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UO Today
by Oregon Humanities Center
The Oregon Humanities Center is the sole interdisciplinary umbrella organization for the humanities at the University of Oregon. We encourage scholars to articulate their ideas in language that is accessible both to scholars in other fields and to the general public. The OHC sponsors a wide array of free public programs designed to provide a forum for discussion of and reflection on important issues.
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UO Today: Micah Jones; Research Notes with Colin Koopman
Micah Jones is an assistant professor of History and Black Studies at the University of Oregon. She talks about her book project, "The Price of Freedom: Race, Consumption, and the Long Black Freedom Struggle, 1915-1970," which places Black shoppers at the center of histories of consumption…
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"When the Three Magi Serve Homer: Asymmetric Hermeneutics and Victorian Translation of Shahnameh"
Work-in-Progress talks with Hessam Abedini, PhD candidate, Comparative Literature and 2025–26 OHC Dissertation Fellow. This project examines how to translate the Persian epic Shahnameh (AD 1010) without imposing Western literary conventions on it. Previous English translations have compared the...
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UO Today: Mérida Mehaffey, Research Notes with Gantt Gurley
Mérida Mehaffey is an interdisciplinary scholar based in Brooklyn, New York. She is currently a master’s student at Bard Graduate Center, where she studies museum ethics, curatorial practice, and Native American material culture. Mérida graduated from the University of Oregon in 2018 with a...
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UO Today: Smadar Ben-Natan; Research Notes with Michael Allan
Smadar Ben-Natan is an assistant professor of Global Studies in the Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages at the University of Oregon. Originally from Israel, her research focuses on human rights, international law, Palestine/Israel, armed conflict, criminal justice, incarceration, and...
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Ada Limón: "The Unleaving: How Poetry Helps You to Not Miss Your Life"
At a time when social media and our societal structures demand our constant attention to the rigged algorithm, we’ve stopped paying attention to what really matters, the world around us. Using poetic examples and stories from real life, poet Ada Limón invites us to remember that we are alive and...
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UO Today: Poet Ada Limón; Research Notes with Leah Lowthorp
Ada Limón is the former U.S. Poet Laureate. She reads a poem and discusses her work. On April 8, 2026, Limón will give a talk titled "The Unleaving: How Poetry Helps You to Not Miss Your Life" at the University of Oregon. Research Notes: Leah Lowthorp, assistant professor of Anthropology and...
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UO Today: Ramón Resendiz; Research Notes with Amy Swanson
Ramón Resendiz is an assistant professor of Anthropology at the University of Oregon. He discusses his work as a Visual Anthropologist and documentary filmmaker focusing on borderlands and Indigenous voices. Research Notes: Amy Swanson is an assistant professor of Dance Studies, Theory, and…
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UO Today: Xan Holt; Research Notes with Nina Amstutz
Xan Holt is an assistant professor of German and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Oregon. He talks about his work on German literature, film, and television; and his project focused on environmental humanities. He also talks about his teaching and the importance of language study for...
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UO Today: Fernando Gorab Leme; Research Notes: Jessica Vasquez-Tokos
Fernando Gorab Leme is an assistant professor of Classics at the University of Oregon. He talks about his research on the significance and wedding songs in Greco-Roman antiquity and talks about the classes he teaches. Research Notes: Jessica Vasquez-Tokos, professor of Sociology and Indigenous,...
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"The Persistence of Masks: Surrealism and the Ethnography of the Subject"
A Books-in-Print talk with author Joyce Suechun Cheng. In this talk, Cheng focuses on chapter 4 "The Surrealists as Ethnographers: Possession, Aesthetics, Subjectivity" which explores the idea of possession as a form of performative mask, utilizing Michel Leiris's ethnographic study of Ethiopian...
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UO Today: Patricia Caicedo, soprano, musicologist, and physicIan
Patricia Caicedo is a soprano, musicologist, and physician. Her work redefines the canon of classical vocal music by centering Latin American and Iberian art song. She has authored sixteen books, including the landmark "The Latin American Art Song: Sounds of the Imagined Nations" and "We Are What...
