album as a point of convergence between the worlds of rock and art, as well as an experiment in conflating the critical methodologies appropriate to either side.
Jan Tumlir is an art-writer and teacher based in Los Angeles. He is a founding editor of the local art journal X-TRA, and a regular contributor to Artforum. He has written catalog essays for such artists as Bas Jan Ader, Uta Barth, John Divola, Cyprien Gaillard, Allen Ruppersberg and James Welling. Books include: LA Artland, a survey of contemporary art in Los Angeles co-written with Chris Kraus and Jane McFadden, published by Black Dog Press in 2005; Hyenas Are…, a monograph on the work of Matthew Brannon, published by Mousse in 2011; and The Magic Circle: On The Beatles, Pop Art, Art-Rock and Records, published by Onomatopee in 2015. In addition to serving as an MFA advisor at Art Center College of Design, Tumlir is a visiting professor at University of California in Riverside, and at Washington University in St. Louis.
UO Foreign Policy Forum and Oregon Forensics present an exciting debate on whether the U.S. should end sanctions on Iran. The event will feature Behnam Ben Taleblu, a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, and Dr. Jane Cramer, professor of political science at the University of Oregon. There will be a Q&A session after the debate.
And.....free SHAWARMA from Caspian's will be provided!!!!
The event will be in Chapman 220 at 6 pm on Tuesday, February 26th.
Non-profit organizations, municipalities, government agencies, and businesses will share about their organization, the work they do, and share any job, internship, and volunteer opportunities available.
This is a casual networking event designed for ENVS and ESCI students but is open to all students. Bring your friends! Light snacks and refreshments will be provided.
Hosted by the UO Environmental Studies Program.
This play / reading features the personal stories of immigrants who have made Lane County their home amidst challenging times towards immigrants and the topic of immigration.
The Department of History presents guest speaker Sophie White with her talk, “Voices of the Enslaved: Tales of Love and Longing”
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
Noon–1:30 p.m.
EMU 230 (Swindell’s Room)
This event is free and open to the public.
Sophie White is Associate Professor of American Studies, Concurrent Associate Professor in the Departments of Africana Studies, History, and Gender Studies, and Fellow of the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She is also the author of the forthcoming book Bound Voices: Narrating Slavery in French Louisiana.
Mexican Ethnohistorian linguist Lidia E. Gómez García, who teaches at the Benemérita Universidad de Puebla, will speak about colonial manuscript production (alphabetic and pictorial) by Nahuas—the ethnic group that included the Aztecs—mention how writing and reading in the Nahuatl language faded after Independence, and then pick up with the efforts of the Mexico-based Luis Reyes García seminar (Luis was one of the most important Nahuatl scholars of the later 20th and early 21st centuries) to revive interest in and the study of this important indigenous language, as well as her own contributions toward keeping the seminar going after his death.
This event is free and open to the public.
Sponsored by the Departments of History and Romance Languages, and the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies.
Join us as we welcome poet Juliana Gray.
This event is free and open to the public.
A public lecture with Walidah Imarisha.
Walidah Imarisha describes herself as an historian at heart, reporter by (w)right, and rebel by reason. Winner of a 2017 Oregon Book Award for creative nonfiction for Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption, she also has edited two anthologies, authored a poetry collection, and is currently working on an Oregon Black history book. This interactive lecture includes historic slideshow images.
Join fellow Ducks and returning alumni for a fun-filled night learning the intricacies of business dinner etiquette.
Event breakdown:
Chance to mingle with employers and alumni
Get tips on how to dine, communicate, and dress professionally
Event and meal is offered at no cost with life-long benefits!
Awesome keynote speaker Mindy Lockard, The Gracious Girl, an internationally recognized lifestyle and etiquette expert
A fashion show to help you brush up on your business dress rules.
Pre-registration is required for this event. Register at www.uoalumni.com/etiquettedinner2019.
Featuring Sarah E. Igo, history professor, director of the American studies program, and faculty director of the E. Bronson Ingram College at Vanderbilt University.
Igo's work focuses on modern American cultural and intellectual history, the history of the human sciences, the sociology of knowledge, and the history of the public sphere. She is the author of two books, The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public (Harvard University Press, 2007), and The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America (Harvard University Press, 2018).
Sponsored by the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics and cosponsored by the UO History Department and the UO New Media and Culture Certificate program.
