4:00–5:30 p.m.
Join us for a talk: "The Middle East Crisis in India."
Kishalay Bhattacharjee is currently Professor and Dean, Jindal School of Journalism and Communication and Director, New Imaginations. He is a journalist, author and former resident editor, New Delhi Television Ltd. (NDTV) and has reported widely from India’s conflict zones.
His books include Che in Paona Bazaar: Tales of Exile and Belonging from India’s Northeast (Pan Macmillan India, 2013), Blood on My Hands: Confessions of Staged Encounters (Harper Collins India, 2015) and An Unfinished Revolution: A Hostage Crisis, Adivasi Resistance and the Naxal Movement (Pan Macmillan India, 2017) and Where the Madness Lies: Citizen Accounts of Identity and Nationalism (Orient Blackswan 2023). He has co-authored Mapping Innovation in India’s Creative Industries Policy, Context and Opportunities (Routledge 2024) and his forthcoming publications are two edited volumes, Bearing Witness: Reporting Conflict, Crisis and Disaster (Orient Blackswan), On Rivers and Water (Orient Blackswan) and a handbook on reporting from the margins (Routledge).
Kishalay Bhattacharjee is the recipient of the Ramnath Goenka Award Excellence in Journalism, India's highest journalism award. He was Chair, Internal Security and a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA). He was a Panos Fellow for HIV/ AIDS and an Edward Murrow Fellow in Journalism. He was the first recipient of Penguin Random House Writers Residency Award. He is the founder curator of ArtEast—a festival of art and livelihood held annually at the India International Centre, New Delhi.
This event is sponsored by The Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages.
6:00–8:00 p.m.
Conservation Between the Tides: Seagrass Meadows Past, Present, and Future
Seagrass meadows are critical ocean ecosystems that purify water, mitigate pollution, stabilize sediments, and support diverse marine life — yet they are increasingly threatened by climate change, rising temperatures, and infectious disease. Assistant Professor Aoki will spotlight seagrass ecology and conservation on the west coast and beyond, highlighting the capacity for ecological resilience, successful restoration, and the power of collaborative science to advance conservation efforts.
About the speaker: Lillian Aoki is a coastal scientist studying ecosystem dynamics and resilience in nearshore and estuarine habitats. Using field, lab, and computational methods, her work builds a cross-scale understanding of coastal ecology in a rapidly changing world. Current projects examine seagrass meadow recovery following marine heatwaves and the role of land management in carbon sequestration in tidal marshes. She earned her PhD in Environmental Sciences from the University of Virginia.
Refreshments provided. Doors open at 6:00 PM.
Sponsored by the Graduate Evolutionary Biology & Ecology Students (GrEBES) and the Institute for Ecology and Evolution (IE²).
7:30 p.m.
Scoobi is an undocumented-law-student-love-child of the Zapatista rebellion of 1994. Petra, her mother, a former revolutionary is also undocumented. Dylan O’Reilly, is Scoobi’s ticket to citizenship. This odd trio navigates personal and political borders on the heels of Scoobi’s marriage of inconvenience to Dylan. Oh yes, Roko, the soldier-ghost of Scoobi’s soulmate is hanging out too.
Credit: Los Dreamers is produced by special arrangement with Mónica Sánchez. Directed by Michael Malek Najjar. A University Theatre production.
7:30 p.m.
Scoobi is an undocumented-law-student-love-child of the Zapatista rebellion of 1994. Petra, her mother, a former revolutionary is also undocumented. Dylan O’Reilly, is Scoobi’s ticket to citizenship. This odd trio navigates personal and political borders on the heels of Scoobi’s marriage of inconvenience to Dylan. Oh yes, Roko, the soldier-ghost of Scoobi’s soulmate is hanging out too.
Credit: Los Dreamers is produced by special arrangement with Mónica Sánchez. Directed by Michael Malek Najjar. A University Theatre production.
2:00 p.m.
