Experience the dynamic forces that shape Oregon’s landscapes, climate, and ecosystems. Meet giant salmon, Ice Age sloths, and other amazing animals from across the millennia. Through interactive displays and rare specimens, you’ll go deep into Oregon’s past and join a conversation about our collective future.

The EMU Tabling Fair is a great opportunity to interact with and learn about all of the opportunities the EMU has to offer. Join us to meet the amazing offices, centers, and organizations that call the EMU home!

Join the fun at the University of Oregon's Bingo Nights! Mark your calendars for an evening of prizes, and good company. Whether you're a bingo pro or a newcomer, everyone's invited. Win duck bucks and learn about different events happening on campus.

Don’t know how to play bingo? Our team of student leaders can help. 

As always, our events are FREE for UO students. Don’t miss out on this fun-filled event! 

Each Monday throughout the term, from 6:00 – 7:30 p.m.

At the EMU O Desk.

Join the fun at the University of Oregon's Bingo Nights! Mark your calendars for an evening of prizes, and good company. Whether you're a bingo pro or a newcomer, everyone's invited. Win duck bucks and learn about different events happening on campus.

Don’t know how to play bingo? Our team of student leaders can help. 

As always, our events are FREE for UO students. Don’t miss out on this fun-filled event! 

Each Monday throughout the term, from 6:00 – 7:30 p.m.

Speical Night February 24 Grocery BINGO!

Satisfy your sweet tooth every Tuesday at the University of Oregon's "Tuesday Treats" featuring irresistible donut holes. Join us for a tasty break that'll sweeten your Tuesday.

As always, our events are FREE for UO students with UOID.

   *Dietary substitutions for gluten and vegan diets will be available. 

Satisfy your sweet tooth every Tuesday at the University of Oregon's "Tuesday Treats" featuring irresistible donut holes. Join us for a tasty break that'll sweeten your Tuesday.

As always, our events are FREE for UO students with UOID.

   *Dietary substitutions for gluten and vegan diets will be available. 

Meet other transfer students and get connected to clubs and resources just for transfer students!  

Meet other transfer students, play some games, and grab some food during this social just for transfer students! 

Trivia in the EMU is coming back for the winter term. Every week is general knowledge. So, bring a friend or three and test your knowledge. Grab a friend (or three) and join the competition—every round your team wins scores each member $5! Are you up for the challenge?

Don't have a team? Our team of student leaders can help. 

As always, our events are FREE for UO students. Don’t miss out on this fun-filled event! 

Each Wednesday throughout the term, from 6:00 – 7:30 p.m.

At the EMU O Desk.

Join NCFDD using your UO login credentials for this planning webinar meant to help you identify your personal and professional goals, create a strategic plan to accomplish them, and identify the types of community, support, and accountability you need to make this your most productive and balanced quarter ever. Register at https://www.ncfdd.org/webinars/semesterplan25.

Carlita Favero, PhD, is a Professor of Biology and Neuroscience at Ursinus College, an exclusively undergraduate liberal arts institution with about 1600 students. On her campus, she also serves as the Coordinator for the Neuroscience Program, and Co-Director for the Teaching and Learning Institute. She has developed courses on the FUNdamentals of Neuroscience, Developmental Neurobiology, and Glial Cell Biology. Her scholarly work investigates the consequences of alcohol exposure on brain wiring and behavior during embryonic brain development, a field she moved into during her first year on the tenure track. At NCFDD, she has served as a small group and one-on-one coach for the Faculty Success Program.

Another installment of an ongoing virtual series from Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) where we spotlight the innovative work of archival research fellows from around the globe. Held monthly, this series offers a unique opportunity to engage with the latest in archival research across various disciplines. Each session will feature a different fellow presenting their findings and exploring how their work sheds new light on history, scholarship and research.

