The Global Hearth

“Scholars tend to identify communism with the Vietnamese Nation. And that is wrong because there were a diversity of political ideas and movements throughout Vietnamese history and modern history. The communists were a radical minority on the fringe of society.” - Tuong Vu, Director of the US-Vietnam Research Center and Professor of Political Science  In this episode of The Global Hearth, Professo...

“There’s nothing that compares to the generosity I’ve learned is possible to exist by virtue of this community and the way they care for each other.”  - Avi Locke, ‘25 UO Graduate & Lab Manager for the UO Stress Physiology Integrative Team Lab & the Global Health Biomarker Lab Bella Albiani, StudentResearcher, Multidisciplinary Science ‘26 Jo Weaver, Co-Director ofthe Center for Global Hea...

“I’m interested in voice in the collective sense. Who gets to have a voice? Which communities get to be heard? Which other communities are rendered voiceless in this process?” - Chris Chavez, Director of the Center for Latina/o and Latin American Studies and Carolyn Silva Chambers Distinguished Professor of Advertising  Professor Chris Chávez joins us at the Global Hearth to explore how the media...

“The first thousand days of life is when we’ve got to get it right.” - Jeff Measelle, Co-Director of the Center for Global Health, Professor of Global Health and Psychology  “Jeff and I had the privilege to go to Cambodia to help train the staff on how to carry out the neurocognitive tasks that we designed for the study. And, these are such thoughtful, talented, hardworking, determined, dedicated,...

“Although we have very limited data, if we just accept that people are people and they are in a way like us, [we understand] they want to love and be loved.” - Gyoung-ah Lee, Professor of Anthropology, Asian Studies, and Food Studies  Archaeologist Gyoung-Ah Lee invites us to look past the broken stones and pottery shards of the Neolithic period to see the profoundly human stories they carry. Refr...

“I think the beauty of geography is you can study pretty much everything, from animal to trees to mountains to human beings...tea for me is the entry point to understand how people socialize with unfamiliar people.” - Xiaobo Su,  Director of the APRU Sustainable Cities and Landscapes Program and Professor of Asian Studies, Climate Studies, Geography  Xiaobo Su, a human geographer at the University...

“Where we live here in the northwest, these are the most productive and biodiverse forests of their kind in the world. Not only that, they hold vast amounts of carbon, vast amount of water and deep, deep cultural roots and historical, traditional ecological knowledge of environmental changes, sustainability, and stories untold of how people figure out how to live here and how to understand and lov...

“The work that we do and the work that we support has a real impact on people, the future of individuals, communities, and whole countries.” - Elly Vandegrift, Assistant Vice-Provost for Global Partnerships and Director of the Global Studies Institute (GSI)  Join us at the Global Hearth as Elly Vandegrift explores how research, resilience, and relationship-building are at the core of meaningful gl...

Get a sneak peek of what’s to come this season on The Global Hearth as we explore the international research, ideas, and conversations happening in the Global Studies Institute at the University of Oregon