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Department of the History of Art and Architecture
January 2026
5:30 p.m.
Migrant Glyps is a storytelling-talk by Edgar Garcia (University of Chicago, English) about geoglyphs in the Sonoran Desert and their life at the intersection of indigeneity and migration in the Americas.
Edgar Garcia is Associate Professor of English at the University of Chicago and a poet and scholar of the hemispheric cultures of the Americas. His scholarship and creative practices are concerned with the world-bearing qualities of literary works at the intersection of literary studies, the visual arts, anthropology, legal philosophy, and environmental thinking.
This event is supported generously by the Oregon Humanities Center, the Creative Writing Program, and the Department of the History of Art and Architecture, departments of Comparative Literature, English, and Romance Languages. For inquiries, please contact Joyce S. Cheng at joycec@uoregon.edu.
School of Art + Design Events
School of Architecture & Environment
School of Planning, Public Policy and Management
April 2026
5:00 p.m.
What is Research? (2026) will explore various natures, purposes, and roles of research across disciplines, fields, and areas. The event will consider frameworks of systematic and creative inquiry, including methods, designs, analyses, discoveries, collaborations, dissemination, ethics, integrity, diversity, media/technologies, and information environments.
This year delves into research in its many forms, including searching, critically investigating, and re-examining existing knowledge, as well as emerging functions and procedures in machine intelligence and computation. It will highlight pluralities of research pathways, examining time-honored approaches and new ways of knowing, precedents, issues, and futures. It considers challenges and possibilities that researchers face in today’s rapidly changing world, and ways to promote ethical, inclusive, and impactful research.
The event celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of the Communication and Media Studies Doctoral Program in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon.