Ever been interested in a career in journalism? You don't have to study journalism to be successful in this career, says Frauke Böger, the editor of German online news magazine Der Spiegel. On Monday, April 14, at 12 PM on ZOOM, Böger will speak to you about her career path and how studying languages and history helped her become chief editor of this leading German online news magazine. She will be joined by Camila Mortensen, chief editor, and owner of the Eugene Weekly. Mortensen will also discuss her career path and what's important for students in German and Scandinavian to be successful in a journalism and writing career. Both Mortenson and Böger will speak approximately 30 minutes each. There will be a Q&A following their presentations. If you are interested in joining, please send an email to matvogel@uoregon.edu. The event is free and open to the public, so please invite others to join. 

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Physical Chemistry Seminar Series

Professor Omar Valsson, University of North Texas Hosted by: Dhiman Ray

From Stability to Dissociation: Elucidating Dissociation Kinetics of Protein-Protein Complexes via Atomistic Simulations

Protein-protein interactions (PPI) are ubiquitous in biological processes. Their study has significant implications for drug discovery as PPIs are important pharmacological targets for small molecules and important in various therapeutic modalities, such as targeted protein degradation and antibodies. Therefore, understanding the stability and dissociation of protein-protein complexes is of great fundamental and practical interest. In particular, the unbinding/residence times of ligands and peptide therapeutics from their target proteins (i.e., k_off, the dissociation rate constant) is a vital parameter as it is known that the dissociation kinetics are directly correlated to the pharmacological activity and efficacy of drug molecules [1]. Therefore, obtaining the dissociation kinetics from atomistic simulations has been a fundamental task in the atomistic modeling field [2]. Here, enhanced sampling methods are needed as the unbinding/dissociation event is a rare event on the simulation time scale [3]. While considerable effort has been made to obtain the unbinding/residence times in protein-ligand complexes, there have been much more limited applications towards the more challenging case of protein-protein dissociation kinetics [2].

In this talk, I will present my group’s research program that is focused on elucidating the dissociation kinetics of protein-protein complexes using atomistic simulations augmented with enhanced sampling methods, such as infrequent metadynamics [3]. I will present our results for various challenging protein-protein system, including MDM2-p53 and barnase-barstar. I will discuss how the protein model (i.e., force field) can affect the results. I will discuss the future perspective of our research program, including investigating how different stabilizing molecules effect the stability and dissociation kinetics of protein-protein complexes. Furthermore, I will discuss applications towards understanding targeted protein degradation.

References[1] R. A. Copeland, “The drug–target residence time model: a 10-year retrospective”, Nat. Rev. Drug Discov., 15, 87–95 (2016).[2] J. Wang, H. N. Do, K. Koirala, and Y. Miao, “Predicting Biomolecular Binding Kinetics: A Review”, J. Chem. Theory Comput., 19, 2135-2148 (2023).[3] J. Hénin, T. Lelièvre, M. R. Shirts, O. Valsson, and L. Delemotte, “Enhanced Sampling Methods for Molecular Dynamics Simulation”, Living J. Comput. Mol. Sci. 4, (2022).

Native American and Indigenous Research Colloquium

Students from the UO School for Architecture and Environment have been working with NILI (Northwest Indigenous Language Institute) and Native American and Indigenous Studies on a project focused on Native Language learning, preservation, and revitalization. This project has two design stages: first, the renovation of the current infrastructure of the NILI house based on a real demand; second, a speculative proposal with the intention to expand the preservation and revitalization of the Native Languages to a broader audience.

Join students as they share their proposals imagining how languages can be expressed and celebrated in diverse and inclusive ways, creating a dynamic cultural space for the community.

The lecture will discuss ritualization, myth-making, and the emergence of new forms of religiosities today, as influenced by the processes of cultural heritagization, re-enchantment, and re-traditionalization.

Alessandro Testa is currently Visiting Professor at the Department of Anthropology and Folklore at UC Berkeley, and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague. He has authored five books and 80 peer-reviewed articles in the areas of religious studies and the cultural anthropology of European societies.

Sponsored by the Departments of English; German & Scandinavian; Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies; Religious Studies; the Folklore & Public Culture Program; and the Oregon Humanities Center’s Endowment for Public Outreach in the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities

Please join us for the April pub lecture hosted by the Department of History and the Lane County Historical Society. Assistant Professor Hannah Cutting-Jones will discuss "Back to Your Roots: Nutritional Advice to the Cook Islands, 1850-1975."

Free and open to everyone!

The UO Department of History and the Lane County Historical Society present a series of talks with scholars about history, from the local to the global. Join us for stories, food, and conversation in a casual setting!

Please join us Tuesday mornings for a free cup of coffee, pastries, and conversation with your history department community! We’re excited to continue this tradition for our history undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff. We hope to see you there!

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.

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New Faculty Roundtable and Lunch

The Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies (CLLAS) is pleased to to announce a dynamic roundtable discussion featuring new UO faculty members across various departments who specialize in Latino/a and Latin American studies! We are excited to welcome: 

Naomi Sussman – Assistant Professor, History Research Interests: Indigenous history, borderlands history, sovereignty, citizenship, race, history of migration

Isabel García Valdivia – Assistant Professor, Sociology Research Interests: [Im]migration, Race and Ethnicity, Social Stratification, and Life course/Aging

Guillem Belmar Viernes – Assistant Professor, Linguistics Research Interests: Language revitalization, language maintenance, language rights, minoritized languages, endangered languages, language documentation, minority multilingualism, Minoritized Languages and (Social Media), Minoritized Language Translation, and more

Please join us in welcoming these faculty members to UO and learning about their research, coursework, and the valuable contributions they will make in educating students about Latinx and Latin American issues across various disciplines.

Lunch will be provided. We hope to see you there!

Are you looking for ways to really stand out as a candidate? Come learn about the basics of resume writing and have the opportunity to ask questions on formatting, structure, and bring your own resume for tailoring and much more! Questions are welcomed and encouraged!

Workshop is IN-PERSON, in Tykeson Hall-Garden Level 50P (aka University Career Center Conference Room) This workshop is hosted by the University Career Center's Career Readiness Coaching team!

This event is part of the 2025 Spring 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 United States has the largest tech market in the world (1/3 of a $5 TRILLION industry!) and overall employment in computer and information technology occupations is projected to grow much faster than the average for all occupations in the next decade! (learn more) The future of the technology industry is so much more than just artificial intelligence and social media platforms. About 377,500 competitive openings are projected each year in the U.S.A. in these highly skilled roles—are you up for the challenge?  

Join us for a special industry-connection night dedicated to helping YOU get career ready for your future in Tech. Come to either or both events—Learn something new and meet employers and alumni you can add to your network! 

4-5pm Industry Insights Panel 

Hear from alumni, industry leaders, and experts about their career journeys, the future of the industry, and how you can be developing the career readiness skills, technical skills, and connections today to thrive in your future in Tech. 

PANELISTS

Michelle Regotti UO’20 MS, Applied Physics (Semiconductors), Metrology Process Engineer for HP 

D. Blair Elzinga, Director of Software Development for Oregon Community Credit Union 

5:15-6:30pm Connect with Tech Employers 

Grab a snack & rotate through casual small group chats with alumni, professionals, and employers to learn more about their companies, career paths, and get advice about how to find career-building opportunities and connections for your future in Tech.   

COMPANIES

Both events are open to all majors and academic years. Snacks provided. Casual Dress.   No RSVP is required. Bring your friends! 

Sponsored by the University Career Center and the School of Computer and Data Sciences as part of Spring Career Readiness Week 2025. 

