Events

Find daily ways to engage your career curiosity with workshops, local industry tours, alumni panels & networking events, the Spring Career & Internship Expo (4/16), and Practice Interview Day (4/17) that will help you develop skills and connections on the road to career readiness. For a full list of workshops, career tours, networking events, resume reviews, alumni panels, and more, visit career.uoregon.edu/events or register for events in Handshake. Why wait?! Stop by the University Career Center in Tykeson Hall-Garden Level ASAP to get drop-in resume reviews and other career guidance to make the most of your Career Readiness Week!

The University Career Center offers a special thanks to our Spring 2026 Career Readiness Week sponsor: Enterprise Mobility!

FULL LIST OF EVENTS! 

Resume Extravaganza (Drop-In Resume Reviews)  Wednesday, April 8th, 11am-4pm, Tykeson Hall Commons (1st Floor)  Did you know you can have someone review your resume before the Career & Internship Expo? Drop in any time to get feedback on your resume. Don’t have a resume? Come learn how to make one!  

Spring Career Closet Pop-Up  Thursday, April 9th, 12pm-3pm, EMU Redwood Auditorium (214)  Make a first impression that reflects your awesomeness! Browse through new and gently used business casual and professional clothes, and curate a FREE interview-ready outfit!  

Career Tour: Healthcare   Friday, April 11th, 8:45am-1pm, meet at Ford Alumni Center (RSVP on Handshake Required! Space Limited!)  Thinking about a career in healthcare? Have we got a Friday morning for you! Hop on the bus and let’s go explore McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center in Springfield for a behind-the-scenes tour and Q&A with healthcare leaders just for UO students! 

Building your Network: LinkedIn & Beyond (Workshop)  Friday, April 10th, 2pm-2:45pm, Tykeson Hall Garden Level 50P (University Career Center-Conference Room)  Learn how to build meaningful professional connections, both online and in person. We’ll cover how to create or update your LinkedIn profile, reach out for informational interviews, and make the most of networking opportunities at the UO and beyond.  

Curious about the Career & Internship Expo (Virtual Info Session)   Monday, April 13th, 12pm-1pm via Zoom (Register in Handshake)   Learn the ins and outs of navigating the in-person Career & Internship Expo, updating your Handshake profile, researching employers, and how to present yourself authentically during the expo.  

So, You want to learn about Grad School (Workshop)  Tuesday, April 14th, 2:30pm-3:15pm, Tykeson Hall Garden Level 50P (University Career Center-Conference Room)  Whether you are just exploring or already researching programs, this workshop will help you make sense of your options. We will break down different types of degrees, how to find and compare programs, and what to expect in the application process so you can move forward with clarity and confidence. 

Your Future in Tech + Connect (Networking)  Tuesday, April 14, 4pm-6pm, EMU Crater Lake Rooms       Join us for a special industry-connection night dedicated to helping you get career ready for your future in Tech. Participate in small group networking with tech professionals and alumni to get advice on career-building opportunities and connections. 

Interviewing Strategies for Success (Workshop)  Wednesday, April 15th, 12pm-12:45pm, Tykeson Hall Garden Level 50P (University Career Center-Conference Room)  Learn how to prepare with confidence, answer common (and tricky) interview questions, and communicate your strengths clearly. We will also share helpful tools and resources you can use before your next interview. 

Opportunity Hub (Panel + Networking)  Wednesday, April 15th , 3:30pm-5pm, EMU Crater Lake Rooms (146)  Following panel from 3:30pm-4pm, Grab a snack and rotate through casual small group chats with alumni, professionals, and employers to learn more about their companies (like Nike, Pinterest, Teach for America and more!), career paths, and get advice about how to find career-building opportunities and connections for your future.  

Job Shadow Day Interest Meeting 

Wednesday, April 15th, 4pm-5pm, Tykeson Commons  Come learn about Job Shadow Day happening on May 15th and how getting outside your comfort zone for one Friday with mystery mentors can jumpstart your career exploration!  

