2011-12
Co-sponsored Events
SPRING TERM
EXHIBIT AND PUBLIC TALK
David Maawad
April 3-April 29 "David Maawad. Shining Rock/Resplandor de roca"
Exhibit, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
April 25, Public Lecture, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
David Maawad, born in Oaxaca, Mexico, in 1952, has been documenting the social, cultural, and environmental impact of mining in Mexico over the course of more than thirty years. His black and white photographs capture with astonishing beauty the human dimensions of this economic activity, showing the resilience and strength of Mexican mine workers, but also the difficult conditions under which they perform their labor. Maawad's photos also document the impact of mining on the Mexican environment with spectacular vistas of unearthly postindustrial landscapes. Maawad has won numerous awards for his work, including the "Mother Jones International Fund for Documentary Photography" in 2001. His photographs have been shown in numerous individual and collective exhibitions in Mexico and elsewhere, and he has also authored or edited more than 40 books on art and photography.
The exhibit and lecture is sponsored by the Latin American Studies Program and the "Americas in a Globalized World" initiative.
CONFERENCE
Kierkegaard and German Thought
May 10-12, 2012
Composed of faculty from across the Oregon campus, the German Studies Committee is an interdisciplinary collective committed to the study of theoretical and historical structures of delimitation in matters of German-speaking culture. The committee hosts an annual conference devoted to the analysis of borders, contours and framing determinations in their various theoretical, methodological and historical forms. Past symposia have dealt with such topics as philosophy's "continental divide," "borderlines of/in psychoanalysis," and "abstraction and materiality in literature, music and the arts." Our topic for spring of 2012 is "Kierkegaard and German Thought."
The conference is sponsored by the Department of German and Scandinavian with support from the Department of Comparative Literature.
CONFERENCE
Russian and East European Arts,
World Stage
May 18-19, 2012
A conference for scholars from across campus and invited guests.
The conference will examine Russian and East European arts and letters in an international context and will be the first such conference at the University of Oregon...read more
The conference is sponsored by the The Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies Program (REEES) with support from the Department of Comparative Literature.
LECTURE
Ania Loomba
M-T May 21-22
Public lecture and seminar by Prof. Ania Loomba, show holds the Catherine Bryson Chair in the English department at the University of Pennsylvania and is a leading scholar of feminism and post-colonial theory.
Her publications include Gender, Race, Renaissance Drama (Manchester University Press; 1989; Oxford University Press, 1992); Colonialism/ Postcolonialism (Routledge, 1998; second edition, 2005; with Italian, Turkish, Japanese, Swedish and Indonesian editions) and Shakespeare, Race, and Colonialism (Oxford University Press, 2002).
This event is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society with support from the Departments of Comparative Literature and English and the Oregon Humanities Center.
LECTURE
Jean-Pierre Martin
Wednesday, June 6, 6 to 8 p.m., in the Knight Library Browsing Room
Professor Jean-Pierre Martin from Université Lumière-Lyon 2 on "Literature As Another Way of Thinking" (in English).
The visit is sponsored by the RL department, the Humanities center and the Comparative Literature department.
WORKSHOP
ADFL Summer 2012 Seminar West
June 7-10, 2012
Each June the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages arranges two seminars where chairs of ADFL member departments or their designees share information and consult about issues facing their departments and the field. Lectures and discussions range in focus from the teaching and learning of language and literature in the broad context of the humanities and the changing university to concrete challenges of leadership and management.
FALL TERM
LECTURE
Alexei Remizov's "Creative Act"
by Julia Friedman
Friday, November 11
Julia Friedman is a Russian-born art historian, writer and curator. She received her Ph.D. in Art History from Brown University in 2005 specializing in 19th and 20th century art. At present she is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts (Arizona State University) where she teaches modern and contemporary art history, and a regular contributor to Artforum magazine. Her illustrated monograph Beyond Symbolism and Surrealism: Alexei Remizov's Synthetic Art was published by Northwestern University Press earlier this year.
This lecture was made possible by the generous support of the Departments of Art History and Comparative Literature, the Living-Learning Center, and the Oregon Humanities Center.
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WINTER TERM
READING
Jason Brown
Thursday, Jan. 26, 8:00 p.m., Knight Library Browsing Room
Jason Brown, the newest member of the UO Creative Writing Program Faculty, grew up in Maine and received his MFA from Cornwell University. He was a Stegner Fellow and Truman Capote Fellow at Stanford, where he taught as a Jones Lecturer. He is the author of two collections of short stories, Driving the Heart and Other Stories (Norton, 1999) and Why the Devil Chose New England For His Work (Grove/Open City, 2007). His stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories, Harpers, The Atlantic, and NPR's Selected Shorts.
The reading is sponsored by the Creative Writing Program and the Robert D. Clark Honors College 2011-12 Reading Series
LECTURE
Mustafa Bayoumi
Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012
Mustafa Bayoumi is a professor of English at the Brooklyn College (CUNY). He is author of How Does it Feel to Be a Problem (which details the experiences of six Arab-American 20-something year olds in the post 9/11 United States), and is co-author of the Edward Said Reader, among other works. Some of his areas of expertise include postcolonial literature and theory, ethnic studies, literary theory, literary journalism.
The lecture is sponsored by the Arab Student Union.
READING
Geri Doran
Thursday, Feb. 23, 8:00 p.m., Knight Library Browsing Room
Resin, winner of the Walt Whitman Award (LSU Press, 2005)
Sanderlings, (Tupelo Press, 2011)
Her poems have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, New England Review, Southwest Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, TriQuarterly, Ninth Letter, 32 Poems, and other journals. She's been included in Poets & Writers' "That Glittering Possibility: Eighteen Debut Poets," Nov/Dec 2005, and New England Review's "A New Generation: Poems for the Next Century," Winter 2000
The reading is sponsored by the Creative Writing Program and the Robert D. Clark Honors College 2011-12 Reading Series