Creating citations and bibliographies can be difficult, and so can keeping track of all the reading that you’ll do over the course of a class, a term, and your academic career.

Join UO Libraries for a one-hour workshop where you’ll learn to navigate Zotero, a free, open-source citation management tool designed to simplify your research process.

In this session, we will introduce you to Zotero’s features, showing you how to collect, organize, cite, and share your research effortlessly. You’ll learn how to create bibliographies and in-text citations in popular styles such as MLA, APA, and Chicago, all while developing strategies to effectively utilize Zotero in your writing.

Join us in the PSC Visualization Lab and transform the way you manage your research!

This workshop is free and open to the UO community.

Network with a variety of environmentally focused public agencies, non-profit organizations, and businesses in a casual roundtable-style event. Over the course of the event, you’ll have a chance to meet with over 25 employers who are looking for interns, volunteers or have career opportunities. 

There is no fee to participate, so come ready to network and find your next steps!

Please join us on April 17th, 2025 at 10:00am PST for an event at the Gerlinger Alumni Lounge about the Chateaubriand Fellowship & other research opportunities in France for undergraduate and graduate students. The Chateaubriand Fellowship is a PhD exchange program that allows US University students to conduct research in France for a period of 4-9 months. Fellows receive a monthly stipend, as well as assistance for airfare and health insurance.

Please register at: https://forms.gle/8DZowyaYvRfvUrc5A

Connect with International students across campus to share experiences, exchange knowledge, and develop a network of support. Drop-ins are welcome and lunch will be served.

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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 gives a special thanks to Enterprise Mobility, and Sherwin Williams for sponsoring all of our Spring Career Readiness Week events and workshops! 

For a full list of Spring Career Readiness Week (April 11–18) events and workshops, check out http://career.uoregon.edu/events

Chloe Thurston, Northwestern; and Emily Zackin, Johns Hopkins; will discuss their forthcoming book. The Political Development of American Debt Relief traces how geographic, sectoral, and racial politics shaped debtor activism over time, enhancing our understanding of state-building, constitutionalism, and social policy.

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Nurturing Resilience in the Face of Adversity: Women, Youth, and Caregiver Experiences in Latin America

April 17 / 3:30pm-5pm / EMU Crate Laker North (EMU 146)

Join us for a research colloquium as we explore the intersections of violence, empowerment, and resilience among women and youth in Latin America. Two researchers, Audrey Sileci (PhD Student, Prevention Science) and Gloria Macedo Janto (Graduate Student, Romance Languages), will present their research on women, youth, and caregiver experiences amid adversity and violence in Honduras and Peru.

Audrey Sileci will discuss her research on the Miles de Manos (MdM) program, a violence prevention initiative implemented in Honduras to promote a culture of peace and non-violence among children, parents, and teachers. Her presentation will delve into the program's impact on caregivers and their relationships with their children, as well as the key factors that contribute to the program's effectiveness. By exploring the complexities of program implementation and its effects on caregivers and children, Sileci's research aims to provide a more nuanced understanding of the MdM program's potential to promote positive change.

Gloria Macedo Janto will share her research on the narratives of Andean women in the discourses of political violence in Peru (1980-2000). She will analyze how these women's stories contribute to our understanding of Peru's historical memory and the impact of political violence on their lives.

This event provides a platform for CLLAS-funded researchers to share their findings and engage in a broader conversation about the significance of these topics. We hope to see you there!

Presented by the Oregon Humanities Center

We are at a moment when it is vitally important to imagine and articulate what makes us human. The steady drumbeat of news about AI, about ever more competent models achieving unprecedented milestones, raises questions about what the role for humans will be in the not-so-distant future. We have seen similar moments before. For hundreds of years, automation has pushed people into new relations with technology, with work, and with each other. And scholars have long come up with different answers to explain the uniquely human contribution: e.g., mental versus manual labor, creativity versus rote work. But today’s technologists are tackling new terrain: the mechanization of human relationship.  

Join us as the 2024–25 Cressman Lecturer Allison Pugh gives a talk titled “Re-imagining the Other/Ourselves: Finding the Human in the Age of AI” on Thursday, April 17, 2025 at 4 p.m. in the Knight Library Browsing Room. Based on five years of ethnographic research, Pugh offers a humanistic response to the rise of AI, one that probes the profound meaning of human connection, reckons with the challenges of seeing and being seen, and reimagines what we know of ourselves and others in light of the automation challenge. 

 Allison Pugh is a professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. She writes about how people forge connections and find meaning and dignity at work and at home. In her latest book The Last Human Job:The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World (2024), Pugh develops the concept of “connective labor,” the collaborative work of emotional recognition. This includes three key components—empathetic listening, emotion management, and the act of “witnessing,” in which one individual reflects what they have seen and heard. Drawing on years of interview and observational data, Pugh shows how in sectors like education, healthcare, and therapy, this work is increasingly systemized—a process that she argues makes it ripe for eventual mechanization. In the face of teacher shortages and hype around “chatbot therapists,” Pugh makes a case for connective labor’s value to society and the potential consequences for inequality should it become a scarce commodity. 

In addition, Pugh is the author of The Tumbleweed Society: Working and Caring in an Age of Insecurity (2015), Longing and Belonging: Parents, Children, and Consumer Culture (2009), and an edited volume Beyond the Cubicle: Job Insecurity, Intimacy, and the Flexible Self(2016). 

 Pugh’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 at ohc.uoregon.edu

Professor Yaron Shemer PhD will give a talk titled: 

Jerusalem in the Late-Ottoman Era (Mid-19th Century to 1917) and the Changes During the British Mandate (1922-1948)

Light food and refreshments will be provided.

The Creative Writing Program invites you to a poetry reading with Henri Cole.

Cole was born in Fukuoka, Japan, to a French mother and an American father. He has published eleven collections of poetry and received many awards, including the Jackson Prize, the Kingsley Tufts Award, the Rome prize, the Berlin Prize, the Lenore Marshall Award, and the Medal in Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.  He has also published Orphic Paris, a memoir.  He teaches at Claremont McKenna College.

For more information about the Creative Writing Reading Series, please visit https://humanities.uoregon.edu/creative-writing/reading-series

Free and open to the public.

Please join us Tuesday mornings for a free cup of coffee, pastries, and conversation with your history department community! We’re excited to continue this tradition for our history undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff. We hope to see you there!

Join Ms. Ilana Sol, documentary filmmaker and archival producer, for a special screening of her film Samurai in the Oregon Sky.

Following the screening, Ms. Sol will discuss the inspiration behind the film, the research process, and the stories uncovered along the way. She will also take questions from the audience.

Samurai in the Oregon Sky is a compassionate and engaging film that tells the story of Fujita Nobuo, the only Japanese pilot to bomb the US mainland during World War II, and the connections he formed with Brookings, Oregon, the site of his attack.

Want to learn more about graduate school or different types of part-time/full-time jobs, internships, volunteer opportunities, and careers in the health professions? The Health Grad & Career Expo is your chance to get curious about your present and future in healthcare! This expo is a mix of graduate schools, health-related businesses, non-profits, and government agencies excited to share more with you about their organization/program and early career talent and educational opportunities. Great for students exploring career paths as well as students ready to start applying for the year ahead. 

Register on Handshake today to learn about all the schools and organizations coming, positions of interest, and get tips and advice for how to make the most of the expo. 

For more information, visit the Unviersity Career Center in Tykeson-Garden Level to learn more about how the UCC supports students applying to grad school through career coaching and document reviews! Also check out our NEW online career exploration resources around Health & Scientific Discovery!

