Events

Join the Department of Cinema Studies for a cup of coffee or hot apple cider every week on Tuesdays during fall term!

As the United States marks the 250th anniversary of its founding, this symposium returns to the bold universal promise of 1776—the claim that “all men are created equal” and endowed with “unalienable rights.” Cast at once as the rights of citizens of a new republic and as the rights of all of humankind, they also coexisted with a deep contradiction: the subjugation of Native Americans, enslaved people, and women. The principles at the heart of the U.S. founding launched a politics of rights whose origins and reverberations were transnational, even as access to them remained sharply unequal in practice.

“We Hold These Truths: 250 Years of the American Experiment at Home and Abroad” brings together a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and leading scholars of citizenship, political development, race, gender, immigration, and civil rights to reflect on this legacy. The panel will explore how America’s founding ideals have shaped struggles for inclusion at home and abroad, and how those ideals have been stretched, reinterpreted, and at times betrayed across two and a half centuries.

Refreshments will be available at 5:45pm.

Panelists:

Nick Kristof - New York Times

Megan Ming Francis - University of Washington

Peter Spiro - Temple University

Carol Nackenoff - Swarthmore College

Moderator:

Dan Tichenor - UO Knight Chair; Co-Director, Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics

Presented by the Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages and the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics.

Free and open to the public. No registration required.

This event will be livestreamed and recorded.  Join online

Thinking about doing an internship in Asia? The Freeman Internship Fellowships can help fund it!

The 2026-27 application deadlines are: 

• January 15, 2027 (spring and summer priority deadlines)
• April 22, 2027 (summer deadline)
• August 22, 2027 (fall and winter priority deadlines)
• November 22, 2027 (winter and spring priority deadlines)

The session will cover some basic info regarding Freeman application eligibility, required materials, and the application and award processes, while also providing an opportunity for participants to ask questions.

Apply by the priority deadlines to receive your award decision sooner! 

Are you majoring or minoring in psychology and interested in studying abroad? Stop by this information session to learn more about programs that might fit well with your degree plan! We will discuss programs like Education and Psychology in Costa Rica, Psychology in London, Art, Mind, Brain: Psychology and Neuroscience in Siena, Psychology in Kyoto, and Psychology in Barcelona.

Spend a term in Tuscany with GEO Study Abroad! In this info session, we'll talk about winter and spring quarter programs in Siena, Italy. We'll dive into course content, excursions, finances, and how to get started on your study abroad journey. Plus, hear from program alumni about their experiences!

Programs we'll discuss: Italian Language and Culture in Siena, Food, Culture, and Sustainability in Siena, Politics in Italy

The Creative Writing Program invites you to a poetry reading with Melissa Range.

Melissa Range is the author of Printer’s Fist, winner of the 2025 Vanderbilt Literary Prize (Vanderbilt University Press, 2026), as well as Scriptorium (Beacon Press, 2016) and Horse and Rider (Texas Tech University Press, 2010). Range is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the American Antiquarian Society, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and MacDowell. Originally from East Tennessee, she teaches creative writing and American literature at Lawrence University in Wisconsin.

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 

Please join us Thursday 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! 

Please join the Department of Geography for the colloquium series talk: “Unmapping the World with Palestine 1492: A Report Back” with Linda Quiquivix, PhD.

Let's unmap the world and build it anew with Palestine 1492: A Report Back, a witness testimony that challenges cartographies from above by listening to the struggles of Palestinians, Zapatistas, Panthers, and jaguars from below.

Quiquivix is a geographer, writer, artist, and popular educator of Maya roots, and author and illustrator of Palestine 1492: A Report Back (Wild Ox Books, 2024). Her work brings together geography, storytelling, and imagination with the ongoing work of creating a world where many worlds fit. She is a child of the undocumented migrant community in California from Mexico and Central America. For more than 25 years, she has had the honor of learning from, living with, and being a part of communities in the global struggle for life in the United States, Chiapas, Guatemala, and Palestine. She is also host of WW4: A Podcast Syllabus. Learn more about her work at  www.quiqui.org.

The Action Control Laboratory at University of Oregon (headed by Ian Greenhouse) and scientists from the Germany-based Max Planck Institutewhich carries out basic research in the life sciences, natural sciences and the social and human sciences—are collaborating in the area of TMS brain mapping with particular emphasis on the sensori-motor cortex. A neuroscience conference held at the University of Oregon in October 2026 will provide the occasion to discuss collaborative research opportunities and develop grant proposal ideas 

The Action Control Lab is in the Department of Human Physiology at the University of Oregon. This lab studies how the brain controls movement. For example, how do humans initiate and cancel prepared movements, and what underlies variability in our actions? To answer these types of questions, scientists use a combination of behavioural testing, electrophysiology, brain stimulation, and neuroimaging methods. They study both healthy individuals and patients with movement disorders.  

The MPI group has developed and is developing sophisticated algorithms for precise TMS-based brain mapping, while the Oregon group applies those techniques to their research on the neural computations for human action control. This work has basic science and clinical relevance.

This event is part of International Education Month (IEM) programming. View the full calendar of IEM events here: https://international.uoregon.edu/IEM.

The Action Control Laboratory at University of Oregon (headed by Ian Greenhouse) and scientists from the Germany-based Max Planck Institutewhich carries out basic research in the life sciences, natural sciences and the social and human sciences—are collaborating in the area of TMS brain mapping with particular emphasis on the sensori-motor cortex. A neuroscience conference held at the University of Oregon in October 2026 will provide the occasion to discuss collaborative research opportunities and develop grant proposal ideas 

The Action Control Lab is in the Department of Human Physiology at the University of Oregon. This lab studies how the brain controls movement. For example, how do humans initiate and cancel prepared movements, and what underlies variability in our actions? To answer these types of questions, scientists use a combination of behavioural testing, electrophysiology, brain stimulation, and neuroimaging methods. They study both healthy individuals and patients with movement disorders.  

The MPI group has developed and is developing sophisticated algorithms for precise TMS-based brain mapping, while the Oregon group applies those techniques to their research on the neural computations for human action control. This work has basic science and clinical relevance.

This event is part of International Education Month (IEM) programming. View the full calendar of IEM events here: https://international.uoregon.edu/IEM.