Events

Join the Department of Cinema Studies for a cup of coffee or hot apple cider every week on Tuesdays during fall term!

As the United States marks the 250th anniversary of its founding, this symposium returns to the bold universal promise of 1776—the claim that “all men are created equal” and endowed with “unalienable rights.” Cast at once as the rights of citizens of a new republic and as the rights of all of humankind, they also coexisted with a deep contradiction: the subjugation of Native Americans, enslaved people, and women. The principles at the heart of the U.S. founding launched a politics of rights whose origins and reverberations were transnational, even as access to them remained sharply unequal in practice.

“We Hold These Truths: 250 Years of the American Experiment at Home and Abroad” brings together a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and leading scholars of citizenship, political development, race, gender, immigration, and civil rights to reflect on this legacy. The panel will explore how America’s founding ideals have shaped struggles for inclusion at home and abroad, and how those ideals have been stretched, reinterpreted, and at times betrayed across two and a half centuries.

Refreshments will be available at 5:45pm.

Panelists:

Nick Kristof - New York Times

Megan Ming Francis - University of Washington

Peter Spiro - Temple University

Carol Nackenoff - Swarthmore College

Moderator:

Dan Tichenor - UO Knight Chair; Co-Director, Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics

Presented by the Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages and the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics.

Free and open to the public. No registration required.

This event will be livestreamed and recorded.  Join online

Thinking about doing an internship in Asia? The Freeman Internship Fellowships can help fund it!

The 2026-27 application deadlines are: 

• January 15, 2027 (spring and summer priority deadlines)
• April 22, 2027 (summer deadline)
• August 22, 2027 (fall and winter priority deadlines)
• November 22, 2027 (winter and spring priority deadlines)

The session will cover some basic info regarding Freeman application eligibility, required materials, and the application and award processes, while also providing an opportunity for participants to ask questions.

Apply by the priority deadlines to receive your award decision sooner! 

Spend a term in Tuscany with GEO Study Abroad! In this info session, we'll talk about winter and spring quarter programs in Siena, Italy. We'll dive into course content, excursions, finances, and how to get started on your study abroad journey. Plus, hear from program alumni about their experiences!

Programs we'll discuss: Italian Language and Culture in Siena, Food, Culture, and Sustainability in Siena, Politics in Italy

The Creative Writing Program invites you to a poetry reading with Melissa Range.

Melissa Range is the author of Printer’s Fist, winner of the 2025 Vanderbilt Literary Prize (Vanderbilt University Press, 2026), as well as Scriptorium (Beacon Press, 2016) and Horse and Rider (Texas Tech University Press, 2010). Range is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the American Antiquarian Society, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and MacDowell. Originally from East Tennessee, she teaches creative writing and American literature at Lawrence University in Wisconsin.

Free and open to the public. 

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

Please join us Thursday 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! 

Please join the Department of Geography for the colloquium series talk: “Unmapping the World with Palestine 1492: A Report Back” with Linda Quiquivix, PhD.

Let's unmap the world and build it anew with Palestine 1492: A Report Back, a witness testimony that challenges cartographies from above by listening to the struggles of Palestinians, Zapatistas, Panthers, and jaguars from below.

Quiquivix is a geographer, writer, artist, and popular educator of Maya roots, and author and illustrator of Palestine 1492: A Report Back (Wild Ox Books, 2024). Her work brings together geography, storytelling, and imagination with the ongoing work of creating a world where many worlds fit. She is a child of the undocumented migrant community in California from Mexico and Central America. For more than 25 years, she has had the honor of learning from, living with, and being a part of communities in the global struggle for life in the United States, Chiapas, Guatemala, and Palestine. She is also host of WW4: A Podcast Syllabus. Learn more about her work at  www.quiqui.org.

Join the Department of Cinema Studies for a cup of coffee or hot apple cider every week on Tuesdays during fall term!

Environmental concerns—from nature conservation to air and water quality—are often associated with progressive politics. But under Fascisms past and present, ecological ideas have also animated authoritarian projects. This speaker series examines how dictatorships mobilize nature as both metaphor and material resource. As a metaphor, agrarianism evokes Fascism’s foundational mythos: the dictator will restore the country’s glorious national past. To live a rural, old-fashioned lifestyle was to be a more patriotic citizen. “Italy must be ruralized!” proclaimed Benito Mussolini in 1927. As a material resource, nature is often put to use in service of eugenics and racial hygiene.

Our speakers will examine the professional biographies of the scientists, industrialists, and entrepreneurs hired by Fascist regimes to determine the limits of biological possibility. Case studies from empire and the colonies will investigate the Fascist programs for experimental plant nurseries, animal breeding, and chemical trials. Rather than treating eco-fascism as a contradiction in terms, our speakers will situate it within longer histories of environmental planning, population management, and technocratic governance. They will explain how dictatorships use the tools of authoritarian governance to modify the environment in their pursuit of more Fascist futures.

