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Archive of Library Events in 2012-2013
Spring Term 2013
Thursday, May 16, Time TBA
Undergraduate Symposium, Erb Memorial Union, (UO Libraries cosponsors), free
Tuesday, May 14, 4:00 p.m.
Back to the Newly Digital Networked Normal, with Robert Glenn Howard, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Knight Library Browsing Room, (UO Libraries cosponsors), free
Wednesday, May 8, 7 p.m.
The Zombie Apocalypse, Community Conversations, Learning-Living Center Performance Hall (UO Libraries cosponsors), free
Saturdays, May 4, 11, 18, June 1, 9:30 a.m.-noon
The Sonnet and Its Moments, Insight Seminar with Professor Leah Middlebrook (Comparative Literature), $99, Knight Library Browsing Room, registration required
Friday, May 3, 6:00 p.m.
Screening and Filmmakers Panel Discussion of The Revolutionaries and Fumiko Hayashida: The Woman Behind the Symbol, 180 PLC, (UO Libraries cosponsors), free
Monday, April 29, 7 p.m
Sonnetization: The Fateful Encounter of Argument and Song Launches the Poem of Western Modernity, with Professor Leah Middlebrook (Comparative Literature), Insight Seminar Lecture, Knight Library Browsing Room, free
Wednesday, April 24, 7 p.m.
Economic Impact of Higher Education, Community Conversations, Learning-Living Center Performance Hall (UO Libraries cosponsors), free
Thursday, April 18, noon
Home Movie Archives Live, Patricia Zimmerman, Proctor Classroom (Room 41), Knight Library, free
Thursday, April 18, 2:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m., 4:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Oregon Folklife Network Panel Presentation and Open House, Rooms 122, 242, Knight Library (UO Libraries cosponsors) free
Thursday, April 18, 7 p.m.
Careers in the Video Game Industry, 103 Global Scholars Hall, free
Wednesday, April 17, 3 p.m.
Popular Reading Collection Launch & Reception, South Reading Room, Knight Library, free
Tuesday, April 16, 3 p.m.
Higher Education at the Inflection Point: Toward edu@2025, a talk by Richard Katz, founder of Richard N. Katz & Associates, former vice president, EDUCAUSE, Philip H. Knight Dean of Libraries Speaker Series, Knight Library Browsing Room, free
Friday, April 12, 7 p.m.
Angelo Restivo, Cinema Studies Scholar Viewpoint Series, 18 PLC, UO Campus (UO Libraries cosponsors), free
Wednesday, April 10-14
Rare Books, Incunabula, and Manuscripts Exhibition in Conjunction with American Association for Italian Studies Conference, UO Campus
Wednesday, April 10, 7 p.m.
Explorations In Molecular Gastronomy, Community Conversations, Earl Kitchen (UO Libraries cosponsors), free
Saturday, April 6, 2 p.m.
Morris Graves: The Man, The Myth, the Mystery, with Robert Yarber, executive director of the Morris Graves Foundation, Knight Library Browsing Room, free
Saturday, April 6, 3:30 p.m.
Morris Graves: Selected Letters, authors' presentation with Lawrence Fong and Vicki Halper, coeditors, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art Ford Lecture Hall (UO Libraries cosponsors)
Saturdays, April 6, 13, 20, 27, 9:30 a.m.-noon
Modernist Fiction, Insight Seminar, with Professor Paul Peppis (English), Knight Library Browsing Room, $99, registration required
Wednesday-Thursday, April 3-4, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
UO Libraries' "Discover Music" Sale and Services Info Event, Knight Library Browsing Room, free
Monday, April 1, 7 p.m.
Stories That Matter: The Dangers of a Single Story, Chimamanda Adichie, Ford Alumni Center, Guistina Ballroom, (UO Libraries cosponsors), free
Monday, April 1, 7 p.m.