This lecture will examine narrative constructions used in contemporary German and African literature to frame intercultural awareness by promoting an openness to pluralism and respect for differences. It will critically analyze how authors respond to issues of power dynamics and cultural impacts stemming from colonial history. In the first step of the argumentation, I will explore the concept of aesthetics or Poetizität’ as explained by Aimé Césaire, Georg Lukács, Paul Ricoeur and Umberto Eco. Then, I will analyze how literary texts deconstruct colonial strategies of power, construct hybrid identities by discussing notions of home or belonging, and frame a politics of similarity that engages reciprocity, transfer processes between North and South. I will argue that one of the specific relevance of this intercultural texts is to let the reader gain an aesthetic experience (ästhetische Erfahrung) and a shared history between human beings.

As the Trump administration hits its 100-day mark, UO faculty from History, Law, and Political Science help make sense of the headlines and place today’s events in historical context. Pizza will be served. 

DEPORTATION:  Wednesday, April 23, 2025  AUTHORITARIANISM:  Wednesday, April 30, 2025  ANTI-ENVIRONMENTALISM:  Wednesday, May 14, 2025  

All events held from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm in McKenzie Hall 375. Free and open to the public 

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The Limits and Possibilities of Cross-border Latinidades & Indigeneities   April 24 / 12pm-5pm / Ford Lecture Hall, JSMA 

The Limits and Possibilities of Cross-border Latinidades & Indigeneities symposium will bring together interdisciplinary Latinx and Indigenous scholars and researchers studying settler colonialism, transnational Indigeneities, and race through archival and ethnographic approaches. The conference will explore the boundaries between Indigeneity and Latinidad, both historically and in the present. It examines shifting borders and interactions of Indigenous and Latine people and diasporas, focusing on regions that are now California, Texas, Oregon, Mexico, and Central America. 

12pm-1pm: Conference Opening and Keynote Presenters: María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo (New York University); Moderated by Chris Chavez (SOJC, University of Oregon); Special remarks by Jason Younker, Assistant Vice President, Advisor to the President on Sovereignty and Government-to-Government Relations, Chief, Coquille Tribe 

1pm-2pm: Pre-1848 Mexican Borderlands: Californio Ranchero Culture and Indigenous California  Presenters: Yvette Saavedra (Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Oregon) and Naomi Sussman (History, University of Oregon); Moderated by Laura Pulido (Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies, University of Oregon) 

2pm-3pm: Media, History and Citizenship of Indigenous and Latinx Peoples: Contested Lands and Identities across the Borderlands  Presenters: Ramón Resendiz (Indiana University, UO Anthropology) and Rachel Nez (Navajo Diné Nation, Fort Lewis College); Moderated by Gabe Sanchez (Anthropology, University of Oregon) 

3pm-4pm: Building Comunidad and Transborder Territories in Indigenous Diasporas From Mexico and Guatemala  Presenters: Daina Sanchez (UC Santa Barbara) and Lynn Stephen (Anthropology, University of Oregon); Moderated by Jason Younker (University of Oregon) 

4pm-5pm: Closing Remarks and Conversation  Closing remarks from Miguel Gualdrón Ramírez (Philosophy, University of Oregon) and María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo (New York University) 

5pm-6pm: Post-conference Reception  Mingle with presenters and enjoy complimentary food and refreshments. All are welcome! 

Questions? Email cllas@uoregon.edu

The 2025 China Town Hall program will discuss President Trump’s China policy 100 days in, with featured speakers Ryan Hass, Director of John L. Thorton China Center at the Brookings Institution; Matthew Turpin, Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution; and Lingling Wei, Chief China Correspondent at The Wall Street Journal. 

The University of Oregon's local discussion will be led by Daniel Buck, Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Oregon, who is currently teaching ASIA 480: Chinese Economy in spring, 2025.

The event is hosted by the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies at the University of Oregon. 

Will Jones, professor of history at the University of Minnesota, will deliver the Bob Bussel Labor History Lecture on April 24, 2025.

The UO Labor Education and Research Center (LERC) created the lecture in recognition of Bob Bussel’s years of service as LERC’s director and an affiliated member of the UO history department.  The lecture features historians with a distinguished record of scholarship, a commitment to public history, and an interest in labor and working-class issues.  Will Jones is a professor of history at the University of Minnesota with a particular interest in issues of race and class.  Professor Jones is the author of two books and numerous articles on labor and working-class history.  He is also a past president of the Labor and Working-Class History Association.

The Women’s Center is beyond excited to invite you to our annual Take Back the Night Rally, March and Speak-Out Against Sexual and Domestic Violence.

Take Back the Night is on Thursday, April 24th, 2025 starting with the Rally at 6:00pm followed by the March at 7:00pm and Student-Led Speak-Out at 8pm.

The Rally begins in the EMU Amphitheater at 13th and University St. followed by an approximately 1.6 mile March from the UO Campus through the streets of Eugene and back to UO Campus in the EMU Cedar and Spruce Rooms where the Student-Led Speak Out  (by and for students) is held.

The UO Women’s Center holds this event in collaboration with the UO Campus Community (UO Muxeres, UOIWMGW, Prevention SVPE,UO Green and Yellow Garter Band and more). Community Collaborators will be on hand from 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm at tables surrounding the Rally Area.

Take Back the Night Rally, March and Speak-Out Against Sexual and Domestic Violence is an event for the entire University of Oregon Campus Community. Take Back the Night is a yearly international protest founded in 1976 which seeks to raise awareness about the realities of Sexual and Domestic Violence on campus and in the community, both for Survivors of Sexual and Domestic Violence and those who want to support and bear witness in solidarity. Take Back the Night is a Survivor-Centered event that begins with a Rally in the EMU Amphitheater, continues as a March through the streets of Eugene to symbolize reclaiming people’s safety on public streets at night, and ends with a Student-Led Speak-Out on campus during which Survivors and Allies can share personal stories of how Sexual and Domestic Violence has impacted their lives. 

The Rally will feature UO Student Speakers from diverse intersecting identities and lived experiences, including the Native American Community, Latine Community, LGBTQIA2S+ Community, a Child Abuse Prevention Advocacy Organization and more.

Our theme for this year’s event is REST IS RESISTANCE, inspired by the work of Black Activist Tricia Hersey. As well, we will continue to center marginalized communities too often left out of essential dialogue about Sexual and Domestic Violence - despite being disproportionately impacted by these systems of oppression. As always, the Women’s Center is committed to providing this essential event to support Survivors, educate the community and prevent future harm.

ASL Interpretation will be provided at the Rally. This event is wheelchair accessible and will have transportation available during the March and back to Student-Led Speak-Out. We ask that no UO Professional Staff or Media be present during the Student Led Speak-Out portion of the event to provide a sacred space for students to have dialogue circles of peer-to-peer support.Event will take place **rain or shine** and is free and open to the public. We support and believe survivors in ALL WEATHER! Masks are not required but highly encouraged. Questions regarding Take Back the Night should be directed to

UO Women’s Center Program Assistant, Karyn Schultz (karyns@uoregon.edu) UO Women's Center Leadership Fellow, alejandra pedraza (apedraza@uoregon.edu) UO Women’s Center Sexual Violence Prevention & Education Student Coordinator, Lola Sponaas (svpewc@uoregon.edu)

The Department of Cinema Studies proudly announces the 10th Annual Harlan J. Strauss Visiting Filmmaker Series with award-winning Director Sean Wang.

Join cinema studies for a screening of Sean Wang’s 2024 feature film DÌDI (弟弟) followed by an in-person Q&A and reception with the award-winning writer and director.

Free and open to the community.

For more information about the screening, please visit cinema.uoregon.edu.