January’s lecture features Cecily Evonuk (they/them/theirs), 2024 Tee A. Corrine Memorial Travel Fellow. Evonuk is a dedicated third-year undergraduate student at Oregon State University where they are currently pursuing a double major in history and women, gender, and sexuality studies, with a studio art minor. Evonuk's focus centers on American history, with an emphasis on civil rights, human rights, and the LGBTQ+ liberation movement. Their passion for historical research and commitment to social justice issues has led them to set aspirations to continue their academic journey beyond the undergraduate level. Post-graduation, they plan to pursue a master’s program in history and subsequently pursue a PhD. Evonuk's academic achievements have earned them several prestigious awards and fellowships, including the Emil H. Pubols Award in American History, the Drucilla Shepard Smith Award, the Finley Academic Excellence Scholarship, the Dr. Arthur E. Gravatt History Scholarship, and the Thomas and Margaret Meehan History Award.

Join our Exploring the Dolomites Info Session to explore an exciting study abroad opportunity for this summer! Learn more about this 14-day journey, where you can experience the best of the Dolomite Mountains of northeastern Italy, just south of the Alps. 

Interested in pursuing an international internship for summer 2025? Attend a GlobalWorks Info Session to learn more about the program and hear from program alumni!

If you want to learn more about GlobalWorks, visit the website here. The application deadline for Summer 2025 GlobalWorks programs is January 15.

The Student Activities Board brings you the Thursday Tea Party. This term, enjoy a cozy tea drink every Thursday! Stop by the EMU Steps near the O Desk, where a variety of teas will be available. While supplies last!

As always, our events are FREE for UO students with UOID.

In a tour-de-force performance, writer-actor Aaron Davidman conjures a host of different characters while seeking answers to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Wrestling Jerusalem. Creatively adapting his acclaimed one-man stage show using only simple props and backdrops, Davidman takes a multidimensional journey into the heart of the Middle East, and the intersection of politics, identity, and spiritual yearning. He embodies and gives voice to 17 different characters on all sides of the existential divide-deftly moving between male and female, Jewish and Muslim, Israeli, and Arab-modeling what it takes truly to bear witness through the eyes of the other. Challenging long-held beliefs with sharp and unblinking observation, Davidman finds both entrenched isolation and shared humanity in the shifting moral compasses and competing narratives of all his characters. The result is a unique hybrid of stage and cinema that reignites hope for the future of this troubled region.

Content warning: This work of art makes space for multiple perspectives and empathy for the “other”.

Are you hoping to lock-in this winter term? 📝💪 Start this term off right by joining us for some hot cocoa and pastries! Come hang out, be in community, and warm-up from the winter cold ❄️☕️✨

Stay warm, stay safe, and we can’t wait to see you there!! 🧡

Join the UO Women in Economics Club at our weekly meeting! We host faculty talks and guest lectures, provide career development opportunities, as well as peer support. All are welcome, regardless of major, minor, or gender identity!

The UO Women in Economics Club (WiE) was established in 2023 to support and meet the unique needs of women and gender-diverse individuals in the male-dominated economics field. WiE strives to build community, empower, and increase participation in economics through academic and social events. The club hosts guest speakers, roundtable discussions, professional development workshops, and more. Students undergraduate through PhD are welcome.

Meetings: Every odd week Thursday from 6-7pm in Allen 140. Hope to see you there!

Are you interested in using R and RStudio but unsure where to start? This workshop is for you!

UO Libraries hosts a free, eight-session workshop, which will introduce you to the fundamentals of using R. R is a free, open-source programming language used for statistical computing and data visualization.

This course is intended for absolute beginners or anyone wanting to review the basics. Each session will be an hour and a half per and follow the schedule below.

1. Intro to R and Rstudio (January 13th) 2. Getting started with R Part 1 (January 15) 3. Getting started with R Part 2 (January 22) 4. Data visualization with R & ggplot (January 27) 5. Functions Explained (January 29) 6. Working with Data in R part 1 (February 3) 7. Working with Data in R part 2 (February 5) 8. Reproducible reports with R & Rmarkdown (February 10)

The workshop series follows this Carpentries workshop curriculum. Register through the UO Libraries' website.

