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Directed by Tricia Rodley One four-letter word is about to rock 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. When the President unwittingly spins a PR nightmare into a global crisis, the seven brilliant and beleaguered women he relies upon most risk life, liberty, and the pursuit of sanity to keep the commander-in-chief out of trouble.
Selina Fillinger’s brilliant, all-female farce took Broadway by storm in a star-studded production that earned three 2022 Tony nominations.
Synopsis courtesy of Concord Theatricals
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Join experts on Afrospeculation to discuss how the legacy of Octavia E. Butler allows us to reimagine new futures and view the past anew. In honor of Black History Month
Lunch and refreshments will be served. Masks are highly recommended and will be provided at the event.
Walidah Imarisha is an educator and a writer. She is the co-editor of two anthologies, Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories From Social Justice Movements and Another World is Possible. Imarisha is the author of Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison and Redemption, which won an Oregon Book Award, as well as the poetry collection Scars/Stars. She has received a Tiptree Fellowship for her science fiction writing. She is the writer and co-producer of Space to Breathe (2024), a documentary/science fiction hybrid film set in an abolitionist future. Imarisha currently teaches in Portland State University’s Black Studies Department and is the Director of the PSU’s Center for Black Studies. In the past, she has taught at Stanford University, Oregon State University, and Pacific Northwest College of the Arts.
John Jennings is a professor, author, graphic novelist, curator, Harvard Fellow, New York Times Bestseller, 2018 Eisner Winner, and winner of the Hugo Award for his co-adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s dystopian novel The Parable of the Sower. As Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California at Riverside (UCR), Jennings examines the visual culture of race in various media forms including film, illustrated fiction, and comics and graphic novels. He is also the director of Abrams ComicArts imprint Megascope, which publishes graphic novels focused on the experiences of people of color. Jennings is co-editor of the 2016 Eisner Award-winning collection The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art (Rutgers) and co-founder/organizer of The Schomburg Center’s Black Comic Book Festival in Harlem. Jennings also created Marvel’s new AfroCaribbean cosmic superhero Ghost Light with artist Valentine Delandro.
Dr. Stephanie Jones is Assistant Professor of English in Digital Rhetoric at the University of Oregon. Her PhD is from Syracuse University in Composition and Cultural Rhetoric and Women and Gender Studies. She was awarded the 2021 Geneva Smitherman Award for Research in Black Language, Literacies, Cultures, and Rhetorics from NCTE/CCCC Black Caucus, the 2023 Rhetoric Society of America Dissertation Award, and the 2023 NWSA/Routledge Book Series Prize on “Subversive Histories, Feminist Futures.” Her research explores Afrofuturist Feminisms, Black Feminist Rhetorical Studies, Black Digital Rhetorics, and Video Game Studies. She was born and raised in Southern California.
2:00 p.m.
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Physical Chemistry Seminar Series
Professor Marina Guenza, University of Oregon
Research in the Guenza group
I will present an overview of the research in the Guenza group. The goal of our research is the design and implementation of theoretical approaches that coarse-grain structure and dynamics of molecular liquids. Our theoretical models are based on statistical mechanics and liquid state theory, and are applied to study a number of key systems and related questions in material science and biophysics.
3:00–4:00 p.m.
Students taking WR 121z, 122z, or 123 are invited to drop by the Tykeson 3rd floor Writing Lab (glass room, 351) for candy and quick writing support. Our GE Writing Support Specialists (tutors) are available to help you with any part of a WR assignment, from coming up with ideas to reading to revising to polishing up a final draft. Join us!
Mondays 3-4 and Thursdays 2-3, beginning week 4, for the rest of Winter quarter 2025.
10:00–11:00 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!
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You’re Invited to Our WGSS Winter Term Open House!
Meet other students Chat with faculty, staff, and advisors Learn about our WGSS major and minors Join our student club, The Gender Collective Grad students, meet others in the WGSS Grad Certificate
4:00–5:00 p.m.
Enjoy stress-free time together online with disabled and neurodivergent graduate students from across campus. Share experiences, exchange resources, or consult with a GE from the Accessible Education Center.
4:00–5:30 p.m.
Dr. Shannon Cram is an interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersections of geography, anthropology, science and technology studies, and the environmental humanities. She will speak about her award-winning book, Unmaking the Bomb: Environmental Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility, that blends history, ethnography, and memoir, as she investigates remediation efforts at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, the former weapons complex in Washington State.
This talk is part of the “Anti-Nuclear Research and Activism in the US and Japan” film and speaker series that links nuclear accidents in Japan with the U.S. The series will bring three speakers, two filmmakers, and one film to campus in winter and spring terms to discuss nuclear issues and activism in the U.S. and Japan. This series is of particular importance in the Pacific Northwest because of the Hanford Site in Washington and the new push for Small Modular Nuclear Reactors along the Columbia River.
2:00–3:00 p.m.
Students taking WR 121z, 122z, or 123 are invited to drop by the Tykeson 3rd floor Writing Lab (glass room, 351) for candy and quick writing support. Our GE Writing Support Specialists (tutors) are available to help you with any part of a WR assignment, from coming up with ideas to reading to revising to polishing up a final draft. Join us!
Mondays 3-4 and Thursdays 2-3, beginning week 4, for the rest of Winter quarter 2025.
6:00–7:00 p.m.
Join the UO Women in Economics Club for a guest lecture from Dr. Margaret Hallock, former UO Economics professor. Margaret Hallock retired in 2015 as the founding director of the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics. She formerly directed the UO Labor Education and Research Center (LERC). Hallock is a Ph.D. economist who taught economics and worked for Service Employees International Union 503 where she led the struggle for pay equity for women workers. Hallock served as a policy advisor to Governor Ted Kulongoski for labor, revenue and workforce development. She has contributed to public policy issues in labor, taxes, healthcare and workforce development. Currently she is active on the Board of Directors for Sponsors, a reentry organization, and Planned Parenthood Advocates of Oregon.
The UO Women in Economics Club (WiE) was established in 2023 to support and meet the unique needs of women and gender-diverse individuals in the male-dominated economics field. WiE strives to build community, empower, and increase participation in economics through academic and social events. The club hosts guest speakers, roundtable discussions, professional development workshops, and more. Students undergraduate through PhD are welcome.
"In a male-dominated field, the Women in Economics Club is the first opportunity I've had to directly collaborate with and support my female peers." -M.S. Economics '24