Sean Wang is an Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker from the Bay Area. He began his career developing and directing commercials at Google Creative Lab. Since then, his work has screened at globally renowned film festivals including Sundance, SXSW, and TIFF. He is a former Sundance Ignite and TAAF fellow, and 2023 Sundance Screenwriters and Directors Lab Fellow. In 2024, he was named a BAFTA Breakthrough Artist and received the Sundance Vanguard Award for Fiction.

His most recent short film, Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó (Grandma & Grandma), premiered at SXSW 2023 where it won the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award and was acquired by Disney+. It went on to screen at dozens of film festivals worldwide, earning top honors at AFI Fest and SIFF, and was nominated for Best Documentary Short Film at the 96th Academy Awards.

His feature directorial debut, Dìdi (弟弟), premiered in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival where it won the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award, Special Jury Prize for Best Ensemble Cast, and was acquired by Focus Features for a global theatrical release. Sean was nominated by the DGA for Outstanding Directorial Achievement of a First-Time Feature Film and the film was named a New York Times Critics Pick, nominated for 4 Independent Spirit Awards, winning 2 for Best First Screenplay and Best First Feature, and was named one of the top ten independent films of 2024 by the National Board of Review.

The UO Cinema Studies Visiting Filmmaker Series is Funded by the Generous Harlan J. Strauss Visiting Filmmaker Endowment.

The Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies welcomes Kit Myers, Assistant Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Merced, for a talk on “The Violence of Love: Race, Adoption, and Family in the United States.”

12:00 pm on Friday, April 25 in EMU Crater Lake North (Room 146) Free and Open to the Public

The Violence of Love challenges the narrative that adoption is a solely loving act that benefits birth parents, adopted individuals, and adoptive parents–a narrative that is especially pervasive with transracial and transnational adoptions. Using interdisciplinary methods of archival, legal, and discursive analysis, Kit W. Myers comparatively examines the adoption of Asian, Black, and Native American children by White families in the United States. He shows how race has been constructed relationally to mark certain homes, families, and nations as spaces of love, freedom, and better futures–in contrast to others that are not–and argues that violence is attached to adoption in complex ways. Propelled by different types of love, such adoptions attempt to transgress biological, racial, cultural, and national borders established by traditional family ideals. Yet they are also linked to structural, symbolic, and traumatic forms of violence. The Violence of Love confronts this discomforting reality and rethinks theories of family to offer more capacious understandings of love, kinship, and care.

Cosponsored by the Mellon Foundation.

Kit Myers is transracial and transnational adoptee from Hong Kong and grew up in Oregon. He is currently an assistant professor in the Department of History & Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of California, San Diego in ethnic studies and his B.S. in ethnic studies and journalism from the University of Oregon. His book, The Violence of Love: Race, Family, and Adoption in the United States, was recently published with the University of California Press (2025). Myers has published journal articles in Adoption Quarterly, Critical Discourse Studies, Adoption & Culture, and Amerasia. He has also written on issues of race and policing. He serves on the executive committee for the Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture and previously served on the leadership team of the Adoption Museum Project. When Myers is not working, he loves spending time with his partner and two kids, being in nature, watching sports, coaching his daughters' soccer teams, and visiting family in Oregon.

The Department of Cinema Studies proudly announces the 10th Annual Harlan J. Strauss Visiting Filmmaker Series with award-winning Director Sean Wang.

Join cinema studies for masterclass with award-winning Director Sean Wang. He will share his creative process for developing and directing scenes from his independent feature DÌDI , including ideas and techniques for casting, blocking, and working collaboratively on set with both talent and crew.

Open to UO students • Priority to CINE majors • Space is limited Register to attend by April 14.

For more information about the masterclass and to RSVP, please visit cinema.uoregon.edu.

Sean Wang is an Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker from the Bay Area. He began his career developing and directing commercials at Google Creative Lab. Since then, his work has screened at globally renowned film festivals including Sundance, SXSW, and TIFF. He is a former Sundance Ignite and TAAF fellow, and 2023 Sundance Screenwriters and Directors Lab Fellow. In 2024, he was named a BAFTA Breakthrough Artist and received the Sundance Vanguard Award for Fiction.

His most recent short film, Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó (Grandma & Grandma), premiered at SXSW 2023 where it won the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award and was acquired by Disney+. It went on to screen at dozens of film festivals worldwide, earning top honors at AFI Fest and SIFF, and was nominated for Best Documentary Short Film at the 96th Academy Awards.

His feature directorial debut, Dìdi (弟弟), premiered in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival where it won the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award, Special Jury Prize for Best Ensemble Cast, and was acquired by Focus Features for a global theatrical release. Sean was nominated by the DGA for Outstanding Directorial Achievement of a First-Time Feature Film and the film was named a New York Times Critics Pick, nominated for 4 Independent Spirit Awards, winning 2 for Best First Screenplay and Best First Feature, and was named one of the top ten independent films of 2024 by the National Board of Review.

The UO Cinema Studies Visiting Filmmaker Series is Funded by the Generous Harlan J. Strauss Visiting Filmmaker Endowment.

We are pleased to host Dr. Roberto Cabeza of Duke University for our 36th annual Fred Attneave Memorial Lecture on April 25th at 2:30pm in Gerlinger Lounge. Dr. Cabeza’s research uses brain imaging techniques to explore how memory and brain activity are connected, and how this relationship changes as we age.

Please join us Tuesday mornings for a free cup of coffee, pastries, and conversation with your history department community! We’re excited to continue this tradition for our history undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff. We hope to see you there!

Join the Department of History and Nicholas B. Breyfogle, University of Ohio, for a talk on “Drowning the Sacred Sea: Lake Baikal and the Hydroelectric Moment in World History."

Free and open to the public.

This paper examines the building of the Irkutsk Hydroelectric dam and the human-induced, hydroelectric flooding of Siberia’s Lake Baikal that began in the mid-1950s and transformed the water systems, fish and human ecologies, energy flows, and cultural practices (especially religious) of the diverse peoples of the region. The dam resulted in a rise in water depth of more than 4 meters around the lake. Whole communities found their villages drowned, water transport infrastructure disappeared, the shoreline was irrevocably changed, and the spawning grounds for the lake's endemic (and iconic) fish, the omul, were destroyed. The Shamanist Buriat communities found religious sites dropped underwater and struggled to prevent (and then culturally to absorb) the loss of these sacred sites. This paper explores the ways that hydrological and geological factors merged with economic and technological to generate interest in building a multi-dam cascade along the Angara river; the extensive efforts to prepare the lands that would be flooded by the dam; the rise of new ways of thinking about and using the lake; and finally the impact the dam had on the omul population (and the fishing industry that was based on them) Throughout, the paper places the Baikal story in the larger context of global hydroelectric development. 

Dr. Nicholas B. Breyfogle is Professor of History and Director of the Harvey Goldberg Center for Excellence in Teaching at The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH. He is a specialist in the history of Russia/Soviet Union and in global environmental and water history. He is the author/(co-)editor of multiple volumes, including Hydraulic Societies: Water, Power, and Control in East and Central Asian History (2023), Place and Nature: Essays in Russian Environmental History (2021), Nature at War: American Environments and World War II (2020), Eurasian Environments: Nature and Ecology in Imperial Russian and Soviet History (2018), Readings in Water History (2020), Peopling the Russian Periphery: Borderland Colonization in Eurasian History (2007), and Heretics and Colonizers: Forging Russia’s Empire in the South Caucasus (2005). He is currently completing two books: “Baikal: the Great Lake and its People” and “Water: A Human History.”  Since 2007, Breyfogle has worked as co-editor of the online magazine/podcast/video channel Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective, http://origins.osu.edu and most recently on Picturing Black History, https://www.picturingblackhistory.org/. In 2022, he was awarded The Herbert Feis Award for Distinguished Contributions to Public History from the American Historical Association. In 2024, his next co-edited book, Picturing Black History: Photographs and Stories that Changed the World will be published with Abrams Books.  