UO Libraries hosts a free, ten-session hybrid workshop in which you will learn the fundamentals of Python—a programming language that lets you work quickly and integrate systems more effectively—through interactive programming exercises.

Develop core programming skills that will allow you to write Python scripts for your own work. Topics covered included basic Python syntax, Jupyter notebooks, variables, data types, mathematical functions, data structures, data visualization, and useful libraries like Pandas. This workshop series follows this Software Carpentries workshop curriculum, and you can review all exercises or look ahead by following the link.

This interactive course is intended for absolute beginners or anyone who wants to review the basics. No experience required!

Before the workshop, please install JupyterLab so you can code along. Our first day will be focused on helping with installations, and testing that your installation works. If you have any questions, run into trouble, or would like to use a different installation (such as Anaconda, Spyder, JetBrains, VSCode), please schedule a quick appointment with Data Services.

Register though the UO Libraries' website.

Clark Honors College students can attend to learn more about STEM-focused distinguished scholarships like the Churchill, Ellison, Goldwater, Hollings, Knight-Hennessy, and NSF Graduate Research Fellowships.

Hear authentic lived experiences and realities from the voices of three guest speakers from diverse backgrounds from the business world. Our hope is that through storytelling, graduate students can find connection with participants that foster curiosity, empathy, understanding, and positive outcomes in team communities and beyond.

Learn a bit about our guest speakers: 

Brianna Showell - VP of Marketing at Reef

Jessica Kingrey -Marketing Leader, Brand Builder & Writer 

Leo Pichette-  DEI BP for Converse & Jordan Brands | Chief of Staff Native American Network

This event is limited to 30 participants. Please RSVP to secure your seat.

Co-hosted by the ASUO and TFAB (Tuition and Fee Advisory Board), the Student Tuition Forum will help students learn more about the tuition-setting process and where their tuition dollars are allocated.

Dinner will be served at the beginning of the event. Enjoy UO Catering's Tostada Buffet, learn about the UO budget and tuition-setting process, and provide input to ASUO and TFAB on your perspectives on UO tuition.

Looking for a part-time job this winter/spring in Eugene? Or want to learn more about future work-study opportunities during your time at UO? Stop by the UO Part-Time Job & Work-Study Fair, Wednesday, January 15, from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. in the Tykeson Hall 1st Floor Commons area to meet local and on-campus employers hiring for seasonal employees! Bring your resume and apply on the spot, or just look around and learn more about the great ways you can get work experience and build career readiness skills during your time at the UO.

FYI: Work-Study is a specific type of part-time job available to students based on financial need. If a job says it requires Work-Study, you must have accepted an award on Duckweb. To learn more about the program and how to find your award, check out https://career.uoregon.edu/jobs-and-internships/work-study

There will still be LOTS of jobs at this event that do not require work-study in order to apply--something for everyone!

Register in Handshake to keep up to date on which employers are coming to the fair and what jobs you can be applying for!  

Are you interested in studying abroad or international travel? Check out Study Abroad Club! Our meetings for winter term are on Thursdays (January 16, January 30, February 13, and February 27). Join us for trivia games, alumni panels, and workshops to help you plan for studying abroad.

Calling all vocalists, musicians, and performers! Get ready to share your creativity and captivate the crowd at our Open Mic Night. It's your time to shine! ✨ Don't miss out on this opportunity to express yourself through music!

As always, our events are FREE for UO students. 

Sign up forms will be available on our Instagram account seven days prior to the event. https://www.instagram.com/uo.sab/

Enjoy stress-free time together with disabled and neurodivergent graduate students from across campus. Share experiences, exchange resources, or consult with a GE from the Accessible Education Center. Refreshments served.

Are you looking for ways to really stand out as a candidate? Come learn about the basics of interviewing and have the opportunity to ask questions on:  question and answer structures, strategies, and how to best prepare for your upcoming interviews. Questions welcomed and encouraged! Please RSVP!

