10:00–11:00 a.m.
Creating citations and bibliographies can be difficult, and so can keeping track of all the reading that you’ll do over the course of a class, a term, and your academic career.
Join UO Libraries for a one-hour workshop where you’ll learn to navigate Zotero, a free, open-source citation management tool designed to simplify your research process.
In this session, we will introduce you to Zotero’s features, showing you how to collect, organize, cite, and share your research effortlessly. You’ll learn how to create bibliographies and in-text citations in popular styles such as MLA, APA, and Chicago, all while developing strategies to effectively utilize Zotero in your writing.
Join us in the PSC Visualization Lab and transform the way you manage your research!
This workshop is free and open to the UO community.
4:00–6:00 p.m.
Network with a variety of environmentally focused public agencies, non-profit organizations, and businesses in a casual roundtable-style event. Over the course of the event, you’ll have a chance to meet with over 25 employers who are looking for interns, volunteers or have career opportunities.
There is no fee to participate, so come ready to network and find your next steps!
10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Please join us on April 17th, 2025 at 10:00am PST for an event at the Gerlinger Alumni Lounge about the Chateaubriand Fellowship & other research opportunities in France for undergraduate and graduate students. The Chateaubriand Fellowship is a PhD exchange program that allows US University students to conduct research in France for a period of 4-9 months. Fellows receive a monthly stipend, as well as assistance for airfare and health insurance.
Please register at: https://forms.gle/8DZowyaYvRfvUrc5A
11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Connect with International students across campus to share experiences, exchange knowledge, and develop a network of support. Drop-ins are welcome and lunch will be served.
noon
Why YOU should come to this Expo...
You're curious about your future. Explore different career paths and job roles across industries. EXPOse yourself to unique career pathways that can use your career readiness skills and passions to make an impact in the world. You want to make connections. These organizations LOVE to hire Ducks and want to help you find your career fit. You might even meet UO alumni recruiting for them at the expo. Ask a recruiter what career readiness skills you can be building now to make you a top candidate in the present or future (and add them to your Linkedin network for future connections!). You want to find a job, internship, year of service, volunteer opportunity, and more! If you're actively job searching, have your resume ready to hand out and a short and sweet synopsis about yourself and your professional interests ready to go! If you're just exploring options, collect contact info, do some additional research, and do an informational interview to learn more before you apply. You want to build your confidence! Practice asking questions of employers AND sharing about who you are and what you're passionate about. Every expo you attend and each time you approach a recruiter, you get more and more comfortable presenting yourself in a professional manner. You want a FREE professional headshot! Dress to impress and get a headshot taken you can use on your Linkedin!WHO'S COMING? Find your career fit with over 70+ employers comprised of private industry; public, educational, and non-profit organizations; local government, the federal government, law enforcement, and military--ALL on campus and excited to share more with you about their organization and early career talent opportunities. Open to students from ALL majors, classifications, and identities. Every expo looks a little different so come each term to keep exploring and expanding your career opportunities!
WHAT NEXT? Register for the Expo on Handshake today to learn about all the companies coming, and positions of interest you can be researching. We'll also send you tips and advice for how to make the most of the expo, including Career Readiness Week workshops like our Resume Extravaganza so you can have a great resume to hand to potential employers!
The University Career Center gives a special thanks to Enterprise Mobility, and Sherwin Williams for sponsoring all of our Spring Career Readiness Week events and workshops!
For a full list of Spring Career Readiness Week (April 11–18) events and workshops, check out http://career.uoregon.edu/events
12:15–1:45 p.m.
Chloe Thurston, Northwestern; and Emily Zackin, Johns Hopkins; will discuss their forthcoming book. The Political Development of American Debt Relief traces how geographic, sectoral, and racial politics shaped debtor activism over time, enhancing our understanding of state-building, constitutionalism, and social policy.
3:30–5:00 p.m.