Please join us for these illuminating discussions.

Talk details:

Bread from Air: Nitrogen Capture and the Atmospheric Imagination in Fascist Italy

Speaker: Prof. Rebecca Falkoff, University of Texas, Austin

At the end of the nineteenth century, nitrogen, the seventh most abundant element in the galaxy, became the focus of a discourse of scarcity. Essential to the material composition of all life, nitrogen came to seem scarce as demand increased for two classes of compounds that fueled modern life: fertilizers and explosives. The nitrogen problem, as it came to be known, seemed to have an obvious solution: a limitless supply of nitrogen would be available if the nitrogen gas (N₂) that composes roughly 78% of the atmosphere could be "captured" and "fixed" to other elements. Although that solution posed a scientific challenge, since nitrogen gas is unreactive, the very possibility—and then its realization—transformed the sky into a new frontier, promising agricultural and industrial productivity and military power. Nitrogen capture engendered fantasies of economic revival and social and cultural renewal.

In her talk, Falkoff will show how these fantasies, and the nitrogen-capture industry that grew alongside them, became central to fascist ideology—animating the belief that Italian genius could transform scarcity into abundance, and shaping initiatives from the Battle for Wheat to the Battle for Births, economic autarky, and imperial expansion. Charting nitrogen discourse across speeches, advertising, technical writing, and futurist works in paint, ceramic, and prose—from Montecatini's campaigns to the essays of novelist-engineer Carlo Emilio Gadda—she traces how nitrogen staged the tensions central to Italian fascism: between materialism and vitalism, global circulation and national appropriation, the organic and the inorganic, labor and magic, intervention in natural cycles and creation ex nihilo.

For more information, please contact Prof. Diana Garvin, dgarvin@uoregon.edu.

Supported by: Department of Romance Languages, Italian Sector.

The Latinx Studies Program invites you to our fall reception with friends and colleagues. Join us for paletas and aguas frescas from Peek-A-Boo Delight!

Enjoy an afternoon of great conversation, community, and delicious frozen treats as we kick off the new academic year!

Free and open to all Latinx studies minors and students interested in the minor.

The Oregon Humanities Center presents its 2026-27 endowed lectureship series centered on the theme of “Reading.”  

Modern life in America presents constant contradictions, asking individuals to navigate delicate balances of power and injustice, pain and pleasure, and expectations and actualization. An acclaimed poet and memoirist, Saeed Jones focuses on questions of the self, desire, fear, and vulnerability through a Black queer perspective.

In his talk “Creative Nonfiction and the Art of Reality,” Jones will use the lens of his experience as a writer and reader to explore his—and the genre’s—relationship to reality, morality, and systems of power. How does a nonfiction writer incorporate the raw material of life into work in a way that is not just factual, but artful, ethical, and compelling, and moves readers toward truth in a larger sense? How can we understand these works as functioning within systems of power, and how might this impact the way writers shape their material, and the way readers receive it?

Jones’s talk, the first in the OHC’s 2026- 27 “Reading” lecture series, will include a book sale by J. Michaels Books and a book signing. This talk is free and open to the public, and will be livestreamed. Please register at ohc.uoregon.edu.

Jones’s books of poetry include Prelude to Bruise (2015; winter of the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry) and Alive at the End of the World (2023; AnisfieldWolf Book Award for Poetry). With stylistic nods to mythology and Black iconography, his poetry heightens surreal aspects of daily realities and asks readers to witness tragedy, triumph, and realization alongside the writer’s own revelations.

How We Fight For Our Lives, Jones’s first memoir, won the 2019 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction and documents his journey of self-discovery as a young, Black, gay man from the South. As in his other works, Jones meditates on the self: from understanding his own identity to observing its various collisions and cohesions with the outside world. As Jones struggles to uncover his own identities, he never abandons his engrossing poetic tone. Following How We Fight For Our Lives, Jones is currently working on a forthcoming memoir entitled Home Out There. Jones was the 2024-2025 artist-in-residence at the Media, Health, and Medicine program at Harvard Medical School, lecturing on global health and social medicine. He also cohosts Vibe Check, a podcast focused on making sense of what’s going on in news and culture—and how it all feels.

Did you know you can have someone review your resume before the Fall Career & Internship Expo on 10/22? Drop-in with a career readiness coach or peer coach in Tykeson Hall Commons to get feedback on your resume! Free cookies & hot chocolate too :)

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

This University Career Center event is part of the 2026 Fall Career Readiness Week sponsored by Enterprise Mobility. To learn more about all of the week's events visit http://career.uoregon.edu/events  

Follow your dreams and explore Japan!