This workshop is hosted by the University Career Center's Career Readiness Coaching team! To learn more about career coaching, drop-in peer advising, and other career readiness workshops and events visit career.uoregon.edu/coaching or stop by the UCC in Tykeson Hall-Garden Level

This event is part of the 2025 Winter Career Readiness Week sponsored by the University Career Center, Enterprise Mobility, and Sherwin Williams. To learn more about all of the week's events visit http://career.uoregon.edu/events  

Please join the BEseries as we welcome Jackie Gutierrez! The BEseries student team is excited to announce the event that will be on January 21st on Tuesday night, in EMU Ballroom, ASL Interpreted, Free Dinner & Activities, Buffet Dinner and Doors 5-6pm, Presentation 6-7pm, Q&A 7-7:30 pm. Hold the date and Join us!

More About Jackie Gutierrez- Tuesday, November 22nd , 5:00 pm Doors & Dinner, 6:00 pm Presentation – EMU Ballroom

Jackie Gutierrez is the founder of Women Kick Balls, which is an independent multi-media company. As a freelancer, Gutierrez covers the National Women's Soccer League and the U.S. Women's National Team while also providing marketing, content production, and public relations services to soccer organizations and athletes, Gutierrez holds a master's degree in journalism from the University of Oregon and is also a contributor to Equalizer Soccer and Forbes. 

Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/womenkickballs/ 

X: https://x.com/womenkickballs

TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@womenkickballs">https://www.tiktok.com/@womenkickballs

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5cFpWu8oZq3C9lVfUFsEiA

For updates on WHO is coming 2024-25 - follow BEseries on IG @uo_beseries

Full list of BE Series event dates:

Presented by the Oregon Humanities Center.

The Oregon Humanities Center will present a Wine Chat with anthropologist Kristin Yarris discussing her co-edited volume Accompaniment with Im/migrant Communities.

The book features writing by anthropologists whose work with im/migrant communities pushes the boundaries of ethnography toward a mode of engagement inspired by feminist care ethics, decolonial methodologies, and Latin American activist traditions of acompañamiento, or accompaniment. 

Contributors to this volume respond to and address present sociopolitical conditions: entrenched inequality, heightened xenophobia, unbridled white nationalism, and the challenges associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, with its disparate impacts on marginalized and impoverished communities. They reflect on how the current political and historical moment has inspired and shaped their scholarship and relationships as engaged anthropologists working with im/migrant communities.

These writers describe how and why their roles may shift from scholar to social worker, observer to friend, witness to advocate. They describe fighting deportations, engaging in social protest, writing reports and editorials, developing immigrant-friendly programs, advocating for inclusive health and social policies, and fostering systems of support for migrants—accompaniment acts as a grounding force, a being with and standing alongside, a form of care that shifts scholars away from traditional ways of doing ethnography into more unsettled but productive spaces of possibility for solidarity and social justice.

Kristin Yarris is an associate professor in the Department of Global Studies at the UO. Her research focuses primarily on transnational migration and global mental health. She helped launch the UO’s Global Health Initiative and the Center for Global Health. She is affiliated with the Department of Anthropology and the Center for the Study of Women in Society and has served on the OHC’s Faculty Advisory Board. Yarris was a 2018–19 OHC Faculty Research Fellow. 

Accompaniment with Im/migrant Communities (2024), co-edited with Whitney Duncan, Anthropology, Northern Colorado University, was published with support from the OHC/CAS Subvention Program.

Yarris’s Wine Chat is free and open to the public. Beverages are available for purchase and a food cart is on the premises of Capitello Wines. There is ample parking at Banner Bank across the street. Please register.

Did you know you can have someone review your resume before the Winter Career & Internship Expo on 1/30? Drop-in with a career readiness coach or peer coach in Tykeson Hall Commons to get feedback on your resume! Free cookies & hot chocolate too :)

Don’t have a resume? Come learn how to make one!

Want to apply for the Peace Corps? We'll also have returned Peace Corps volunteers available to review resumes and give advice about the application process with any interested students! Ask for Carolyn Williams!