Organized by the Department of German & Scandinavian, this interdisciplinary conference hosted at the University of Oregon's EMU and Center for Art Research buildings in Eugene brings together scholars from the humanities, women and gender studies, cinema studies, and art fields to explore the intersection of feminist film theory and experimental film making since the 1970s.
The conference will feature several panel discussions as well as screenings of two experimental films. Guest speakers from the University of Toronto, Princeton University, Goethe University Frankfurt, University of Alberta, and Université de Tours will join researchers from the University of Oregon to discuss the following key topics: video production as feminist action in the 70s and 80s; (sub)urban housing and domestic spheres; transnational, intersectional, digital and embodied feminisms; materiality, memory, perception.
The conference is free and open to all, including undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and community members. For more detailed information and a program of events, go to https://gerscan.uoregon.edu/conferences/film-conference-2019/.
This event is organized by the Department of German & Scandinavian, and co-sponsored by:
the UO College of Arts & Sciences
the Oregon Humanities Center
the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
the Center for Art Research, Department of Art
the Department of Romance Languages
the Department of English
the Department of Comparative Literature
the Department of the History of Art and Architecture
the Department of Cinema Studies
Cherie Hu is an award-winning freelance journalist focusing on the intersection of music, media and technology. She writes regular columns for Billboard, Forbes and Music Business Worldwide, with additional bylines in Variety, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone and the Columbia Journalism Review. She has spoken at over 25 conferences to date, including but not limited to SXSW, Midem, Music Biz and the Web Summit, and appears regularly as an expert commentator for the likes of CNBC and CGTN America. In 2017, at age 21, she received the Reeperbahn Festival’s inaugural award for Music Business Journalist of the Year. Previously, she spearheaded a research project on digital music innovation at Harvard Business School, and interned across product marketing, data analysis and artist development functions at music companies including Ticketmaster and Interscope Records.
https://twitter.com/cheriehu42
In response to the 2018-19 University of Oregon common reading THE BEST WE COULD DO, by Thi Bui, UO art students created works of art inspired by ideas of family, memory, and connection. Working in photography, sculpture, jewelry and metalsmithing, painting, printmaking, fibers, and ceramics, each artist produced an original work specifically for this exhibition.
Organized by Amanda Wojick, Professor of Art, featuring student artwork by:
Meg Arnold
Irene Chau
Izzy Cho
Desi Colley
Kailie DeBolt
Meggan Dodds
Haley Duhaime
Reid Ellingson
Amanda Fang
Rachel Harsey
Macon Sumpter
Chad VanNatta
Anna Warnecke
Sam Wrigglesworth
Jin Wu
*By invitation only
The Agora Journalism Center at the University of Oregon in Portland will host the Local Journalism Roundtable looking at the state of local journalism in the Pacific Northwest.
The discussion is a one-day roundtable/conference with three tracks. Each track has roughly 10 participants representing 10 different local media outlets. Tracks include:
Business and Revenue Models
Civic and Journalistic Engagement
Change Journalistic Practice
The roundtable discussions will provide inspiration, validation and networking opportunities with like-minded peers.
Participants will also get an overview of the bigger picture, during the final session where each track will report back their key takeaways to the wider group; and also hear the lessons from the other tracks.
If you are a journalist and would like to participate in the event, please email: Damian Radcliffe damianr@uoregon.edu
The Museum of Natural and Cultural History offers free admission on the first Friday of the month. Investigate Oregon's amazing fossils and ecosystems, and delve into its cultural history—from the First Americans at Paisley Caves to the dynamic cultures of today's Tribes.
Center for Art Research, University of Oregon, Department of Art
Films by Miriam Gossing & Lina Sieckmann, and Euan Macdonald will be on view at 510 Oak on Friday, March 1 from 12:00-6:00pm. Free and open to the public.
“Healer” by Euan Macdonald
“Desert Miracles” by Gossing Sieckmann
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Miriam Gossing & Lina Sieckmann’s 'Desert Miracles’ is a cinematic exploration of a commercialized architecture of desire. Across 22 different tableaus, the film meditates upon the interiors of Nevada’s wedding chapels considering how the excessive scenery opens up to constitute a cultural organisation of “Love”. A woman’s voice is heard reading out an ambiguous letter to an unknown lover, in which she finds herself troubled by the challenges of modern relationships, unable to negotiate a balance between self-fulfillment and optimization. The text is based on anonymous posts by different women in various internet wedding forums. One fictional female character is composed out of many assembled perspectives on desire, relationships and social expectation.
