Category: Lectures

Dr. Cheryl Mattingly — “Hope, Suffering and the Play of Possible Selves: A Narrative Perspective on the Good Life”

Gerlinger Lounge 1468 University St. UO campus Dr. Cheryl Mattingly is a professor of anthropology in the Division of Occupational Science and Therapy at the University of Southern California. Her talk will draw on a 15-year research study with African-American…

UO Today #526: Brenda Frink

UO Today #526: Brenda Frink | University of Oregon Video. Brenda Frink, research associate at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University, talks about pioneer societies and Pioneer Mother monuments in the American West. Dr. Frink lectured…

Karma Chávez — “Queer Fields, Queer Methods: Advancing an Activist Research Methodology”

Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. UO campus Public Lecture: “Queer Fields, Queer Methods: Advancing an Activist Research Methodology” Given all the critiques of queer theory and queerness that have emerged in recent years, including pronouncements of queer theory’s…

“Bachelors, Boxing, and Boy-ology: American Catholicism in the ‘City of Men’, 1880-1930”

375 McKenzie 1101 Kincaid St. UO campus Professor Amy Koehlinger’s lecture derives from her forthcoming book, Rosaries and Rope Burns: Boxing and Manhood in American Catholicism, 1890-1970. Koehlinger holds a Ph.D in religious studies from Yale and an M.A. in…

“Athletes, Geeks, and Gamers: Exploring Gender and Professional E-sports”

Browsing Room Knight Library 1501 Kincaid St. T.L. Taylor is an associate professor of  Comparative Media Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the co-author of Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method (with T. Boellstorff, B.…

“The Pleasure Principle: A Post-Hip Hop Search for a Black Feminist Politics of Power”—Joan Morgan

Collier House Free Admission UO campus UO School of Music and Dance: A Presentation by the THEME Colloquium Joan Morgan is an award-winning journalist and author, as well as a provocative cultural critic. A pioneering hip-hop journalist, she began her…