1:00–2:30 p.m.
TItle: "Retrieving Humanism in Broken Times"
Speaker, Roy Chan, Professor East Asian Languages
Join us for a reception with catering and a brief presentation and discussion by Schnitzer School faculty.
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.
7:30 p.m.
University Theatre presents: The Moors by Jen Silverman Two sisters and a dog live out their lives on the bleak English moors, dreaming of love and power. The arrival of a hapless governess and a moor-hen set all three on a strange and dangerous path. The Moors is a dark comedy about love, desperation, and visibility.
The Moors is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com
7:30 p.m.
University Theatre presents: The Moors by Jen Silverman Two sisters and a dog live out their lives on the bleak English moors, dreaming of love and power. The arrival of a hapless governess and a moor-hen set all three on a strange and dangerous path. The Moors is a dark comedy about love, desperation, and visibility.
The Moors is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com
4:00–5:00 p.m.
Join Global Education Oregon to discover Spanish immersion study abroad programs. 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
7:00 p.m.
Please join the Department of History for the November pub lecture. Brendan O'Meara will discuss "The Front Runner: The Life of Steve Prefontaine." Signed copies of The Front Runner will be available for purchase, courtesy of J. Michaels Books.
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!
4:00 p.m.
Michael Stern, associate professor of German and Scandinavian, will give a book talk on his new book Thinking Nietzsche with Africana Thought.
In the book, Michael Stern sets Nietzsche in conversation with Africana artists and philosophers to explore the role of aesthetics in decolonial worldmaking.
Nietzsche, a theorist of power, morality, and aesthetics supplies a description of a world making that also destroys. His notion of the will to power explains how particular and local interpretations spread and dominate. Stern situates Nietzsche’s thought alongside those of Africana artists and thinkers who, confronted with the effects of the slave trade and colonial violence, speak to new theoretical paradigms addressing erasure and displacement and its relationship to form making. Thinking Nietzsche with Africana Thought opens with Nietzsche’s work on the human imagination and its institutionalized restrictions, written around when the Congress of Berlin divided Africa without the presence of Africans. The book ends with the Ghanian sculptor El Anatsui’s understanding of temporality, form, and naming as he creates a slave memorial in a Danish setting.
Eschewing notions of hierarchal authority and keeping in mind how epistemological racism has delimited our philosophical possibilities, Michael Stern employs thought from each lineage to open the space for what Frantz Fanon calls a human with a new sense for rhythm. What emerges is a different sense for history, morality, culture, and political life.
4:00–5:20 p.m.
The Art Institute of Chicago has recently decided to deaccession and return to Thailand a 12th-century Khmer pilaster depicting Krishna, marking a major step in provenance research. Long misattributed to Cambodia, the piece was confirmed through archival, stylistic, and on-site study to have come from Prasat Phanom Rung in Buriram province, Northeast Thailand. Its return recalls that of the reclining Vishnu lintel in 1988, which originated from the same doorframe and was later reinstalled during the temple’s restoration. Both works had traveled from Bangkok to Chicago in the 1960s, reflecting the challenges of tracing Khmer artifacts. Reuniting them at Phanom Rung not only corrects past errors but also restores cultural meaning by returning them to their original context.
Presented by: Nicolas Revire PhD, Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Research Fellow at Art Institute of Chicago.
Hosted by: Alison Carter PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon.
Event sponsors: Department of Anthropology, Global Studies Institute, Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, Department of History of Art and Archtecture, and Department of Asian Studies.
4:30 p.m.
The Creative Writing Program invites you to a poetry reading with Jan Verberkmoes.
Jan Verberkmoes is a poet and editor from Oregon. Her first poetry collection, Firewatch, was published by Fonograf Editions in 2021, and recent work has appeared in Tupelo Quarterly, Lana Turner, and The Paris Review. Her writing has been supported by a Fulbright Fellowship to Germany, a John and Renée Grisham Fellowship, a Stadler Fellowship, and a Fairfield Fellowship from the University of Denver, where she is a PhD candidate in English and Literary Arts.
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