The Department of History Seminar Series runs throughout the academic year and features guest speakers from the top universities who share their perspectives on history. Visit history.uoregon.edu for more information about the seminar series.   

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Roots and Rhythms: A Conversation on Afrodescendencia, Indigenous Heritage, and Community Empowerment in Mexico and Puerto Rico

April 29 / 4PM-5:30PM / Lawrence 115

Join us for a research colloquium as we delve into the intersections of Afrodescendencia, Indigenous heritage, and community empowerment in Mexico and Puerto Rico.

Alai Reyes-Santos (Professor of Practice, UO School of Law) and Abigayle Mitchell (Grad Student, UO School of Law) will present their research on La Piedra del Sapo, a significant Indigenous site in Puerto Rico. They'll explore how this site can facilitate meaningful engagement with the past and shape sustainable futures for the people of Cidra and the Puerto Rican diaspora.

Abraham Landa (Grad Student, Ethnomusicology) will share his research project, "Black Mexico: Music, Dance, and the Construction of Afrodescendencia in Costa Chica." This project examines the performance of African music and dance in Costa Chica, Mexico, and how Afro-Mexican communities use cultural expressions to claim historical presence and cultural recognition.

This event provides a platform for CLLAS-funded researchers to share their findings and engage in a broader conversation about the significance of these topics. We hope to see you there!

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Preserving Latinx Stories: A Conversation with NPR's VP of Research, Archives, and Strategy Laura Soto-Barra

April 30 / 12pm-1pm / Zoom

Join us for a virtual conversation with Laura Soto-Barra, NPR's Vice President of Research, Archives, and Strategy. Learn about NPR's archival work, the significance of preserving Latinx stories from the 1980s, and efforts to digitize and preserve Latinx voices. Moderated by Chris Chávez, CLLAS Director.

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This event, offered by the University of Tennessee Knoxville, is an opportunity for postdoctoral scholars to gain valuable insights and guidance as they navigate their career paths. Former postdocs will share their personal experiences and provide invaluable advice to help postdocs achieve their career goals

This "Academic Teaching Panel" workshop will bring former postdocs who are current assistant professors at other US institutions. They will share their search experience, including interview/negotiation, tips, and tricks.

Register using your UO email address at https://tennessee.zoom.us/meeting/register/Docx_ki8R4-HNNcQ-hECuA#/registration

As the Trump administration hits its 100-day mark, UO faculty from History, Law, and Political Science help make sense of the headlines and place today’s events in historical context. Pizza will be served. 

DEPORTATION:  Wednesday, April 23, 2025  AUTHORITARIANISM:  Wednesday, April 30, 2025  ANTI-ENVIRONMENTALISM:  Wednesday, May 14, 2025  

All events held from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm in McKenzie Hall 375. Free and open to the public 

Larry Diamond is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Mosbacher Senior Fellow in Global Democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. He also chairs the Hoover Institution Project on Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific Region and is the principal investigator of the Global Digital Policy Incubator, part of Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center. Diamond has served as a consultant to the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and advised and lectured to the World Bank, the United Nations, the State Department, and other agencies dealing with governance and development. His books include In Search of Democracy (2016), and The Spirit of Democracy (2008). He has edited or coedited some fifty books on democratic development around the world.

Francis Fukuyama is the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and a faculty member of FSI's Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law. He is also director of Stanford's Ford Dorsey Master's in International Policy. Fukuyama has written widely on issues in development and international politics. His 1992 book, The End of History and the Last Man, has appeared in over twenty foreign editions. His latest book, Liberalism and Its Discontents, was published in May 2022.

This event is sponsored by the School of Global Studies and Languages, Global Studies Institute in the Division of Global Engagement, Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, and the Department of Political Science.

Free and open to the public. 

Please join us Tuesday mornings for a free cup of coffee, pastries, and conversation with your history department community! We’re excited to continue this tradition for our history undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff. We hope to see you there!

The Division of Graduate Studies invites you to a celebration of the research, scholarship, and creative expressions of UO graduate students. The forum regularly showcases the work of more than 100 students representing more than 35 disciplines. Join us for the popular poster and networking session !

To participate, all graduate-level students are invited to submit a proposal by April 16, 2025. All accepted posters will be judged. Posters are categorized by field; first place in each category will win $300.

For more information, go to https://graduatestudies.uoregon.edu/forum

Joe Riley (Ocean Art Practice and Critical Environmental History) “Visualizing Marine Algae as Passengers (and Messengers) of Change”

Talk followed by reception.

Blue Visions: Thinking with Ocean Ecologies across the Arts and Humanities, was organized by Stacy Alaimo and Megan Hayes, along with the directors of the Center for Environmental Futures, Nina Amstutz and Emily Eliza Scott.

Thanks to the College of Arts and Sciences, the Center for Environmental Futures, the Department of English, the Horn Chair (English) and the Barbara and Carlisle Moore Chair (English) for their generous funding. Special thanks to Christina Lujin.

Dr. Tiara Naputi (Associate Professor of Global and International Studies at UC Irvine Oceanic Dispatches) “Storying Our Planetary Health”

Lunch buffet and film screening: “Holding Back the Tide” (Emily Packer, Marginal Gap Films)

Dara Craig, Lydia Lapporte, and Megan Hayes (UO grad student panel) “Sea Urchins, Kelp, and Oysters: Justice, Relations, and Cosmic Tending”

Dr. Astrida Neimanis (Associate Professor of English and Cultural Studies, Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at UBC) “Care for the Stranded”

Closing Panel: All speakers together with Dr. Stacy Alaimo

Blue Visions: Thinking with Ocean Ecologies across the Arts and Humanities was organized by Stacy Alaimo and Megan Hayes, along with the directors of the Center for Environmental Futures, Nina Amstutz and Emily Eliza Scott.

Thanks to the College of Arts and Sciences, the Center for Environmental Futures, the Department of English, the Horn Chair (English) and the Barbara and Carlisle Moore Chair (English) for their generous funding. Special thanks to Christina Lujin.

Please join us for the May pub lecture hosted by the Department of History and the Lane County Historical Society. Associate Professor Yvette Saavedra will discuss "On the Trail of Bad Women: La Mala Vida and Defiant Women in Nineteenth Century Mexican Los Angeles, 1790-1870." 

Monday, May 12 at 7 pm at Whirled Pies Downtown  Free and open to everyone! 

The UO Department of History and the Lane County Historical Society present a series of talks with scholars about history, from the local to the global. Join us for stories, food, and conversation in a casual setting! 

Please join us Tuesday mornings for a free cup of coffee, pastries, and conversation with your history department community! We’re excited to continue this tradition for our history undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff. We hope to see you there!

Calling all graduate students and emerging scholars! The Office of the Provost is excited to invite you to the third session of our Book Disciplines Workshop Series "You’ve published your book—now what?" on Tuesday, May 13, from 2PM to 3PM.

Join Katryce Lassle, Senior Publicist, and Andy Etzkorn, Senior Campaign Strategist from University of California Press, for an insider’s look at how to promote and market your academic book after publication.

Learn about:

🔹 Effective publicity strategies

🔹 How to work with your press

🔹 Tools for building your audience

🔹 Long-term promotion for scholarly impact

Whether you're planning your first book or navigating post-publication life, this session is packed with practical guidance and industry insight. Register now at https://oregon.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eKSh6qfvMtLckMm and take your academic work to the next level!