Scoobi is an undocumented-law-student-love-child of the Zapatista rebellion of 1994. Petra, her mother, a former revolutionary is also undocumented. Dylan O’Reilly, is Scoobi’s ticket to citizenship. This odd trio navigates personal and political borders on the heels of Scoobi’s marriage of inconvenience to Dylan. Oh yes, Roko, the soldier-ghost of Scoobi’s soulmate is hanging out too.
Credit: Los Dreamers is produced by special arrangement with Mónica Sánchez. Directed by Michael Malek Najjar. A University Theatre production.
11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Join us for the 2026 Military Connected Graduation Celebration on June 13, 2026 from 11 am – 1 pm in the Crater Lakes South room.
All graduating students are welcome to participate.
Graduating Students should registered using this link: https://oregon.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_248irnJ0S14D4JU
*Please submit the form by May 25, 2026, at 11:59 p.m.
10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Join us for the 2026 Lavender Graduation Celebration on June 14, 2026 from 10:30 am – 12:30 pm in the EMU Ballroom. All graduating students are welcome to participate.
Graduating Students should registered using this link: https://oregon.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_248irnJ0S14D4JU
*Please submit the form by May 25, 2026, at 11:59 p.m.
3:00–5:00 p.m.
Join us for the 2026 ¡Sí, se pudo! celebration on June 14, 2026 from 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm in the EMU Ballroom. All graduating students are welcome to participate.
Community & Belonging Programs is proud to partner with Latiné Strategies Group, Hispanic Serving Institution Task Force, Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies, and MEChA to host the first ¡Sí, se pudo! (Latiné Grad Celebration), and we hope that you can join us in celebrating you and other graduating Latiné Diaspora students from the University of Oregon.
¡Sí, se pudo! celebrates the accomplishments and achievements of undergraduate, graduate, and law students who are Latiné, Hispanic, and/or of the Latinx Diaspora. This celebration commemorates the hard work and dedication that our students have shown throughout history, not only at the University of Oregon but also in global society.
*This will be a ticketed event
* Event will be live-streamed
*Time subject to change.
Graduating Students should registered using this link: https://oregon.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_248irnJ0S14D4JU
*Please submit the form by May 25, 2026, at 11:59 p.m.
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Speaker Nominations Form - Deadline: April 17th @ 5:00 pm (Self-nominations and nominations from peers, faculty, and/or staff are welcomed)
6:15–8:15 p.m.
Join us for the 2026 Black Graduation Celebration on June 14, 2026, from 6:15 – 8:15 pm in the EMU Ballroom. All graduating students are welcome to participate.
*Time subject to change
*Event will be live-streamed
Graduating students should registered using this link: https://oregon.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_248irnJ0S14D4JU
*Please submit the form by May 25, 2026, at 11:59 p.m.
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Speaker Nominations Form - Deadline: April 17 @ 5:00 pm (Self-nominations and nominations from peers, faculty, and/or staff are welcomed)
11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
Join us in celebrating the Class of 2026!
For graduate RSVP requirements and day-of details, email cascommencement@uoregon.edu or call 541-346-5472. You can also visit https://cas.uoregon.edu/cas-commencement-2026 for more information.
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Departments:
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Anthropology
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Asian Studies
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Chinese
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Cinema Studies
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Classics
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Comparative Literature
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Economics
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English
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Environmental Science
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Environmental Studies
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Ethnic Studies
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Folklore and Public Culture
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French
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General Social Sciences
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Geography
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German
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Global Studies
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History
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Humanities
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Italian
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Japanese
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Judaic Studies
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Latin American Studies
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Linguistics
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Medieval Studies
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Native American and Indigenous Studies
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Philosophy
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Political Science
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Religious Studies
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Romance Languages
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Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies
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Sociology
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Spatial Data and Technology
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Spanish
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Theatre Arts
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Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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German and Scandinavian Studies
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Scandinavian
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2:30–4:30 p.m.
Join us in celebrating the Class of 2026!
For graduate RSVP requirements and day-of details, email cascommencement@uoregon.edu or call 541-346-5472. You can also visit https://cas.uoregon.edu/cas-commencement-2026 for more information.