Nurturing Resilience in the Face of Adversity: Women, Youth, and Caregiver Experiences in Latin America
April 17 / 3:30pm-5pm / EMU Crate Laker North (EMU 146)
Join us for a research colloquium as we explore the intersections of violence, empowerment, and resilience among women and youth in Latin America. Two researchers, Audrey Sileci (PhD Student, Prevention Science) and Gloria Macedo Janto (Graduate Student, Romance Languages), will present their research on women, youth, and caregiver experiences amid adversity and violence in Honduras and Peru.
Audrey Sileci will discuss her research on the Miles de Manos (MdM) program, a violence prevention initiative implemented in Honduras to promote a culture of peace and non-violence among children, parents, and teachers. Her presentation will delve into the program's impact on caregivers and their relationships with their children, as well as the key factors that contribute to the program's effectiveness. By exploring the complexities of program implementation and its effects on caregivers and children, Sileci's research aims to provide a more nuanced understanding of the MdM program's potential to promote positive change.
Gloria Macedo Janto will share her research on the narratives of Andean women in the discourses of political violence in Peru (1980-2000). She will analyze how these women's stories contribute to our understanding of Peru's historical memory and the impact of political violence on their lives.
This event provides a platform for CLLAS-funded researchers to share their findings and engage in a broader conversation about the significance of these topics. We hope to see you there!
4:00 p.m.
Presented by the Oregon Humanities Center
We are at a moment when it is vitally important to imagine and articulate what makes us human. The steady drumbeat of news about AI, about ever more competent models achieving unprecedented milestones, raises questions about what the role for humans will be in the not-so-distant future. We have seen similar moments before. For hundreds of years, automation has pushed people into new relations with technology, with work, and with each other. And scholars have long come up with different answers to explain the uniquely human contribution: e.g., mental versus manual labor, creativity versus rote work. But today’s technologists are tackling new terrain: the mechanization of human relationship.
Join us as the 2024–25 Cressman Lecturer Allison Pugh gives a talk titled “Re-imagining the Other/Ourselves: Finding the Human in the Age of AI” on Thursday, April 17, 2025 at 4 p.m. in the Knight Library Browsing Room. Based on five years of ethnographic research, Pugh offers a humanistic response to the rise of AI, one that probes the profound meaning of human connection, reckons with the challenges of seeing and being seen, and reimagines what we know of ourselves and others in light of the automation challenge.
Allison Pugh is a professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. She writes about how people forge connections and find meaning and dignity at work and at home. In her latest book The Last Human Job:The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World (2024), Pugh develops the concept of “connective labor,” the collaborative work of emotional recognition. This includes three key components—empathetic listening, emotion management, and the act of “witnessing,” in which one individual reflects what they have seen and heard. Drawing on years of interview and observational data, Pugh shows how in sectors like education, healthcare, and therapy, this work is increasingly systemized—a process that she argues makes it ripe for eventual mechanization. In the face of teacher shortages and hype around “chatbot therapists,” Pugh makes a case for connective labor’s value to society and the potential consequences for inequality should it become a scarce commodity.
In addition, Pugh is the author of The Tumbleweed Society: Working and Caring in an Age of Insecurity (2015), Longing and Belonging: Parents, Children, and Consumer Culture (2009), and an edited volume Beyond the Cubicle: Job Insecurity, Intimacy, and the Flexible Self(2016).
Pugh’s talk, part of this year’s “Re-imagine” series, is free and open to the public and will be livestreamed and recorded. Please register at ohc.uoregon.edu
5:00 p.m.
Professor Yaron Shemer PhD will give a talk titled:
Jerusalem in the Late-Ottoman Era (Mid-19th Century to 1917) and the Changes During the British Mandate (1922-1948)
Light food and refreshments will be provided.
7:00 p.m.
The Creative Writing Program invites you to a poetry reading with Henri Cole.
Cole was born in Fukuoka, Japan, to a French mother and an American father. He has published eleven collections of poetry and received many awards, including the Jackson Prize, the Kingsley Tufts Award, the Rome prize, the Berlin Prize, the Lenore Marshall Award, and the Medal in Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has also published Orphic Paris, a memoir. He teaches at Claremont McKenna College.
For more information about the Creative Writing Reading Series, please visit https://humanities.uoregon.edu/creative-writing/reading-series
Free and open to the public.