In Euan Macdonald’s video work “Healer”, the power of belief is in question: is psychic healing a kind of trickery or, can viewers allow themselves to believe that they are witnessing a magical moment; that this woman is capable of emitting psychic energy that has the power to heal? As Giorgio Verzotti notes, “Macdonald’s art seems to question the real meaning of things, beginning with the presupposition that their images are inherently deceptive, indeed that they are all connected within a single network of relationships based on illusions.”
Miriam Gossing & Lina Sieckmann have studied at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne under Matthias Müller, Phil Collins, Sophie Maintigneux and Beate Gütschow, as well as at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Rita Mc Bride. As an artist duo they have made several experimental films on 16-mm film, in which urban and private architecture, hyper-staged environment, and the notion of desire are examined – combining documentary imagery with fiction and found footage.Their work is shown internationally in exhibitions and film festivals (e.g. Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart Berlin, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Videonale, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Anthology Film Archives New York City). They have been awarded with numerous prizes and scholarships, amongst them the Wim-Wenders-Stipendium, the German Short Film Prize and the Nomination for the Preis der Nationalgalerie für Filmkunst.
Euan Macdonald, born Edinburgh, Scotland, has had numerous solo shows in international museums and galleries including ASU Art Museum; The Hayward Gallery, London; Kunstbunker Kinstverein, Nuremberg; andObjectif Exhibitions, Antwerp Belgium. as well as group exhibitions at Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, Para Site, Hong Kong, The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; Sculpture Center, Queens, NY; The Wattis Center for Contemporary Art, San Francisco; MAT Contemporary art center, Nagoya, Japan; Seville Biennale, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City; The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY; and 010101: Art in Technological Times, SF MoMA.
Special thanks to the Department of German & Scandinavian and the German Studies Committee in conjunction with their international conference on Feminism/Theory/Film.
The Queer Ally Coalition (QAC) is a volunteer training workshop open to students, faculty, and staff who are looking for opportunities to expand dialogue and understanding for issues within the campus LGBTQIA+ community.
Location will be provided when you RSVP!
The Museum of Natural and Cultural History's Annual Dinner and Talk
A VIKING FEAST
with archaeologist Jon Erlandson
Join us for an evening of food, drink, and science spiked with Viking lore! Enjoy a social hour featuring live music, Scandinavian-inspired hors d'oeuvres, and local brews by Viking Braggot Co. Then sit down to a three-course feast as museum executive director Jon Erlandson shares stories from his years of field research on Vikings in Iceland.
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Tickets on sale now.
Seating is limited and advance reservations are required. Each ticket includes a three-course dinner, wine, and predinner samplings. A vegetarian dinner option is available. Tickets are $75 for MNCH members and $90 for the public. Tables of eight are available for $550 and include two MNCH family memberships to give as gifts.
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For more information or to purchase tickets, call 541-346-1671 or email rhyde@uoregon.edu.
The Black Law Students Association presents the first annual Black History Month banquet. RSVP requested: https://goo.gl/forms/Z56vIHMuDRg7j49e2. In lieu of ticket sales, we are kindly asking for donations. Business professional or formal attire requested. Sponsored by Black Law Students Association, Division of Equity and Inclusion, Oregon State Bar - Diversity and Inclusion.
The exhibition features a selection of some of the most iconic images that symbolize the ideals of the Cuban Revolution by internationally renowned photographer Alberto Fernando Díaz Gutiérrez, better known as Alberto Korda, or simply Korda (1928-2001). This group of vintage photographs includes one of the most reproduced images in the world—Korda’s portrait of Ernesto “Che” Guevara titled Guerillero Heroíco, 1960. Originally part of the photographer’s personal collection, these works are on loan to the JSMA from the Collection of Dr. Steve Pieczenik and Dr. Roberta Rovner Pieczenik and Family, Chevy Chase, Maryland. In the 1950s, Korda excelled as a publicist and fashion photographer at Studios Korda in Havana.
