10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Strengthen connections and unplug on Oregon’s beautiful coast while hiking Hobbit Trail and spending time at the ocean near Florence. Transportation, lunch, and snacks provided.
A $5 deposit through the Outdoor Program (OP) is required to secure your seat. Space is limited to the first 20 students, with priority given to international students.
Please call the Outdoor Program at 541-346-4365 to reserve a spot, or sign up in person at OP's DIY Bike Space in the EMU.
7:30 p.m.
Music and Lyrics by William Finn Book by Rachel Sheinkin Conceived by Rebecca Feldman Additional Material by Jay Reiss Originally Directed on Broadway by James Lapine Originally produced on Broadway by David Stone, James L. Nederlander, Barbara Whitman, Patrick Catullo Barrington Stage Company, Second Stage Theatre
Directed by Tara Wibrew
An eclectic group of six mid-pubescents vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home lives, the tweens spell their way through a series of (potentially made-up) words, hoping never to hear the soul-crushing, pout-inducing, life un-affirming “ding” of the bell that signals a spelling mistake. Six spellers enter; one speller leaves a champion! At least the losers get a juice box.
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com
2:00 p.m.
Music and Lyrics by William Finn Book by Rachel Sheinkin Conceived by Rebecca Feldman Additional Material by Jay Reiss Originally Directed on Broadway by James Lapine Originally produced on Broadway by David Stone, James L. Nederlander, Barbara Whitman, Patrick Catullo Barrington Stage Company, Second Stage Theatre
Directed by Tara Wibrew
An eclectic group of six mid-pubescents vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home lives, the tweens spell their way through a series of (potentially made-up) words, hoping never to hear the soul-crushing, pout-inducing, life un-affirming “ding” of the bell that signals a spelling mistake. Six spellers enter; one speller leaves a champion! At least the losers get a juice box.
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com
9:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Students in all 4 FR203 classes will be presenting the e-portfolio that they created all throughout the 2nd-year sequence. And you are invited! Students will be presenting one material that they created either in 201, 202, or 203, and that they are the proudest of (it could be an essay, a creative project, a weekly journal, a speaking video…). This event is an opportunity for students to showcase their progress as they are finishing the intermediate sequence. All faculty and students are invited to come celebrate this benchmark with us! If you speak French, even better, as students would practice conversational speaking skills with you. You are also welcome to come even if you don’t speak French and are curious about what e-portfolios are or how they could be used in a language classroom. If you have any questions, please reach out to Mathilde Bégu, 2nd-year French supervisor: mbegu@uoregon.edu.
Note: The first session will be at the Dream Lab from 9am to 11am. The second session will be at the Dream Lab from 12pm to 1pm. The third session will be at the Yamada Language Center (McKenzie 175) from 2pm to 3pm.
2:00 p.m.
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Physical Chemistry Seminar
Professor Naomi S. Ginsberg, University of California, Berkeley Hosted by: Cathy Wong
“Following and controlling nanoscale formation and function of bottom-up assembled materials”
Short-range-interacting particles can in principle crystallize via so-called non-classical pathways invoking a metastable liquid intermediate, yet non-equilibrium gelation often occurs before a metastable liquid can form. Using in situ small angle X-ray scattering, we nevertheless watch electrostatically stabilized colloidal semiconducting nanocrystals self-assemble into long-range-ordered superlattices via this non-classical pathway and show how the pathway increases the rate of crystallization over that of direct crystallization from the colloidal phase. Furthermore, by mapping the phase behavior and kinetics as a function of nanocrystal density and electrostatically tuned driving force for assembly, we demonstrate a highly unusual degree of control of a nanoscale system. This control is exemplified by varying the self-assembly rate by over three orders of magnitude, along with predictive control of superlattice yield, size, and crystallinity. Most strikingly, we reveal that this non-classical pathway increases crystallinity of the superlattice simultaneously with the crystallization rate. To further elucidate the elusive nature of the short-range interactions at the nanoscale, we also study the microscopic fluctuations of colloidal suspensions and liquid droplets of the nanocrystals via MHz X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy (XPCS). We discover suppressed nanocrystal self-diffusion in the liquid state, which we attribute to the explicit attractive interactions that are not captured by typical charged particle hydrodynamic models. The combined results suggest design rules for the shape of interaction potentials not only to leverage liquid intermediates in crystallization processes but also to avoid gelation for better control of phase behaviors.
