4:30 p.m.
Matthew Dickman is the author of Husbandry, Wonderland, Mayakovsky’s Revolver, and All-American Poem, winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize. His other honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Sarton Award for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. For the past decade he has worked in advertising and has written Super Bowl commercials for Chrysler, Kia, and Maserati as well as helping both small and big brands with storytelling. Dickman was the poetry editor for Tin House Magazine and then again for Tin House books, helping to launch their current poetry list. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his two sons.
3:00–4:15 p.m.
Please join us for the Knight Campus 2023 fall Entrepreneurship Speaker Series, featuring Jorge Cham.
In his lecture, Jorge Cham will recount his experiences bringing humor into the lives of millions of stressed out academics and tells stories from his travels to over 300 universities and research centers in the US and across the world. Thought-provoking yet humorous, Jorge Cham's talk will examine the source of academics' anxieties, explore the myth of procrastination, and help academics figure out how to convey what they've learned to the outside world.
Jorge Cham is the best-selling and Emmy-nominated creator of PHD Comics, the popular ongoing comic strip about life (or the lack thereof) in academia. He is the co-creator and co-executive producer of the celebrated animated series Elinor Wonders Why, which airs on PBS Kids and in 78 countries around the world. He is the co-author of the award-winning book We Have No Idea (and its follow-up FAQ-U), and the co-host of the iHeart Radio show Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe. He is also the co-founder of PHDtv, a video science and discovery outreach collaborative, and the author of the upcoming books Oliver's Great Big Universe and Out of Your Mind. Jorge earned his PhD in robotics from Stanford University and was an instructor and research associate at Caltech from 2003-2005. He is originally from Panama.
This event is co-sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences, and the School of Journalism and Communication.
3:30–5:00 p.m.
Lecture by Jackson Smith (University of Oregon)
During the 1980s Philadelphia police officers dubbed the Black and Latinx neighborhoods of North Philadelphia where the illicit narcotics trade concentrated “The Badlands.” This geologic term naturalized the decline of these neighborhoods, obscuring the political-economic forces that gave rise to the drug economy. In this talk I interrogate the making of the Badlands, both through decades of racialized disinvestment in these neighborhoods and through a popular discourse that sought to make sense of the consequences. I show how the Badlands discourse shaped municipal approaches to the problem of disinvestment, legitimizing police interventions that increasingly focused on the specter of the “crack house” and culminated with the demolition of entire blocks of rowhouses during the early 1990s.
The Department of History’s Seminar Series runs throughout the academic year and features guest speakers from the nation’s top universities who share their perspectives on history. Visit history.uoregon.edu for more information about this event and others in the series.
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Duck-dive into the mind of cybersecurity leader and CEO Dave Cole of Open Raven. At this exclusive virtual event, you’ll get a sneak peek into Cole's day-to-day life as a pioneering CEO in the tech startup space. He’ll answer all the hot questions: how CEOs get to be CEOs, what it really takes to start your own company, the state of cybersecurity, and so much more.
Register for this FREE virtual session: https://uobiz.co/oemba-alumni-dave-cole-ama
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dave Cole is a cybersecurity veteran with more than twenty-six years of experience. His career has taken him from leadership roles in consulting companies like Deloitte and ISS, to enterprise with Foundstone, CrowdStrike, and Tenable, to consumer product companies like Norton. He is currently the CEO and cofounder of Open Raven, a post-Series B company that has pioneered the Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) cybersecurity product category. Cole is a frequent spokesperson on the topic of cybersecurity, speaking on NBC, CNN, and at cybersecurity conferences such as RSA and Black Hat. He’s currently a member of the board for the University of Michigan School of Information and cohosts the Security Voices podcast, now in its fourth season with over fifty episodes.
9:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Want to see what it's like to work for some of the most innovative tech companies in Oregon AND explore Eugene all at the same time?! Have we got a Friday morning for you! Hop on the bus and let’s go explore!
Students will have the opportunity to tour local companies passionate about creating innovative solutions for complex problems, and helping YOU learn more about all the different types of job functions needed to keep this growing industry booming. They are excited to introduce you to careers and internships at their companies, meet alumni and leaders, and show off some of their innovations in action!