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UO Today: Colin Williamson, Research Notes with Whitney Phillips
Colin Williamson is an Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies at the University of Oregon. He is a historian of animation, special effects, and nontheatrical film. He specializes in early cinema’s place in international histories of art, science, and technology. Colin is the author of "Hidden in...
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UO Today: Christopher Brown, musician, composer, bandleader, and educator
Jazz musician Christopher Brown talks about his approach to music and education. He and his band will give a presentation/performance "Beyond the Buzz: Finding the Signal in a Noisy World" on January 29, 2026....
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UO Today: Isabel García Valdivia, Katya Hokanson, and John Knutson
Isabel García Valdivia, assistant professor of Sociology, speaks about her interest in older immigrants and their families. She also talks about the importance of mentorship. Research Notes: Katya Hokanson, professor of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, talk about her recent book "A...
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“Attention: Perspectives from Neuroscience, Art, and Literature”
The “Attention” series explores the dynamics of how, why, and what we focus on shapes our reality and creates our purpose. Also known as concentration, alertness, focus, notice, awareness, heed, regard, and consideration—Attention is the fundamental cognitive ability to sustain one’s energy on a...
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“The New Errancy: Unveiling Contemp. Migrant Literature in Cuba, the Dominican Rep, and Eq. Guinea”
Work-in-Progress talk with Alejandro Marin, PhD candidate, Romance languages, and 2025–26 Oregon Humanities Center Dissertation Fellow. Migration today is often framed as crisis, but literature reveals it as a site of creativity and resistance. Contemporary novels from Cuba, the Dominican…
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UO Today: Diane Mizrachi, Jewish Librarian, UCLA; Research Notes w/Michael Stern; and Undergrad Persp
Diane Mizrachi is the Jewish and Israeli Studies Librarian at UCLA. She discusses her work on the Academic Reading Format International Study and the discovery of Nazi-looted books in the UCLA Library. SHOW NOTES: Shoham, Snunith, and Diane Mizrachi. "Library anxiety among undergraduates: A study...
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UO Today: Sam Lasman, English and Medieval Studies: Research Notes: Martha Bayless
Sam Lasman is an assistant professor of English and Medieval Studies at the University of Oregon. He talks about his research on medieval literature and what he calls “modern medievalism,” with a focus on how narrative texts use the supernatural, monstrous, and parahuman to explore identity and...
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"Traumacracy: Towards a Constructive Politics"
Work-in-Progress talk with Anita Chari, professor of Political Science, and 2025-26 OHC Faculty Research Fellow. This project explores the political implications of the trauma-informed turn and examines the contemporary resonance of trauma in the public sphere as well as the current critical...
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UO Today: Olivia Miller, JSMA; Research Notes with Stacy Alaimo; and Undergraduate Perspectives
Olivia Miller is the new Executive Director of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon. She discusses her role and talks about the recovery of a stolen de Kooning painting when she worked at the University of Arizona's Museum of Art. • https://jsma.uoregon.edu •...
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UO Today: UO archivists Emily Moore and Mahala Ruddell and Research Notes with Abigail Fine
Emily Moore is the Instruction and Outreach Archivist, and Mahala Ruddell is the Lead Processing Archivist in Special Collections and University Archives at the University of Oregon. They discuss their work and the value of UO's collections. They also talk about some of the curious things they…
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Book talk with Leah Middlebrook and Research Notes with Lowell Bowditch
Leah Middlebrook, assistant professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, and director of the Oregon Humanities Center talks about her new book "Amphion: Lyre, Poetry, and Politics in Modernity." Research Notes: Lowell Bowditch, professor and department head of Classics, discusses her recent...
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cox"Double Crossover: Gender, Media, and Politics in Global Basketball"
Courtney M. Cox, assistant professor of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies, talks about her newly-published book "Double Crossover: Gender, Media, and Politics in Global Basketball." In the book, Cox follows athletes, coaches, journalists, and advocates of women’s basketball as they pursue...
