2:00–3:30 p.m.
Animist Poetics: Ancestral Trauma and Regeneration in African Literature
A book talk by Ryan Topper, Associate Professor of English, Western Oregon University.
7:00 p.m.
Please join the Department of History for the February pub lecture. Naomi Sussman will discuss "The Indians Are a Nation: Indigenous Self-Determination in Early Twentieth Century California."
Free and open to everyone!
The UO Department of History presents a series of talks with scholars about history, from the local to the global. Join us for stories, food, and conversation in a casual setting!
10:00–11:00 a.m.
Please join us Tuesday mornings for a free cup of coffee, pastries, and conversation with your history department community! We’re excited to continue this tradition for our history undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff. We hope to see you there!
noon
Spend the summer studying anthropology in Barbados! You will have the chance to work on an archaeological site, learn about Barbados' cultural heritage from an applied anthropology perspective, and study local vervet monkey troops.
3:30–4:30 p.m.
Learn more about Global Education Oregon's Food, Media, and Tourism in Italy and Spain program! Embark on an unforgettable program in two historically and culturally rich cities and take courses that blend culture, sustainability, journalism, and business. Spend the first five weeks in Siena, Italy, a city steeped in medieval charm and world renowned for its culinary traditions, diving into courses on a food and sustainability and on local media. Then, travel to Segovia, Spain, for the final five weeks of your program where you'll be immersed in Spanish food and culture and tourism business in Spain.
4:00 p.m.
Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Presents: “Insurance, Racial Infrastructure and the Financialization of Domestic Life” with Dr. Julietta Hua, Professor and Chair of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at University of California at Davis.
This talk analyzes how racial difference and the domestic household anchor modern insurances' practices of quantification, which collapse the value of life with formalized work.
Free and open to the public.
2:00–4:00 p.m.
From Jan. 21 and continuing until March 18, the Northwest Native American Language Resource Center (NW-NALRC) will be holding weekly consultation and assistance times.
From 2-3pm PST we will be providing consultation and assistance with Community Projects and Planning.
From 3-4pm PST we will be providing consultation and assistance for Supporting Language Teaching and Learning.
To join, please fill out this short form https://forms.office.com/r/D2pg3wErfj.
If you are in need of assistance, or if you have any questions, please contact nalrc@uoregon.edu.
3:00–6:00 p.m.
Are you a tech-savvy Duck looking to explore career paths? Come meet employers looking to connect with students interested in working in tech! Stop by EMU Redwood (214) anytime between 3-6, ready to learn about new opportunities, and share about your passions and goals with people who could be your future coworkers! Walk away with industry connections, potential job opportunities, and the inside industry scoop on what it takes to land competitive opportunities in this fast-paced industry. Free light refreshments provided! Open to all students and majors!
WHO'S COMING?
- Amazon Web Services (Technology/Cloud Provider)
- BPM (Cybersecurity Consulting & Assessments)
- CrowdStrike (Cybersecurity)
- Fortinet (Cybersecurity)
- IP Services & the IT Process Institute (Cybersecurity) learn more!
- Modern Amenities (Start-up/Call Center)
- Pipeworks (Video Game Development) learn more!
- Proofpoint (Cybersecurity)
- SentinelOne (Cybersecurity)
- SheerID (Marketing Tech)
- State of Oregon - Enterprise Information Services (State Government)
- Zscaler Inc. (Cybersecurity)
Hosted by the University Career Center & School of Computer and Data Science.
4:30 p.m.
The Creative Writing Program invites you to a fiction reading with Stephanie Reents.
Stephanie Reents's debut novel is We Loved to Run. She's also the author of The Kissing List, a collection of stories that was an Editors' Choice in The New York Times Book Review, and I Meant to Kill Ye, a bibliomemoir chronicling her journey into the strange void at the heart of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Medirian. She has twice received an O. Henry Prize for her short fiction. Reents received a BA from Amherst College, where she ran on the cross country team all four years. She was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. For more information, visit Stephanie Reents's website.
6:00 p.m.
Filmlandia Screening Series presents: A Short Film Program. Free and open to the public.
This series of short films made in and about Portland, Oregon, highlights the diverse ways that the city has been experienced and imagined, from satirical tourist films and parodies through home movies, experimental films, and a surreal Civil Defense documentary. Come take a journey into the weird and wonderful cinematic visions of Portland!
The Department of Cinema Studies and the University Film Society celebrate Oregon’s rich film heritage with a new screening series showcasing movies with a unique Oregon connection—from locally shot features to stories written or directed by Oregon filmmakers. Discover Oregon’s reel legacy on the big screen while connecting with the university film community.
Cosponsored by: Harlan J. Strauss Visiting Filmmaker Endowment; Department of Comparative Literature; Department of English; Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies; Native American and Indigenous Studies; Folklore and Public Culture Program; Art House Theater; DUX Present; and Oregon Humanities Center’s Endowment for Public Outreach in the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities.