2:00 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY Promotion to Full Professor Seminar
Jim Prell
“Native Ion Thermochemistry for All: From First Principles to Rapid Structure Characterization and Ligand Screening with Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry”
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!
3:30–5:00 p.m.
Join the Department of History and Noell Wilson from the University of Mississippi for a talk on "Chasing the Wind: Ezo Maps and the Transformation of Maritime Culture in 19C Japan."
Free and open to the public.
Until the 1780s, most maps of Ezo (the northern most island of Japan) were administrative tools. Created by officials of the local Matsumae clan, those charts summarized in graphic form the maritime space under regional control and its contributions to tax revenue. Over the next decades, as the central Tokugawa government assumed control of Ezo, a new category of map emerged: the navigational aid. Created to guide administrators and soldiers as they sailed from central Japan to their new postings in the north, these early-stage nautical charts became a catalyst for upending the maritime order as travel on the open sea by warrior elites, traditionally a landed class, normalized. As a result of this transformation, Ezo became one of the most dynamic spaces in nineteenth century Japan for revolutionizing mobility.
Noell Wilson is an historian of maritime Japan and the North Pacific. Her first book, Defensive Positions: The Politics of Maritime Security in Tokugawa Japan (Harvard University Asia Center, 2015) examined the influence of coastal defense on early modern state formation in Japan and received the 2016 book prize from the Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies. Author of articles on the Nagasaki defense system, Ainu drift whale practice and Japanese sailor-apprentice programs aboard Western whalers, she is recipient of numerous research awards including the Fulbright (twice). Wilson is Associate Professor of History and Executive Director of the Croft Institute for International Studies at the University of Mississippi.
The Department of History Seminar Series runs throughout the academic year and features guest speakers from the top universities who share their perspectives on history. Visit history.uoregon.edu for more information about the seminar series.
10:00–11:00 a.m.
Join Global Education Oregon to learn more about study abroad opportunities related to psychology. Learn more about the application process, program options, and student experience abroad!
This event is part of International Education Month. Learn more about International Education Month here: https://international.uoregon.edu/IEM
2:30–4:00 p.m.
Experience a Japanese cinematic masterpiece like never before!
Join us for a rare performance of the groundbreaking 1926 Japanese silent film A Page of Madness. Internationally acclaimed benshi artist Ichiro Kataoka brings this haunting psychological drama to life with his powerful voice and expressive storytelling, reviving the electrifying art of benshi — Japan’s unique tradition of live film narration. Avant-garde composer Dylan Champagne’s new musical score for this cinematic treasure features live cello accompaniment by Miranda Wilson. English subtitles will be provided for full accessibility.
Benshi Narrator: Ichiro Kataoka
Composer: Dylan Champagne
Cellist: Miranda Wilson
Following the roundtable discussion, there will be a public Film Screening and Performance of "A Page of Madness" in the EMU 214 (Redwood Auditorium) at 7:00 -8:30PM
Event Sponsors: Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Center for Asian and Pacific Studies
7:00–8:30 p.m.
Experience a Japanese cinematic masterpiece like never before!
Join us for a rare performance of the groundbreaking 1926 Japanese silent film A Page of Madness. Internationally acclaimed benshi artist Ichiro Kataoka brings this haunting psychological drama to life with his powerful voice and expressive storytelling, reviving the electrifying art of benshi — Japan’s unique tradition of live film narration. Avant-garde composer Dylan Champagne’s new musical score for this cinematic treasure features live cello accompaniment by Miranda Wilson. English subtitles will be provided for full accessibility.
Benshi Narrator: Ichiro Kataoka
Composer: Dylan Champagne
Cellist: Miranda Wilson
In accordance with the Roundtable Discussion of "A Page of Madness" at the Knight Library Browsing Room at 2:30-4:00pm.
Event sponsor: Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Center for Asian and Pacific Studies.
10:00–11:00 a.m.
Can Indigenous artists, curators, and historians resist the colonial narrative of art museums when the museum itself is a colonizer institution? Reflecting on his own experience visiting the museum on the Gila River Indian Community, David Martínez argues that the path to resistance lay in the land itself.
With David Martínez (Akimel O'odham/Hia-Ced O'odham/Mexican), Professor of American Indian Studies and Transborder Studies, Arizona State University
Cosponsored by Oregon Humanities Center, History, Native American and Indigenous Studies, and the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies.
noon
Join producer-director Adri Murguia for a conversation about the documentary film industry and related media fields, followed by a screening of her latest short doc, Q-POP. The film follows 23-year-old “Q-Pop” artist and TikTok sensation Lenin Tamayo as he revolutionizes the Peruvian music scene through combining infectious K-pop sounds with his ancestral tongue, the endangered Andean language of Quechua.
From a working-class neighborhood on the outskirts of Lima to the streets of Seoul, Q-POP captures Lenin at a pivotal moment as he rises to international recognition, navigating the tension between fame and staying true to his indigenous roots.
5:00–6:00 p.m.
Are you interested in immersing yourself in current events and political changes in the capital of the United Kingdom? Join Global Education Oregon to learn more about Politics in London, a four-week summer study abroad experience that will explore differing perspectives on international government and policies.
This event is part of International Education Month. Learn more about International Education Month here: https://international.uoregon.edu/IEM
3:00–4:00 p.m.
The Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies invites you to a talk with author Stephanie Nohelani Teves about her book: The Mahele of our Bodies: Nā Moʻolelo Kūpuna Māhū/LGBTQ.
Free and open to the public.
Cosponsored by Native American and Indigenous Studies
Stephanie Nohelani Teves (Kanaka Maoli) is an Associate Professor and Chair of the department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa where she teaches courses on Indigenous feminisms and queer theory. Teves is author of Defiant Indigeneity: The Politics of Hawaiian Performance (2018) and co-editor of Native Studies Keywords. Her essays have appeared in American Quarterly, The Drama Review, the American Indian Culture and Research Journal, and the International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies. She was a faculty member at UO in Ethnic Studies and WGSS from 2015-2019.
About the book:
Generated from the life histories of ten Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) elders (kūpuna) who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or māhū (LGBTQM), this book reveals the way they experienced overlapping Native/Indigenous and LGBTQM identities. The Mahele of Our Bodies: Nā Moʻolelo Kūpuna Māhū/LGBTQ is filled with rich descriptions of Hawaiʻi’s unwritten queer history, from growing up in the late Territory era and Hawai‘i’s transition to a state, to vivid descriptions of Honolulu nightlife in the 1960s and 1970s, the impact of HIV/AIDS in the hula community, and first-person accounts of the activism and political debates surrounding same-sex marriage rights in the 1990s.
Each life history explores themes of the significance of Hawaiian culture in identity formation, the ongoing prevalence of colonialism and Christianity, the importance of community activism, the role of culture and performance, and the complexities of leaving home to fully come out. The kūpuna in this book have much to teach us about how they survived. Stephanie Nohelani Teves edited the interviews she conducted into first person moʻolelo or stories. Their vivid descriptions of what life was like for them during the Hawaiian renaissance or at the height of the fight for same-sex marriage serve as a reminder of how much emotional and physical labor was expended so that present-day Kānaka LGBTQM can imagine different possibilities and hopeful futures.
One of the only studies of Native/Indigenous queer oral histories, this book also features a robust Introduction that explores community and nation building, culture and tradition, and how all are navigated within the context of Hawaiian sovereignty and LGBTQM civil rights.