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Fiction writer Jason Brown is an associate professor of Creative Writing at the University of Oregon. He is the author of three short story collections. The most recent is "A Faithful but Melancholy Account of Several Barbarities Lately Committed: A Novel in Stories" published in 2019. Brown reads from the collection and discusses his writing.

Naomi Oreskes, Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University, is a world-renowned geologist, historian of science, and public speaker. She is a leading public intellectual on the role of science in society, the reality of anthropogenic climate change, and on anti-scientific disinformation campaigns. Co-sponsored by the Wayne Mors...

Ryan Jones is associate professor of History at the University of Oregon. He holds the Ann Swindells Chair. His research interests include Russian history, Pacific history, and global environmental history. Jones is the author of Empire of Extinction: Russians and the Strange Beasts of the Sea, 1741–1867 published by Oxford University Press in 2014. His next book Red Leviathan: The Soviet Union an...

Naomi Oreskes, the Henry Charles Lea Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University, is the author or co-author of seven books including Merchants of Doubt (2010), The Collapse of Western Civilization (2014), Discerning Experts (2019), Why Trust Science? (2019), and Science on a Mission: American Oceanography from the Cold War to Climate Change forthcoming in April 2021. In 2018 she was...

Michelle M. Jacob, an enrolled member of the Yakama Nation and Professor of Indigenous Studies and Director of the Sapsik’ʷałá (Teacher) Education Program in the Department of Education Studies at the University of Oregon. She also serves as affiliated faculty in the Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies, and affiliated faculty in the Environmental Studies Program. Jacob is author of...

Fabienne Moore, Romance Languages, 2020–21 OHC Faculty Research Fellow

Maxwell Foxman is an assistant professor of Media Studies and Game Studies in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon. He describes Game Studies as an academic discipline and talks about the presence of games and play in non-game contexts. Foxman is a member of the UO's Esports and Game Research lab which examines college-level esports and how esports is institutiona...

"My book seeks to diversify Soviet intellectual history by highlighting a cohort of writers, creative artists, and scholars, primarily from Central Asia and the Caucasus, who were involved in cultural outreach to the postcolonial world. Postcolonial encounters, unlike travel to the West, affirmed Soviet ideology during the Cold War. Exploring the impact of anti-imperialism and non-Western cultural...

Lesley Jo Weaver is an associate professor of Global Studies at the University of Oregon, and author of "Sugar and Tension: Diabetes and Gender in Modern India." Weaver, along with former colleagues at the University of Alabama, produce an interdisciplinary podcast called “Speaking of Race.” She discusses her research in India and Brazil. Weaver also talks about her class Global Story of Race and...

Françoise Baylis is a bioethicist and a University Research Professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and author of "Altered Inheritance: CRISPR and the Ethics of Human Genome Editing." She discusses some of the ethical issues surrounding gene editing technology and the need for "slow science." Baylis also talks about the COVID-19 pandemic and the ethics of immunity passports and...

Shuangting Xiong, PhD candidate, East Asian Languages and Literatures, and 2020-21 OHC Dissertation Fellow "My dissertation examines how melodrama, a quintessentially bourgeois form, was utilized and repurposed across different media by intellectuals and writers to produce new affective experiences, to cultivate new political subjectivities, and to make revolution in modern China. I argue that rev...

Paul Peppis speaks with Vien Truong, a policy expert and strategist who works on building an equitable green economy. Her firm, Eco Equity, advises lawmakers, universities, and organizations on developing an inclusive workforce, creating sustainable economies, and equitable environmental policies. She currently serves as the Senior Director of Global Engagement and Sustainability with Nike. Vien w...

Jina Kim, East Asian Languages and Literatures, and 2020-21 OHC Faculty Research Fellow "My book project attends to the junction between sound and literature in focusing on works written for radio broadcast from the Japanese Colonial Period. In the chapter “Performing Historical Anecdotes: Yadam Boom on Radio and Stage,” I demonstrate the relationship between yadam as a traditional literary narrat...

Tara Keegan, PhD candidate, History, and 2020-21 OHC Dissertation Fellow My project examines Native survival in post-Gold Rush California and the ways in which Native individuals and communities shaped early 20th-century society and culture in Northern California’s “Redwood Empire.” Through a sports history that traces the implications of the first official “ultramarathon” in U.S. history, the pro...

Poets Michelle Peñaloza and Tina Mozelle Braziel are alumni of the UO’s Creative Writing Program. Michelle Peñaloza's collection Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire, published in 2019, won the 2018 Hillary Gravendyk National Poetry Prize. Tina Mozelle Braziel's collection Known by Salt, published in 2019, won the 2017 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry. Peñaloza and Braziel will give virtual read...

Melissa Graboyes is an associate professor of Medical History and African History in the Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon. Graboyes talks about her experience living in Italy when COVID-19 hit, and shares her perspectives as a public health expert. "It's good the vaccine is not available to the mass public for another few months. Now is the time for the hard work of public health c...

How can centuries of environmental exploitation and social injustice in the U.S. be unraveled? Robin Robin Morris CollinMorris Collin, the Norma Paulus Professor of Law at Willamette University College of Law, shares her passion for creating solutions to remedy environmental injustice.

Anthony Leiserowitz (UO Environmental Studies MS 1998, PhD 2003), Senior Research Scientist and Director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, is an expert on public opinion and public engagement with the issues of climate change and the environment. His research investigates the psychological, cultural, and political factors that influence environmental beliefs, attitudes, policy s...

Robin Morris Collin, the Norma Paulus Professor of Law at Willamette University’s College of Law, was the first U.S. law professor to teach sustainability courses in a U.S. law school. She discusses the importance of foregrounding environmental justice when working toward sustainability. Morris Collin was a professor at University of Oregon's Law School 1993 to 2003. She cofounded UO's Coalition A...

Matt Sandler, director of the MA program in American Studies in the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University, is the author of "The Black Romantic Revolution: Abolitionist Poets at the End of Slavery" published by Verso Books in 2020. He discusses how Black poets in the 19th century articulated their ideas about slavery, emancipation, freedom, and activism. Sandler reads "...

Anthony Leiserowitz, founder and Director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, and Senior Research Scientist at the Yale School of the Environment. His interdisciplinary research seeks to understand the psychological, cultural, political, and geographic factors that shape human environmental perception, decision making, and behavior. Leiserowitz earned both his master's degree and...

Writer Kimberly King Parsons discusses and reads from her short story collection Black Light. She talks about how she crafts characters and her use of first-person, present tense narrative. Parsons will give a book talk on November 11, 2020 at 4:30 p.m. (PST). Register at crwr.uoregon.edu

Mark Watson, Interim Dean of University of Oregon Libraries, discusses how the libraries have responded to the COVID crisis. He also talks about the rich resources the library has curated to address diversity, equity, and inclusion; especially anti-racism. In addition, Watson explains the history of the controversial murals in the Knight Library and how the UO has responded. Watson has worked at U...

Audrey Lucero, associate professor of Education Studies and Director of Critical and Sociocultural Studies in Education at the University of Oregon, directs the newly launched Latinx Studies minor. Lucero talks about her work investigating the oral language development of young Spanish-English bilingual children. She also discusses the UO's new Latinx Studies minor.

Poet Juliana Gray reads her poetry and discusses her use of macabre humor in her work. She will give a virtual reading on Wednesday, October 14, 2020 as a guest of the University of Oregon's Creative Writing Program. Register at crwr.uoregon.edu