BizCareers: Internships Spring into Fall Ready (Panel + Networking)  Wednesday, April 15th, 5:30-8pm, Lillis 182 & Atrium  INTERNSHIPS! How to find them, prepare for, apply, and land them!  

• Internship Stories Panel, 5:30-60, Lillis 182  Hear practical, applicable insights from a panel of alumni, industry partners who hire, and students who successfully navigated the process during an internship prep panel focused on networking, referrals, timing, applications, and more. 

• Internship Power Prep Round Tables (with FOOD!), 6:30-8pm, Lillis Atrium    Stay for a structured roundtable Q&A, exploring four essential topics—researching companies and people, getting started with networking, building resilience during the search process, and developing mentorship and ongoing relationships. You will practice asking great questions, get personalized advice, and walk away with actionable next steps you can use immediately.  

Spring Career & Internship Expo 

Thursday, April 16th, 12pm-4pm, EMU Ballrooms  

Get curious about your future and make connections with cool employers! Find your career fit with over 60+ employers comprised of a variety of industries and organizational types--all on-campus and excited to share more with you about early career talent opportunities.   

• First Career & Internship Expo? Or just a little nervous? Come early and get a low-stress, behind-the-scenes Expo Preview & Tour (11:15am-noon, EMU Ballrooms) and learn how to navigate the expo and make a good first impression with employers.   

• Take part in the Expo Scavenger Hunt to win prizes and have fun conversation starters with employers.   

• Want to make a great first impression?  Bring copies of your resume and wear an outfit that reflects your confidence, personality, and professionalism. 

• While you are all dressed up, get a FREE Professional Headshot taken to add to your LinkedIn!  

Practice Interview Day 

Friday, April 17th, 12pm-4pm (30-45 minutes each), Tykeson Hall 1st Floor Commons     Come practice commonly asked interview questions and get active feedback from experienced professionals and career coaches on your communication style, professionalism, and more. Drop-ins are welcome! 

CFAR Banner at 510 Oak

Utilizing the visual language of color calibration charts and contemporary stock photography, this image collage offers the viewer an amalgamation of references that could at first appear to be celebratory. Mashed together are depictions of beauty regiments, skin tone makeup charts, piles of foods and ethnic spices, sumptuous desserts, tropical vacation landscapes, pastoral farmlands, and community building moments of togetherness. On closer inspection, the frictions and ironies begin to surface, suggesting an anxious shift in contemporary politics masked by upbeat advertising language and colorful veneer.

Long interested in how visual displays can camouflage more complex realities, Syjuco purchased the majority of these images from commercial stock photography sites, juxtaposing them in a way that teases out conflicting meanings. Included is one large image she staged in her studio, as well as multiple color calibration charts that are meant to check for “correct color” — a fraught metaphor for our times.

Stephanie Syjuco works in photography, sculpture, and installation, moving from handmade and craft-inspired mediums to digital editing and archive excavations. Recently, she has focused on how photography and image-based processes are implicated in the construction of exclusionary narratives of history and citizenship. Born in the Philippines in 1974, she is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship Award, a Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Award and a Tiffany Foundation Award. Her work is in numerous collections, including at The Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum, The Getty Museum, SFMOMA, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, among others. She was a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow at the National Museum of American History in Washington DC in 2019–20 and is featured in the acclaimed PBS documentary series Art21: Art in the Twenty-First Century. She is a Professor in Sculpture at the University of California, Berkeley and lives in Oakland, California.

Visit the McMillan Gallery for an exhibition featuring work from our talented Printmaking students at the University of Oregon. Anywhere from relief to screen print, this annual show features a variety of works from student artists. Join us for refreshments and meet the artists on April 21 5:30-6:30 p.m. On view in the McMillan Gallery March 17, 2026 to May 3, 2026.

New work by Lucy James.

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Map to location of Foyer Gallery in Lawrence Hall

Erin Hamilton explores the interplay of color, shape, and transparency to create tension between space and flatness. Drawing from ordinary moments of love, comfort, and connection, her work investigates how stripes can evoke both structure and softness.

