Events

Join us for the 2026 Military Connected Graduation Celebration on June 13, 2026 from 11 am – 1 pm in the Crater Lakes South room.

All graduating students are welcome to participate. 

Graduating Students should registered using this link: https://oregon.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_248irnJ0S14D4JU

*Please submit the form by May 25, 2026, at 11:59 p.m.

Join us for the 2026 Lavender Graduation Celebration on June 14, 2026 from 10:30 am – 12:30 pm in the EMU Ballroom.  All graduating students are welcome to participate. 

Graduating Students should registered using this link: https://oregon.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_248irnJ0S14D4JU

*Please submit the form by May 25, 2026, at 11:59 p.m.

Join us for the 2026 ¡Sí, se pudo! (Latiné Grad Celebration) on June 14, 2026, from 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm in the EMU Ballroom.   

¡Sí, se pudo! celebrates the accomplishments and achievements of undergraduate, graduate, and law students who are Latiné, Hispanic, and/or of the Latinx Diaspora. This celebration commemorates the hard work and dedication that our students have shown throughout history, not only at the University of Oregon but also in global society.  ALL graduating students are welcome to participate. 

Graduates and guests will need a ticket for this year’s celebration. To claim your FREE ticket, please visit https://ticket.uoregon.edu/uo-dept/si-se-pudo. 

• Graduates should claim their ticket before Tuesday, June 9th   

• Guests' tickets must be picked up between Wednesday, June 3rd through Friday, June 12th. 

• UO students, faculty, and staff will also need to claim their own ticket. 

• To pick up your tickets please visit the UO Ticket Office in the Erb Memorial Union (EMU). The ticket office is open, Monday – Friday, 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM.  

• If guests are unable to pick up ticket(s) in advance, please arrive at the celebration venue no later than 2:45 PM to claim your ticket(s). 

Important Notes: 

• Graduates you should report to the EMU Crater Lake Rooms no later than 2:15 PM. 

• Guest should be seated no later than 2:50 PM, as the event will begin promptly at 3:00 PM. 

This event will be livestreamed for family and friends who are unable to join us in person. The livestream will have captions in English and Spanish. 

https://youtube.com/live/xJrvZGvhVoM?feature=share 

Community & Belonging Programs is proud to partner with Latiné Strategies Group, Hispanic Serving Institution Task Force, Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies, and MEChA to host the first ¡Sí, se pudo! (Latiné Grad Celebration), and we hope that you can join us in celebrating our Latiné Diaspora graduates from the University of Oregon.  

Join us for the 2026 Black Graduation Celebration on June 14, 2026, from 6:15 – 8:15 pm in the EMU Ballroom.  

Black Grad celebrates the accomplishments and achievements of undergraduate, graduate, and law students who are Black, which is an inclusive term for anyone who identifies as Black, African, African American, Afro-Latinx, Afro-Caribbean, and all others who have African Diasporic roots. This celebration commemorates the hard work and dedication that our students have shown throughout history, not only at the University of Oregon but also in global society.  ALL graduating students are welcome to participate. 

Graduates and guests will need a ticket for this year’s celebration. To claim your FREE ticket, please visit https://ticket.uoregon.edu/uo-dept/black-grad-celebration.  

• Graduates should claim their ticket before Wednesday, June 10th   

• Guests' tickets must be picked up between Wednesday, June 3rd through Friday, June 12th. 

• UO students, faculty, and staff will also need to claim their own ticket. 

• To pick up your tickets please visit the UO Ticket Office in the Erb Memorial Union (EMU). The ticket office is open, Monday – Friday, 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM.  

• If guests are unable to pick up ticket(s) in advance, please arrive at the celebration venue no later than 6:00 PM to claim your ticket(s). 

Important Notes: 

• Graduates you should report to the EMU Crater Lake Rooms no later than 5:30 PM. 

• Guest should be seated no later than 6:00 PM, as the event will begin promptly at 6:15 PM. 

This event will be livestreamed for family and friends who are unable to join us in person. The livestream will have captions in English. 

https://youtube.com/live/9LHunhdrLkI?feature=share   

The Lyllye Reynolds-Parker Black Cultural Center is the host of this event, and we hope that you can join us in celebrating our Black graduates from the University of Oregon. 

Join us in celebrating the Class of 2026! 

For graduate RSVP requirements and day-of details, email cascommencement@uoregon.edu or call 541-346-5472. You can also visit https://cas.uoregon.edu/cas-commencement-2026 for more information.