This event is FREE, open to all majors, and bring a friend! Register on Handshake to save your spot! Our last tour had a waitlist, so sign up today!
OUTLINE OF TOUR: Lane Transit District (LTD) will pick up students in front of Matt Knight Arena Box Office at 9am in one of their brand-new electric buses to take you around Eugene while learning about the local tech landscape. While at the stops, you'll get an opportunity to tour their facilities as well as meet with leaders in the field. The bus will then return to Matt Knight Arena no later than 12:30 pm to drop everyone off.
ABOUT OUR TOUR STOPS: *COMING SOON!
Sponsored by University Career Center and Collaborative Economic Development Oregon as part of the 2023 UO Career Readiness Week October 13-2023 http://career.uoregon.edu/events
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Hot chocolate and cookies with a side of resume! Did you know you can have someone review your resume before the Fall Career & Internship Expo on 10/19? Drop-in with a career readiness coach or peer coach in Tykeson Hall Commons to get feedback on your resume.
Don’t have a resume? Come learn how to make one!
Want to apply for the Peace Corps? We'll also have returned Peace Corps volunteers available to review resumes and give advice about the application process with any interested students! Ask for Carolyn Williams!
This event is part of the 2023 Fall Career Readiness Week sponsored by the University Career Center, Enterprise Holdings, and Sherwin Williams. To learn more about all of the week's events visit http://career.uoregon.edu/events
3:30–5:00 p.m.
Lecture by Bob Reinhardt (Boise State University)
During the twentieth century, hundreds of communities in the American West disappeared, and no one seemed to care. River development projects—massive dams built for irrigation, hydroelectricity, and flood control—displaced or destroyed towns, Tribal communities, farmsteads, and ranches on the Columbia, Snake, Colorado, and other rivers. Recovering these lost histories is the mission of The Atlas of Drowned Towns, a multimedia and multi-platform public history project (drownedtowns.com). This talk will introduce and explain the objectives and vision of The Atlas of Drowned Towns, exploring some of the questions lurking under the surface of reservoirs: How did these displaced communities respond to their removal—with enthusiasm, acquiescence, or/and resistance? Why did they respond in those ways? What was it like to live in and have to leave these places? And what can we in the 21st century learn from the history of displacement, as we face a future that threatens more such displacement?
The Department of History’s Seminar Series runs throughout the academic year and features guest speakers from the nation’s top universities who share their perspectives on history. Visit history.uoregon.edu for more information about this event and others in the series.
6:00–7:30 p.m.
Make new friends. Share your career stories. Learn about job opportunities. Expand your local professional networks. And discover for yourself what makes Eugene-Springfield a great community to be a part of!
Join us on Wednesday, October 18 from 6 p.m.-7:30 p.m. at the University of Oregon’s Erb Memorial Union Ballroom for a fun night of multicultural networking and relationship-building for professionals and students who identify as Black, Indigenous or Person of Color (BIPOC), individuals with disabilities, LGBTQIA+, and newcomers to the Willamette Valley.
ALL ARE WELCOME! Bring a friend! Free Parking. Yummy Hors d'oeuvres. Surprise door prizes.
ALUMNI/COMMUNITY MEMBERS: Register here to save your spot
STUDENTS: register on Handshake
To request an accommodation or ask additional questions, please contact jobs@uoregon.edu
Sponsored by the University of Oregon Career Center, Enterprise Holdings, Eugene Area Chamber of Commerce, Eugene Young Professionals, Lane County Human Resources Association (LCHRA), Mid-Valley SHRM, and DOZENS of other regional employers and organizations committed to making Eugene-Springfield a thriving, diverse community.
Hello Mid-Valley: Eugene-Springfield
Date: Wednesday, October 18, 2023 Time: 6 p.m.- 7:30 p.m. Location: University of Oregon-Erb Memorial Union Ballroom (2nd floor)
Event Overview:
6:00—Grab Nametags, Food, & Raffle Sign-up
6:15—Welcome, Land Acknowledgment & Thank You to Sponsors 6:25—Networking Activity 6:40—Door prizes 6:45—Networking Activity 7:00—Open Networking 7:25—Announcement of Next Event 7:30—Closing Remarks & Remaining Door Prizes
Parking info: https://transportation.uoregon.edu/parking GPS Location: 1395 University St, Eugene, OR 97403 We recommend parking anywhere along University Street or in lot 29A behind the EMU (free after 6pm).
11:15 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
First Career & Internship Expo? Or just a little nervous? Come early and get a low-stress, behind-the-scenes look at how to navigate the expo and make a good first impression with employers. Bring a friend!
Expo officially starts at 12pm-4pm. Come at 11:15 to get the pre-tour!
This event is part of the 2023 Fall Career Readiness Week sponsored by the University Career Center, Enterprise Holdings, and Sherwin Williams. To learn more about all of the week's events visit http://career.uoregon.edu/events
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Why YOU should come to this Expo...
You're curious about your future. Explore different career paths and job roles across industries. EXPOse yourself to unique career pathways that can use your career readiness skills and passions to make an impact in the world. You want to make connections. These organizations LOVE to hire Ducks and want to help you find your career fit. You might even meet UO alumni recruiting for them at the expo. Ask a recruiter what career readiness skills you can be building now to make you a top candidate in the present or future (and add them to your Linkedin network for future connections!). You want to find a job, internship, year of service, volunteer opportunity, and more! If you're actively job searching, have your resume ready to hand out and a short and sweet synopsis about yourself and your professional interests ready to go! If you're just exploring options, collect contact info, do some additional research, and do an informational interview to learn more before you apply. You want to build your confidence! Practice asking questions of employers AND sharing about who you are and what you're passionate about. Every expo you attend and each time you approach a recruiter, you get more and more comfortable presenting yourself in a professional manner.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!
Special thanks to the University Career Center, Enterprise Holdings, and Sherwin Williams for sponsoring all of our Fall Career Readiness Week events and workshops! And additional support of the Fall Expo COMING SOON!
For a full list of Fall Career Readiness Week (October 13 to October 20, 2023) events and workshops, check out http://career.uoregon.edu/events
6:00 p.m.
Join composer Matthew Packwood and a string quartet of musicians from the Oregon Symphony for a performance of Oregon Origins: Seven Wonders, a musical journey through Oregon’s wild places. Following the live performance, geologist Ian Madin will give an illustrated presentation of the breathtaking locations that inspired the project. Co-sponsored by the Department of Earth Sciences and the School of Music and Dance.
3:30–5:00 p.m.
Lecture by Arbella Bet-Shlimon (University of Washington)
Kirkuk is Iraq’s most multilingual city, for millennia home to a diverse population. It was also where, in 1927, a foreign company first struck oil in Iraq. Kirkuk soon became the heart of Iraq’s booming petroleum industry. Over the decades that followed, numerous forces shaped the identities of Kirkuk’s citizens, forming the foundation of an ethnic conflict. In this lecture, I detail how the ethnicities of Kurds, Turkmens, and Arabs in Kirkuk were formed throughout a century of nation building under colonialism, urban development, and political mobilization. Ultimately, I argue that contentious politics in disputed areas are not primordial traits of those regions, but are a modern phenomenon tightly bound to the society and economics of urban life.
The Department of History’s Seminar Series runs throughout the academic year and features guest speakers from the nation’s top universities who share their perspectives on history. Visit history.uoregon.edu for more information about this event and others in the series.
6:00 p.m.
Dean Elizabeth Kronk Warner will deliver the Rennard Strickland Lecture on Tuesday, October 24th, starting at 6:00 PM, in Room 175 of the University of Oregon School of Law building. Remote participation is available via Zoom. A brief Q&A session and reception will follow the lecture.
The Environmental and Natural Resources Law Center established the Rennard Strickland Lecture series to honor the legacy of late Oregon Law dean Rennard Strickland. Strickland was Osage, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, and widely regarded as a leader in Indian law and policy. The lecture's focus is Indigenous environmental leadership and community vision for the twenty-first century.