Audrey McCarthy revives abandoned studio materials through ornamentation and assemblage. Her ceramic sculptures explore process, preciousness, and play as the forms imbue remnants of unassuming studio corners: the bottom of the sink, the back of the shelf, the side of the bucket. She dresses each piece with color, texture, and pattern as an homage to the depreciated materials.

Andrew Hunter is exploring the objectness of a painting as a machine, as they yield the power to modify motion at an incredibly slow rate which captures the mechanics of (a) reality and (b)etween others. The paintings then become devices for communicating between the spaces of light and movement, the unseen segments of time which exposes the other.

New work by Jamie Meyer

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*Note: UO ID card with building access is required to gain entry to Washburn Gallery.*

Andee Hess is the Principal of Osmose Design, based in Portland.

Osmose focuses primarily on hospitality, retail, and high-end residential clients, with designs anchored in strong conceptual stock. Their work asserts that bold choices can illuminate the soul of a project, and might even embed moments of lightly trippy joy within the daily routine. Custom furniture and lighting are regular extensions of Osmose’s design approach,  continuously collaborating with new artisans and industries to conjure singular solutions that fulfill the unique needs of each client. 

Osmose has worked with prominent national and international brands like Salt & Straw, Wieden + Kennedy, Stumptown Coffee Roasters, Steven Smith Teamaker, and Baskin Robbins South Korea.

Hosted by the School of Architecture and Environment in the College of Design.

Filmlandia Screening Series presents: Old Joy (2006). Free and open to the public.

Directed by Kelly Reichardt | 76 min | Unrated

Synopsis: Two old pals reunite for a camping trip in Oregon’s Cascade Mountains.

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

Why YOU should come to this Expo...

• You're curious about your future. Explore different career paths and job roles across industries. EXPOse yourself to unique career pathways that can use your career readiness skills and passions to make an impact in the world.
• You want to make connections. These organizations LOVE to hire Ducks and want to help you find your career fit. You might even meet UO alumni recruiting for them at the expo. Ask a recruiter what career readiness skills you can be building now to make you a top candidate in the present or future (and add them to your Linkedin network for future connections!).
• You want to find a job, internship, year of service, volunteer opportunity, and more! If you're actively job searching, have your resume ready to hand out and a short and sweet synopsis about yourself and your professional interests ready to go! If you're just exploring options, collect contact info, do some additional research, and do an informational interview to learn more before you apply.
• You want to build your confidence! Practice asking questions of employers AND sharing about who you are and what you're passionate about.  Every expo you attend and each time you approach a recruiter, you get more and more comfortable presenting yourself in a professional manner.
• You want a FREE professional headshot! Dress to impress and get a headshot taken you can use on your Linkedin! 

WHO'S COMING? Find your career fit with over 60+ employers comprised of private industry; public, educational, and non-profit organizations; local government, the federal government, law enforcement, and military--ALL on campus and excited to share more with you about their organization and early career talent opportunities. Open to students from ALL majors, classifications, and identities. Every expo looks a little different so come each term to keep exploring and expanding your career opportunities!

WHAT NEXT? Register for the Expo on Handshake today to learn about all the companies coming, and positions of interest you can be researching. We'll also send you tips and advice for how to make the most of the expo, including Career Readiness Week workshops like our Resume Extravaganza so you can have a great resume to hand to potential employers!

The University Career Center thanks Enterprise Mobility for sponsoring all of our Spring Career Readiness Week events and workshops and to Summit Bank for sponsoring the Spring Career & Internship Expo!

For a full list of Spring Career Readiness Week (April 10–17) events and workshops, check out http://career.uoregon.edu/events

Join HOPES 31 (Holistic Options for Planet Earth Sustainability) for our annual conference April 20–22, featuring a week of lectures, panels, and workshops exploring this year’s theme: RECIPROCITY. The HOPES 31 conference explores how understanding our neighbors and taking small deliberate actions can create meaningful change. We examine hope as an inherent human quality that drives us to care for our communities, and how collective small acts of resistance can transform our world, one connection at a time.