In 1959, he changed his models from glamorous women to revolutionary heroes. In Korda’s last interview, conducted in Havana in January 2001, he stated, “I have loved the beauty of women as much as the beauty of the men who led the Revolution. The beauty of those men is not only aesthetic but also moral.” From 1959 to 1968, Korda enjoyed the trust and respect of Fidel Castro, and he accompanied Castro on all his national and international travels, photographing major political events as well as significant stages in the leader’s public and personal life. During this decade, Korda was not a photojournalist working for a publication or for the Cuban government, but an artist committed to his own artistic practice and to the ethics of Castro and the Cuban Revolution.
Also featured in the exhibition are several silkscreen prints published by Havana’s Organization of Solidarity with the People of Asia, Africa, and Latin America (OSPAAAL), a testament to Korda’s enduring influence on artists and other art forms in Cuba. The exhibition is co-curated by Cheryl Hartup, Associate Curator of Academic Programs and Latin American Art, and UO undergraduate history student Savannah Evans.
Robert Dozono, Sandra Roumagoux, and Richard Thompson discuss their paintings on view and how they respond to landscape and the environment in their work.
Please join AAGS for a lecture from Portland State University anthropologist Dr. Virginia Butler. Lunch will be provided.
Dr. Butler received her B.A. in Anthropology at the University of Georgia, and her Masters (Anthropology) and Ph.D. (interdisciplinary studies) at the University of Washington. Virginia joined the Department of Anthropology at Portland State University in 1994. Her main research is in zooarchaeology (the study of animal remains found in archaeological sites) and is particularly interested in the role of fish in past human societies. Over the last 15 years, working on her own and in collaboration with others, she's studied fish remains from sites throughout the Pacific Northwest, the Great Basin of Nevada and California, and Oceania. Virginia's research falls in these main areas: taphonomy (the processes that control the deposition and preservation of animal remains), evolutionary ecology, applying ancient bone records to contemporary issues in conservation biology and public outreach.
A lecture/workshop on combining academic research and artistic filmmaking with:
Miriam Gossing and Lina Sieckmann.
Experimental film artists Miriam Gossing and Lina Sieckmann from Cologne, Germany, will present their work with mermaid activists from Portland, OR and teenage vampires from Forks, WA., and talk about the relationship of literature and film and the influence of folklore and fantasy. Their work uses documentary imagery, fiction, and found footage to inform the cinematographic presentation of architecture, hyper-staged environments as landscapes of desire.
Students are invited to engage in close dialogue and present their own ideas in working with film as a medium combining research and visual pleasure.
For questions contact: Dorothee Ostmeier, German and Scandinavian, Folklore and Public Culture (Ostmeier@uoregon.edu)
The University of Oregon Climate Change Research Group and the Museum of Natural and Cultural History present the 8th annual Climate Change Research Symposium, showcasing scholarship from multiple disciplines on climate-related issues. The symposium features research by UO faculty, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates. It’s open to the public as well as the UO community, and admission is free. Learn more at climatechange.uoregon.edu.
Race, Ethnicities, and Inequalities Colloquium.
Christen Smith, Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies and Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin.
Christen Smith researches engendered anti-Black state violence and Black community responses to it in Brazil and the Americas. Her work primarily focuses on transnational anti-Black police violence, Black liberation struggles, the paradox of Black citizenship in the Americas, and the dialectic between the enjoyment of Black culture and the killing of Black people. Her book, Afro-Paradise: Blackness, Violence and Performance in Brazil uses the lens of performance to examine the immediate and long-term impact of police violence on the Black population of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil and the grassroots movement to denounce and end this violence. Her more recent, comparative work examines the lingering, deadly impact of police violence on black women in Brazil and the U.S.
Please join us for the CLLAS inaugural lecture in Latinx and Latin American Studies with Judge Yassmin Barrios.
Judge Barrios is President of Guatemala’s High Risk Court Tribunals. She was the presiding judge in the case of General Efraín Ríos Montt, convicting the dictator for genocide against the indigenous Ixil Mayans of Guatemala.
Free and open to the public.
This event is presented by the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies (CLLAS) and co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society, the Department of Political Science, and the Department of History.
Please join UO MBA alumna (’06) and Lundquist College instructor Merryn Roberts-Huntley for the launch of her first book, Made to Hire: How to Get the Job You Really Want. The event is free but you must pre-register online. We hope you’ll join us for a lively evening of networking and celebration at the UO Portland campus.
Roberts-Huntley is a veteran marketing professional and career expert who is known for her direct approach and proven methods that help people get hired. Learn more about Roberts-Huntley and her career coaching company, Made To Hire, on her website.