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UO Today: Henri Cole, poet
Poet Henri Cole is author of eleven collections of poetry and a memoir. His latest collection, The Other Love, is forthcoming in summer 2025. He and Leah discuss his sonnets and his approach the form. He reads two poems from the collection Gravity and Center: Selected Sonnets 1994–2022. On April...
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"Re-imagine: Our Social Change Ecosystems"
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, leads an…
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"Sperm Whales and Polynesians: The Diasporic Worlds of Hawaiian Whaler John Bull and His Prey"
Ryan Tucker Jones, History, and 2024–25 OHC Faculty Research Fellow. This interdisciplinary global history integrates the newest, exciting advances in whale science to reinterpret the last 500 years of human-cetacean relations. In the past decades, satellite tagging, drone footage, DNA analysis,...
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UO Today: William Hatungimana and Research Notes with Kemi Balogun
William Hatungimana is an assistant professor of Global Studies in the Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages at the University of Oregon. He discusses his work on immigration and African-China relations. He also talks about the classes he teaches ie: "International Cooperation and...
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UO Today: Salvador Herrera and Research Notes with Devin Grammon and Sergio Loza
Salvador Herrera is an assistant professor of Latinx Literature and Cultural Production in the Department of English at the University of Oregon. He discusses his work exploring transborder aesthetics providing Tanya Aguiñiga's "Metabolizing the Border" project as an example. He also talks about...
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UO Today: Deepa Iyer and Research Notes with Neil O'Brian
Deepa Iyer is a South Asian American writer, strategist, and lawyer. She leads projects on solidarity and social movements at the Building Movement Project. Deepa talks about her social change ecosystem framework which includes ten roles that many people play in the service of social change…
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"Re-imagining the Other/Ourselves: Finding the Human in the Age of AI"
Based on five years of ethnographic research, Allison 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...
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"People of the Book: Jewish, Christian, & Muslim Retellings of the Hebrew Bible in Medieval Iberia"
David Wacks, Romance Languages, and 2024–25 OHC Faculty Research Fellow. In this project I study medieval translations, chronicles, legends, and plays based on the Hebrew Bible from the Iberian Peninsula’s three religious traditions. I show how Muslim, Jewish, and Christian authors draw on shared...
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UO Today: Allison Pugh, Sociology, Johns Hopkins University; Research Notes with Melissa Graboyes
Allison Pugh is professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University and author of "The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World." She talks about the importance of connective labor, the collaborative work of emotional recognition. She will give a talk "Re-imagining the...
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UO Today: Nicholas Forster and Research Notes with Stephen Rodgers
Nicholas Forster is an assistant professor of Cinema Studies at the University of Oregon. He talks about his interest in cinema and Black performance, and the book he is writing about Bill Gunn, an unsung hero of Black filmmaking. Research Notes: Stephen Rodgers is the Edmund A. Cykler Chair in...
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UO Today: Parmida Mostafavi and Lanie Millar
Parmida Mostafavi is an assistant professor of Anthropology who studies the connections between race, capital, and consumerism, with a focus on the material culture of the Iranian diaspora. Research Notes (26:34): Lanie Millar, associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese, discusses her book...
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“Common and Contested Ground: Chinese and Japanese American Youth Culture in the Pacific Northwest”
Olivia Wing, PhD candidate, History, and 2024–25 OHC Dissertation Fellow. By the late 1960s Asian American youth played a central role in the creation of a pan-Asian American political identity. My dissertation seeks the pre-1960s origin of youth’s increasing prominence in the creation of Asian...
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UO Today: Eleanor Paynter and Christopher Chávez
Eleanor Paynter is a scholar, teacher, poet, and Assistant Professor of Italian, migration, and global media in the School of Global Studies and Languages at the University of Oregon. She discusses her book "Emergency in Transit: Witnessing Migration in the Colonial...
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"Queering Reproductive Justice: An Invitation to Create Our Collective Future"
Candace Bond-Theriault discusses the need to center LGBTQIA+ communities in the conversation about reproductive health, rights, and justice. Bond-Theriault asserts that for reproductive justice to be truly successful, we must acknowledge that members of the LGBTQIA+ community often face distinct,...