Join us for a reception celebrating student art. Enjoy refreshments and meet the artists on April 21 5:30-6:30 p.m.

Visit the McMillan Gallery for an exhibition featuring work from our talented Printmaking students at the University of Oregon. Anywhere from relief to screen print, this annual show features a variety of works from student artists. On view in the McMillan Gallery March 17, 2026 to May 3, 2026.

The Department of Cinema Studies invites UO students to: "Filmmaking Masterclass with Alexi Pappas and Laura Wagner."

Co-director Alexi Pappas and Producer Laura Wagner will offer insight into the creative and logistical challenges of making an independent feature in Tracktown–Eugene, OR. An unconventional coming-of-age film that blurs the line between fiction and lived athletic experience, Tracktown (2016) draws on Pappas’s dual identity as an elite Olympic runner and filmmaker.

Free and open to UO students.

About the Filmmakers

Alexi Pappas–Co-director, Co-writer: Alexi is a filmmaker and a professional athlete training for the 2016 Olympics in the 10,000 meters. Alexi completed her thesis in poetry at Dartmouth College where she graduated magna cum laude before running off to compete in the 2012 Olympic Track & Field Trials. In 2011 Alexi co-wrote the script for the award-winning feature film Tall as the Baobab Tree. Alexi was also a member of the Dog Day Players improv theatre troupe at Dartmouth and is a graduate of the UCB Theater improv program in New York City. She is the co-founder of Film Fatales Portland.

Laura Wagner–Producer: Laura, founder of Bay Bridge Productions, produces independent films and theatre projects. She is the recipient of the Sundance Institute’s Creative Producing Fellowship, the San Francisco Film Society’s Kenneth Rainin Foundation Fellowship, and the IFP/Cannes Marche Du Film Producer’s Network Fellowship. She was nominated for a Film Independent Spirit Award for It Felt Like Love, the critically acclaimed feature film that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and the Rotterdam International Film Festival.

Filmlandia Masterclass: A Strauss Visiting Filmmaker Series Special Event

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.

Presented by the University of Oregon Center for Art Research

Join Salar Mameni for a reflection on war, genocide and the limits of critique. 

Salar Mameni is an associate professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies and affiliated faculty in the History of Art at the University of California at Berkeley. He specializes in contemporary transnational art and visual culture in the Arab/Muslim world with interdisciplinary research on racial discourse, transnational gender politics, militarism, oil cultures and extractive economies in West Asia. Mameni is the author of Terracene: A Crude Aesthetics (Duke, 2023), which considers the emergence of the Anthropocene as a new geological era in relation to the concurrent declaration of the War on Terror in the early 2000s.

University of Oregon 2025-26 Visiting Artist Lecture Series Presented by the Department of Art and Center for Art Research

This talk explores Alice Bucknell’s work through the lens of clipping: the moment in a video game when the player slips through a wall or falls beyond the map. Often treated as a technical error, clipping becomes a method for breaking open systems and exposing their ecological, political, and epistemic structures. Across projects such as The Alluvials (2023), Small Void (2025), and Earth Engine (both 2026), Bucknell uses gamespace as a site for speculative experimentation, blurring boundaries between humans and nonhuman, natural and synthetic intelligences, and self vs world. In this framework, play offers an affective encounter with the world that’s grounded in total feeling rather than totalized knowledge. Clipping the horizon means colliding with the limits of perception itself and tumbling sideways into a world that resists being mapped, modeled, or controlled.