Come talk about environmental justice issues local and global. Get some practice organizing and help plan us plan our upcoming conference!
Quench your thirst—for knowledge and for beer—at Ideas on Tap, the Museum of Natural and Cultural History's monthly pub talk, now at Viking Braggot Co. on Willamette Street!
This month, join Middle Fork Willamette Watershed Council's Audrey Squires for an exploration of habitat restoration practices and innovative approaches to managing natural resources. Want to get involved with habitat restoration projects in our community? Audrey will also share information about upcoming volunteer opportunities.
Admission is free and food and beverages are available for purchase. Learn more at natural-history.uoregon.edu.
Shadi Harouni: “Of Myth and Monument”
Shadi Harouni will consider the metaphysics of hope alive in contested bodies, forbidden objects, and forgotten histories. Her lecture looks at mountain and monument, both erected and imagined, as sites of humor and resistance, forgetting and despair. She will discuss the development of her practice and recent completed, ongoing and failed projects.
Shadi Harouni is an artist based in New York and Tehran. Harouni's practice ranges from site-specific interventions and sculptures, to printmaking, photography, and film. Her research is centered on disavowed and marginalized histories of dissent and resistance, chiefly in the Middle East. Harouni’s projects have been exhibited at Queens Museum (NY), Kunstmuseum Bonn (DE), Prague City Gallery (CZ), University of Toronto (CA), Fondazione Ratti (IT), Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (NY). Her work has been featured in Art Forum, The New York Times, The Guardian, Flash Art and Mousse, among others. She has been awarded a Gattuso Prize for Outstanding Exhibition, Harpo Foundation Grant for Artists, AIR Fellowship, residencies at Skowhegan (ME), SOMA (MX), LES Printshop (NY). Harouni holds an MFA from NYU (2011) and a BA from University of Southern California (2007). She serves as Visiting Assistant Professor and Director of the Undergraduate Program in Studio Art at New York University, Steinhardt.
You and your child are invited to learn and play at the museum during our monthly Little Wonders event! This month's theme is Fuzz, Fur, and Feathers! Animals keep themselves dry and warm in very different ways than humans. Instead of clothes, they use heavy hides, shiny scales, and fuzzy feathers. Learn all about it through a story, crafts, and other hands-on fun.
Admission is free for MNCH members. Learn more at natural-history.uoregon.edu. Get your Little Wonders discount coupon, redeemable at Past and Presents – The Museum Store! 15 percent off for museum members, 10 percent off for the public.
Film Screening and Discussion with Shadi Harouni
Free and open to all
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The Lightest of Stones, 2015, HD video, Duration 15:55
A group of quarrymen look on, as the artist removes volcanic stones from the side of the mountain. They talk of dragons and myth, dreams of America and fears of ISIS. They draw parallels between their own precarious labor and representation and that of the artist who remains engrossed in this seemingly futile and perilous action.
I Dream the Mountain is Still Whole, 2017, HD video, Duration 17:06
The film traces the history of Iranian Marxist revolutionaries who, barred from continuing their work as intellectuals, have, for decades, taken refuge in the isolated mountain quarries of Kurdistan to avoid the threat of arrest and execution. The mountain is the site of their untold stories, their labor, their endurance and hope.
Shadi Harouni is an artist based in New York and Tehran. Harouni's practice ranges from site-specific interventions and sculptures, to printmaking, photography, and film. Her research is centered on disavowed and marginalized histories of dissent and resistance, chiefly in the Middle East. Harouni’s projects have been exhibited at Queens Museum (NY), Kunstmuseum Bonn (DE), Prague City Gallery (CZ), University of Toronto (CA), Fondazione Ratti (IT), Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (NY). Her work has been featured in Art Forum, The New York Times, The Guardian, Flash Art and Mousse, among others. She has been awarded a Gattuso Prize for Outstanding Exhibition, Harpo Foundation Grant for Artists, AIR Fellowship, residencies at Skowhegan (ME), SOMA (MX), LES Printshop (NY). Harouni holds an MFA from NYU (2011) and a BA from University of Southern California (2007). She serves as Visiting Assistant Professor and Director of the Undergraduate Program in Studio Art at New York University, Steinhardt.
Join us for our first Science Saturday and dig into family-friendly activities that will spark your child's curiosity for science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).
This Saturday is all about rocks! Take off on a geology adventure and explore our ever-changing planet Earth.