Elizabeth Kronk Warner is the Jefferson B. & Rita E. Fordham Presidential Dean and Professor of Law at the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah. Dean Kronk Warner is a nationally recognized expert in the intersection of Environmental and Indian law. Former supervisor of the Tribal Judicial Support Clinic at the University of Kansas School of Law, she has taught courses in Property, Indian, Environmental, and Natural Resources Law and also teaches and coaches several moot court competition teams. Dean Kronk Warner has received several teaching excellence awards, co-authored several books on envionmental issues and Native Americans, and has over 40 articles and book chapters to her credit. A citizen of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, Dean Kronk Warner has served as an appellate judge for the Tribe and as a district judge for the Prairie Band Potawatomi Tribe. Learn more: https://faculty.utah.edu/u6024740-Elizabeth_Kronk_Warner/hm/index.hml.
11:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.
Should I go to grad school?!
Going to graduate school is a BIG life decision! You can gain specialized knowledge, research, connections, and expertise in your chosen field, which can lead to better career opportunities and increased earning potential. However, it's essential to carefully consider your goals, commitment, and financial situation before deciding to pursue further education. Coming to this event is a great first step!
Explore your interest in pursuing an advanced degree at the Graduate School Fair (11/8 from 11am-3pm in the EMU Ballrooms)!
This event offers a valuable opportunity for you to learn about various graduate programs (both at the UO and other top universities!) and the benefits they provide to prepare you for a career in research, academia, or specialized industry roles. Talk to recruiters about the application process and financial aid, or ask them about career outcomes for students who pursue advanced degrees--this is your opportunity to explore and learn!
Whether you're still exploring career paths or ready to apply for the coming year, the fair is open to students at any stage of your academic journey.
Highlights of the fair:
Representatives from graduate programs across the United States (including the University of Oregon), offering a diverse range of degree programs and academic disciplines. Mini-Workshops featuring career coaches, admissions reps, and graduate students who will demystify the application process, writing your purpose statement, and provide tips for maximizing your experience at the fair.
Don't miss this chance to expand your horizons and discover the possibilities that await you in the world of higher education!
Register on Handshake today to learn about all the schools coming and get tips and advice for how to make the most of the fair.
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!
4:30 p.m.
Dan O’Brien is an internationally produced and published playwright, poet, librettist, and nonfiction writer whose recognition in playwriting includes a Guggenheim Fellowship and two PEN America Awards. The Body of an American, O’Brien’s play about the Battle of Mogadishu and the haunting of war reporter Paul Watson, was co-produced off-Broadway at the Cherry Lane Theatre by Primary Stages and Hartford Stage (New York Times Critic’s Pick), at the Gate Theatre in London, and at various theaters around the UK and the US. The Body of an American received the Edward M. Kennedy Prize, the Horton Foote Prize, the Weissberger Award, and was shortlisted for an Evening Standard Award in London. Previous off-Broadway and regional credits include world premiers at Second Stage Theater, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Page 73 Productions, SoHo Playhouse, Geva Theatre Center, Actors’ Theatre of Louisville, Portland Center Stage, and Williamstown Theatre Festival. O’Brien’s poetry collections are War Reporter (winner of the UK’s Fenton Aldeburgh Prize), Scarsdale, New Life, Our Cancers, and his latest, Survivor’s Notebook. His memoir, From Scarsdale, was published in 2023 by Dalkey Archive Press. O’Brien lives in Los Angeles with his wife, actor and writer Jessica St. Clair, and their daughter Isobel.
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Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) is pleased to host an ongoing series of lectures by traveling fellows whose research and expertise include feminist science fiction, Oregon lesbian intentional communities, the novelist Ken Kesey, conservative and libertarian political movements, as well as print and print culture. Talks are free, open to the public and held virtually on Zoom. More information, including applications for future fellowships, is available on SCUA’s website here.
November's discussion features Whitney McIntosh, 2023 James Ingebretsen Memorial Travel Fellow, and Susan McWilliams Barndt, 2023 James Laughton Ken Kesey Fellow.