The JET Program is a competitive employment opportunity that allows young professionals to live and work in cities, towns, and villages throughout Japan. Being a JET is a chance to teach English and represent the United States as a cultural ambassador to Japan. Most participants serve as assistant language teachers (ALTs) and work in public and private schools throughout Japan; some work as coordinators for international relations (CIRs) as interpreters/translators.

Applicants must hold a bachelor's degree in any field by the time of departure for the program and coordinators for international relations must also have a high level of proficiency in the Japanese language.

Gain valuable insights into how to submit a strong application. Before attending the info session, please watch an important video on how to write a great JET statement of purpose.

To speak with a JET Program representative contact Matt Turner at: matthew.turner@se.mofa.go.jp

More information and application available at: JET Program USA – The Experience of a Lifetime

This event is hosted by the UO Career Center. Please contact Tina Haynes, Employer Engagement Coordinator, with questions.

Sponsored by the UO Department of Art History and the Haseltine Endowment for Design and Decorative Arts 

Please join us for a conversation between critically acclaimed Serbian-American artist Vesna Pavlović and art historian Nicoletta Rousseva, moderated by Julie Hessler, UO Associate Professor of History. Their dialogue will explore Pavlović’s body of photographic work in relation to its primary subject: the social and political ideologies reflected in mid-century Socialist Yugoslavian architecture, with particular interest in connections between statehood, power, and design. By focusing her lens on largely abandoned or transitionally preserved spaces, Pavlović highlights how art, architecture, and design are intrinsically bound to the rise and fall of political regimes  and to the shaping of ideological worldviews.

Vesna Pavlović is the Paul E. Schwab Chair in Fine Art at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Her work is in the collections of the National Gallery of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. She is the recipient of an NEA Art Projects Award, a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, and a Fulbright Scholar Award, among others. She has shown in solo and group exhibitions at distinguished institutions and in large-scale, international contemporary art exhibitions including The Phillips Collection and the Hirshhorn Museum; the 12th Istanbul Biennial; the 13th Havana Biennial, Rios Intermitentes Project; the Metropolitan Arts Center, Belfast; National Gallery of Art, Warsaw; Bucharest Biennale 5; the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Fondazione Giorgio e Armanda Marchesani, Venice; and the Photographers’ Gallery, London. Her work has featured in ARTMargins, Art Africa, Art in America, Artforum, The Washington Post, and Art Papers.

  Nicoletta Rousseva is a Visiting Assistant Professor of South Slavic Culture and the Michael Henry Heim Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at Indiana University, Bloomington. A specialist on modern and contemporary art across southeastern Europe, her research examines how art engages political structures and institutions at moments of extreme crisis and in an effort to broaden narrowed horizons of possibility. Nicoletta earned a PhD in Art History with an interdepartmental concentration in Central and East European Studies at the University of Illinois, Chicago (2022). She is the recipient of fellowships from ACLS, AISEES (American Institute for Southeast European Studies), Fulbright, and the Mellon Foundation. Her essays and reviews have been published in ARTMargins, Art Journal, The Brooklyn Rail, caa.reviews, and elsewhere.

This talk precedes an exhibition of Vesna Pavlović’s photography at RecRoom gallery, opening October 17th, 4–6 pm. See RecRoomEugene.com for details

Join the Department of Anthropology for a talk on “The power of being the impossible: What happens when the life you want doesn’t fit neatly into a single path?” by Manju Bangalore.

Reproductive health scientist, astronautical engineer, nonprofit founder, actor, author, and 2027 astronaut Bangalore has built a career across fields that are rarely found on the same résumé. But that trajectory wasn’t the result of a perfectly mapped-out plan. It grew from curiosity, unexpected opportunities, rejection, reinvention, and a willingness to pursue interests that didn’t always seem to belong together. Drawing from her childhood in rural Oregon, her years at the UO, and an interdisciplinary career spanning NASA, reproductive health research, storytelling, and social impact, Bangalore explores what becomes possible when we stop treating our interests as competing choices and instead question the paths we inherit, embrace the connections others may not yet see, and build a life that might not have an existing blueprint.

Bangalore graduated from the UO in 2018 in physics and math and completed a master’s degree at USC in aerospace, aeronautical and astronautical engineering in 2026. She is the founder and executive director of the nonprofit Operation Period, interned at NASA and the White House, was Miss Oregon USA, and is author of the children’s book You Can Be All The Things You Want To Be.

Sponsors: Department of Anthropology, Center for Undergraduate Research and Engagement, Office of Distinguished Scholarships, McNair Scholars Program, Women in Science and Math Academic Residential Community.