This University Career Center event is part of the 2025 Winter Career Readiness Week sponsored by Enterprise Mobility and Sherwin Williams. To learn more about all of the week's events visit http://career.uoregon.edu/events  

Are you interested in studying abroad in spring or summer 2025? Attend this workshop to learn more about budgeting! We will discuss how to read a Global Education Oregon budget, included costs, and how to know what to budget for abroad.

Event Description:

Discover how leading voices in the apparel industry craft powerful brands and drive cultural impact through innovative marketing strategies. Join us for an engaging panel featuring:

• Chris Gibbs, Owner of Union Los Angeles

• Adrian Miles, Director of Brand Marketing for Jordan Brand

Both panelists bring unique perspectives and expertise on building brands that resonate with consumers and shape cultural narratives. From creating standout campaigns to understanding the intersection of style, strategy, and storytelling, this panel will highlight what it takes to succeed in the dynamic world of apparel marketing.

Event Details:

• Date: January 22, 2024

• Time: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

• Location: Lillis 211, University of Oregon

Are you interested in going abroad, meeting with meet with nonprofit/nongovernmental organization (NGO) leaders, and working on a hands-on project for a local organization in Cambodia? If so, the Catalysts for Impact: Nonprofits in Southeast Asia program might be a good fit for you! Join us for an information session to learn more about the program.

This program has a rolling admission process, and the final deadline to apply is March 15.

Find daily ways to engage your career curiosity with workshops, local industry tours, alumni panels & networking ("connect") events, the Winter Career & Internship Expo (1/30), /and Practice Interview Day (1/31) that will help you develop skills and connections on the road to career readiness. For a full list of workshops, career tours, networking events, resume reviews, alumni panels, and more, visit career.uoregon.edu/events or register for events in Handshake. Why wait?! Stop by the University Career Center in Tykeson Hall-Garden Level ASAP to get drop-in resume reviews and other career guidance to make the most of your Career Readiness Week!

The University Career Center offers a special thanks to our Winter 2025 Career Readiness Week sponsors: Enterprise Mobility and Sherwin Williams.

FULL SCHEDULE COMING SOON!

This is an introductory workshop for international students interested in creating a Functional Cover Letter for U.S.-based employers. Bring any cover letter you are working on, and your questions! 

This workshop is hosted by the University Career Center's Career Readiness Coaching team's Theresa Cuenca! To learn more about career coaching, drop-in peer advising, and other career readiness workshops and events visit career.uoregon.edu/coaching or stop by the UCC in Tykeson Hall-Garden Level

This event is part of the 2025 Winter Career Readiness Week sponsored by the University Career Center, Enterprise Mobility, and Sherwin Williams. To learn more about all of the week's events visit http://career.uoregon.edu/events  

The title of our course has a three-fold meaning. It is a course that highlights the work of writing women as they explore their own lives. With a slight change of emphasis, it also becomes a course about the act of writing about the lives of women. And with a subtle shift in the order of the words, the course title becomes Women’s Writing Lives, a celebration of the endurance of women who write and engage with the world through language. This course will explore all three aspects of this title by engaging with biography and memoir, poetry and dramatic performance. 

In addition, this course begins with the assumption that being a “writer” is not limited to a professional pursuit but includes anyone who takes pen to hand and puts thoughts on paper.  Thus, our class will engage with the act of writing itself, in the form of short reflections, memories, and random musings as part of each class’s format.

Combining lecture and discussion, we will often work in groups that will then report to the larger class for general discussion. The course will also contain a writing component: each week, participants will be asked to compose a short “free-write” on a topic related to that week’s discussion, which volunteers may share with the class.

Are you looking for ways to really stand out as a candidate?

Come learn about the basics of resume and cover letter writing and have the opportunity to ask questions on formatting, structure, your own resume tailoring, and much more! Questions welcomed and encouraged!