Alice Bucknell is an artist, writer, and educator based in Los Angeles. Their work explores the affective dimensions of video games as interfaces for understanding complex systems, relationships, and forms of knowledge. Bucknell is generally interested in the limits of scientific knowledge and systems thinking, the weird possibilities of play, and play as an embodied technology. They have exhibited internationally, including at Centre Pompidou (Paris), Kunsthalle Praha (Prague), Ars Electronica (Linz), transmediale (Berlin), Arcade Seoul, the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Singapore Art Museum and Serpentine Galleries (London). In 2025, their video game The Alluvials was acquired by SFMOMA, becoming the first video game in the museum's permanent collection. A 2025 recipient of the Creative Capital Award and a 2026 resident of La Becque Principal Residency Program in Switzerland, Bucknell teaches world

What is Research? (2026) explores various natures, purposes, and roles of research across disciplines, fields, and areas. The event considers frameworks of systematic and creative inquiry, including methods, designs, analyses, discoveries, collaborations, dissemination, ethics, integrity, diversity, media/technologies, and information environments.

The thirteenth gathering 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 highlights 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.

Featured participants include:

• N. Katherine Hayles, Literature, Duke University and English, UCLA • Colin Koopman, Philosophy/Digital Humanities/New Media and Culture, University of Oregon • Vera Keller, History/European Studies, University of Oregon • Daniel Kreiss, Information, Technology, and Public Life, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill • Liska Chan, Landscape Architecture/Environmental Futures, University of Oregon • Mark A. Bedau, Philosophy, Reed College and Complex Systems, Portland State University • Bernd Reiter, Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures, Texas Tech University • Jakki Bailey, Media Studies/Immersive Media Communication, University of Oregon Portland • Tibor Solymosi, Philosophy, Villanova University and Embodied Education, Aarhus University, Denmark • Alexis Merculief, Prevention Science/Counseling Psychology, University of Oregon Portland • Adell Amos, Law/Environmental and Natural Resources Law, University of Oregon • Victor Pickard, Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania

In cooperation with the International Association for Media and Communication Research.

The event celebrates three decades of the Communication and Media Studies Doctoral Program in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon.

Registration required. Please see the website for more details.

This two-day event brings together leading artists and scholars who address and resist extractive violence, often from decolonial, anti-racist, and/or anti-capitalist perspectives, and who envision worlds and relations beyond extraction/extractivism.

Thursday: film screening and discussion; Friday: talks and panel discussions.

Filmlandia Screening Series Presents: Screening of Tracktown (2016) and Q&A with Director Alexi Pappas and Producer Laura Wagner.

Free and open to the public.

Directed by Alexi Pappas and Jeremy Teicher | 88 min

Synopsis:  A young, talented, and lonely long-distance runner twists her ankle as she prepares for the Olympic Trials and must do something she’s never done before: take a day off.

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.

A Strauss Visiting Filmmaker Series Special Event

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.

This two-day event brings together leading artists and scholars who address and resist extractive violence, often from decolonial, anti-racist, and/or anti-capitalist perspectives, and who envision worlds and relations beyond extraction/extractivism.

Thursday: film screening and discussion; Friday: talks and panel discussions.

In this talk, Professor Jon Holt of Portland State University will explore two fundamental frameworks for parsing the visual grammar of comics: Scott McCloud’s formalist analysis and Natsume Fusanosuke’s culturally grounded approach to manga expression. McCloud and Natsume constructed their theories of visual language separately but simultaneously in the 1990s, and their discourses remain powerful and helpful to comics studies scholars as well as instructors teaching manga and comics in the American classroom. By placing these perspectives in dialogue, Holt will show how these flexible frameworks can still help us interpret manga not just as a visual narrative form, but as a distinct cultural medium.

The lecture is open to the public.

The event is sponsored by:

• Yoko McClain Lecture Series in Japanese Studies
• The Sally Claire Haseltine Endowment in Art History
• Comics and Cartoon Studies Program
• Center for Asian and Pacific Studies

Ed Rubin, Assistant Professor, Economics, presenting on "Do Local Emissions Respond to Upwind Abatement? Evidence of Regulatory Rebound from Power-plant Rules and PM2.5 Standards".

The Institute for Policy Research and Engagement is working in collaboration with the Department of Economics and the School of Planning, Public Policy and Management.