Looking for a part-time job this summer in Eugene? Looking ahead for fall job opportunities on campus? 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, May 14, 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!  

Presented by the Oregon Humanities Center

In an era of increased isolation where civic deserts, disinformation, and technological dependence separate us from one another, how can we reimagine our capacity for deeper connection and sustainable collaboration in our current reality? Deepa Iyer, a social justice advocate, will lead an exploration of the pathways that strengthen ecosystems for social change in her talk titled “Re-imagine: Our Social Change Ecosystems” on Wednesday, May 14, 2025 at 4 p.m. in the Knight Library Browsing Room. 

Deepa Iyer is a South Asian American writer, strategist, and lawyer. Her work is rooted in Asian American, South Asian, Muslim, and Arab communities where she spent fifteen years in policy advocacy and coalition building in the wake of the September 11th attacks and ensuing backlash. Currently, Deepa leads projects on solidarity and social movements at the Building Movement Project, a national nonprofit organization that catalyzes social change through research, strategic partnerships, and resources for movements and nonprofits. She conducts workshops and trainings, uplifts narratives through the “Solidarity Is This” podcast, and facilitates solidarity strategy for cohorts and networks. 

 Deepa’s first book, We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future (2015), chronicles community-based histories in the wake of 9/11 and received a 2016 American Book Award. Her debut children’s picture book, We Are The Builders!, was released in 2024.  

 Deepa’s book Social Change Now: A Guide for Reflection and Connection (2022) is a practical guide for those on journeys towards justice, equity, and solidarity. It introduces an ecosystems framework that includes ten roles that many people play in service of social change values. Over the past three years, individuals and organizations around the world have used the social change ecosystem framework to respond to the pandemic, express solidarity during the uprisings against anti-Black racism, and support multiracial coalitions struggling for reproductive rights, immigrant and refugee protections, and climate justice. Free copies of Social Change Now will be available at Iyer’s talk. 

Iyer is the UO’s 2024–25 Lorwin Lecturer in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. Her talk, part of the OHC’s “Re-imagine” series, is free and open to the public and will be livestreamed and recorded. Please register at ohc.uoregon.edu

As the Trump administration hits its 100-day mark, UO faculty from History, Law, and Political Science help make sense of the headlines and place today’s events in historical context. Pizza will be served. 

DEPORTATION:  Wednesday, April 23, 2025  AUTHORITARIANISM:  Wednesday, April 30, 2025  ANTI-ENVIRONMENTALISM:  Wednesday, May 14, 2025  

All events held from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm in McKenzie Hall 375. Free and open to the public 

The Creative Writing Program invites you to a fiction reading with Tania James.

Free and open to the public.

Tania James is the author of four works of fiction, all published by Knopf: Loot, which was nominated for The National Book Award and the Carol Shields Prize; The Tusk That Did the Damage, which was a finalist for the International Dylan Thomas Prize and the Financial Times Oppenheimer Award; Aerogrammes and Other Stories, named a Best Book of 2012 by Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, and The San Francisco Chronicle; and the novel Atlas of Unknowns, which was a New York Times Editor’s Choice and a finalist for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. Her short stories have appeared in Freeman’s: The Future of New Writing; Granta; The New Yorker; O, The Oprah Magazine; and One Story, among other places, and thrice featured on Symphony Space Selected Shorts. She has received fellowships from the Macdowell Colony, Ragdale, the Sustainable Arts Foundation, and the Fulbright Program, and is an associate professor of English in the MFA program at George Mason University. 

For more information about the Creative Writing Reading Series, please visit https://humanities.uoregon.edu/creative-writing/reading-series

Are you an incoming/prospective graduate (Master's/Doctoral student) or a current first-year graduate student? Then consider attending this online information session on the National Science Foundation-Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF-GRFP).

Please RSVP at https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/0196263723367ecf87e548ae6d98e9dd

NSF-GRFP is a prestigious national award program given each year to a select group of master’s and doctoral students in science and engineering fields in recognition of their academic and professional excellence. Students who receive the NSF-GRFP benefit from a generous stipend, opportunities for international research and professional development, and the freedom to conduct their own research at any accredited U.S. institution of graduate education to which they are accepted. The University of Oregon offers competitive benefits meant to augment and support NSF Fellowships.

NSF Graduate Research Fellows who choose UO as their affiliate graduate institution will receive full tuition and mandatory fee support, and subsidized health insurance benefits under UO's graduate assistant and fellow health insurance plan during their active tenure years. UO will also reserve a portion of the annual cost of education allowance for the Fellow to use for research expenses. Must be an incoming student or in your first year of study to apply. For more information see our UO NSF page.

Please join us Tuesday mornings for a free cup of coffee, pastries, and conversation with your history department community! We’re excited to continue this tradition for our history undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff. We hope to see you there!

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

RSVP

Music and Lyrics by William Finn Book by Rachel Sheinkin Conceived by Rebecca Feldman Additional Material by Jay Reiss Originally Directed on Broadway by James Lapine Originally produced on Broadway by David Stone, James L. Nederlander, Barbara Whitman, Patrick Catullo Barrington Stage Company, Second Stage Theatre

Directed by Tara Wibrew

An eclectic group of six mid-pubescents vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home lives, the tweens spell their way through a series of (potentially made-up) words, hoping never to hear the soul-crushing, pout-inducing, life un-affirming “ding” of the bell that signals a spelling mistake. Six spellers enter; one speller leaves a champion! At least the losers get a juice box.

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com

Music and Lyrics by William Finn Book by Rachel Sheinkin Conceived by Rebecca Feldman Additional Material by Jay Reiss Originally Directed on Broadway by James Lapine Originally produced on Broadway by David Stone, James L. Nederlander, Barbara Whitman, Patrick Catullo Barrington Stage Company, Second Stage Theatre

Directed by Tara Wibrew

An eclectic group of six mid-pubescents vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home lives, the tweens spell their way through a series of (potentially made-up) words, hoping never to hear the soul-crushing, pout-inducing, life un-affirming “ding” of the bell that signals a spelling mistake. Six spellers enter; one speller leaves a champion! At least the losers get a juice box.

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com

Please join us Tuesday mornings for a free cup of coffee, pastries, and conversation with your history department community! We’re excited to continue this tradition for our history undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff. We hope to see you there!

A talk by the author, Allen James Fromherz

World history began in the Persian Gulf. The ancient port cities that dotted its coastlines created the first global seaboard, a place from where faiths and cultures from around the world set sail and made contact. More than a history, The Center of the World shows us that contradictions that define our modern age have always been present.

For over four thousand years, the Gulf—sometimes called the Persian Gulf, sometimes the Arabian Gulf—has been a global crossroads while managing to avoid control by the world’s greatest empires. In its history, we see a world of rapid change, fluctuating centers of trade, a dependency on uncertain global markets, and intense cross-cultural encounters that hold a mirror to the contemporary world. Focusing each chapter on a different port around the Gulf, The Center of the World shows how the people of the Gulf adapted to larger changes in world history, creating a system of free trade, merchant rule, and commerce that continues to define the region today.

Music and Lyrics by William Finn Book by Rachel Sheinkin Conceived by Rebecca Feldman Additional Material by Jay Reiss Originally Directed on Broadway by James Lapine Originally produced on Broadway by David Stone, James L. Nederlander, Barbara Whitman, Patrick Catullo Barrington Stage Company, Second Stage Theatre

Directed by Tara Wibrew

An eclectic group of six mid-pubescents vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home lives, the tweens spell their way through a series of (potentially made-up) words, hoping never to hear the soul-crushing, pout-inducing, life un-affirming “ding” of the bell that signals a spelling mistake. Six spellers enter; one speller leaves a champion! At least the losers get a juice box.