Modernizing Fiction, Writing Minds: the Case of Virginia Woolf, Insight Seminar Lecture with Professor Paul Peppis (English), Knight Library Browsing Room, free
Monday, April 1, 3 p.m.
Crowdsourcing the Public Domain, with John Wilkin, Executive Director, HathiTrust; Associate University Librarian for Publishing and Technology, University of Michigan, Knight Library Browsing Room, free
Monday, April 1, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Edible Book Festival, Knight Library Browsing Room, free
Winter Term 2013
Wednesday, March 20, 10:30 a.m.
Using Online Video Oral Histories in University Courses across the Disciplines, Santa Clara University English Professor Jill Goodman Gould and SCU Instruction Librarian Gail Gradowski, Knight Library Browsing Room, free
Wednesday, March 13, 7 p.m.
D.B. Cooper and the Exploding Whale: Folk Heroes of the Northwest, with William Sullivan, Knight Library Browsing Room, (UO Libraries cosponsors), free
Monday, March 11, 2 p.m.
The Evacuation of the Tumbuktu Manuscripts and Their Life in Exile: The Work of T160K, with Sephanie Diakite (UO Libraries cosponsors), free
Monday, March 11, 8 p.m.
Psycho, Winter Remakes: An Informal Film Series, Global Scholars Hall Great Room, (UO Libraries cosponsors), free
Saturday, March 9, 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
Workshop for Wikipedia Entries on Women, 141 Allen Hall, (UO Libraries cosponsors), free
Saturday, March 9, 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
Playing Through the Black Plague, One-Day Insight Seminar, with Professor Marc Schachter (Romance Languages), Knight Library Browsing Room, $45, registration required
Friday, March 8, 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
Wikipedia Editor's Workshop, with Sarah Stierch, Knight Library Browsing Room, (UO Libraries cosponsors), free
Monday, March 4, 8 p.m.
Psycho, Winter Remakes: An Informal Film Series, Global Scholars Hall Great Room, (UO Libraries cosponsors), free
Saturday, March 2, 2 p.m.
Reading by Barbara Corrado Pope from The Missing Italian Girl, Knight Library Browsing Room, (UO Libraries cosponsors), Free
Monday, February 25, 8 p.m.
Scarface, Winter Remakes: An Informal Film Series, Global Scholars Hall Great Room, (UO Libraries cosponsors), free
Friday, February 22, 3 p.m.
Timothy Miller on Oregon Communes, Knight Library Browsing Room, free
Thursday, February 21, 7 p.m.
Professionalism 101, Community Conversations, Learning-Living Center Performance Hall (UO Libraries cosponsors), free
Monday, February 11, 8 p.m.
Scarface, Winter Remakes: An Informal Film Series, Global Scholars Hall Great Room, (UO Libraries cosponsors), free
Saturday, February 9, 9:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
UO TEDx Conference--Curiosity & Resistance: Diversity Is Critical to Thinking, Various Locations, (Library Providing Streaming Media Service), tickets required
Saturdays, February 9, 16, 23, March 2 , 9:30 a.m.-noon
Dante's Purgatorio, Insight Seminar, with Professor Gina Psaki (Romance Languages), Knight Library Browsing Room, $99, registration required
Friday, February 8, 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Working Filmmaker Series: Portlandia, 115 Lawrence (UO Libraries cosponsors), free
Monday, February 4, 7 p.m.
Purgatorio, Dante’s Human Realm, Gina Psaki, Insight Seminar introductory lecture, free
Saturday, February 2, 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
Caravaggio and Music, One-Day Insight Seminar, with Professor Marc Vanscheeuwijck (Musicology), Knight Library Browsing Room, $45, registration required
Thursday, January 31, 7 p.m.
Everyday Life of a (Not So) Average Student, Learning-Living Center Performance Hall (UO Libraries cosponsors), free
Wednesday, January 30, 7 p.m.
What Augustine Didn't Confess, Global Scholars Hall 123 (UO Libraries cosponsors), free
Thursday, January 24, 7 p.m.