Join the Department of History for the Eugene History Pub Lecture by Professor Stephen Dueppen on Empires, Revolutions and City-States: West Africa in the Medieval Period.

New date and location! Unless otherwise noted, talks take place the second Wednesday of the month from October through May at The Annex (1236 Kincaid St, Eugene, OR 97401). Free parking is available after 6pm in all UO parking lots (e.g., Kincaid St. at 11th Ave. and 14th Ave.)

Free and open to everyone. Food trucks, craft beer, and cider available!

The Eugene History Pub Lecture Series features talks by history scholars and experts on historical events, concepts, and research in a casual setting with local beer, wine, and food.

The UO joins millions of others worldwide in ShakeOut, an annual earthquake awareness drill. Participants practice how to protect themselves during an earthquake. Perform the three steps of “Drop, Cover, and Hold On” as soon as you feel shaking or receive an earthquake early warning alert.

A cross-collaborative team consisting of the University of Oregon’s Safety and Risk Services (UOSRS), CRESCENT, the Oregon Hazards Lab, the Museum of Natural and Cultural History, and the Oregon Partnership for Disaster Resilience has partnered to bring resources and learning opportunities to students, faculty, staff, and the community.

Please join us Thursday 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! 

Drop by the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies fall open house to meet faculty, staff, and students, enjoy refreshments, and learn more about WGSS courses, the WGSS major and minor, and the Queer Studies minor.

All students are welcome! Free food and WGSS swag!

Rain location: WGSS Reception Room, 315 Hendricks Hall.

Join the Department of History and Professor David Biggs, Department of History at UC Riverside, for a talk: “From Cabinets of Curiosity to Global Science: How Southeast Asia Shaped Modern Natural History.”

Before modern biology, global science was driven by a global obsession with exotic "wonders," especially objects coming from Southeast Asia. This talk explores how imperial trade, regional indigenous knowledge, and cross-cultural encounters intersected in Southeast Asia to transform curiosity cabinets and accounts of wonders into secular natural history. Part of David Biggs’ forthcoming Green History of Southeast Asia (Cambridge, 2027), this talk examines key figures behind this paradigm shift, including Georg Rumphius, who catalogued Ambonese ecology despite blindness; Simon de la Loubère, whose diplomatic mission to Ayutthaya produced an encyclopedic survey of Siam; Christoforro Borri, a Jesuit astronomer who mapped geomagnetism; and João de Loureiro, who classified Vietnamese medicinal flora using the Linnaean system.  

David Biggs is a professor of history at UC Riverside specializing in Southeast Asian environmental history, militarized landscapes, technology, water politics, and global historical geography.  

Guest speaker: Fernando Ortiz-Moya, Assistant Professor, Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University, Japan

Japan is shrinking. How are its cities and towns responding?

Traditionally, Japanese local governments, encouraged by national policy, have sought to halt or reverse their decline by luring urban migrants, increasing birth rates, attracting businesses, and curbing outmigration. This obsession with growth threatens to exhaust already limited resources, closing windows of opportunity for managing a soft landing.

Eventually, continuous shrinkage will force local governments to abandon growth-focused planning and redesign their communities: they must learn to shrink gracefully. Some municipalities are already charting this different course. This presentation argues that shrinking municipalities must break free from pro-growth strategies, embracing more sustainable approaches. These cities are putting socio-environmental concerns at the centre of their strategies, identifying new ways to transition successfully into smaller, sustainable communities.

Event sponsors:

School of Planning, Public Policy and Management; Department of Geography; Ecological Design Center; Global Studies Institute; Association of Pacific Rim Universities – Sustainable Cities and Landscapes Program; Center for Asian and Pacific Studies; and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science KAKENHI Grant

Creativity and technology can go hand-in-hand! Let's meet some Oregon companies that are innovating across industries (tech, video game design, web/graphic design, UX, government, & more! ) AND explore Eugene all at the same time! 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, faculty/staff, and bring a friend! Register on Handshake to save your spot & get updates! Our last tour had a waitlist, so sign up today!

OUTLINE OF TOUR:

Meet at Ford Alumni Center Lobby (near Matt Knight Arena Duck Statue) NO LATER THAN 9am; We'll walk over to the bus stop (Agate) to catch the EMX to downtown Eugene. All our sites are within walking distance of one another, so be prepared to get some exercise! While at the stops, you'll get an opportunity to tour their facilities as well as meet with leaders in the field. At 1 we'll be done with the tour and you can stick around downtown to keep exploring and grab lunch OR a group will be getting on the bus to head back to campus you can join.