This annual event offers undergraduates from all majors a vibrant, inclusive forum to showcase their research and creative work through a variety of presentation platforms. The event celebrates inquiry and discovery across disciplines, helps students build communication and professional skills, and connects them with peers, faculty, and mentors. Whether attending or presenting, students at any stage in their academic journey will gain confidence, expand their networks, and continue strengthening their pathways to success.

The General Agenda on the website gives an overview of events throughout the day. The searchable schedule will be posted at urds.uoregon.edu/symposium closer the event.

Cinema Studies proudly announces the 2026 Visiting Filmmaker Series with award-winning Director Rachel Lambert. Please join us for a screening of Lambert’s 2023 feature film, Sometimes I Think About Dying, followed by an in-person Q&A with the director.

Free and open to the community.

Directed by Rachel Lambert | 2023 | 91 Min Lost on the dreary Oregon coast, Fran finds solace in her cubicle, listening to the constant hum of officemates and occasionally daydreaming to pass the time. She is ghosting through life, unable to pop her bubble of isolation, when a friendly new coworker, Robert, persistently tries to connect with her. Though it goes against every fiber of her being, she may have to give this guy a chance. Director Lambert and team craft beautiful cinema for this delicately told story of love for the socially awkward and emotionally challenged. The film is made all the more human by its lovely cast, most prominent in the penetrating eyes of lead actress/producer, Daisy Ridley, and the caring smile of lead actor, Dave Merheje. Sometimes I Think About Dying is an unexpected fable on the virtues of living.

The UO Cinema Studies Visiting Filmmaker Series is Funded by the Generous Harlan J. Strauss Visiting Filmmaker Endowment.

Lecture - just practice; practicing process

1 hour

just practice is a collaborative practice started by Amanda Ugorji and Sophie Weston Chien. They will be lecturing on their process and how their experiences and values shape their work as built environment professionals, educators, and textile designers. In addition to sharing their most recent pieces intersecting ideas of environmental justice, the built world, and narrative, they will be sharing how they have navigated collaboration, funding, and working sustainably. They hope for this lecture to serve as a case study for young practitioners imagining what is next. 

Workshop - practicing process with just practice

75 minutes

In this workshop with just practice, we ask you to bring a project you feel most excited about being realized and imagine how to make it real with us. So much of what we do in school is framed as an exercise, but we are interested in thinking about how the ideas (and sometimes derivatives) can show up in your work outside of school. For roughly an hour, we will talk through embedded values, potential collaborators, design agency, and what success would look like to you. We hope to foster a broader conversation with peers. Please submit an image associated with the project and a three-sentence description in advance.

Bio

just practice (Amanda Ugorji and Sophie Weston Chien) spans architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, community engagement, textile, and graphic design, as well as activist and organizing work within the design field. We think about modes of practice, the spatialization of memory, Black feminist practices, the historical role of women in architecture, and strategies for collective care. just practice has exhibited at Northeastern University, Mills College, MIT Museum, Boston Public Library Leventhal Map Center, MIT Rotch Architecture Gallery, Yale School of Art and Boston Society of Architects, and our work is in private collections and in the permanent collection at the MIT Museum. Our piece Soft City was awarded the inaugural City Talks Digital Gallery Award from the Spatial Analysis Lab at USC, and we were finalists for the Harvard University Radcliffe Institute Public Art Competition.

Sophie is from North Carolina, and Amanda is from Massachusetts.

This memorial lecture was created by friends and family members of our department’s alumna, Mary Kim McKeown. She received her bachelor of landscape architecture from the University of Oregon in 1982 and was working in Mill Valley, California in the offices of Royston, Hanamoto, Alley and Abey (now RHAA). McKeown was considered one of the bright ones, and an up-and-coming leader for the firm. She lost her life when a magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck the San Francisco Bay Area on October 17, 1989.

