This year the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Native American Student Union (NASU), UO Libraries, and artist Steph Littlebird came together to honor Indigenous Peoples’ Day. The day was full of diverse and unique offerings, from a campus art walk celebrating Indigenous art and Steph Littlebird’s recent campus installations, to a “landback through art making” event. The day ended with an exhibition and reception in Special Collections & University Archives curated by student and NASU co-director, Marisol Peters.

Bookbinding is a craft with a long history, and local bookbinders including Victoria Wong, lead conservator in UO LIbraries' Beach Conservation Lab, are working to keep the practice alive and books in readers' hands.

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An anonymous donation has brought Lauren Goss to the position of athletic archivist at UO, making her the first person with this position on the West Coast.

Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) is pleased to host quarterly viewings of the Edward Curtis photographs. Curtis, an American photographer and ethnologist, is best known for his work The North American Indian, a set of twenty bound volumes of photographs and twenty volumes of text depicting Native Americans in the early part of the 20th century. Each viewing features five of the twenty photographic volumes, rotated quarterly. Sessions will be led by SCUA Curator of Visual Materials, Danielle Mericle, and Jan Smith of the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma. All are welcome. Each individual must register for this free event.

December's lecture features Taylor Driggers, 2024 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction fellow. Driggers holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Glasgow. He is an independent scholar specializing in the intersections between fantasy literature, gender and sexuality, and theology. He is also interested in finding new ways of uncovering and reframing fantasy's queer histories. His debut book, Queering Faith in Fantasy Literature (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), was a finalist for the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies. Most recently, Taylor co-organized the Academic Track for the 2024 World Science Fiction Congress in Glasgow, along with Alice Langley.

Special Collections & University Archives is pleased to announce the opening of "Reclamation," an exhibition featuring two contemporary Native photographers, Zig Jackson and Pamela Peters.

Presenting a new exhibition in Special Collections and University Archives. David Call's artwork underlies a desire to reveal the truth about the oppressive experiences in his own life as a Deaf person and the truth about how Deaf people experience the world. His art promotes a reframing of how Deaf people are viewed by the dominant culture.