2:00–4:00 p.m.
Meet with Counseling Services Cecile Gadson, who specializes in working with Black and African American students, at the Black Cultural Center.
Let’s Talk is a service that provides easy access to free, informal, and confidential one-on-one consultation with a Counseling Services staff member. See our website for six additional Let’s Talk days/times offered throughout the week.
Let’s Talk is especially helpful for students who:
Have a specific concern and would like to consult with someone about it. Would like on-the-spot consultation rather than ongoing counseling. Would like to consult with a CS staff member about what actual therapy looks like. Would like to meet with one of our CS identity-based specialists. Have a concern about a friend or family member and would like some ideas about what to do.How does Let’s Talk work?
Let’s Talk will be offered via Zoom and/or in satellite locations across campus. As a drop-in service, there is no need to schedule an appointment and no paperwork to be completed. Students are seen individually on a first-come, first-served basis at the times listed below. There may be a wait in the Zoom waiting room if the Let’s Talk staff member is meeting with another student. Please wait and we will be with you as soon as we can. Let’s Talk appointments are brief (usually between 15-30 minutes) and are meant to be used on an as-needed basis.
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Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) is pleased to host an ongoing series of lectures by traveling fellows whose research and expertise include feminist science fiction, Oregon lesbian intentional communities, the novelist Ken Kesey, conservative and libertarian political movements, as well as print and print culture. Talks are free, open to the public and held virtually on Zoom. More information, including applications for future fellowships, is available on SCUA’s website here.
December’s discussion features Zoey Kambour, 2023 Martha Thorsland Baker Fellow.
Zoey Kambour is a PhD student in medieval art history at CUNY's Graduate Center and an adjunct lecturer in art history at Pace University. They received their MA in art history from the University of Oregon in 2021, where they wrote a thesis on eleventh century Beatus manuscripts. After their MA, they served as the Post-Graduate Fellow in European and American Art at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, where they conducted independent research on the manuscript they are presenting on in addition to their curatorial duties at the museum. They are hoping to write a dissertation on the marginal faces created by Christian, Muslim, and Jewish students in the Middle Ages, inspired by this project.
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Claire Luchette is the author of the novel Agatha of Little Neon and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree. Claire's work has appeared in Best American Short Stories, VQR, Ploughshares, The New York Times, Granta, and the Kenyon Review. Their story "New Bees" won a 2020 Pushcart Prize. They've received fellowships and support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. They teach creative writingat Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York.
Morgan Thomas is a writer from the Gulf Coast. Their debut story collection, MANYWHERE, was published by MCD-FSG and a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, Lambda Literary’s Transgender Fiction Prize, the LA Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and Publishing Triangle’s Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction. Their work has appeared in The Atlantic, American Short Fiction, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. In 2022, they received Lambda Literary’s Judith Markowitz Award for Exceptional New LGBTQ+ Writers. They are currently a Shearing Fellow at the Black Mountain Institute.
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Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) is pleased to host an ongoing series of lectures by traveling fellows whose research and expertise include feminist science fiction, Oregon lesbian intentional communities, the novelist Ken Kesey, conservative and libertarian political movements, as well as print and print culture. Talks are free, open to the public and held virtually on Zoom. More information, including applications for future fellowships, is available on SCUA’s website here.
January's discussion features Marissa Greenberg, 2023 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellow, Ariel Goldberg, 2023 Tee A. Corinne Memorial Travel Fellow, and Micah Wright, 2023 James Ingebretsen Memorial Travel Fellow.
Dr. Marissa Greenberg is an Associate Professor of English at the University of New Mexico, a majority-minority public university in the American Southwest. Marissa’s research and teaching focus on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature. Her early publications take a historicist approach to the spaces and bodies in the works of William Shakespeare and his contemporaries, but her more recent work takes a more phenomenological approach to their adaptations in diverse media. Marissa is also committed to making premodern literatures engaging and accessible through justice-oriented teaching and public-facing scholarship. These interests and commitments come together in Marissa’s current project, “Revolutionary Adaptation: Miltonic Radicalism in Contemporary U.S. Literature, the Arts, and Activism.” This is a book-length study of how the radical writings of seventeenth-century English poet and polemicist John Milton have been brought into the service of today’s movements for gender equity, racial justice, disability rights, and religious freedom. It focuses on Miltonic adaptations by contemporary US-based women authors and artists, most notably Ursula K. Le Guin, who take up Milton’s embodied representations of revolution and mobilize them to depict the experiences of minoritized bodies. Marissa conducted her research in UO-SPCO’s collection of Le Guin papers in August 2023.
Ariel Goldberg is a writer, curator, and photographer working with trans and queer lineages in photography. Goldberg’s books include The Estrangement Principle (Nightboat Books, 2016) and The Photographer (Roof Books, 2015), and their short-form writing has most recently appeared in Lucid Knowledge: On the Currency of the Photographic Image, Afterimage Journal, e-flux, Jewish Currents, Artforum, and Art in America. Goldberg is a 2023-2024 Diamonstein-Spielvogel Fellow at the New York Public Library. Their exhibition on photography’s relationship to spaces for learning, Images on which to build, 1970s-1990s was on view in 2023 at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati as part of the FotoFocus Biennial and Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in NYC.