A drop-in event, Science Saturday is perfect for children ages three and up with an accompanying adult, and it's included with regular admission. Admission is free for MNCH members. Oregon Trail card holders are admitted at a reduced rate through the Museums for All program.
The University of Oregon has ideas worth spreading! Join us as we showcase “Oregon grown” ideas. Our theme, Just Us, offers some additional contemplation... “There is no them, just us—all of us.” The theme for TEDxUOregon 2019 is intended to lift the speakers and their stories. The takeaway: we have great ideas right here, and what can we each be doing to pay attention, listen, and lift those ideas up—your freshman roommate, the office manager in the EMU, your old English professor, etc. could all be holding some fantastic idea or story just waiting for someone to notice. Perhaps there’s someone you’re sitting across from right now that just needs to be invited to share their story. While “justice” conjures up equality, fairness, and the ways in which the law attempts to mediate those… “just us” moves it to a more local, active and communal level. We need not wait for them—there is just us.
Tickets will be distributed via lottery, and are available to UO students, staff, faculty, alumni, and the general public. Consistent with TED’s mission to spread the ideas shared on our stage and the conversations that take place between attendees at the event, we are offering tickets to the event at no cost. The Ticket Lottery form will close on Wednesday, February 13th at 12:00pm. Winners will be notified by email.
We are also anticipating various watch parties to occur across campus. The live event will be simulcasted at various campus locations so that everyone who is unable to get a ticket to attend in person can watch the event in real time. We will list public watch parties on our website as they are added and confirmed. (Interested in organizing a watch party or associated event? Check out our Guide to Involvement and submit an Event Application.)
Each talk will be videoed and submitted to TED for approval and then published on the TEDx Talks YouTube channel. Talks typically take 4-6 weeks after the event to go live on YouTube. Links to all talks will also be available on tedx.uoregon.edu once published.
Do you have a business or nonprofit idea you want to advance?
Spark grants are $500 grants (that you do not have to repay) that allow one to test the feasibility of an idea. The funds can be used to purchase prototyping supplies, marketing materials, hire contractors, or other purposes related to your business or nonprofit venture.
All students (undergraduates and graduate) are eligible to apply. The application deadline is March 10.
To view details and apply, visit https://uobiz.co/sparkgrant.
Questions? Contact Kate Harmon, Undergraduate Program Manager for the Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship at kharmon2@uoregon.edu.
Sidney Milkis, University of Virginia politics professor, and Dan Tichenor, Wayne Morse senior faculty fellow, will discuss their forthcoming book.
Alisa Roth, journalist and author of Insane: America’s Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness, will serve as the 2018–19 speaker for the University of Oregon’s Lorwin Lectureship on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. Roth’s work is an investigation into the crisis of mental illness in the U.S. criminal justice system. She writes, “One of the most horrific—and least acknowledged—effects of mass incarceration is the epidemic of mental illness in our jails and prisons.”
In uncovering this crisis, Roth traveled around the country to police departments, courts, jails, and emergency health-care facilities; interviewed current and former prisoners and their families, mental health professionals, lawyers, and police; and conducted research using public records and other source materials. She writes, “Mental illness affects every aspect of the criminal justice system—from policing, to the courts, to prisons, and beyond. Nor are the effects limited to the criminal justice system; many people with mental illness cycle back and forth between jail or prison and living in the community.”
She continues, “People with mental illness are among the most disadvantaged members of our society, and when they end up in the criminal justice system, they tend to fare worse than others.” Roth hopes her work on this crisis will help “to end the abuses and to bring more compassion and common sense into the way we approach mental illness in our society.”
Roth’s lecture is free and open to the public and will be live-streamed. For information, or disability accommodations (which must be made by March 5th), please call 541-346-3934 or contact ohc@uoregon.edu.
*By invitation only
"The 2018 Edelman Trust Barometer reveals a world of seemingly stagnant distrust. People’s trust in business, government, NGOs, and media remained largely unchanged from 2017 — 20 of 28 markets surveyed now lie in distruster territory, up one from last year. Yet dramatic shifts are taking place at the market level and within the institution of media."
The School of Journalism and Communication is partnering with Edelman to update the findings on the public's trust in media, businesses, politicians, etc. Come join us and learn about what the Trust Barometer has found.