To subtly modify the nanocrystal interactions we take advantage of their light absorption. Current results from ultrafast optical transient absorption spectroscopy suggest that exciton dissociation into charges trapped at the nanocrystal surface alters the local configuration of molecular ions modify longer time scale self-assembly kinetics and resulting superlattice lattice constants. Time-resolved wide angle X-ray scattering and associated pair distribution function analysis preliminarily show the corresponding molecular reorganization in the nanocrystal solvation shell. Ultimately, the multiscale characterization of and manipulation of electrostatically stabilized nanocrystals paves the way to more clearly explain the design rules for nanoscale interaction potentials so that nanomaterial assemblies can achieve more effective functionalities via deterministic and predictive control.
10:00 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!
4:00 p.m.
Join the Department of History and John Leisure, University of Oregon, for a talk on “Public Housing in Postwar Japan, 1945-1960."
Tuesday, June 3rd 4:00 pm EMU Cedar & Spruce Rooms (231 & 232) Free and open to the public.
This talk examines how large-scale public apartment complexes reshaped the contours of everyday life in Japan after World War II. Emerging out of experimental projects in the late 1940s, public apartments—colloquially known as danchi—became visible markers of postwar rehousing and domestic reform. Spurred by government money with strings attached to design objectives, these concrete projects touched scores of cities throughout the archipelago. By 1960, danchi apartments already functioned as residential urban infrastructure operating in a biopolitical mode. Danchi housing projects promoted productivist publics, privatized domestic space, and rationalized communities in an effort to establish a new postwar paradigm: governance through dwelling.
The Department of History Seminar Series runs throughout the academic year and features guest speakers from the top universities who share their perspectives on history. Visit history.uoregon.edu for more information about the seminar series.
5:30 p.m.
As the Trump administration hits its 100-day mark, UO faculty from History, Law, and Political Science help make sense of the headlines and place today’s events in historical context. Pizza will be served.
DEPORTATION: Wednesday, April 23, 2025 AUTHORITARIANISM: Wednesday, April 30, 2025 ANTI-ENVIRONMENTALISM: Rescheduled to Wednesday, June 4, 2025
All events held from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm in McKenzie Hall 375. Free and open to the public
5:30 p.m.
Presented by the Oregon Humanities Center
Lanie Millar, associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese, and Fabienne Moore, associate professor of French, collaborated on a newly published book The Revolution Will Be a Poetic Act: African Culture and Decolonization (Polity, 2024), a translation of essays and speeches by prolific anticolonial writer, poet, and politician Mário Pinto de Andrade. The two scholars will give the Oregon Humanities Center’s Spring Wine Chat.
Born in Angola during Portuguese colonial rule, Mário Pinto de Andrade (1928–1990) was one Africa’s most important 20th-century intellectuals who wrote in French, Portuguese, and Spanish. In 1956, he founded the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola but was exiled after independence was achieved in 1975. He never returned.
As anti-colonial movements got underway in the mid-twentieth century, Andrade wrote extensively about the urgent necessity for Africans to turn away from European cultural and political models, arguing that communities emerging from colonization should focus on voices from within, on self-representation, and on horizontal relationships among Black, African, and decolonizing peoples. Andrade played a key role in theorizing the international reach of revolutionary 20th-century poetry and literature, Black cultural vindication, and African liberation.
When asked how this project came about, Millar shared, “My initial thought was that I was going to translate five of his introductions to anthologies. Then as I kept digging, I realized there was much, much more material, and a significant amount of material in French. I thought the picture of his intellectual production would be incomplete if I just focused on Portuguese, and I approached Fabienne to collaborate.”
“When you research and teach a multilingual, transnational revolutionary figure,” says Moore, “you are educating students about values, actions and modes of writing. The knowledge that this thinker existed, this is how they carried out their actions, this is how the work was perceived by his contemporaries, it provides an educational impact that is huge.”
Along with the translated essays and speeches, the book includes a foreword by Millar and an interview with Andrade’s two daughters, who are guardians of his work. This work is particularly relevant not only to scholars of African decolonization movements but to anyone engaged in contemporary conversations about race, belonging, and political community.
The Wine Chat is free and open to the public. Beverages are available for purchase and a food cart is on the premises of Capitello Wines. There is ample parking at Banner Bank across the street. Please register at ohc.uoregon.edu
3:00–3:50 p.m.
The Comp Program Writing Lab is holding drop-in workshops alongside WR 199 students; this week's topic is FINAL TOUCHES! What do I need to polish or change before I submit my major assignments? How can I write more effective intros and conclusions?
All students currently enrolled in WR 121z, 122z, or 123 are invited to join us for help with these questions and more! RSVP encouraged (but not required!): WritingLab@uoregon.edu. Email us your name and which workshop(s) you plan to attend.