ABOUT OUR TOUR STOPS: 

Pipeworks Studios Video Game Developers of awesome apps and well-known video games like Madden 24 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. Learn about creative careers, project management, and see behind the scenes at one of the coolest workspaces in Eugene.

Avant Assessment builds and delivers ever more effective assessments of real-world proficiency. They’ve expanded their offerings to support all areas of language acquisition with professional learning for world language and dual language educators in addition to Mira, the newly released AI-based language learning app.

Lane County Government Technology Services: featuring Mark Davis for an inside scoop on the Eugene Tech community Open Eugene: community connectors providing access and opportunities to create, collaborate and innovate to solve problems and invest back into the community.

NOTE: make sure you have your FREE LTD bus pass loaded on your phone https://transportation.uoregon.edu/bus

questions, email htate@uoregon.edu for more info or if you don't have a Handshake account and want to join us! 

IRES is back, and we’re kicking things off with our welcome event!

Join your faculty and students from the Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies at our welcome event to kick off the academic year! Meet new people, reconnect with community, and learn what’s happening in IRES.

Light refreshments will be served.

Free and open to all IRES majors and minors.

Interested in exploring career possibilities? Join us to learn about Job Shadow Day. This unique opportunity connects students with local professionals for a day of workplace observation, career exploration, and networking.

At this info session, you'll learn:

• What Job Shadow Day is and how it works
• How to apply and get matched with a site host
• What to expect during your shadow experience
• Tips for making the most of your day

Whether you're exploring career options, curious about a particular industry, or looking to gain firsthand insight into the world of work, this session will help you take the next step with confidence.

Hosted by: CAS CareerLab Open to: All CAS undergraduates

✨ Spots are limited. Come find out how to apply and get matched!

Join the Department of Cinema Studies for a cup of coffee or hot apple cider every week on Tuesdays during fall term!

Curious about careers in sustainability, the environment, or climate solutions? Join us for Your Future in Sustainability, a FREE career exploration and networking event designed to help you connect with professionals working across the environmental and sustainability field.

Whether you’re interested in conservation, climate solutions, environmental science, policy, consulting, GIS, communications, or other sustainability-related career paths, this event is a chance to learn what careers in the field actually look like and how you can get there.

Come for either or both events! All are welcome!

• Industry Insights Panel | 4:00–5:00 p.m. Hear from professionals and alumni about their career journeys, industry trends, the skills employers are looking for, and how they got started in the field.
• Small-Group Networking | 5:00–6:30 p.m. Connect directly with professionals in a casual setting. Rotate between conversations, ask questions, learn about different career paths, and get advice about internships, jobs, fellowships, and other opportunities. FREE FOOD! 

Employers include: 

• Bring
• Nearbynature
• Wild Rockies Field Institute
• Northwest Youth Corps
• Cascade Raptor Center 
• AND MORE COMING SOON!  

You don’t need to have a specific career path figured out to attend. Whether you’re exploring sustainability for the first time, looking for an internship or job, or already planning a career in the environmental field, you’ll have the opportunity to make connections and learn from people working in the industry.

Come with questions, curiosity, and your future in mind.

Panelists:  Jack Bentivoglio: Jack is a Materials Recovery Assistant at BRING, a Eugene-based nonprofit dedicated to waste prevention, reuse, and sustainable materials management. Jack works with contractors and subcontractors to recover reusable building materials and connect them with opportunities for a second life rather than disposal. During the events season, he coordinates Sustainable Event Services for Lane County Public Works, managing a reusable dishware program and impact reporting for public events. As a University of Oregon Environmental Studies and Sustainable Business graduate with hands-on experience in material recovery and zero waste event operations, Jack is building a career at the intersection of sustainability, materials management, and entertainment. 

Maddy Broedel: Maddy grew up in Washington and New York, hiking the Olympic and Adirondack mountains, searching the coastline for tidepools, and exploring old growth forests. After a stint living in a Midwest community with few environmental education opportunities, she discovered a passion for connecting youth and families with nature and advocating for habitat preservation and restoration. She received her Bachelor’s degree at the University of Oregon, where she studied Public Relations and Nonprofit Administration with an emphasis in environmental conservation. 

Maddy joined Cascades Raptor Center’s team in 2023, where she enjoys meeting visitors, engaging the public, and creating meaningful community connections. In addition to her work with the birds, she has served on the Advancement Committee for the Oregon Coast Aquarium and as the Board Vice President for the Emerald Valley Development Professionals. When she’s not at the Center you can find her shopping at farmer’s markets, hanging out at coffee shops, hiking the Oregon coast, and spending time with her fiancé and cat.   

