10:00 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.
Join the Department of History and John Leisure, University of Oregon, for a talk on “Public Housing in Postwar Japan, 1945-1960."
Tuesday, June 3rd 4:00 pm EMU Cedar & Spruce Rooms (231 & 232) Free and open to the public.
This talk examines how large-scale public apartment complexes reshaped the contours of everyday life in Japan after World War II. Emerging out of experimental projects in the late 1940s, public apartments—colloquially known as danchi—became visible markers of postwar rehousing and domestic reform. Spurred by government money with strings attached to design objectives, these concrete projects touched scores of cities throughout the archipelago. By 1960, danchi apartments already functioned as residential urban infrastructure operating in a biopolitical mode. Danchi housing projects promoted productivist publics, privatized domestic space, and rationalized communities in an effort to establish a new postwar paradigm: governance through dwelling.
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.
5:30 p.m.
As the Trump administration hits its 100-day mark, UO faculty from History, Law, and Political Science help make sense of the headlines and place today’s events in historical context. Pizza will be served.
DEPORTATION: Wednesday, April 23, 2025 AUTHORITARIANISM: Wednesday, April 30, 2025 ANTI-ENVIRONMENTALISM: Rescheduled to Wednesday, June 4, 2025
All events held from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm in McKenzie Hall 375. Free and open to the public
5:30 p.m.
Presented by the Oregon Humanities Center
Lanie Millar, associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese, and Fabienne Moore, associate professor of French, collaborated on a newly published book The Revolution Will Be a Poetic Act: African Culture and Decolonization (Polity, 2024), a translation of essays and speeches by prolific anticolonial writer, poet, and politician Mário Pinto de Andrade. The two scholars will give the Oregon Humanities Center’s Spring Wine Chat.
Born in Angola during Portuguese colonial rule, Mário Pinto de Andrade (1928–1990) was one Africa’s most important 20th-century intellectuals who wrote in French, Portuguese, and Spanish. In 1956, he founded the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola but was exiled after independence was achieved in 1975. He never returned.
As anti-colonial movements got underway in the mid-twentieth century, Andrade wrote extensively about the urgent necessity for Africans to turn away from European cultural and political models, arguing that communities emerging from colonization should focus on voices from within, on self-representation, and on horizontal relationships among Black, African, and decolonizing peoples. Andrade played a key role in theorizing the international reach of revolutionary 20th-century poetry and literature, Black cultural vindication, and African liberation.
When asked how this project came about, Millar shared, “My initial thought was that I was going to translate five of his introductions to anthologies. Then as I kept digging, I realized there was much, much more material, and a significant amount of material in French. I thought the picture of his intellectual production would be incomplete if I just focused on Portuguese, and I approached Fabienne to collaborate.”
“When you research and teach a multilingual, transnational revolutionary figure,” says Moore, “you are educating students about values, actions and modes of writing. The knowledge that this thinker existed, this is how they carried out their actions, this is how the work was perceived by his contemporaries, it provides an educational impact that is huge.”
Along with the translated essays and speeches, the book includes a foreword by Millar and an interview with Andrade’s two daughters, who are guardians of his work. This work is particularly relevant not only to scholars of African decolonization movements but to anyone engaged in contemporary conversations about race, belonging, and political community.
The Wine Chat is free and open to the public. Beverages are available for purchase and a food cart is on the premises of Capitello Wines. There is ample parking at Banner Bank across the street. Please register at ohc.uoregon.edu
3:00–3:50 p.m.
The Comp Program Writing Lab is holding drop-in workshops alongside WR 199 students; this week's topic is FINAL TOUCHES! What do I need to polish or change before I submit my major assignments? How can I write more effective intros and conclusions?
All students currently enrolled in WR 121z, 122z, or 123 are invited to join us for help with these questions and more! RSVP encouraged (but not required!): WritingLab@uoregon.edu. Email us your name and which workshop(s) you plan to attend.
3:30 p.m.
Join the Department of History for the annual celebration of undergraduate research and achievements! The showcase will also recognize students who have earned special departmental awards and honors. Friends and family are invited! All are welcome to attend!
Free and open to the public.
7:30 p.m.
Music and Lyrics by William Finn Book by Rachel Sheinkin Conceived by Rebecca Feldman Additional Material by Jay Reiss Originally Directed on Broadway by James Lapine Originally produced on Broadway by David Stone, James L. Nederlander, Barbara Whitman, Patrick Catullo Barrington Stage Company, Second Stage Theatre
Directed by Tara Wibrew
An eclectic group of six mid-pubescents vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home lives, the tweens spell their way through a series of (potentially made-up) words, hoping never to hear the soul-crushing, pout-inducing, life un-affirming “ding” of the bell that signals a spelling mistake. Six spellers enter; one speller leaves a champion! At least the losers get a juice box.
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com
3:00 p.m.
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Organic/Inorganic/Materials Seminar
Karen Trentelman, Getty Conservation Institute Hosted by CBGReAT
Art as Evidence: The technical study and scientific examination of works of art
The scientific study of works of art addresses questions related to conservation (material identification, degradation processes, compatibility of treatment methods), curatorial (artist’s technique, workshop practice, attribution/provenance), or material (physical properties and behavior) issues. Answering these questions frequently requires detailed analyses of cultural heritage materials and the reconstruction of historic technologies. The precious nature of works of art creates unique analytical challenges, often necessitating the development of new analytical approaches or specialized instrumentation. A premium is placed on those techniques that either can be used completely non-invasively (i.e., without the removal of any sample, such as X-ray fluorescence and Raman spectroscopies), or can provide new and vital information with the removal of only minimal amounts of material (such as trace analysis via inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) or chemical state information via X-ray absorption near edge spectroscopy (XANES)). Underlying all the work is the common goal of furthering the understanding of the materials and methods used in the creation, interpretation and conservation of works of art. This talk will present examples of research focused on objects in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, ranging from Egyptian mummies to medieval manuscripts, to Italian gilded panel paintings, to 19th century French drawings, to paintings by Rembrandt and Van Gogh.
7:30 p.m.
Music and Lyrics by William Finn Book by Rachel Sheinkin Conceived by Rebecca Feldman Additional Material by Jay Reiss Originally Directed on Broadway by James Lapine Originally produced on Broadway by David Stone, James L. Nederlander, Barbara Whitman, Patrick Catullo Barrington Stage Company, Second Stage Theatre
Directed by Tara Wibrew
An eclectic group of six mid-pubescents vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home lives, the tweens spell their way through a series of (potentially made-up) words, hoping never to hear the soul-crushing, pout-inducing, life un-affirming “ding” of the bell that signals a spelling mistake. Six spellers enter; one speller leaves a champion! At least the losers get a juice box.
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com
1:00 p.m.
Please Join the Creative Writing Program for the Creative Writing MFA Reading and Hooding Celebration.