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com

Music and Lyrics by William Finn Book by Rachel Sheinkin Conceived by Rebecca Feldman Additional Material by Jay Reiss Originally Directed on Broadway by James Lapine Originally produced on Broadway by David Stone, James L. Nederlander, Barbara Whitman, Patrick Catullo Barrington Stage Company, Second Stage Theatre

Directed by Tara Wibrew

An eclectic group of six mid-pubescents vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home lives, the tweens spell their way through a series of (potentially made-up) words, hoping never to hear the soul-crushing, pout-inducing, life un-affirming “ding” of the bell that signals a spelling mistake. Six spellers enter; one speller leaves a champion! At least the losers get a juice box.

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com

Music and Lyrics by William Finn Book by Rachel Sheinkin Conceived by Rebecca Feldman Additional Material by Jay Reiss Originally Directed on Broadway by James Lapine Originally produced on Broadway by David Stone, James L. Nederlander, Barbara Whitman, Patrick Catullo Barrington Stage Company, Second Stage Theatre

Directed by Tara Wibrew

An eclectic group of six mid-pubescents vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home lives, the tweens spell their way through a series of (potentially made-up) words, hoping never to hear the soul-crushing, pout-inducing, life un-affirming “ding” of the bell that signals a spelling mistake. Six spellers enter; one speller leaves a champion! At least the losers get a juice box.

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com

Please join us Tuesday mornings for a free cup of coffee, pastries, and conversation with your history department community! We’re excited to continue this tradition for our history undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff. We hope to see you there!

Presented by the Oregon Humanities Center

Lanie Millar, associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese, and Fabienne Moore, associate professor of French, collaborated on a newly published book The Revolution Will Be a Poetic Act: African Culture and Decolonization (Polity, 2024), a translation of essays and speeches by prolific anticolonial writer, poet, and politician Mário Pinto de Andrade. The two scholars will give the Oregon Humanities Center’s Spring Wine Chat.

Born in Angola during Portuguese colonial rule, Mário Pinto de Andrade (1928–1990) was one Africa’s most important 20th-century intellectuals who wrote in French, Portuguese, and Spanish. In 1956, he founded the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola but was exiled after independence was achieved in 1975. He never returned.  

As anti-colonial movements got underway in the mid-twentieth century, Andrade wrote extensively about the urgent necessity for Africans to turn away from European cultural and political models, arguing that communities emerging from colonization should focus on voices from within, on self-representation, and on horizontal relationships among Black, African, and decolonizing peoples. Andrade played a key role in theorizing the international reach of revolutionary 20th-century poetry and literature, Black cultural vindication, and African liberation. 

When asked how this project came about, Millar shared, “My initial thought was that I was going to translate five of his introductions to anthologies. Then as I kept digging, I realized there was much, much more material, and a significant amount of material in French. I thought the picture of his intellectual production would be incomplete if I just focused on Portuguese, and I approached Fabienne to collaborate.” 

“When you research and teach a multilingual, transnational revolutionary figure,” says Moore, “you are educating students about values, actions and modes of writing. The knowledge that this thinker existed, this is how they carried out their actions, this is how the work was perceived by his contemporaries, it provides an educational impact that is huge.” 

Along with the translated essays and speeches, the book includes a foreword by Millar and an interview with Andrade’s two daughters, who are guardians of his work. This work is particularly relevant not only to scholars of African decolonization movements but to anyone engaged in contemporary conversations about race, belonging, and political community.

The 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 at ohc.uoregon.edu

Music and Lyrics by William Finn Book by Rachel Sheinkin Conceived by Rebecca Feldman Additional Material by Jay Reiss Originally Directed on Broadway by James Lapine Originally produced on Broadway by David Stone, James L. Nederlander, Barbara Whitman, Patrick Catullo Barrington Stage Company, Second Stage Theatre

Directed by Tara Wibrew

An eclectic group of six mid-pubescents vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home lives, the tweens spell their way through a series of (potentially made-up) words, hoping never to hear the soul-crushing, pout-inducing, life un-affirming “ding” of the bell that signals a spelling mistake. Six spellers enter; one speller leaves a champion! At least the losers get a juice box.

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com

Music and Lyrics by William Finn Book by Rachel Sheinkin Conceived by Rebecca Feldman Additional Material by Jay Reiss Originally Directed on Broadway by James Lapine Originally produced on Broadway by David Stone, James L. Nederlander, Barbara Whitman, Patrick Catullo Barrington Stage Company, Second Stage Theatre

Directed by Tara Wibrew

An eclectic group of six mid-pubescents vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home lives, the tweens spell their way through a series of (potentially made-up) words, hoping never to hear the soul-crushing, pout-inducing, life un-affirming “ding” of the bell that signals a spelling mistake. Six spellers enter; one speller leaves a champion! At least the losers get a juice box.

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com

Please Join the Creative Writing Program for the Creative Writing MFA Reading and Hooding Celebration.

Music and Lyrics by William Finn Book by Rachel Sheinkin Conceived by Rebecca Feldman Additional Material by Jay Reiss Originally Directed on Broadway by James Lapine Originally produced on Broadway by David Stone, James L. Nederlander, Barbara Whitman, Patrick Catullo Barrington Stage Company, Second Stage Theatre

Directed by Tara Wibrew

An eclectic group of six mid-pubescents vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home lives, the tweens spell their way through a series of (potentially made-up) words, hoping never to hear the soul-crushing, pout-inducing, life un-affirming “ding” of the bell that signals a spelling mistake. Six spellers enter; one speller leaves a champion! At least the losers get a juice box.

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com

Music and Lyrics by William Finn Book by Rachel Sheinkin Conceived by Rebecca Feldman Additional Material by Jay Reiss Originally Directed on Broadway by James Lapine Originally produced on Broadway by David Stone, James L. Nederlander, Barbara Whitman, Patrick Catullo Barrington Stage Company, Second Stage Theatre

Directed by Tara Wibrew

An eclectic group of six mid-pubescents vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home lives, the tweens spell their way through a series of (potentially made-up) words, hoping never to hear the soul-crushing, pout-inducing, life un-affirming “ding” of the bell that signals a spelling mistake. Six spellers enter; one speller leaves a champion! At least the losers get a juice box.

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com

Join the Neuroscience department for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 15th at 8:00 am in the Erb Memorial Union Ballroom.

Join the Classics, Humanities, Medieval and Religious Studies, and Philosophy departments for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 15th at 10:00 am in Straub Hall room 156. For more information, RSVP requirements, and day of details please email asu3@uoregon.edu.

Join the School of Global Studies and Languages for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 15th at 10:00 am on the East Campus Green. 

Join the Sociology department for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 15th at 10:00 am on the Southwest Campus Green. 

Join the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies department for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 15th at 10:00 am in the Miller Theatre Complex.

Join the Multidisciplinary Science department for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 15th at 10:30 am in the Erb Memorial Union Ballroom.

Join the Comparative Literature department for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 15th at 1:00 pm in Erb Memorial Union Ballroom. For more information, RSVP requirements, and day of details please email asu3@uoregon.edu.

Join the Environmental Studies department for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 15th at 1:00 pm on the East Campus Green. 

Join the Math department for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 15th at 1:00 pm in Straub Hall. 

Join the Native American and Indigenous Studies, Black Studies, Indigenous, Race and Ethnic Studies, and the Latinx Studies departments for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 15th at 1:00 pm in the Miller Theatre Complex. 

Join the Political Science department for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 15th at 1:00 pm on the Southwest Campus Green. 