Whitney McIntosh is a PhD candidate in American History at Columbia University. Her dissertation, "Anti-politics: American Libertarianism, 1960-2003", is a political and intellectual history of the modern American libertarian movement from the counterculture to the Iraq War. Her research has been supported by the Hoover Institute, the History of Economics Society, the American Historical Association and the University of Oregon.
Susan McWilliams Barndt is a professor of politics at Pomona College, where she has won the Wig Award for Excellence in Teaching three times. McWilliams is the author of The American Road Trip and American Political Thought (Lexington, 2018) and Traveling Back: Toward a Global Political Theory (Oxford, 2014). She is also the editor of A Political Companion to James Baldwin (Kentucky, 2017) and a co-editor of several books, including The Best Kind of College: An Insiders’ Guide to America's Small Liberal Arts Colleges (co-edited with John Seery, SUNY, 2015) and A New History of American Political Thought (co-edited with Nicholas Buccola and Roosevelt Montás, Princeton, forthcoming). For her work, McWilliams has received recognitions including the Graves Award in the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
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Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) is pleased to host an ongoing series of lectures by traveling fellows whose research and expertise include feminist science fiction, Oregon lesbian intentional communities, the novelist Ken Kesey, conservative and libertarian political movements, as well as print and print culture. Talks are free, open to the public and held virtually on Zoom. More information, including applications for future fellowships, is available on SCUA’s website here.
December’s discussion features Zoey Kambour, 2023 Martha Thorsland Baker Fellow.
Zoey Kambour is a PhD student in medieval art history at CUNY's Graduate Center and an adjunct lecturer in art history at Pace University. They received their MA in art history from the University of Oregon in 2021, where they wrote a thesis on eleventh century Beatus manuscripts. After their MA, they served as the Post-Graduate Fellow in European and American Art at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, where they conducted independent research on the manuscript they are presenting on in addition to their curatorial duties at the museum. They are hoping to write a dissertation on the marginal faces created by Christian, Muslim, and Jewish students in the Middle Ages, inspired by this project.
4:30 p.m.
Claire Luchette is the author of the novel Agatha of Little Neon and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree. Claire's work has appeared in Best American Short Stories, VQR, Ploughshares, The New York Times, Granta, and the Kenyon Review. Their story "New Bees" won a 2020 Pushcart Prize. They've received fellowships and support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. They teach creative writingat Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York.
Morgan Thomas is a writer from the Gulf Coast. Their debut story collection, MANYWHERE, was published by MCD-FSG and a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, Lambda Literary’s Transgender Fiction Prize, the LA Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and Publishing Triangle’s Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction. Their work has appeared in The Atlantic, American Short Fiction, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. In 2022, they received Lambda Literary’s Judith Markowitz Award for Exceptional New LGBTQ+ Writers. They are currently a Shearing Fellow at the Black Mountain Institute.
3:30–5:00 p.m.
Lecture by Tim Williams (University of Oregon)
This talk draws from the private writings and published memoirs of some of the first prisoners of the American Civil War: Journalists, ministers, and legislators from the state of Maryland who were imprisoned for treason after President Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus in early summer of 1861. As they sat in prison barracks, they perseverated over the righteousness of their political dissent. They generated various narratives of white victimhood at the hands of federal oppression in letters home and personal diaries, not to mention in conversation with one another. After their release, many published their accounts, adding to an already flourishing popular culture of war stories sought by northerners and southerners alike. Although there were nearly four years left before Lee Surrendered at Appomattox, these narratives anticipated the Lost Cause mythology that dominated regional intellectual in the South after the Civil War, and grew into a national story by the 1890s and, in many states and locales, flourishes today.
The Department of History’s Seminar Series runs throughout the academic year and features guest speakers from the nation’s top universities who share their perspectives on history. Visit history.uoregon.edu for more information about this event and others in the series.
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Why YOU should come to this Expo...