Moderator:  Dr. Taylor McHolm is the Director of the Student Sustainability Center at the University of Oregon. In this role, Taylor develops student leaders, helps facilitate student sustainability projects, and develops programming to meet student needs on campus. He received his PhD from the University of Oregon’s interdisciplinary Environmental Science, Studies, and Policy program, with a focal department of English. His published research addresses representations of environmental justice and the racial components of the Anthropocene. In all areas, his work and research prioritize the intersections of sustainability, environmental justice, social equity, and cultural production. 

Ever walk out of an interview thinking, “Wait… what did I even just say?”  Yep, we’ve all been there. Join us for just 45 minutes and learn how to dodge that post-interview panic. 

We’ll break down the different types of interviews you might face, how to prep without spiraling, and how to answer questions with confidence. 

Interviews make you sweaty, anxious, or just a little dramatic? Perfect. We’ve got strategies to help you feel prepared and way more chill. 

International students: get the inside scoop on U.S.-style interviews. No prior experience needed! 

Come hang out in person at the University Career Center, Tykeson Hall, Garden Level 50P. 

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

The University Career Center gives a special thanks to Enterprise Mobility for sponsoring all of our Fall Career Readiness Week events and workshops! 

To learn more about all of the week's events visit http://career.uoregon.edu/events  

Please join us Thursday 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! 

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!

The University Career Center thanks Enterprise Mobility for sponsoring all our Fall Career Readiness Week events and workshops! Special thanks to Insight Global, States Industries, and Concora Credit for their support of the Fall Career & Internship Expo.  

For a full list of Fall Career Readiness Week (October 16-23) events and workshops, check out http://career.uoregon.edu/events

Join us on Oct. 22nd in the EMU Redwood Auditorium to watch Project Hail Mary, a critically acclaimed science-fiction hit. Free popcorn and soda!

Experience a pre-show moon viewing on the EMU green from 6:30-7:45pm with an amazing lunar telescope!!

Doors open at 7:15pm, movie starts at 8:00 pm. make sure to come early before we reach capacity!

Description: A science teacher wakes up alone on a spaceship. As his memory returns, he uncovers a mission to stop a mysterious substance killing Earth's sun, and realizes that an unexpected friendship may be the key.

More information on the movie: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12042730/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_project%20h

Rated: PG-13

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

Join the Department of Cinema Studies for a cup of coffee or hot apple cider every week on Tuesdays during fall term!

Environmental concerns—from nature conservation to air and water quality—are often associated with progressive politics. But under Fascisms past and present, ecological ideas have also animated authoritarian projects. This speaker series examines how dictatorships mobilize nature as both metaphor and material resource. As a metaphor, agrarianism evokes Fascism’s foundational mythos: the dictator will restore the country’s glorious national past. To live a rural, old-fashioned lifestyle was to be a more patriotic citizen. “Italy must be ruralized!” proclaimed Benito Mussolini in 1927. As a material resource, nature is often put to use in service of eugenics and racial hygiene.

Our speakers will examine the professional biographies of the scientists, industrialists, and entrepreneurs hired by Fascist regimes to determine the limits of biological possibility. Case studies from empire and the colonies will investigate the Fascist programs for experimental plant nurseries, animal breeding, and chemical trials. Rather than treating eco-fascism as a contradiction in terms, our speakers will situate it within longer histories of environmental planning, population management, and technocratic governance. They will explain how dictatorships use the tools of authoritarian governance to modify the environment in their pursuit of more Fascist futures.

Please join us for these illuminating discussions.

Talk details:

Blood and Soil: Race, Gender and Food in Nazi Ideology

Speaker: Prof. Alice Weinreb, Loyola University

This talk will explore the ways in which Hitler’s ‘blood and soil’ ideology raced and gendered the natural environment. According to Nazi ideology, ‘natural’ food was necessary for the maintenance of a pure and healthy Volk. Food thus was a way of constructing (and potentially of threatening) gender and racial identities. Weinreb’s talk will explore the ways in which nature was transformed into something to be consumed, which in turn naturalized Aryan supremacy and radical gender hierarchies. In Nazi Germany, racial and gender identity was performed through daily acts of food production (farming and cooking) and food consumption (shopping and eating). The talk also discusses the ramifications of linking the protection of the environment with the protection of racism and misogyny, discussing connections to contemporary far-right discourses linking environmental contamination, impure food, and racial and gender hierarchies.

For more information, please contact Prof. Diana Garvin, dgarvin@uoregon.edu.

Supported by: Department of Romance Languages, Italian Sector.

Please join us Thursday 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 us for a spooky season-themed open house, trick-or-treat style! Meet the faculty, ask questions, learn about winter term classes, and grab candy as you go.

Free and open to all IRES students.

Join the Department of Cinema Studies for a cup of coffee or hot apple cider every week on Tuesdays during fall term!

