1:00 p.m.
Please join us Wednesday afternoons 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!
6:00 p.m.
Cinema Studies proudly announces the 2026 Visiting Filmmaker Series with award-winning Director Rachel Lambert.
Join Cinema Studies for a special BONUS SCREENING of Lambert’s 2021 film I Can Feel You Walking. This is a unique opportunity to see this unavailable and rarely exhibited film on the big screen, with an introduction by Lambert.
Free and open to the community.
The UO Cinema Studies Visiting Filmmaker Series is Funded by the Generous Harlan J. Strauss Visiting Filmmaker Endowment.
9:00 a.m.–8:30 p.m.
This annual event offers undergraduates from all majors a vibrant, inclusive forum to showcase their research and creative work through a variety of presentation platforms. The event celebrates inquiry and discovery across disciplines, helps students build communication and professional skills, and connects them with peers, faculty, and mentors. Whether attending or presenting, students at any stage in their academic journey will gain confidence, expand their networks, and continue strengthening their pathways to success.
The General Agenda on the website gives an overview of events throughout the day. The searchable schedule will be posted at urds.uoregon.edu/symposium closer the event.
3:30–8:00 p.m.
This conference examines the future of higher education in an increasingly authoritarian global environment marked by democratic backsliding, political polarization, and intensifying state efforts to control knowledge production. Across regions, universities face intersecting pressures: geopolitical instability, new technologies, shifting patterns of mobility, growing demands for measurable “impact,” and deepening contests over truth, history, and public trust.
A central concern of this convening is systemic autonomy in higher education: the capacity of teaching and research to be guided by scholarly standards rather than direct political instruction. Universities are never separate from politics, law, the economy, or media. The question is which institutional arrangements allow these relationships to support, rather than undermine, free inquiry.
The Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages invites all to attend and engage!
✒️Register here *Attendance is free
5:30–7:30 p.m.
We are excited to celebrate the 9th Asian Studies Research Event and the Asian Studies Award. This will be an in-person event with catering; details will be announced in May. This event is sponsored by the Asian Studies Program in partnership with the 2026 UO Undergraduate Research Symposium. Registration deadline to participate: April 1. Undergraduate Student Registration: Current UO undergraduate students from any major are welcome to participate in this event (you don’t need to be an Asian Studies major or minor). You can present independent research (e.g., honors theses, term projects, translations, flagship projects, etc.) and creative work focused on a topic in the broad, interdisciplinary field of Asian Studies. Presentations will be 10-12 minutes; detailed instructions and preparation advice will be provided. If you have any questions, or you are not sure your project fits this event, we welcome you to email Alisa Freedman at alisaf@uoregon.edu. You can also see the participants and project titles of recent events here: https://asianstudies.uoregon.edu/asian-studies-research-event/
- Register by April 1. Go to https://urds.uoregon.edu/symposium/registration-preview for instructions, then click on “Registration Form” to sign up.
- When you reach the Academic area of research project section on the form, select the Asian Studies Event. This will automatically opt you in.
Graduate Student Registration: Current UO graduate students from any department or program are welcome to participate, and we welcome students who completed graduate degrees in 2025 but did not present at last year’s event. You can present research focused on a topic in the broad, interdisciplinary field of Asian Studies. Presentations could be on MA theses, seminar papers, and PhD dissertations, creative work and translations. Presentations will be limited to three minutes in the style of “3-Minute Theses” and detailed instructions and advice will be provided. Register by April 1. If you have any questions, or you are not sure your project fits this event, please email Dan Buck (danielb@uoregon.edu). In your registration email please include your name, department, graduation date, academic advisor, and a provisional presentation title (you can finalize it later). Asian Studies Awards, Undergraduate and Graduate: These awards recognize oral, poster, and creative work presentations focused on a topic in the broad, interdisciplinary field of Asian Studies and characterized by excellence in research and clarity of delivery:
- Undergraduate Awards: One $400 award, and two $150 honorable mention awards.
- Graduate Awards: One $400 award, and two $150 honorable mention awards.
- Sponsorship: Asian Studies Program and the Division of Undergraduate Education and Student Success.
5:30–8:00 p.m.
The undergraduate chapter of the UO Net Impact Group is excited to present SPRNG, our annual conference exploring the intersection of sustainability and business.
This year's theme, "Flipping the Switch," centers on the critical role energy plays in shaping a more sustainable future. As communities, companies, and institutions respond to climate challenges, energy remains at the center of innovation, policy, and business strategy.
The conference will bring together students and professionals for a keynote speaker, industry panel, networking mixer, and a case competition focused on real-world sustainability challenges.
This event is free and open to all!
Agenda
- Day 1: Keynote, industry panel, and networking mixer Thursday, May 7, 5:30–8:00 p.m., Lillis Business Complex 282
- Day 2: Case competition Friday, May 8, 10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m., Lillis Business Complex 211
7:00 p.m.
Cinema Studies proudly announces the 2026 Visiting Filmmaker Series with award-winning Director Rachel Lambert. Please join us for a screening of Lambert’s 2023 feature film, Sometimes I Think About Dying, followed by an in-person Q&A with the director.
Free and open to the community.
Directed by Rachel Lambert | 2023 | 91 Min Lost on the dreary Oregon coast, Fran finds solace in her cubicle, listening to the constant hum of officemates and occasionally daydreaming to pass the time. She is ghosting through life, unable to pop her bubble of isolation, when a friendly new coworker, Robert, persistently tries to connect with her. Though it goes against every fiber of her being, she may have to give this guy a chance. Director Lambert and team craft beautiful cinema for this delicately told story of love for the socially awkward and emotionally challenged. The film is made all the more human by its lovely cast, most prominent in the penetrating eyes of lead actress/producer, Daisy Ridley, and the caring smile of lead actor, Dave Merheje. Sometimes I Think About Dying is an unexpected fable on the virtues of living.
The UO Cinema Studies Visiting Filmmaker Series is Funded by the Generous Harlan J. Strauss Visiting Filmmaker Endowment.
8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
This conference examines the future of higher education in an increasingly authoritarian global environment marked by democratic backsliding, political polarization, and intensifying state efforts to control knowledge production. Across regions, universities face intersecting pressures: geopolitical instability, new technologies, shifting patterns of mobility, growing demands for measurable “impact,” and deepening contests over truth, history, and public trust.
A central concern of this convening is systemic autonomy in higher education: the capacity of teaching and research to be guided by scholarly standards rather than direct political instruction. Universities are never separate from politics, law, the economy, or media. The question is which institutional arrangements allow these relationships to support, rather than undermine, free inquiry.
The Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages invites all to attend and engage!
✒️Register here *Attendance is free
10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
The undergraduate chapter of the UO Net Impact Group is excited to present SPRNG, our annual conference exploring the intersection of sustainability and business.
This year's theme, "Flipping the Switch," centers on the critical role energy plays in shaping a more sustainable future. As communities, companies, and institutions respond to climate challenges, energy remains at the center of innovation, policy, and business strategy.
The conference will bring together students and professionals for a keynote speaker, industry panel, networking mixer, and a case competition focused on real-world sustainability challenges.
This event is free and open to all!
Agenda
- Day 1: Keynote, industry panel, and networking mixer Thursday, May 7, 5:30–8:00 p.m., Lillis Business Complex 282
- Day 2: Case competition Friday, May 8, 10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m., Lillis Business Complex 211
3:00 p.m.
Cinema Studies proudly announces the 2026 Visiting Filmmaker Series with award-winning Director Rachel Lambert. Please join us for a directing masterclass with Lambert.
Lambert will offer her evolving process for developing a cohesive artistic vision and character-driven narratives across her three indie feature films, In the Radiant City (2016), Sometimes I Think About Dying (2023), and Carousel (2026).
New location: This event will be held in Villard 205.
Free and open to UO students.
The UO Cinema Studies Visiting Filmmaker Series is Funded by the Generous Harlan J. Strauss Visiting Filmmaker Endowment.