Are you interested in joining the kink community? Are you not sure how to get connected to the kink community? Do you like free ice cream? Come to Kink a la Mode! We will be bringing some presenters from As You Like It, the Pleasure Shop here in Eugene to talk about safety and consent within the kink community, as well as answer questions and give demonstrations! It will be held in the LGBTQA3 Office in the Erb Memorial Union, room 023!
Love, faith and civil rights collide in a southern town as evangelical Christians and drag queens step into the spotlight to dismantle stereotypes. Taking a personal, and often comical look at negotiating differences between religion and belief through performance, political action, and partnership, gospel drag shows and passion plays set the stage for one hell of a show. "Without condescension, we hope to show that what is crass, campy, or even profane in the eyes of one group is sacred and full of communal significance in the eyes of another" (Donal Mosher and Michael Palmieri). Narrated by Mx Justin Vivian Bond and called "an act of formal and spiritual resurrection" by Eric Hynes (Film Comment). (Documentary, D: Donal Mosher and Micahel Palmieri, 75 min.)
The Schnitzer Cinema series is programmed by Richard Herskowitz, JSMA curator of media arts and Artist Director of the Ashland Independent Film Festival. All programs are free, with popcorn and refreshments provided!
Hear experts speak about the latest developments related to the legal response to domestic violence.
“Family Court Outcomes in Cases Involving Abuse and Alienation,”
Professor Joan Meier, George Washington University Law School.
"How Far We’ve Come and How Far We’ve Yet to Go: The Ever-Changing Legal Landscape for Survivors of Domestic Violence, Stalking, and Sexual Assault in Oregon,”
Honorable Maureen McKnight, Multnomah County Circuit Court.
Interior Architecture students from instructor Tom Bonamici's Furniture Design course (IARC 486/586) will present furniture made in response to objects from the Margo Grant Walsh Collection of Silver and Metalwork at the JSMA.
DV Clinic’s 20th Anniversary Celebration Party, featuring Tonya Harding
Like our clients, Tonya Harding is a survivor of family violence. Join us as she shares her story.
Hors d'oeuvres, no-host bar, music by JazzArts Oregon, silent auction, awards, performance by UO a cappella group Divisi, and presentation from Tonya Harding.
Please visit this link for directions- http://www.uoalumni.com/s/1540/fac/index.aspx?sid=1540&gid=3&pgid=633
SPRINGTIME STEWARDSHIP EXCURSION
Seed Ball Restoration with the McKenzie River Trust
Embark on an educational tour of Green Island, a former farm site just outside of Coburg, now being restored by the McKenzie River Trust. Participants will learn about the site's restoration story, and help distribute seed balls to encourage its healthy native ecosystem.
The trip involves minimal walking on level ground. Snacks and water provided.
This tour is hosted by the Museum of Natural and Cultural History. $10 per participant, $5 for MNCH members. Space is limited and preregistration is required. Transportation will be provided. Participants may also drive themselves; ask about directions when you register. Visit natural-history.uoregon.edu to learn more or to register.
The University of Oregon Master of Science in Sports Product Management program will host a graduation ceremony for the Class of 2019.
Brief reception to follow ceremony.
For more information, contact uospm@uoregon.edu.
Join the Museum of Natural and Cultural History and Thirst 2 Create for a fun-filled evening of science and art! Learn about Oregon's ancient sloths and explore the world of scientific illustration with museum exhibitions designer Liz White and University of Oregon graduate paleontologist Kellum Tate-Jones. Then paint your own giant ground sloth with Thirst 2 Create! Food and beverage will be available for purchase.
$45 per participant. Space is limited and preregistration is required. To register, visit www.thirst2create.com. Are you a museum member? Get a $10 discount with your special promo code! Email lmw@uoregon.edu or call 541-346-3030 for details.
The University of Oregon’s teacher education programs prepare teachers as educator professionals capable of approaching educational challenges with a variety of disciplinary lenses and socio-cultural competencies. Our Friday, March 22, 2019 Educator Job Fair is a chance for students and alumni to meet hiring representatives from 20 school districts. This year's district registration includes Oregon, Washington, Arizona, and Arkansas.
Register at with the College of Education | Educator Job Fair
MicroSoft "Teams" has been recently rolled out to the UO campus community.
Please come to the HEDCO Learning Commons (110 HEDCO) to participate in a overview of the new Teams service and how it can be used to collaborate more effectively.
Staff from COEIT will be preset to assist and demonstrate a number of MS Teams features.