Students taking WR 121z, 122z, or 123 are invited to drop by the Tykeson 3rd floor Writing Lab (glass room, 351) for candy and quick writing support. Our GE Writing Support Specialists (tutors) are available to help you with any part of a WR assignment, from coming up with ideas to reading to revising to polishing up a final draft. Join us!

Mondays 3-4 and Thursdays 2-3, beginning week 4, for the rest of Winter quarter 2025.

Please join us for the March pub lecture hosted by the Department of History and the Lane County Historical Society. Professor Lissa Wadewitz will discuss “Power and Protest in the Pacific: The Nineteenth-Century American Whaling Fleet."

Free and open to everyone!

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

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

Paul Francis Hessburg is a professor at Oregon State University within the College of Forestry in the Department of Forest Engineering, Resources and Management. He will speak about the structure and organization of historical, current, and future landscape resilience of Pacific Northwest forests.

Dacher Keltner is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and faculty director of the UC Berkeley Greater Good Science Center. In his new book, Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How it Can Transform Your Life, Keltner offers a groundbreaking exploration and deeply personal reflection on the elusive emotion of awe. Drawing on fresh research about how awe impacts our brains and bodies, as well as examining its role throughout history, culture, and in his own life during a time of grief, Keltner investigates how embracing awe in our daily lives helps us recognize and appreciate the most human aspects of our nature.

This is a FREE event and open to the public!

(*Note: Reception starts at 3:30pm outside of the Beetham Family Room)

Hosted by: the Center for the Science and Practice of Well-Being

The Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies and the Department of History welcome David Roediger, Professor of American Studies and History at the University of Kansas, for a talk on “The Anti-Racist Education of an Ordinary White.”

The historian David Roediger will present stories from his new book An Ordinary White: My Antiracist Education. A direct response to the venom and durability of white nationalist attacks on Critical Race Theory, the memoir describes Roediger’s youth in a family of southern Illinois workers. He portrays the white racism he was carefully taught, both in a small all-white town and the integrated city of Cairo. He recalls also the ways in which rural places and working-class lives can nurture other conclusions about social justice.

David Roediger teaches American Studies and History at University of Kansas. He was born in southern Illinois and educated in public schools in that state, with a B.S. in Education from Northern Illinois University. He holds a PhD from Northwestern, where he studied under Sterling Stuckey. Roediger has taught labor, immigrant, and Black history at University of Missouri, University of Illinois, and University of Minnesota. He worked as an editor of the Frederick Douglass Papers at Yale University. His books include Seizing Freedom, The Sinking Middle Class, and The Wages of Whiteness.

Free and open to the public.

“Rethinking the Masculinization of the Postwar Labor Migrant” – The mid-twentieth century’s unprecedented economic growth led to the emergence of a new category of mobile person: the “temporary” labor migrant, eventually known as the “guest worker.” And by the 1950s, from the Americas to Africa to Europe, this worker had acquired specific characteristics: a solo male, traveling alone, leaving any family members behind as insurance to both societies that he would eventually return. Scholars have reasoned that if the goal of labor-recruiting societies was to ensure migrants’ stay would be only temporary, those societies would naturally aim to leave male migrants’ wives and children somewhere else. 

In this talk, Julie Weise examines archival sources from three continents to show that many who articulated both dominant gender ideologies and capitalist imperatives at mid-century found more reason to include women in temporary labor recruitment than to exclude them. Weise demonstrates contingency and provides alternative explanations for the masculinization of transborder recruitment programs that eventually occurred in the postwar years.

Julie M. Weise is an associate professor of history at the University of Oregon. She is the author of Corazón de Dixie: Mexicanos in the U.S. South since 1910 (UNC Press, 2015), which garnered an Organization of American Historians book award among others. The manuscript for her second book, “Guest Worker: Lives across Borders in an Age of Prosperity,” is under contract with UNC Press. Her research has been supported by Fulbright France, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the School for Advanced Research, the American Philosophical Society, and the Gerda Henkel Foundation among others. Her writing and commentary on immigration politics have appeared in The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, National Public Radio, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Conversation, and other outlets.

The Creative Writing Program invites you to a fiction reading with Karen Thompson Walker.

Karen Thompson Walker is a New York Times bestselling author of three novels, including The Strange Case of Jane O., which will be published in February. Her first novel, The Age of Miracles has been translated into twenty-nine languages and was named one of the best books of the year by People, O: The Oprah Magazine, and Financial Times, among others. Her second novel, The Dreamers, was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and a Belletrist Book Club pick, and was named one of the best books of the year by Glamour, Real Simple, and Good Housekeeping. Born and raised in San Diego, Walker is a graduate of UCLA and the Columbia MFA program. She lives with her husband, the novelist Casey Walker, and their two daughters in Portland. She is an associate professor of creative writing at the University of Oregon.  

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

Recent controversies in the United States and other countries have involved nonprofit organizations that are involved in political advocacy and political activities. In this talk Mark Sidel, a specialist in these issues, discusses how the United States and several other countries try to set policy and law on the extent of nonprofit political advocacy and activities.

Mark Sidel is Doyle-Bascom Professor of Law and Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an elected member of the American Law Institute. He serves on the boards of the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law, the China Medical Board, The Rights Practice (US), and other organizations. 

Cosponsored by University of Oregon’s Department of Anthropology; Department of Global Studies; Global Studies Institute; School of Planning, Public Policy and Management; and US-Vietnam Research Center.

Students taking WR 121z, 122z, or 123 are invited to drop by the Tykeson 3rd floor Writing Lab (glass room, 351) for candy and quick writing support. Our GE Writing Support Specialists (tutors) are available to help you with any part of a WR assignment, from coming up with ideas to reading to revising to polishing up a final draft. Join us!

Mondays 3-4 and Thursdays 2-3, beginning week 4, for the rest of Winter quarter 2025.