Join the Chemistry and Biochemistry department for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 15th at 4:00 pm on the Southwest Campus Green. For more information and to RSVP for the department ceremony, please visit the Chemistry and Biochemistry department wesbite.

Join the Earth Science department for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 15th at 4:00 pm in Straub Hall. For more information regarding graduate RSVP requirements and day of details, please visit the Department of Earth Sciences commencement website

Join the English & Folklore departments for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 15th at 4:00 pm in the EMU Ballroom. For more information, RSVP requirements, and day of details please email  asu3@uoregon.edu

Join the Geography & Anthropology departments for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 15th at 4:00 pm on the East Campus Green.

Join the department of Human Physiology for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 15th at 4:00 pm in Matt Knight Arena. 

Join the Theatre Arts department for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 15th at 4:00 pm in the Miller Theatre Complex. 

Please join us for the University Commencement Ceremony on Monday, June 16, 2025, at 9:00 a.m. at Autzen Stadium.

This ceremony celebrates the accomplishments of our graduates and includes administration and student speakers, a keynote address, and the conferral of degrees by school or college.

Please RSVP for this event. Please adhere to the UO Clear Bag Policy

For all commencement details, please visit https://commencement.uoregon.edu/

Join the Biology department for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Monday, June 16th at 1:00 pm on the East Campus Green. 

Join the Cinema Studies department for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Monday, June 16th at 1:00 pm on the Straub Hall. 

Join the General Social Science department for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Monday, June 16th at 1:00 pm at Autzen Stadium.

Join the Linguistics department for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Monday, June 16th at 1:00 pm in the Erb Memorial Union Ballroom. 

Join the Computer and Data Science departments for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Monday, June 16th at 4:00 pm on the Southwest Campus Green. 

Join the Economics department for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Monday, June 16th at 4:00 pm on the East Campus Green. 

Join the History department for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Monday, June 16th at 4:00 pm in Straub Hall. 

Join the Physics department for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Monday, June 16th at 4:00 pm in the Erb Memorial Union Ballroom. 

Join the Psychology department for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Monday, June 16th at 4:00 pm at Autzen Stadium. 

The University of Oregon Department of Linguistics is pleased to be hosting the 2025 Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute. LSA will span from July 7 to August 8, 2025. The Institute is the largest and most prestigious summer school for linguistics in the world, and has been held since 1928. 

Some courses will be held on Monday & Thursday; others on Tuesday & Friday (except for Field Methods, which will be four days a week). Wednesdays and weekends will host tutorials, workshops and conferences.

Calling all graduate students and postdoctoral scholars! If you are considering a faculty, researcher, lecturer, postdoc, or other academic-adjacent position, then consider attending the 2025 BIG10 Academia Career Fair, offered in a virtual, highly interactive, and completely free, format! Details and sign up on Handshake soon.

DEADLINE for C.V. submissions is Tuesday, October 7th at 9:00 PM Pacific Time. This is a HARD deadline, so submit early just in case you have technical difficulties. It is recommended that you add your C.V. on Handshake, as this platform is a great place to search and apply for positions at your level.  

Are you interested in exploring or finding a position in industry?

The Graduate Student & Postdoc Industry Recruitment Event (GSPIRE) is the perfect opportunity for individuals with advanced degrees and training to connect with various industries and organizations. The GSPIRE will take place virtually on October 23. We invite you to join us and connect with top employers and organizations seeking bright minds like yours.

All individuals, from first-year graduate students to postdocs and alumni, are welcome to participate in GSPIRE fairs. Whether you are considering a career in academia or industry, this event will provide valuable networking opportunities and the chance to explore and secure internships or professional employment in the industry. Sign up coming soon!

Graduating soon?

Individuals who are due to graduate in Dec 2025 or May/August/Dec 2026 are strongly encouraged to submit a resume (not a C.V.). It's valuable to submit a resume even if you are unable to attend the career fair, as all industry partners will receive all resumes submitted. Submitting a resume is not mandatory for event registration, but it is recommended for individuals pursuing a career in industry, as it allows industry partners to track your progress over the next few years.

The deadline for resume submissions is Monday, September 8 at 9:00pm Pacific Time. It is advised to submit resumes early to account for any potential technical difficulties. Adding a resume on Handshake is also recommended, as it is a useful platform for job searching and applications at your level.

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Organic/Inorganic/Materials Seminar Series

Professor Professor Renana Gershoni Poranne, Technion Hosted by Mike Haley

Data are a Girl’s Best Friend: From High-Throughput Computation to Generative Deep Learning

Chemical databases are an essential tool for data-driven investigation of structure-property relationships and design of novel functional compounds, and they are the crucial foundation for machine- and deep-learning techniques, which efficiently map the chemical space and allow discovery of new molecular motifs of molecules and materials for various uses. However, there is a lack of suitable databases of polycyclic aromatic systems (PASs).

To enable the application of such techniques to the design of novel functional PASs, we established the COMPAS Project — a COMputational database of Polycyclic Aromatic Systems. This new database already contains over 500k molecules in three datasets: cata-condensed polybenzenoid hydrocarbons (COMPAS-1),1 cata-condensed hetero-PASs (COMPAS-2),2 and peri-condensed polybenzenoid hydrocarbons (COMPAS-3).3

With this new data in hand, we demonstrate the first examples of interpretable learning models in the chemical space of PASs. To this end, we developed two types of molecular representation to enable efficient and effective machine- and deep-learning models to train on the new data: a) a text-based representation4 and b) a graph-based representation.5 Our dedicated representations not only achieve higher predictive ability with fewer data, but are also amenable to interpretation – thus allowing the extraction of chemical insight from the model.

Using the COMPAS database and our dedicated representations, we implemented the first guided diffused-based model for inverse design of PASs: GaUDI.6 Our model generates new PASs with defined target properties. In addition to its flexible target function and high validity scores, GaUDI also accomplishes design of molecules with properties beyond the distribution of the training data.

References

(1)  Wahab, A.; Pfuderer, L.; Paenurk, E.; Gershoni-Poranne, R. The COMPAS Project: A Computational Database of Polycyclic Aromatic Systems. Phase 1: Cata-Condensed Polybenzenoid Hydrocarbons. J. Chem. Inf. Model. 2022, 62 (16), 3704.

(2)  Mayo Yanes, E.; Chakraborty, S.; Gershoni-Poranne, R. COMPAS-2: A Dataset of Cata-Condensed Hetero-Polycyclic Aromatic Systems. Sci. Data 2024, 11 (1), 97.

(3)  Wahab, A.; Gershoni-Poranne, R. COMPAS-3: A Data Set of Peri-Condensed Polybenzenoid Hydrocarbons. ChemRxiv February 26, 2024.

(4)  Fite, S.; Wahab, A.; Paenurk, E.; Gross, Z.; Gershoni-Poranne, R. Text-Based Representations with Interpretable Machine Learning Reveal Structure-Property Relationships of Polybenzenoid Hydrocarbons. J. Phys. Org. Chem. 2022, e4458.

(5)  Weiss, T.; Wahab, A.; Bronstein, A. M.; Gershoni-Poranne, R. Interpretable Deep-Learning Unveils Structure–Property Relationships in Polybenzenoid Hydrocarbons. J. Org. Chem. 2023, 88 (14), 9645–9656. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.2c02381.

(6)  Weiss, T.; Mayo Yanes, E.; Chakraborty, S.; Cosmo, L.; Bronstein, A. M.; Gershoni-Poranne, R. Guided Diffusion for Inverse Molecular Design. Nat. Comput. Sci. 2023, 3 (10), 873–882. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43588-023-00532-0.