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.
7:30 p.m.
Scoobi is an undocumented-law-student-love-child of the Zapatista rebellion of 1994. Petra, her mother, a former revolutionary is also undocumented. Dylan O’Reilly, is Scoobi’s ticket to citizenship. This odd trio navigates personal and political borders on the heels of Scoobi’s marriage of inconvenience to Dylan. Oh yes, Roko, the soldier-ghost of Scoobi’s soulmate is hanging out too.
Credit: Los Dreamers is produced by special arrangement with Mónica Sánchez. Directed by Michael Malek Najjar. A University Theatre production.
7:30 p.m.
Scoobi is an undocumented-law-student-love-child of the Zapatista rebellion of 1994. Petra, her mother, a former revolutionary is also undocumented. Dylan O’Reilly, is Scoobi’s ticket to citizenship. This odd trio navigates personal and political borders on the heels of Scoobi’s marriage of inconvenience to Dylan. Oh yes, Roko, the soldier-ghost of Scoobi’s soulmate is hanging out too.
Credit: Los Dreamers is produced by special arrangement with Mónica Sánchez. Directed by Michael Malek Najjar. A University Theatre production.
2:00 p.m.
Scoobi is an undocumented-law-student-love-child of the Zapatista rebellion of 1994. Petra, her mother, a former revolutionary is also undocumented. Dylan O’Reilly, is Scoobi’s ticket to citizenship. This odd trio navigates personal and political borders on the heels of Scoobi’s marriage of inconvenience to Dylan. Oh yes, Roko, the soldier-ghost of Scoobi’s soulmate is hanging out too.
Credit: Los Dreamers is produced by special arrangement with Mónica Sánchez. Directed by Michael Malek Najjar. A University Theatre production.
3:30 p.m.
Poster Exhibit, Awards Ceremony, and Celebration of Graduating Seniors
Join us for the annual celebration of undergraduate research and achievements! The showcase will also recognize students who have earned special departmental awards and honors. We’ll close the celebration with a tribute to our graduating seniors!
Free and open to the public.
4:00 p.m.
Filmlandia Masterclass Presented by University Film Society
Join Cinema Studies for a talk with Brian McWhorter, UO Professor of Music and Director of Orchestra Next. He’ll share his process for composing a score for Ed’s Coed (1929), the first feature film produced by students in the US and filmed at the UO. The musical score features early twentieth-century songs and McWhorter’s original compositions.
Cosponsored by: Harlan J. Strauss Visiting Filmmaker Endowment; Department of Art; Department of Comparative Literature; Department of English; Department of History; Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies; Native American and Indigenous Studies; Folklore and Public Culture Program; School of Journalism and Communication; Art House Theater; DUX Present; Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art; Julie and Rocky Dixon Chair of U.S. Western History; and Oregon Humanities Center’s Endowment for Public Outreach in the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities.
1:00 p.m.
Please join us Wednesday afternoons 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!
7:00 p.m.
Filmlandia Screening Series presents: Ed's Coed (1929) with a live musical accompaniment by Orchestra Next. Free and open to the public.
Directed by Carvel Nelson and James Raley | 74 min
Synopsis: Ed’s father wished for him to attend college, but he’s reluctant to leave the family sawmill until he sees his cousin with a pretty co-ed. The sophomores have hazing on their mind when country boy Ed matriculates, but he won’t be deterred.
The movie was filmed on the UO campus.
The Department of Cinema Studies and the University Film Society celebrate Oregon’s rich film heritage with a new screening series showcasing movies with a unique Oregon connection—from locally shot features to stories written or directed by Oregon filmmakers. Discover Oregon’s reel legacy on the big screen while connecting with the university film community.
Cosponsored by: Harlan J. Strauss Visiting Filmmaker Endowment; Department of Art; Department of Comparative Literature; Department of English; Department of History; Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies; Native American and Indigenous Studies; Folklore and Public Culture Program; School of Journalism and Communication; Art House Theater; DUX Present; Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art; Julie and Rocky Dixon Chair of U.S. Western History; and Oregon Humanities Center’s Endowment for Public Outreach in the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities.
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.
6:00–8:00 p.m.
Conservation Between the Tides: Seagrass Meadows Past, Present, and Future
Seagrass meadows are critical ocean ecosystems that purify water, mitigate pollution, stabilize sediments, and support diverse marine life — yet they are increasingly threatened by climate change, rising temperatures, and infectious disease. Assistant Professor Aoki will spotlight seagrass ecology and conservation on the west coast and beyond, highlighting the capacity for ecological resilience, successful restoration, and the power of collaborative science to advance conservation efforts.
About the speaker: Lillian Aoki is a coastal scientist studying ecosystem dynamics and resilience in nearshore and estuarine habitats. Using field, lab, and computational methods, her work builds a cross-scale understanding of coastal ecology in a rapidly changing world. Current projects examine seagrass meadow recovery following marine heatwaves and the role of land management in carbon sequestration in tidal marshes. She earned her PhD in Environmental Sciences from the University of Virginia.
Refreshments provided. Doors open at 6:00 PM.
Sponsored by the Graduate Evolutionary Biology & Ecology Students (GrEBES) and the Institute for Ecology and Evolution (IE²).