• Departments:

  • Anthropology

  • Asian Studies

  • Chinese

  • Cinema Studies

  • Classics

  • Comparative Literature

  • Economics

  • English

  • Environmental Science

  • Environmental Studies

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  • Folklore and Public Culture

  • French

  • General Social Sciences

  • Geography

  • German

  • Global Studies

  • History

  • Humanities

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  • Judaic Studies

  • Latin American Studies

  • Linguistics

  • Medieval Studies

  • Native American and Indigenous Studies

  • Philosophy

  • Political Science

  • Religious Studies

  • Romance Languages

  • Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies

  • Sociology

  • Spatial Data and Technology

  • Spanish

  • Theatre Arts

  • Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

  • German and Scandinavian Studies

  • Scandinavian

Join us in celebrating the Class of 2026! 

For graduate RSVP requirements and day-of details, email cascommencement@uoregon.edu or call 541-346-5472. You can also visit https://cas.uoregon.edu/cas-commencement-2026 for more information.

• Departments:

  • Biochemistry

  • Biology

  • Chemistry

  • Computer Science

  • Cybersecurity

  • Data Science

  • Earth Sciences

  • Human Physiology

  • Marine Biology

  • Mathematics

  • Mathematics and Computer Science

  • Multidisciplinary Science

  • Neuroscience

  • Physics

  • Psychology

  • Computer & Information Science

Join us in celebrating the Class of 2026! 

For graduate RSVP requirements and day-of details, email cascommencement@uoregon.edu or call 541-346-5472. You can also visit https://cas.uoregon.edu/cas-commencement-2026 for more information.

The Pacific Northwest: a geographic area ranging from Alaska to Northern California, to Montana (including British Columbia). The Indigenous languages of this area were and remain interconnected with one another. Recently, the area has been a hotbed for language revitalization and reclamation work.

The Symposium on Northwest American Indigenous Languages (SNAIL), hosted by the Northwest Native American Language Resource Center (NW-NALRC) at the Northwest Indigenous Language Institute (NILI), seeks to provide a venue for language speakers, artists, communities, and linguists to come together to share knowledge, foster collaboration, and celebrate the beauty and diversity of languages within the Pacific Northwest.

We invite talks on any topic relevant to Indigenous languages of the Pacific Northwest. We do prioritize presentations from presenters that: a) are Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest or neighboring regions; b) work for a Tribal Nation in the Pacific Northwest or neighboring regions; or c) are working in collaboration with a Tribal Nation. While theoretical and typological presentations are welcome to apply, they will not be given priority over the work of one of the above groups. SNAIL 2026 will be held from June 26-27 in Eugene in conjunction with the NILI Summer Institute.

For more information about SNAIL 2026, please visit the SNAIL website.

The Pacific Northwest: a geographic area ranging from Alaska to Northern California, to Montana (including British Columbia). The Indigenous languages of this area were and remain interconnected with one another. Recently, the area has been a hotbed for language revitalization and reclamation work.

The Symposium on Northwest American Indigenous Languages (SNAIL), hosted by the Northwest Native American Language Resource Center (NW-NALRC) at the Northwest Indigenous Language Institute (NILI), seeks to provide a venue for language speakers, artists, communities, and linguists to come together to share knowledge, foster collaboration, and celebrate the beauty and diversity of languages within the Pacific Northwest.

We invite talks on any topic relevant to Indigenous languages of the Pacific Northwest. We do prioritize presentations from presenters that: a) are Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest or neighboring regions; b) work for a Tribal Nation in the Pacific Northwest or neighboring regions; or c) are working in collaboration with a Tribal Nation. While theoretical and typological presentations are welcome to apply, they will not be given priority over the work of one of the above groups. SNAIL 2026 will be held from June 26-27 in Eugene in conjunction with the NILI Summer Institute.

For more information about SNAIL 2026, please visit the SNAIL website.

The Oregon Humanities Center presents its 2026-27 endowed lectureship series centered on the theme of Reading.   

We are used to thinking about reading in relation to writing, musical scores, performances, and works of cinema and art. But as social animals, we read more broadly. We read the signs. We read the landscape. We read each others’ faces and body language. We “read the room.”  

Our speakers will consider how people observe, look for patterns, try to discern meaning. How does reading shape humanity, individually and collectively? What might taking an extended, intentional look at this activity—our constant reading—reveal? Using approaches honed by their disciplines, our invited speakerswill help us think about reading from a variety of directions.  

Saeed Jones is the author of the memoir How We Fight for Our Lives (Simon and Schuster), winner of the 2019 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction and the poetry collection Prelude to Bruise (Coffee House Books), winner for the 2015 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry. His poetry and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, New York Times, Oxford American and GQ among other publications. His most recent book Alive at the End of the World (Coffee House Press) won the 2023 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Poetry.

Saeed Jones was the 2024-2025 artist-in-residence in the Media, Health and Medicine program at Harvard Medical School. His next book Home Out There, a memoir, is forthcoming from Washington Square Press. He cohosts the podcast Vibe Check with Sam Sanders and Zach Stafford.