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Departments:
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Biochemistry
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Biology
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Chemistry
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Computer Science
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Cybersecurity
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Data Science
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Earth Sciences
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Human Physiology
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Marine Biology
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Mathematics
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Mathematics and Computer Science
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Multidisciplinary Science
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Neuroscience
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Physics
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Psychology
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Computer & Information Science
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5:30–7:00 p.m.
Join us in celebrating the Class of 2026!
For graduate RSVP requirements and day-of details, email cascommencement@uoregon.edu or call 541-346-5472. You can also visit https://cas.uoregon.edu/cas-commencement-2026 for more information.
3:30–6:00 p.m.
The Pacific Northwest: a geographic area ranging from Alaska to Northern California, to Montana (including British Columbia). The Indigenous languages of this area were and remain interconnected with one another. Recently, the area has been a hotbed for language revitalization and reclamation work.
The Symposium on Northwest American Indigenous Languages (SNAIL), hosted by the Northwest Native American Language Resource Center (NW-NALRC) at the Northwest Indigenous Language Institute (NILI), seeks to provide a venue for language speakers, artists, communities, and linguists to come together to share knowledge, foster collaboration, and celebrate the beauty and diversity of languages within the Pacific Northwest.
We invite talks on any topic relevant to Indigenous languages of the Pacific Northwest. We do prioritize presentations from presenters that: a) are Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest or neighboring regions; b) work for a Tribal Nation in the Pacific Northwest or neighboring regions; or c) are working in collaboration with a Tribal Nation. While theoretical and typological presentations are welcome to apply, they will not be given priority over the work of one of the above groups. SNAIL 2026 will be held from June 26-27 in Eugene in conjunction with the NILI Summer Institute.
For more information about SNAIL 2026, please visit the SNAIL website.
9:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
The Pacific Northwest: a geographic area ranging from Alaska to Northern California, to Montana (including British Columbia). The Indigenous languages of this area were and remain interconnected with one another. Recently, the area has been a hotbed for language revitalization and reclamation work.
The Symposium on Northwest American Indigenous Languages (SNAIL), hosted by the Northwest Native American Language Resource Center (NW-NALRC) at the Northwest Indigenous Language Institute (NILI), seeks to provide a venue for language speakers, artists, communities, and linguists to come together to share knowledge, foster collaboration, and celebrate the beauty and diversity of languages within the Pacific Northwest.
We invite talks on any topic relevant to Indigenous languages of the Pacific Northwest. We do prioritize presentations from presenters that: a) are Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest or neighboring regions; b) work for a Tribal Nation in the Pacific Northwest or neighboring regions; or c) are working in collaboration with a Tribal Nation. While theoretical and typological presentations are welcome to apply, they will not be given priority over the work of one of the above groups. SNAIL 2026 will be held from June 26-27 in Eugene in conjunction with the NILI Summer Institute.
For more information about SNAIL 2026, please visit the SNAIL website.
4:00 p.m.
The Oregon Humanities Center presents its 2026-27 endowed lectureship series centered on the theme of Reading.
We are used to thinking about reading in relation to writing, musical scores, performances, and works of cinema and art. But as social animals, we read more broadly. We read the signs. We read the landscape. We read each others’ faces and body language. We “read the room.”
Our speakers will consider how people observe, look for patterns, try to discern meaning. How does reading shape humanity, individually and collectively? What might taking an extended, intentional look at this activity—our constant reading—reveal? Using approaches honed by their disciplines, our invited speakerswill help us think about reading from a variety of directions.
Saeed Jones is the author of the memoir How We Fight for Our Lives (Simon and Schuster), winner of the 2019 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction and the poetry collection Prelude to Bruise (Coffee House Books), winner for the 2015 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry. His poetry and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, New York Times, Oxford American and GQ among other publications. His most recent book Alive at the End of the World (Coffee House Press) won the 2023 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Poetry.
Saeed Jones was the 2024-2025 artist-in-residence in the Media, Health and Medicine program at Harvard Medical School. His next book Home Out There, a memoir, is forthcoming from Washington Square Press. He cohosts the podcast Vibe Check with Sam Sanders and Zach Stafford.