Micah Wright is an assistant professor of history at Lincoln University of Missouri and earned his PhD from Texas A&M University in 2020. His dissertation, “Puerto Rico and US Empire in the Caribbean, 1898-1935,” was awarded an Oxford University Press USA International History Dissertation Prize honorable mention. His research focuses on inter-American relations, US military occupations, and the influence of colonial peoples on US politics in the twentieth century. His articles appear in Gender & History, Diplomacy & Statecraft, Caribbean Studies, The Black Scholar, The Latin Americanist and Clio (Dominican Republic).
3:00–5:00 p.m.
Kick off the term with us at our New Media and Culture Certificate (NMCC) Open House on Monday, January 22. Join us between 3 and 5 pm PT in the UO DREAM Lab, located on the first floor of Knight Library in room 122. There’ll be time to meet NMCC staff, learn more about the certificate, and connect with NMCC affiliates over light snacks and beverages. We will also be welcoming ideas for future programming you want to see take place. This is a casual gathering, so drop by as your schedule allows.
5:00 p.m.
Courtney Thorsson, associate professor, English, and the author of Women’s Work: Nationalism and Contemporary African American Women’s Novels (2013) with respondent Faith Barter, assistant professor, English.
One Sunday afternoon in February 1977, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange, and several other Black women writers met at June Jordan’s Brooklyn apartment to eat gumbo, drink champagne, and talk about their work. Calling themselves “The Sisterhood,” the group—which also came to include Audre Lorde, Paule Marshall, Margo Jefferson, and others—would get together once a month over the next two years, creating a vital space for Black women to discuss literature and liberation. The Sisterhood tells the story of how this remarkable community transformed American writing and cultural institutions. Drawing on original interviews with Sisterhood members as well as correspondence, meeting minutes, and readings of their works, Courtney Thorsson explores the group’s everyday collaboration and profound legacy. The Sisterhood advocated for Black women writers at trade publishers and magazines such as Random House, Ms., and Essence, and eventually in academic departments as well—often in the face of sexist, racist, and homophobic backlash. Thorsson traces the personal, professional, and political ties that brought the group together as well as the reasons for its dissolution. She considers the popular and critical success of Sisterhood members in the 1980s, the uneasy absorption of Black feminism into the academy, and how younger writers built on the foundations the group laid. Highlighting the organizing, networking, and community building that nurtured Black women’s writing, this book demonstrates that The Sisterhood offers an enduring model for Black feminist collaboration.
Please register.
3:30–5:00 p.m.
Lecture by Tim Williams (University of Oregon)
This talk draws from the private writings and published memoirs of some of the first prisoners of the American Civil War: Journalists, ministers, and legislators from the state of Maryland who were imprisoned for treason after President Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus in early summer of 1861. As they sat in prison barracks, they perseverated over the righteousness of their political dissent. They generated various narratives of white victimhood at the hands of federal oppression in letters home and personal diaries, not to mention in conversation with one another. After their release, many published their accounts, adding to an already flourishing popular culture of war stories sought by northerners and southerners alike. Although there were nearly four years left before Lee Surrendered at Appomattox, these narratives anticipated the Lost Cause mythology that dominated regional intellectual in the South after the Civil War, and grew into a national story by the 1890s and, in many states and locales, flourishes today.
The Department of History’s Seminar Series runs throughout the academic year and features guest speakers from the nation’s top universities who share their perspectives on history. Visit history.uoregon.edu for more information about this event and others in the series.
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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.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!
Special thanks to the University Career Center, Enterprise Holdings, and Sherwin Williams for sponsoring all of our Fall Career Readiness Week events and workshops! And additional support of the Winter Expo COMING SOON!
For a full list of Winter Career Readiness Week (January 26 - February 2) events and workshops, check out http://career.uoregon.edu/events
3:30–5:00 p.m.
Lecture by Julie Weise (University of Oregon)
The world’s first collective experiment with government-managed temporary labor migration, which began during World War I and grew dramatically after World War II, encouraged millions of people to cross borders in the Americas, Europe, and southern Africa before it wound down amid political opposition and economic malaise in the 1960s-70s. The migration programs reshaped those continents’ rural livelihoods, cemented industrialized countries’ dependence on migrant labor, and—notwithstanding articulated intentions to make migration temporary—had transformative demographic consequences still felt to this day. Yet these developments, which were integral to the twentieth century’s unprecedented march towards greater prosperity, remain little known and poorly understood. In this talk, historian Julie Weise offers a deeper history of the now-ubiquitous phenomenon of government-recruited temporary workers—a synthesis of policymakers’ grand plans with the voices and experiences of recruited workers from Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
The Department of History’s Seminar Series runs throughout the academic year and features guest speakers from the nation’s top universities who share their perspectives on history. Visit history.uoregon.edu for more information about this event and others in the series.
4:30 p.m.
Aaron Baker is the author of two award-winning collections of poems: Posthumous Noon (Gunpowder Press, 2018), which was selected by Jane Hirshfield as winner of the Barry Spacks Poetry Prize; and Mission Work (Houghton Mifflin, 2008), which won the Katherine Bakeless Prize in Poetry and the Shenandoah/Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Missouri Review, New England Review, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. Recipient of many awards, including the Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry from Stanford University and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, he is currently an associate professor in the creative writing program at Loyola University Chicago.