This workshop is hosted by the University Career Center's Career Readiness Coaching team!  To learn more about career coaching, drop-in peer advising, and other career readiness workshops and events visit career.uoregon.edu/coaching or stop by the UCC in Tykeson Hall-Garden Level

This event is part of the 2025 Winter Career Readiness Week sponsored by the University Career Center, Enterprise Mobility, and Sherwin Williams. To learn more about all of the week's events visit http://career.uoregon.edu/events

Clark Honors College students can attend to learn more distinguished scholarships for graduate study, such as the Churchill, Gates Cambridge, Knight-Hennessy, Marshall, Mitchell, Rhodes, and Schwarzman.

Landing an internship or your first junior-level job in computer programming, data analytics, UX design, and other tech-savvy roles requires more than just a resume skill section with buzzwords --you need to “show your work”! 

Join us for an interactive workshop with UO Libraries: Data Services & the UO Career Center to learn how to create a free digital portfolio on GitHub to highlight your coding and career readiness skills for future employers & open-source projects. 

Great for students with ZERO experience who are creating a game plan for how they want to gain experience in the years ahead to students who are getting ready to graduate and create their portfolio today. ALL ARE WELCOME! 

Come curious and bring your laptop (or you can borrow one!) 45-minute workshop followed by 45 minutes to explore the platform and get advice from library and career services staff, and maybe an alumni or two! 

RSVP on Handshake or with the Library to get reminders and extra resources! Accommodation requests? Contact DataServices@uoregon.edu

Why YOU should come to this Expo...

WHO'S COMING? Find your career fit with over 70+ employers comprised of private industry; public, educational, and non-profit organizations; local government, the federal government, law enforcement, and military--ALL on campus and excited to share more with you about their organization and early career talent opportunities. Open to students from ALL majors, classifications, and identities. Every expo looks a little different so come each term to keep exploring and expanding your career opportunities!

WHAT NEXT? Register for the Expo on Handshake today to learn about all the companies coming, and positions of interest you can be researching. We'll also send you tips and advice for how to make the most of the expo, including Career Readiness Week workshops like our Resume Extravaganza so you can have a great resume to hand to potential employers!

The University Career Center thanks Enterprise Mobility, and Sherwin Williams for sponsoring all of our Winter Career Readiness Week events and workshops, and Techtronic Industries (TTI) for sponsoring the Expo!

For a full list of Winter Career Readiness Week (January 24-31) events and workshops, check out http://career.uoregon.edu/events

Are you interested in applying for graduate school in the fields of arts or humanities? Attend the panel to gain insight from three CHC core faculty members on the application process.

Presented by the Oregon Humanities Center

Our world has become rife with peril and uncertainty. Indigenous writer Patty Krawec asks, “How do we survive everything that is happening? From climate change to polarizing politics to a seemingly endless cycle of displacement and erasure for modern-day land grabs, we live in a world that profits from instability and precarity. How do we survive? We survive not by drawing boundaries around ourselves and hoarding resources that must be expended to protect what will inevitably slip through our fingers. We survive by becoming kin. By remembering what it means to be related not only to each other but to the worlds around us. Revisiting our traditional stories, whatever those traditions may be, and re-imagining them in our contemporary world, can help us find new ways to see each other and forge the solidarities we need to survive.” 

As the 2024–25 Robert D. Clark lecturer Patty Krawec will give a talk titled “Surviving Together.”

Krawec is an Anishinaabe/Ukrainian writer and speaker belonging to the Lac Seul First Nation in Treaty 3 territory Canada. 

She is a founding director of the Nii’kinaaganaa (we are all related) Foundation which challenges settlers to pay rent for living on Indigenous land and disburses those funds to Indigenous people, meeting immediate survival needs as well as supporting the organizing and community building needed to address the structural issues that create those needs.

In her book, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future (2022) Krawec critiques the harmful impact of European Christian settler colonialism on Indigenous Americans. She details Indigenous American history from the first humans to populate the Americas through the present and outlines ways in which descendants of European colonizers and Indigenous people can become ‘good relatives’. 

Krawec’s talk, part of this year’s “Re-imagine” series, is free and open to the public and will be livestreamed and recorded. Please register.