Food and Politics, Global Scholars Hall 117 (UO Libraries cosponsors), free
Thursday, January 17, 7 p.m.
Oceans: The Final Frontier, Global Scholars Hall 117 (UO Libraries cosponsors), free
Thursday, January 17, 4 p.m.
Applied Humanities: Revisiting the Divide, Knight Library Browsing Room (UO Libraries cosponsors), free
Saturdays, January 5, 12, 19, 26, 9:30 a.m.-noon
Caravaggio, Insight Seminar, with Professor James Harper (Art History), Knight Library Browsing Room, $99, registration required
Fall Term 2012
Wednesday, December 5, 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m
Streamed Workshops on Use of Library Resources and Space, Rick Lugg,
Monday, December 3, 7 p.m.
“Michelangelo and Caravaggio, or How Competition with the Deceased Can Be Good for Your Art,” James Harper (Art History), Knight Library Browsing Room, Free
Thursday, November 15, 5-7 p.m
So You Want My Job?, Knight Library Browsing Room (UO Libraries cosponsors), Free
Wednesday, November 14, 4-5 p.m.
Adding Natural Shape and Appearance to Web Maps: Adaptive Projections and Pseudorealistic Map Design, GIS Day Talk, Bernhard Jenny, Knight Library Browsing Room, Free
Thursday, November 8, 4 p.m.
Oregon Undergraduate Research Journal (OUR Journal) Publication Party, Knight Library Browsing Room, Free
Thursday, November 8, 7 p.m.
Censor This! Community Conversation, LLC Performance Hall (UO Libraries cosponsors), Free
Wednesday, November 7, 4-5 p.m.
"Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy," Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Knight Library Browsing Room, Free
Saturdays, November 3, 10, 17, Dec. 1, 9:30-noon
The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge, Insight Seminar with Jim Earl, Knight Library Browsing Room, $99, registration required
Thursday, November 1, 7 p.m.
Strike a Pose! Photo Manipulation, Community Conversation, LLC Performance Hall, (UO Libraries cosponsors), Free
Monday, Oct. 29, 7 p.m.
The Invention of Romantic Poetry, Jim Earl, Insight Seminar Lecture, Knight Library’s Browsing Room. Free
Saturday, Oct. 27, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Film Preservation Workshop (for staff at institutions with film collections), White Stag Block, 70 NW Couch St., Portland
Thursday, Oct. 25, 3-5 p.m.
"From Suffrage to Citizenship: Empowering Oregon Women in the Twentieth Century and Beyond," Women’s Suffrage Centennial Symposium, Browsing Room, Knight Library
Saturday, Oct. 20, 11 noon-4, 6:30-7:30 p.m.
Home Movie Day 2012, Center for Media and Educational Technologies, Knight Library
Monday, Oct. 8, 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
Madeleine Kunin, "Finding a Work/Life Balance: How Can It Be Sustained?," Knight Library Browsing Room
Saturdays, Oct. 6, 13, 20, 27, 9:30 a.m. - noon
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, Insight Seminar with Jim Earl, Knight Library Browsing Room, registration required
Friday, Oct. 5, 11 a.m.-noon
Workshop: Introduction to the Library, (for UO students), Reference and Research Services, Knight Library, Room 144 (Edmiston Classroom)
Thursday, Oct. 4, 2-3 p.m.
Workshop: Introduction to the Library (for UO students), Reference and Research Services, Knight Library, Room 267B
Wednesday, Oct. 3, 7:30-8:30 p.m.
Student Blackboard Orientation, Global Scholars Hall, Room 103
Saturday, September 29, 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
What Is Peace?, Insight Seminar with Cheney Ryan, Knight Library Browsing Room, registration required
Friday, Sept. 21, 11:00-11:30 a.m.