Environmental concerns—from nature conservation to air and water quality—are often associated with progressive politics. But under Fascisms past and present, ecological ideas have also animated authoritarian projects. This speaker series examines how dictatorships mobilize nature as both metaphor and material resource. As a metaphor, agrarianism evokes Fascism’s foundational mythos: the dictator will restore the country’s glorious national past. To live a rural, old-fashioned lifestyle was to be a more patriotic citizen. “Italy must be ruralized!” proclaimed Benito Mussolini in 1927. As a material resource, nature is often put to use in service of eugenics and racial hygiene.

Our speakers will examine the professional biographies of the scientists, industrialists, and entrepreneurs hired by Fascist regimes to determine the limits of biological possibility. Case studies from empire and the colonies will investigate the Fascist programs for experimental plant nurseries, animal breeding, and chemical trials. Rather than treating eco-fascism as a contradiction in terms, our speakers will situate it within longer histories of environmental planning, population management, and technocratic governance. They will explain how dictatorships use the tools of authoritarian governance to modify the environment in their pursuit of more Fascist futures.

Please join us for these illuminating discussions.

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Fascist Climates: Tracking Weather in the Italian Colonial Empire (1929-1939)

Speaker: Prof. Angelo Caglioti, Barnard College 

With the onset of the Great Depression, the 1930s were a time of deep socio-economic crisis, environmental concerns about the scarcity of natural resources, and international competition with the rise of the “air age.” When Mussolini’s invasion and colonization of Ethiopia triggered international sanctions by the League of Nations and drained state coffers, the fascist regime ordered that the Italian scientific community contribute to achieving Autarky, namely national self-sufficiency, by cutting costs, aligning their activities with national priorities, and avoiding the duplication of areas of influence.

This paper examines the radicalization of the fascist regime and the transformation of the climate and atmospheric sciences in interwar Italy in the name of Autarky. In this political climate of scarcity and austerity, scientists working across agricultural and colonial meteorology, aeronautical weather forecasting, hydrology, and medical climatology competed to defend their scientific interests and institutions by claiming that their activities were more autarkic than others. In the paper, Caglioti highlights how autarky, scarcity, and political conformism became crucial tools in scientific boundary-making as competition for resources required defining the jurisdiction and areas of expertise of different research institutes, ministries, and technical state departments. In conclusion, the paper argues that claims about scarcity were central to the making of a fascist, authoritarian, Anthropocene.

For more information, please contact Prof. Diana Garvin, dgarvin@uoregon.edu.

Supported by: Department of Romance Languages, Italian Sector.

Please join us Thursday 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! 

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Free for all CAS students. No registration needed; wait time may vary.

Join the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics for a post-election roundtable examining the significance and implications of the 2026 election. The discussion will consider the political, social, and institutional dimensions of the election and its potential consequences for Oregon, the United States, and democratic governance. Bringing together perspectives from political science, journalism, global studies, and public policy, the panel will situate the election within broader questions about contemporary American politics and public life.

Moderater: Dan Tichenor, Philip H. Knight Chair of Social Science | Director, Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics Panelists:

• Aneesh Aneesh - Executive Director, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
• Hon. Peter DeFazio - Former US Representative (OR-04)
• Rebecca Tweed - President, Tweed Strategies
• Regina Lawrence - Dean, UO School of Journalism and Communication

Ford Alumni Center Giustina Ballroom, 1720 East 13th Ave, Eugene Livestream link TBA

Join the Creative Writing program for a fiction reading by Michael Copperman.

Copperman’s work has appeared in The Oxford-American, Guernica, The Sun, Creative Nonfiction, Boston Review, Salon, Gulf Coast, Triquarterly, Kenyon Review and Copper Nickel, among others. His memoir Teacher: Two Years in the Mississippi Delta (University Press of Mississippi 2017) was a finalist for the 2018 Oregon Book Award in CNF. His new book, Seeking Kenny, is about the extremes of the American subculture of wrestling as seen through the story of five-time national champion Oregon wrestler Kenny Cox’s pilgrimage deep into the wilderness of Kauai’s Na Pali Coast (University of Iowa Press 2026).

Cox devoted his life to wrestling: winning ten Oregon championships in collegiate, freestyle, and Greco-Roman and five junior national championships. But when his college career came to a close, Cox realized he wasn’t sure who he was or how to go about living his life. A few years later, he walked from Oregon to Mexico and back, and upon his return, sold his house and flew to Kauai, where he ventured deep into the wilderness and survived seventy days without supplies. Just weeks after reemerging from the wild, he died at the age of thirty-one.

