4:00–6:00 p.m.
🍕🎉Join us to celebrate the Peace Corps volunteers preparing to depart for assignments abroad. If you have done the Peace Corps, are in the Peace Corps, are curious, interested, or applying to the Peace Corps (or just want to eat free pizza and learn about living abroad). Friends and family of future or past volunteers are encouraged to attend.
Learn about study abroad opportunities through Global Education Oregon in London for 2027!
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Learn about study abroad opportunities through Global Education Oregon in London for 2027!
1:00–3:00 p.m.
Are you participating in a GEO program abroad in Summer or Fall 2026? Come meet other students going abroad, talk with GEO program coordinators and alumni about what to expect, and participate in activities like arts, crafts, and bingo!
4:00–6:00 p.m.
Join the Duck Nest and the Physical Well-being Team for a free ride to local grocery stores! Please meet in front of the Fishbowl at the EMU a little earlier than 4:00 pm. We will have signs directing you to the shuttle. The shuttle leaves promptly at 4:00 pm! Sign ups open two weeks before the Grocery Shuttle date.
Sign up here: https://calendly.com/ducknest/grocery-shuttle-spring-term
4:00–5:30 p.m.
Book talk by Benjamin Nathans, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for his book of the same title. Nathans is the Alan Charles Kors Endowed Term Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.
Sponsored by Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies.
6:00–9:00 p.m.
The UO Women's Center and LGBT Education and Support Services proudly presents the 26th annual OUT / LOUD Queer and Trans Performance Fest!
We will have FREE FOOD and crafts (6-7pm), line-dancing (7-8pm), and a DJ mix with social dancing (8-9pm) from beloved local instructors/entertainers.
OUT / LOUD is a safer space for those in the 2SLGBTQ+ community to come together in radical joy and solidarity. This event centers 2SLGBTQ+ individuals and offers a space where, for a moment, queer joy and radical community takes precedence over anything else. From its origins as a lesbian musical festival, OUT / LOUD has evolved to reflect various themes that seek to pay homage to Eugene's queer history, strengthen relationships within our present community, and empower future generations of 2SLGBTQ+ individuals.
Our theme for this year's event is Power in Softness. This theme is rooted in the bridge between two extremes of existence. It embraces the newness in one’s own becoming while simultaneously reflecting a generational steadiness in queer history and legacy. Our lives are not tragedies. We come together to laugh, cheer, and LIVE in the vastness of who we are. We have been here, we are here, and we will continue to be here. This serene power recognizes 2SLGBTQ+ stories and lives – not inherently as a rebellion – but a withstanding chronicle of love.
This year's OUT / LOUD animal takes the form of a jellyfish. Water, the jellyfish's natural habitat, represents intuition, dreams, and visions. It represents the depths of the unconscious mind, cycles of unity with nature, and the flow of energy – movement of seasons and of life. Water teaches us that existence is cyclical. It shows us the limitlessness of all things. Surviving over 500 million years, Jellyfish are ancient. Despite their gelatinous demeanor, they are a symbolic creature that has thrived in adverse environments, willing to fight for as long as it takes to survive. They remind us to be whimsical, magnificent, and radically tenacious.
If you have questions regarding OUT / LOUD or need accommodations, please reach out to: UO Women's Center's Program Director, Sarah Doty at sdoty@uoregon.edu
Join us in our celebration of 2SLGBTQ+ identity, story, and legacy! Free admission and open to the community.
- The WC and LGBTESS Teams
1:00–2:00 p.m.
Are you interested in completing an internship abroad through a GlobalWorks program? Attend GEO's GlobalWorks Information Session on June 2 from 1pm to 2pm in Condon Hall 203 to learn more! We'll discuss the application process, answer any questions, and share more about our NEW program locations in Santiago, Chile; Sydney, Australia; and Cape Town, South Africa.
1:00–2:00 p.m.
Join University Health Services medical staff and peer educators. Students can run, walk (or roll) and connect with UO healthcare providers.
UHS clinical staff (including a physician, nurse practitioner, physician associate and athletic trainer) will lead a run and walk (or roll) for any interested students. No matter your pace/experience level we hope you'll join us. We'll have one healthcare professional joining the running group, and one hanging out with those who prefer to walk. Duck Nest peer educators will also be there. We'll be offering this opportunity twice this term:
Wednesday, May 20 from 4-5pm as well as Tuesday, June 2 from 1-2pm. Meet outside of UHS and we'll head out on our route from there.
4:00–5:30 p.m.
Join us for a talk: "The Middle East Crisis in India."
Kishalay Bhattacharjee is currently Professor and Dean, Jindal School of Journalism and Communication and Director, New Imaginations. He is a journalist, author and former resident editor, New Delhi Television Ltd. (NDTV) and has reported widely from India’s conflict zones.
His books include Che in Paona Bazaar: Tales of Exile and Belonging from India’s Northeast (Pan Macmillan India, 2013), Blood on My Hands: Confessions of Staged Encounters (Harper Collins India, 2015) and An Unfinished Revolution: A Hostage Crisis, Adivasi Resistance and the Naxal Movement (Pan Macmillan India, 2017) and Where the Madness Lies: Citizen Accounts of Identity and Nationalism (Orient Blackswan 2023). He has co-authored Mapping Innovation in India’s Creative Industries Policy, Context and Opportunities (Routledge 2024) and his forthcoming publications are two edited volumes, Bearing Witness: Reporting Conflict, Crisis and Disaster (Orient Blackswan), On Rivers and Water (Orient Blackswan) and a handbook on reporting from the margins (Routledge).
Kishalay Bhattacharjee is the recipient of the Ramnath Goenka Award Excellence in Journalism, India's highest journalism award. He was Chair, Internal Security and a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA). He was a Panos Fellow for HIV/ AIDS and an Edward Murrow Fellow in Journalism. He was the first recipient of Penguin Random House Writers Residency Award. He is the founder curator of ArtEast—a festival of art and livelihood held annually at the India International Centre, New Delhi.
This event is sponsored by The Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages.
10:00–11:30 a.m.
Join us in celebrating the Class of 2026!
For graduate RSVP requirements and day-of details, email ballmerinstitute@uoregon.edu or call 541-346-2500. You can also visit https://childrensbehavioralhealth.uoregon.edu/commencement for more information.