Architecture and Allied Arts Library Week of Welcome Tour, 200 Lawrence Hall
Friday, Sept. 21, 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
Drop-In Week of Welcome Tours of the UO Science Library, Science Library, Onyx Bridge
Friday, Sept. 21, 12:30-2:00 p.m
Wild Duck Electromagnetic Carbonic Acid Test Extravaganza, Week of Welcome
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Friday, Sept. 21, 2:00-2:30 p.m.
Knight Library Tour: Get Ahead of the Game, East Entrance, Knight Library
Friday, Sept. 21, 8:00-11:00 p.m.
InterMingle, Use the Science Library’s Video Game Collection, Make Your Own Custom Button/Pin, Taylor Lounge, EMU
Tuesday, Sept. 18, 1:30-2:30 p.m.
International Students Library Reception, Week of Welcome, Knight Library Browsing Room
Thursday, Sept. 20, 11:00-11:30 a.m.
Architecture and Allied Arts Library Tour, Week of Welcome, 200 Lawrence Hall
Thursday, Sept. 20, 11:30 a.m.-noon
Science Library Week of Welcome Tour, Science Library, Onyx Bridge
Thursday, Sept. 20, 2:00-2:30 p.m.
Knight Library Week of Welcome Tour: Get Ahead of the Game, East Entrance, Knight Library
Archive of Library Events in 2011-2012
Release Reception, Presentation, and Reading for the Atlas of Yellowstone, Thursday, May 31, Knight Library Browsing Room, 7 p.m., free (UO Libraries cosponsor)
UO Undergraduate Research Symposium, Thursday, May 24, all day, EMU, free (UO Libraries cosponsor)
Community Conversation. Its a Bird, Its a Plane, Its a Panel!, Tuesday, May 22, 7-8:30 p.m, Living-Learning Center Performance Hall, free (UO Libraries cosponsor)
One-Year Anniversary of Oregon Undergraduate Research Journal, Monday, May 21, 4 p.m., Knight Library Browsing Room, free (UO Libraries cosponsor)
Russian and East European Arts, World Stage Conference, May 17-19, various times and locations, free (UO Libraries cosponsor)
Open Education, Open Access, and the Challenges to Higher Ed, David Wiley, Philip H. Knight Dean of Libraries Distinguished Speaker Series, Thursday, May 17, 4 p.m., Knight Library Browsing Room, free
Making Digital Humanities Count, Julia Flanders, Wednesday, May 16, 4 p.m., Knight Librarys Browsing Room, free
Transgender: Education, Allyship, and Celebration, with Valyn Faer, student assistant in the library's Lending Services unit, Tuesday, May 8, 4 p.m., Knight Library Browsing Room, free
Community Conversation. Dancing across the Globe, Tuesday, May 8, 7-8:30 p.m, Living-Learning Center Performance Hall, free (UO Libraries cosponsor)
End of Life Ethics, Insight Seminar, Peg Brand, May 7, 14, 21, June 4, 6:30 p.m.-9 p.m.,Knight Library Browsing Room, $90, registration required
"What Do You Mean My Brain Is Plastic?," Eric Pakulak, Tuesday, May 1, 7 p.m., Willamette Hall, Room 100, Supernova Program (UO Libraries cosponsor)
Community Conversation. Dont Dis My Ability: Disability in Film, Tuesday, May 1, 7-8:30 p.m, Living-Learning Center Performance Hall, free (UO Libraries cosponsor)
Thinking about the End of Life, with Peg Brand, Insight Seminar talk, Monday, April 23, 7:00 p.m, Knight Library Browsing Room, free
Performance of Imaginary John Cage No. 1 for 12 Video Games, Friday, April 20, 2 p.m., 180 PLC, free (UO Libraries cosponsor)
Community Conversation. Remember: Holocaust, Tuesday, April 17, 7-8:30 p.m, Living-Learning Center Performance Hall, free (UO Libraries cosponsor)
Textualities in the Digital Age, Saturday, April 14, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Knight Library Room 101, free.