You're curious about your future. Explore different career paths and job roles across industries. EXPOse yourself to unique career pathways that can use your career readiness skills and passions to make an impact in the world. You want to make connections. These organizations LOVE to hire Ducks and want to help you find your career fit. You might even meet UO alumni recruiting for them at the expo. Ask a recruiter what career readiness skills you can be building now to make you a top candidate in the present or future (and add them to your Linkedin network for future connections!). You want to find a job, internship, year of service, volunteer opportunity, and more! If you're actively job searching, have your resume ready to hand out and a short and sweet synopsis about yourself and your professional interests ready to go! If you're just exploring options, collect contact info, do some additional research, and do an informational interview to learn more before you apply. You want to build your confidence! Practice asking questions of employers AND sharing about who you are and what you're passionate about. Every expo you attend and each time you approach a recruiter, you get more and more comfortable presenting yourself in a professional manner.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!
Special thanks to the University Career Center, Enterprise Holdings, and Sherwin Williams for sponsoring all of our Fall Career Readiness Week events and workshops! And additional support of the Winter Expo COMING SOON!
For a full list of Winter Career Readiness Week (January 26 - February 2) events and workshops, check out http://career.uoregon.edu/events
3:30–5:00 p.m.
Lecture by Julie Weise (University of Oregon)
The world’s first collective experiment with government-managed temporary labor migration, which began during World War I and grew dramatically after World War II, encouraged millions of people to cross borders in the Americas, Europe, and southern Africa before it wound down amid political opposition and economic malaise in the 1960s-70s. The migration programs reshaped those continents’ rural livelihoods, cemented industrialized countries’ dependence on migrant labor, and—notwithstanding articulated intentions to make migration temporary—had transformative demographic consequences still felt to this day. Yet these developments, which were integral to the twentieth century’s unprecedented march towards greater prosperity, remain little known and poorly understood. In this talk, historian Julie Weise offers a deeper history of the now-ubiquitous phenomenon of government-recruited temporary workers—a synthesis of policymakers’ grand plans with the voices and experiences of recruited workers from Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
The Department of History’s Seminar Series runs throughout the academic year and features guest speakers from the nation’s top universities who share their perspectives on history. Visit history.uoregon.edu for more information about this event and others in the series.
4:30 p.m.
Aaron Baker is the author of two award-winning collections of poems: Posthumous Noon (Gunpowder Press, 2018), which was selected by Jane Hirshfield as winner of the Barry Spacks Poetry Prize; and Mission Work (Houghton Mifflin, 2008), which won the Katherine Bakeless Prize in Poetry and the Shenandoah/Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Missouri Review, New England Review, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. Recipient of many awards, including the Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry from Stanford University and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, he is currently an associate professor in the creative writing program at Loyola University Chicago.
3:30–5:00 p.m.
Lecture by Louis Warren (University of California, Davis)
The Annual Pierson Lecture is a Department of History tradition that spans back to 1993, when it was founded to honor Stan and Joan Pierson. The Piersons were both exemplary citizens of the community, dedicated to history and education as proven by their distinguished records of intellectual accomplishment and community involvement. This lecture series brings distinguished scholars to the University of Oregon, so that they may share their work in alignment with the Piersons’ interests in cultural, intellectual, and political life.
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Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) is pleased to host an ongoing series of lectures by traveling fellows whose research and expertise include feminist science fiction, Oregon lesbian intentional communities, the novelist Ken Kesey, conservative and libertarian political movements, as well as print and print culture. Talks are free, open to the public and held virtually on Zoom. More information, including applications for future fellowships, is available on SCUA’s website here.
March's discussion features Tp Coughlin, 2023 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellow.
Tp Coughlin is an exchange lecturer at the Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies in Mainz Germany, a contingent lecturer at Sonoma State University, and a PhD candidate at UC Davis. Their dissertation examines speculative discourses of genderlessness during the 1970s and '80s in fiction, political writing, and economic theory.
7:00 p.m.
Victor LaValle is the author of the short story collection SLAPBOXING WITH JESUS; the novels THE ECSTATIC, BIG MACHINE, THE DEVIL IN SILVER and LONE WOMEN; and the novellas LUCRETIA AND THE KROONS and THE BALLAD OF BLACK TOM. He is also the creator and writer of two comic books: Victor LaValle's Destroyer and Eve. His novel THE CHANGELING is now an AppleTV series.
LaValle has been the recipient of numerous awards including the World Fantasy Award, British Fantasy Award, Bram Stoker Award, Whiting Writers' Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, Shirley Jackson Award, American Book Award, and the key to Southeast Queens.