To honor her memory, McKeown’s family and her associates at RHAA dedicated themselves to establishing this memorial lecture fund. An endowment fund at the UO Foundation was created, and in 1992 the department hosted Robert Royston of RHAA as the inaugural speaker in this lecture series.

Cinema Studies proudly announces the 2026 Visiting Filmmaker Series with award-winning Director Rachel Lambert. Please join us for a Directing Masterclass with Rachel Lambert.

Lambert will offer her evolving process for developing a cohesive artistic vision and character-driven narratives across her three indie feature films, In the Radiant City (2016), Sometimes I Think About Dying (2023) and Carousel (2026).

Free and open to UO students.

The UO Cinema Studies Visiting Filmmaker Series is Funded by the Generous Harlan J. Strauss Visiting Filmmaker Endowment.

Weaving Hope represents an opportunity for queer and trans stories of recovery from substance misuse to reach a wider public. The first event of its kind at UO, this event will bring together queer and trans individuals from UO, the Eugene area, and beyond to share unique stories focused on how substance misuse impacts our communities, and how we have survived and thrived in the face of addiction.

The Dawn is Too Far shares the untold stories of eight Iranian Americans in the San Francisco Bay Area and shares the longer arc of history (beyond the 1979 revolution) that recounts events both in Iran and the US. The film features aspects of the Bay Area Iranian diaspora community and the way their lives and work were influenced by this region of California, but how they have contributed and helped shape it as well. The film offers a poetic and complex narrative that undermines the barrage of negative headlines that dominate our news media and features rare archival footage. 

Persis Karim is the former director of the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies at San Francisco State University where she also taught in the Department of Humanities and Comparative and World Literature. She is the editor of three anthologies of Iranian diaspora literature, and has published numerous articles about Iranian diaspora literature and culture for academic journals, as well as poetry and essays in non-academic publications. The Dawn is Too Far: Stories of Iranian-American Life is her first film and reflects her interest in documenting and sharing the larger history and personal stories of those who are part of the global Iranian diaspora.

Made possible by the Department of Anthropology, SSWANA, and the Department of Art’s Center for Art Research.

University of Oregon 2025-26 Visiting Artist Lecture Series Presented by the Department of Art and Center for Art Research

“This presentation introduces my studio practice, which is situated at the intersection of weaving and animation. I create woven textiles on a jacquard loom and translate these fabrics into time-based works, approaching the loom as a camera and editing tool. By working with sequential woven images and material processes, my work explores how textiles can generate motion and shape the moving image. I will discuss recent projects that move between handwoven cloth and animation, as well as the technical and conceptual questions that arise when textiles are used as a time-based medium. The talk will also touch on the overlapping histories of weaving and cinema, and how textile processes offer alternative ways of thinking about moving images, narrative, and authorship.”- Kate Nartker, 2026 

Kate Nartker works between animation and weaving to dismantle images, narratives, and material structures. She received an MFA from the California College of the Arts and is an Assistant Professor of Textile Design at the Wilson College of Textiles at NC State University. Her work has been included in exhibitions and screenings throughout the United States and internationally, including The Museum of Craft and Design in San Francisco, The Contemporary Austin, and the Hordaland Art Center in Bergen, Norway.

Patrick Hunnicutt, Assistant Professor, PPPM, presents: "Poisoning the Well: Process, Recognition, and Opposition to Environmental Policy in Rural America".

The Institute for Policy Research and Engagement is working in collaboration with the UO School of Planning, Public Policy and Management.

REGISTER FOR FREE Join Align Magazine and the UO Fashion Club for "In Bloom," a free student fashion show celebrating creativity, sustainability, and original and thrifted style.

The first act will showcase an array of original designs created by students. In the second half, models will take the runway in curated looks featuring vintage and thrifted pieces styled by The Racks, Fashion Club, Align, So Much Love, and Steezy.

Refreshments will be served during intermission. Resellers including the Racks, So Much Love, and Steezy will also be selling clothing and accessories before and after the show and during intermission. 