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UO Today: Aycan Akçamete and Mattie Burkert
Aycan Akçamete is an assistant professor of Comparative Literature and Theatre Arts at the University of Oregon. She talks about her book project "Staging Turkey at Arcola Theatre: Intercultural Networks and Cosmopolitan Spectatorship" and her teaching. Research Notes: Mattie Burkert is an...
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Patty Krawec: "Surviving Together"
Patty Krawec is an Anishinaabe/Ukrainian writer and speaker belonging to the Lac Seul First Nation in Treaty 3 territory in Ontario, Canada. She is author of "Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future."
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UO Today: Candace Bond-Theriault and Research Notes with Judith Raiskin and Linda Long
Candace Bond-Theriault, author of "Queering Reproductive Justice: an Invitation," discusses the intersectionality of the reproductive justice movement and its core values. In Research Notes, Judith Raiskin and Linda Long discuss the Eugene Lesbian Oral History Project and the resulting…
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UO Today interview: Patty Krawec, Anishinaabe/Ukrainian writer
Patty Krawec is an Ojibwe Anishinaabe and Ukrainian writer and speaker. An activist and former social worker, she belongs to Lac Seul First Nation in Treaty 3 territory and resides in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Her first book, "Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and…
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Work-in-Progress talk: “Racing the Subempire: Race, Developmentalism, and Global Modernity and South Korean Culture”
Lim's project is a cultural history of race in South Korea that examines ideas and practices of race in literary and cultural production and discourse shaped at the nexus of modern Korean history and globalization processes. She examines Korean racial formation through literature, K-pop, and TV...
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UO Today interview: Karl Scholz
Karl Scholz, President of the University of Oregon, discusses the UO's new strategic plan and how the Big Ten's Academic Alliance will benefit the university.
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"Leading Generously" Kathleen Fitzpatrick
In a world increasingly defined by crisis, public service institutions like colleges, universities, and nonprofit organizations require capable, dynamic, and trustworthy leadership—yet stories of leadership failures there abound. The problem, Kathleen Fitzpatrick argues in Leading Generously, is…
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Work-in-Progress talk: "De Anima: L. S. Senghor's Force Ontology and Animism"
Beata Stawarska, Philosophy and 2024–25 Oregon Humanities Center Faculty Research Fellow My project engages with the untranslated and relatively unknown theoretical writings by L. S. Senghor, the first president of independent Senegal, a poet, and a philosopher. I will translate selected essays…
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UO Today interview: Christopher Long, Provost of the University of Oregon; and Professor of Philosophy
Christopher Long, Provost of the University of Oregon, began his tenure at UO in June 2024. He discusses what attracted him to UO and his leadership style, which he characterized as relationship based, and values informed. He also talks about UO's participation in the Big Ten Academic Alliance…
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“A Nation of Instruments: How Nine Sounds Shaped America”
A Work-in-Progress talk with Zachary Wallmark, Musicology, and 2024–25 OHC Faculty Research Fellow My project explores American cultural and social history through the lens of musical instruments. I offer critical examinations of the development, popularization, and sonic palette of instruments...
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UO Today interview: Miriam Gershow, author of Survival Tips: Stories
Writer Miriam Gershow's debut novel The Local News, published in 2009, was an Oregon Book Award Finalist. Her collection, Survival Tips: Stories was published in 2024. She teaches writing in the English Department at the University of Oregon. Gershow discusses her writing and reads from Survival...
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“A Pilot towards Completion of a Diidxazá Dictionary”
Gabriela Pérez Báez, Linguistics, and 2023–24 OHC Faculty Research Fellow. “Diidxazá is an Indigenous endangered Mesoamerican language spoken in southern Mexico. I will test out pacing and methods towards publication of a 10,000 entry Diidxazá-Spanish-English dictionary. I will focus on Spanish…
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UO Today interview: Devin Grammon, assistant professor, Spanish Sociolinguistics
Devin Grammon is an assistant professor of Spanish Sociolinguistics, and an affiliate in the Spanish Heritage Language Program in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Oregon. Grammon talks about his research on language learning among students studying abroad in Southern Peru...
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