Clark Honors College students can attend this workshop to learn tips and strategies for creating their LinkedIn profile for professional networking!

University of Oregon Visiting Artist Lecture Series Presented by the Department of Art and Center for Art Research

“My work primarily focuses on sculpture and extends into drawing, image, text, and public projects. I aim to defamiliarize the ordinary, encouraging us to rethink how we form associations, assign value, and construct categories of identity, disposability, and loss. This approach mirrors my personal history, as it engages with experiences of disjunction and dislocation and reflects their lasting effects.

I challenge the boundaries of the "Pop Art" object by deconstructing the commodity and its glossy, overconfident surface—its scale, ambition, and failure to fulfill the promises of progress and emancipation. Inspired by the “poor materials” philosophy, I utilize humble materials to bridge the gap between art and everyday life, reconstructing objects to reveal their latent vulnerability and inherent decay. By incorporating architectural principles, I investigate how subtle, ephemeral, and often overlooked structures shape and sustain civilization—from domestic spaces, the feminine, and the infra-ordinary to the anti-heroic. I inquire: what forms provide habitability and order, contributing to civilization’s fabric yet remaining visually or politically unnoticed or silenced? What do we build when we build?”      -   Ester Partegàs, 2024

Ester Partegàs (Barcelona, 1972) has shown extensively nationally and internationally. Most recent shows include The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco (2025), Ballroom Marfa (2024), TEA Tenerife (2023), Palazzo Delle Exposizione, Rome (2023) NoguerasBlanchard, Madrid (2022); Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (2021); Essex Flowers, NY (2021); Pure Joy, Marfa TX (2020); Conde Duque, Madrid (2020); The Drawing Center, NY (2019); the Museum of the City of NY (2019); Transborder Biennial/Bienal Transfronteriza, El Paso Museum of Art + Museo de Arte Ciudad Juárez (2018), MACBA Barcelona (2018).

She has been the recipient of the 2022-2023 Rome Prize for Visual Arts at the American Academy in Rome, a 2014 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship, and a 2004 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant (2004), among others. An artist in residence at the Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX; MacDowell. She has been faculty at the Yale School of Art, Skowhegan, Virginia Commonwealth University, SUNY Purchase, and since 2017 teaches at Parsons School of Design. Based in New York City, she is a part-time resident of Marfa, TX, and Barcelona.

We are happy to announce that Community Coffee with the Accessible Education Center (AEC) is officially back! Please join us for the first Friday of every month during the academic year for coffee, tea, and cookies. We will also have puzzles/crafts available and all are welcome.

Another installment of an ongoing virtual series from Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) where we spotlight the innovative work of archival research fellows from around the globe. Held monthly, this series offers a unique opportunity to engage with the latest in archival research across various disciplines. Each session will feature a different fellow presenting their findings and exploring how their work sheds new light on history, scholarship and research.

February’s lecture features Sarah Nolan-Brueck, a PhD candidate at the University of Southern California. Nolan-Brueck’s research focuses on how science fiction explores and critiques gender issues. Currently, she is investigating how science fiction authors address medical legislation that affects diverse gender groups in the United States and how the genre engages with activism related to these issues.

University of Oregon Visiting Artist Lecture Series Presented by the Department of Art and Center for Art Research

Alex Soth will discuss his origins as an artist and the evolution of his practice. Along with highlighting celebrated projects like “Sleeping by the Mississippi” and his latest book, “Advice for Young Artists,” special attention will be given to the value of failure and the art of starting over.

Alec Soth (b. 1969) is a photographer born and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has published over thirty books including Sleeping by the Mississippi (2004), NIAGARA (2006), Broken Manual (2010), Songbook (2015), I Know How Furiously Your Heart is Beating (2019), A Pound of Pictures (2022), and Advice for Young Artists (2024). Soth has had over fifty solo exhibitions including survey shows organized by Jeu de Paume in Paris (2008), the Walker Art Center in Minnesota (2010), Media Space in London (2015), and the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum (2024). Soth has been the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship (2013). In 2008, Soth created Little Brown Mushroom, a multi-media enterprise focused on visual storytelling. Soth is represented by Sean Kelly in New York, Weinstein Hammons Gallery in Minneapolis, Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco, Loock Galerie in Berlin, and is a member of Magnum Photos.  