He was raised in Queens, New York. He now lives in Washington Heights with his wife and kids. He teaches at Columbia University.
noon
Why YOU should come to this Expo...
You're curious about your future. Explore different career paths and job roles across industries. EXPOse yourself to unique career pathways that can use your career readiness skills and passions to make an impact in the world. You want to make connections. These organizations LOVE to hire Ducks and want to help you find your career fit. You might even meet UO alumni recruiting for them at the expo. Ask a recruiter what career readiness skills you can be building now to make you a top candidate in the present or future (and add them to your Linkedin network for future connections!). You want to find a job, internship, year of service, volunteer opportunity, and more! If you're actively job searching, have your resume ready to hand out and a short and sweet synopsis about yourself and your professional interests ready to go! If you're just exploring options, collect contact info, do some additional research, and do an informational interview to learn more before you apply. You want to build your confidence! Practice asking questions of employers AND sharing about who you are and what you're passionate about. Every expo you attend and each time you approach a recruiter, you get more and more comfortable presenting yourself in a professional manner.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!
Special thanks to the University Career Center, Enterprise Holdings, and Sherwin Williams for sponsoring all of our Fall Career Readiness Week events and workshops! And additional support of the Spring Expo COMING SOON!
For a full list of Spring Career Readiness Week (April 12–19) events and workshops, check out http://career.uoregon.edu/events
11:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
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!
7:00 p.m.
Mark Jarman began reading and writing poems in his teens. His early poetry reflects the influence of living by the Pacific and the North Sea at important times in his life, along with growing up in a strongly religious family. As he has matured, his poetry has remained invested in family experience, a sense of place, and the presence of God in everyday life. Zeno's Eternity, his latest book, reflects much of these interests and values, along with celebrating the land and seascape of Southern California where he grew up.
3:30–5:00 p.m.
Lecture by Juliette Levy (UC Riverside)
Juliette Levy will be discussing methods she employs to make history as a topic and as a field of study approachable and attractive to students who are ever more pressed to focus on scientific majors. She created multiple online courses in history for the University of California, developed a learning game (http://digitalzombies.ucr.edu) that introduces university students to information hierarchies and research methods. She also worked on a mixed reality learning module for large scale lecture courses, and is now developing a spatial history narrative platform. In all these the focus has been on accessibility and inclusivity, so she recently joined colleagues in an practice bilingual instruction and education in her courses and will be developing an upper division bilingual Latin American history course for the UC online education program.
The Department of History’s Seminar Series runs throughout the academic year and features guest speakers from the nation’s top universities who share their perspectives on history. Visit history.uoregon.edu for more information about this event and others in the series.
noon
Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) is pleased to host an ongoing series of lectures by traveling fellows whose research and expertise include feminist science fiction, Oregon lesbian intentional communities, the novelist Ken Kesey, conservative and libertarian political movements, as well as print and print culture. Talks are free, open to the public and held virtually on Zoom. More information, including applications for future fellowships, is available on SCUA’s website here.
March's discussion features Sam Wrigglesworth, 2023 Tee A. Corinne Memorial Travel Fellow.
Sam Wrigglesworth is a photographer and writer from Oregon. Their work engages relationships between memory, somatic experience, and the natural environment while being informed by queer and feminist thought and practice. Sam received their BFA in Photography from the University of Oregon in 2019 and is a current University Fellow and MFA candidate in Studio Art at The Ohio State University.
They have recently shown work at Blue Sky, San Diego Mesa College, Photographic Center Northwest, Astoria Visual Arts, and Carnation Contemporary. Their work has been supported by the Tee A. Corinne Memorial Travel Fellowship (2023), a Make|Learn|Build Grant through the Regional Arts and Culture Council (2021), and a residency at Sitka Center for Art and Ecology (2022).
3:30–5:00 p.m.
Lecture by Lane Windham (Georgetown)
The Department of History’s Seminar Series runs throughout the academic year and features guest speakers from the nation’s top universities who share their perspectives on history. Visit history.uoregon.edu for more information about this event and others in the series.