Copperman considers the life and untimely death of Cox, reconstructing memories of his former training partner with the help of Cox’s family, friends, fans, and fellow wrestlers. Seeking Kenny is, in part, an ode to a storied athlete. But it’s also a cautionary tale about the mental and bodily extremes Cox demanded for his achievements. Copperman asks what it means to live past one’s “glory days,” and what roles loss, grief, faith, and memory play when athletes leave pieces of themselves behind.

Free and open to the public. 

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

Join the Department of History for the Eugene History Pub Lecture by Professor Ryan Jones on Whale Lovers: The 1970s Scientists and Activists Who Saved the Whales and Hated Each Other.

Note: This presentation involves adult subject matter that may not be appropriate for children under 18.

The Eugene History Pub Lecture Series features talks by history scholars and experts on historical events, concepts, and research in a casual setting with local beer, wine, and food. Unless otherwise noted, talks take place at 7:00 p.m. on the second Monday of each month, from October through May. The lectures are free and open to the public and are held at Whirled Pies (199 W. 8th Avenue in Eugene).

Join the Department of Cinema Studies for a cup of coffee or hot apple cider every week on Tuesdays during fall term!

Are you interested in studying abroad? Stop by GEO's study abroad fair to find a program for you! Speak to a program advisor, hear about the student experience from a program alumni, learn more about study abroad financial aid and scholarships, and pick up some snacks and GEO swag.

This event is part of International Education Month (IEM) programming. View the full calendar of IEM events here: https://international.uoregon.edu/IEM.

Please join us Thursday 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! 

Interested in gaining real-world experience from anywhere this summer? Join us to learn about Virtual Internships (V.I.), a unique opportunity to complete a global, remote internship with organizations across a wide range of industries, including law, finance, computer science, healthcare, marketing, and more.

At this info session, you'll learn:

• What V.I. are and how the program works
• How to express your interest for the summer 2027 V.I. program.
• What to expect during a remote internship experience
• How V.I. can help you build career competencies, expand your professional network, and gain practical experience

Whether you're looking to explore a career field, develop professional skills, or gain internship experience that fits your summer schedule, this session will help you take the next step with confidence.

Program Term: Summer 2027

Hosted by: CAS CareerLab Open to: All CAS undergraduates

✨ Come learn how to get started and explore internship opportunities around the world!

The Oregon Humanities Center presents a wine chat with Professor Eleonora Redaelli.

Who actually keeps American culture alive? We tend to picture artists, scholars, and museums — but a quiet, tangled web of federal, state, and local government has shaped the country’s cultural life for decades, usually without anyone noticing. Drawing on her book, Invisible Cultural Policy in America, Professor Eleonora Redaelli will trace how this patchwork system emerged, the debates that shaped how we think about arts, humanities, and historic preservation, and what it looks like on the ground — from Oregon to Minnesota, Maryland, and New Mexico.  

Join Professor Redaelli and the Oregon Humanities Center for a thoughtful discussion of this matter. Doors open at 5 p.m. Beverages and food will be available for purchase and light refreshments will be provided. There is ample parking at Banner Bank across the street. This event is free and open to the public. Please register at ohc.oregon.edu. 

Join the Department of Cinema Studies for a cup of coffee or hot apple cider every week on Tuesdays during fall term!

Please join us Thursday 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! 

Professor Jason Groves (University of Washington) will be presenting his talk "'We Stones': Ecologies of Memory from Paul Celan to Otobong Nkanga."

Join the Department of Cinema Studies for a cup of coffee or hot apple cider every week on Tuesdays during fall term!

Please join us Thursday 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 Cinema Studies for a cup of coffee or hot apple cider every week on Tuesdays during fall term!

Please join us Thursday 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! 

Thinking about doing an internship in Asia? The Freeman Internship Fellowships can help fund it!

The 2026-27 application deadlines are: 

• January 15, 2027 (spring and summer priority deadlines)
• April 22, 2027 (summer deadline)
• August 22, 2027 (fall and winter priority deadlines)
• November 22, 2027 (winter and spring priority deadlines)

This online drop-in advising hour provides an opportunity for applicants to ask any questions they may have about their Freeman Fellowship application.

Apply by the priority deadlines to receive your award decision sooner! 

Thinking about doing an internship in Asia? The Freeman Internship Fellowships can help fund it!

The 2026-27 application deadlines are: 

• January 15, 2027 (spring and summer priority deadlines)
• April 22, 2027 (summer deadline)
• August 22, 2027 (fall and winter priority deadlines)
• November 22, 2027 (winter and spring priority deadlines)

This online drop-in advising hour provides an opportunity for applicants to ask any questions they may have about their Freeman Fellowship application.

Apply by the priority deadlines to receive your award decision sooner!