How to Live, Insight Seminar, Saturday, April 7, 14, 21, 28, Knight Library Browsing Room, $90, registration required
How to Live: Reading Montaigne, with James Earl, Insight Seminar presentation, April 2, 7:00 p.m., Knight Library Browsing Room, free
Sounds of Zimbabwe, Musekiwa Chingodza, Friday, March 9, 5 p.m., Knight Library Browsing Room, free
Ruslan and Lyudmila, Russian theater performance, Friday, March 9, Saturday, March 10, 7:30 p.m., 101 Living and Learning Center, free
Close Reading, with James Earl and James Crosswhite, Insight Seminar, Saturday, March 10, 10 a.m., Knight Library Browsing Room, $45, registration required
The Situation in Pakistan, with Anita Weiss, Insight Seminar Presentation, Monday, February 27, 7:00 p.m., Knight Library Browsing Room, Free.
Poems on Rembrandt, with Steve Shankman, Insight Seminar Presentation, Monday, February 13, 7:00 p.m., Knight Library Browsing Room, Free.
Dante's Inferno, Insight Seminar, February 4, 11, 18, 25, 9:30 a.m.- noon, Knight Library Browsing Room, $90, registration required.
Reading Dante for Pleasure, Insight Seminar Presentation, Wednesday, February 1, 7:00 p.m., Knight Library Browsing Room, Free.
Marion Dean Ross: A Man Who Left a Hole in the Water, Leland M. Roth, Wednesday, January 25, 2012, 3:30 p.m., Knight Library Browsing Room, Free
Insight Seminar Offers Tour of Special Collections, Saturday, Dec. 1, 2011, Knight Library Browsing Room. Registration required.
Discovering Arabic Love Poetry, Insight Seminar Talk by Jim Earl, Monday, October 17, 2011, 7:00pm, Knight Library Browsing Room, Free
Alterations: Flute Music by Bach, Gaubert, Franck, and Copland, Flute Recital, Bruce Tabb, Saturday, October 22, 2011, Knight Library Browsing Room, 4 p.m., Free
Open Access Week Events, Oct. 24-30, 2011, locations and times vary
Conservative Revolutionary: How Branch Rickey’s Signing of Jackie Robinson Jump-Started the Modern American Civil Rights Movement,” Lee Lowenfish, Friday, November 4, 2011, 6 p.m., Downtown Eugene Library, 10th and Olive
Culture of Tolerance, Insight Seminars (Registration and fee required), Knight Library Browsing Room, November 5, 12, 19, 26, 2011, 9:30 a.m.-noon.
Helping India's Untouchables, Insight Seminar Discussion with Sister Sherly Navyajyothi, Monday, 7:00 p.m., November 7, 2011, Knight Library Browsing Room, Free
"Say, Tom, let me whitewash a little" Insight Seminar Talk on Mark Twain, by Harry Wonham, Monday, November 14, 2011, 7:00 p.m. Knight Library Browsing Room, Free
The Pride and Passion of Jackie Robinson, Arnold Rampersad, Oct. 7, 2011, 2011
Interdisciplinary Computing and Open Science at Microsoft Research, Informational Sessions, May 24, 2011
Fiction of Latin America, Insight Seminar starting Apr. 2, 2011
From Ken's Pen: Celebrating the Ken Kesey Collection at the UO Libraries, a free open house with readings, speakers, and more, April, 2011
Fiction of India, Insight Seminar starting Apr. 30, 2011
Edible Book Festival, Thur., Mar. 31, 2011
Fiction Of France, Insight Seminar starting Feb. 7, 2011
Rembrandt's Humanity, Insight Seminar starting Feb. 5, 2011
Flute Concert: Bruce Tabb, Thurs., Jan. 27, 2011
Exhibit Reception, Fri., Jan. 21, 2011
Kesey Collection Fundraiser, Thurs., January 20, 2011
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