Oregon Humanities Center

09/25/2025

Professor Mai-lin Cheng developed a University of Oregon Department of English seminar last year with the support of an OHC Teaching Fellowship. Check out the accompanying website:

The Course Habent sua fata libelli. – Terentianus Maurus, De Litteris, De Syllabis, De Metris “Books have their own fates” (Benjamin 492n2). Walter Benjamin references Terentianus Maurus’s classical aphorism in his 1931 essay Unpacking My Library. As the full latin phrase “Pro captu lector...

04/22/2025

An exciting new book by Ashley Cordes, Indigenous Media in ENVS and Data Science at UO, is released today!

Use Code MITP30 on publication day (Aprill 22) for 30% off and READMIT20 for 20% all other days when you order through Penguin Random House with a US mailing address.

How Indigenous currencies—including wampum and dentalium shells, beads, and the cryptocurrency MazaCoin—have long constituted a form of resistance to settler colonialism. Indigenous Currencies...

03/31/2025

📚✨ COMICS COLLEGE: Comics Journalism & Human Rights ✨📚

Join us for this month's Comics College as Professor Kate Kelp-Stebbins explores the role of comics in journalism and human rights! She'll discuss her work on the UN Special Report on the Right to Food alongside Dr. Michael Fakhri and artist Omar Khouri, focusing on "Palestine and the Right to Food."

🗓 Wednesday, April 2
⏰ 5:30 PM
📍 Books With Pictures Eugene

This is a free, public talk—come learn about how comics bring global issues to life through powerful storytelling!

01/24/2025

OHC director Leah Middlebrook with her new book "Amphion: Lyre, Poetry, and Politics in Modernity," a reintroduction to the myth of Amphion, recovering an overlooked sphere of lyric tradition.

In this wide-ranging study, Leah Middlebrook introduces readers to Amphion-inspired poetics and lyrics and traces the tradition of the Amphionic from the Renaissance through modernist and postmodern poetry and translation from the Hispanic, Anglophone, French, Italian, and ancient Roman worlds. Amphion makes a significant contribution to scholarship on the connection between poetry and politics and the history of the lyric, offering an account well-suited to our times.

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo232007805.html

10/01/2024

Humanities at Hertog is devoted to a rigorous and exemplary educational experience that transcends the deficiencies of online learning. Virtual seminars demonstrate that reading great books with others is compelling on its own terms and needs no promise of credentials, no threat of grades, no gimmicks, and no pandering. You can expect small classes of 10-15 peers who share your love of ideas, guided by a passionate teacher. The courses offered through the Humanities program provide an opportunity not only to reflect on what great texts bring to bear on enduring questions, but also how to begin a community in conversation.

Undergraduates, gap-year students, young professionals, and graduate students are all eligible to apply. All seminars meet via Zoom, and are scheduled in the afternoons, evenings, and on weekends to allow students from across time zones to come together. Fellows are eligible for a small stipend contingent upon participation in their course and completion of a brief response paper and evaluation.

Application deadline: 11/11/2024 https://hertogfoundation.org/programs/humanities

09/09/2024

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has announced $37.5 million in grants for 240 humanities projects across the country. Among the grantees is Mattie Burkert, associate professor of English and Digital Humanities at the UO who received a $350,000 NEH Digital Humanities Advancement. The grant will allow continued development and revitalization of the London Stage Database, an online resource that brings together multiple sources documenting the history of British theater.

05/29/2024

Join us for a Wine Chat with Diana Garvin "The Coffee Bean and the War Machine: Northern Italian Coffee Business between the World Wars" Wed. 6/5 at 5:30 pm at Capitello Wines, 540 Charnelton St.
Please register:

Americans have come to love espresso. For some, it’s seen as continental, cultured, and sophisticated. Sure, it might be mixed with milk to make a cappuccino, latte, café au lait, or mixed with hot…

05/23/2024

TODAY: Join us for a talk by Christopher Newfield "Jobs and Universities: A Tale of Two Futures" at 4 pm in the Knight Library Browsing Room at the UO.

Watch his UO Today interview Public disappointment with universities has reached epidemic proportions, and a common complaint is that they do a poor job of preparing students to find a job, especia…

05/21/2024

"Art, Technology, and Discontent: Artificial Intelligence and the History of Photography.” Emily Lawhead (PhD '23), Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Utah Museum of Fine Arts. Wednesday, May 22, 5:30 pm, 123 Pacific Hall at UO

05/16/2024

Cascade Song Festival CFP: All aspects of song, with a special welcome to literary scholars, composers, and performer-scholars. Deadline: 7/1/24.

Eugene, Oregon

05/16/2024

TODAY! ! Give in honor of Paul Peppis who will retire in June after an esteemed career as a UO English prof. and dir. of the OREGON HUMANITIES CENTER. He has been a champion for the humanities at the University of Oregon https://ducksgive.uoregon.edu/ohc