UO Libraries' Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) is pleased to host Joe Whittle (Caddo) for a special lecture and Q&A event. Whittle is a photographer and creator of LANDBACK: RETURNING PUBLIC LANDS TO NATIVE AMERICANS, a four-part photojournalism project documenting the LandBack Movement that explores compelling reasons why federal lands should be returned to Native Americans. 

Special Collections & University Archives is currently exhibiting several of Whittle’s photographs in an exhibition curated by student Marisol Peters, The Land We Have Always Known. 

Event Details: Lecture and Q&A: 4:00-6:00 pm, Knight Library, Browsing Room Reception: 6:00-7:00 pm, Knight Library, Special Collections and University Archives

Free and open to the community. Registration is not required. The Knight Library is located at 1501 Kincaid Street, Eugene, Oregon 97403.

Are you interested in going abroad, meeting with meet with nonprofit/nongovernmental organization (NGO) leaders, and working on a hands-on project for a local organization in Cambodia? If so, the Catalysts for Impact: Nonprofits in Southeast Asia program might be a good fit for you! Join us for an information session to learn more about the program.

This program has a rolling admission process, and the final deadline to apply is March 15.

Utopia/Heterotopia/Dystopia

Professor Ken Calhoon

German and Scandinavian

Savage Places: The Witch-Themed Film as "Crisis Heterotopia"

My proposed lecture is part of a current project examining cinema with respect to the aesthetic conventions of landscape. This tradition readily suggests itself to a discussion of utopia, a concept that has often been summoned to illuminate the socio-political import of the idyll, the locus amoenus, and other generic components of literature, painting, garden design, even music. I am interested in the ways in which these dimensions acquire a sharpened relevance for a certain sub-species of the horror genre, namely the "witch-themed" film. The rupture that would spell the end of an approach that cast the natural setting as benign invitation is emblematized by the "deep Romantic chasm" of Coleridge's "Kubla Khan," which affords a portal to what would become a requisite topos of such films -the underneath: "A savage place! as holy and enchanted/ As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted/ By woman wailing for her demon-lover!" In the ambivalence surrounding the word "holy" we may already detect a precursor to Michel Foucault's understanding of "crisis heterotopias," which he characterizes as "privileged or sacred or forbidden places, reserved for individuals who are, in relation to society and to the human environment in which they live, in a state of crisis: adolescents, menstruating women, pregnant women, the elderly, etc." This description is a close approximation of the scenario of Lukas Feigelfeld's student­film titled Hagazussa (2017). The title is an Old High German compound whose etymology adjoins the witch to a wooded enclosure, which is the meaning of the root-word Hag. The hagazussa was the "fence-sitter," that is, a female figure who straddled the divide between society and the wilderness. With a focus on Foucault's discussion, I will analyze Fegelfeld's film alongside two others: The Blair Witch Project (1999) and The Witch (2015).

Associate Professor Nathalie Hester

Romance Languages

Uchronia and Alternate Empire

Uchronia, a word formed by analogy to "utopia," signifies an alternate history. This presentation focuses on uchronia in the reception of early modern European colonialism. Pre-modern European expansion prompted the production of a vast array of texts chronicling and legitimizing conquest and Christian conversion. However, some publications offered divergent, deliberately non-historical accounts of European expansion. This presentation looks at representations of the early encounter with the Americas and what can be termed "alternate empires," in which authors of different time periods create imaginary historical episodes that re­write or disrupt narratives of European navigation and domination. Are these works wishful thinking, escapist art, or expressions of critique and contestation? Baroque Italian epic poetry on Vespucci's voyages and Laurent Binet's recent novel,Civilizations (2019), will serve as anchors for considering the meaning and significance of alternate empires in fiction about early modern global encounters.

Mingling with light snacks, lecture, discussion