Category: Events

Public Lecture by Libby Larsen, Composer

Collier House Living Room 1170 E. 13th Ave. UO campus Libby Larsen, composer and co-founder of American Composers Forum, will give a public lecture on her work and experience as one of America’s most performed living composers.

“Botanical Interventions: Rebuilding Landscapes, Reshaping Communities” — Oliver Kellhammer & Jennifer Burns Levin

Hendricks Hall Hearth Rm (1st floor) 1408 University St., UO campus A Fireside Conversation with Oliver Kellhammer, a permaculture artist, writer, and teacher specializing in ecological restoration and land art, and Jennifer Burns Levin, who teaches literature in the UO…

A concert by Alberto Carrión to celebrate Julia de Burgos centenary

Gerlinger Lounge 1468 University St. UO campus An event to celebrate the centenary of the renowned Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos (1914-1953), with a performance of Burgos’s poetry set to original music by the Puerto Rican musician Alberto Carrión.…

2014 CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium “Family, Animal, Story”

Eugene Public Library 100 W. 10th St. (10th & Olive) Full details Our keynote writer is 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award-winner and New York Times–bestselling author Karen Joy Fowler, whose novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves has opened up new ways…

NWWS Reading: 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award winner Karen Joy Fowler

Eugene Public Library 100 W. 10th St. (10th & Olive) Eugene, OR Full details Karen Joy Fowler —the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award winner for fiction—will read from her work at Eugene Downtown Public Library, which will be open for the first…

“Racial Representations” — Symposium Highlights

Students, faculty and community members enjoyed a full day of literary readings and commentary on race at the University of Oregon on April 26, 2013, when a group of innovative scholars who specialize in African American literature gathered to share…