Admission is free, but registration is required. Come support student designers, shop for one-of-a-kind pieces, and see the talent our campus has to offer!

Join us for a workshop with Tibetan Master Jamyong Singye to learn about the preparatory iconometry of traditional Thangka paintings.

Learn how to develop a perfect grid (tik-khang) and how to draw a Buddha face and his full figure in a meditation pose with precise measurements and proportions.

Templates and supplies will be provided.

Click the link below to pre-register now — space is limited to 50 guests only!

https://jsma.uoregon.edu/form/studio-workshop-rsvp

Event sponsors: Department of the History of Art and Architecture, Asian Studies Program, Oregon Humanities Center, Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.

Filmlandia Screening Series presents: Street Girls (1975). Free and open to the public.

Directed by Michael Miller | 74 min | Rated R

Synopsis: When a middle-aged father searches for his dropout daughter Angel, his quest takes him into the underworld of prostitutes, pimps, drug addicts, and thieves.

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

Prof. Carolyn Nadeau (Illiniois Wesleyan University) will deliver a public lecture titled “Food Fit for a King: What the 1611 Cookbook Teaches Us about Early Modern Spanish Foodways.” Her lecture is one of two keynote presentations of the Mediterranean Seminar Spring Workshop and Conference, hosted by the Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages.

The lecture is free and open to the public.

This event was made possible through the generous support of the Schnitzer School for Global Studies and Languages, the Oregon Humanities Center, the Department of Romance Languages, the Italian Program, the Global Justice Program, the Rutherford Middle East Initiative, the Global Studies Institute, the Department of Religious Studies, the Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies, the Food Studies Program, the European Studies Program, the Department of History of Art and Architecture, the Department of History, and the Department of Comparative Literature.

Prof. Anny Gaul (University of Maryland, College Park) will deliver a public lecture titled “A Mediterranean Nightshade: Tomatoes, Trade, and Travel over the Longue Durée.“ Her lecture is one of two keynote presentations of the Mediterranean Seminar Spring Workshop and Conference, hosted by the Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages.

The lecture is free and open to the public.

This event was made possible through the generous support of the Schnitzer School for Global Studies and Languages, the Oregon Humanities Center, the Department of Romance Languages, the Italian Program, the Global Justice Program, the Rutherford Middle East Initiative, the Global Studies Institute, the Department of Religious Studies, the Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies, the Food Studies Program, the European Studies Program, the Department of History of Art and Architecture, the Department of History, and the Department of Comparative Literature.

Filmlandia Screening Series presents: Sometimes a Great Notion (1971).

*Free with UO ID

Directed by Paul Newman | 114 min | Rated PG

Synopsis: A family of fiercely independent Oregon loggers struggles to keep their family business alive amid changing times.

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

University of Oregon 2025-26 Visiting Artist Lecture Series Presented by the Department of Art and Center for Art Research

Allan Wexler’s work mediates the gap between fine and applied art using the mediums of architecture, sculpture, photography, painting, and drawing. Wexler’s work is sometimes functional, sometimes theoretical, and often performative. In all cases, it demonstrates a commitment to reevaluating basic assumptions about the human relationship to the built and natural environments.

In the late 1960s Allan Wexler was an early member of the group of architects and artists who questioned the perceived divide between art and the design disciplines. They called themselves non-architects or paper architects. The subject of Wexler's work is the built environment. He creates drawings, multimedia objects, images, and installations that alter perceptions of domestic activities. Wexler is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (2016), is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, and a winner of both a Chrysler Award for Design Innovation and the Henry J. Leir Prize from the Jewish Museum. Wexler currently teaches at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. He is represented by the Jane Lombard Gallery in New York City where he had a solo exhibition from January through March of 2025.

Made possible by the Department of Art, the Department of Product Design, and the Bob James Ceramics Fund.

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.

Join us in celebrating the Class of 2026! 

For graduate RSVP requirements and day-of details, email dsgn@uoregon.edu or call 541-346-3405. You can also visit:  https://design.uoregon.edu/commencement